Yeah, come to think of it, Al Pacino didn't speak that much Italian in either movie. (I don't really consider GFIII much in my thinking about the Godfather story....sorry if I offend anyone! ) But, DeNiro--what an actor!!! What a man!!! I fell in love with him in GFII. I thought he was soooooo darn sexy in that! My dad looked somewhat like him--he wore his hair just like DeNiro in the movie. Anyway, what a superb actor! Can anyone tell me all of the actors that won Oscars for either GFI, GFII, or GFIII.

I loved DeNiro in Goodfellas, too, although his character was waaaay too sinister for me. At least as Vito Corleone, you knew that Vito's motives were strictly to care for his family and close friends. Back in those days, too, people were dirt poor. If a man like Vito lost his job in a little grocery store in those days, he really had to worry about his family starving! And, he would do whatever it took to prevent that. I remember my grandfather telling me stories about him growing up in the Little Italy in Chicago. He told me that he practically lived on the streets when he was a boy because he would sell papers on the corner for pennies. Wow...I can really relate to Vito's indignation when he asked Clemenza about if Fannucci was Italian and Clemenza saying he was, and then Vito asking him why, then, did he hassle other Italians? (Oh, maybe it wasn't Clemenza--maybe it was that other guy--I think he was the grocer's son!) And his only answer was that Fannucci was "the Black Hand". They were a group of the old "greaseballs" from the Old Country who acted like the mob of today.

Now, the Black Hand is gone and the mafioso is still alive, but very hidden.

Gee, did I just babble all that just now??? I must be tired...

~~ Lolly