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Drea de Matteo Engaged!
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Drea de Matteo never made it to the altar for her Sopranos dream wedding. Here's hoping her real-life nuptials take a more pleasant turn.
The Emmy-winning actress and her baby-daddy beau, Shooter Jennings, are engaged, becoming betrothed during the alt-country star's concert in upstate New York on Thursday.
"Asked drea to marry me on stage tonight. I'm a lucky man. I'll never forget Utica, Ny." Jennings, son of the late legendary country outlaw Waylon Jennings, tweeted shortly after the deed was done. "Hands off motherf---ers she said yes but she's mad."
Mad in the best possible way, we're sure.
De Matteo, 37, and Jennings, 30, have a daughter, Alabama Gypsy Rose, who was born in 2007.
"She is a sorceress and I am her jester," Jennings said of his longtime ladylove in a follow-up Twitter post. "Thanks to all of you for your kind words!! Rock and f---in roll!"
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N.J. Housewives' Caroline: We Are Not the Sopranos!
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The Real Housewives of New Jersey doesn't premiere until Tuesday, but the matriarch of the new bunch, Caroline Manzo, is already a standout.
In a commercial for Bravo's latest installment of its hit franchise, Caroline barks in her thick Joisey accent, "Let me tell you something about my family, we're as thick as thieves. And we protect each other to the end." What follows is pure bridge-and-tunnel: table flipping, fists flying and a barrage of colorful Garden State language.
It's no wonder the show is being likened to a real-life Sopranos.
"Nonsense, nonsense, nonsense," Caroline says when asked about comparisons to HBO's hit mafia series. "We're Italian and geographically we happen to be where the Sopranos were set—brilliant marketing on Bravo's part. We have the same Italian traditions and values because Italians are all about values. But to put us in the same bed as that? On the business side of it? Stop it. That's nonsense."
If she's no Carmela, then who is this Caroline? Read on to find out…
Edie Falco Would Do a Sopranos Flick. Would You?
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Like many fans, Edie Falco is still not completely ready to let go of Carmela and Tony Soprano.
At the Serious Moonlight premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday, the star of Showtime's upcoming Nurse Jackie was asked about the chances of a Sopranos movie.
"From your mouth to David Chase's ears," she said. "I don't actually see it happening, but I've been surprised before."
Chase, the enigmatic show creator, has notoriously said he's not planning a movie for the HBO series, but he'll "never say never."
At the event, Falco also said she'd definitely participate in a film if it ever happened—but more importantly, would you watch?
Sopranos' Big Pussy Settles Domestic Assault Suit
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Big Pussy's big temper is gonna cost him.
Former Sopranos turncoat Vincent Pastore has settled a $5.5. million civil suit filed against him by ex-fiancée Lisa Regina, who claimed the actor assaulted her back in April 2005.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but the deal came several days into the New York trial, and after the 62-year-old took the stand in his own defense.
Despite pleading guilty back in 2005 to attempted assault, Pastore has maintained his innocence and has since claimed he regretted not fighting the charge. He testified last week that he and Regina did get into a loud argument en route to New Jersey, but insisted he never laid a hand on her.
Ex-Sopranos Thug Sent to Slammer
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Just when he thought he was out, they pulled him back in.
Although former Sopranos actor Lillo Brancato Jr. was found not guilty of second-degree murder of an off-duty police officer last month, his legal luck appears to have run dry: He was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his role in the botched burglary that preceded the New York cop's 2005 death.
He could have faced up to 15 years behind bars for his role in the incident.
The Bronx Tale actor was found guilty, along with an accomplice, of breaking into the Bronx home of an acquaintance in a bid to score painkillers. The residence was next door to the residence of 28-year-old NYPD Officer Daniel Enchautegui. Enchautegui went outside to investigate the break-in and wounded both men before being fatally shot.
Brancato's accomplice, Steven Armento, was convicted of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison in November.
Sopranos' Johnny Cakes Dead of Apparent Suicide
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The flapjack slinger who won the heart of The Sopranos' gay mafioso Vito Spatafore is dead.
New York police confirm that the body of actor John Costelloe was found Dec. 18 in his Brooklyn home, an apparent suicide.
The 47-year-old actor was best known as the mustachioed short-order chef Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski, the unrequited object of affection of Joseph Gannascoli's on-the-lam capo Vito during the 2006 season.
Costelloe's credits also included an episode of Law & Order, as well as small roles in such films as Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery, Die Hard 2 and, most recently, the current Oscar-bait release Doubt.
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