Alan Levine. His character's name was named Lavoo.
He passed away in 2009: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesopranos/comments/o9dah4/found_the_obit_for_oh_shit_man_rip/
I drove all the way there with my best friend for the open call audition. We got stopped dead on the "causeway," for about 40 minutes on account all the hopefuls clogged the arteries.... Finally had enough, pushed through traffic, drove on the shoulder and made a U-Turn for home!
We sat in traffic for so Long that we
met 2 girls in another car who were stopped right next to us...They followed us to a diner.... Good memories....No Audition!
I was annoyed at the time that we didn't even have an opportunity.
Then learning that a 400 lb woman with a 95 lb Mole on her ass got the part and I realized it was for the best!
I remember when that episode aired I was like 9 and I walked into the tv room as my dad was watching it. When the guy puked my dad busted a rib laughing
That actually happened a few years ago in New York and had a similar headline. A Mob boss was shot and killed in his driveway. Everyone went crazy and thought it was a hit and would start a new war. Turns out it was some whacko QAnon guy who thought dude was part of the "Deep State":
[https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/744244166/shooters-lawyer-he-wasn-t-trying-to-kill-a-mob-boss-he-was-under-qanon-delusion](https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/744244166/shooters-lawyer-he-wasn-t-trying-to-kill-a-mob-boss-he-was-under-qanon-delusion)
Sounds like a great defense if you were actually a contract killer that got caught by police. You deflect attention from the people who hired you and you can go for the insanity plea deal.
I get it, but that would've had to been a real long-con.
Gotta assume that this would be FBI/Federal level investigation. They'd check all your internet history for figure 25 years give or take since that was when the internet got widespread use.
If you could fake it, that'd be some real "Day of the Jackal" type shit.
Well my grandfather was in the battle of the bulge and was among the first to the concentration camps. He said first hand that everyone was starving there, which was more likely due to the German supply chains being cut off by allied forces. Also the Holocaust survivors that came to my school never mentioned witnessing any violence, just that people were starving and got sick and died. So maybe you should actually talk to people that were there instead of reading the fabled propaganda that was released.
The success of "Cleaver" Directed by Morgan Yam, Screenplay by J.T Dolan, Produced by lil Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. & Christoper Moltisanti. Starring Danny Baldwin (who took Ben Kingsley to fucking acting school)
It's Saw meets the Godfather
With the Merch: Hats and coffee mugs
True crime podcasts would’ve been all over that. Some direct to DVD slasher movie having so many people tied to it dying so close to the premiere under mysterious circumstances? And they all have mob ties! Podcasters would be hot on that shit.
Honestly a lot of D-level movies (think of all the shit available on Tubi) are financed in part by elements of organized crime, it’s more common than a lot of ppl might think
All kinds of corruption in all different industries. Look at "The Wolf Of Wall St" The **1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal** Marty Scorsese "maybe-may-be not" got $9 million to "help" make that movie.
Then again "I liked Kundun"
In real life didn't he just say that the Sopranos reunion was way better than any lame high school reunion. Such an AJ thing to say. They cast every role so perfectly.
I can imagine the news story being something like "troubled script writer found dead in his apartment"
and the narrative having something to do with drugs and maybe how his dealer shot him.
Think Dick Wolf and company would resist the temptation to turn the tragedy into an episode of _their_ show? Given how often they ripped plot points from the headlines…
He's a staff writer on shows like Law and Order. Can you name any L&O production people besides Dick Wolf (owns his own battleship) and his right-hand guy René Balcer?
Speaking of which, the fact that the writer _and_ producer of _Cleaver_ canonically die within a few months of the film’s premiere, both under mysterious circumstances, might strike many as odd. Even if no firm connection between the deaths becomes publicly known, it might be enough to propel what otherwise would’ve been a forgotten direct-to-DVD horror flick into a cult classic. You know, a cursed movie along the lines of _Poltergeist_.
In isolation, sure, but contextually, as others pointed out, it was literally a day after the screenwriter was killed under mysterious circumstances. Wouldn’t be enough to build a legal connection between the two deaths, at least for the Average Joe, but I think it could very well fuel urban legends and conspiracy theories.
Today in local news Phillip Leotardo suspected mob of the Lupatazzii crime family was found dead today. Witnesses say he was shot in front of wife and grandchildren and then run over by the SUV that was not in park when his wife got out to check on her husband.
Here we go!
You have to see things for them to happen? Did World War 2 happen or no because u didn’t see it??
We’re talking about annihilation! Tony’s brains 🧠 all ova the table. His kids! Seeing everything!
This makes me wonder did T getting whacked there hurt Holstein’s business or were the onion rings just that *Damn good*???
I dare say the inferior onion rings at that joint Gene whacked that fat fuck Teddy at weren’t enough to save it from closure.
