The Sopranos final episodes (SPOILERS!!!)

[Cindy's Mom]

I worked with a guy for several years who's mom worked at a place Sam Giancana owned on the side for a while, The Villa Venice it was called. Talk about a mob owned operation and it's like it was right of an episode of the Sopranos. You probably heard about since you grew up around that area. I got to hear her stories of the place and the big names who performed there, she got to meet. The Rat pack even recorded a live album there and I have a copy of it. It was to pay off a debt owed to Giacana and Sinatra of course didn't get paid for his appearances, but was smart enough to record a live album so he got paid in the end. Here is a really interesting site below, which I frequent all the time. It has some great stories about all of them and all the old mob hangouts. Check it out.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/frank_sinatra/5.html

My father used to hang there and saw Sinatra a few times there. BTW it is pronounced Villa Va niece.

 

[Cass]

Sopranos article fron CNN today

Interesting (and sad) boo hoo, I will miss Sopranos so much!

 

[madge]

Either that or they're doing a prequel as opposed to a sequel.

I keep hearing the only movie for The Sopranos will be a prequel... there won't be enough people alive to do a follow-up.

To me, that's a good thing - I LOVE Sil and couldn't imagine a movie without him! I don't know if I'd even go see it, LOL.

 

[charlie,nj]

I don’t know if this site was ever mentioned it is pretty good.

Click on the Family Tree :

It's all so hard to keep track of. Check out an interactive graphic of the family tree, the whackings and more and get it straight.


http://www.nj.com/sopranos/

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I still say Uncle Junior is behind everything…..he is “crazy as a fox” just like this guy was…..


Genovese Boss Gigante; Corrupt, But Was He Crazy?

The media dubbed him “the Oddfather.” But whether or not Vincent “the Chin” Gigante’s decades-long bizarre public behavior was a ploy to avoid a criminal conviction was less important than the fact that as Genovese crime family boss, he controlled a criminal empire that included key locals of the Longshoremen and Iron Workers unions, among others.

Vowing never to go back to prison again, he concocted a scheme, allegedly with the help of his wife and mother, to thwart the law: He would play nuts. Beginning in the mid 60s, he would walk around the streets of Lower Manhattan in his pajamas, bathrobe and slippers, loudly muttering incoherent thoughts. Invariably, he’d be accompanied by one or two bodyguards. It was an act – so a lot of people said – but it paid off. In 1970, on trial for bribing the entire police force of Old Tappan, N.J., he and his lawyers produced several psychiatrists who testified in court that he was certifiably insane. He beat the rap. Gigante would continue to play the crazy card, all the while moving up in the world.




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[Blondie]

Charlie, thanks for that link, I'm going to read it right now, yours too Cass!

I think we've seen the last of Uncle Junior, whether is playing dementia or not, he's gone.

 

[madge]

Charlie, thanks for that link, I'm going to read it right now, yours too Cass!

I think we've seen the last of Uncle Junior, whether is playing dementia or not, he's gone.

according to the Deadwood site, Tony goes to visit Uncle Junior in the last episode- there's a picture to back it up, FWIW.

 

[Blondie]

Maybe Tony goes and helps transfer him to another facility. In the last episode Janice told T that his money ran out and they were moving him to a state facility. Then again, maybe T went to visit him to tell him he didn't give a fig or.......

In the CNN article posted above it stated that Gandolfini was glad to say good-bye to Tony Soprano (in so many words.) Thing is, no matter what role he takes on now, he'll always be Anthony Soprano to me. It'll be hard to shake that image for me, and I bet a lot others feel that way as well.

 

[charlie,nj]

“art imitating life” or ‘life imitating art” check out these two stories from this week www.1010wins.com a NYC area news radio station…the Soprano’s will never end around here….

Posted: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 7:19PM

Reputed Mobster Injured in Suspected Mob Shooting in Brooklyn


NEW YORK (AP) -- A reputed mobster was shot four times Tuesday in what authorities said was a suspected gangland hit outside a Brooklyn social club run by his father, a notorious captain in the Gambino crime family.

Robert DeCicco, 56, was shot once in the head, twice in the arm, and once in the upper body at about 10:30 a.m. as he sat in his car near the club, two law enforcement officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

"It's not a confirmed mob hit but it sure has the look of it,'' a federal official said, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the shooting.

Police said a light-colored Lincoln sped away from the location immediately after the shooting. No one has been arrested.

DeCicco, who lives on Staten Island, was treated at Lutheran Medical Center. His condition was not immediately known.

Authorities said the possible hit took place outside a club owned by DeCicco's father, George DeCicco, in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn.

Both the father and son were indicted in January along with 11 other alleged mobsters in Brooklyn on federal racketeering charges. The conspirators included nine members of the Luchese and Gambino families, and two associates of the Sicilian mafia.

The indictment includes allegations that the mobsters carried out a series of corrupt acts, including conspiring to smuggle gold bars worth millions of dollars from the Philippines into the United States.

In a recorded conversation about a cooperating witness' loansharking debt to George DeCicco, the longtime Gambino captain allegedly said, "I'll burn your eyes, did you ever screw me? Do you want me to burn your eyes out?''

