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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 .
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.
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Overflowing with insight, stuffed with revelatory interviews and anecdotes and archival footage, as bursting with flavor as a baked ziti, and just as immersive, in its way, as the show itself ...
It was a mere 25 years ago that "The Sopranos" debuted on HBO and set the clocks to zero on what some like to call television's Platinum Age. Alex Gibney's two-part scrapbook documentary "Wise Guy ...
Wiseguy is an American crime drama television series that aired on CBS from September 16, 1987, to December 8, 1990, for a total of 75 episodes over four seasons. The series was produced by Stephen J. Cannell and was filmed in Vancouver , British Columbia , to avoid the higher studio costs associated with filming in Los Angeles .
The result is Wise Guy, an artful and intimate look at the life and mind of David Chase. In it, Gibney has fun with the personal connection that inspired him, cheekily embracing the role of a ...
To become made, an associate would first have to be sponsored by a made man. [12] According to Joe Pistone's accounts in his books The Way of the Wiseguy and Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business, the associate must now have at least two sponsors, one of whom must have known him for 10 to 15 years.