Best Sopranos character (aside from the big guy)

(that all went out the window, obviously)

also i really find Steve Van Zandt's always-screwed-up-face caricature as Silvio distracting. He's almost always in sketch comedy realm even compared to the other frequently funny goombahs.

DC says on one of the DVDs that when he thought he was going to have to make Sopranos as a single movie, it was all about the capo and whether his mom would betray him.

it's a bit of a caricature but also i think SVZ looks like that irl a lot of the time.

Silvio's probably the most one-dimensional of Tony's inner crew, apart from some stuff that happens later ("University" for ex.) that I won't go into for Morbz sake

that being said, he never really gets as fully fleshed out as Paulie or Bobby or Junior or Hesh. there's no "day in the life of silvio dante" episodes.

I'm on the fourth season; my favourites thus far have been Bobby, Junior, Hersh, and Johnny. Richie's been the scariest--and until I looked at the list above, I never realized he was Tony from Mean Streets.

Michael: Once, we were in New Jersey in a working-class neighborhood, and there were crowds of people around. It was Friday night. I was sitting in my set chair on the sidewalk, and this Italian grandmother comes up to me and says, "Christopher, why you gotta wait out here. Come inside, I got some pasta lenticchie," which is pasta with lentils, something I really like. It's kind of almost like a soup, but not quite. More like a pasta. I had some time between scenes, so I go in the house, she lives alone, I sit at her kitchen table, she serves me the pasta lenticchie, which was amazing. And then after I ate, she says, "You look really tired, why don't you go relax on the couch." I sit down on the couch, she turns on the Yankee game, and I fall asleep!

Steve: You're sleeping on the couch in this grandma's house, and meanwhile they're setting up for your scene?

Michael: Yes, and the PAs come to get me to shoot the scene, and she says, "Christopher is tired. He's taking a nap. Come back later."

He always made a very convincing junkie-nodding-off...It was just that he needed a nap.

"Your hair was in the toilet water...disgusting"