What is the opera at the end of Godfather 3? The concluding half-hour of Francis Ford Coppola's 1990 film The Godfather Part III shows the Michael Corleone Family attending a performance of Mascagni's operaCavalleria rusticanaat the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Sicily. Pavarotti- Cavalleria Rustica...
On Oct. 23, 1945, the Dodgers announced in Montreal that Jackie Robinson would be playing the next season for the Royals, Brooklyn's top farm club. That paved the way for the breaking of baseball's color barrier on April 15, 1947, when the Dodgers manager wrote the name ROBINSON into t...
The oldest child of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher (“a product of Hollywood inbreeding,” she once wrote), actress Carrie Fisher (October 21, 1956-December 27, 2016) made her film debut as a precocious teen opposite Warren Beatty in 1975’s “Shampoo.” But it was her r...
James Brown, often dubbed "the Godfather of Soul," was a seminal figure in the evolution of rhythm and blues into soul music and funk. Born on May 3, 1933, in Barnwell, South Carolina, Brown's early life was marked by extreme poverty and abandonment. Despite the hardships, he discovered...
Many of his most memorable roles have come from playing the villain, such as in Léon: The Professional and True Romance. The Oscar-winning actor was certainly not an obvious choice to take on the role of Harry Potter's wizardly godfather Sirius Black in 2004's third Harry Potter...
With the city of Chicago serving as the setting of his immaculately produced tracks, the spirit of the “Godfather of House” lives on in the thumping, seductive sounds providing the backdrop for a new generation of escapist party goers. Eric Shorey...
This was crystallized for me for this film when I saw David Ehrlich wrote a piece on it about a decade ago. Much of the dialogue sticks with me from this parody of teen movies from the ‘80s to the early 00s, but the line in question especially. ...
I blame the "Lavender Haze" I've been under because of listening to the album "Midnights" on repeat for the last couple of weeks any chance I get, rather than staying on top of my Swiftie news. Won't let that happen again. Anyway, I digress...the announcement was that she just ...
It's a knockoff of the horse's head from "The Godfather." So who has the better shout? Both brands are growing fast, Audi sales rose 23% last year and Cadillac was up 35%. Cadillac sells almost 50% more vehicles. But in terms of burnishing the brand as the coolest newcomer, ...
The Godfather Syndrome is a common problem for film trilogies. When the first film is a good and the second is better, the third film has a hard act to follow. So often, it cannot raise the bar to the required level and, consequently, the film is unsatisfactory. The Godfather trilogy ...