Ricca and Accardo were too secretive. Nobody alive today knew them. Very few people knew them when they were alive. Cubs announcer Harry Caray was supposedly friends with Accardo, but I doubt he would have talked about him. He knew what was up. Got to have source material to get a good movie.That's where it all starts.
Goodfellas was all Henry Hill.
Casino was mostly Frank Cullotta, because Lefty was holding a bunch of things back. He never admits he was with the Outfit. Dreamed of getting out of that black book someday. Never happened.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
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