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Al Pacino says he ‘gave Harrison Ford a career’ by turning down Star Wars

The actor was the original pick for the iconic Han Solo role

Evening Standard

Al Pacino says he 'gave Harrison Ford a career' after turning down iconic film role

Hollywood legend Al Pacino has opened up about turning down a role as Han Solo in Star Wars because he "didn't understand the script" and claims he "gave Harrison Ford a career."

Daily Mirror

Sunak is the Michael Corleone of the Tory party – try as he might to break free, he’s up to his neck in it

The return of Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and Partygate shows that, as the Godfather found, it’s almost impossible to escape past sins, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

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Bet on it: Look what’s happening in Vegas

There was a time when sports leagues wanted nothing to do with the city. Now it will host the Super Bowl.

Chicago Sun-Times

The White Lotus is sure to end with a bang – but who will it kill off this time?

Series two of Mike White’s intricate social satire draws to close against a backdrop of Sicily and high body count

The Guardian - UK

Phillies dominated the winter meetings, and showed they plan on more Red Octobers

SAN DIEGO — As Dave Dombrowski packed his garment bag Wednesday and checked out of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, he might have considered borrowing a line from Michael Corleone near the end of The Godfather.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

James Caan death: Actor’s cause of death revealed as a heart attack

‘The Godfather’ star died aged 82 earlier this month

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Faithful dogs, distant stars and big ears – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

James Caan obituary

Superb actor whose defining role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather found echoes in his colourful personal life

The Guardian - UK

James Caan, US actor of ‘Godfather’ fame, dies aged 82

Caan, best known for playing Sonny Corleone in 1970s gangster film, The Godfather, died on Wednesday, his family said.

Al Jazeera

"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

‘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

Leave the gun. Make Godfather's sauce

Fifty years after its debut, we ponder how many fans of Francis Ford Coppola have memorized Clemenza's sauce recipe

Salon

Cocaine godmother: The wild real life story behind the ‘chameleon’ drug queen portrayed by Sofia Vergara

Griselda Blanco’s psychotic spiral from drug-fuelled orgies to homicidal paranoia, igniting Miami’s cocaine war, is getting a Hollywood glow up, writes Justin Vallejo

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The Conversation

The Godfather at 50: celebrating the mob saga that raised the bar for gangster films

It’s one of the most famous climactic scenes in film: a tense and shocking denouement that sees a series of brutal assassinations intercut with the central character calmly renouncing Satan as he becomes godfather to his nephew.

The Conversation

The Godfather at 50: set among the American Mafia of the 40s, Coppola's film is unmistakably a film of the disillusioned 70s

When it was released 50 years ago, The Godfather won a swag of Oscars and hailed director Francis Ford Coppola as the voice of a new auteur. But timing is, as they say, everything.

Evening Standard

The Godfather at 50: why the legacy of Coppola’s masterpiece is about so much more than gangster movies

It’s the Godfather of mob flicks, sure, but the film’s influence goes far deeper into our culture than that

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