Posted on 07/04/2006 5:00:11 AM PDT by johnny7
Now that "Paulie Walnuts" and "Sylvio Dante" have re-signed with the Godfather over at the HBO family, "Sopranos" fans can breathe easier. The cast is just about all buttoned up for the final eight episodes of the mob show. If you're like me and wondering why they're even bothering after last season's soap opera that was more a story about a psychotic gay murderer than about old-fashioned crime and punishment: Apparently there are still plenty of fans out there.
July Fourth weekend on the Jersey Shore is a testament to that fact. Near the beach there's an Italian deli that takes its food very seriously. The cold cuts are the best money can buy, the refrigerator is filled with homemade pastas and other Italian specialties and they take pride in their freshly filled cannoli.The owners are transplanted Italian-American New Yawkers who are probably the nicest...
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Enjoyed your post. It's a great, great series, full of surprises and insights. I have to credit the writers most of all, but Gandolfini carries the product.
what lovely memories, and they are the same ones that my husband has of his Sicilian born grandparents. I know about the "us" and "them". all 4 of my grandparents came from eastern europe, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine. My Lithuanian grandmother always told me to NEVER marry an Italian, because they are "a different kind of people". She met and liked my husband before she died but didn't live to see me marry an Italian! i also lament the watering down of the culture, and the fact that my kids don't have the same feelings about their heritage that my husband and i each do.
My dads side... was from Poland... but his father fought in the Austrian army during WW1 before coming over. Go figure. I tend to think they moved around alot in that part of Europe... from one shell-crater to another.
my mom's parents were both from Lithuania but met over here. my Polack granddad met my Ukrainian grandma here too. Eastern Europeans were the "same" kind of people, no matter which country they were from, according to my Lithuanian gram! She did say that the Italians all beat their wives and burned each other's houses down too... ; ) Fortunately, my hub, albeit Italian, is neither wife abuser nor arsonist... LOL!
Polacks and wops make good couples... a woman on my paper route told me that 40 years ago. ;)
i know, they do, don't they? and they make nice looking kids : )
I'm living proof!
So did the Abruzzi side of my family. Pop's side is Portuguese.
My pop's side was Dutch German...my mom's maiden name was Cirella and my grandmother's was Accordino.
Mom's maiden name was Liberatore.Don't knowe what Nana's maiden name was.
cappicola - an Italian lunchmeat
I have an original photo of my grandmother's family arriving at Ellis Island. In the photo, she is about 7 or 8 years old.
She got married away at 13. I can still "see" her sitting in the kitchen watching Gomer Pyle, laughing, while holding her ever present rosary beads.
And I can still smell the meatballs frying on the stove every Sunday morning when she made homemade pasta for the extended family.
SIGH! R.I.P Gramma Teresa.
i was complimenting YOU as well as my own kiddies : )
my gram loved Sat Night with Studio Wrestling and Bruno Sammartino, the Crusher, Haystack Calhoun etc.
As long as that's understood... ;)
My Gramma preferred Lawrence Welk and that accordian player Myron Floren and of course the Lennon Sisters.
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