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Thomas DeSimone was born in New York City, New York, on June 6, 1946.He had two sisters, Dolores and Phyllis, and two brothers, Robert and Anthony. Both of his brothers were associates of the Gambino crime family; Anthony was murdered by mobster Thomas Agro in 1979.
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 .
In the year 1890, a traveling peddler named Jared Garrity arrives in the little recently renamed town of Happiness, Arizona, offering to bring the townsfolk's dead back from Boot Hill. Initially, they do not believe him, but, when he appears to resurrect a dead dog struck by a traveler's horse-drawn wagon, they believe him.
The events of the 1970 murder of Batts (Bentvena) are featured in the 1990 Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas. In a scene, which has been described as "iconic", Batts (portrayed by Frank Vincent) has a frank exchange with Tommy DeVito (played by Joe Pesci, based on Tommy DeSimone) at his welcome home party. [11]
He had a prominent voice acting role as Tommy Vercetti in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002). After his death in 2022, Liotta was posthumously recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 24, 2023. His films that were released posthumously include Cocaine Bear, Fool's Paradise, Dangerous Waters (all 2023), and 1992 (2024).
Henry Hill was arrested in 1980 on a narcotics-trafficking charge, [9] and with a long sentence hanging over him, he agreed to become an informant. [10] The entire family [11] entered the U.S. Marshals' Witness Protection Program in 1980, changed their names, and were moved around to several undisclosed locations including Seattle, Washington; Cincinnati, Ohio; Omaha, Nebraska; Butte, Montana ...
An Arizona mom was counting her blessings Monday after her teenage son escaped from a black bear that barged into their family cabin with ... Of the 16 bear attacks on people in Arizona since 1990 ...
Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 – June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant.