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1. www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1991/03/22-caPileggi, the Fella Behind ‘GoodFellas ... - Los Angeles Times

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   NEW YORK — It would be hard to find a guy who is less Hollywood than Nicholas Pileggi. Here is a man who has kept sources for 30 years, a man so absent of malice he married writer Nora Ephron,...

2. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › articlesThe real-life Wiseguy behind Scorsese's GoodFellas - BBC

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   Jan 20, 2017 · The real-life Wiseguy behind Scorsese's GoodFellas. 20 January 2017. When Martin Scorsese read Nicholas Pileggi's gripping true story of small-time Mafioso Henry Hill he knew he’d hit movie...

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nicholas_PileggiNicholas Pileggi - Wikipedia

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   Nicholas Pileggi (/ pɪˈlɛdʒi /, Italian: [piˈleddʒi]; born February 22, 1933) is an American author and screenwriter. He wrote the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, its 1990 film adaptation, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

4. www.danspapers.com › 2019 › 06Nick Pileggi: A Conversation - Dan’s Papers

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   Jun 25, 2019 · Pileggi — who would later become one of the best crime reporters in America and the screenwriter of “Goodfellas” and “Casino” — told him he’d probably become a teacher. The reporter clarified his question, asking what summer job Pileggi was chasing.

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5. decider.com › 2018/03/29 › goodfellas-fact-check‘Goodfellas’ Fact Check: Just How Authentic Was Martin ...

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   Mar 29, 2018 · What you may not know about the movie and its basis, the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, is that they’re not the last word on Henry Hill’s trajectory from lower-middle-class electrician’s...

6. themobmuseum.org › blog › from-shoe-leather-reporterFrom shoe-leather reporter to Mob movie screenwriter, Nick ...

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   Mar 11, 2020 · Author and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi is enjoying a couple of major career milestones this year. Two groundbreaking Mob movies he wrote with director Martin Scorsese — Goodfellas and Casino — are undergoing anniversaries.

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   Who is Nicholas Pileggi?

   • Pileggi, the Fella Behind ‘GoodFellas’ : Movies: For 30 years, the New York journalist has covered cops, crime, corruption and the Mafia. His book inspired the acclaimed Martin Scorsese film--and he’s up for an Oscar Monday. It would be hard to find a guy who is less Hollywood than Nicholas Pileggi.

   Pileggi, the Fella Behind 'GoodFellas' : Movies: For 30 years, the New

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   Who is Joe Pileggi?

   • Pileggi is the stuff movies are made of. He has been prowling the streets of New York City for nearly four decades as one of its top journalists. And always his beats have been cops, crime, corruption and one element that touches them all: the Mafia.

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   Did Scorsese and Pileggi make a movie?

   • Pileggi gave Scorsese his word that night that he could make his book into a movie, and then refused to listen to other offers. The two collaborated on the screenplay, which is nominated for an Academy Award, and have plans to do two more movies together. Suddenly, at 58 and with no prior movie credits, Pileggi is a hot new Hollywood property.

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   How did Pileggi get a new identity?

   • When he was arrested for a range of offences, including drug-dealing (which his Mob bosses had told him to stay away from), he agreed to testify against his fellow ‘wiseguys’ and was given a new identity, under the US government’s Witness Protection Program. This was where Pileggi came in.

   The real-life Wiseguy behind Scorsese's GoodFellas - BBC

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   Who is Giuseppe Pileggi & how did he get married?

   • Pileggi’s marriage to the Mob began when he was growing up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the curious, restless son of an immigrant Italian family. “What the Vatican is to the Roman Catholics, Bensonhurst was to the Mafia,” Pileggi said early one recent morning in his rooftop office in Manhattan.

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8. www.looper.com › 860350Everything Casino Doesn't Tell You About The True Story

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   Jan 26, 2023 · Director Martin Scorsese 's 1995 film "Casino" was inspired by a true story, with crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi co-writing the screenplay with Scorsese while simultaneously working on the...