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The Sopranos

Tony Sirico as Paulie Walnuts and Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti

Why Did Paulie Pump His Own Gas on The Sopranos?!

A re-watch of a Sopranos episode lays bare a fault in this great show.

Cutting Edge Filmmaking

The independent film “Split Ends” is based on Libby Christensen’s true-life adventures running a hair salon. Maplewood resident Christensen, who had no previous writing experience, was helped on the project by friend and client Gila Zalon of West Orange, known for winning a New Jersey Director’s Choice award for her film, Dream House.

Q & A

For Peter Cocoziello of Oldwick, chairman of the New Jersey Italian American Heritage Foundation.

So “Sue” Me

“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.

Mob Mentality

Those on the right side of the law admire the series’s uncanny accuracy-and wonder how the producers got “inside.”

The Story of “Joey Threads”

Nutley’s Joe Camelia is the man behind the sharp Sopranos duds. And he doesn’t mind giving the needle to the show’s stars.

Literary License

Who’s gonna fall? Who’s gonna flourish? New Jersey Novelists issue their verdicts and reveal their visions of how the finale should unfold.

All Due Respect

My mother was this kind of strange and ornery character,” says David Chase. “I was working as a television writer and producer, but I was always thinking about movie ideas and trying to move into becoming a film writer and director, yet I could never get that break.

For All Seasons: A Profile of Frankie Valli

It’s October, and the leaves in Frankie Valli’s manicured backyard are drifting from the trees, exactly as they do in New Jersey. Except Valli’s home is in a gated community in Calabasas, California.

These Magic Moments

New Jersey didn’t invent sex, but this selection of daring and dubious highlights brings our first sex issue to a climax. Just one question: Was it good for you?

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