I think they are in New Jersey too. Paul and I went to a place not far from where he lives. The only thing I remember is him taking his pizza back and arguing with the guy because he couldn't fold his pizza.

I don't think this link has been posted yet. Here's some actors speaking about the ending after the showing. It's nice to know some people still wonder what happened to the Russian.

Boy, Patsy Parisi looks different in real life.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0iPbrqBrwJQ&mode=related&search=

You're right. He really does. I've had the honor of participating in an annual fundraiser dinner for the last 5 years to raise money for the Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation. And every year that I've been there, Dan Grimaldi has ALWAYS shown up to help raise money for the foundation. I can tell you first hand that from what I've seen over the years, he is a gentleman. He is a very generous and caring man especially when it comes to doing charity work.

Oh, for sure. I was especially impressed with his being "conscionable" when he suffocated his helpless nephew and when he gave the okay to Ralphie to murder his daughter's boyfriend. But he's not like Ralphie.

I just read a fully synopsis of the last episode someone had on the internet. Reading where Tony tells Paulie "Gigi died taking a shit" cracks me up for some reason.

OMG! This is too funny. I wonder if his wife likes zucchinis.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iDdtMVfwpdo

well, if you want to stay consistent and call the mafia 'a business' then isnt what tony did consistent with the 'it was only business and not personal' mantra. christopher was about to flip from what tony could see, and jackie jr. had to go because he had shot one of tony's guys, and if tony hadnt ok'd the hit on jackie jr.....then tony woulda likely faced some sort of revolt or possibly being hit himself. it was business not personal.

Richie Aprile would not have made a good mafia boss, he would have gotten himself locked up pretty quickly with his temper/lack of intellect.

Tony was a good mafia boss in today's world and has tried to go underground as you said more and more. There have been a few exceptions (CoCo), but otherwise he has done well at staying low profile and keeping himself out of jail. You notice how long this friggin RICO case has been building against Tony with nothing yet?

I don't know - he pretty much looked like Patsy to me when I got my pic taken with him (and the rest)... but, of course, I was paying pretty much all my attention to Mr. Paulie at the time, so... I didn't even tell Benny how much I loved him on Doogie Howser!

I'm pretty sure that Tony did NOT ok the hit on Jackie Jr. Chrissy wanted to kill him the very night of the card game fiasco but Tony wouldn't let it happen. He gave Ralphie the "choice," but was hoping the boy would be spared. Tony told Ralphie...you're a captain, he's in your household, I know you'll do the right thing. Tony didn't have the GUTS to do it but ol' Ralphie had no problem with it.

As for Tony's strangling of Chris, I think it's safe to say that we are just now beginning to scratch the surface concerning Tony's logic on that one.

That's f**ked up!

Well what he really did was pass the burden over to Ralphie. He did that to remove any self guilt that he would have incurred had he directly ordered the hit on Jackie Jr. I don't know that he was hoping that the kid would be spared. From what I remember from that episode, he basically told Ralphie, without telling Ralphie, that because he was a captain then he would have to act like one and be responsible for what took place. A part of me feels that Tony was telling Ralphie that if he didn't make the right decision himself, then Tony would hold him personally responsible for what took place. He really did not give Ralphie a choice although he made it appear as if he did.

In other words he justified it within himself, cleared his own conscience, by passing this burden on to Ralphie. Now if something now happened to Jackie, he wouldn't have to feel guilty about it because he himself was no longer responsible.

Tony had a smooth way of ridding himself from making those kinds of decisions and putting the burden and responsibility on others. It all had to do with his inner psychological battle. Let's not forget that the whole premise of this show was to show us a mob boss who had somewhat of a subconscience and needed to deal with his inner battles through therapy.

DC, correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt Chris come to Tony after Jackie Jr was killed and said it was a "good move" making it look like a drug deal and make it seem like they had nothing to do with it? So, if it was all Ralphie, why did Chris commend Tony? At the least, I think Tony OKed it, which made him just as involved as Ralph.


Also, Richie Aprile would NOT have made a good boss. He would have ridiculed his own crew too often and cause a revolt.

I think Tony ordered the hit without really saying the words. As DC said, to let himself off the hook psychologically. If Ralphie gave Jackie a pass, Tony would have given him shit about it. You can bet on that.

