Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, which is better known now as a film by Francis Ford Coppola, is a 'bizarre' book according ...

Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather was an instant best-seller and would go on to be adapted by director Francis Ford Coppola into a trilogy of acclaimed movies ...

In the five decades since it was published, Mario Puzo’s novel has been totally eclipsed by the movie. You can say the reasons are obvious, but that’s not entirely fair.

I read Mario Puzo’s megahit, “The Godfather,” in the early 1970s, along with most of the world’s population. As a feminist and a first-generation Italian-American, I had been baffled by ...

Update: Mario Puzo's archive sold at auction on Thursday for $625,000. The late Mario Puzo wrote the novel "The Godfather" that the movie's based on. In the North End, a true treasure trove of ...

BAY SHORE, N.Y. — Even without guarantee of immunity, Mario Puzo admits he’s a con man. What he knows about the Mafia comes from books. What he knows about the dagger, the pistol, the garrote ...

”The only story I knew about making ‘The Godfather’ was that Mario Puzo got into a fight with Frank Sinatra at Chasen’s,” Tolkin said last month about the 10-part series.

“Mario Puzo brought vast wealth to Paramount at a time when they desperately needed it. Now that he’s gone, Paramount’s trying to deprive his children of the rights he specifically reserved.

Pay Mario Puzo a million dollars to do this first draft, and I’ll help him and work with him.’ And they basically didn’t do it.” Undeterred, Puzo set about writing a Godfather IV script.

Mario Puzo (Bolivar Arellano)IT’S BUSINESS! Paramount Pictures is locked in a copyright war over Don Corleone and other characters. ( )It was an offer he should have refused. A lawyer for the ...

But then, Puzo estate went beyond the agreement, alleges Paramount, by allowing without its knowledge, a second sequel, entitled The Godfather’s Revenge, to be published in 2006. Sales were not ...