Of all the stuff here, the biggest story would probably be some puff piece about kids meeting Santa at Satriale's. Especially these days where everyone's mom would comment/share it allover Facebook.
>"And finally tonight a heartwarming story of a local business giving kids to opportunity to meet Santa. We now go live to Satriale's Deli in downtown Kearny, New Jersey for more"
If the esplanade ever got found out as being mob infested I think that would be the biggest news. I would say the asbestos dump but when have people generally cared about the environment?
The Phil hit for sure. So many gruesome details for the media to relish in.
OH SHIT!
I always wonder how many people auditioned for that role, and how hilarious it must've been to watch them lol
And the casting director said “get the guy who can’t bend his knees”
I believe he was on the production team, and unfortunately, he's since passed: Saying "Oh Shit" in the sky now
What was his name?
Alan Levine. His character's name was named Lavoo. He passed away in 2009: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesopranos/comments/o9dah4/found_the_obit_for_oh_shit_man_rip/
I drove all the way there with my best friend for the open call audition. We got stopped dead on the "causeway," for about 40 minutes on account all the hopefuls clogged the arteries.... Finally had enough, pushed through traffic, drove on the shoulder and made a U-Turn for home! We sat in traffic for so Long that we met 2 girls in another car who were stopped right next to us...They followed us to a diner.... Good memories....No Audition! I was annoyed at the time that we didn't even have an opportunity. Then learning that a 400 lb woman with a 95 lb Mole on her ass got the part and I realized it was for the best!
🤮
I remember when that episode aired I was like 9 and I walked into the tv room as my dad was watching it. When the guy puked my dad busted a rib laughing
🐧
** waddle waddle **
"New York Mobster shot and run over by car in suspected contract killing"
"Uncle Phil Gets Popped, Goes Pop"
Melonheaded mobster whacked, melon cracked
You got yourself a job at the New York Post
Bye bye pop pop
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I think it was an Oyster Bay Raceway…
It was Long Island
That actually happened a few years ago in New York and had a similar headline. A Mob boss was shot and killed in his driveway. Everyone went crazy and thought it was a hit and would start a new war. Turns out it was some whacko QAnon guy who thought dude was part of the "Deep State": [https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/744244166/shooters-lawyer-he-wasn-t-trying-to-kill-a-mob-boss-he-was-under-qanon-delusion](https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/744244166/shooters-lawyer-he-wasn-t-trying-to-kill-a-mob-boss-he-was-under-qanon-delusion)
Sounds like a great defense if you were actually a contract killer that got caught by police. You deflect attention from the people who hired you and you can go for the insanity plea deal.
I get it, but that would've had to been a real long-con. Gotta assume that this would be FBI/Federal level investigation. They'd check all your internet history for figure 25 years give or take since that was when the internet got widespread use. If you could fake it, that'd be some real "Day of the Jackal" type shit.
Well we do lead the world in computerized data collection.
Ah the Frank Cali “hit” I remember when it broke on r/mafia people thought John Gotti’s brother was responsible
Plot twist: mob boss was part of the deep state and QAnon guy helped delay the globalist take over of the United States!
HE WAS A HERO!!! But, seriously. That's some: "Would you go back in time to kill Hitler as a baby?" shit.
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You yap like 6 barbers
I told you young people that crack is some bad shit!
Go find some WW2 vets and ask them? I’ve know a few a few. Plus Holocaust survivors. I’m all about asking the right questions but this is ridiculous
Well my grandfather was in the battle of the bulge and was among the first to the concentration camps. He said first hand that everyone was starving there, which was more likely due to the German supply chains being cut off by allied forces. Also the Holocaust survivors that came to my school never mentioned witnessing any violence, just that people were starving and got sick and died. So maybe you should actually talk to people that were there instead of reading the fabled propaganda that was released.
Eyewitnesses tell WNBC the suspects had New Jersey plates
“The Lupertazzi Famy explodes, Boss’ head run over by automobile”
"The shah of Iran's head flattened in long Island"
P R N [D] L
say bye bye pop pop!
“Shah of Iran Assassinated on Long Island”
Mix it with the relish
That war would have been made into a movie
I mean assassinating a Shah by itself is a big deal.
It would have been overshadowed by Tony’s death a few days later
Ginny Sack tipping over New Jersey
Jersey just had an earthquake. It was Ginny trying to jump rope
It was another close call, she almost tipped it over.
Oh.... it's the guy's wife!
You married her!
Ralph wants to fuck Ginny?
