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Welcome to the Eric Mantaxis show with your host Eric Mantaxis

Folks I'm talking to Johnny Russo you were just talking about we're talking about crazy stuff except

I know it's real and you were there

Well you're so funny because St. Martin's Press and probably a lot of your listeners are saying oh come on this can't be true

Yeah, I found out something about writing a book and being an author

Yeah, the publishing houses vet all these stories

Yeah, because they don't want them out there right and

All this is in my book which we forgot to mention yeah, let's let Hollywood God Hollywood that's last time you were on we were talking about that book

And Hollywood Godfather's out there now you were gonna write another book and I want to ask you you're not you started writing it and you stopped writing it or I started writing it and I thought I was going to do something to pay back Sinatra

Because they asked me to write a book about Sinatra and there's so many and Bill O'Reilly's got a book coming about Sinatra

I can't believe this but anyway, I said you know, let me write the right book so now I'm turning in chapters with St. Martin's

With St. Martin's Press again big advance Frank Wyman's my agent got me a great deal

Because this book can't now is the best selling seven countries Hollywood Godfather Hollywood Godfather

They're making a 10 hour mini series out of it. What? Yeah, wait a minute wait a minute they're making a minute when I bumped into you on the street

I was running this is during COVID and I hear you come walking with your stick and I stopped you for a minute and you were telling me that you sold the rights and they're making a I think you said that back then

So it's happening. Oh, it's happening the mini series. Are you ready for this? Yeah Nick Vullalongo who won the ask of a green book best picture best screen. All right. He wrote the pilot

He's writing three episodes in directing three Chaz Palmentary is writing three and directing three George Gallo from midnight run

So many I mean 29th Street which I liked one of his great movies he's writing three and directing three and my show runner is Colin Wilson

From Mandalorian who just got nominated for 15 Emmys and also from Avatar he's my show runner and this is what we're doing now which I think is pretty as your partner for me Johnny

Of course that's why I have you here. Okay bring him some more Zambuka come on. Uh you um so but your life is is I said it's like Forest Gump. It really is when you talk about all these characters sonatra and this one and that one

Let's let's circle back. Uh not that we get type any loose ends but you said flat out Robert F Kennedy had Marilyn Monroe murdered. Yes. First of all that's an unbelievable thing. It's hard for many of us to believe that Robert F Kennedy would have someone murdered. You know this is true. Well that on a Saturday afternoon

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