There is a famous scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 epic The Godfather where patriarch Vito Corleone (played by Marlon Brando) calls a meeting with the major crime families of New York City.

The Godfather was, for a time ... so it was put up for auction. The painting sold for just $1,000 to an anonymous buyer. Here, the legacy of a once-valuable enterprise: a financial catastrophe ...

Hambleton disliked being called the godfather of street art ... Hambleton emerged between 1976 and 1978 by painting police chalk outlines around bodies of volunteers posed as homicide victims ...

His father, Emigdio Vasquez, often called the godfather of Chicano art in Orange County, drove him to a mural he was painting in the working-class, largely Mexican American Cypress Street ...

the “Godfather III” dialogue keeps coming back ... Whatever the medium, some artists paint and move on; others return, obsessively, to the same canvas. So the movie doesn’t work a miracle ...