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Michael Imperioli appeared on ABC's "Popcorn with Peter Travers" to promote his new book. Tony's crew: The Sopranos cast. On the show to hype  The Perfume Burned His Eyes , Imperioli discussed his "unofficial Mafia induction ceremony," during his first major acting job, playing Spider in Martin Scorsese's  Goodfellas . "It's a very funny story when I get killed in that movie," he said. "In the second scene I had a glass in my hand because I'm a waiter. And I did my own stunt of falling backwards, falling into the bar and hitting the ground. And the glass was real. They didn't have a breakaway for some reason. So two of my fingers got cut really badly." Imperioli sought medical treatment for his injury right away, appearing in the hospital still made up from the scene, bullet-ridden and bloody. "I went to the hospital but I had bullet holes in my chest and blood everywhere. So at the hospital in...

"This ultra-long and narrow point collar bucks convention and is a total stand-out," as Esquire noted. Clothing is deeply associated with the Mafia for many of us. Films like Goodfellas are acclaimed, in part, due to their attention to detail. That includes the clothing the gangsters wore during the period when the film's events took place. Those shirts with the big-ass, tapered collars worn in Goodfellas were cool; quite dated looking, but cool. Esquire, in an article on clothing the Goodfellas wore, agreed , calling the shirt, simply, The Point Collar Shir t,"a thoroughly old school look we'd love to see come back into fashion." I also liked the camel coa t Ray Liotta as Henry Hill wore in the film, of which Esquire said: "The camel coat has long been a staple of the distinguished man's wardrobe, a luxury item that instantly denotes sophistication and refinement." I read tons of blogs about every conceivable topic. Occasionally I...

Click image The film “The Wannabe” is "centered around the 1992 John Gotti trial in New York City" but has more to do with the short-lived lukewarm HBO series Boardwalk Empire than any mob boss. The producers don't seem to realize they are remaking a film released only last year called Rob the Mob . Or they found out too late so they added a "twist" to even further distance their cinematic effort from the true account of the married couple who robbed mob social clubs for a few months in the early 1990s. Ultimately the two were brutally murdered in broad daylight by Mafia shooters.

The film The Wannabe, which is available now on Amazon Prime, has a very specific setting: the 1992 John Gotti trial in New York City. Still, despite this leverage of the Gotti name, The Wannabe is much more reminiscent of the former HBO series Boardwalk Empire . Click image Did the filmmakers really not realize they were essentially remaking a film released only last year called Rob the Mob ? We strongly suspect that they found this out too late so they added a "twist" to try to distance the film from the previous year's cinematic account of a married couple who robbed Mafia social clubs for a few months in the early 1990s. Ultimately the two were brutally murdered in broad daylight. "The Wannabe" drew so much of its talent from Boardwalk Empire, it's distracting. (The villainous Gyp Rosetti was our favorite Boardwalk character) Martin Scorsese's name is attached to The Wannabe, but as a producer, which doesn't neces...