My name is Gianni Russo, aka Carlo, the infamous son-in-law from the godfather.

I'm now known as the Hollywood Godfather, and this is my story.

Before all of the wins in my portfolio, I was a little boy diagnosed with polio.

Experimenting with cures, I tried everyone. tried everyone felt everything in my right but my left was

numb walking with a limp like will i ever run once again or is this it am i forever done living in the

hospital was never fun some people were cool but not evening, everybody. It's time for another Hollywood

Godfather podcast. Let me introduce our co-hosts first, because both of us are so engrossed

in this topic tonight, and you'll find out why in a minute. Jeannie Raymond, my darling, how are you? I am great. I'm so excited about

this movie we're going to talk about. I cannot wait. You know, this movie that we're going to

talk about, this is the first time ever I could think of in my 80 years of life.

I know the two principles that they made the movie about personally,

spend time with them, especially Frank Costello right to his death.

Then Bobby De Niro, I spent so many years with him, developing projects together, and obviously we were both in several movies.

And he's playing both parts, which he wasn't supposed to.

Oh, really?

Another friend of mine was supposed to play the other part, Al Pacino.

Oh, wow.

So I don't know what happened there.

The director, Barry Levinson, I know him forever.

Nick Pelleggie, who wrote, you know, I mean, his history with Goodfellas, casino and all those. This was the third

movie of his mafia trilogy. The movie was finished three years ago by Warner Brothers, a major

studio, a $35 million budget.

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