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everybody at that time italian americans

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puzo's book the godfather because it was

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kind of disparaging it felt that way to

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heard that a movie was being made well

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joe colombo said this movie's not going

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okay today is something very interesting

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the television series the offer which is

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put out by paramount studios the same

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studio that made the godfather it is

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kind of uh a story about the making of

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the godfather you can get it on

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paramount plus and that's the streaming

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platform for paramount they've done

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three episodes they've released so far

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i've watched all three of them and i'm

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going to talk about it today i'm not

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going to tell you everything we're not

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going to go over you know scene by scene

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but i think some interesting facts from

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behind the scene facts that you may not

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be aware of what's interesting to me is

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that they're kind of telling two stories

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here one they're telling the story of

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joe colombo and the italian-american

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civil rights league how he kind of got

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into trouble it was eventually his

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demise being part of that league and

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they're telling of his involvement with

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the making of the godfather and of

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course the making of the godfather

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itself which is always a difficult task

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getting a movie made you know when you

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see these blockbuster films these great

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movies you think oh you know it's such a

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well-oiled machine and everybody's

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agreeing with one another and these

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things get done like that not true so

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often there's so much fighting and

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infighting in the studio when they

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finance and distribute the film they

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certainly everybody there wants to put

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their hand print on it there's always

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back and forth disagreements about so

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many things creatively it's a really

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tough process that's why so many of

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these films take so long to get made and

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get done and there's so much controversy

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throughout i know i've been involved in

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a couple of them so i understand the

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business i've been around it for quite a

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long time but so they're telling

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parallel stories here and the story is

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being told through the eyes of the

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producer al ruddy now i don't know al

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rody let me be let me be clear on that

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but my

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is very very close with al and we've

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communicated through this third party

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the only interesting thing i'm going to

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say about that is already made a

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statement to me through my friend and he

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said after the making of the godfather i

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will never again make another mob

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related movie he didn't want anything to

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do with it i was kind of surprised that

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he made the offer but he didn't have to

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get on the street with anybody like he

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did in the godfather

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so that's how difficult or that's what

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his perception was of how difficult it

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was to deal with joe columbo and guys uh

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you know during that time so let me get

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into it a little bit first of all let me

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explain this this is not a documentary

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so the studio did take dramatic liberty

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with it i can tell you that there were a

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couple of scenes in the film that i know

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for a fact did not happen as it related

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to joe colombo and the italian american

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civil rights league and their

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involvement in the making of the

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godfather so i'm going to point that out

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but uh again you know very very well

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done i thought it was well cast i

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thought everybody played a good role i

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really enjoyed al rudy's actor he did a

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great job miles teller i believe his

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name is i enjoyed puzzle and i enjoyed

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coppola i think they were great together

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on film robert evans who was the studio

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head the head of paramount at the time

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he was well cast i happen to know of him

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fairly well new people that knew him he

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was kind of an eccentric kind of guy a

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real studio guy dressed apart did all

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the kind of motions you know the way the

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way these guys do so he was cast very

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well everybody was the ladies in the

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film were casted very well too the

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casting person was a woman and she did a

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great job so there was a lot of things

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that i thought were done extremely well

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and you know bottom line i really

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enjoyed it i thought it was great so let

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me get into a couple of things as you

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may or may not know joe colombo did have

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a big influence on the making of the

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film everybody at that time italian

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americans at the time were very unhappy

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with mario puzo's book the godfather

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because it was kind of disparaging it

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felt that way to italian americans in

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general that everybody thinks you know

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if your name ends in a vowel and you're

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italian you're somehow associated with

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the mafia so people took offense to it

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when they heard that a movie was being

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made well joe colombo said this movie's

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not going to be made why let me tell you

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the timing it was 1970 okay that joe

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colombo formed the italian american

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civil rights league 1970 his son joey jr

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had gotten arrested and charged with

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melting down coins for their silver

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value was charged by the feds right

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columbo was very upset it was april of

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1970. i get a call at home michael were

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very upset with italian americans that

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keep continuously getting harassed by

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the fbi there's no mafia we want you to

