Tag: Goodfellas

  • Lady Accused Of Stealing Christmas Gifts From Robert De Niro’s House

    NEW YORK (AP) — A suspected serial burglar used to be stuck Monday whilst making an attempt to poach Christmas gifts from actor Robert De Niro’s New york house, police mentioned.

    Officials were monitoring the real-life Grinch amid a string of new robberies and noticed her bust into “The Godfather” and “Goodfellas” celebrity’s townhouse round 2:45 a.m. Monday, police mentioned.

    Within, they discovered a 30-year-old girl in the lounge “making an attempt to take away belongings” and arrested her, police mentioned. Police have now not publicly recognized her by means of title.

    De Niro, who were upstairs, got here right down to the lounge as the lady used to be being arrested.

    A spokesperson for the 79-year-old actor mentioned he wouldn’t be making statements in regards to the tried theft.

    The incident took place at a townhouse on East sixty fifth Side road in New york. The basement door that the lady used to go into the townhome had indicators of compelled access, police mentioned.

    De Niro’s spokesperson mentioned it used to be a short lived apartment house being utilized by the actor.

  • ‘Goodfellas’ actor Paul Sorvino dies at 83

    Through PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Veteran actor Paul Sorvino, fashionable for his position in Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic “Goodfellas” and the daddy of Oscar winner Mira Sorvino, has died. He was once 83. Consistent with The Hollywood Reporter, Sorvino died on Monday of herbal reasons.

    “Our hearts are damaged, there’ll by no means be every other Paul Sorvino, he was once the affection of my existence and one of the most largest performers to ever grace the display screen and level,” his spouse, Dee Dee stated. Mira took to Twitter to pay tributes to her father.

    “My center is hire asunder,  a lifetime of love and pleasure and knowledge with him is over. He was once probably the most glorious father. I really like him such a lot.  I am sending you like within the stars Dad as you ascend,” she wrote. Publicist Roger Neal stated Sorvino died on the Mayo Medical institution in Jacksonville, Florida.

    The actor, who made his debut with Carl Reiner’s “The place’s Poppa?” in 1970, starred in movies comparable to “The Gambler”, “The Breaking point’s Process”, “The Company”, “Nixon”, “Romeo and Juliet”, and “The Cooler” in his profession spanning 50 years.

    His on-screen partnership with actor-director Warren Beatty was once particularly of observe as they collaborated on movies comparable to “Reds”, “Dick Tracy”, “Bulworth” and “Regulations Do not Observe”. Sorvino additionally starred in a single season of the NBC collection “Regulation & Order”, on which he performed the position of Detective Phil Cerretta, the spouse of Detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth).

    Additionally a tenor, the actor’s dream got here true when he carried out for the New York Opera at Lincoln Heart in 2006.

    Again in 1973, Sorvino won a Tony nomination and a Drama Table Award for his efficiency because the immoral Phil Romano within the unique Broadway manufacturing of Jason Miller’s “That Championship Season”, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

    Nearly 10 years later, he reprised the position for a movie. He performed the trainer in a 1999 Showtime telefilm, which additionally marked his directorial debut. In 2012, Sorvino starred in and directed his best function movie “The Bother With Name”, which he primarily based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the atmosphere of “That Championship Season”.

    However, it was once his position of Cicero from the 1990 biographical “Goodfellas”, tailored by means of Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese from Pileggi’s 1986 non-fiction ebook, that earned him maximum popularity to the purpose that he as soon as stated folks suppose “I am if truth be told a gangster or a mafioso”.

    Sorvino was once born on April 13, 1939, within the Bensonhurst phase of Brooklyn, to his father who was once an Italian immigrant operating in a gown manufacturing unit, and mom, a housewife and piano trainer. The actor was once all the time thinking about the human voice and sang in Catskills lodges as an adolescent.

    He even took classes to grasp his dream of changing into an opera singer, however an affliction with bronchial asthma pressured him to concentrate on performing. A pupil on the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Sorvino minimize his enamel with theatre roles making his Broadway debut within the musical comedy “Bajour” in 1964.

    His first TV position got here in 1975 with “We’re going to Get Through”, a CBS display created by means of Alan Alda, which he adopted up with “Bert D’Angelo, Famous person”. He additionally starred with Ellen Burstyn and Kevin Dillon at the 2000-02 CBS dramedy “That is Lifestyles”.

    Extra not too long ago, he performed Frank Costello at the Epix collection “Godfather of Harlem”. Sorvino married his 3rd spouse, Dee Dee Benkie, a GOP strategist and previous aide to President George W Bush, in 2014. He’s additionally survived by means of his different youngsters, Amanda and Michael, and 5 grandchildren.

    LOS ANGELES: Veteran actor Paul Sorvino, fashionable for his position in Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic “Goodfellas” and the daddy of Oscar winner Mira Sorvino, has died. He was once 83. Consistent with The Hollywood Reporter, Sorvino died on Monday of herbal reasons.

    “Our hearts are damaged, there’ll by no means be every other Paul Sorvino, he was once the affection of my existence and one of the most largest performers to ever grace the display screen and level,” his spouse, Dee Dee stated. Mira took to Twitter to pay tributes to her father.

    “My center is hire asunder,  a lifetime of love and pleasure and knowledge with him is over. He was once probably the most glorious father. I really like him such a lot.  I am sending you like within the stars Dad as you ascend,” she wrote. Publicist Roger Neal stated Sorvino died on the Mayo Medical institution in Jacksonville, Florida.

    The actor, who made his debut with Carl Reiner’s “The place’s Poppa?” in 1970, starred in movies comparable to “The Gambler”, “The Breaking point’s Process”, “The Company”, “Nixon”, “Romeo and Juliet”, and “The Cooler” in his profession spanning 50 years.

