Just you wait Thomas Higgens
Just you wait
You are not my consigliere as of late
Just go step outside that door
Cause you're not too good at war
And Barzini's got the family all irate.

Gee, Senator Geary,
We're down on our knees,
We told you all we wanted was the gambling lease.
Gee, Senator Geary,
What are we to do?
Gee, Senator Geary,
Krup you!

Sollozzo's song: Michele (pronounced a la siciliana) To the tune of 'Maria' from West Side Story. Yes I am bored.


The most terrible sound I ever heard:
Michele,
Michele, Michele, Michele . . .
All the terrible sounds of the world in a single word . . .

Michele!

Just got shot by a guy named Michele,
And suddenly I've found
The veal is going down like lead...
Michele!
Blown away by a guy named Michele,
I thought he was a kid,
But now look what he did
To me...
Michele!
If it weren't for this hole in my forehead,
I would contact my guys to make him dead.

Michele,
I should never have messed with Michele...

Oh dear, *walk away from the computer*

Hey guys it is now going to a different show!

Yeah look what you started! It's just not safe to go around posting show tunes like that, it has unpredictable effects on people

Hey, now, let's be fair to dt: I was the miscreant who started this show-tune nonsense.

This is sooo sick...

Here is the true story of Tom Higgens.

Born in 1846, Thomas Higgens was the illegitimate son of the Duke of York. "Higgens," was the surname of the laundress who gave birth to him. The Duke paid her a modest stipend, which she accepted. Thomas, at age 16 learned of his parentage, and demanded the Duke give him a title, and one third of the Duke's land holdings. Immediately, his mother was sent into exile in Ireland, and Thomas was put in a debtor's prison on a trumped up charge.
Two years later, in 1864, he was released, and immediately returned to York where he and some cohorts plotted to assassinate the Duke. When the police discovered the conspiracy, Thomas fled the couintry, first to Holland, where he changes his name to Tomas Huiggenza (it is rumored that he fathered an early ancestor to Wayne Huizenga there).
Fearing capture, he went to sea on a frigate headed for Indonesia, however when he got to Gibraltar, he jumped ship, and found his way to Barcelona. From there, he traveled to Sicily in 1870. Unaware of the Sicilian Language, he believed all men shared the same first name, "Don," so he again changed his name to Don Tomizina. In 1885 he married a local pesant widow, and in 1900 they gave birth to their only son, Don Tomizina, Jr.
Thomas died in 1925, leaving what he had to his cunning son, who by now had gone into the olive oil business with a certain family in the United States. The enterprising young man further altered the name to Don Tomassino, and the rest is history.

Bravo to one and all, you guys are too clever.

There is no deleted scene explaining Tom's death. He, Robert Duvall, was asking for too much money. So rather than re-cast him, which would have not pleased the fans, they simply killed him; wrote him out of the third movie with no explanation. Which, probably made fans pleased, right? Hope this helps.

Major advantage of working with cosa nostra material. You can't afford a character? You getting tired of a character? Just have them whacked! It works almost everytime. I remember watching that special on 60 minutes about the Sopranos and the interview with David Chase. He was talking about how convenient it is to clip somebody when you have run out of ideas for their character. Plus you can come up with a creative hit scene.