Trivia: Series creator David Chase imposed one specific rule for Dr. Melfi's session scenes: no camera movements.
Trivia: Whenever the mobsters in the Sopranos pay they almost always take a wad of cash out of their pocket and pull off the top 3-4 bills and hand it over. If Tony is paying for a pizza he pulls off 3-4 bills. If he's bribing someone he pulls off 3-4 bills. No matter what the amount is for that particular situation, it's always covered with the top 3-4 bills of the cash wad.
In Camelot - S5-E7
Trivia: About halfway through the show there is a poker game. There is a shot of the dealer dealing out cards, but he's dealing from the bottom of the deck and doing it obviously.
Trivia: James Gandolfini and Aida Turturro, who play siblings Tony and Janice, played father and daughter in the film Romance & Cigarettes. That film was written and directed by her cousin John.
Trivia: This was Steven Van Zandt's first acting job. He was previously a guitarist with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. Interestingly, in the season 5 episode "Long Term Parking," Chris Moltisanti turns up late to a meeting, and comments "the highway was jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive." This line comes from Springsteen's song "Born to Run."
Commendatori - S2-E4
Trivia: When Paulie sits on a bar table in Naples and tries to greet some men by saying "Commendatori," one of the men is played by showrunner and series creator David Chase. (00:32:43)
Answer: The show creators intentionally left it ambiguous as to what happened to Valery.
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