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the late actor Paul Sorvino, was left out of the in memoriam segment at this year’s Oscars.Sorvino, who won Academy Award for her performance in the 1995 film Mighty Aphrodite, recently took to Instagram to share footage of her father’s tearful reaction to her win.However, having shared the video before the Oscars began, she later edited the video’s caption after discovering that her father had been omitted from the in memoriam segment.“Incredibly hurt and shocked that my father’s lifelong, irreplaceable, enormous contribution to the world of cinema was overlooked by whomever made that list,” she wrote. “We his adoring family, and you, his adoring public, know just how unique and incredible he was.

died Friday. She was 89.Born on Oct. 31, 1934, Shepherd also had roles in the movies “Mystic Pizza,” “Uncle Buck,” “Requiem for a Dream,” and “A Dirty Shame.”She made guest appearances on the TV shows “Ed,” “Law & Order” and “Blue Bloods.”Shepherd, who lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, “passed away peacefully very early yesterday morning,” the actor and real estate agent Tom Titone wrote Saturday on Facebook.“I studied with Suzanne as a young actor.

Goodfellas and The Sopranos has died, aged 89.The death of the late actor is reported to have been confirmed by her granddaughter to the US Sun, although a cause of death has not yet been reported and no official statement has been released.In Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990), Shepherd played the mother of Karen Hill (played by Lorraine Bracco). The film also starred Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci.Shepherd also played Mary DeAngelis in hit HBO show The Sopranos from 2000 to 2007.

late “Goodfellas’’ actor Paul Sorvino, his widow fumed Monday — adding someone should get whacked over the snub.“Who is the flunkie who put this list together?” Dee Dee Sorvino seethed on “The Joe Piscopo Show” the morning after the Academy Awards.“They can’t even give him one second?!” Dee Dee said of her talented beloved hubby, who starred in more than 200 movies during his iconic career before dying of natural causes in July at age 83.“Not even a freakin’ cannoli! What the heck?” she ranted. “There is a Mafia hit that needs to go out on this situation,” Dee Dee said in jest. The Sorvinos married in 2014 and were happy “every single day of our lives together,” Dee Dee said shortly after his death.On Monday, she said, “I know it’s terrible the banks failed,” referring to the collapse of the Silicon Valley and Signature banks since Friday.

told The Post in 2020 for the movie’s 30th anniversary that Sorvino would sing opera between takes.Of his career-making role in “Goodfellas,” Sorvino once recalled how he felt typecast. “There are many people who think I’m actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of ‘Goodfellas,’” he once said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I suppose that’s the price you pay for being effective in a role.”He had three children from his first marriage to Lorraine Davis, including Academy Award-winning actor Mira Sorvino.

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died late last month at the age of 67 in the Dominican Republic.The Oscar-winning director, 79, wrote an op-ed for The Guardian to pay tribute to Liotta and manifested his regret for not working with him enough during his lifetime.“We had many plans to work together again but the timing was always off, or the project wasn’t quite right. I regret that now,” Scorsese penned.The filmmaker directed the “Shades of Blue” star in the 1990 mob drama “Goodfellas.”Scorsese continued, “When I watched Ray as the divorce lawyer in ‘Marriage Story’ — he’s genuinely scary in the role, which is precisely why he’s so funny.”“I remember feeling that I wanted to work with him again at this point in his life, to explore the gravity in his presence, so different from the young, sprightly actor he was when I met him,” “The Departed” director went on.“I wish I’d had the chance to see him just once more, too — to tell him just how much the work we did together meant to me. But maybe he knew that.

When the passing of Ray Liotta was announced, fans started to list the roles that they would remember him most. And by a large margin, the film that was most discussed was “Goodfellas,” the crime film by the legendary Martin Scorsese.

passed away in his sleep due to unknown causes Wednesday evening while filming a movie in the Dominican Republic. He was 67.The “Gangs of New York” filmmaker, 79, shared a touching statement with People on Thursday, noting: “I’m absolutely shocked and devastated by the sudden, unexpected death of Ray Liotta. He was so uniquely gifted, so adventurous, so courageous as an actor.”“Playing Henry Hill in ‘Goodfellas’ was a tall order, because the character had so many different facets, so many complicated layers, and Ray was in almost every scene of a long, tough shoot,” he continued.

Ray Liotta got a call out of the blue: It was the man he portrayed in the film, mobster-turned-informant Henry Hill.Hill told the actor he would “love to sit down and talk with ya,” and the two agreed to meet at Jerry’s Deli in the Valley at the bowling alley, Liotta told The Post in 2020.“And the first thing he said was, ‘Thanks for not making me look like a scumbag!’ And I said, ‘Serious? Did you see the movie? You cheated on your wife, you were dealing drugs when your crew told you not to.’ I wondered what made him think that he wasn’t.“It was an interesting perspective that people have of themselves.”The actor, who died Thursday at the age of 67, explained how he prepared for his most famous role. First, he read the non-fiction book the film was based on, 1985’s “Wiseguy,” by Nicholas Pileggi, which focuses on Hill.

one of the best mob movies ever made.But that was back in 1990. For many years after he played new mafioso Henry Hill in the Martin Scorsese classic — a turn both innocent and dangerous — the “Field of Dreams” star languished in forgettable pictures, made silly cameos as himself and appeared in low-quality direct-to-video fare.

who died Thursday of unknown causes at 67, told The Digital Fix in September.Since he was afraid to be type-cast as a mafioso following the overwhelming success of Martin Scorsese’s mobster movie “Goodfellas” in which he plays Henry Hill, he refused to play similar characters back-to-back.He even turned down the role of Ralphie, eventually played by Joe Pantoliano, in “The Sopranos.”“I didn’t want to do another mafia thing, and I was shooting ‘Hannibal.’ It just didn’t feel right at the time,” he said in an interview with the Guardian last year.Yet, a role in “The Sopranos” universe wasn’t off the table. In “The Many Saints of Newark,” the HBO prequel which aired in October, Liotta played Aldo “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti, the grandfather of Michael Imperioli’s Christopher.

“The Many Saints of Newark” — the prequel movie to “The Sopranos,” which opens Friday in theaters and on HBO Max — Ray Liotta knows a thing or two about wiseguys.But don’t let the thuggishness fool you: In real life, he’s more of a gentle fella.“I don’t go around beating people up,” Liotta, 66, told The Post. “I’ve never been in a fight.

Martin Scorsese has said that his mother Catherine’s cameo in Goodfellas was almost entirely improvised.At the 2021 virtual TCM Film Festival, Scorsese spoke about the scene from the iconic 1990 mafia film in which his mother featured. Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta also appeared in the scene, with Pesci playing Scorsese’s son.“When people talk about improvisation, this really was improvisation,” said the 78-year-old Scorsese at the festival, as Entertainment Weekly reports.

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