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Me Oatsome of the some wording. Each Senator and Representative milted us Incontact the Italian-American CivilLiberate League before we went aheadwith The Godfather."The premiere deleted to build ena specifically political heeds. Therewere an premises of retribution by theMafia. no criminal threats. We couldn'tturn our backs un these important menin Washington"On his awn. without Paramount'sapproval, Ruddy met with representatives of the League. He flat pipette loAnthony Colombo, who was mimingthe League. Colombo is the eon if reputed underworld azure Joseph Ce.tomb . who was Inter shot and gravelywounded during a League rally inNew York."I was fully aware how powerfulthe Italian community ia in New Yorkpolitics." Ruddy says. "I told ColomhesI Met wanted to sit around and talkabout the movie. So we met at thePark.Sheraton Hotel: about 600 mem.tiers of the League and into It was meintent, and I believe the titmice also.not to defame any ethnic geese. I hadno intention of making a schlock gangster movie-and I told them no. Theyreacted favorably."I agreed to delete the terms Mafiaand Casa Nostra from the picture.After all, they were only Lund three orfour times in the book In return, theLeague urged New Yorkers of Italiandescent whom we'd be working with tocooperate with tut"Ruddy sale that the Syndicate alsosent out word that obstructing prodthetine of the movie wee Pax. From fleeday on, The Godfather encounterednot a moment's interference."When I mode the deal with theLeague it looked no if we had knuckledtinder and would emasculate the film."Ruddy ear, angrily. "I felt at thatpoint that I was taking a beating fromthe press and some of my fnends laidultimately I had to stand or fall withwhat turned ,art on the screen."Had the Mafia opposed him, RuddyA Psychiatrist's View:DOES "THE GODFATHER"GLORIFY VIOLENCE?No, saye Theintore Isaac Rubin,LID, "Scenes of creme and violenceagainst the public at large are carefully avoided in The Godfather. Asa result, the rewards train suchcrimes-an important factor in glorifying venue and violence-ore beldam seen. The film is more concanned with interfutnity warfare.This Tamtla. business' provides errsof questionable bravery. characterizations of shellowneaa and u umberof yesterday rather than today. Thefilm is entertaining end I feel that,fortunately, it will have no greateffect on youth or crime."a positive that the motion plotter.would never hove been made in NewYork-and perhaps nowhere else"Almut six months before I net withthe Untrue, it held a big tulle in Math64rentinuedA Crime Writer's View :DOES "THE GODFATHER"GIVE AN HONEST PICTUREOF THE MAFIA ?No. says Nicholas Gage of The .VetoYork Times. author or The Mafiale Not an Equal Opportunity Employer Gage writes that The Godfather "reveal, that Mafiosi netpasta. love their wives end childrenand place a great deal of emphasesenhover, respect and family toy.aa.y. .All the people dune awaywith by the Corleone family are ohoelousty hareem, anti annarectIve toMet. The members of the familyare grinrelookine and kind to etadren.In all the romance withthe Male, the leriminal I impact ofthe oreenualian is forgotten."son Square Garden. eturrine FrankSinatra." Ruddy reveillerantedabout 5600,000 for the wile purpose of"tripping the filming of Godfather."Even utter I mode the deal, someLongue members wanted us to dropItatinn eurnamm and use names likeSmith and Jones and Johnson, But Imode it dear that we weren't going totimings the quality of the book."What annoyed me at the time wasthat the mere nude a big thing out oftier dropping the terms Moan andCafe Nostra from the picture. ButAttorney General John Mitchell hadalready issued a direr ttve that his ilepertment would no longer use thosewords. And ABC had agreed net totoe the words in its PRI talevisienseries. But those agreements justbarely made the news."Yet. I believe there in n Mafia. Iknee, there a. But people use the wordintlieeriminately. The Mafia is just aemail port of Quante-eft crime-theItalian part. Other ethnic groups arejust as deeply involved. Maybe theyaren't us