Wednesday, March 11, 2009

organized crime


"In many ways, the men who made The Godfather—director Francis Ford Coppola, producer Al Ruddy, Paramount executives Robert Evans and Peter Bart, and Gulf & Western boss Charles Bluhdorn—were as ruthless as the gangsters in Mario Puzo’s blockbuster." Mark Seal's Vanity Fair piece here.

Earlier references to Puzo here and here. Evans here. Coppola here.