My Evening with The Sopranos
Late yesterday afternoon, I get a unexpected phone call from my friend Marisa, who happens to write for the Daily News inviting me to the world premeire of "The Sopranos" at Radio City Music Hall.
Needless to say I dropped everything and met her there, The crowd wasn't your normal New York crowd, the was definitely an intersprinkling of people who treat going to "The City" like it is some kind of big event worthy of a trip to the hairdressers, the tanning salon, Lord and Taylor's just to try stand out.
After everyone from the show was done patting themselves on the back, we finally got to see the first two episodes. They were very good, no new plot twists, just a continuation from last season and I hope the writer's are trying to tie the series up with a nice pretty bow for everyone.
The afterparty was where the fun began, it was celebrity sightings galore. Outside of the whole cast and I will get to them in a minute, I saw Hilary Swank, who was holding hands with some weasely looking guy, great body seemed very nice spoke to few people and left. There was another Oscar winner in the crowd Chris Cooper, kept to himself made a couple of trips to the food stations. James Lipton, "Mr Actor's Studio" was there, waaay shorter than I thought, I asked him what his favorite curse word was, he told me "Fuck Off". I'm still trying to figure out if he was answering my question or not. Giada DeLaurentis was there. She has a big head. Not ego-wise I mean literally she has a big head, it looks like an olive on a toothpick.
Let's get to the cast, evryone who was ever on the show was there, David Chase said that there had been over 1200 actors on the show since its inception and they were all there to get there last shot at recognition. James Gandolfini, who I heard normally doesn't attend these things cause he doesn't have to, hell HE is Tony Soprano. Made a brief appearance walking through the crowd. Jamie Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler (Meadow and A.J.) were there. A.J. looks exactly like he does on the show. He is trying to channel the inner hispanic in him by having a beard that is trimmed just to the jawline. Robert, your a white boy from the upper east side, remember that.
Adrianna was there, she was prettier than I thought, she was sitting at a table with Aida Turturro and her brother John, who looked just like Joey Knisch. I kept expecting him to come up to me and give me the keys to the bagel truck.
The only cast member I went up to was Jackie Aprile Jr., Jason Cerbone I got his autograph for my sister.
Overall it was a good party, I realized that most television actors have big heads and little bodies (that has to be a prerequisite for being on TV.) and that I will miss The Sopranos when it finally ends it run.
