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'Godfather' video game suit settled

The estate of "The Godfather" author has accepted an offer it couldn't refuse.

Review: 'Godfather' Loosely Follows Film

Even if you've seen the movie a hundred times, the video game version of "The Godfather" is an offer you can probably refuse.

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MICHAEL GOODWIN: Is the 'Obama Family' Going to the Mattresses?
Source: FOXNews.com

excerpt: "" When a President is determined to squander an irreplaceable mandate of public trust, as Obama apparently is, even his friends aren't safe. We could call it doubling down on a mistake. Or drawing a partisan line in the sand.

'The Godfather,' at Its Greatest
Source: The Washington Post

Sounds like THIS is the one to own. Until holograms, or virtual reality, or some such @!$%# comes out in five years.

There Should NOT Be a Dark Knight Sequel
Source: ropeofsilicon.com

The Dark Knight worked on so many levels as it easily moved from Batman Begins and into the Joker's narrative. It was as if the two films were made as one and like Empire Strikes Back and The Godfather Part II, The Dark Knight became a better film than its predecessor.

When the 'wisdom of crowds' turns on itself: IMDB edition
Source: CNET.com

The concept of the "wisdom of crowds" is a fundamental building block of a lot of the Web 2.0 services that we see today. While not all of them are built on this core concept, major sites like Digg, Wikipedia, and Mahalo rely heavily on crowds being wise.

'30 Years of Failure': A conversation about the War on Drugs with Ed Burns, co-creator of The Wire
Source: Reason Magazine

Ed Burns: I don't think we're being cynical. I think we're being factual. We've been fighting the drug war for 30 years. Thirty years of failure. But there's some reason that we persist in this. What is it? We never explore why that is.

Simon Michael Bessie, a Publisher of Major Literary Figures, Dies at 92
Source: The New York Times

Simon Michael Bessie, who in 1959 left a top editorial position at what was then called Harper & Brothers to help found Atheneum Publishers, perhaps the last major literary house to be started from scratch in the 20th century, died on Monday at his home in Lyme, Conn. He was 92.

American Film Institute Raises Kane Again
Source: Associated Content

A look at the updated American Film Institute Top 100 Greatest Films list--and what AFI plans to do with their lists in the future...

The Top Ten Most Misunderstood Movies Ever Made
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We're not talking about abstract, BS French art films or something. We're talking Pulp Fiction, The Godfather, Scarface. The kind of movies that you assume you understand on a thematic level, but you really don't.

Palm Beach Int'l Film Festival To Give Cash Prizes Along With New Destructible E-Mail Service Free
Source: SceneOne.org

PALM BEACH, FL., Aug. 28 / -- One of the world's leading film festivals, The Palm Beach International Film Festival (PBIFF), is going "Kablooey" this summer.

Hezbollah, a Noble Organization
Source: Truth—The No Spin Politically Incorrect Zone

What do the Godfather, the Sopranos, and Hezbollah have in common?

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