"Goodfellas" was nominated for six Academy ... but it’s a ploy to murder him as retribution for killing Billy Batts. Pesci has become an elusive figure in Hollywood after announcing his ...

Scorsese’s original “Goodfellas” cut include seven stabbings ... “When he stabbed Billy Batts in the trunk, after the first two [stabs], people started leaving. And then he did it a ...

Billy Batts, the Lufthansa heist … all someone has to do is mention some of these names and I get the sudden and irresistible urge to watch Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” again.

Test audiences didn’t really get Goodfellas. The biggest issue appeared to be the violence. In previews, audience members had walked out during the scene in which Tommy stabs Billy Batts seven ...

In fact, by the time he made Goodfellas (1990), he had it down to a science. For that film, he needed someone to play Billy Batts, a made man who pushes the buttons of Tommy, a psychotic mafia ...

THE MOST MEMORABLE SCENE in “Goodfellas” is the brutal killing of Billy Batts. It starts in 1970 at the Suite Nite Club where Batts, a “made” guy in the Gambino family, is celebrating his ...

“GoodFellas,” which starting next week will ... The rule is, be a man, be tough, and always keep the party going. Billy Batts (the unfortunate fellow in the trunk, and surprisingly not dead ...

Take, as an example, one of Scorsese’s most effective sequences, the murder of Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) in his 1990 crime drama, “Goodfellas.” When Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) and Jimmy ...

Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock Will Always Remind Me of Billy Batts's Death in 'Goodfellas' When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, a good spot of tailoring allowed his arm to the full ...

best remembered for tough-guy roles as mob boss Phil Leotardo in HBO’s The Sopranos and mobster William “Billy Batts” Devino in Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film Goodfellas, has died at 80 ...