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come down to 69th street and third

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avenue we're going to picket the fbi

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i was thrilled why because just a few

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weeks earlier i think was march 26th it

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was holy thursday just before easter

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sunday when my dad was finally sent to

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prison lost all his appeals after being

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out for a couple of years three years i

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think and they finally remanded him into

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custody so it was only two or three

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weeks before joe colombo started the

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italian american civil rights league so

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i was thrilled i said hey this is a way

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to help my dad i was in my early 20s i

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was one of the first people down on the

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line i think the first day there was

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only 30 of us that were picketing and

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then obviously it grew them to thousands

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and thousands i'm not going to tell the

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whole league story but that's how it

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began right so i'm thrilled when i get

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down there they hand me a sign that says

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my father was a victim of fbi gestapo

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tactics he was framed and sentenced to

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50 years in prison that's what was on

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the sign that i was carrying right and

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we're walking well at the same time that

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joe colombo is protesting the fbi's

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harassment of italian americans already

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wants to make this movie based upon a

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book the godfather that nobody liked

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right so joe columbo hears about it

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absolutely not we're going to use the

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whole force of the league to prevent

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this movie from being made so al rhodey

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finds out about it now let's let's flip

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sides for a minute already is trying to

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get this movie made bob evans the head

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of paramount picks already to be the

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producer already didn't have a lot of

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success at that point in time for some

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reason evans wanted him al rudy is now

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the producer now the producer he's main

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guy you know he's got to do all the work

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so he goes to mario puzo coppola and

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says we're going to turn this book into

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a screenplay we're going to make a movie

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let me tell you a little bit more

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backstory mario puzo who wrote the book

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the godfather tremendous success i think

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was on the bestsellers list for you know

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over over a year his agent had told him

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not to sell the the story to paramount

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didn't want him to thought he would hold

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out and make a lot more money mario puzo

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was a bad gambler he was deeply in debt

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from his gambling habits so he defied

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his agent he sold the story to paramount

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just to get the money to pay off his

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gambling debts if he didn't have those

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debts there may have never been a movie

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with paramount very interesting but so

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now ruddy pushes for puzzle and coppola

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to write the script koppler's going to

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direct the studio didn't want coppola

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they wanted somebody more experienced a

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bigger name director ruddy pushed for

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him he also pushed for puzzle to write

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the screenplay the studio didn't want

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him because they said notoriously guys

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that write books do not write good

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screenplays ruddy push for the both of

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them and now mario puzo and coppola are

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corroborating to write this screenplay

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and throughout the first three episodes

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you see them writing the screenplay it's

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very interesting because we're all

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familiar with the movie and they're

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talking about certain scenes you know

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how they're in a room together and

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they're working out certain scenes and

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the corroboration between them i thought

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was very cool and i thought it was very

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well done and they were very well cast

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ruddy has an encounter with joe colombo

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and here's where i get a little bit i

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don't want to say upset but i think

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giovanni rabishi who's a great actor he

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was cast to play joe colombo good

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you know good choice because it kind of

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looks like him a little bit

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but the character that he played was

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kind of buffoonish he made joe columbo

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kind of buffoonish that wasn't true i

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knew joey my whole life my father was

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his underboss i knew the family very

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well joe colombo was not a buffoon he

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was a smart guy he carried himself well

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he was the mob boss he dressed well uh

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he was a meticulously dressed kind of

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guy always and he carried himself very

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well he wasn't portrayed like that by

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rabisi and i'm not knocking ribishi

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that's probably how the script showed

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him anyway he has an encounter with joe

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colombo joe colombo tells him straight

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out you're not making this movie ruddy

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was very adept i think in trying to

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convince colombo that forget the book

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i'm not making the movie the way the

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book was it's going to be based upon

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that but i'm not going to disparage

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italian americans you're going to be

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proud of this and it shows a scene where

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they're talking and ruddy says to him

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read the script you know come and read

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the script if there's things you don't

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like we'll talk about it so now we see

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ruddy pushing coppola and puzzle to get

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the script on you don't push

