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Re: "The Don was straitlaced about sex"
[Re: Danito]
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11/05/12 09:42 PM
11/05/12 09:42 PM
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I suppose that, to Vito's way of thinking, it was ok for Johnny to play around (the norm in the Mafia milieu although not for Vito), and he was more indulgent of his godson than his own son. And, he'd probably, in his way of thinking, regard the "sandwich" as a "perversion." But, we get a hint of Vito's straightlaced character much earlier. He and Clemenza steal the carpet, then Vito loses his job at the grocery. He's in a bind because, as Puzo points out, he "couldn't eat the rug."
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: "The Don was straitlaced about sex"
[Re: Danito]
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11/22/12 01:20 PM
11/22/12 01:20 PM
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waynethegame
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He was pissed at Johnny for a long while because Johnny was a playboy and divorced his wife (Ginny, I think?) to marry Margot Ashton, the movie star/slut. It was only when Johnny asked him for a favor at Connie's wedding that he began to forgive him, and as I recall in the novel he basically told Johnny to patch things up with his ex-wife (even if they wouldn't get back together) as a condition of his help.
I always figured he wasn't as hard on Johnny because A) Johnny was his godson, not truly blood, and B) As a movie star Johnny would be exposed to a lot of vices and, being a man, would find it very difficult to suppress those urges.
Wayne
"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger." Don Lucchesi
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