velorful."To get bock to Sinatra. I'll neverforget how opposed he wan to the picture. He caused one or my early upsets."Mono Peso had come to Hollywoodto write the screenplay. and we'd goneto Cluagen'n fnr dinner. Sienna wonsitting at a nearby table. I stopped tovisit with some friends, and when I gutback to my table Frank and Mariawere Si.taming at one another Frankcalled Mario a stool pigeon sod a finkfor the Flit. He threatened to breakPusres legs. Meanwhile two guys werebuilding Mario back. Puns in a tough'Ply and he was ready to kill Frank."Another witness to the altercationreported that John Wayne-not an es.perially dose friend of Sheathes-weeseated nearby and offered to punchFuse if Situate needed help.Mario is one of the greatSleet fans of all time." Ruddy geld.Sinatra, according to Ruddy, helimed that the eharaeter of JohnnyFontane. the Mafia-controlled entertainer. was patterned after hire"It's one of the elements that provedwe weren't just making another flint,"Ruddy said. "Why is there such intweet ie The Godfather! Beer se ofeverything that tuiptemed during themaking of the film."Like the Vic Donuone thing. Vic'apal of Sinatra's. We wanted either himor Al Martino fur the role of JohnnyPentane. We talked to them both, andVie's agents agreed that he would dothe pen. Although Funtone isn't amajor tharacter, he's in the film a longlime-at the wedding, in Vegas, at thefuneral. He only hes is few invokingtines, lint we needed him for sevenweeks."I think we were going to pay Vie 710 a week. lite agents said he makes 15.000 a week in night clubs' andwould lose money on the picture. ButVie agreed an yhenv."When Ion came in to pick up thescript. all we gave him-no with theother actors-were the pages with hisdialogue."Vic picked up on envelop,' with twoPaces in it and freaked nut. He hodthought he Was in the whole movie.Then he comes out with n statementthat he weal do the plotter twain:re itdefames all Italian.Amerienns-whichis absurd"So we gave the earl to Al Martino.who really had to leave the country trtthe 1950s. when his career was at itspeak. due to pressure from nreateredcrime. He had to Wove to stay alive."Any aimilarity between JohnnyFontane and Sinatra to diminished inthe picture. I think the character witscloser to Sinatra in the book. But nocharacter in the novel, Mario Fuzesays. was bused on a single person. A.a matter of fact, Martino was one ofHOW TO SHOOT A 1 00,000 AMBUSHOne of the bloodiest seenes in TheGodfather is the rnurrler of Sonny Cor leone Atier James Cann is ambuelledat a tollbooth and literally shredded bysulimachmegun bullets"We were going to film the scene onLang Island causeway," producer AlRuddy tamale, "hut we couldn't centralthe automobile traffic all day. So webuilt two tollbooths with breakawayglees windows on a deserted runway atFloyd Bennett Field, outside NewYork City: the runway look,. like ahighway. We even put up billboards.Then we had ten men with machineguns blast Jimmy. These scenes ean al.ways he dangerous. But f derided tohave tome fun with Jimmy."It took about two bourn for specialeffects men A. D. Flowers and makeupman Dick Smith to rig Jimmy Inc thescene- he was sort of a walking bomb,with Into of little powder explosivecharges nn hint"An hour before we started filming, Itall Cann: 'Pen really nervom, We'vegot a production goof. We need you foranother two weeks, and you could really get hurt in this scene. It would ruinour shooting schedule for the rest ofthe picture. So be careful,'"Jimmy turned pale. He yelled,'Get Me A. D. Flowers. quick""We finally shot the scene in onetake, but it took half a day to set it up."We bought a heeutifulT-iiteelnContinental. which we riddled withbullet holes-we bared 200 separateholes Into the ear before the scene.Each hole was puttied over, painted,then filled with un explosive chargethat could he touched off by remotecontrol. We blew hell out el that earWe couldn't afford to spend more timethe Molotyeee of Fontane in Pitun'sSo For as Ruddy knows, Sinatra hienot yet seen the picture.The newt crucial event during pro duction of The Godfather wits the casting of Market Braude. Objections wereraised by Beeline adore who were eonvinced that Murton couldn't play aMafia chieftain eonvineingly, Mereaver, Brundo had roae off a decade ofdisastrous. unprofitable pictures.But Ruddy wanted 'eremite."There were only two actors T everwanted for the role .11 Don Vito Corteone," Ruddy says. "Either Sir Laurence Olivier or Brand, When I mentioned Brenda to the Paramount beam,they said. 