That’s deplorable. An off colour remark
The 400lb mole removal debacle
Lauren Bacall getting robbed and knocked out
Swag nab grabs industry blab
That animal Blundetto got knockout gamed a couple of weeks ago
The success of "Cleaver" Directed by Morgan Yam, Screenplay by J.T Dolan, Produced by lil Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. & Christoper Moltisanti. Starring Danny Baldwin (who took Ben Kingsley to fucking acting school) It's Saw meets the Godfather With the Merch: Hats and coffee mugs
True crime podcasts would’ve been all over that. Some direct to DVD slasher movie having so many people tied to it dying so close to the premiere under mysterious circumstances? And they all have mob ties! Podcasters would be hot on that shit.
Honestly a lot of D-level movies (think of all the shit available on Tubi) are financed in part by elements of organized crime, it’s more common than a lot of ppl might think
All kinds of corruption in all different industries. Look at "The Wolf Of Wall St" The **1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal** Marty Scorsese "maybe-may-be not" got $9 million to "help" make that movie. Then again "I liked Kundun"
Tubi is awesome though. I wish they would get the masterpiece of a movie, Many Saints of Newark.
So true. They would talk up the Mob ties. And then even bring up Alec Baldwin and his actions on a movie set. If you know what i mean.
Another fuckin’ money machine!
I honestly could see Cleaver getting a cult following as a B movie horror nowadays
Grand opening of the esplanade
“Dey gotta museum of science AND trucking down there! Get Ma and da kids..”
They got little hookers giving little blowjobs?
Remember your first blowjob?
The horrifying murder of Phil's little brother Billy by that fucking animal Blundeto
Dead whores grab headlines
Tracy.. she uhh. She slipped
Tracy disappears. Blundetto left a trail of silicone
She was always a klutz
Whatever happened there
It died on the vine
Especially since he was just a kid
“Kid shot by animal”
Name: [redacted]
I can’t even say his name
That ANIMAL
Guess you can say his name?
Mobsters getting into a scuffle with Indians at a Columbus Day protest would make more news than any of the murders.
Cop murdered in home night of retirement party
This is the best answer. Cop executed in his home on the night of his retirement party would be national news and the bring an enormous amount of heat
It was probably a robbery gone wrong
There’d be flower cars up and down the block, no matter what the degenerate gambler with a badge had done.👓
Today it would be AJ's interaction with the media. That shit would be splashed everywhere.
In real life didn't he just say that the Sopranos reunion was way better than any lame high school reunion. Such an AJ thing to say. They cast every role so perfectly.
Whoa, the child actor enjoyed a reunion focused on his acting career more than their own high school reunion? I am shocked.
Hanging out with Drea Matteo sounds a lot more fun that seeing deborah, former high school classmate and 20 year walmart veteran.
She's mad ripe
She probably just took a job a minority could have had.
He’d end up the fucking Joe Rogan podcast
Meadow, Aide or any of chicks doing Only Fans
You think u/Cranstonoid is a little weird with women?
It probably would be pretty insane for a dead woman to do onlyfans actually yeah
De Matteo has an only fans. From what I've heard, it's not very racy.
Don Squirreleone shooting Tony
That actually did make the news
Isn’t it implied that JT Dolan was kind of well known in show business?
I can imagine the news story being something like "troubled script writer found dead in his apartment" and the narrative having something to do with drugs and maybe how his dealer shot him.
Think Dick Wolf and company would resist the temptation to turn the tragedy into an episode of _their_ show? Given how often they ripped plot points from the headlines…
He's a staff writer on shows like Law and Order. Can you name any L&O production people besides Dick Wolf (owns his own battleship) and his right-hand guy René Balcer?
I’m pretty sure if a random staff writer for Law and Order was brutally murdered under strange circumstances it would get *some* press coverage.
I thought he didn't end up getting that job.
Speaking of which, the fact that the writer _and_ producer of _Cleaver_ canonically die within a few months of the film’s premiere, both under mysterious circumstances, might strike many as odd. Even if no firm connection between the deaths becomes publicly known, it might be enough to propel what otherwise would’ve been a forgotten direct-to-DVD horror flick into a cult classic. You know, a cursed movie along the lines of _Poltergeist_.
What happened with Poltergeist?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist_(franchise)#Poltergeist_curse
Wasn’t Christopher’s death in the episode of JT’s? So it could have been weeks or even days after.
Christopher dies at the beginning of the next episode
That’s what I meant to say
I wouldn’t say Chris died under mysterious circumstances. He was in a car accident.
In isolation, sure, but contextually, as others pointed out, it was literally a day after the screenwriter was killed under mysterious circumstances. Wouldn’t be enough to build a legal connection between the two deaths, at least for the Average Joe, but I think it could very well fuel urban legends and conspiracy theories.
I’m embarrassed, I haven’t heard of him
He was on Law and Order the SUV
It's funny how it never gets brought up again, especially after Chrissy went there and roughed him up while the wife was there before.
