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GOOD MORNING: The deaths of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and sister-in-law brought to the surface a quote from Francis Coppola. When I visited him Nov. 7, 1989, at Cinecitta Studios in Rome, where he was readying to start filming “The Godfather 3,” I asked if it was true the Corleone family was based on the Coppolas. “Yes,” he said, “and also on the Kennedys and the Rockefellers.” The film-family story was about “power and the violence it breeds.” He could have added, “and the tragedies.” As we talked about his quote and the Kennedys on Wednesday, Francis reminded that “the great royal families in history have always affected all of us.” Francis was certainly affected by the watery death of JFK’s son: On May 26, 1986, Coppola’s 23-year-old son, Gian Carlo Coppola, died in a freak boating accident near the filming location of Francis’ “Gardens of Stone.” As the media in the past few days have recalled scenes of JFK with his then-small son, Francis couldn’t help but be reminded of his own memories of tender moments with young Gian Carlo. “Both were beautiful young men,” he said sadly to me. “Looking at those pictures was heartbreaking.” Coppola is again burying himself in writing, this time on his “opus magnus,” as he smilingly refers to the project. It is again about family and power, set in contemporary New York. But this one is about “many different families,” he says. Of course, one is Italian. While immersed in this serious tome, he also finds time and energy to continue working on the proposed musical version of “Gidget and the Big Kahuna.”
https:// variety.com/1999/voices/columns/coppola-kennedys-inspired-godfather-themes-1117744063/