![]() ![]() Here's how to make a fancy signature for your talk posts:Ĭlick on the "preferences" tab at the top right of your screen. ![]() When you reply on a talk page, put a colon (:) at the front of your post to indent it. Sign talk posts with four tildes ~~~~ which automatically adds your user name and a date stamp. Log in and create a user name - it helps you (and everybody) keep track of your contributions, and it makes it possible to communicate with other contributors. If you see a problem on one of the pages, don't roll your eyes and complain about it. If you're reading these words, then you're an editor. It's possible for someone to post errors, or nonsense - but over time, the best wins out. Vandalism is almost always fixed within minutes. Information that looks suspicious can be verified. Sure, anybody can add anything - and then everybody else gets to proofread it, and fix mistakes. Once you start participating, you see that that "weakness" is actually a wiki's greatest strength. If anybody can come along and change things, then how can the information be trusted? Doesn't it just get vandalized, or fall into chaos? This article originally appeared in you first see a wiki, it doesn't seem like it could possibly work. My humiliation must have showed because he yelled after me, ‘Choke. “Finally, I walked away and out of the restaurant. Sinatra, again not looking up from his plate, continued to scold Puzo while the author just stared at the crooner, he wrote. Northern Italians never mess with Southern Italians except to get them put in jail or get them deported to some desert island.” “This was roughly equivalent to Einstein pulling a knife on Al Capone. “What hurt was that here he was, a northern Italian, threatening me, a southern Italian, with physical violence,” Puzzo wrote in New York. While letting him have it, Sinatra also told Puzo “that if it wasn’t that I was so much older than he, he would beat the hell out of me.” That really got to Puzo, he wrote, but not because he was scared of getting injured. The worst thing he called me was a pimp, which rather flattered me since I’ve never been able to get girlfriend to squeeze blackheads out of my back, much less hustle for me,” Puzo wrote in ’72. “I remember that, contrary to his reputation, he did not use foul language at all. Then, Sinatra “started to shout abuse,” at Puzo, according to the author. “‘Who told you to put that in the book, your publisher?'” Sinatra asked Puzo, he wrote. The millionaire apologized to Sinatra for upsetting him Puzo tried to tell Sinatra the introduction was not his idea. Sinatra, who won an Oscar for his performance in 1953’s From Here to Eternity, was irate and disgusted when the two finally met in the restaurant, according to Puzo’s article in New York. “Obviously Johnny Fontane was inspired by a kind of Frank Sinatra character,” Coppola said on the commentary track.įrank Sinatra’s Birthplace Commemorates His 100th Its Way In the director’s commentary on Blu Ray for The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola briefly mentions Sinatra during Fontane’s first appearance. ![]() Singer Al Martino played Johnny Fontane in The Godfather and The Godfather: Part III. In Puzo’s novel, Johnny Fontane’s singing and acting career is helped thanks to his mafia connections. It had been rumored Sinatra had connections to organized crime which allowed to him make certain career moves, including allegedly breaking a contract through threat of violence. “‘I’d like you to meet my good friend, Mario Puzo,'” said the millionaire friend, according to Puzo, to which Sinatra, not looking up from his plate, replied: “‘I don’t think so. Lady Gaga, Nick Jonas, John Legend & More Pay Tribute to Ol’ Blue Eyes at ‘Sinatra 100’ Concert Once there, the millionaire wanted to introduce the author to another friend: Sinatra. The writer was busy working on the screenplay for his bestseller in Hollywood - which would go on to be hailed as one of the greatest films of all time - when he was invited by an unnamed “famous millionaire” friend to a dinner party at Chasen’s - a then celebrity hotspot near Beverly Hills, which opened in 1936 and closed in 1995, Puzo recounted in the magazine article. ![]()
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