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Nicholas Pileggi (born February 22, 1933 in New York City, New York) is an Italian-American author and screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Pileggi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Nicholas Pileggi - The Popularity Of Mob Movies (1990)#Goodfellas #TheGodfather
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Sep 20, 2010 · Nicholas Pileggi (co-writer): Mob guys love it, because it's the real thing, and they knew the people in it. They say, "It's like a home movie."
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To be a wiseguy was to own the world.'GoodFellas is Henry Hill's own story, telling the fascinating and sometimes brutal details of the day-to-day life of a working New York mobster - the violence, wild spending sprees, his wife, his mistress, his code of honour. From the small-time scamming of his early years, his first arrest at the age of ...
Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan).This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence ...
Sep 16, 2020 · None made their mark more than “Goodfellas,” drawn from Nicholas Pileggi’s book “Wiseguy” and based on the real-life exploits of the New York mob underling-turned-informant Henry Hill ...
