All these years you've watched movies like Goodfellas, Casino, and 8 Heads in a Duffle Bag and thought to yourself, "Man, that little guy sure is a good actor." But as it turns out, Joe Pesci's ability to act like an insanely pissed off asshole isn't so much due to talent but rather to the fact that he gets really angry and violent when he's trying to head out to 7-11 for a Mountain Dew Big Gulp refill and he's found that his driveway is impassably blocked by Robbie Williams's friends' cars. We hear that happened constantly on the set of Home Alone.
FemaleFirst reports:
Robbie Williams was left terrified after his neighbour Joe Pesci threatened him with a golf club during a furious bust-up.The 64-year-old actor saw red when Robbie invited his friends over to his Los Angeles home for a game of soccer and they blocked Pesci's driveway with their cars.
Pesci stormed out brandishing a club, ranting: "Which one of you motherf***ers blocked my drive?
"If you don't move in 30 seconds, I'm going to smash your windscreen."
Robbie – who has a soccer pitch at his home and holds weekly matches – initially thought his Oscar-winning neighbour was joking, but quickly realised the star was serious and ordered his friends to move their vehicles.
A pal of the 'Rudebox' singer compared the row to a scene from 'Goodfellas', in which Pesci played psychotic gangster Tommy DeVito.
The friend told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "It was pretty terrifying in 'Goodfellas' when Pesci's character flew off the handle. Imagine seeing it in real life. Robbie has never had any sort of dispute with his neighbours before and has now given his friends strict instructions to steer clear of Pesci's driveway.
"One of the things he really likes about Los Angeles is the anonymity -big showdowns are the last thing he wants."
We had to read through that story twice before we realized that it was talking about Robbie Williams, not Robin Williams. But that was just our subconscious, which has been anticipating a Joe Pesci/Robin Williams showdown since we were subjected to a double feature of The Super and Shakes the Clown. (Hey, look at that! We didn't make a Patch Adams joke. What restraint!)
