The character is loosely based on real-life New Jersey mobsters Ruggerio "Richie the Boot" Boiardo, boss of the North Jersey Genovese crime family, and Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo, a former caporegime (capo) and "de facto" boss of the DeCavalcante crime family.
The DeCavalcante crime family is partly the inspiration for the fictional DiMeo crime family of the HBO television series The Sopranos.
Christopher Moltisanti, portrayed by Michael Imperioli, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.
Winter recalled Gandolfini telling him he was "exhausted" by the role. "He lived in the Tony Soprano headspace but James Gandolfini was not Tony Soprano," Winter said. "James was a kind and funny person but Tony got into his head and lived there for nine months. That was exhausting in a lot of different ways."
Jimmy Galante was the head of a waste disposal business in Connecticut and a convicted mobster who once bought a minor league hockey team, the Danbury Trashers, for his son. He is alleged to be one of the inspirations behind Tony Soprano, the main character of HBO's acclaimed mob drama, The Sopranos.
If this setup sounds familiar that's because the Boiardo crime family inspired the HBO TV series “The Sopranos” and its new prequel movie “The Many Saints of Newark,” which drops in theaters and on HBO Max Oct.
Five Families, moniker given to the five major Italian American Mafia families in New York City: Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese. The families and their inner workings were publicly revealed in 1963, when a Mafia soldier testified at a congressional hearing.
Melfi diagnoses him with antisocial personality disorder (APD)—making him someone who, according to the Mayo Clinic, "consistently shows no regard for right and wrong," "ignores the rights and feelings of others," and shows "no guilt or remorse" for his behavior.
Tony has suffered from panic attacks that sometimes cause him to lose consciousness since his childhood. He has his first on-screen panic attack while cooking sausages at his son's birthday party — this occurs in a flashback in the Pilot.
He was first arrested at age 7 for stealing coins from a newsstand. Surely most know him for his role as an always looking sharp gangster that went by the name of Paulie Walnuts in the acclaimed TV series "The Sopranos", but actor Tony Sirico was algo a known figure in the underworld outside of filming sets.
Capicola, also referred to as coppa, capocollo, or even gabagool among New York's Italian-American population, is an Italian cured meat made from pork shoulder and neck. It originated in Piacenza in the north of Italy and in the Calabria region in the south.
Michael Squicciarini
Squicciarini spent many years in and out of prison for several crimes, including five years in prison for aggravated assault. Notably, he was associated with the DeCavalcante Family, which was one of the original inspirations for The Sopranos. Unfortunately, Squicciarini passed away in 2001.
The legendary “five families” still exist, experts said, and still operate in the same realms of organized crime: extortion, loan-sharking, racketeering, gambling.
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We don't just see Tony overeating in the show so that he has something to do in the scene; it's strategically woven throughout the show to demonstrate his constant need for satisfaction. He can't find it emotionally, so he gorges on food to find some joy in his torturous life.
After all, Tony Soprano (a ''sociopath,'' a ''criminal, not a sociopath,'' a ''psychologically complex psychopath'' or a man with ''a vertical split,'' depending on whom you ask) was raised by a rejecting mother and a mobster father. He picks dangerously needy women for his extramarital affairs.
She never reveals to him the information she learned, and Tony walks out of Dr. Melfi's office.
Christopher Moltisanti may be the most loathsome lead character in TV history. Unlike Tony's love of animals or Paulie's humanizing foolishness, Cristopher has zero redeemable features. He is humorless and miserable.
Bobby Baccalieri Sr. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She portrayed an unnamed girl at the swimming pool in one episode of the The Sopranos, although she remained uncredited.
Ercole DiMeo is believed to have been the first Official Boss of the family. Key members from the 1950s include brothers John Francis "Johnny Boy" Soprano and Corrado "Junior" Soprano, as well as Michele "Feech" La Manna and Raymond "Buffalo Ray" Curto.
Carmela Soprano, born Carmela DeAngelis (born November 29, 1960), is the wife of mafia boss Tony Soprano. She is also the mother of Meadow Soprano and Anthony Soprano Jr. Carmela's parents are Hugh and Mary DeAngelis..
Founded in the 1950s by Ercoli DiMeo, the DiMeo crime family is the dominant organized crime outfit in The Sopranos. Despite being constantly targeted by the rival Lupertazzi crime family and the FBI, the DiMeo crime family remains stable for most of the series.