About that Time Eddie Murphy Was Considered for Goodfellas...

"I think I was the first person that Marty [Scorsese] met, but it took maybe a year," Ray Liotta recalls in an exhaustive new oral history of Goodfellas. "It was a very, very long process, not knowing anything and really wanting to do this. I was new. I'd only done three movies at the time. All I heard was that the studio wanted somebody else--'What about this?' 'What about Eddie Murphy?'" We will spare you an IM debate on the merits of this casting choice. [GQ]