Andreotti, Sorrentino tell different tales

April 28, 2007 Giulio Andreotti, the seven-time prime minister who is to be the subject of the next film from director Paolo Sorrentino, said Friday that he is unfamiliar with the project and has never met the director. Earlier in the week, the 39-year-old Sorrentino said he would make a film about the iconic Andreotti, saying he had met with him twice and that Andreotti even joked that he couldn't understand why anyone would want to make a film about him. The character Don Licio Lucchesi in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather Part III" -- a pro-Church political kingpin with Mafia ties -- is widely reported to have been modeled on Andreotti, the only member of the current Italian parliament elected when it was first created in 1946.

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