'No way. Who needs a guywith a string of failures?'"When I called Marlon lie said hehadn't read the book He told me, 'Idon't know whet the hell a is.'"Ruddy swears that Brenda did notseek out the role or even care shout doing tt. Ruddy drove In Brando's houseand left him a copy of Pure's hookBrando hold Ruddy he would let himknow if he thought he could play therole.A few days toter, Brands called tosay, "Yeah, I can play thts character."Ruddy was jubilant. "We tied theman we wanted. But Stanley Jaffe. thepresident of Paramount, didn't wantBrando. So we had to find n way to getthe studio to buy Marlon. We askedhim if be would in a little video timetest for us-without sound. Can youimagine meting a inert of Brando'sstature hides screen test:' (controlled)and use more Can for that kind of detailed work. We could have done theseem for 125,000, but we ended upspending 100,000."Caen recalls the scene vividly:"My clothes and hair and sownplooes mu my face were fitted withsmall brass manse Each one had aemail eta in it. filled with a gunpnwderelinrge. On lop of the eharge they piaa small sack of fake blood. Then thelittle casings were wired cud attachedto a hidden cable behind my hack-allexcept the casings in my hair and nnmy fain. There was ne powder in those.just the plastic .socks of tamely bland.They attached invisible wires to thoseNecks end, when the scene was shot,technicians out of camera range pulledthe wires. causing the rocks to pop andsend 'blond' spurting out,"But the ether powder charges wereall controlled by electric mime that ranup my legs to the cable and then to anelectrical console. You have to makemire the diet are facing out or they'llhurt you pretty had They can blowa hole in you or give you powder burns."I wore more of those charges thanany actor 111 any movie ever madeabout 110 of them. When those sue.started firing the tornmyguns, a specialeffects man at the console began hitting the buttons feat; each one mashedoff a little explosion that made it leakas if bullets were ripping into me.Simultaneously, other men pulled thevery Ilan wires that popped pellets onmy fore and head."In the middle of that acme Ithought they'd blow my whole suitapart. But / wasn't hurt. And You consee bum meditate the results were. 1didn't mind the scene too much, butI wouldn't be honest uf I said it didn'tleek. tee a tittle nervous."

GODFATHER: RUDDY confirmed"But Marlon was grocinue-andgreat He pulled back his hair andstreaked it. put black shoe polish underhis eyes, padded out his cheeks andjaw with Kleenes. Then be held a cupof espresso and an Italian cigar.-net piece of ramethilague tape to hlclassic," Ruddy says. "When I took theteat to New York. they hipped owThey didn't even know it was Brandountil the end Bob Evers, wanted himthere and then. Jaffe wasn't sure."Ruddy ',reseed fur it decision. If notBrando, then who? Ile asked.'The Don is in the movie nn morethan filly percent of the lime," eaplaint Ruddy. "But we had to have anactor with the power and mystique topermeate those scenes in Which hedidn't appear, Brand has that bluntBrando was paid a comparativelysmall fee for his performance (950.000) but was given a generous ahem ofthe picture's profits the could make asmuch as 51-',50.000 on the film).Ruddy doesn't feel that he hashelped to salvage Brenda's career."His talent Is constant,- said Ruddy."It's just the materiel that counts.Believe me, Marlon still gets offeredevery mayor role in Hollywood becausesewn and directors all want to workwith Mtn.Want tolose 4 poundsfast?Slender's nutritionally balancedprogram gets quick results.Cu Slender tot it week. And don' t client !Stick with 000Slender calories a day- and you'll love whatyou see whenyou step in front of your full length mirror.Slender gets dramatic resultsWe know. 