Francis Ford Coppola

Spielberg, De Niro praise Francis Ford Coppola for AFI Life Achievement Award

May 4, 2025 Krysta Fauria

LOS ANGELES — Steven Spielberg proclaimed, “The Godfather” the “greatest American film ever made,” Robert De Niro teasingly bemoaned being cast in the sequel and not the original and Harrison Ford fought back tears reflecting […]

Famous birthdays this week: April 3-9

April 3, 2025 The Associated Press

These celebrities have birthdays this week: April 3 Singer Wayne Newton is 83. Singer Tony Orlando is 81. Singer Richard Thompson is 76. Actor Alec Baldwin is 67. Actor David Hyde Pierce (“Frasier”) is 66. […]

Grateful Dead, Francis Ford Coppola, among Kennedy Center Honors recipients

July 25, 2024 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An iconoclastic filmmaking legend and one of the world’s most enduring musical acts headline this year’s crop of Kennedy Center Honors recipients. Director Francis Ford Coppola and the Grateful Dead will be […]

The Octagon comes to Raleigh: A preview of UFC Fight Night

January 22, 2020 Shawn Krest

The UFC makes its first appearance in Raleigh on Saturday night when PNC Arena hosts UFC Fight Night 166. It will be the sixth time the Octagon has come to North Carolina. Charlotte has hosted […]

Q&A: Francis Ford Coppola on ‘Apocalypse Now’ 40 years later

August 13, 2019 Jake Coyle | The Associated Press

NEW YORK — If filmmaking is a war, then “Apocalypse Now” was very nearly Francis Ford Coppola’s Waterloo. The battles Coppola fought while making his 1979 epic nearly destroyed him. A typhoon wrecked a major […]