Inspiration behind Goodfellas movie dies

When some of the cast and filmmakers of iconic film Goodfellas reunited eight years ago for a traditional sit-down dinner, the theme of the night was “breaking bread, not legs”.

Ray Liotta, Paul Sorvino and real-life mob informant Henry Hill — whose gangland experiences inspired the film — showed up to eat, swap stories, sing some Italian opera and recall director Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed mob movie.

They remembered the jokes, the scenes, they discussed the brutality of gangster life the film so vividly portrayed. Many of the cast and crew hadn’t seen each other since they shot the movie 15 years earlier.