[Alazone]

Henry Hill, the mobster turned FBI informant who inspired the iconic gangster movie "Goodfellas", has died at the age of 69, according to his girlfriend. Hill's eventful life -- which included stints in jail and the witness protection program -- was immortalized in the book "Wiseguy" and famously portrayed by Ray Liotta in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated movie. "He always said it was 99.9 percent accurate," his girlfriend Lisa Caserta told the New York Post. Hill passed away at a Los Angeles hospital on Tuesday. Caserta said he had a heart attack last month and had suffered from bad circulation.

[GTA-King]

Seen this earlier. Pretty sad, but at least the man had a very interesting life.

R.I.P Henry Hill. You were a goodfella!

[Adler]

Awesome movie based on an equally awesome life. That guy had it good.

[JOSEPH X]

69? Perfect timing.

RIP

[Togrul]

Too many loses this year. RIP.

[Chorup]

RIP, but at the end of the day he was a rat and a thug.

Definitely one of my favourite movies though.

[Vercetti27]

RIP

he was a fantastic person , obviously not but now he's dead so lets forget the bad sh*t

[EscoLehGo]

This guy would make fantastic appearances on the Howard Stern show, he was always sh*t faced and saying his borderline homosexual phrase "PUH-LEEEEEEZ" whenever he was doubtful of something. If you've kept up with this guy you'll know why he never got whacked, he was spiraling down a path of self destruction, anal sex and booze, he was dead inside already. Oh well, RIP Mr. Hill, if you can that is.

[Pandazoot]

LOL WHO?!

[Hodgey1989]

QUOTE (Vercetti27 @ Thursday, Jun 14 2012, 09:04)

he was a fantastic person , obviously not but now he's dead so lets forget the bad sh*t

Shall we do that for Hitler, Starlin, Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussain, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy etc cos there dead

[Typhus]

A murderous, backstabbing louse who snitched on his own friends.
The fact that his friends were also human parasites is inconsequential, the man was a stool pigeon. You can respect the police for investigating the Mob and eventually doing a great deal towards wiping them out, but who can honestly say that they respect a turncoat like Hill? A lying Judas who switched sides when it was most convenient.
At least the cops put this pathetic shill to some use before he resigned himself to a life of alcoholism.

[GTA-King]

^ lol, I never thought about all that. I just know he led an interesting life, regardless of what he's done. I'm sure he regrets the life he led, but he's done more then most of us here. I'm not praising what he's done in any way. I'm just saying he was an interesting guy.

[SIKKS66]

...aaaaaaaand Typhus goes to show why I didn't make this thread a day or two ago when the news broke. The guy was a criminal and a pretty lousy one at that. Having a respectful RIP thread for the guy just seems kinda... wrong.

Oh well. RIP Henry Hill. I enjoyed the book and the film of your (supposed) exploits.

[Voodoo]

Snitches sleep in ditches.

[Adler]

He made for a classic movie. Who gives a sh*t if he's a snitch? He was going to die sooner otherwise. It's the only reasonable thing to do when your motive is to prolong your life.

[El_Diablo]

QUOTE (Adler @ Wednesday, Jun 13 2012, 22:26)

Awesome movie based on an equally awesome life. That guy had it good.

an awesome life?
he had it good?

Henry Hill was a serial killer (among other things) who ratted on all his friends in order to save his own skin.
let's not confuse an interesting movie with reality....

[Adler]

Better than being boring.

[El_Diablo]

not really.

his life cost him his family and friends and cost other innocent people their own life.

[SIKKS66]

QUOTE (El_Diablo @ Thursday, Jun 14 2012, 20:52)

QUOTE (Adler @ Wednesday, Jun 13 2012, 22:26) Awesome movie based on an equally awesome life. That guy had it good. Henry Hill was a serial killer

...a bit of a stretch that. Nobody can be certain how many murders he was involved in but to call him a serial killer can't exactly be accurate. He didn't kill numerous people indiscriminately over a short period of time. He was probably involved in the murder of a hanful over the period of decades, all which had to do with petty "mob business".

[El_Diablo]

QUOTE (SIKKS66 @ Thursday, Jun 14 2012, 14:04)

...a bit of a stretch that.

no it's not.

have you ever read anything that Henry wrote after he outed himself from witness protection?
he admitted to killing in cold blood on more than one occasion.

QUOTE (Henry Hill)

"I shot at people. I busted a lot of heads, and I buried a lot of bodies," he told the London-based Daily Telegraph in 2010. "You can try to justify it by saying they deserved it, that they had it coming, but some just got whacked for absolutely no reason at all."

I love Goodfellas as much as the next guy.
but I don't let that blind me to reality.