I’ve posted your questions on (gasp) another board. Hopefully I’ll get you an answer. We don’t want you to go nuts over this. 
Not sure exactly who she played, but here is a link to a picture of her with her husband, “More Cowbell” Christopher.
Trust me, there is not far to go.
::runs in circle waving arms in the air::
I truly believe this Vito being gay thing will fit into my “AJ is gay” theory. Tony will be torn on how to handle Vito when he will be it in the face with the revelation that AJ himself is gay.
The whole “event planning” thing is a very early seed into the “AJ is gay” subplot.
I may be crazy, but if I am right, you heard it here first and I expect mad props when it happens.
Good pic. Enough so for me to back off my vote that she’s the B&B Gal. The pictures of Ms. Susan Blommaert, on the other hand, are not convincing me she was the B&B Gal either. Perhaps the ghoul makeup disguised her better features? 
Slightly off-topic: I was searching the “extended cast” pages for the episodes on IMDB and found it peculiar that several episodes where Bobby Bacala was obviously present, don’t list Steven Schirippa in the cast. Wonder what’s up with that.
Oddly enough I won’t fall over when (if) that comes out in spite of the whole Devin interlude. I have always thought that the below-the-surface seething that AJ has always had (even as a fat-faced kid) has been the whole reason Robert Iler has been kept in the cast. Acting, as such, is less important than the look he has.
All I can say is that AJ will cause much pain and anxiety to Tony and Carmela and anybody else who cares about him before the curtain falls on the last episode.
It will make Michael Corleone’s descent seem timid, I predict.
If only the creators had had the foresight to cast Lillo Brancato (Matt Bevilacqua) as AJ instead of Iler. The private life events would have added more grit.
If AJ is gay, I’ll shit all over my Sopranos boxed sets. It wouldn’t make sense. AT. ALL.
The ‘event planning’ thng was shot down in the wedding episode. Tony mentioned it to AJ and AJ replied “Event planning? Where do you come up with this shit?” showing that AJ didn’t even remember saying that to his guidance counselor.
Ah, that’s my point. When AJ mentioned it last season, we could all chalk it up as just a funny line from a silly kid.
Tony mentioning it AGAIN this season (at a wedding where AJ was sitting next to an attractive girl no less) is, in my guess, a slight foreshadow of a deeper subplot coming down the pike.
Yep, I think AJ is gay. :eek: :eek: :eek:
I still think AJ is straight, he will try to get into the family business and he’ll be terrible at it. He might get himself killed.
Jim
I think it was to show that Tony has no idea what is going on with his kids. And the fact that it was next to an attractive girl shows that AJ was not liking Tony ruining his play. If the fact that several years ago (in show time) AJ mentioned to a guidance counselor that he was interested in Event Planning is the best piece of evidence there is that AJ might be gay I think you might just be wrong… time will tell.
The great thing about the Sopranos, even the nuainces have nuainces!
It is a lot of fun trying to guess what is what.
Well, we all enjoy the show our own way, and there’s no right or wrong…but…I saw the guy who plays the FBI agent talking about how people react to him on the street. Screaming at him, spitting at him, old ladies coming up and telling him to leave Tony Soprano alone. He was amused by it, but his point was made: in the Sopranos, the world is turned upsidedown. The FBI are the bad guys.
I can remember the episode where they planted the bug in that lamp, and how much I was rooting for Tony to catch them. It’s funny, really, because in “real life,” there’s nothing ambiguous about who the bad guys are. Or the episode where Melfi was raped, and in his session Tony asked her what was wrong. “Tell him! Tell him!” I was shouting at the TV, knowing that Tony would have inflicted great pain on that SOB. It’s the fascination we have with people who have unbridled power, unrestricted by the codes we all have to comply with. Tony may end up being a tragic hero, but there’s no denying his heroic appeal–his twisted, heroic appeal.
I saw the Godfather very differently. Don Vito Corleone and Pete ‘Fat’ Clemenza were both very likable. The Don came out as a man of honor who did what he had to do and tried to only deal in Gambling and Prostitution. Clemenza was a Nice guy that happened to be a Capo, but for the “Leave the gun, take the Canollis” line alone, you had to like him.
Tony from the beginning has had large glaring faults and should be locked away for a long time. The presentation of the Mafia in both Sopranos and Good Fellows is very different, they don’t make any of the characters to be good guys or honorable men.
That said, I was also disappointed Melfi did let Tony dispense Mafia Justice on her Rapist.
Jim
I doubt it - it would feel too much like they were trying to make a point or teach Tony a lesson.
Years ago, I read some critic speculate that Tony would end up becoming a state’s witness at the end, and that the series would finish with him sitting poolside at his new home, peaceful, watching ducks swim in his pool. In a way, I think Vito is living that idea- and it’s probably going to prove impossible.
That was definitely Susan Blommaert as the B&B lady.
Photo of her from “Law & Order” with Lorraine Bracco in it to boot
She’s the judge.
So did Tony get a little man action in jail?
I wondered that myself.
I’ll have to check that conversation again, but yes I believe it is implied.
The thing is that if he did it would have been him giving it. Which in a twistred way would have been deemed acceptable by the others in that situation.
From what I understand from my wife who works with quite a few old school Italians you are only considered truly gay if you are the one giving the pleasure. Hence the ribbing Junior got when it was discovered he was giving oral to women.
I think it is also played out in the bit where Finn tells the crew Vito gave a blow job rather than recieved it. Note the change in everyones demenor from mild anger to full on rage when Finn informs them he was giving the blow job not recieving it from the guard. (Note the blow job was mentioned first, then Finn elaborates)
Do you mean Tony B.? When was Tony S. in jail? Did I miss something?
He was, but as he stated quickly “I wasn’t in that long”
I assume some time in his life he would have spent time in jail. You can’t be a career criminal and not be picked up at least once in your life.