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     "I'll never say that life doesn't imitate art again!" says Woody Allen's character in Manhattan Murder Mystery.

     It's some ongoing debate through the ages -- does Art imitate Life?  Or does Life Imitate Art?

     Watching The Sopranos, the thought crossed my mind that the show reinforces an awful lot of stereotypes that some Americans of Italian descent find offensive.  As one character in the show says, "Some people assume I'm in the mob just because my last name ends with a vowel"...

     I went to look up this issue on Google -- a New York Times article written by Clyde Haberman in 2006 is headlined:

As 'Sopranos' returns, Art Irritates Life


LOL.

-------------------------- In one episode, Tony and Carmela Soprano have been encouraged by law enforcement to seriously consider the Witness Protection Program.
     Mrs. Soprano kind of wants to do it, because she's afraid if they stay in New Jersey her husband might be killed.  She says to him, "we can start over" -- have "a new life."

     Tony says to her, "What do you want to do, Carmela, live in Utah or -- Idaho?  We can sell Indian relics by the highway -- start a rattlesnake ranch!  Eat tomatoes that have no taste -- have some Mormons over for dinner!"

     LOL, now that's what I call stereotyping!  Maybe we need an Anti-Defamation League for tapioca-pudding-making, white-bread-eating Midwestern WASPS.  They can file 501-C-3, alongside the Anti-Defamation League, N Double-A C-P, and the American Italian Anti-Defamation League.


     Hmm... don't know if I would bank on a groundswell of support for that...

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     The Sopranos uses some good songs in some of their episodes:  the one where Tony Soprano loses his gun (or maybe he throws it away) while he's running in snow includes a really good song, which you can listen to by typing in

Van Morrison, Glad Tidings.

     According to Google, this song is in two genres:  Country music, and Classic rock.

Play.

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