Or the woman who looked like Joe Pesci who pulled me from the cabin to admire a passing dam.

BBC: Riding the virtual Trans-Siberian

Judges might exercise that right when Joe Pesci waltzes into the courtroom wearing a leather jacket or blue tux.

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When Pesci sags, Tomei, Gwynne, and others (especially Austin Pendleton) perk things up.

NEWYORKER: My Cousin Vinny

Joe Pesci plays Vinny Gambini, a neophyte Brooklyn lawyer who high-tails it down to Wahzoo City, Alabama, to help his college-boy cousin (Ralph Macchio) and a friend (Mitchell Whitfield) beat a bum murder rap.

NEWYORKER: My Cousin Vinny

"Joe Pesci always said I'd end up with my feet in cement - I don't think this is what he had in mind, " the actor joked, referring to his co-star in the mob movie Goodfellas.

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Anyone who recoiled at the violence of the film, memorably demonstrated by Oscar-winner Joe Pesci, would have considered Hill's decision to stick his head above the parapet of anonymity as suicidal, but events this week suggest the biggest threat to himself came from within.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Magazine | The real-life Goodfella

With Kevin Costner as New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, Sissy Spacek as his wife, Gary Oldman as Oswald, and an all-star cast of witnesses and conspirators: Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci (an abominable performance), Donald Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Jack Lemmon, Ed Asner, John Candy, Walter Matthau.

NEWYORKER: JFK

In honor of the 25th anniversary, the film has been re-released on Blu Ray, Hill's longtime girlfriend Lisa Caserta has assisted in the publication of a new book by the late gangster and Flavorwire writer Jason Bailey attempted to track down the elusive Pesci, who has retired from acting and all but disappeared.

CNN: Still obsessed with 'Goodfellas,' 25 years later