Soprano's Sighting!!!!

PhilL

PhilL

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Well, he's not exactly a Soprano, but he is a friend of the Family. ;) ;)

I live in Park Slope, Brooklyn and I had to go to my accountant today to pick up some papers. I'm walking down 7th Ave and who do I see, but Artie Bucco. He was talking to two ladies so I didn't want to bother him by asking what was happening with the show.

Here's a blurb from the Sopranos website about Artie.
http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/cast/character/artie_bucco.shtml

My wife tells me that Steve Buscemi, AKA Tony Blundetto (Tony Soprano's cousin) is often seen around the Slope.
 
Not trying to make a joke here, but I heard that he was caught with either coke or heroin while driving through New York city. Hope he's kicked the stuff, but that sounds like a cool sighting.
 
You're talking about Artie and not me I hope.
I told the cop that white powder around my nose was from smelling a Crispy Cream Doughnut. :cool:
 
the Bada Bing is in the next town over on Rte. 17

many's the traffic jam I've sat in going home
 
We recently got HBO on cable so I watched some of the Soprano series for the first time .I know it's popular , even in Italy. I wasn't impressed at all . Maybe others are interested in those types and that lifestyle but having been born and raised in Brooklyn I knew those types .They shouldn't be romanticized they're all low lifes [malavite] .Joe Valachi said in his book that they couldn't have been so successful without the generous help of police and judges.The corruption was institutionalized in the NYPD until the Knapp Commission hearings .Watch the movie "Serpico".The power of the mafia is much reduced , relaced now by other 'mafias' ,Russian, Jamaican, Chinese etc.....PhilL the movie "Moonstruck" of course was filmed in Brooklyn, in and around Union street. That was a real bakery but there was a better bakery further down the street !!
 
mete, Lots of movies filmed in Brooklyn and NYC. I used to live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, 78th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam, and they used to film there all of the time. It was the Goodbye Girl block.

Many of my favorite shows are on HBO, The Sopranos, Deadwood, Rome, OZ. I watch them for entertainment and not as a lifestyle choice. They're are all about the quest for power and mostly not nice people. I know a lot of people that don't like any of these shows. Many of Italian decent that don't like the Sopranos. I'm Itailian, not connected, but I do know characters like those in the show. They are very familiar to me.
 

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I read Joe Bananas autiobiography, and while he romanticized his line of work, and conveniently dismissed his actions as work he needed to do to support himself and his family, he gave a very informative history of the mob in America. In the early days, most of them were not only gangsters. La cosa nostra, at least in their eyes, was much more of a brotherhood, a social club, that stole and killed, but they thought they protected their community also. If that meant busting a few heads to keep their social club going, then so be it. He wrote that a lot of mafia were local businessmen. Butchers, doctors, lawyers etc. The fact that they were upstanding businessmen in their community, and knew how to wheel and deal enable them to get those "judges and congressmen that they held in their pockets like so many nickels and dimes."

He obviously thought what he doing was right, and he made no bones about it. He also thought it was okay to sleep around on his wife, but thats another story. Was there honor among thieves back then? Nah, I don't think so. Was the mafia worse during its heyday in the 70's and 80's, as opposed to when the mafia came to America in the late 19th and early 20th century? Probably, but not by much.

The early days are the days romanticized, especially in movies like Goodfellas and the Godfather.
 
howlin wolf said:
the Bada Bing is in the next town over on Rte. 17

many's the traffic jam I've sat in going home
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The correct name of the joint is Satin Dolls. Bada Bing is only the show name. I had my bachelor party there long before the show came about.
 
PhilL said:
...Many of my favorite shows are on HBO, The Sopranos, Deadwood,...OZ...
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Heck-yah!...Also, that new "Lucky Louie" isn't too shabby, either...I've laughed out-loud quite a few times, watching that new comedy series...That poor bastid...:D.
 
I used to drink in Satin Dolls before NJ made the girls put their tops back on. They still manage to pack the place.

I grew up in Jersey City on the West Side and when I see the characters on the Soprano's they remind me exactly of the folks who had the safest, cleanest neighborhood in town. Also everyone had a "Mother Mary" statue in the front in a little alcove with aluminum siding.
 
PhilL said:
mete, Lots of movies filmed in Brooklyn and NYC. I used to live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, 78th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam, and they used to film there all of the time. It was the Goodbye Girl block.
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Right across the street from Natural History. My post office was 5 blocks north of you.
 
Some of the scenes in the Sopranos were filmed in Dover, NJ.
I grew up in a couple towns on either side of Dover, Denville and Wharton.

The mere opening sequence of the show brings a tear to my eye, I miss North Jersey so much.
 
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