Hollywood Godfather av Gianni Russo, Patrick Picciarelli

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<p><b><i>Hollywood Godfather</i> is Gianni Russo''s over-the-top memoir of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make <i>The Godfather </i>a reality, and his story of life on the edge between danger and glamour.</b><br><br>Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of <i>The Godfather</i> and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleone, who set her brother Sonny¿played by James Caan¿up for a hit. Russo didn''t have to act¿he knew the mob inside and out: from his childhood in Little Italy, where Mafia legend Frank Costello took him under his wing, to acting as a messenger for New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello during the Kennedy assassination, to having to go on the lam after shooting and killing a member of the Colombian drug cartel in his Vegas club. <br><br> Along the way, Russo befriended Frank Sinatra, who became his son''s godfather, and Marlon Brando, who mentored his career as