Chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest American films of the last 100 years, Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas (1990) has done more to demythologize organized crime than any other major contemporary film, while cementing its...

Goodfellas (also spelled GoodFellas) is a crime drama 1990 film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the true story of mob informer Henry Hill. The film stars Ray Liotta as Henry Hill, Robert De Niro as Jimmy...

WHERE alerted early on that the battle of the films this year would be between two Mafia megamovies: Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas, which came out in September, and The Godfather Part III, which, with Francis Ford Coppola's customary last-minute fiddling, barely made it for...

00-00-0000 At Goodfellas in Garfield By CHRISTINE E. NUNN, RESTAURANT REVIEWER Date: 03-28-2003, Friday Section: GO! Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star B Column: CASUAL DINING I grew up in the Seventies eating at fancy over-the-top Italian-American restaurants...

It’s Halloween afternoon at Ruby Tuesday’s restaurant in Atlanta, and Rico Love is decked out in the standard gangster rap- star costume — white tee, baggy jeans, white Air Force Ones, designer sunglasses, and draped-up jewelry. Even though he looks the part, don’t think Richard...

From "Good Vibrations" to "GoodFellas," Brian Wilson and Martin Scorsese scored. Steve Martin strutted as one of the "wild and crazy guys." Diana Ross sang to Motown stardom. Pianist Leon Fleisher surmounted a debilitating injury.Their contributions to American culture won them a visit Sunday to...

Viano is an Italian-American educator and critic. In the following review, he examines Scorsese's principal stylistic and thematic concerns, situates Goodfellas in the director's body of work, and argues that Nicholas Pileggi's book Wise Guy (1985)—upon which the film is based—contains the primary elements of "Scorsese's personal mythology."