Hopefully Scorsese cuts his part I don't want to be enjoying this and have that little fruit show up in the middle and ruin it with his creepy blinking/shit acting. Why is Don Rickles a character in this anyway? Did he know Hoffa or something?

From the book:

In The Sixth Family, Diapoulos writes that Gallo’s birthday celebration began that night at the Copacabana, the famous New York nightclub. Don Rickles was the entertainer that night, and he paid his respects to Gallo. At the Copa, Gallo had an encounter with “an old timer, Russ Bufalino, a regular greaseball.” In Bufalino’s lapel Gallo spotted an Italian-American Civil Rights League button. True to Bufalino’s love of jewelry, this button had a diamond in it. Joe Colombo, Bufalino’s friend and fellow boss, the man Gallo ordered hit, had been in a coma for ten months. Gallo said to Bufalino, “Hey, what’re you doing with that? You really believe in that bullshit league?”

Diapoulos wrote:

You saw how Bufalino’s chin went, his back going very straight, turning away from us. Frank [Bufalino’s companion] with a very worried look, took Joey by the arm. “Joey, that’s nothing to talk about here. Let’s just have a few drinks.”

“Yeah, we’ll have a few drinks.”

“Joey, he’s a boss.”

“So he’s a boss. So am I a boss. That make him any better than me? We’re all equal. We’re all supposed to be brothers.” “Brothers” came out like it was anything but.

“Joey,” I said, “Let’s go to the table. Let’s not have a beef.”

Diapoulos identified Bufalino’s companion, the one “with a very worried look” who took Gallo by the arm, as a man named Frank. Diapoulos described how the “beef” got started: “Champagne was still being sent over. A wiseguy named Frank sent some. He was with an old-timer, Russ Bufalino, a regular greaseball, the boss of Erie, Pennsylvania.”

And Frank Sheeran, Russell Bufalino’s regular companion on their drives to New York, always described Gallo as “a fresh kid.” Frank had reason to know. Because this incident at the Copa reflected on Bufalino, it was the kind of detail Sheeran would have omitted in his confession to me.

Joseph D. Pistone, the real-life Donnie Brasco, told me that when he was working undercover for the FBI he used to hang out at the Vesuvio. There he met Bufalino and Sheeran. They came in every Thursday. The Vesuvio was a long walk or a short ride from the Copa. Gallo’s birthday party at the Copa began at 11 P.M on a Thursday night. By 5:20 on Friday morning Joey Gallo was dead.

Russell and Frank in New York City at the Copa the night Crazy Joey Gallo got “fresh” with the wrong people and had his house painted. Like Jimmy Hoffa’s, and all the other houses Frank Sheeran confessed to painting, the Gallo mystery is solved.

It was before Appalachia, and before crazy Joey decided to take on a boss, and start a war...

(That was the "crazy Joey" in question. DiPaolo almost got that part, he had two call backs. Maniscalco ended up getting it. Maniscalco actually looks quite a bit like the really Joey.)

The more I watch of Rickles, the more I think he's the greatest comic of all time. I was triggered as hell when I learned Norton had somehow wormed his way into playing him in a big movie. There's NO WAY he's good in the part.

Rickles’ “Hello Dummy” album is pure ethnic humor and it’s fucking great. Norton doesn’t have the chops to play Rickles.

Jimmy doesn’t have the chops to play a background extra.

That’s not an exaggeration. Imagine you’re watching a movie and there’s a restaurant scene. And behind our two lead actors, way in the back, just out of focus, is a tiny bald goblin blinking up a storm and flailing his arms around. It would ruin the scene.

Let’s bomb the reviews with saying how Rickles ruined it

I hope Katherine Narducci spreads her ass on camera

She is so hot. I love her. She's 50 something and still sexy af.

Time stamp

Let me guess: Tranny #2

This movie has been in the works since for so long there is no way it’s not a huge letdown.

Idk but I remember people talking about this at least 5-6 years ago

Scorsese has had the rights for it since it came out in 2006. It's been on his pre-production schedule for almost 15 fucking years.

Yeah man that’s what I thought. Should have gotten younger actors honestly I think he used CGI to de-age pacino and de niro that’s fucking weird

That was one of the reasons it took so long to get made. Some Italian company was originally footing most of the bill. Once they found out they wanted to do the CGI de-aging and the budget doubled, that company did an assload of market research to see if moviegoers would respond well to such extensive CGI work. It turns out the results came back pretty negative, and they totally pulled out. That's already a bad sign.

That shit works really well for quick scenes and flashbacks, but 2.5 hour movie's worth of it? I think that's asking quite a bit.

Yeah dude CGI famous waps? Why in the fuck do we need that lmao

Jesus Christ, Pesci's accent is horrible.