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Louis Cafora, who bought a pink Cadillac for his wife soon after the heist, permanently disappeared, which is to say his body still hasn’t been found.

Henry's life was colorful to say the least and he lived it to the fullest. I was sad to hear that he passed away, particularly because I thought he was onto something with his cookbooks and talk of a cable tv cooking show which would have been stellar and to see Henry do something on the up and up for a change would have been the icing on Henry's cake.

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Godfrey, Alex (November 2013). "Whaddya want from me?". mrgodfrey. Archived from the original on September 4, 2014 . Retrieved August 22, 2014. 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 Academy Award–winning film Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese. [1] [2] [3] Summary [ edit ] Hill went into dope. Selling and using. He got fingered by a mule who also squealed about Lufthansa. Hill was busted on April 27, 1980 and ratted out everyone who he thought was out to clip him. Burke allegedly tried to contract a job on Hill to Greg Bucceroni, but he passed and Burke went to jail. Hill’s testimony convicted 50 guys. Jimmy Burke got 20 years for the 1978–79 Boston College point shaving scandal.

The Burke crew stole a van in Flushing to use on the Lufthansa job. Edwards was supposed to dump the van, but the cops found it in a no-parking zone in Brooklyn two days after the robbery. Cops found fingerprints in the inside of the van and also on Kerry Whalen’s wallet, which was sitting in the van. GoodFellas". Chicago Sun-Times. September 2, 1990. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012 . Retrieved October 18, 2014.

Lorraine Bracco (Karen Hill)

Burke had a rough childhood. The first 13 years of his life consisted mostly of repetitive abuse from the foster families he lived with after his mother put him in an orphanage at the age of 2. While he eventually found loving adoptive parents, the mold had been cast. After so many years of absorbing beatings and fending for himself, Burke spent most of his teenage and early 20s alternately committing crimes and doing time in prison. a b "Siskel and Ebert Top Ten Lists (1969–1998)". Innermind.com. May 3, 2012. Archived from the original on April 26, 2013 . Retrieved August 14, 2014. At the age of twelve my ambition was to be a gangster. To me being a wiseguy was better than being president of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.' The narrator sounded a lot like the real Henry Hill with shades of Joe Pesci which made listening to this a real pleasure.

In Goodfellas, Tommy DeVito was played by Joe Pesci. The guy’s real name was Thomas DeSimone, and he was actually ten years younger than Henry Hill…even though Pesci looks older, and the movie makes out that they were kids together.

Debi Mazar (Sandy)

Pileggi co-wrote the pilot of the CBS television series Vegas, which first aired in September 2012. [2] Personal life [ edit ] Roger Ebert named Goodfellas the "best mob movie ever" and placed it among the ten best films of the 1990s. [63] 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. [64] Time included Goodfellas in their list of Time's All-Time 100 Movies. [65] Channel 4 placed Goodfellas at No. 10 in their 2002 poll The 100 Greatest Films, Empire listed Goodfellas at No. 6 on their "500 Greatest Movies Of All Time," [66] and Total Film voted Goodfellas No. 1 as the greatest film of all time. [67]