![]() ![]() The subject became Pileggi’s speciality, and when the publishers Simon & Schuster bought the rights to Henry Hill’s life story, Pileggi was a natural choice to write it.įor anyone who hasn’t seen GoodFellas (or read Wiseguy), Hill was an Irish-Italian New Yorker who became a small-time gangster as a teenager, and grew up to become involved in many of the Mob’s illegal enterprises. Nobody had written much about Organised Crime before. ![]() That period, in the 1950s and 1960s, was also the period that began to expose Organised Crime, as we came to know it." I was assigned to cover crime – I covered the police, I covered corruption. "Right out of college, I went to work at the Associated Press in New York City, in the mid Fifties. "I was a journalist since I was young," says Pileggi. Martin Scorsese turned the biography of a New York hoodlum, Henry Hill, into a cinematic masterpiece ![]()
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