
CRITICAL LIST: On The Times's best-seller lists, the short descriptions that follow each title are written by editors here, who keep their opinions out of it. It wasn't always thus. Observe the paperback best-seller list below, for example, which ran in these pages 35 years ago this week -- on Aug. 13, 1972. Poor William Blatty, who made No. 1 only...
THE GODFATHER'S REVENGE By Mark Winegardner. 487 pp. G. P. Putnam's Sons. $25.95. Say what you will about the Mafia, it's an organization that knows how to elegantly dispose of a corpse. Mark Winegardner, not a Sicilian but an English professor, has written two sequels to Mario Puzo's ''Godfather.'' The first was a jumble of Cuba scenes, betrayal...

THE voice has lost its ease. It is strained and full of effort. Once upon a time, the nasal articulation and reluctant delivery were the sounds of authority. Now, three decades after he first became the Godfather, Marlon Brando sounds a bit tentative. ''I'm, uh, I'm sad,'' the voice says. ''I'm sad to hear that you have not yet done what I asked of...
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (15. oktober 1920–2. juli 1999) var amerikansk forfatter, bl.a til bogen The Godfather (på dansk Mafia) som blev filmatiseret og udkom 24. marts, 1972, og lige siden har ligget nummer et på en lang række lister over bedste film. Han skrev en lang række bøger, men er mest kendt for sine skildringer af den amerikanske underverden.
Puzo døde 2. juli 1999 på Long Island i New York.