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There is an interesting behind the scene story about capture of the Godfather. More interesting facts at the end of the story.

How Godfather was betrayed by his need for clean pants
From Richard Owen in Rome

HE eluded capture for 43 years. But in the end he was betrayed by the need for clean underwear.

Bernardo Provenzano, the Mafia “boss of bosses” who was arrested this week, was traced to his Sicilian hideaway by police who tracked a delivery of laundry.

Provenzano, who had not been seen since going into hiding in 1963, asked his wife to send him “a pack of washed and ironed clothes” — underpants, shirts, and socks.

Police intercepted a telephone conversation between mafiosi indicating that Provenzano’s wife, Saveria Benedetta Palazzolo, who runs a laundry in Corleone, was about to return her husband’s clean clothes. The pack of laundry was handed to one of a team of trusted messengers who for years had taken notes and packages to and from “the Godfather”. This time, however, they were watched by police as well as by television surveillance cameras.

The watchers saw the door of the farmhouse open a tiny crack and a hand emerge to receive the package. A signal was given to storm the house. Provenzano, taken by surprise, turned out to be an elderly, pink-cheeked man with thick-lensed

UNDERLYING FIGURES
# Bill Clinton was asked by a 17-year- old girl in 1994 whether he wore boxers or briefs. He replied “usually briefs”

# Under the headline “Tyrant’s in his pants” Saddam Hussein was pictured by The Sun in 2005 wearing Y-fronts

# Superman prefers red pants, but likes to wear them over lycra trousers

# David Beckham changes his underwear a number of times daily and never wears any pants twice

# When Marlon Brando was fitted in tight jeans for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) he insisted on wearing no underwear