Sopranos

The moment when Finn first saw Vito in the truck was such a shock when the episode first aired.

Having just watched these episodes, I'm pretty sure there were a couple of very brief intimations before that concerning Vito's sexuality--shots that were almost subliminal.

supposedly he did his own hair and wouldn't let the professional hair people on the show touch it

tony sirico was one of the most naturally funny people ever
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Funny as all get-out, but I'm really noticing this time just how vicious and awful he can be. Thinking in particular of the beating he gives to the son who inherits his father's business (demanding that he kick $4,000 a month up to him--and something of a shock, coming right after he's brought to tears by something that relates to his mother/aunt revelation), and two or three other times in S5 and S6 where he comes across as the worst guy in the whole crew.

yes definitely. he was a small, vicious, angry man, and he had the highest body count of anyone in the show iirc

And he's also the focus of one of the show's most touching scenes, after he learns he has cancer and silently walks into his mother (aunt's) apartment and asks what she's watching on TV.

Is it wrong of me to think that the actor was closer to his character than most?

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Perhaps mentioned in a different thread, but not in this one (from a footnote in The Sopranos Sessions, referring to the scene where A.J. and his friends vandalize the pool):

"Look closely in the pool scene and you'll spot a young Lady Gaga, then a fifteen-year-old actress billed as Stefani Germanotta."

Pretty common knowledge, I guess, but new to me.

https://www.stereogum.com/2169409/lady-gaga-the-sopranos-cameo-telltale-moozadell/news/

I finished the final episode over the weekend. Also noticed--not until the credits--that Donna Pescow played Patsy's wife in the finale (she was Annette in Saturday Night Fever, who was raped and just treated like dirt by Travolta and his friends). I'm guessing the casting was intentional: I don't think Saturday Night Fever was ever specifically mentioned in the show, but along with Scorsese and Sinatra and all the rest, I'm sure it resided somewhere in the psychological headspace of Tony and the rest.

Loved Tony's peyote trip in Las Vegas.

Went to a rep screening of Saturday Night Fever last night, started reading up on Karen Lynn Gorney. (The more times I see SNF, the more I think she's just as remarkable as Travolta. The scene where he presses her on the guy she was living with and she breaks down crying is beautifully acted.) Such a strange career...After SNF (she'd already been a soap star), she did not make another film until 1991. Nor did she return to TV. Nada. She's acted pretty steadily this century, including one appearance in The Sopranos as Judy that I missed. This supports my idea above that there's a link between the two, as does (never really took notice of it before) the use of "stugots" in SNF.

Hmmmm

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Michael Imperioli by all accounts has great musical taste, but that photo looks like the kind of band Christopher Moltasanti would be busting acoustic guitars over the heads of.

lol

(xpost) If he has a strong enough sense of humour, they'll open with Visiting Day's "Erase Myself."

His Quietus Baker's Dozen is a good read

https://thequietus.com/articles/28701-michael-imperioli-interview-favourite-music-the-sopranos

That Michael Imperioli band photo looks like Disney bought the rights to The Godfather material and this is the poster for the fourth season of the continuing saga on Disney+.

They look like a band that might be lacking in jokes.

They look like an aging rock band who wanted on their new album to go back to the basics.

Hey, I won tickets to see serious Imperioli tomorrow night!

That's great...Walk right up to him and say "I'm with the Vipers"--he'll love it!

say you're Visiting Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlfQsotryaY

lollll

Moltasanti did heroin, while Imperioli did "Heroin." Good rock show! The band really seemed to enjoy playing a packed small club.

there are eight of those up in da club videos and they're all great

so that christopher/bobby bacala book is just a transcript of their podcast? fuck that lol

is the zoller seitz book any good?

I probably posted about it above. Excellent, with a caveat: it's so detailed, it's only worth reading coming right out of a rewatch (what I did), or reading it alongside a rewatch (what I did with his Mad Men book; I read each entry right after watching that episode).

that sounds appealing.

i really wanted to like the imperioli/schirippa book but i'm not sure either of them grasp what an oral history is. most of it is them talking to each other.

An oral history is when I tell the story of when I went over to Paris for a blowjob: your mother was working the bonbon concession at the Eiffel Tower

a swing and a miss

i've heard steve schirippa is extremely annoying on the podcast but maybe that's his 'persona'. or maybe he's just kind of a dumb, annoying guy

The Matt Zoller Seitz was co-written with Alan Sepinwall; the interesting thing is that they took turns as television critic for The Newark Star Ledger, the newspaper Tony's always picking up at the end of his driveway.

A friend and I Zoomcasted on music in The Sopranos--just passing mention of Journey, though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM9Y8AkkIzg

So Drea de Matteo now has an onlyfans, not gonna post the link but it's there if you care to search for it

apparently she needs the money because work has dried up due to her anti-vax stance

shame about Adriana Le Scrounga