Billy Batts is dead.
Again.
If you didn't nod your head in agreement at this news, you're obviously not a 'Goodfellas' fan.
Confession here.
As an longtime, dedicated channel surfer, I can admit that there are a couple of things that will stop me dead in my tracks.
'Goodfellas' is one of them.
Just ask my wife. She hates this mob saga movie starring Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci.
She thinks I have always wanted to be a mobster.
She might be right.
I have seen 'Goodfellas' more times than I can count, even if most of the time I only see snippets of it, until my wife intervenes.
Billy Batts is a gangster in the flick played by veteran character actor Frank Vincent.
Vincent is always the perfect image of a gangster.
Here's another confession.
Vincent is probably best known for playing mob boss Phil Leotardo, Tony Soprano's nemesis on 'The Sopranos.' Would you believe I have never seen a single episode of 'The Sopranos'?
Vincent also appeared in 'Raging Bull' and another great mob flick, 'Casino.'
In 2006, Vincent published a book, "A Guy's Guide to Being a Man's Man."
I don't doubt it a bit.
Rest well, Billy Batts. Or at least easier than you did in your gruesome demise at the hands of DeNiro and Pesci in 'Goodfellas.'
Now excuse me while I go home and get my shinebox.
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