Goodfellas Page #6

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HENRY (V.O.)

It was the first time I had ever

seen anyone shot.

TODDY:

(angry)

You're some f***ing jerk.

WE SEE that HENRY is stunned.

TODDY:

I You wasted eight f***ing aprons

on that guy. :

HENRY (V.O.)

I remember feeling bad about the

guy. But I remember feeling that

maybe Tuddy was right. I knew

Paulie didn't want anybody dying

in the building.

CUT TO:

INT. CABSTAND - NIGHT

HENRY is making a ham and cheese sandwich.

CAMERA TRACKING through room full of PEOPLE playing cards,

through professional CARD DEALERS skittering cards across

green felt tables, through BODYGUARDS watching the door,

through TUDDY VARIO walking around the tables, through

PAUL VARIO standing quietly on the side, through HENRY

giving the sandwich to ONE of the PLAYERS.

HENRY (V.O.)

It was a glorious time. Wiseguys

were all over the place. It was

before Apalachin and before Crazy

Joey decided to take on a boss and

start a war. It was when I met the

world. It was when I first met

Jimmy Burke.

CAMERA COMES TO REST when JIMMY BROKE walks in the door.

CUT TO:

HENRY:

Looking at JIMMY

HENRY (V.O.)

He couldn't have been more than

twenty-four or twenty-five at the

time, but he was already a legend.

He'd walk in the door and everybody

who worked the room went wild.

He'd give the doorman a hundred

just for opening the door. He

shoved hundreds in the pockets of

the dealers and who ran the games.

The bartender got a hundred just

for keeping the ice cubes cold.

HENRY sees VARIO give BURKE a hug around the shoulder.

HENRY sees JIMMY handing money to the DOORMAN. HENRY

watches PLAYERS timidly move their chairs slightly to make

room for JIMMY. HENRY sees JIMMY pull out a wad of bills

and sit down.

JIMMY:

(to Henry, who is

standing near the

bar)

Hey, kid! Get me a seven and seven.

WE SEE HENRY make the drink and bring it to JIMMY.

VARIO is standing next to JIMMY.

VARIO:

(his arm around

Henry's shoulder)

Henry. Say hello to Jimmy Burke.

WE SEE JIMMY slip a $20 bill in Henry's shirt pocket.

JIMMY:

(lifting his drink

to Henry)

Keep 'em coming.

FREEZE FRAME OH JIMMY.

HENRY (V.O.)

Jimmy was one of the most feared

gays in the city. He was first

locked up at eleven and was doing

hits for mob bosses when he was

sixteen. Hits never bothered him.

It was business. But what he really

loved to do was steal. I mean, he

actually enjoyed it. Jimmy was

the kind of guy who rooted for the

bad guys in the movies. He was

one of the city's biggest hijackers.

Clothes. Razor blades. Booze.

Cigarettes. Shrimp and lobsters.

Shrimp and lobsters were the best.

They went fast.

EXT. TRAILER TRUCK - NEAR IDLEWILD AIRPORT - NIGHT

The trailer truck is stopped at a light in a deserted area

near JFK Airport. WE SEE the DRIVER being quietly led to a

car where JIMMY BURKE is standing. WE SEE JIMMY routinely

take the DRIVER'S wallet. There is absolutely no resistance.

HENRY (V.O.)

And almost all of them were

gimmie's.

CUT TO:

CLOSE UP - WALLET

WE SEE JIMMY put a $50 bill in the DRIVER'S wallet.

HENRY:

They called him Jimmy the Gent.

The drivers loved him. They used

to tip him off about the really

good loads. Of course, everybody

got a piece. And when the cops

assigned a whole army to stop him,

(pause)

Jimmy made them partners.

CUT TO:

EXT. CABSTAND PACKING LOT - DAY

CLOSE UP - ROWS OF CIGARETTE CARTONS

piled inside a large trailer truck.

JIMMY and TOMMY DESIMONE, a youngster about HENRY's age,

are moving large cigarette cartons toward truck tailgate.

While JIMMY is dressed like a truck driver, TOMMY is -

very nattily dressed in a sharply-cut suit and highly buffed

shoes.

JIMMY and TOMMY are loading the cartons into the arms of a

WOMAN SCHOOL-CROSSING GUARD who is having difficulty

carrying the load.

JIMMY:

Tommy. Help the lady.

WE SEE TOMMY scramble down from the truck and help the

SCHOOL-CROSSING GUARD to her own car where WE SEE she

already bad a load of the cartons.

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