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Slender fromCarnation, the good tasting food for your figure.66"There were some marvelous memeats with Marlon while we were making the film. The day an Mott Street,when the script milled for him In heshot while ranting out of a vegetablestore, thomands of bystander,lookedan, Mallon came running out of thestore and was gunned down. Heslumped against hie ear as bloodspurted from his wounds. When he fellto the street there were gasps from thecrowd and a horrified silence.-When Marion stood up after Coppola yelled 'Cue the crowd cheeredand Brando made is low, sweepingbow. He loved the people on MottStreet end they loved him.Rain delays productionBrenda signed for six weeks of work.But the final scene. the one in whichDon endeone dies in his garden, railedfor n hot sunny day-and a rainy spelldelayed production."Ordinarily you don't go to an actortike Marion Brand and ask what 1asked," Ruddy say,. "1 asked him togo back to Hoeywnoll and return toNew York in a week when everythingdried out. That could have meant anadditional 840.000 to Brand But hedidn't charge us for the rails week. Hejust did it." There wait one humorouscasting problem. It involved GianniRoma, a brash young man with no acting experience. Russo Mtn* in to waRuddy in a classic Bentley car arisenby a miniskirted Japanese girl chauffeur"This guy has got to be kidding."Ruddy told his associates. Ho forgotshout Rumo for four months. Then heshowed up in New York and said hewag right for the part of Carlo, thetrete-in:us Corleone brother-In-law."We naked him to play a scene for usthe one in which Carlo beats up hiswife. Stanley Jaffe's secretary parFrayed the woman, Gianni played thescene so realistically that the peer secretary was terrified. He got the part."Now that The Cedjather a a hit,Ruddy has second thoughts."I don't think our picture glortfsesthe Mafia nr mile Italians," he says.-It does humeraln criminal elements.But no matter how much you like thesepeople, there's a lot of lulling and moments of great brutality."The brutality is faithful to the book-and to the way some people in organ.jived crime operate. Yes. some mudi core% epplaud the brutal scene. Butdon't think this is an emotional response I think they are applauding thetechnical skill with which those sceneswere shot.'Was the movie rondo with the assistance and blessing of the Mafia?Ruddy hedges."Let's say these Syndicate men arenot two-dimensional human beings.They are very strong family men. Theyhave an Almost Relinel feeling for family. You don't have to write contract'with them. If they ,hake your hand Itto as geed as their word.you keengoer word, they keep theirs. I wish Icould do Waimea in Hollywood that-Without their help it would haveThere would havebeen pickets. breakdowns. Inhnr problems, cut cables, all kinds of things. Idon't think anyone would have beenphysitally hurt. But the picture simplycould not have been made without thei approval."been impossible.

' 7517M.7.7977r.GODFATHER: PACINOeanheurd1,11'177',.tjtPatina for the very important part.As he paced nervotiely ernund theliving room Of the Boston epardnerahe rented while storing on einer therein The Beek; Training of Paola Hummel. Al spoke to the dateltist. aboutrh, Godfather and about himself."1 knew. Foods wee the only oneWho wanted me, on 1 felt, 'What's thesense of learning lima? No matterwhat I do I won't get the pert.' Besides. they tasted ten on the apeman,.scene, the wadding wine, It made slot'lelety 110 901100 to tne luseause I hadn'tseen the rest of the script"Francis knew I mould 411 the pertWWI* did 1, but he kept asking re* tolest again end nabs. F didn't 1Mnt togo . I dent go wherenet wanted.If 100100II0 doesn't went me for a pertthat's okay, I understand. I don't evenget mad They loot led me and I duel,come noisedagain. But when theydon't went me end keep telling me tocome bark. well, under those serrumstances. I'M ant k01MMS lines. If that'sbeing self.deetrectiee, then okay, cullme sett .deetruetive'When 1 finally gat the park