Godfather II

Godfather II turns 49-years old this week. Here's some useful background. I would rate it even better than the original which is saying something. Here's some nuggets people should be aware of:

• Francis Ford Coppola was burned out and suggested Martin Scorsese as a replacement.
• The movie is both a prequel (Robert DeNiro) and a sequel (Al Pacino) 
• The courtroom scenes were based loosely on The Valachi Papers
• Who knew? The woman young Vito helps not get evicted was supposed to be Sonny Corleone's grandmother.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

The trumpet of the Delta variant being the most deadly will be sounded the loudest by the media outlets suffering the worst ratings and circulations declines (looking at you CNN and The Atlantic)... Poverty was reduced by 80% in just 20-years and it wasn't communism or socialism... It just may be that the best screenplays written by Francis Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino were  for movies they did not direct. Coppola with Patton and Tarantino for True Romance... Still say someone should come out with an a fantasy football app where if an NFL player on your roster kneels during the National Anthem then your player is not eligible for any points that week. Think there's a demand for such an app... Very cool... In accordance with my last will and testament - I have two final requests... 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Failure Theory

- Steven Pressfield: Francis Ford Coppola on Re-writing. I remember Gardens of Stone as a pretty good movie though I haven't seen it in decades.

- Interesting - MySpace Tom got it right.

- Victor Davis Hanson: Why does the Left hate Israel?

- Tesla's Elon Musk comes through for UFC's Beneil Dariush. "Elon time" is a real problem though.