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In the News (Wed 11 Nov 09)

  
  Mario Puzo - The Official Library & Bookstore
Mario Puzo - The Official Library and Bookstore
In gratitude I leave you the province of Corleone in Italy.
Mario Puzo spent the last three years of his life writing Omerta, the concluding installment in his saga about power and morality in America.
www.mariopuzo.com   (100 words)

  
  Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo was born into an immigrant family in New York City in the area known as 'Hell's Kitchen'.
Puzo describes Don Corleone's struggle among the underworld bosses for power, and how family values are transferred from one generation to the next and how they change under social pressure.
Puzo's international bestseller was also adapted for the screen.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /mpuzo.htm   (1590 words)

  
 Mario Puzo on Larry King Live
MARIO PUZO: Yeah, they've shortened it to Cleri now, but when we were kids they were Clericuzio and even as a kid it struck me as just a marvelous name.
MARIO PUZO: - Las Vegas, and she noticed my fingers were blue and other signs, and she dragged me to LA and I immediately had heart surgery, a quadruple bypass, so she saved my life there and a couple of other things.
MARIO PUZO: I went to the New School for Social Research after the war and again money rears its head, because under the GI bill if you took a full course at night college, you got $120 a month, which was a lot of money in 1949.
www.mariopuzo.com /lking.shtml   (1961 words)

  
 Mario Puzo BIOGRAPHY
Mario Puzo was born October 15, 1920, in "Hell's Kitchen" on Manhattan's (NY) West Side and, following military service in World War II, attended New York's New School for Social Research and Columbia University.
Mario Puzo has also written several screenplays, including Earthquake, Superman, and all three Godfather movies, for which he received two Academy Awards®.
Mario's latest novel, 1996's The Last Don, was made into a CBS television miniseries in May 1997, starring Danny Aiello, Kirsty Ally and Joe Montegna.
www.mariopuzo.com /biography.shtml   (180 words)

  
 The Official Mario Puzo Library
Mario Puzo's final novel, completed by companion Carol Gino: The Family
This is the story of the greatest power family in Italian history--the Borgias.
Set in fifteenth-century Rome, this is a labor of love more than a decade in the making.
www.jgeoff.com /puzo   (133 words)

  
 Mario Puzo on Larry King Live
MARIO PUZO: Yeah, they are two different things.
MARIO PUZO: That was Francis Coppola more than anybody else.
MARIO PUZO: You know, it was really hard to get him to hire his sister in Godfather I. LARRY KING: Because of nepotism.
www.mariopuzo.com /lking.html   (1961 words)

  
 Farewell Mario Puzo (1920-1999)
Puzo was an obscure if critically acclaimed novelist when he sat down at his vintage manual typewriter in the late 1960s, determined to write a blockbuster that would pull him out of debt.
Puzo was born Oct. 15, 1920, in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, the son of illiterate Italian immigrants.
Puzo seemed bemused by this, and by assumptions that he himself was tied to the mob.
www.thegodfathertrilogy.com /ripmario.html   (6371 words)

  
 Mario Puzo Godfather & Gangsters Store - Books
Mario Puzo did not write the screenplay for either miniseries, but did consult on the first installment.
The third, and final, installment in Mario Puzo's epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family-one of the most enduring lineages in American literature and cinema-achieves a stunning crescendo with a story that imagines the role of the Mafia in the assassination of a young, charismatic president.
Carol Gino was Mario Puzo's companion the last 20 years of his life.
www.mariopuzo.com /store   (889 words)

  
 BookPage Mario Puzo Interview: The Last Don
With the release of The Last Don, Puzo hopes to regain some of the momentum lost in his career due to the lackluster sales of his 1991 novel, The Fourth K, a superbly written political morality tale concerning a charismatic President seduced by the lure of power.
Another key component of the Puzo mob epics is his insightful exploration of the emotional bonds of the family unit, the blood ties, the explosive conflicts borne of character and its defects.
A Hollywood insider, Puzo knows the glitter and glamour of the dream factories firsthand and laughs at the memories accumulated over more than 25 years of work there.
www.bookpage.com /9608bp/fiction/thelastdon.html   (1537 words)

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