The cement was barely dry from the hand- and footprint ceremony in the forecourt of the TCL Chinese Theater (Grauman's Chinese) in Hollywood where director Francis Ford Coppola had just been enshrined before he took the stage to talk about some of his seminal 1970s films with TCM Classic Film Festival host Ben Mankiewicz.

Ostensibly, Coppola was there to talk about his 1974 psychological thriller, The Conversation starring Gene Hackman and John Cazale, a brilliant, personal film sandwiched between the monolithic twin towers of The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II.

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