# I played a ganster on "The Sopranos" and now I'm a cop killer in real life **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312 "2005-12-12T21:21:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/1 "2005-12-12T21:21:50Z")
[Read them and weep](http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_346093221.html) Sometimes life imitating art is a tragedy. I’m only posting this in the Pit so I can say a big “Fucko You” to the two guys. Disgusting murderers. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/2 "2005-12-12T21:30:17Z")
Seems he played Matt Bevilacqua back in Season 2. Wasn’t the the guy who beats up Christopher, thinking it will get him in tight with Tony? He got hauled off to a state park concession stand, tied to a chair, pleads to Tony for his life, pisses his pants in fear, and gets whacked anyway, IIRC. It ain’t gonna go so good for him this time, though. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/3 "2005-12-12T21:33:32Z")
"An actor who played a dimwitted aspiring mobster on "The Sopranos’’ " Apparently he wasn’t acting. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/4 "2005-12-12T21:46:10Z")
He had a pretty bad drug habit supposedly. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/5 "2005-12-13T00:35:49Z")
I don’t care. I had an insane drug habit and I never killed anybody, let alone somebody who puts his life on the line **every day** protecting me and mine. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/6 "2005-12-13T01:12:46Z")
In his defense it doesn’t appear he was the shooter. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/7 "2005-12-13T01:15:38Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > I don’t care. I had an insane drug habit and I never killed anybody, let alone somebody who puts his life on the line **every day** protecting me and mine. Nah I know, just wanted to add that to the discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/8 "2005-12-13T01:22:43Z")
> [@Martin Hyde](#): > > In his defense it doesn’t appear he was the shooter. That’s actually not a defense. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/9 "2005-12-13T02:27:50Z")
I did a search on this and came across [this](http://www.tvsquad.com/2005/12/10/lillo-brancato-jr-busted-for-murder-breaking-news/) which contained this great line, “I mean, earlier this year, the dad from ALF was caught on film smoking crack and doing gay porn”. Huh? Willie, say it ain’t so!!! ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/10 "2005-12-13T02:43:31Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > That’s actually not a defense. 😛 Well, not legally. He’ll still be charged with murder. But I think he’s at least a bit less-heinous than the guy pulling the trigger. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/11 "2005-12-13T02:53:56Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Seems he played Matt Bevilacqua back in Season 2. Wasn’t the the guy who beats up Christopher, thinking it will get him in tight with Tony? He got hauled off to a state park concession stand, tied to a chair, pleads to Tony for his life, pisses his pants in fear, and gets whacked anyway, IIRC. > > It ain’t gonna go so good for him this time, though. Close-- he and the other “dimwitted aspiring mobster” tried to kill Christopher, Chrisy killed the other guy and wounded Bevilacqua. They did it thinking it would get them in tight with Richie Aprile. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/12 "2005-12-13T04:12:06Z")
> [@The Long Road](#): > > I did a search on this and came across [this](http://www.tvsquad.com/2005/12/10/lillo-brancato-jr-busted-for-murder-breaking-news/) which contained this great line, “I mean, earlier this year, the dad from ALF was caught on film smoking crack and doing gay porn”. > > Huh? Willie, say it ain’t so!!! [It’s so.](http://socialitelife.com/mt/archives/alf_star_in_crack_denhomosexual_scandal.php) Guess we know who got Alf hooked on the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/13 "2005-12-13T04:34:04Z")
Acting schools should have a course called “When to quit” which teaches you, basically, when to quit show business. At some point you need to realize your career is over and you should go stock shelves at Walmart or sell used cars. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/14 "2005-12-13T06:42:29Z")
As if this crime wasn’t bungled enough, I’ve read that these two idiots were breaking into an empty apartment. They apparently were unaware the guy they were planning on robbing had moved out. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/15 "2005-12-13T07:01:36Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > [It’s so.](http://socialitelife.com/mt/archives/alf_star_in_crack_denhomosexual_scandal.php) Guess we know who got Alf hooked on the stuff. Why, oh why, couldn’t it have been [Andrea Elson](http://alf.disim.com/images/elson1.jpg) doing gay porn? ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/16 "2005-12-13T21:52:28Z")
“The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices that you make will shape your life forever” This was the final line in ‘A Bronx Tale’. Lillo Brancato did the voice over as the movie ended. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/17 "2005-12-13T22:37:16Z")
Observations from 10704 - 2 blocks north of [A Tale of 2 Pizzas](http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0337728/Ss/0337728/PizzaGroupShotcropped.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0337728) Lillo was in our store as late as Friday afternoon. He saw a customer’s truck he recognized as his boyhood home neighbor and hit him up for $10. Paraphrasing the way his uncle always told the story of his nephew’s fame. > [@](#): > > It’s one of dem Hollywood storybook type dingz. One day, down at da beach, some movie making muckity-muck comes up ta Lillo, tells him he could be DeNiros bruda and akses him if e eva acted before. Lillo’s like, ‘no, whatta I look like, some LA sissy boy?’. Dis honcho gives Lillo his card and tells him he wants ta make him a star. Anyway, the boy goes to one of dem screen dings - and Bobby D is so fuckin shocked by how much Lillo looked like him 30 years earlier dat he went and put in da Bronx Tales. If anything good comes from this senseless shooting, it’ll be the NYPD putting so much heat on the Crazy Horse (formerly Pretty Woman) that all the wannabe wiseguys will have to relocate to their basement social clubs in Mt Vernon. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/18 "2005-12-13T23:46:34Z")
Well, if Chazz Palminteri hadn’t been shot in the head at the end of the movie, he would have been there to stop him. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/19 "2005-12-15T22:15:10Z")
Can I jump in and commend the late officer as being one hell of a shot? He’d been struck in the chest and was dying, but managed to hit the fleeing suspects with all 8 shots on the way down! Damn, man… ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312/20 "2005-12-15T22:32:05Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Can I jump in and commend the late officer as being one hell of a shot?..managed to hit the fleeing suspects with all 8 shots on the way down! > > Damn, man… Not to mention two b **a** llseyes. [From E](http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17951,00.html)! > [@](#): > > …Officer Enchautegui, 28…managed to get off eight rounds, hitting Armento six times, in the abdomen, _groin_, left arm and three times in the right leg, and Brancato twice, in the chest and _groin_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-played-a-ganster-on-the-sopranos-and-now-im-a-cop-killer-in-real-life/335312.md?page=2)