FLASHBACK
The year is 1990. GoodFellas has been released and is
a critical and box-office hit. On a brisk October dawn
in New York City, CBS This Morning's anchor, Paula Zahn,
cuts to Steve Kmetko's interview with a disguised Henry
Hill.
Asked to elaborate on his lifestyle in the mob, Hill
states:
"You hustle
constantly. You know, we worked continuously from
one score to another score to another score. People
told me all my life-my family, my in-laws-had I funneled
my energy that I put into that life, not only myself
and the other people, that we could be successful
in any business we attempted to go into. But you didn't
get the so-called respect, which wasn't respect, it
was-people were afraid of you. They didn't respect
you; they feared you. And a lot of things I did, I-you
know, I couldn't say no to a lot of things. If I said
no, either I got chased, or I was-I was whacked. I
mean, once you're a part of it, you're a part of it.
There is no way out. The only way out is a-is in a
box. You can't resign."
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