"Goodfellas," the book and the movie

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

"Goodfellas" (movie) was based on a book called "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi.  I'm pretty sure I remember reading that the movie wasn't also called "Wiseguy" because there was TV series of that name on the air at that time.  So they changed the word to "goodfellas".  It was made up for the movie.

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> The only exx. I've seen of "goodfellas" have been suggested
> by the title of the book and movie.
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>   JL
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> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Jon, have you seen the review in the TBR of a book entitled,
> A Pickpocket's Tale? It includes the brief memoir of a
> nineteenth-century career criminal, George Appo, who
> describes himself as, among other things, "a good fellow."
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> I didn't see either "good fellow" or "goodfella" in HDAS, but
> I may have overlooked one, the other, or both. As a
> house-husband and given that Monday is washday, I'm in the
> middle of doing the wash. So, I'm rather busy.
>
> -Wilson
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> Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"––a
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> had to live.
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