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Ed Mcdonald is the former prosecutor who offers Henry and his family the chance to enter the witness protection problem, and he actually plays himself in the movie. At first, real New York supercop Bo Dietl auditioned for the role of Mcdonald, but he was ultimately cast as the cop who busts Henry in his driveway. Brian Dennehy very nearly played the part, but when the production sent someone over to gather photos of Mcdonald and his diplomas, he asked the staffer who was playing him, and when the staffer told him the role hadn't been filled yet, he jokingly suggested he'd do it himself. Scorsese was intrigued by idea of making a cinéma vérité movie, so he wound up, in fact, casting Mcdonald. Had Mcdonald still been working for the government, he wouldn't have even been able to take the part.

Are you interested in what happened to Henry Hill after the events of Wiseguy and/or Goodfellas? I was quite happy to leave the story there and consign the following events to speculation. However, spotting Gangsters and Goodfellas in a recent Audible sale, I decided to revisit the story of Henry Hill.

Goodfellas, or GoodFellas, as it was originally titled (the change is a mystery), is based on the 1986 book by Nicholas Pileggi titled Wiseguy, which soon became the name of an unrelated TV show the following year. Pileggi was in a position to write such a book for several reasons, but the most interesting is that because he wrote for the Associated Press, he never got a byline, so the gangster types he'd hang around never knew he was the one sharing their stories with the AP. Pileggi was dating Nora Ephron at this time, and she wound up writing her own Henry Hill movie, My Blue Heaven, that was released just one month before Goodfellas, which is a wild story.

Canby, Vincent (September 19, 1990). "A Cold-Eyed Look at the Mob's Inner Workings". The New York Times. Once Robert De Niro agreed to play Jimmy Conway, Scorsese was able to secure the money needed to make the film. [11] Ray Liotta, who played Henry Hill, had read Pileggi's book when it came out and was fascinated by it. A couple of years afterward, his agent told him Scorsese was going to direct a film adaptation. In 1988, Liotta met Scorsese over a period of a couple of months and auditioned for the film. [12] He campaigned aggressively for a role, though Warner Bros. Pictures wanted a well-known actor; he later said, "I think they would've rather had Eddie Murphy than me." [18] Scorsese cast Liotta after De Niro saw him in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1986); Scorsese was surprised by "his explosive energy" in that film. [16] Al Pacino [19] and John Malkovich were considered for the role of Conway, and Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, Val Kilmer, and Tom Cruise were considered for the role of Hill. [20] [21] [22] Goodfellas (18)". British Board of Film Classification. September 17, 1990. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016 . Retrieved October 22, 2015.By all accounts, Lucchese crime family associate Thomas DeSimone, portrayed by Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito in the film, was every bit as ruthless, explosively-tempered, and murderous as his onscreen counterpart. Still, there were some major differences between the real-life DeSimone and Pesci’s character. First, DeSimone—who stood 6-feet 2-inches tall and weighed 225 pounds—hardly would have suffered from the Napoleonic complex implied by the 5-foot 4-inch Pesci's performance. Also, Pesci was in his late forties when he took on the role, while DeSimone met his violent end when he was just 28 years old. 10. Some of the real criminals portrayed in Goodfellas were actually toned down for the film. GoodFellas is told from the point of view of Hill, a local Brooklyn gangster and drug dealer who worked as an associate for the Lucchese crime family, one of Brooklyn’s most notorious mafioso organizations. The son of an Irish father and Sicilian mother, he got in with the mob early, running errands for the gangsters who hung out near his family’s home in Brownsville and then graduating to more serious crimes, including arson. According to Henry Hill, in his memoir Gangsters and Goodfellas, Karen was sleeping with Paul Vario while Hill was in jail. Tommy wanted to get in on the action, but Karen turned him down, and DeSimone tried to rape her.

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