But his 80th birthday is an especially great occasion. Let's take a look back
Joe Pesci is not recently deceased, retired, or back with a new role. To the best of my knowledge, none of his quintessential screen performances are coming up on a major anniversary. He turns 80 today, but that’s not the reason he was celebrated in a recent series, “Also Starring… Joe Pesci,” at New York’s Metrograph Theater.
The “Also Starring” series was born out of a desire to highlight the work of Hollywood’s greatest supporting players, Pesci being the platonic ideal: a second banana who would elevate, and often outmatch, the first. “I wanted to expand the scope of what we consider major contributions to cinema history with a new recurring series spotlighting actors with monumental bodies of work in supporting roles,” said Metrograph Programmer Lydia Ogwang.
Pesci officially retired from acting in 1999, though his loose adherence to hanging it up has meant that he hasn’t so much vanished as become scarce. In the ensuing years, he’s acted in Robert De Niro’s
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