“I am reminded of Louis the whatever’s finance minister…he built this chateau – Nicole and I saw it when we went to Paris – it even outshone Versailles, where the king lived. In the end, Louis clapped him in irons.” Tony refers to him as “Brainless the Second” and, truth be told, Carmine Lupertazzi, Jr. [...]
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“Oh, yeah. Be one of those wives like Carmela Soprano…breast feed a bunch of rugrats, then spend the rest of your life at the gym, just you and your stretch marks.” The future Mrs. Christopher Moltisanti, Adriana La Cerva is a mobster’s dream girl: smart and engaging, with a physique good enough to star at [...]
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“You know me…I don’t stick my beak in.” The urbane boss of the New York family, Johnny Sack is known for his sharp intellect and calm demeanor. He’s a still-waters-run-deep guy who makes it a point to keep tabs on anything that could affect his business and keep his innermost thoughts to himself. Those qualities [...]
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“All due respect, you got no f**king idea what it’s like to be number one. Every decision you make affects every facet of every other f**king thing. It’s too much to deal with almost. And in the end you’re completely alone with it.” The pressures of running ‘the family’ have taken their toll on Tony. [...]
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“Did (other) kids ever find fifty thousand dollars in Krugerrands and a .45 automatic while they were hunting for Easter eggs?” Tony and Carmela’s firstborn, Meadow Mariangela Soprano is, in many ways, a typical suburban ingenue: pretty, bright and talented, she was a high school honors student. But, being a Soprano, some of Meadow’s life [...]
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“A real hardhead, this Soprano kid. And the ego. I tell you, though, when I first met him, decisive as he is, I’d have been proud to call him my son.” The capo di tutti capi of New York, Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. was an old school wise guy of Junior’s generation. But unlike Junior, who’s [...]
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“D.A. tossed (my case)…the witness bailed.” Once Tony’s driver, Benny is an eager young aspirant who likes to hang out with Christopher, hoping he’ll get the opportunity to score some points. He and Christopher used to frequent the Ooh-Fa Pizza Restaurant, until Christopher, now a made man, decided it was no longer sophisticated enough for [...]
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Amaury Nolasco, a native of Puerto Rico, studied biology full-time at the University of Puerto Rico. His plan to enroll in medical school and become a doctor was cut short when a director approached Nolasco and encouraged him to pursue acting. He was immediately cast in his first television commercial and began working consistently as [...]
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“Boss or no, you don’t raise your hand to another made guy.” Eugene Pontecorvo was a member of the crew that was headed by Ralph Cifaretto, and was one of the few people who actually seemed to get along with the late capo. He was one of the newer made guys in New Jersey; he [...]
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Gloria Trillo has the distinction of being the woman in the briefest and most intense affair of Tony’s life. No ordinary goomara, she was a smart, beautiful career woman, a top sales rep at Globe Mercedes. She was also highly independent, capable of traveling to Morocco alone and on her own dime. Gloria was passionate [...]
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