“Let’s go ahead and get started,” Pileggi says, picking up a glazed terra cotta pot and launching into a list of once-trendy-but-now-overdone plant species. In this particular video, he’s discussing houseplant trends that are already over. The YouTuber has amassed a modest but loyal following of 135,000 by sharing watering how-tos, plant unboxing videos, and tours of his personal 350-plus plant collection. “It’s no secret that houseplants have become very trendy as of last year, 2020, around the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic,” he begins, referring to a surge in demand spurred in part by the lockdown-induced solitude of spending so much time indoors.

ISBN 978-0-87223-475-8.In early January 2021, Nick Pileggi sat in front of a video camera, a wall of greenery behind him. Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (First ed.). Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas (First ed.). Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob Partial filmography YearĬhicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay Pileggi was married to fellow author, journalist, and filmmaker Nora Ephron from 1987 until her death in 2012. Pileggi co-wrote the pilot of the CBS television series Vegas, which first aired in September 2012.

He also authored Blye, Private Eye (1987). He served as an Executive Producer of American Gangster (2007), a biographical crime film based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas. Pileggi also wrote the screenplay for the film City Hall (1996), starring Al Pacino. The movie versions of both were directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese. 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). Pileggi began his career as a journalist and had a profound interest in the Mafia. In the 1950s, he worked as a journalist for Associated Press and New York magazine, specializing in crime reporting for more than three decades. Nicola 'Nick' Pileggi was a musician who played slide trombone in a cinema orchestra for silent films he subsequently also owned shoe stores. Pileggi was born and raised in Brooklyn, the elder son of an Italian immigrant father, Nicola ('Nick') Pileggi from Calabria and an American-born mother, Susie. He wrote the 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. Nicholas Pileggi ( / p ɪ ˈ l ɛ dʒ i/, Italian: born February 22, 1933) is an American author, producer and screenwriter.

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