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Fri 10 Oct 2007Coppola: 'I'm no comeback kid'Francis Ford Coppola, whose first film in 10 years, Youth Without Youth, just premiered at the Rome Film Festival, has taken umbrage at suggestions he is involved in a comeback."I never went anywhere," the director bellowed. "A comeback is like when a fighter stops fighting and then goes and says: 'I'm retiring and then makes a comeback.' Who is to say what a film director's schedule has to be?"