This is the real story of Karen Friedman Hill that Goodfellas didn’t tell. Born in 1946, Karen Friedman came from a Jewish family living in the Five Towns area of Long Island. Little has been ...

The tale behind Goodfellas is real. The 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy ... mafia in the 1950s sets the stage for the beginning of the story. He starts doing errands for local gangsters out of ...

Unless Henry Hill made that story up. Tommy DeSimone strangled ... Paul Sorvino played Paul Cicero in Goodfellas. His real name was Paul Vario, and he was born in New York City.

Goodfellas, opened theatrically on September 19, 1990 — thirty years ago this week. The film was based on Nicholas Pileggi’s 1985 crime book Wiseguy, which told the true story of Henry Hill ...

Written by Goodfellas screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, The Alto Knights is inspired by the true story of the rivalry between Frank Costello and Vito Genovese—big names in organized crime in New ...

"It was just like he was telling a story of what his kids were doing and ... after which he got cast in Goodfellas. In 2002, he starred in the hit video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, as ...

Playing the real-life mobster Henry Hill, Liotta shot to stardom in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas,” which ... in Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” as Jay Marotta, a tough lawyer for ...