Farewell to James Caan, a screen tough guy with a heart as big as his fists

Farewell to James Caan, a screen tough guy with a heart as big as his fists

Like a panther or a heavyweight boxer, James Caan knew when to follow his instincts. There’s a famous moment early in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 mafia epic The Godfather – the film that earned Caan an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and secured his immortality – where he’s acting purely on intuition. The script called for Caan, playing Don Vito […]