Jimmy Conway ponders questions of life and death.
His overall adjustment was above average and he was receiving earned good time and meritorious pay for his efforts.” Burke did not avail himself to any of the self-improvement programs during his prolonged imprisonment, he nevertheless received outstanding performance ratings for his work in the Food Service Dept. For example, for the scene where Jimmy is deciding whether to whack Martin (Marty) Krugman, renamed Morrie Kessler-the Luchese associate who owned a wig shop and promoted his hairpieces via a string of cheap, late-night television commercials in which he played the starring, and only, role (the real-life Jimmy the Gent, an insomniac, supposedly sat up all night watching those commercials, which steadily fueled his growing anger at Kessler for demanding a larger piece of the Lufthansa pie)-the note reads: “long look + pause then ‘What am I gonna do with you.”ĭe Niro’s archive also includes photos of the actual Burke at various ages and assorted newspaper clippings of stories recounting the Luchese associate’s criminal trials.ĭe Niro even obtained a copy of a 1979 Federal Bureau of Prisons report on Burke, which notes, among other things, that: “ Although Mr. You don't got my money? You don't got my fckin' money?”Īccording to Made Men, Robert De Niro’s approach to the role of Jimmy Burke-renamed Conway-the Irish-American gangster with ties to the Luchese crime family through his association with Luchese capo Paul Vario, renamed Cicero for the film-included the kind of painstaking, multifaceted preparatory work for which the New Yorker has long been known.ĭe Niro’s copy of the Goodfellas script-which is part of the De Niro archives at the Ransom Center at the University of Texas-includes handwritten lists detailing the clothing and accoutrements he would wear in each of the various scenes, as well as notes to himself regarding small, specific gestures or pauses he planned to include in his performance. “You got money for that fcking commercial of yours.
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