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Kennedy Center Honors


FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA FOUND HIMSELF OUTSIDE HOLLYWOOD. HE’S OKAY WITH THAT.

At 85, the legendary director doesn’t care what critics say about “Megalopolis.”
One thing he is apologetic about ahead of the Kennedy Center Honors? Being “the
jerk that started numbers on movies.”

Yesterday at 6:00 a.m. EST
Kennedy Center honoree Francis Ford Coppola may be 85, but he keeps a schedule
that would buckle men of 30. (Jesse Dittmar for The Washington Post)
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By Jada Yuan

NEW YORK

Twice in two days, Francis Ford Coppola will utter the same quotation.

“Tolstoy once said that the great surprise of life is when you realize you’re
elderly,” the great director says, slowly consuming a very small portion of
silken tofu at a fine Japanese restaurant in Tribeca, which is all he’ll allow
himself to eat for a midday meal these days. (Actually, it was the Russian
revolutionary Leon Trotsky who said, “Old age is the most unexpected of all
things that can happen to a man.” But really, who’s quibbling?)


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