According to Francis Ford Coppola telling of his making his 1972 classic,  The Godfather,  the experience was “nightmarish.”  Hired to direct Mario Puzo based movie, the studio gave him a hard time on nearly every decision during production.  Now, HBO Films is producing a script dramatizing the havoc behind the scenes. Entitled Francis and the Godfather by Andrew Farotte, the script made the 2015 Black … Continue reading #MICHIGANCONNECTION Coppola’s The Godfather behind the scenes drama being developed into HBO movie

Today is the birthday of Detroit born American television and movie actor William Whitney Talman, Jr.  Best known for playing Los Angeles District Attorney Hamilton Burger in the long-running series Perry Mason. Talman, as Burger, went on to lose all but three cases in the nine-year series, including a record two separate murder trials in the final episode. He called his record “the longest losing … Continue reading #M(ichigan)M(ovie)H(istory) On this day, February 4, 1915, actor William Whitney Talman, Jr. was born