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Albert Ruddy, Oscar-winning producer of 'The Godfather' and 'Million Dollar Baby,' dies at 94

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The Independent UK

The Offer review – Godfather origin story drags on for longer than all three movies

This overly long, endlessly cliche-ridden drama about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s classic mafia film lacks any point. Just watch the trilogy instead

The Guardian - UK

‘What a ball-buster!’ Juno Temple on sass, Ted Lasso and taking on the mafia

In her new show, Juno Temple plays the no-nonsense assistant who got The Godfather made ... by fighting mob bosses. She talks tough women, making T-shirts for Keeley – and why she always looks like she slept in her car

The Guardian - UK

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Robert Evans wouldn't approve of the man playing him on TV. He would be wrong

Even in the cocaine-and-creativity-fueled orgiastic landscape of Hollywood in the 1960s and '70s, Robert Evans stood out.

Los Angeles Times

Why the Godfather making-of series The Offer has a nostalgia problem

While the veneration of man-made Hollywood myths continue, stories about women at the time remain frustratingly rare

The Guardian - US

"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…

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The Offer review – the making of The Godfather makes for hit-and-miss TV

The splashy inside Hollywood drama on the making of The Godfather is a patchy, overlong series that is best when it sticks to the script

The Guardian - US

‘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

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