"George DiCicco has operated continuously for so long that his arrest today is like the end of Cal Ripken's consecutive-game streak,'' New York FBI chief Mark Mershon said at the time of the indictment in January. "The difference is that Ripken's streak ended when he voluntarily took himself out of the lineup.''

The son is believed to be an associate -- and not a made man -- and the 78-year-old father a captain in the Gambino crime family, according to the indictment.

Bobby DeCicco's cousin, Frank DeCicco, was blown up outside a Bensonhurst social club on April 13, 1986, on orders from Genovese family head Vincent "The Chin'' Gigante. Gigante was infuriated over the unsanctioned mob hit four months earlier against Gambino head "Big Paul'' Castellano, a midtown Manhattan slaying orchestrated by John Gotti.

Gotti took over as Gambino boss after the slaying, with DeCicco becoming his underboss. The car bomb that killed DeCicco was intended for Gotti, who survived only though a change of plans that led him away from the Veterans & Friends Social Club that Sunday morning.

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Posted: Thursday, 07 June 2007 11:34PM

Suspected Mob Liaison Killed in Brooklyn Home


NEW YORK -- A man suspected of being connected to the Genovese organized crime family was found shot to death on Thursday in an apartment where someone had kicked in the door, police said.

Officers discovered the body of Rudolph Izzi, 70, at about 2:30 p.m. on a bed inside his Brooklyn apartment. He had been shot in the head.

Izzi was the victim of a pistol-whipping by an unidentified man in his home in 2001, when news reports identified him as a reputed Genovese soldier.

Police said there was no immediate evidence that the slaying was connected to the shooting on Tuesday of another reputed mobster outside a social club run by his father in the same Brooklyn neighborhood.

In that case, Robert DeCicco, son of a notorious captain in the Gambino crime family, was shot four times as he sat in his car near the club, officials said. There were no arrests.



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[beattyfamily]

It's going to be tough to think of James Gandolfini as anyone but Tony Soprano.

He was in All the King's Men last year and it was just not right seeing him play I think an Irish man (Tim Duffy). It was weird.

Even before The Sopranos he played bad mafia guys a few times (the Mexican, for example). That I can see.

Poor James.

Anyway, based on the article posted above, it doesn't sound like James would be interested in making a movie on the Sopranos. He seems to have completely moved on.

 

[RUDisney]

Anyway, based on the article posted above, it doesn't sound like Jame would be interested in making a movie on the Sopranos. He seems to have completely moved on.

And yet everyone has a price. He said in the article that he used to like Tony. Maybe he'd like to play him as a younger man with less demons.

But, how are they going to make all of these middle-aged men look like they're in their 20s?

 

[Cass]

This time tomorrow it will all be over... I am soooo soooo sad Sopranos is ending

 

[DISUNC]

Everybody excited about Tommorrow night!

I am sticking with my earlier premise (some where on this thread) that AJ will finish his Grandmothers job, and Whack Tony!

I am watching it at my Friends house. He is supplying the Ghianti, and me the Pizza! We are Cheap Soprano wannabes!

 

[Blondie]

Has it been a long week or what?

I want to see tonight's episode, yet I don't because I know it's the end.

But, how are they going to make all of these middle-aged men look like they're in their 20s?

That's what I was wondering.

 

[poohbear919]

Wow, just a little bit longer until it's all over... Hmmmmm, it's feeling a little bitter-sweet now that it's so near! (I guess I'll just have to move on to thinking about Harry Potter stuff once tonight's done... Oh right, that's coming to an end too though... Jeez, can't a poor girl win!?!?)

But, how are they going to make all of these middle-aged men look like they're in their 20s?

I too just mentioned this in a discussion with my parents the other day... Not only the men, what would they do about Meadow and AJ? Lots of things to work out before a Sopranos movie occurs I fear!

 

[sunee]

I think Paulie will betray the other two.

 

[beattyfamily]

Four more hours!

I'm excited yet sad at the same time.

I'm really doubting they'll do a movie but one can hope. Fingers crossed.

 

[Blondie]

All week long I couldn't wait for Sunday to get here, now I'm dreading it! I don't want it to end!

 

[DISUNC]

Wow, just a little bit longer until it's all over... Hmmmmm, it's feeling a little bitter-sweet now that it's so near! (I guess I'll just have to move on to thinking about Harry Potter stuff once tonight's done... Oh right, that's coming to an end too though... Jeez, can't a poor girl win!?!?)

I too just mentioned this in a discussion with my parents the other day... Not only the men, what would they do about Meadow and AJ? Lots of things to work out before a Sopranos movie occurs I fear!

BUT WDW GOES ON!

 

[Blondie]

BUT WDW GOES ON!

Yeah, but it'll be minus Tony Soprano (and crew!)

We'll always have re-runs I guess.

 

[beattyfamily]

2 minutes and counting! I wish my DH loved the show like I do. I have no one to talk to about it buy you guys. I can't wait!

This is how I'm feeling: and