    His on-screen partnership with actor-director Warren Beatty was once particularly of observe as they collaborated on movies comparable to “Reds”, “Dick Tracy”, “Bulworth” and “Regulations Do not Observe”. Sorvino additionally starred in a single season of the NBC collection “Regulation & Order”, on which he performed the position of Detective Phil Cerretta, the spouse of Detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth).

    Additionally a tenor, the actor’s dream got here true when he carried out for the New York Opera at Lincoln Heart in 2006.

    Again in 1973, Sorvino won a Tony nomination and a Drama Table Award for his efficiency because the immoral Phil Romano within the unique Broadway manufacturing of Jason Miller’s “That Championship Season”, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama.

    Nearly 10 years later, he reprised the position for a movie. He performed the trainer in a 1999 Showtime telefilm, which additionally marked his directorial debut. In 2012, Sorvino starred in and directed his best function movie “The Bother With Name”, which he primarily based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the atmosphere of “That Championship Season”.

    However, it was once his position of Cicero from the 1990 biographical “Goodfellas”, tailored by means of Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese from Pileggi’s 1986 non-fiction ebook, that earned him maximum popularity to the purpose that he as soon as stated folks suppose “I am if truth be told a gangster or a mafioso”.

    Sorvino was once born on April 13, 1939, within the Bensonhurst phase of Brooklyn, to his father who was once an Italian immigrant operating in a gown manufacturing unit, and mom, a housewife and piano trainer. The actor was once all the time thinking about the human voice and sang in Catskills lodges as an adolescent.

    He even took classes to grasp his dream of changing into an opera singer, however an affliction with bronchial asthma pressured him to concentrate on performing. A pupil on the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Sorvino minimize his enamel with theatre roles making his Broadway debut within the musical comedy “Bajour” in 1964.

    His first TV position got here in 1975 with “We’re going to Get Through”, a CBS display created by means of Alan Alda, which he adopted up with “Bert D’Angelo, Famous person”. He additionally starred with Ellen Burstyn and Kevin Dillon at the 2000-02 CBS dramedy “That is Lifestyles”.

    Extra not too long ago, he performed Frank Costello at the Epix collection “Godfather of Harlem”. Sorvino married his 3rd spouse, Dee Dee Benkie, a GOP strategist and previous aide to President George W Bush, in 2014. He’s additionally survived by means of his different youngsters, Amanda and Michael, and 5 grandchildren.

  • ‘Sopranos’ actor Tony Sirico, dies at 79

    By means of Related Press

    LOS ANGELES: Tony Sirico, who performed the impeccably groomed mobster Paulie Walnuts in “The Sopranos” and taken his tough-guy swagger to motion pictures together with “Goodfellas,” died Friday. He was once 79.

    Sirico died at an assisted dwelling facility in Castle Lauderdale, Florida, stated his supervisor, Bob McGowen. There was once no quick data on the reason for dying.

    A observation from Sirico’s circle of relatives showed the dying of Gennaro Anthony “Tony” Sirico “with nice disappointment, however with fantastic delight, love and a lot of fond recollections.”

    McGowan, who represented Sirico for greater than twenty years, recalled him as “unswerving and giving,” with a robust philanthropic streak. That integrated serving to ex-soldiers reasons, which hit house for the Military veteran, his supervisor stated.

    Steven Van Zandt, who performed reverse Sirico as fellow mobster Silvio Dante on “The Sopranos,” saluted him on Twitter as “mythical.” “A bigger-than-life personality on and off-screen. Gonna pass over you a large number my pal,” the actor and musician stated.

    Michael Imperioli, who portrayed Christopher Moltisanti on “The Sopranos,” referred to as Sirico his “pricey pal, colleague and spouse in crime.” “Tony was once like no person else: he was once as hard, as unswerving and as big-hearted as any individual I’ve ever identified,” Imperioli stated on Instagram.

    Sirico was once unconcerned about being solid in a string of unhealthy man roles, McGowan stated, maximum prominently that of Peter Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri within the 1999-2007 run of the acclaimed HBO drama starring James Gandolfini as mob boss Tony Soprano. (Gandolfini died in 2013 at age 51).

    “He did not thoughts taking part in a mob man, however he would not play an informant,” or as Sirico put it, a “snitch,” McGowan stated.

    Sirico, born July 29, 1942, in New York Town, grew up within the Flatbush and Bensonhurst neighborhoods the place he stated “each man was once looking to end up himself. You both needed to have a tattoo or a bullet hollow.”

    “I had each,” he informed the Los Angeles Occasions in a 1990 interview, calling himself ”volatile” all the way through that length of his lifestyles. He was once arrested time and again for felony offences, he stated and was once in jail two times. In his closing stint at the back of bars, within the Seventies, he noticed a efficiency by way of a gaggle of ex-convicts and stuck the performing malicious program.

    “I watched ’em and I assumed, ‘I will do this.’ I knew I wasn’t unhealthy having a look. And I knew I had the (guts) to rise up and (bull) other people,” he informed the Occasions. “You get a large number of observe in jail. I used to rise up in entrance of those cold-blooded murderers and kidnappers — and make ’em snigger.”

    Sirico additionally was once solid out of doors the gangster mould, taking part in cops within the motion pictures “Useless Presidents” and “Deconstructing Harry.” Amongst his different credit had been Woody Allen motion pictures together with “Bullets over Broadway” and “Mighty Aphrodite,” and appearances on TV sequence together with “Miami Vice” and voice roles on “Circle of relatives Man” and “American Dad!”

    Sirico is survived by way of daughter Joanne Sirico Bello; son Richard Sirico; his brother, Robert Sirico, a clergyman; and different family members.