Good fellows told you a lie about Billy Bats. Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece based on Nicholas Pelgi’s book Wise Guy shows Joe Peshi’s Oscar-winning Tommy Devito killing Frank Vincent’s Billy Bats and getting whacked months later. The truth is it took
Karen Friedman Hill was sleeping with Paul Vario while her husband Henry sat in a federal prison cell at the United States Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Vario was Henry’s boss, the capo of the Lucchese crew that ran loan sharking, hijackin
In Martin Scorsese’s Good Fellows, the Air France robbery takes about 30 seconds. A cargo worker hands Ray Leota as Henry Hill a key. Hill walks into a room at Kennedy Airport with an empty suitcase, fills it with cash, and walks out. It looks easy.
In Brian DeAlma’s 1987 film The Untouchables, Kevin Cosner stands on a Chicago courthouse stairwell. The verdict has just come down. Robert Dairo’s Al Capone is being dragged out screaming. A reporter shouts a question and Cosner’s Elliot Ness gives
