Word: vito
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with such mass appeal is not only going to make headlines and money. It is going to make stars. The Godfather is blessed with brilliant acting. Marlon Brando, of course, is the big news, revitalizing his erratic reputation with a performance of power and poignance as the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone. Yet superb as he is, Brando is merely reclaiming a position already staked out. In some ways more exciting are the clutch of little-known younger performers who burst forth in the film. Of these, none is more compelling than a short, brooding coil of tension named Al Pacino...
Meanwhile it seemed that every actor in the world who was over 35 - and some men who were not actors - was scowling into his mirror and jockeying for the plum role in the picture: the Godfather himself, Don Vito Corleone. Under consideration were prospects who ranged from George C. Scott to Laurence Olivier to Italian Producer Carlo Ponti, Sophia Loren's husband...
...Look," a top-ranking man in Vito Genovese's family recently told a federal agent, "if some picture company did the life of Audie Murphy, he'd be invited to the premiere. If the movie was about the military, they'd turn out the generals. So when they do one about us, we should be there too." Your move. Paramount...
While the Democrats and Republicans are fighting over their vote, organizations such as the N.C.S.C. and the A.A.R.P. will be waiting for tangible proof of the parties' commitment to the cause of the elderly. John De Vito, a retired auto worker from Cleveland and a delegate at the White House conference, summed it up: "The senior citizens have fought two wars and paid more taxes than anybody else. Our pressure is 20 million votes. If you don't carry out our program, you don't get our votes...
...book, Godfather Vito Corleone is shot down in the street by members of a rival Mafia family but survives, hovering near death. To guard against a feared second attack, his family stations private detectives and trusted caporegimes (lieutenants) throughout the hospital where he is recuperating. If anything, Colombo security within Roosevelt Hospital was even tighter, despite the presence of uniformed and plain-clothes New York City policemen...