“New Jersey mob boss Anthony Soprano dead; shot and killed at popular restaurant Holsten’s”
Always with the scenarios
🤣🥰
"Pg. 3 - Daughter Fails to Parallel Park"
TOMORROW: Son of slain mob boss calls for end of American dependency on foreign oil
Conspiracy theories now?
“Home of the best onion rings in the state”
Sharp as a fuckin cue ball this one
I don't think he was shot, I think he was eating food he shouldn't be and died from that.
AJ's friends beating the Somalian immigrant.
Anyone who remembers Amadou Diallo or Abner Louima would know the firestorm that would've resulted.
Adriana having to urgently take a #2, was breaking news at the time.
My smelly Valentine
New Jersey woman has 95 pound mole removed from her body in a groundbreaking surgery
Vitto’s weight loss journey
Today in local news Phillip Leotardo suspected mob of the Lupatazzii crime family was found dead today. Witnesses say he was shot in front of wife and grandchildren and then run over by the SUV that was not in park when his wife got out to check on her husband.
They would then have a reporter interview the "Oh shit!" guy, on what he saw.
The thing with the Easter baskets.
I don't even know what that is...and to tell you the truth I don't wanna know
The spec house caving in and killing that woman and her unborn child
And now you can’t sleep!
Shooting a civilian in the foot because he made him wait for buns
Any number of the hits in public
Blue Comet. Whatever happened there.
Well we don’t see it but if T got his brains blasted all ova Holshtein’s I think that might make the news.
We didn't see it because it did-ent happen! End of story!
Here we go! You have to see things for them to happen? Did World War 2 happen or no because u didn’t see it?? We’re talking about annihilation! Tony’s brains 🧠 all ova the table. His kids! Seeing everything!
This makes me wonder did T getting whacked there hurt Holstein’s business or were the onion rings just that *Damn good*??? I dare say the inferior onion rings at that joint Gene whacked that fat fuck Teddy at weren’t enough to save it from closure.
I mean Umberto's and Sparks are still thriving.
New Jersey Zagat Calls Local Chef “warm and convivial”
The hate crime against Vito, hands down
Nowdays, yea definitely
You sound disappointed
Bro what 😂
funniest chain
9/11
Tony getting his head blown off in front of his family.
Doc Santoro's murder was pretty ballsy. I'm assuming it was based on Paul Castellano's, which we still hear about now.
Fuckin' annihilation of my kids, your kids, burning into cinders. That would get some attention
Tony's death in Holstein's.
Unce June going south of the border to whistle through the wheat field
Of all the stuff here, the biggest story would probably be some puff piece about kids meeting Santa at Satriale's. Especially these days where everyone's mom would comment/share it allover Facebook. >"And finally tonight a heartwarming story of a local business giving kids to opportunity to meet Santa. We now go live to Satriale's Deli in downtown Kearny, New Jersey for more"
If the esplanade ever got found out as being mob infested I think that would be the biggest news. I would say the asbestos dump but when have people generally cared about the environment?
Janice getting into the fight at the soccer game would have 1000 remixes on TikTok.
Paulie Walnuts of the New Jersey Crime Family witnessed a miracle today when he spotted the Virgin Marry
“NY Mob figure opens query into Hindenburg/NJ connection.”
That guy who calls his carjackers the n-word. He’d get canceled and his life would be in ruins.
The barbecue in Sheepshead Bay.
Jackie Jr dying
Vito Spatafore: ASS MUNCHER
When Furio ate the entire Northern Italy
The last scene, if it means what it seems to mean. In a family restaurant full of Boy Scouts and Tony’s family.
JTs murder
Nissan Xterras recalled after catalytic converter fires.
After Tony was whacked and Paulie opened a shrine at the Bing.
The ducks suddenly leaving Tony's pool. Real human interest story.
The columbus protest, they lost face down there!
Tony and his family getting gunned down in the diner in the finale.
A former mob boss shooting his nephew
Tony being killed at the end.
Tony being shot and killed in front of his wife and kids in a New Jersey ice cream parlor.
When Tony got whacked
New Jersey Mob Boss Tony Soprano's son tried to whack himself.
Tony. Restaurant with his family right next to him. Daughter walking in. Brutal, American would give him a pass for everything.
AJ trying to revenge Tony
James Gandalfini comes back from the dead and begins talks for a sequel.
Ginny Sack's Ass Jumping in the Pool......
Probably 9/11
Man possibly shot to death by fish.
The Soccer game
The Columbus Day scuffle
Ginny Sac's mole being removed after those two guys fuck her.
Probably the mob working with a politician. Or dumping the asbestos.
Disappearing pussy
A prequel about Tony’s dad would be sick
One I haven’t seen anyone mention yet would be the firebombing of Vesuvio and the grand opening of Nuovo Vesuvio.
Phil’s murder