He does not display his power in any overt way – no bodyguards, no sitting apart and holding court like some silver-screen godfather.
I want to screen 'The Godfather' and have Coppola come and talk about his screenplay for 'Patton.' " Warming to the topic, he added, "And Joan Baez!
Belatedly -- thanks to Francis Coppola, with whom he had long ago gone to military school -- Donahue appeared in one screen classic, "Godfather II," playing the dissolute beau who attaches himself to Michael Corleone's widowed sister, Connie, in the early Lake Tahoe party sequence.
This may be no more than a story — a half-true story — but I felt that I was part of an audience like that on Saturday night, at a screening of "The Godfather".
The idea interested producer Albert S. Ruddy during a screening of The Godfather.
He may have reached his largest audience in a brief screen appearance in "The Godfather Part II" (1974).
He has dated numerous fellow thesps, including Tuesday Weld, Carlito's Way co-star Penelope Anne Miller and Diane Keaton, his screen wife in The Godfather.
"This is how Marlon Brando did his screen test for The Godfather," says Belushi, and the camera crew howl again as he rips his snotty handkerchief in two and stuffs both halves inside his cheeks, like an enormous hamster.
(With a nod to Bethesda demographics, the organizers even got the PG version of "Saturday Night Fever"; still, they hope that parental discretion is used the night "The Godfather" is screened).
I remember being in the Virgin Megastore in Times Square back in 2008, and pausing to look at a screen showing Coppola's The Godfather, which had been released on Blu-ray a fortnight earlier.
