goodfellas

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2009/02/screw-super-bowl-scorsese-day-lewis-and.html

it may never actually get made, scorsese's saying he's doing one or two more first

now saying, I mean

"going to be a grim slide, Catholic guilt suffer-fest in Jesuit robes."

now that's entertainment.

The Last Temptation Goes To Kundun!

he never goes all the way to the top.

ep one of boardwalk empire gives you a lil glimpse of the outfit

not enough imo

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7906245/Goodfella-Henry-Hill-still-living-in-hiding-20-years-after-film-release.html

so weird how this article describes as still being in hiding when dude gets paid to like, make appearances at nightclubs

Isn't he also opening restaurants and calling into Howard Stern every five minutes?

yeah... he is such a fishy character

He was moved 10 times to areas including Nebraska and Kentucky, living under aliases such as Martin Lewis and Peter Haines.

Was Abbot Costello already taken?

Also http://issuu.com/iheartau/docs/au69 p. 38

Ha. There are two guys who own a bar downtown who are named Martin and Jerry, and I always think their bizarro counterparts should be called Dean and Lewis.

Luckily I was in a sandwich shop yesterday that had a copy of GQ from last fall with that oral history (linked above, but I missed this thread). Loved it.

"People like John Turturro would come by and put sunglasses on and try to be an extra."

Also: picturing the potential Tom Cruise as Henry Hill, Madonna as his wife, Malkovich in the DeNiro role.

lol john turturro is hero status imo

Kind of want to go watch both but I know there's no way I could sit that long in a theater.

http://feitheatres.com/somerville-theatre/double-feature-goodfellas-and-casino-feb-9-12/

Will most def watch gf though.

I saw Casino in the theater, but haven't ever seen Goodfellas except for on television. Kinda weird since it's my favorite movie. Let us know what you notice different.

I will. Yeah, I haven't either. I distinctly remember my parents going and leaving me with a babysitter then coming home and talking about how good but "brutal" it was.

I was watching Casino the other night on television, and stuff like the car explosion at the beginning, the white overhead lighting on the mob bosses and stuff like the casino activity behind DeNiro's desk is diminished.

The desert scenes were real cool, but on TV, it kinda comes across like a CSI episode.

I saw Casino and Heat around the same time at the sketchy Skyway Theater in downtown Minneapolis. The season of long movies.

Goodfellas is so focused on the idea of neighborhoods as central to identity, and Casino is an interesting progression from there to this patch of sand that is nobody's neighborhood. It's like Goodfellas is Europe and Casino is the new world.

Goodfellas is so focused on the idea of neighborhoods as central to identity

I'm so into this idea. Like, in general.

That was really profound, I know. lol.

http://s11.acephotos.org/images/orig/x/1/x1xwe9ctlqn33nt.jpg

haha. That's going to be my ILX avatar when it's turned on next month.

carbone

"No, we'll get him to drive! Probably get there faster."

"Get the fuck outta here – what `warmin' up'?"

Come on, make that coffee to go, let's go.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4rg10iPPP1qz6f4bo1_r1_500.jpg

what the FUCK

wait waht?

well . . . i just learned something

The oil of the two dogs was painted by Nicholas Pileggi’s mother, and is based on a photograph from the November 1978 issue of National Geographic. Pileggi was the author of Wise Guy, a treatment of the life of gangster Henry Hill, on which GoodFellas is based.

This may have been common knowledge but I wasn't aware. Whaddya want from me?

At first I thought someone v v painstakingly recreated the painting but I was like wait a second . . . and then the internet came through.

The oil of the two dogs was painted by Nicholas Pileggi's mother, and is based on a photograph from the November 1978 issue of National Geographic. Pileggi was the author of Wise Guy, a treatment of the life of gangster Henry Hill, on which Good Fellas is based. As chance would have it, Pileggi was present in 2006 when friend and casino developer Steve Wynn accidentally stuck his elbow through Le Rêve, a Picasso painting that Wynn was about to sell to hedge funder Steve Cohen for $139 million.

http://cherylbernstein.blogspot.com/2008/10/one-dog-goes-one-way-and-other-goes.html

btw this is blowing my mind a little bit

what do you want from me?

Looks like somebody we know.

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs455.snc4/50504_285901334226_940927_n.jpg

lol @ nose icicle

Carbone's hair was always awful.

no way

i still don't get why they froze a *friend* to death. is it explained in the book? i mean.. sheesh.

Jimmy did it himself. Paranoid that everyone involved would start singing. He was a psychopath who made the assumption that the more gruesome the death, the louder the signal would be.

mm i thought maybe he could have just ended up in the garbage though, with those others or gunned down or whatever. at least Morrie went quickly. frozen to death is so grim, possibly worse than the baseball bat method in Casino. it's debatable i guess!

freezing to death is like going to sleep, right? sure in this case it was like going to sleep while suspended on meathooks but hey what do you want from me?

lol

I thought he was shot AND THEN frozen.

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/3387/screenshot20110119at127.png

yeah i doubt he was frozen to death, just killed and then frozen

http://www.komplettblog.ie/wp-content/uploads/Val_Kilmer_011.jpg

mm i always hoped he was killed them frozen for his sake but why bother freezing him afterwards?

to send a freaking message man!!!!!!!