Robert Redford starred in a classic crime caper of the 1970s, The Sting, before Paramount Pictures considered him to play an Italian-American mafioso in The Godfather.
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Imagine Robert Redford or Ernest Borgnine as the Godfather. On the 50th anniversary of the film, the author of Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli describes the movie that could've been.
Robert Redford starred in a classic crime caper of the 1970s, The Sting, before Paramount Pictures considered him to play an Italian-American mafioso in The Godfather.
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Lise Davidsen, performing in the title role of Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos at the Metropolitan Opera in Feb. 2022.
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