I actually knew a guy with a bit part in Goodfellas. He was all thug outside of the movie.
Actually ended up in prison over roughing up a guy over a loan
I found the guy scary just sitting in the same room with me.
Once promised to get me a VHS of the movie. Never did.
But gets all bent out of shape when someone else doesn't do what he promised.
EDIT: Here's the guy I'm talking about. He appeared in a short scene in Goodfellas with a bandage on his head. I think he owned a bar or restaurant where the hoods hung out. I couldn't add this from my phone:
https://nypost.com/2011/12/07/sopra...-six-months-house-arrest-two-years-probation/
When I knew him--which wasn't well--I lived in NYC and it was about the same time Steve McGuire was playing for us. Steve was from a rough section of Brooklyn called East New York. I guess it used to be Italian because this is where Tony Darrow was from. I remember I was sitting with a guy from Miami whose father had gotten into some tax trouble and ended up with a prison sentence. Tony says, "Yeah, I know what you mean. My father was in the can."
That was an old fashioned slang I hadn't heard in years. Tony was basically a small time entertainer, a singer, who owned some beauty parlors with his wife. I remember he was telling a group of us that it was de Niro that got him the part, but I'm not sure. It might have been Scorsese.
Now, this is not a guy I knew well. I don't think I wanted to.
He seemed like a low-key kind of guy but not somebody you would want to cross.
When I was growing up in Miami I used to know the kids of people connected to the mob--two brothers I knew were killed or disappeared probably because of organized crime. One guy, a year younger than I was, was shot by Meyer Lansky's stepson outside the stepson's restaurant. Two weeks later, the stepson was killed.
They guy who arranged the revenge killing was undoubtedly the older brother, whom I hated when I was a little kid. The older brother was nasty, a real bully. At some point over the last 10 or 15 years..he simply disappeared from his condo in Bal Harbour..and has not been seen or heard from since.
I grew up with both brothers on Bay Harbor.
I read somewhere that when Lansky got the news of his stepson being murdered he kind of shrugged it off.....he knew the Mob code of revenge killing, and simply passed it off as expected given that he had killed the other guy two weeks before.
Miami had some rough people when I lived there...I don't know what it's like now.
