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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Mario puzo - The Untold Story

A movie that takes liberties with 'Wuthering Heights'? Scholars are OK with that

Emerald Fennell’s new “Wuthering Heights” sparked a familiar fight about book adaptations, but some Brontë experts say it still works

The Independent UK

13 films that are better than the book they’re based on

Think the book is always better than the film? These movie adaptations might make you reconsider, says Katie Rosseinsky

The Independent UK

Best books about the Mafia that shine a light on mob life

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Evening Standard

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Albert Ruddy obituary

Canadian-American producer who won Oscars for the hit film classics The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby

The Guardian - UK

Revenge served cold: Man murders neighbour to avenge insult to mother 15-years-ago

LUCKNOW: "Revenge is a dish best served cold," said don Vito Corleone in Mario Puzo’s "The Godfather". Shiva Yadav alias Shamsher, now 50, literally lived the message for 15 years and delivered it to his archenemy Ram Jeewan Lodhi, 51, on December 1 – encased in three brass cartridges. Lodhi…

The Times of India

"The Offer" you can easily refuse

Even the hardest-core "Godfather" fans would do better to leave "The Offer" and watch anything else instead

Salon

What does a movie producer do? ‘The Offer,’ a series about the making of ‘The Godfather,’ provides an answer

A few years ago, ahead of the 2019 Oscars, I wrote a column that started with a simple question: What does a movie producer do? Despite the ubiquity of the term, it’s a job title that fails to capture the day-to-day work itself. Director? Sure, most of us have a…

Chicago Tribune

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‘The Offer’ takes too long, gets too silly in dramatizing the making of ‘The Godfather’

How did things ever get so dumb? Behind-the-scenes Paramount+ series degrades its story with clumsy parallels and over-the-top scenes.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘The Offer’ Recreates Wild Drama behind ‘The Godfather’

On a trip to New York in the early 1970s, Robert Evans, the former head of Paramount, discovered a dead rat in his hotel room bed.

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘The Godfather’ at 50: Frank Sinatra loathed the novel, told author Mario Puzo to ‘choke’

Even before the book came out, Puzo’s publisher received a letter “from Sinatra’s lawyers demanding to see the manuscript,” Puzo wrote in his 1972 essay, ”The Making of the Godfather.”

Chicago Sun-Times

How Mafia bosses almost scuppered The Godfather and then grew to love it

The Godfather first premiered in 1972 and was the highest grossing film of that year - it also cleaned up at the awards winning best picture and best adapted screenplay

Daily Mirror

Paramount+ makes you an offer you can’t refuse with the trailer for Godfather TV series

Fifty years after The Godfather graced screens, Paramount+ has released the trailer for its TV show about what happened behind the scenes.

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