Who could forget that scene in Goodfellas where Ray Liotta’s character narrates what life is like in prison for “wiseguys?” As his cell mates slice garlic and put too many onions in the sauce, Liotta’s Henry Hill mocks the rank and file doing “real time, all mixed together living like pigs” while gangsters flout the rules and live on steak and lobster. There’s a real co-conspiratorial charge to being ushered into an unknown world by an insider; someone who guides...

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