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Grand Central Publishing has announced that a prequel to Mario Puzo’s The Godfather will be hitting the shelves in June next year. The prequel, entitled “The Family Corleone” is authored by Ed Falco and reportedly centers on an unproduced screenplay by Mario Puzo himself.

Puzo had died in 1999, but his legacy will live on – his estate authorized the prequel. Fans may point out that the second Godfather already delved into Vito Corleone’s early life, but it should be interesting to see whether the prequel and movie The Godfather: Part II will compliment or disagree with each other.

The Godfather has been so ingrained into pop culture that even those who haven’t read the book or watched the movies recognize references to them. Well, fans of The Godfather should watch out for The Family Corleone. It may not live up to the original, but it’ll still take us back in the Corleones’ dinner table, yes?

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Marvel’s Fantastic Four has been around for 50 years, more or less, and is a staple for comic book fans. We’ve seen Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, the Thing and Human Torch go up against supervillains like Doctor Doom, Namor, Silver Surfer and Galactus, and we’ve seen them up in the silver screen as well. Marvel has some bad news though, as the group of four is getting one casualty. But who are they killing off?

In Fantastic Four’s recent storyline called “Three,” Johnny Storm (Human Torch) dies at the hands – well, figuratively – of a horde of insect monsters from the Negative Zone. He bows out while saving his nephew and niece from said horde in Fantastic Four #587.

Anyway, fans are of course optimistic that the hothead Human Torch would come back to life in some twist of comic book fate since this kind of thing has been a great (and successful) marketing ploy. The same has happened to other heroes like Captain America who was dead for almost three years, and Superman, who was killed off in 1993.

Most recipes do call for a pinch of salt there and a dash of black people here – wait what? A typographical error had one Australian publisher pulp 7,000 copies of its book, “Pasta Bible”.

The said typo was found in the list of ingredients for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto. This tiny misprint has proved to be quite expensive for publisher Penguin Group Australia since it forced them to destroy and reprint the offending copies of the cookbook. According to head of publishing Bob Session, “We’re mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don’t know. When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up, but proofreading a cookbook is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable.”

All was blamed on the computer’s spellchecker, as the rest of the recipes with salt and black pepper are safe from the disastrous misprint.

I didn’t think such a guide existed, but a book on how to completely disappear without any traces had already been published in 1985. The book “How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found” was authored by Doug Richmond. It’s basically a how-to guide on how you can plan your disappearance by pseudocide or faking your own death, leaving only planted evidence to suggest that you died. The book also teaches you how to start over by assuming a new identity, cope with your new life, find work and establish credit, among many others. The most common way to disappear and create a new identity is to assume the identity of a dead person who has the same vital statistics and was born in the same year that you were born. Because this book was published back in 1985, some sections of the book contain outdated methods like avoiding paper trails.

The book is available in online stores and sells for $25. That’s a fair enough price if you want to completely disappear, right?

Most parents dread the day when their pure, innocent, darling angels ask where they came from. I grew up in a farm and my folks just pointed to a pair of sweaty pigs getting it on and that was that. For years after that I refused to eat pork.

But city folks would be hard pressed to find pigs or any other animals in the act of procreation. Fortunately they can always  rely on Nicholas Allan, author of Where Willy Went.

The story is about “Willy, a little sperm who lives inside Mr. Browne with 300 million friends. Every day Willy practices for the Great Swimming Race. And when the day arrives, he swims faster than his 300 million friends to win the prize—a marvelous egg. Then something wonderful happens, and eventually Mr. and Mrs. Browne have a baby girl who has the same winning smile as Willy and who grows up to be a great swimmer.”

And no, Free Willy is NOT the movie version of this book.