Actor Robert De Niro is known for such films as The Godfather Part II, Awakenings and Meet the Parents while Joe Pesci has ...

Joe Pesci, connected to Scorsese's professional life and Italian-American heritage, was conspicuously missing from Mr.

Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino, and Joe Pesci in the 1990 film 'GoodFellas' There was, however, one "starburst" of improvisation in the movie — and it came directly from the actor Joe Pesci.

For most people, it was an easy ask. After all, Martin Scorsese is a living legend, a director who has produced masterpiece after masterpiece in a career that has spanned decades. So collaborators ...

Miller sets it up by first speaking to Nicholas Pileggi, the author of the nonfiction book Wiseguy that Scorsese and he later adapted into the GoodFellas script. Pileggi recalls with awe how the ...