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On the Run: A Mafia Childhood is the authors’ account of their childhood as the son and daughter of Henry Hill, the infamous mobster and informant whose story was the basis of Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi and the movie Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese.
It helps, but is not necessary, to have read Wiseguy (I haven’t) or seen Goodfellas (I have, multiple times). It’ll give you some background, and it’ll also give you an interesting opportunity to compare the impressions you get from the book or the movie with this book. Certainly I found myself constantly comparing the portraits here with Liotta, De Niro, Pesci, Bracco, Sorvino, etc.
And as far as that goes, the thing that stands out most in this book is what a complete waste of a human being Henry Hill is. Forget the suave, handsome, sharp Ray Liotta; the real Hill—judging from what his kids say about him anyway—was a loser before, during, and after he turned rat.
He wasn’t even interesting in the scary way that psychopathic killers Jimmy Burke (De Niro) and Tommy DeSimone (Pesci) were. Circumstances put him at least in proximity to big time crime, but he was strictly small time as a human being. He didn’t have the brains or the strength of will to be any kind of master criminal, let alone a success in any more worth
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Growing up in the witness protection program
Few areas of American culture have been more falsely glamorized than the mafia. The movie “Goodfellas” told the story of Henry Hill — the gangster who famously broke the mafia code of silence. In 1980 Hill left “the life,” entered the witness protection program and testified against the mob. When Hill came under federal protection, his wife, Karen, and their two children did too. Now, almost 25 years later, Gregg and Gina Hill are breaking their own silence in a new book called "On the Run: A Mafia Childhood.” The siblings were invited to discuss the book on “Today.” Here’s an excerpt:
GINA: One of my earliest memories of my dad was my mom telling me he was going away. That’s how she said it: “Daddy has to go away for a little while.” It was late in the afternoon, and she was leaning down so her face was close to mine and I could smell her perfume. She was crying just a little. I’m sure she never used the word prison, and it wouldn’t have mattered because I was only six years old and wouldn’t have known what prison was.
We were living in the Fairview, a luxury high-rise right across the highway from Flushing Meadows, in Queens. There was a doorman at each of the three different sections of the complex and a big circular dri
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Henry Hill
American criminal (1943–2012)
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