Thanks for that script link, Sonny!
Yeah, thanks Sonny. I posted that script a few years ago, then the link disappeared for some reason. There's a really interesting conversation near the end of the script between Sandra (Sonny's widow) and Tom. It strongly suggests an affair between the two. This makes sense of Michael's cold hearted remark to Tom in the boathouse: "You can take your wife and your mistress..." Obviously, Michael didn't approve, giving him another reason to resent Tom (and for treating him like shit).
Michael is some piece of work. Tom Hagen worked for
years with Vito, and Vito treated Tom as an "equal," generally speaking. Michael was a pissant for many years, and now all of a sudden he's judging everybody. If Michael had been assassinated in II, I don't think I'd have given a shit. They wrote Michael as a cold fish, and I don't think he would have ever warranted any sympathy.
