1 registered members (Irishman12),
315
guests, and 4
spiders. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums21
Topics42,322
Posts1,058,593
Members10,349
|
Most Online796 Jan 21st, 2020
|
|
|
Amusing Coincidence
#51067
03/11/06 03:08 AM
03/11/06 03:08 AM
|
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,414 Bar Vitelli, Queens, NY
Signor Vitelli
OP
Underboss
|
OP
Underboss
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,414
Bar Vitelli, Queens, NY
|
A few days ago, I had some business at a courthouse in downtown Brooklyn. Since these things can take time, I brought my paperback copy of The Godfather to keep me occupied. (I've been re-reading it for the first time since around 1970 or 1971.) After court, I was heading down a long flight of stairs at the local subway, when I saw a man at the bottom of the stairs rearranging items in his shoulder bag with one hand, while in his other hand was - you guessed it - a paperback copy of The Godfather. When I reached the bottom of the stairs, I said to him "I like your choice of reading material!" while holding up my book for him to see. He broke into a wide grin and said how he was also enjoying re-reading the book for the first time in years, though he had only read about 50 pages. Just as we started to really get into a nice discussion, my train pulled in and I had to make a dash for it. Well, it would have been a nice conversation! Maybe next time... Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
|
|
|
Re: Amusing Coincidence
#51068
03/11/06 08:42 AM
03/11/06 08:42 AM
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 15,058 The Slippery Slope
plawrence
RIP StatMan
|
RIP StatMan
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 15,058
The Slippery Slope
|
I guess you didn't have a chance to invite him to join up here. JG pays a dollar a member for anyone we can recruit.
"Difficult....not impossible"
|
|
|
Re: Amusing Coincidence
#51072
03/12/06 12:41 AM
03/12/06 12:41 AM
|
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,414 Bar Vitelli, Queens, NY
Signor Vitelli
OP
Underboss
|
OP
Underboss
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,414
Bar Vitelli, Queens, NY
|
I saw some coverage of the book in the NY Daily News around a week or so ago.
Has anybody read it? Any comments? (Should we carry this over to another Board?)
Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
|
|
|
Re: Amusing Coincidence
#51074
03/12/06 09:49 PM
03/12/06 09:49 PM
|
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,414 Bar Vitelli, Queens, NY
Signor Vitelli
OP
Underboss
|
OP
Underboss
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,414
Bar Vitelli, Queens, NY
|
It's interesting (and a bit strange) re-reading the novel after all these years. When I first read it, the movie had not come out. Actually, they had not even cast it or started production on it in any way at all. So, I was like a blank slate. I had no preconceived notions about it whatsoever. Now, after having seen the films many times, it is hard (if not downright impossible) to read the book without visualizing the actors, locations, etc. that were in the movies. It also makes me acutely aware how much was omitted from the film - and how some characters were quite different in the film (think Mama Corleone, for one). Truthfully, I really didn't miss a lot of the Johnny Fontane/Lucy/Nino/Dr. Whatsisname stuff, but knowing more of the "backstories" of some of the more familiar characters (Al Neri, particularly) made me wish that just a little more of it could have found its way into the film. Yeah, I know, the film would have ended up running four hours - but think how happy we would have been when all that footage would eventually end up "restored" for TV or DVD. Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
|
|
|
Re: Amusing Coincidence
#51076
03/13/06 12:13 AM
03/13/06 12:13 AM
|
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,414 Bar Vitelli, Queens, NY
Signor Vitelli
OP
Underboss
|
OP
Underboss
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,414
Bar Vitelli, Queens, NY
|
Hey, I've got plenty of moustaches...oh, wait - plaw has a moustache. Never mind. Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
|
|
|
|