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

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   Jan 20, 2017 · 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 gold. The result was GoodFellas. With the film's BFI re ...

2. www.denofgeek.com › movies › den-of-geek-book-clubDen Of Geek Book Club: Wiseguy: Life In A Mafia Family

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   Aug 1, 2014 · Hill told everything to Pileggi during a series of meetings that took place in high secrecy, once Hill and his family were established in their new identities. Pileggi’s factual, clear style ...

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

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   Mar 11, 2020 · Pileggi became acquainted with Weegee (real name Authur Fellig), but by then the famed street photographer was near the end of his career. Moving into long-form writing at New York magazine, Pileggi worked with some of the best-known reporters then practicing the New Journalism, including Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill and Gloria Steinem.

4. www.metro.us › nicholas-pileggi-talks-goodfellasNicholas Pileggi talks ‘Goodfellas’ and the real, crazy Henry ...

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   Jun 17, 2015 · Nicholas Pileggi had been a crime reporter for 30 years when his 1986 book “Wiseguy” — about a low-level mob associate-turned-informant named Henry Hill — came out. It was so authentic and ...

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wiseguy_(book)Wiseguy (book) - Wikipedia

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   ISBN. 0-671-44734-3. OCLC. 12558700. Dewey Decimal. 364.15092. Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family is a 1985 non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that chronicles the life of Henry Hill, a Mafia associate turned informant. The book is the basis for the 1990 Oscar –winning film Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese. [1][2][3]

6. www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1991/03/22-caPileggi, the Fella Behind 'GoodFellas' : Movies: For 30 years ...

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   Mar 22, 1991 · Suddenly, at 58 and with no prior movie credits, Pileggi is a hot new Hollywood property. Advertisement. Pileggi is the stuff movies are made of. He has been prowling the streets of New York City ...

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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 was Nicholas Pileggi?

   • Nicholas Pileggi had been a crime reporter for 30 years when his 1986 book “Wiseguy” — about a low-level mob associate-turned-informant named Henry Hill — came out. It was so authentic and often disarmingly funny that it convinced Martin Scorsese to break his vow that, after “Mean Streets,” he would never make another crime movie again.

   Nicholas Pileggi talks ‘Goodfellas’ and the real, crazy Henry Hill

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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.

   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.

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

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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. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › GoodfellasGoodfellas - Wikipedia

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   Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film [ 5 ] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, and Paul Sorvino, the ...