Sentence examples for goodfella from inspiring English sources
In "Wanted," slo-mo bullets tear through flesh, allowing you to admire the special-effects handiwork; here, a goodfella pops a guy in a giant microwave and asks about the setting.
He had barely made his exit when last week a book suggested his father, Harold, spent a year and half in Sing Sing for taking a baseball bat to slow payers in loan-shark and gambling operations run by La Cosa Nostra, and his cousin, Leo d'Avanzo, was a car-thieving goodfella who was gunned down by FBI agents in Brooklyn in 1977.
Buscio is a tall man with a thin, angel-fish-type face who talks with the swaggering cadences of a Goodfella.
Hill and his wife divorced in 1989, and in 1990 were expelled from the witness protection programme just as Ray Liotta's portrayal of him in Goodfellas made him a minor celebrity, with appearances on reality TV and in crime documentaries (including Channel 4's The Real Goodfella in 2006).
THE WISEGUY COOKBOOK: My Favorite Recipes From My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run (New American Library, paper, $17), by Henry Hill and Priscilla Davis, with a foreword by Nicholas Pileggi.
In one episode, Joey gave his privileged friend Chandler a heavy gold bracelet, a gift the other members of the cast made fun of, one of them labeling it fit for "a Goodfella".
Nowadays Cosa Nostra's goodfellas are likely to wear sharp city suits.
The tour, started by local Tony Muia, also takes in the area's famous sights, as well as movie locations from New York classics such as Saturday Night Fever and Goodfellas.
All this could easily have been levered into the script of Martin Scorsese's mafia classic Goodfellas.
But the fear and jeopardy which electrified "Goodfellas" and "Casino" are missing here.
The 1970s Las Vegas morality tale Casino (1995) marked the return of the GoodFellas talent pool, reuniting Scorsese with screenwriter Pileggi and actors De Niro and Pesci, but it did not receive the critical acclaim or commercial success of the earlier film.
