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Nicholas Pileggi ( / pɪˈlɛdʒi /, Italian: [piˈleddʒi]; born February 22, 1933) is an American author and screenwriter. He wrote the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, its 1990 film adaptation, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay .
Nicholas Pileggi. Writer: Goodfellas. Nicholas Pileggi was born and raised in New York, the son of a shoe store owner. He worked as a journalist for Associated Press in the 1950s where he specialized in crime reporting.
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Nicholas Pileggi. Writer: Goodfellas. Nicholas Pileggi was born and raised in New York, the son of a shoe store owner. He worked as a journalist for Associated Press in the 1950s where he specialized in crime reporting.
- February 22, 1933
Apr 16, 2019 · Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime ...
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Jan 20, 2017 · When Martin Scorsese read Nicholas Pileggi's gripping true story of small-time Mafioso Henry Hill he knew he’d hit movie gold. The result was GoodFellas.
Mar 11, 2020 · Author and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi is enjoying a couple of major career milestones this year. Two groundbreaking Mob movies he wrote with director Martin Scorsese — Goodfellas and Casino — are undergoing anniversaries.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Nicholas Pileggi's non fiction book, Wiseguy, is the basis for the film, GoodFellas, directed by Martin Scorsese (1990). It's the true story of Henry Hill, a member of the Lucchese organised crime family in New York.
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