Colette Georgii is a freelance writer based in Eastern Pennsylvania where she has lived most her life.

Her goal as a writer is to continue freelance writing as a lifetime career and to finish her works in progress - a screenplay and a novel.

She currently publishes at Helium where she has written to all Helium channels giving lifetime insights and unique comments on many diverse issues.

Previously she has published three poems and has written many business materials such as press releases, entertainment programs, and resumes.

She also writes and develops Business Plans, Organizational Assessments, Organizational Charts, Strategic Plans, and Project Plans.

Although her specialization is writing, she is also an excellent cook, a talented artist, a gifted seamstress/coutouriere, a Silver Level Professional Ballroom Dancer, and an avid book collector.

She is keenly interested in History, Genealogy, Politics, Environmental Issues and Wildlife, in flowers and gardening, and Educational research.

Colette Georgii has traveled throughout the United States - to the New England states where her family originated, to the Southern states where other family members reside, and out West just to see her beloved America.

Her education became almost a lifetime educational and role model project while raising her four children who are now ages 25, 40, 42, and 44. (Three grandchildren - one is in his second year of college).

She received her MBA in 2002 and also holds an MS in Community Economic Development (1998) and a BS in Education with a concentration in Social Science and a Secondary Teaching Certificate in Social Studies.

Her work experiences includes Sales, Teaching, Director of an Arts Center, Manager and President of a Natural Foods Co-op, and many other work positions while raising her children and attending college. She currently does volunteer work at a local non-profit organization.

With her diverse life experiences and continued education she has keen insight into today's many cultural, societal, and political issues and her words are truly ingenious offerings for today's global world.

You may contact this freelance writer at jgeorgii@gmail.com

You may view her recently created blog (2007) at www.fandangomango.blogspot.com

My passion is ...

Life and everything that comes with it including reading, writing, and thinking.

I know too much about ...

Everything and not enough about anything

My parents always told me ...

To stop talking

My childhood ambition ...

At age six I wanted to be a teacher. At age 15 I wanted to be a teacher or writer.

My favorite memory ...

Too many favorite memories, but I guess the best would be the yearly trips to my grandmother in Massachusetts when I was a child.

Why I write ...

I write to give the best of me to the world and to young people who are just beginning.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

News and the Presidential primaries. Read anything educational from Cookbooks to Politics. Listen to Progressive Jazz.

My first job ...

Waitress when I was fourteen after school

My best moment ...

The birth of spring flowers and the birth of my children. Also, being at my MBA graduation ceremony and receiving my degree.

My inspiration ...

Books by famous authors or about famous people.

Entertainment > Directors & Film Makers Frances Ford Coppola and The Godfather

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Francis Ford Coppola: Director of the Godfather

On becoming the director of the Godfather at the young age of 29, Francis Ford Coppola was catapulted to instant fame as a movie director of exceptional abilities. He however expresses that "I made the Godfather and it just totally changed my life. Suddenly I was an important director. I wasn't this young, experimental filmmaker that I'd hoped to be."

His movie, the Godfather was one of the top-grossing movies of all time and became an instant sensation. It remains to this day one of the best examples of good movie making.

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