The Don's Daughter-In-Law

The Don's Daughter-in-LawBotticelli, were he alive today, would have immortalized Simonetta Stefanelli on canvas, as he did with Venus on the half shell. A sweet, innocent pout, a wisp of hair blowing in the breeze, a thigh thrust slightly forward, perhaps a hand over a breast. And this is pretty much how director Francis Ford Coppola portrayed her as Appolonia, the lovely Sicilian bride of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, the young, innocent farm girl who is destined to be blown to smithereen...