Did anyone read the book this was based on.....I Heard You Paint Houses I give that book and 8.5 and this pezzo di merda movie a 2.

First of all Francis Sheehan was a big ox of a fellow and he was an Irishman. He married a very Irish woman and they had Irish looking kids. So where was casting? And speaking of casting anyone remember Godfather II where they had the problem of portraying Marlon Brando as a young man? Can you imagine if they had rigged a Madame Tussaud version of old Marlon Brando with putty and other "Six Feet Under"-type beauty aids to play young Vito Corleone? The same goes for Pacino as Hoffa. Jimmy Hoffa was a thick headed "dutchmen" as the guineas said where I grew up in northern NJ....he was in no way Italian.

But let's forget all that (as one should do with this whole cazzata movie.) I want to talk about the music. Frank Sheehan, Jimmy, and Russell were grown up already for WWII just like my dad and all my Italian uncles. At parties in the 50's, 60's and 70's they listened to Perry Como, Jerry Vale, Jimmy Roselli , Sinatra et. al...they did not listen to the gritty Black R&B music in many parts of this soundtrack. Even though the music was of that time it was not of that culture.