Hairdresser, ace mechanic, pool hall hustler, legal strategist, Mona Lisa Vito.
Deftly played by Marisa Tomei, Ms. Vito was a woman’s woman who helped turn My Cousin Vinny into a comedy classic.
This month, we’re celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the film, which was released on March 13, 1992.
(Warning: There’s a good deal of Brooklyn-style profanity in the clips below.)
My biological clock (stomp, stomp, stomp) is ticking like this, and the way this case is going I ain’t never getting married!
‘Cause Chevy didn’t make a 327 in ’55, the 327 didn’t come out till ’62. And it wasn’t offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb till ’64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top-dead-center.
Imagine you’re a deer. You’re prancing along, you get thirsty, you spot a little brook, you put your little deer lips down to the cool clear water… BAM!
The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can’t make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the ’64 Buick Skylark!
They didn’t teach ya that in law school either?
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