“I was channel-surfing on a Sunday night and I flipped past this new show, thinking, I am not going to watch a show about some stupid singers,” says Sue Sadik, owner of a small delivery service in Jersey City. But the following week she recognized the cemetery near her office from seeing it on the HBO series. “I got hooked,” she says. Thus, “Soprano Sue” was born.
Sadik became the Kenny Kramer of the waste-management set. She got the skinny on filming schedules, made nice with the cast and crew, and became location consultant and tour guide. Sadik doesn’t run tours anymore, but she posts daily blogs (nj.com/weblogs/sopranos).
Sadik also designs and maintains personal websites for cast members, such as Vince Curatola and Vincent Pastore. She even worked last season as an extra. “When Paulie gets a call during the street festival,” says Sadik, “I am at the T-shirt stand. You can see me in my red jacket.” Sadik says she regrets nothing about her obsessive journey. “Maybe I can get a couple of them to come to my office and call some of my deadbeat clients.”
—David Chmiel