Coppola latest to make pitch on Amazon

LOS ANGELES - Francis Ford Coppola has become the latest celebrity to offer his talents for free to Amazon.com.

Coppola has made a couple of short films about the making of his feature film "One From the Heart," which was a bit of a bomb when released in 1982 but got a new life last week with the film's DVD release.

One five-minute short has Coppola welcoming shoppers to Amazon.com, and then describing his favorite scenes from the movie, which starred Teri Garr, Nastassia Kinski and Lainie Kazan.

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