Recently Nick D'Urso, manager of New Jersey's Satin Dolls gentleman's club, got a call from HBO asking him to hold off on his planned renovations. You see, Satin Dolls also doubles as the Bada Bing strip club from HBO's stunning, somber, and definitively over mob series The Sopranos. D'Urso swears that he heard legit…
[Former 'Sopranos' stars Vincent Pastore and Aida Turturro celebrate their new roles in the Broadway musical 'Chicago', Jan 6; image via WENN]
The Sopranos creator David Chase, who once dismissed the series's fans as an unruly mob of closure-obsessed Tony-turncoats, has made the pilgrimage back to his old stomping grounds to testify in a federal lawsuit brought against him from a former judge who claims he was never fairly compensated for helping to create…
With HBO subscribers understandably less engrossed in the mysteries with which the network now presents them on Sunday nights—such as whether or not Tell Me You Love Me's Adam Scott employs an ejaculating stunt-cock or how much longer we have to wait before producers serve up that hotly anticipated …
Finally, an explosion we can't blame on Con Ed (yet):
It seemed inevitable that the GLAAD-led protest of former Sopranos star Joseph "Gay Vito" Gannascoli's endorsement of the billiards implement used to rape and murder his leather-loving TV character would quickly lead to the removal of the item from his "To Die For" line of merchandise (and its establishment as an…
With his role on the most important TV drama in the history of the medium wrapped and nothing to look forward to but months of frustrating phonecalls in which his agents begs him to do "just one more leather daddy mobster part, for old time's sake. Ya gotta eat!," one can hardly blame former Sopranos star Joseph…
The Gays are up in arms over a "pool cue endorsed by former ['Sopranos'] cast member Joseph Gannascoli. During the sixth season, Gannascoli's character Vito Spatafore was beaten to death, and then sodomized, with a pool cue after his mob crew discovered he was gay." Kinda tacky? Sure. But guess what, outrage police?…
If you've got more money than sense, you can own a piece of "The Sopranos." The owner of the show's "Satriale's Pork Store" is selling bricks from the facade online for $25 to $50 a pop "before the structure is demolished next month. A condominium complex named The Soprano will be built on the site." [AP]
We have, on more than one occasion, referred to the Emmys as "Oscar's paste-eating cousin," but even Hollywood's touched-in-the-head awards-proferring youngster gets his turn in the spotlight once in a while, and early this morning a legion of entertainment reporters were invited over to look at the names of the…
So blinded were we by the ostentation of Paramount's eye-catching, two-page, "We made so much money last week that Brad Grey is buying everyone solid-gold robots" spread for Transformers that we completely missed this far more subtle ad lurking in pages of Variety this morning.
In fact, the only people who didn't know how the 'Sopranos' finale concluded in advance were you and Rudy Giuliani. [NYT]
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Newsweek interviews former Journey frontman Steve Perry. The shlockmeister reveals that he was initially unsure about allowing atrocious hit "Don't Stop Believing" to be used in the finale of "The Sopranos."
Vincent Curatola (a.k.a Johnny Sack), whose cameo in the Hillary Clinton parody of "The Sopranos" finale added the necessary frisson to a video which has gone viral beyond its consultant's wildest dreams, talks about working with the Clintons. Bill, it turns out, is a fan.
It's been a good run, but I think it's safe to say that all those parodies of "The Sopranos" series finale have finally been consigned to the dustbin of history. We're too shocked to even come up with a Bill Clinton comare joke. Hillary, Hillary... now you have to apologize for this and your Iraq vote! What were you…
Sopranos artifacts are apparently being hawked at a big yard sale tomorrow in Long Island City! Steer clear of that cappuccino machine, though: seriously, you need a pilot's license. [LOGO]
Gay Talese checks in with the children of the Bonannos, a real-life - but classier - precursor of "The Sopranos." Having eleven kids seems like the scariest thing of all. [Newsweek]
It's been a week since viewers saw the final episode of "The Sopranos." In that time, there's been much discussion, here and elsewhere, about what it all actually meant. The speculations and theories have been endless, and seem to prove, if any such evidence were required, that David Chase is a genius. But after all…
