“I’ve been looking for my soul mate all my life. Madonn’ have I looked.” Janice is Tony’s big sister, the eldest child of Livia and Johnny Boy Soprano. Unlike her brother, who’s spent most of his life within a short radius of his birthplace, Janice had a serious case of wanderlust. She hated her home […]

“I’m concerned that treating a mobster provides you some vicarious thrill.” Dr. Elliot Kupferberg is a nice, middle-aged man. He drives a BMW, carries a bottle of water everywhere he goes and has a good relationship with his daughter Saskia, a Columbia University student. He’s also Jennifer Melfi’s therapist, the man who has helped her […]

“You choose this life, it comes with responsibilities…Teddy Roosevelt gave an entire speech once with a bullet lodged in his chest. Some things are a matter of duty.” Corrado Soprano, Jr., AKA Uncle Junior, is the son of Corrado and Mariangela D’Agostino Soprano, Italian immigrants who came over from the town of Ariano in 1911. […]

“I am reminded of Louis the whatever’s finance minister…he built this chateau – Nicole and I saw it when we went to Paris – it even outshone Versailles, where the king lived. In the end, Louis clapped him in irons.” Tony refers to him as “Brainless the Second” and, truth be told, Carmine Lupertazzi, Jr. […]

“Boss or no, you don’t raise your hand to another made guy.” Eugene Pontecorvo was a member of the crew that was headed by Ralph Cifaretto, and was one of the few people who actually seemed to get along with the late capo. He was one of the newer made guys in New Jersey; he […]

“Oh, yeah. Be one of those wives like Carmela Soprano…breast feed a bunch of rugrats, then spend the rest of your life at the gym, just you and your stretch marks.” The future Mrs. Christopher Moltisanti, Adriana La Cerva is a mobster’s dream girl: smart and engaging, with a physique good enough to star at […]

“What’s mine is not yours to give.” Brother of Jackie Aprile and uncle of Jackie Aprile, Jr. and Adriana La Cerva, Richie was completely in and of the world of the New Jersey mob. He was a ruthless and feared racketeer, although at first glance he might not have seemed especially imposing. In a profession […]

“Honey, I’m not Adriana. I’m healthy, our baby’s healthy. Stop worrying and enjoy this time, OK?” Kelli Lombardo Moltisanti wasn’t expecting a lifelong commitment from her new boyfriend Christopher, and when she told him she was pregnant, she also told him “I’ll take care of it.” But the volatile capo surprised her with a proposal, […]