The legendary British director Michael Powell ( The Red Shoes , The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ) had been friends with Martin Scorsese for over a decade by 1988. Scorsese idolized Powell, and it appears that reverence was reciprocated in a letter Powell sent regarding an epic Scorsese-penned script that would be released two years later as Goodfellas , the same year Powell died. Dig this amazing find.
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Read Director Michael Powell’s Gushing Letter to Martin Scorsese About an Early Draft of Goodfellas
