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An offer he couldn’t refuse: Sopranos diner booth sells for $82,600

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Admin

Co-owner Chris Carley asked for opening bids above $3,000 on eBay, reportedly aiming for $10,000 towards a renovation

More than 15 years after the cliffhanger final scene of The Sopranos screened in 2007, the classic American diner booth where it was filmed was sold at auction for a price that eventually cranked up to $82,600.

The TV mob drama, which the Guardian once described as “the most masterful show ever”, memorably saw the patriarch character Tony Soprano and his family sit in that booth in a New Jersey diner in the final scene of the series.

The Sopranos: David Chase and mobster Johnny Sack on how they made a TV classic

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Admin

‘Fox turned down the first draft because I didn’t put any murders in it. People watch mob shows because they like to see murders’

I was still writing the pilot episode when Steven Van Zandt – who would go on to play strip-club owner and second-in-command Silvio Dante – came to read for the part of Tony Soprano. I thought: “With Steven, it could be more like The Simpsons: more comedy, less nasty bits, more absurd.” But once we hired Jim Gandolfini for Tony, it all went back to where it started.