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...sooner had Paramount announced plans to film Mario Puzo's novel about the powerful leader of a Mafia family than the protests began. The Italian-American Civil Rights League, a group headed by Joseph Colombo, the reputed don of one of New York City's five Mafia families, held a rally in Madison Square Garden, raising a $600,000 war chest to stop the production as a slur on Italian-Americans. Close to 100 letters of protest came in from Senators, Congressmen and New York State legislators. The Manhattan offices of Paramount's parent company, Gulf & Western...
...else but go into his father's business. Such an attitude was a sign of love and loyalty that undoubtedly pleased Joe Bonanno as much as his son's marriage to Rosalie Profaci, a daughter of the Brooklyn Mafia family whose patriarch, Joseph Profaci, provided Novelist Mario Puzo with a model for the "Godfather." Still, the strain of serving the old while being conditioned by the new showed in obvious and dramatic ways. Young Bill, reports Talese, had an ulcer at 15. As he grew up, his temper became shorter and more violent. At college, he beat...
...whole family." Colombo's wife Lucille and sons, Anthony, 26, Joseph Jr., 24, and Vincent, 21, quickly converted a second-floor waiting room into a battle center. Within hours, Roosevelt Hospital took on the look of a grim, almost surrealistic parody of a Godfatheresque scene from Mario Puzo's bestselling novel...
...Calico Palace, Bristow 9. The Godfather, Puzo...
...Godfather, Puzo...