Casts of ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Reservoir Dogs’ to reunite at Tribeca

The 16th annual Tribeca Film Festival is to close on April 29 with an epic event marking the 45th anniversary of the release of The Godfather . Back-to-back screenings of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are scheduled, to be followed by a reunion and conversation with director Francis Ford Coppola and actors Al Pacino, James Caan , Robert Duvall , Diane Keaton , Talia Shire and Robert De Niro .

On this day: January 24

2003: The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation on the same day former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge is named secretary of the department. 1999: In Louisville, Kentucky, Matthew Scott, 37, receives the first hand transplant in the United States during a 15-hour surgical procedure.