Word: pesci
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here. Moriarty recreates the sex goddess of that era: blond and yielding. With her coyness of expression and a voice low and flat as a pool table, she tells us all we need to know about a certain kind of woman in a certain kind of neighborhood. Joe Pesci, also in his first movie role, is perfect as the little man and the little brother, scared by and ultimately disgusted with LaMotta...
...Jake's insults, and stood by as his hard-luck friend; later, under the name Peter Savage, he helped Jake write his autobiography and served as consulting producer to the Raging Bull company. In the film, Pete's history is subsumed into the character of Joey (Joe Pesci): the fighter's manager and punching bag, his Sancho Panza and lago. By insulating Jake from the Mafia men who want a big piece of his career, Joey also isolates his brother from the real world of compromise and conciliation. Everyone is an interloper, a seducer, an enemy...