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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 .
Roger Ebert named Goodfellas the "best mob movie ever" and placed it among the ten best films of the 1990s. [67] In December 2002, a UK film critics poll in Sight & Sound ranked the film No. 4 on their list of the 10 Best Films of the Last 25 Years. [68] Time included Goodfellas in their list of Time's All-Time 100 Movies. [69]
Paul Anthony Sorvino (/ s ɔːr ˈ v iː n oʊ /, Italian: [sorˈviːno]; April 13, 1939 – July 25, 2022) was an American actor. [1] He often portrayed authority figures on both the criminal and the law enforcement sides of the law.
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Actor Paul Sorvino, who played tough guys in films like 'Goodfellas' and a tough cop in TV's 'Law & Order,' dies at 83.
Critics and audiences criticized Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close's nomination for Best Picture, with some calling the film one of the worst Best Picture nominees ever. [73] Chris Krapek of The Huffington Post wrote very negatively about the film's nomination, calling the film "not only the worst reviewed Best Picture nominee of the last 10 ...
Paul Sorvino, the burly character actor who made a career out of playing forceful types, most notably the coldhearted mobster Paulie Cicero in Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas, has died. He was 83.
Nicholas Pileggi (/ p ɪ ˈ l ɛ dʒ i /, 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.