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If you’re smart like Fredo Corleone – or, at least think you are – you should leap on the sale of the Lake Tahoe house that was featured in The Godfather Part II communion celebration, the classic “I’m smart” scene, and – spoiler alert – Fredo’s untimely demise. The Fleur du Lac estate (Flower of the Lake) was a key…

UPDATE, with memorial service plans Danny Aiello, whose roles in Do the Right Thing, Moonstruck, The Godfather Part II and other films made him one of the most familiar and admired character actors of recent decades, died Thursday in a New Jersey medical facility following a sudden illness. He was 86. His death was…

The Justice Department and political operative Roger Stone’s attorneys are in a pre-trial legal battle on whether federal prosecutors can play a clip from The Godfather: Part II at Stone’s upcoming trial. Stone, who helped launch President Donald Trump’s political career, was arrested earlier this year in connection…

Carmine Caridi, who played the traitorous Carmine Rosato in The Godfather, Part II (1974) and returned to the Francis Ford Coppola franchise to portray Albert Volpe in The Godfather Part III (1990), died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, where he had been in a coma. He was 85. The veteran actor had screen…

Film editor Barry Malkin, a two-time editing Oscar nominee for The Godfather: Part III and The Cotton Club, has died. He was 80. Malkin worked on more than 30 films in his lifetime and was a longtime collaborator with Godfather trilogy director Francis Ford Coppola, who he teamed with on 11 feature films. Malkin began…

Carmen Argenziano, an actor familiar from hundreds of episodic TV guest spots, a recurring Stargate SG-1 role, an appearance in The Godfather Part 2 and, most recently, a TV commercial for AARP that cast him as the epitome of an helpful husband who takes the trash out before being asked, died Sunday. He was 75. His…