Original Publication – Newsweek – November 25, 1974 “Give me a minor chord, Nino.” Seated at an editing machine in Rome, director Francis Ford Coppola is scoring reel 23, the…
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I had to threaten to resign from Newsweek to get Godfather II on the cover! This story came out just before its release and I did gloat when it won…
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Original Publication – Newsweek: October 28, 1974 At a time when the “easy riders” have fallen by the wayside, a hip 72-year-old who traverses America talking to his cat is…
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Original Publication – Newsweek: October 28, 1974 Verna Fields is not a glittering name on a movie marquee. She’s neither a hot young director nor a big-time producer. But at…
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“Listen to that!” exclaims Steve Wonder. “I should tape it.” The blind singer’s amazingly acute ears have picked up a telephone conversation across the room where a friend is telling…
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Original Publication: Newsweek – August 26, 1974 Waylon Jennings has traveled most of the back-country roads during his stormy career, breaking the format of the slick Nashville sound and paying…
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