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n. (alternative spelling of wise guy English)
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Wiseguy is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 16, 1987 to December 8, 1990, for a total of 75 episodes. The series was produced by Stephen J. Cannell and was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, to avoid the higher studio costs associated with filming in Los Angeles.
Wiseguy featured Ken Wahl as Vinnie Terranova, a deep cover operative for the fictional Organized Crime Task Force division of the FBI. Jonathan Banks played his superior Frank McPike and Jim Byrnes played Daniel "Lifeguard" Burroughs, who assisted Vinnie while in the field. Wahl left the series after three seasons and Steven Bauer joined the series alongside Banks and Byrnes, who were the only cast members to appear in every season.
As opposed to a typical crime drama series, Wiseguy was structured more like a typical soap opera would be; for example, a cycle of episodes would focus on a particular story and the story would conclude in the final episode of the cycle, which gave rise to the term story arc. Since each cycle dealt with a particular story, the episodes had a set of characters written just for those episodes. Actors such as Kevin Spacey, Ray Sharkey, and Tim Curry were among the actors who played central characters in story arcs over the course of the series.
The show placed #74 on Entertainment Weekly "New TV Classics" list.
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (ISBN 0-671-44734-3) is a 1986 non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that chronicles the story of Mafia mobster-turned-informant Henry Hill. The book is the basis for the 1990 Academy Award-winning film Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese.
Usage examples of "wiseguy".
He was behaving rashly, and a wiseguy needed a cool head at all times.
Levin, Fields Medal nominee, post-adolescent genius and wiseguy, the young man who Stephen Hawking says has made the greatest contributions to quantum gravity, the guy who, if you ask him a simple question you get a pageant, endless lectures on chrono-string theory, complexity theory, algebraic number theory, how many pepperonis can dance on the point of a pizza.
One of the girls there was a source of his, she bounced around with a lot of would-be wiseguys and had some good information.
Trigger being used as he had been promised it would be - of would-be bombers killed by their own bombs, of despots deposed and armies deprived of their armories, of thugs and punks and wiseguys stripped of their finely machined blued-steel masculinity.
Buck Hoey, the wiseguy shortstop whod bellyached about the first baseman who hadnt come to practice, hopped down last, near a blue frame house with more shrubs and a prettier paint job than any house around it.
If I could play ball in the Chattahoochee heat, whyd so many of these wiseguy doughboys seem to think I couldnt charge into Jap artillery fire?
Wiseguys value life about as much as they value used dental floss.
Wiseguy, and I can still see better than ninety-nine per cent of the fogies my age.
You probably got six wiseguys in this place, every one of them with about four guns, and the two of you are going batshit over a kid in a crapper.
Living forever in the Weequahic section, and playing softball on Chancellor Avenue from nine to one on Sundays, a perfect joining of clown and competitor, kibbitzing wiseguy and dangerous long-ball bitter.