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screenwriters they got to do that it's a

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creative process you don't push them but

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he's pushing him because he's got to

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show colombo the scripture there's not

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going to be a movie he realized that now

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throughout this whole thing you see a

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couple of things happening and there's

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one scene when ruddy is in his bedroom

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and there's a book cover of the

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godfather there he opens it up and

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there's a dead rat in his bed i can tell

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you that never happened you know no

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matter what

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but again dramatic liberty they're

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making a you know a tv series it's okay

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but that didn't happen it didn't get to

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that extent there's another scene where

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joe colombo allegedly calls up mickey

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cohn you know who he was the gangster

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out here in california and tells mickey

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cohen to intimidate al rudy so there is

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a scene there when ruddy is sitting in

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the car with his girlfriend and somebody

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shoots out the back wind of his car i

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can tell you for a fact that never

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happened joe colombo did not call up

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mickey cohn he didn't have a

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relationship with mickey cohen number

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one number two it never happened because

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mickey cohn was in jail during that time

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he was in prison from 1963 to 1972. the

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godfather started filming in 1971 it was

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released in 1972 it's their 50-year

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anniversary now and that encounter never

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happened but again it worked for the

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television series it was a good scene

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but when you watch it i'm telling you it

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never happened they did take that

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dramatic liberty so again throughout

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this we're watching joe colombo's

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influence we're watching al roddy having

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to navigate joe colombo and making sure

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this gets done having to navigate the

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studio head robert evans who doesn't

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want coppola who doesn't want puzzle and

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then who finally doesn't want marlon

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brando in the main role they didn't want

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him studio didn't like him he's uh

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notoriously difficult to work with but

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puzzo and kaplan said nobody else should

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play this role but him you know they

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wanted sinatra to play the role he was

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being considered it would have been the

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wrong choice they had other people in

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mind but puzzle and coppola they said no

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way marlon brando if he takes this role

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that's who i see as vito corleone ruddy

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supported them on that eventually as we

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know marlon brando did get the role the

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studio was not happy about it they

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actually gave him a pay cut that he

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accepted and they had certain

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stipulations in his contract if he

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violated they'd throw him out of the

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role but they did win in that regard and

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again ruddy supported them they also

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didn't want al pacino and kapol has seen

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only al pacino in this role they didn't

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want him and the guy who played al

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pacino in this was very good he kind of

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had the yeah the the way uh pacino

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talked he had his mannerisms down he did

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a great job the studio didn't want him

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kapla fought for him ruddy supported him

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puzzle liked him eventually what

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happened you know he was nominated for

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an academy award and really when you

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think of all three godfathers al pacino

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was really the face michael corleone's

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really the face of the godfather so but

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you see the struggle that rudy had to

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get this movie done and how he had to

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navigate both columbo and the studio and

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as we're seeing the joe colombo story

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we're seeing him

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really being talked to by some of the

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other bosses carlo gambino joe bonano

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locasi they were talking to him as the

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league was picking up steam and they

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were kind of telling him joey you know

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this is what not if my boss does this is

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not what we do

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but joe colombo is very adamant at that

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time and i remember that he wasn't

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taking no for an answer he was creating

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this league it was becoming huge you

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know at the italian american civil

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rights rally that we had the second one

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we had 50 000 people there that's when

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he got a you know there was an

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assassination attempt on his life so it

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kind of shows the story of joe colombo

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and how this league led to his demise

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and i think in the next few episodes

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we're gonna see that a little bit more

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but the way episode three ends is that

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joey gallo who you know is a principal

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involved in this whole plot to get to

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colombo is released from prison you can

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see that he has relationships with

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african americans with black guys that

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he met in prison you know eventually it

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was jerome johnson a black guy that take

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the shots at joe colombo and joe columbo

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eventually died from the wounds he

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lingered for about six or seven years i

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was there the day he got shot i was 12

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steps away from him i was just walking

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off the stage after he handed me some

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stuff so

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some brochures i'm very familiar with

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what went on there but um it's telling

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both stories so i think you'll find it

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very interesting so again i recommend it

