![]() ![]() ![]() In what turned out to be a collection of farewell essays, she closed by listing the things she would miss when she finally had to go. And during the time he was writing those films, he was also one half of a legendarily joyous Hollywood marriage, to Nora Ephron, fellow journalist and writer of Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally.Įphron died in June last year, having kept her leukaemia secret from all but her closest family for six years. Pileggi then became a notable screenwriter, with credit for another Scorsese movie, Casino, among others. ![]() Now a courteous and energetic 79, he was a legendary crime reporter in New York for more than 30 years, mostly writing inside stories about the mob, before one of those, the book-length Wiseguy, was picked up by Martin Scorsese and, with Pileggi's help, turned into the film Goodfellas. Pileggi's name often has the word "legendary" attached to it. The cast of the TV series Pileggi has conceived and co-written, Vegas, are out on location when I visit, so he is pretty much alone here, among the lovingly recreated props and vintage neon-lit backdrops of his own make-believe. To reach it you walk along a low-rise strip out of 1960s Las Vegas where exuberantly finned Cadillacs are parked up at the roadside, and then past the blackjack and roulette tables of a cavernous casino, filled with all the chandeliered luxury of 50 years ago. N icholas Pileggi's office is at the back of a film lot in a suburb north of Hollywood. ![]()
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