Richie? God, what a scumbag! I forgot just how hateable he was. David Proval, who is one of the sweetest guys you'll ever meet, did an outstanding job with the character.

I think Richie lacked any diplomacy whatsoever, which would have made him a lousy boss. He was an animal, an essential characteristic for a street guy, but not really cut out for more than that.

Yes, Proval did a magnificent job palying Richie. He made you love to despise him.

I think that the Richie Aprile character came out of jail a bitter man. And he became even more bitter when he realized that no one in the Soprano Family, especially the younger wiseguys, was about to do flips and cartwheels for him upon his coming back on the scene. What he probably envisioned while awaiting his release from jail about how things would be turned out totally different for him. And that's what probably made him the bitter son of a bitch that he was.

Phil's attitude was in a way, almost identical to Richie's in the sense that he felt that he did his time on behalf of that thing of theirs and kept his mouth shut. And then upon his release saw that the younger guys, the newer generation of wiseguys were not of the same mindset as the older wiseguys when it came to giving tribute and respect to a fellow mobster who served time in the joint. They both saw that the younger wiseguys really didn't give a shit that the older founders had done their time.

Tony made it very clear that if Ralphie did not kill Jackie Jr. that Ralphie would be responsible and lose any respect he had from anyone and possibly get whacked himself. As DC said he was taking the psychological burden off of himself and putting it on someone else.

All you ever needed to know about The Sopranos.

A 7 minute clip of the first 6A seasons. Think of all the money you'll save on the DVD's.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tz_Ees_-kE4

Gandolfini says he has no idea how show ended.

Sopranos' Star: `No Idea' About Ending
By Associated Press

Fri Jun 15, 5:12 AM

NEW YORK - Viewers weren't the only ones who didn't know what to make of the boldly ambiguous ending of "The Sopranos". Some of the stars didn't either.

James Gandolfini told the Daily News in Friday's edition that he had "no idea" what to think was to happen to his character, the emotionally tortured mob boss and suburban dad Tony Soprano, after the hit series' final episode closed Sunday with an abrupt cut to a blank screen.

"You have to ask ("The Sopranos" creator) David Chase that. Smarter minds than mine know the answer to that," Gandolfini said. "I thought it was a great ending. You decide."

The screen went black and silent as Gandolfini's character and his family sat down to dinner, leaving fans guessing and some complaining about the ending's meaning or lack thereof.

Some have suggested that the movements of a man in the background portended a "Godfather"-style shooting. Others surmised that the show, which delved deeply into the domestic life of its mobster protagonist, was simply ending on an everyday note. Chase has declined to explain.

Several of Gandolfini's cast mates echoed his praise for the show's open-ended conclusion.

"A conventional ending would have been a fraud," Steven Van Zandt, who played Silvio, told the Daily News.

"Life doesn't have tidy little endings," said Van Zandt, a member of rocker Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. "Even some great songs just fade out like the last episode of 'The Sopranos.'"

So Gandolfini wasn't in Peoria when he gave this interview, huh?

So...Tony is not the lousy, cold-hearted, killing, bastard that Ralphie is. Tony wouldn't kill his best friend's son but Ralphie had NO problems doing it. The fact that Jackie was Ralphie's "step-son" of sorts, did not deter him from doing him in. Nor did the fact that Jackie resided under his very roof.

Chase makes it quite clear that Tony and Ralphie differ in their views on life/death. Ralphie maliciously kills an innocent horse - to the absolute DISMAY of Tony - and Tony kills him for his crime. He punishes Ralphie for his "un-holy" views towards life/death. Tony does NOT equal Ralphie.

Not when it comes to animals!

I was looking at a clip that showed all the deaths on The Sopranos starting with the first one. They actually had the Russian in the woods listed as one that died. How interesting.

Somehow this footage of the last minute of The Sopranos slipped by David Chase's spies.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gfWP_ZMZ5PU&mode=related&search=

That's fake.

I'm pretty sure the last few seconds were dubbed in. But before that it's all original footage. Chase had all other videos taken off the net that had any of that on it.

I finaly got to see the finale last night. Can someone tell me why AJ's SUV blew up?

He parked it over leaves.

Because he was parked in New Brunswick and couldn't get a signal on his cell phone.

Smart ass

Moi?