goodfellas

wanted to add something about how P Kael was a clueless fool re this film, but I gotta get the papers get the papers

For what it's worth, Kael didn't slam Goodfellas the way she did Raging Bull. She clearly recoiled from Raging Bull; with Goodfellas, it was like she recognized a lot of what people loved about it, and dutifully acknowledged those things, but didn't have any enthusiasm for the film herself. There's an odd tone to the review, something close to resignation. I think she was wrong both times (think the reviews are excellent, though, and have read them many times), but I think she was more conflicted about Goodfellas.

liotta's dead-eyed rictus gape when laughs is the best thing about liotta

Agree with clemenza re: Kael's review. Its like she couldn't work up the lather to dismiss it like you could tell she wanted to; there's almost a feeling of her heart not being in it anymore. Can it be a coincidence that it came only weeks before she announced her departure from TNY?

(also, fuck this thread, cause I really wanna watch Goodfellas now and don't have anywhere near the time for it.)

weeks? I recall it coming out in Sept or Oct of '90, she didn't leave til '91.

My mistake. I was thinking it was weeks rather than months since Goodfellas is one of the last reviews in Movie Love. It was basically at the end of her New Yorker run, though.

AMC developing a TV series of it w/ Pileggi and Irwin Winkler.

MADE MEN

huh

I hope the series is a lengthy prequel that culminates in the painting of

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_F5fY63LECJY/SOK9WDbQM3I/AAAAAAAAAgM/REmi-vVCl0M/s400/blog+Pileggi+two+dogs.jpg

wish that said "Henry Winkler"

schnook life

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsS/16035-7534.jpg

yeah all these dudes need to be in it of gtfo

~ BAMBOO LOUNGE ~ roll call, roll call

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.

A picture of the actual photograph is buried somewhere itt iirc.

Here's hoping they expand Vincent Gallo's role from the movie

I love how fake everybody's laugh is in this movie

Yeah, for real

There's a corollary to that in the last season or two of Sopranos, where Tony tells a joke tO his crew and they're all shown laughing in slow-mo as Tony realizes it's all really just toadying up

Damn, lotsa arguing in this thread

You really ARE a funny guy

It was real greaseball shit.

https://twitter.com/#!/TheHenryHill/status/173853273944621056

I just spent a minute trying to complete this sentence: "Please hook me up with ______________'s Twitter feed." But everybody I thought of got whacked.

RIP Henry Hill

http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/12/henry-hill-dead-goodfellas/

RIP, good story. That is too bad.

i'm gonna go get the papers

http://euro8to12.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/JimmyTwoTimes2X.jpg

get the papers

RIP, good story. That is too bad.

^ this too

Picturing two gravediggers standing in a cemetery somewhere arguing: "Now you're going to dig the hole. I got no fucking lime."

Did he ever get to enjoy his celebrity, or was he in the program till the end?

he usta do the Howard Stern show!

he always seemed about -300 charisma on the ray liotta character, unsurprisingly i suppose.

Finally gave in and went to take care of that thing in Tampa.

he followed me on twitter.

when you posted, he followed

he usta do the Howard Stern show!

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:45 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I heard Stern got him to confess to murder on air for a drink of vodka. Classy all round.

[Editorial cartoon featuring HENRY HILL waiting in line to get into HEAVEN just like everybody else.]
***DEADLINE Thurs. Morning (6/14)***

Holy Shite! I was just thinking about HH yesterday like 'This guy has got to die soon, right?'

whacked by death.

my game gets downright prescient when im all fevered up. will make predictions next flu season.

if they cremate him, will they throw him into the oven head first?

"that's the guy!" - god

Funeral music:

"Atlantis"
"Life Is But a Dream" (Harptones)
"Layla" (slow part only)

You're pretty optimistic. Thinking that snitch is gonna get "Jump Into the Fire".

haha

Jerry Vale is still alive, will be getting a call.

hahah

how a schnook can break the spell of narrative cinema

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2012/06/schnook.html

Via Jake Fogelnest on Twitter, the songs Mr. Hill was listening to in his car stereo thirty-three years ago today:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1zJ5SGdkS9zSsEFGl-9GAijQyJQhNngz