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Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You is the second studio album from actor and singer Joe Pesci. [1] History. The idea for the album originated from Pesci's character Vincent LaGuardia Gambini, from his 1992 movie My Cousin Vinny.
- My Cousin Vinny Was Inspired by An Encounter with A Guy Hoping to Pass The Bar.
- Dale Launer Took A Road Trip to Research The Script For My Cousin Vinny.
- Robert de Niro Was Launer’S First Choice to Play Vinny Gambini.
- Joe Pesci Based Vinny on Guys from His neighborhood.
- The Studio Initially Wanted to Cut Mona Lisa Vito from My Cousin Vinny.
- Will Smith Was Up For The Role of Stan Rothenstein in My Cousin Vinny.
- The Studio Took A Chance on Marisa Tomei.
- The Legal System Is Portrayed Very Accurately in My Cousin Vinny.
- Vinny Was Supposed to Be Dyslexic in My Cousin Vinny.
- One Scene in My Cousin Vinny Was Lifted from A Book About Comedy and The Law.
My Cousin Vinny was one of the earliest ideas screenwriter Dale Launer ever had. “In the very early '70s, I met a guy who ... was waiting the bar exam results,” he told ABA Journal in 2012. Launer asked what would happen if he didn't pass, and the guy said he could just take it again, and if he didn't pass that time, he'd just take it again. And ag...
According to the bio on his website, Launer set off on a road trip across the South for script research. He rented a car in New Orleans, then drove through Mississippi and Alabama and down the Gulf Coast. The trip provided plenty of inspiration for scenes that would eventually make it into the script: Launer’s car got stuck in the mud, every restau...
After the script was written, a casting meeting was called and Launer met with Fox’s president, vice president, and CEO. When Launer suggested Robert De Niro for the part of Vincent LaGuardia Gambini, “the prez looked uncomfortable, embarrassed that I would suggest such an actor,” Launer told Writer Unboxed. “‘De Niro, uh … well … he’s not funny. A...
“There’s a lot of people around like that in smaller neighborhoods, so I put a few of them together and [came] up with Vinny,” Pesci, who grew up in New Jersey, told The Movie Showin 1992.
In 2007, Launer told Writer Unboxed that the studio had wanted to get rid of Vinny’s Chinese-food-loving, unemployed hairdresser/car expert girlfriend. To keep the character, Launer reluctantly added a scene, requested by the studio president, to the second draft: “He wanted Vinny’s girlfriend to complain that he’s not giving her enough attention,”...
Mitchell Whitfield had just moved to Los Angeles from New York when he got word about the My Cousin Vinny auditions—which were taking place in New York. So he flew back to do the screen test. “Believe it or not, Will Smith was also up for the role,” Whitfield toldAbnormal Use. “So, clearly, they didn’t know exactly which way they were going to go w...
Tomei didn’t have a lot of film experience when she landed the part of Mona Lisa Vito. “I’d seen her [on the set of Oscar] working with John Landis and [had] gone with [him] to the cutting room to look at her performance,” Lynn said in DVD commentary.” She was playing a 1920s blonde flapper, very different, but I could see how funny and talented sh...
Lynn has a law degree from Cambridge University, and, he said in DVD commentary, “I get terribly irritated when I see films in which the legal procedure is obviously wrong.” In addition to Launer’s research, Lynn made adjustments to make sure the legal proceedings were correct. “I’m very pleased with the fact that, although this is heightened for c...
In the original script, when Vinny is asked why it took him six times to pass the bar, he says, “I’m a little dyslexic.” Viewers would have experienced it themselves while watching Vinny attempt to read the huge book of Alabama Criminal Court procedure; Launer envisioned that the camera would show a close shot of a word jumbled up, gradually becomi...
The book featured real moments from actual courtrooms. Launer lifted the memorable voir dire scene of a potential juror for Vinny. The lawyers “ask them their opinion on capital punishment, and they said something like, ‘I think it should be left up to the victims' families,’” Launer told Abnormal Use. “Then they then described exactly what the mur...
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Pesci was there to sign copies of his record album, Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You, a 13-song compilation in which Pesci alternated rap spoofs (“Wise Guy”) with earnest...
Mar 29, 2002 · The same can't be said of Joe Pesci's Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just For You, an album recorded by Pesci in the voice of the character he played in the...
Oct 1, 1998 · Listen to Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just For You by Joe Pesci on Apple Music. 1998. 14 Songs. Duration: 44 minutes.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1998 Cassette release of "Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just For You" on Discogs.
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Oct 13, 1998 · Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You by Joe Pesci released in 1998. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
