If you're like us, you like your booze to reflect your loyalty to TV shows and your immature, macho obsession with people who earn respect by murdering other people. In that case, it's time to get drunk, comrades!
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Tony Soprano's wardrobe from The Sopranos sold at a Christie's auction for $187,750, four times what they predicted. Reuters was unable to get through reporting the news without making a "whacked" joke. [Reuters]
Because a Google search for Daily News gossip Jo Piazza returns a Jossip page as the first result, we're guessing an email from Sopranos actor Vince Curatola, pictured here on the left, that arrived in our inbox but was addressed to Jo, got sent to us by mistake.
Bummer. For him.
The note is a response to Jo's Full Disclosure column on Sunday, where she was talking about the possibility of a Sopranos movie. At the launch for Lorraine Bracco's new wine label (which didn't even get a mention!), Jo namedrops cast veterans like Michael Imperioli (Christopher Moltisanti), Steve Schirripa (Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri), and Dominic Chianese (Uncle Junior).
But no love for Curatola, who played Johnny 'Sack' Sacramoni, or Tony Sirico, who played Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri.
And Sack is sorta upset. CONTINUED »
This summer, David Chase reminded 12 million fans that he had them by the balls. But with Tony dead, or not, we’ve moved onto the first-rate reality TV programming from this season’s strike. Not everyone has.
Earlier this year when Satriale’s, the pork store in the show, was demolished, the property owner sold bricks from the storefront for $25 to $50 online. Because nothing says “I understand and appreciate the complex intellectual and emotional elements of The Sopranos” like a piece of its set on your mantle. CONTINUED »
Former Vice President Al Gore may not be in the running for the upcoming presidential elections, but his star has never been brighter.
First, he won us over on SNL, by giving an uncomfortably prescient glimpse into a world where peace reigns, global warming has long ceased to exist, cars run on trash (rather than oil or gas) and yes, Al Gore is president.
Next, he shot to stardom with An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary that delivered a powerful environmentalist message and revamped Gore's image by showing him to be bosom buddies with actor/Prius owner Leo DiCaprio.
And today we learn about Gore's most impressive accomplishment to date, namely his ability to procure an advance copy of the embargoed Sopranos finale.
• Sopranos stalkers have been incessantly calling Holsten's ice cream parlor (in Bloomfield, NJ) to reserve the booth where Tony may or may not have gotten shot.
• The health commissioner attribute a recent drop in cigarette sales to those creepy anti-smoking ads featuring Stephen Hawking. However, we're convinced the whole "$8 a pack" thing may have something to do with it.
• A grouchy wet blanket takes a Long Island couple to court over an out of control game of Marco Polo.
• Rudy Giuliani kinda, maybe starting to regret helping Bloomberg get elected mayor.
• Lenox Hill Hospital attempts to upgrade their status from "junk" to "tolerable, but pretty fuckin' crappy."
OMG you guys! The Post and Daily News, like, totally copied each other this morning! For the first time in history!
Two days after David Chase stunned the nation by ending The Sopranos in boring, everybody's still alive fashion, he's finally ready to talk about it.
"I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there," Chase says of the final scene. "No one was trying to be audacious … We did what we thought we had to do. No one was trying to blow people's minds, or thinking, 'Wow, this'll [tick] them off.' People get the impression that you're trying to [mess] with them and it's not true. You're trying to entertain them.
And while we're momentarily stuck on the conveniently placed brackets (good thing Chase wasn't trying to "[tick] off" the fans or really [mess] with them!) we're also struck by another thought.
Chase's "apology" for The Sopranos finale is even more disappointing than the finale itself.
Impressive, as it's—by no means—an easy task. Seriously, even Meadow Soprano makes it until the end. Meadow [frickin'] Soprano! Geez, can't this guy get anything right?
Survey says…Fuhgettaboudit.
Americans tuning into last night's series finale of The Sopranos were&bdash;by and large&bdash;disappointed by the lack of closure, bloodshed in the episode's final moments. And while some were intrigued by the open-ended ambiguity characterizing the series' highly anticipated close, the vast majority were predominantly unsatisfied by the anticlimactic denouement.
"Had the writers only tied up a few more loose ends, offered up some shocking character revelations or, you know, thrown in a gratuitously violent massacre, perhaps involving a semi-automatic weapon, it would have really made saying goodbye to Tony that much easier," said one disappointed viewer.
And he/she was not alone.
In “The Sopranos,” characters arrive and take full human shape; children grow into adults—and sometimes, without explanation, like a Russian mobster fleeing through the snowy woods of the Pine Barrens, they inexplicably disappear and frustrate our TV-shaped need for lessons and resolution. It doesn’t matter that we come to “like” Adriana La Cerva. Chase has no use for our sentiment. He kills it off with a .38…Everyone in The Sopranos has grown older (and we along with them). One after another, the made men and crew members disappear from the stage — an accelerated version of what happens naturally. … The end is a mystery, but we know one thing: The Sopranos defied Aristotelian conventions. It is a comedy that ends with a litany of the dead and missing. Whaddya gonna do?
–The New Yorker EIC David Remnick, in "Family Guy," excerpted from the current issue.
• A Sopranos spinoff? Fuhgeddaboudit.
• Conrad Black is accused of lifting cash from a company in Chicago. So how come he's never even heard of Abe Froman?
• Who will replace Paul Steiger as WSJ's managing editor? We smell a reality show!
• 30 Rock continues to be that show you DVR, but never actually watch.
• Is Vicom's $1 billion suit against Google shortsighted? Experts say, "hello! Have you been to the Googleplex?"
• Time Warner could spin off AOL this year, despite what Time Warner spokesman Ed Adler has to say.
• Carol Burnett sues Family Guy for parodying her parody show.
We don't care how desperate Sunday Styles looks to you. There's just no way you're going to see Warren St. John tackle this.
'Sopranos' fashion: Hideous to fabulous [Annie Bratskier, AM New York]
