The Irishman Makes Tony Pro Into a Joke—But the True Story Is Much More Sinister

The Irishman Makes Tony Pro Into a Joke—But the True Story Is Much More Sinister

Esquire-Entertainment·2019-12-04 02:54

Aside from all the bickering, murdering, and car-bombing, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman—which is now streaming on Netflix—has an inordinate amount of nicknames. There’s Sally Bugs, Skinny Razor, Whispers, Fitz, Fat Tony, and The Irishman, of course. (We should really have something like the Wu-Tang name generator for mob aliases.) The best of the lot, though, is the film’s most degrading: The Little Guy! That’swhat Al Pacino’s Jimmy Hoffa not-so-lovingly calls Anthony ‘Tony Pro’ Provenzano, played by Stephen Graham in the film.

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