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you know another thing that coppola had

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to fight for you would think that when

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he was receiving so much heat he was

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getting so much heat what does he do he

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proposes his sister to play a major role

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italia shire people were against that

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too they said come on now you want your

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sister in the park but coppola you got

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to give him credit i mean he really

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fought and you know i know a little bit

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about francis because a very dear friend

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of mine who is a made guy an elderly guy

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now he lives out in vegas is very close

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with francis and i heard some things

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about the godfather the making of the

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godfather i knew for a fact that he was

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really you know he went kicking and

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screaming into making godfather three he

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didn't want to do it right now all

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kaplan wants to do from what i

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understand is enjoy his wine he's been

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very very successful in his business

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couple of vineyards and he's doing

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extremely well there i did hear that

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that he may have another project that

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he's getting involved in he's in his 80s

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i don't know if that's true or not but

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uh just you know some interesting things

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that went along with the making of this

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film oh one other thing that i want to

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get into that i think it was important

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frank sinatra mentioned him briefly but

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sinatra was extremely upset over the

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book he didn't like the book at all

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there was two scenes there one of them

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i'm sure never happened the other one

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might have happened maybe not exactly as

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the way we see it in the offer but uh

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two scenes number one sinatra in the

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film

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gives a call to joe colombo and he was

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very disrespectful to him starts cursing

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at him because the movie was getting

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made and sinatra didn't want the movie

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to get made because he was upset the way

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johnny fontaine was portrayed because

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allegedly that was frank sinatra and

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allegedly you know it was

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the mob that helped sinatra get the role

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from here to eternity the whole horse's

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head scene and all that you remember

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that you know great scene in the movie

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and so sinatra was very upset by that

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because he didn't want anybody to think

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that the mob helped him that that's what

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he needed to get that part in the movie

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so he was very very upset he has an

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encounter with mario puzo in the in the

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uh in a restaurant puzzle excited to

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meet him and sinatra is just very

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disrespectful curses him calls him out

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puzzle gets a little bit offended by it

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i think something like that did happen i

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don't know if it happened in a

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restaurant as it was portrayed but it

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was a good scene but again sinatra would

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never in a million years get on a

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telephone call with joe colombo and

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start cussing him out sinatra like joe

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colombo uh very much he uh appeared at

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at least two events that we had with the

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italian american civil rights league i

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knew sinatra from my younger days with

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my dad he liked my dad very much so that

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scene would never happen sinatra would

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never have been disrespectful like that

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to a mob boss so don't believe that that

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happened but again it played well in the

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movie the in the uh television series

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the offer so

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uh that's about it gonna wrap it up the

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way it ended episode three is we see

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joey gallo in a car with one of his

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friends a black guy and he spots joe

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columbo getting out of a car somewhere

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else and he kind of says i got something

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in store for joe colombo kind of leading

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up to what happened at the

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italian-american civil rights league

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rally so that's how it ends i'm looking

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forward to episode four five and six i

515
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think there's ten episodes all together

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in the series it's kind of a of a

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limited series uh but very enjoyable if

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you have paramount plus i suggest you

519
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watch it if you don't have it get it

520
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you'll enjoy it and and that's it so

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that's the offer so that's it for today

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i want to remind you all in the united

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kingdom i will be there july 2nd for a

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25 city tour i know i'm going to meet a

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lot of my followers because i've been

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getting a lot of great comments we're

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going to be posting the schedules soon

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i'm going over there to do some media to

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promote the event pretty soon hopefully

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i'll meet up with a couple of people uh

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when i do that so that's it a lot of

532
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good stuff we told you about the wine

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the stage play based upon my life that's

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in production the television series a

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lot of things moving along and we'll put

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you up to date and hopefully have a lot

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to say about that very soon that's it

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for today how do i always leave you the

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very same way be safe ladies i don't

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want to remind you again please be

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observant when you get in a car in a

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parking lot look around you make sure

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there's nobody shadowing you very

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important be healthy take good care of

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yourself that's important god bless you

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all i really mean that and yes god

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willing i will see you next time take

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care

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you