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Francis Ford Coppola Wants A Wife Who Cooks And Cleans
6:37AM Richard Lawson | Francis Ford Coppola is a big fat guy who sits in his California mansion, drinking wine and thinking up movie ideas. He is also an astute critic of marriage. His problem? If his wife works, who will cook and clean? More »
Tetro
8:15AM Defamer Hollywood | The prospect of Francis Ford Coppola imposing a “sex change” on Javier Bardem had us a million ways of excited (and just a little faint) today — and then we read the fine print. It turns out the director decided during rehearsals for his upcoming film Tetro that a woman would be a better mentor to his title character, played by Vincent Gallo. “As I read and reread (the script),” Coppola told The Hollywood Reporter, “I felt that the interaction between the two characters would be far more intriguing if they were of the opposite sex.” Of course, the casting of Spanish actress Carmen Maura had nothing to do with Bardem reportedly “becoming unavailable” while keeping himself open for the Rob Marshall musical Nine, which shoots this fall. A similar scenario arose earlier in preproduction when Coppola, reportedly wanting to “go skeevy” with his lead, instinctively replaced Matt Dillon with Gallo. Either way, we think he’s earned the benefit of our doubt. [THR] More »
Let’s Forget That ‘Jack’ And ‘The Rainmaker’ Ever Happened
6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | In GQ, Francis Ford Coppola speaks truth to scene-chewing-actor power by lamenting how the careers of once-hungry artists Al “Two for the Money” Pacino, Meet the Fockers star Robert DeNiro, and Jack Nicholson (still kind of awesome) have turned out: “I met both Pacino and De Niro when they were really on the come,” Coppola tells GQ’s Nate Penn. “They were young and insecure. Now Pacino is very rich, maybe because he never spends any money; he just puts it in his mattress. De Niro was deeply inspired by (Coppola’s studio American) Zoetrope and created an empire and is wealthy and powerful. Nicholson was – when I met him and worked with him – he was always kind of a joker. He’s got a little bit of a mean streak. He’s intelligent, always wired in with the big guys and the big bosses of the studios. I don’t know what any of them want anymore. I don’t know that they want the same things. Pacino always wanted to do theatre … (He) will say, ‘Oh, I was raised next to a furnace in New York, and I’m never going to go to L.A.,’ but they all live off the fat of the land.” [Rush & Molloy] More »
