Half-Assed Internet Research
Research covers real people, costumes, a murder attempt, profanity, improv, sets, ribs, cigarettes, restaurants, and high rollers.
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- Frank Cullotta served as technical adviser and appeared as a hitman.
- The costume budget was one million dollars, with 70 De Niro outfits and 40 Stone outfits.
- Joe Pesci’s then-wife Claudia Haro was later convicted in an attempted-murder scheme against another ex-husband.
- The film uses the F-word 435 times.
- James Woods improvised dialogue and the detail that Lester was with a prostitute using cocaine during the wedding call.
- The count-room set was constructed because productions are not allowed into a real count room.
- Frank Rosenthal’s television-show guests included Sinatra, Hope, Liberace, O. J. Simpson, and Rickles.
- Pesci suffered a rib injury during the cornfield sequence.
- De Niro maintained cigarette length for continuity.
- Piero’s restaurant stood in for the Leaning Tower.
- Future Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman appears as an attorney.
- Nobu Matsuhisa plays Ichikawa.
- Akio Kashiwagi’s casino debts and murder are discussed.
- Ace’s house was later bought by Suge Knight.
- Frank Rosenthal’s later nightclub, online-betting, and family life are summarized.