thepressure wee still there, It wea etwiaenthat mine people didn't ward ore I rymember saying, P11 novae midis athrough this pietere; it's going to killme.' Then, shout a month knee whenthey began to piece my film togetherand liked what they sow, things gotbetter"Pinyin;, Isdichnel was a hellish vs perienee. I lewd to get op et live es Memornine thinking about where I was inthe film, what the transition woe. Youknow, when you shoot a nmsee youdon't Suet begin al the 'beginning andfollow the script to the end The firstweek we did the scene where I shoottwo men in a rename/it That's whyI have to block out a mirk to tigers teltthe transition Imre one block to meth.or I had to be mire I was building upto the paint wham Michael taller overam this Den."I /earned n lot, though. The otheractor's didn't flounder around like I did-I like to search and work and it takesme a Int of lime. Sometimes! I'm lazy.The Godfather knocked The lazinessout of Inc."From Brantio. I learned to comelate. Non I'm kidding. Well to be honest, he Lens Lute earrretimes, But Breeden okay; he's his own Man. He hetlearn.] how to get by in thin line ofwork and to mamtele hie dignity endability, And !tea interested in ethers—what they're doing end what they'reletting. When you're as big as Brands.pretty hoed not to think Amid yew- sell But not aniline. Ile got Meng witheveryone.Anyway you want to do it,Frost er Tip does it.I took off my pantsell pulled gaffe to relieve thetension. In a scene where I sit behindthe desk, wsu-drube made dike big tomabout getting megabit with a smellercollar. Se while everyone muss lookingof the shirt 1 Soak off my [MM. WhenI come nut from.behind the desk, flintInugh. even though we lead to do theSCOOP over.The Godfather may have made AlPaMMI a star, but it didn't make himrich. Actor Gianni Reno, who playsthe relatively minor relent Curio Rio. the wife heater, was paid 91 7,000for 17 weeks' work. Patine get 3.9,660"WeFor Is year'. work. Yet be insists bedidn't get n raw deal on the Looney,-The only raw deal I got." he says,"was the feeling of not being wanted"The money has already been spentIto ez-plainir "To begot with. MOMsued me for 02 million dollars beesomethey quid I woe committed to TheGang Thou Couldn't Shoot Straight.So I paid for lawyers. I paid for everything. Tin broker; I'm even in debt. ButI don't sore. I've been broke before,"Alfredo hone. Patina was bornApril 23. 19447„ in New York City'sEast Harlem. kilo father. a meson, lefthome when AI wee three. His mother,Rose. look her son and meved in withher parents. James and Rate Getardi.is the South Brine Al was the only.:hill in a tinnily that had a tough timemalting eerie tenet. Left to his own devices. he longed for the friends hedidn't have—ge he would invent them.When his mother took him to movies.had remember eherectets and scenesand yank them from his memory whenwanted a Mend.At nine he decided to be o priest henthee lie loved to go to church. Hegave up the Idea when n nun whackedhim on 11ue hand for fa/king duringservice. .Al still views the incident inyterlelowely, asking, "How emild Ibeen been meats& when T didn't knowanother soul in the room to talk to?"Feentineed on page 1071lie67

10DFATHER: PACINOfrom page 87continuedHe has long since stopped going toMaas, but during the week hell stop ina church to listen to the music and lookat the decor. "'There's something beanWel wheat a church, lint there? Itspeaceful. Maas is fine for some people.but not for me. I'm not an atheist. Ibelieve there ie a Cad- I know there isa Chia sometimes I one him out themin the park 1/3cielon Commons]. 