goodfellas

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Links are preferable to embeds anyway IMO.

It's probably endlessly repeated but on the Talking Sopranos podcast Michael Imperioli was telling the story of how he was taken to the emergency room for a cut on his hand when filming the scene where Spider gets killed and the staff called "code blue" and were cutting his suit open to treat gunshot sounds.

*wounds!

Probably a post about this somewhere in here; the Glenn Kenny book came out today.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/books/review-glenn-kenny-made-men-the-story-of-goodfellas-is-a-stellar-anatomy-of-a-film/

Tfw I hit myself with a blast of drakkar noir pic.twitter.com/8GKaPxttPO

— Justin🌋Boldaji بلداجي (@justinboldaji) August 28, 2020

More anniversary stuff (by the woman in the Paranoid Style, whose music I don't know).

http://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/9/17/21440328/goodfellas-30th-anniversary-layala-scene-scorsese-clapton

Racing through the Glenn Kenny book...Confirming something I took notice of and always wondered about: at some point (Kenny doesn't know when), GoodFellas became Goodfellas. And at one point, somebody involved in the earliest stages wanted Tom Cruise and Madonna as the Hills.

I think I read that on buzzfeed like five years ago.

News to me--and that Chuck Low once owned the building that Harvey Keitel, Lorraine Bracco, and De Niro all lived in. I didn't even know that Keitel and Bracco were married.

I think having Morrie the wig salesman as your landlord would be quite an experience.

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/history-gangsters-goodfellas-raos-restaurant

Damn I need to get up there
Raos sauce is a favorite in my house

https://deadline.com/2022/05/ray-liotta-dies-67-goodfellas-1235033521/

I met Ray Lotta about 10 years ago, at the Aruba International Film Festival.

What follows is the story of the first time Ray Liotta watched Goodfellas since its premiere, which he didn’t remember. Halfway through principal photography, his mother died.
A short thread.

— Moisés Chiullán 肖振藩 (@moiseschiu) May 26, 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/06/martin-scorsese-ray-liotta-goodfellas-gangster-dangerous-disarming-innocent

karen I’ve decided I should be on the pardon list, if that’s still in the works pic.twitter.com/G14RUKCGBr

— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 17, 2022

A rep theatre close by is screening this three times in the next few days. "In memory of Ray Liotta"--I suspect it's more a case of "In memory of when people saw movies in theatres." I don't blame them at all.

https://www.hylandcinema.com/movie/goodfellas

https://i.imgur.com/h5kku1d.jpg

<3

Nothing like a long-time friend you share a private language with. My friend Peter signed off his latest email with "Pete the Killer (I took care of that thing for you)."

It's the thread revive we all hoped for!

Let me understand this, 'cause I...maybe it's me, maybe I'm a little fucked up maybe. Is that a putdown?

Goodfellas sighting: The Office, S6, the episode about the insurance salesman: immediately recognized the salesman--and possible Mafia soldier--as Frenchy. ("Security? You're looking at it. It's a joke. I'm the midnight to eight man.") Mike Starr is the guy's name. Didn't realize he was also in Miller's Crossing--can't get an image to confirm, but I think he's the goon who feels so bad about having to pummel Gabriel Byrne in the warehouse.

250 credits on him IMDB page!

Mike Starr is the dude I used to confuse with Danny Aiello for years

Starr's most indelible role obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVlTeIATBs

knew before even seeing the video what it was gonna be lol

Another one I now realize is him: Born on the Fourth of July, the guy in the bar who ridicules Cruise about his war experiences.

There's actually quite a few points of similarity between "GoodFellas" and "Miller's Crossing":

- Gangster drama released in late September of 1990

- Gangsters all primarily delineated as Irish/Italian/Jewish

- Mike Starr as a character named "Frankie" and "Frenchie", two names that could both be considered slang for "Francophone"

- Irish protagonist with Jewish love interest

- Murder of a character known for his toupee

- "Oh Danny Boy" is heard, either sung or played on a Victrola

- Corpse left in wooded area, and later revisited by protagonist, who succumbs to vomiting

- Both Tom Regan and Lois insist on retrieving their forgotten hats