The TV Zone

It was a big tube night for me yesterday because “My Cousin Vinny” was on. (See the trailer)

It’s one of those movies I just gotta watch any time it shows up at a decent hour on one of the 5000 movie channels Cablevision graciously offers.

I’ve been obsessed with this movie since I first saw it when it came out in 1992. It’s not really a guilty pleasure because there’s nothing to feel guilty about.

What’s not to love? Let us name five, for starters:

-- Joe Pesci as novice lawyer Vincent LaGuardia Gambini pondering the nature of a grit.

-- Pesci explaining what a “yute” is to the cadaverous. curmudgeonly judge played by Fred Gwynne.

-- Fred Gwynne as the cadaverous, curmudgeonly judge — his best role since Herman Munster. If only he could be as joyful as Herman.

-- Marisa Tomei as Pesci’s fiance Mona Lisa Vito explaining to a stunned courtroom what “positraction” is and her anti-deer hunting diatribe.
-- Tomei’s ‘80s high hair and hot outfits, which grow ever more intriguing. She coulda won her Oscar on the basis on those alone.

Do you have your favorite “Vinny” moments? Post a talk back here.

And BTW, Encore airs “Vinny” again Friday at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.