1 sawhim there last night."At P.S. Da, AI excelled only to drnmatics. When a Parker suggettert thathe switch to arthnhettenn High Seamlfor this Perforating Arts, he did. Bedcrudes Ihe remembers getting a 4 an nmeth test} end had rimes untie himdrop nut A long unison of odd jukelmaslenger, usher, superintendent) allended in digitalin. He was hie smallNervily's nolo source of support, but herefuses to dame that period ril hislife. simply rolling it the "hat years."Once, when lie was an usher in a Manhattan theater, he het a co-worker hecould make people do anything hrwanted. Ptiejelb walked ora to the frontof the Bunter end told the matingpatrons that the line for the motchow was forming armee the street Helad them accuse Third Avenue, queuedthem up meet to a department attireand left them there. When he returnedIn the theater to eollect his bet, he teathie job. The may ushering job F. re,ruttedLosing wag non at Carnegie-The music wee wonderful. butI limit putting people ih the lemmaseats,"Patina was admitted to Actor's Stu,die in Mg. and by Ukla had won anOhre Awnnl for has off. Broadway rotein The Indian Want' ihr Smote. Thefoil.ring year he wan a 'Tony Awardfor Broadway'. Doer an Tiger Wear a.lifer kag? In 1970 be made hie firstfilm, Prime in Ateeralte Parh. Then cameThe Godfather.The deaths of his mother nt age 42and his grandfather affected Patina andeeply that today be pleader "1 ,,arl'tsay any more about it." Yet he didn'ttook psychiattie help until he hadsome curling so:crania and found hecouldn't handle it."1 started !teeing everything In onecolor. so I decided it wee time to talkto rromeborly, 1 went lo a couple 'ofpaychiatriala a couple of times-andthen I ;oat never went back. But whenthe panic button is pushed, when vournone suddenly looks like a banana andyou clam pealing it-or one eye %tastegoing into your forehead-well. thenyou go for help. Each time I want back1 went to a different doctor became 1was too embarrassed to go to the oldone 1 had made appointments andnever showed up- But I'm okay now Idon't think pyychiatry- is for me butt could rherign my mind tomorrow,"Backethr Al'e style of living is toadea, as are his hobbles walking andlistening to music. In Boston he isworking in the Theater Company formule pay of MO u weak Hie 3% -robinapartment represents a big Map inn theMet time he wail appearing with thecompany he lived in a 5-Ity 7.10etroom. His girl friend, actress Jill Chia burg (Portnoy'. Complaint), found theapartment for him steel bap added littletouches prantinen of Italy, in colorfulpatchwork throw over the ego littlethings tokeep Al happy while she isoff in Houston. 'Texas, making anotherfilm. Flo speaks of her warmlylovely girl") and humorouidy ("Theonly reason I've stuck with her for fiveyears is bemuse she can pronouncemy name right-WE PaCHino„ notPaSSirett"); but he newer uses wardslike lath or marriage He does gay thatfor the first time in his life he arena afamily. "Ten kids," he vays. "nod Illadopt them if / have to-tis get all tent"Nano known that Panimmint wouldlike him to star in the sequel to TheGotiforher."This ante they want me," hr says,'that I don't know whore 1 ma take thecharacter of Michael. Where con besn'! He's made. They'll have to put themoral, up front this time. If I Like thescript I'll do it-but no matter howmuchoffer me, I won't do it bustfor money. Anyone who acts for OotinaYLS tatty. the never done it and I'm 1101going to start now."—Mram FIOREtheyGODFATHER: CAANcontinued frompogo 62Remember the Beano in which I get thetelephone cell that my father, the Dan,hoe been shot? The picture now cuts tomy norther Michael right after I hangup the telephone. Horn's where a coople of my best armies were rot Originally I get the call. Then I go tell mymother that my father hos been that."This sequence demonstrated a sentatriu aide of Sonny. It showed hint aging to his (other's mom and preparingto take over the family's work. Therewere all kinds of site momenta-likeSonny not being aide to bring himselfto sit in his fratier's chair. Inotrad, hePude up another chair beside the dents"I worked hard cal those scones.They meant something to me as noactor tittle thinga-showing Sonny'.inability to cry because he thinks it'suntnamuline. But bit voice crackswhen he talks to hie mother."They

duction of -The Godfather.- Back in February 1971. when the screenplay was still being completed by director Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Pen, who had written the lest-selling novel, Ruddy wasn't sure he would be. able to film -The Godfather" at all. Italians, individually and collectively, were furious over the possibility that the