Directed by: Jack Bender Written by: Terence Winter Forget the Feds. Never mind marital problems, Meadow’s meltdowns and Junior’s RICO trial. Right now, the biggest problem facing Tony is . . . Ginny Sack’s rear end. Not literally, but Ralph’s now–nfamous remark about Ginny’s weight* has created a situation that could have the direst of […]
Rosalie Aprile
“She (Hillary Clinton) stood by him and put up with the bullshit and in the end, what did she do? She set up her own little thing.” The quintessential mob woman, Rosalie Aprile is smoky-voiced and tough talking, and always immaculately dressed, coiffed and manicured. She grew up around “the life” and, like most females […]
Charmaine Bucco
“All these years I sat here and kept my mouth shut. And I didn’t want you boys here and look what happened, look what you’ve done to my husband.” Charmaine Bucco is Artie Bucco’s wife. No longer able to tolerate her husband’s relationship with Tony Soprano, Charmaine once left Artie, telling him, “and you’re not […]
Ralph Cifaretto
“All this over some whore?” If the mafia gave out a Mr. Congeniality Award, Ralph Cifaretto would never be in contention for it. Mr. Obnoxious, however, would be his in a walk. Sarcastic, belligerent and misogynistic – even by wise guy standards – Ralph was easily Tony’s least favorite business associate. Despite being a very […]
Dr. Jennifer Melfi
“Two years ago I thought RICO was a relative of his.” Dr. Jennifer Melfi is probably the last person anyone would expect to be associated with organized crime. Her private life is unassuming; she’s divorced with a son who attends Bard College. Professionally, she is a respected psychiatrist in private practice. One day, however, she […]
Carmela Soprano
“Maybe you pass out because you’re guilty over something. Maybe the fact you stick your d**k in anything with a pulse.” Carmela DeAngelis first laid eyes on her future husband in high school, where she and Tony Soprano appeared to be worlds apart from each other. Whereas Tony was an uninspired student and outsider, Carmela […]
10 Best Dressed
PEOPLE’S 10 Best Dressed Daring or demure, high fashion or hippie chic, each of these stars turned up the heat and set the fashion world ablaze this year
“Angela’s Ashes” Author Frank McCourt Dies
On this day in 2009, Frank McCourt, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, runaway best-seller “Angela’s Ashes,” a 1996 memoir about his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, dies at age 78 in Manhattan from metastatic melanoma. McCourt wrote “Angela’s Ashes,” his first book, when he was in his mid-60s, after teaching in New York City’s […]