A Coppola Claimed
Sad news in the Coppola family tonight, as 75-year-old literature professor August Coppola -- the father of Nicolas Cage and brother to Francis Ford Coppola -- has passed away. Francis spoke at length about his brother in a June interview with Movieline: "You know, I had a very talented older brother, and I sort of modeled myself on him. It's not that he was competitive -- he was just older, so he was better at everything than I was. And I always thought, 'Oh, someday we could be Julian and Aldous Huxley!' In history, there are any number of brothers or sisters who were both acclaimed poets or stuff like that, and I always thought that would be really great." [HuffPo]
