尼古拉斯·派勒吉

Nicholas Pileggi

生卒: 1933 –
国籍: 美国
外文名: Nicholas Pileggi

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生平与创作

尼古拉斯·派勒吉（英语：Nicholas Pileggi，1933年2月22日—）是一个美国作家、监制和编剧。他最出名是写了非虚构书籍《Wiseguy》，以及替改编该书的1990年电影《好家伙》写剧本，为他获得提名奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。

生平

1933年，派勒吉出生在美国纽约州纽约市，母亲苏珊，父亲尼克·派勒吉，是一个鞋匠。

个人生活

1987年，派勒吉和作家、记者、编剧诺拉·艾芙隆结婚，直到2012年6月26日，艾芙隆逝世，此前，两人一直居住在纽约州纽约市。

影视作品列表

书籍

尼古拉斯·派勒吉， Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas，ISBN 0-684-80832-3。

尼古拉斯·派勒吉， Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family，ISBN 0-671-72322-7。

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Nicholas Pileggi (Italian: [piˈleddʒi]; born February 22, 1933) is an American author, screenwriter, film producer and journalist. He is the widower of director and journalist Nora Ephron. He wrote the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, its 1990 film adaptation, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Early life

Pileggi was born and raised in Brooklyn, the elder son of an Italian immigrant father, Nicola ("Nick") Pileggi from Calabria, a musician who played slide trombone in a cinema orchestra for silent films and subsequently also owned shoe stores, and an American-born mother, Susie.

In the 1950s, he worked as a journalist for the Associated Press and New York magazine, specializing in crime reporting for more than three decades.

Career

Pileggi began his career as a journalist and had a profound interest in the Mafia. He is best known for writing Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (1985), which he adapted into the movie Goodfellas (1990), and for writing Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas and the subsequent screenplay for Casino (1995). The movie versions of both were directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese. Pileggi also co-wrote the screenplay for the film City Hall (1996), starring Al Pacino. He served as an executive producer for American Gangster (2007), a biographical crime film based on the career of drug lord Frank Lucas. He also authored Blye, Private Eye (1987).

He wrote the foreword to Frank Ragano's memoir Mob Lawyer. Pileggi co-wrote the pilot of the CBS television series Vegas, which first aired in September 2012.

Personal life

Pileggi's first marriage ended in divorce around 1979. Pileggi was married to fellow author, journalist, and filmmaker Nora Ephron from 1987 until her death in 2012. Journalist Gay Talese is his first cousin.