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Jersey Town Whacks Sopranos
Looks like HBO can fugettabout bringing The Sopranos to one suburban New Jersey burg.
The township of Bloomfield has barred the Emmy-winning series from filming an upcoming episode there due to its "negative depictions of Italian-Americans," Mayor Raymond McCarthy told the New York Post.
According to McCarthy, whose wife happens to be Italian, the series was slated to shoot its swan-song episode at a local ice cream parlor. Upon hearing about it, however, the mayor spearheaded a successful effort to whack the plans.
Both HBO and the owners of the Holsten's Brookdale Confectionery are hoping to overturn the decision.
Chris Carley, co-owner of the ice cream shop told the Post he had been thrilled to be part of the show, both financially and for posterity sake.
"If it's good for the area and businesses, your personal opinions shouldn't be mixed in," he said.
HBO originally got a green light from Bloomfield's city council last week, according to the Post. But McCarthy and various Italian-American organizations weighed in after hearing about it and the decision was quickly reversed.
Essex County executive Joseph DiVincenzo (yet another Italian) has now stepped in and is bringing the matter back to the table for a final vote next Monday. He's gunning for a go-ahead.
"The Sopranos will hopefully have their last episode here," DiVincenzo told the Post. "Hey, I'm an Italian-American and to me it's about the arts, it's about TV."
For the past five years, the show has come under fire from Italian-American groups, including the Columbus Citizens Foundation and the Coalition of Italo-American Associations, for perpetuating stereotypes. Those groups successfully went to court to bar cast members from marching in New York's Columbus Day Parade in 2002. Earlier that year, the Chicago-based American Italian Defense Association filed a largely symbolic lawsuit claiming the show insults the "dignity" of Italian-Americans by depicting them as mobsters; the suit was eventually tossed.
In other Sopranos news, the latest issue of Vanity Fair pays homage to Tony and his goombahs in a photo spread shot by Annie Leibovitz.
The cover features a serious-looking James Gandolfini with a semi-nude model on his lap. The inside pages bring back several popular characters offed during the show's run, including Drea de Matteo's Adriana, Vincent Pastore's Big Pussy and Joe Pantoliano's Ralphie.
The Sopranos' final nine-episode run begins Apr. 8 on HBO.
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