It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Sunday, July 13, 2025

FOUR OF A KIND

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There is no debate:
 
+
present classic stories
about 
the Italian Mafia
 
Nor 
is their debate about
the brilliance of
Marlon Brando
+
James Gandolfini
as Mafia Dons
 
But
another film
and another
cable series
belong on this list
 
PRIZZI'S HONOR,
upstages 
Don Corleone
+
Tony Soprano
 
In 
Sylvester Stallone
is stellar
as a Mob boss
and is the only
one of the four
set in 
the 21st Century
 
Italians
+
Non-Italians 
eagerly await
season Three of
morphing 
with
Brando's 
Godfather 
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  1. AnonymousJuly 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM

    I agree that this page identifies 4 classic Mafia stories
    but I was skeptical about WILLIAM HICKEY upstaging
    Brando and Gandolfini...but he does.

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    1. AnonymousJuly 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM

      Oliverio agrees and—however briefly—PRIZZI"S HONOR
      is a morphing of Kermit The Frog
      and The Godfather

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