[cyborg]

That sort of stereotype is more than welcome on Long Island where many men aspire to bend one's leg and stuff it in their pocket. Personally, I find nothing appealing about it. I find it an insult, but if Coca Cola wants to be unimaginative not original, then by all means.

[Vesuvian]

Even Yahoo's headline is insulting.

[Senator Pardek]

"If you mention extortion again, I'll have your legs broken."

[LibWhacker]

The film, "Mafia Movie Madness," by graduate student Jordan Ross . . .

He should've directed it under the name Giordano Rossi. Then us touchy wops would've loved it like everyone else.

[VU4G10]

"We don't understand why we are the one ethnic group that it's still permissible to make fun of."

What, whites?

[redbaiter]

I saw this trailer and thought it hilarious. Whoever got offended should remember that we go to the movies to relax.

[Larry Lucido]

you never see an Italian-American character playing a crack scientist

Yea, if only this guy could have played a crack scientist, he might have made something of himself.

[bethelgrad]

Good. It was a stupid clip anyway. I had to endure it both times I watched Master and Commander--excellent movie by the way.

[RansomOttawa]

U.S. beverage giant Coca-Cola says it will stop showing a short film showing mafia toughs intimidating movie viewers after a barrage of complaints from Italian-American groups.

Funny, they didn't seem so worried about this stereotype last year, when they were running those Vanilla Coke ads with that guy who looks like a young Joe Mantegna.

[archy]

There is nothing balancing it -- you never see an Italian-American character playing a crack scientist ...

Well, a chemist *cooker* in a crack labratory, maybe. Most of the top Heroin cookers are Frenchies from Marseilles, after all.