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Paul Smith, Jamie Oliver And Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Part III

Paul Smith, Jamie Oliver And Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Part III

Some more of the bonus material from my exhaustive Goodfellas oral history.

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For Guys Without Girlfriends Only

Five tragically trivial Goodfellas fact

i) Actor/director Vincent Gallo plays one of Henry’s crewmen.
ii) Henry’s older daughter Judy is played by Harvey Keitel and Lorraine Bracco’s little girl Stella.
iii) Joe Pesci wrote and directed the ‘You think I’m funny?!’ scene at Martin Scorsese’s behest.
iv) Attorney Edward McDonald plays himself in the scene where Henry and Karen agree to enter the Witness Protection Program.
v) The f-word and its derivatives are used 246 times in Goodfellas. As Joan Collins remarked upon learning that Brian De Palma’s Scraface contained a similar number of fucks, ‘why, that’s more than some people have in a lifetime’.

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