NEWS: Sopranos Star Makes First of Several Expected Career Missteps

CELEB: Sopranos Star Makes First of Several Expected Career Missteps

There are some actors out there who’d frown at the idea of doing commercials and endorsing products. Specifically, things that would cheapen or demean a great performance from a beloved work. You know who doesn't feel that way?

Class. Act.

As you can see, Joey is the consummate artist and we're certainly not in a position to judge him. After all, perhaps he’s merely preparing for a role as a fatso, skinflint, cheeseball.

I don’t know that I’d categorize the act of selling it as specifically anti-gay, as much as it is anti-Sopranos, anti-pool, anti-taste, and anti-good idea.

He’s got similar products marketed with the “to Die For…” label including a cigar and, uh, book. And I bet he’d be hawking a just as crass cash-in in other circumstances. Had his character gone the way of Big Pussy I’m sure we’d be talking about “to Die For…” fish-food and “not in the face” cream. I’m sure he’ll issue a statement claiming as much, that he’s just commemorating the show with his schlock memorabilia, etc.

The bigger concerns I have are that A) he’s tarnishing the show with his bush-league, money-grubbing product, B) it’s a shitty product, and, C) I’m sure he thinks it’s a funny idea, and it’s not.

This is the sort of bad idea you expect from a shady internet company that is quickly sued by HBO, the actor playing the character, and anyone else involved with the show. Not only is he not against the product, he's actually endorsing it. Saying to the world, I wholeheartedly stand behind this piece of exploitative garbage.

I'm sure after witnessing the care and seriousness he handles his characters with, future showrunners will be lining up to sign him for their next high-profile project.

How could this be any shittier a product? Well, the "R" in the logo is a gun. Yup, just like the gun in the Sopranos' logo. Annnnd the phrase "Bada Break" is written on it, in the style of the Bada Bing strip club's sign. Class all the way... All that's missing is the voiceover guy's cries of "Now, you too, can own this limited edition item immortalizing everyone's favorite rage-fueled, hate crime! Act now, supplies are limited!"

Without even checking IMDB, you know how I know Joe wasn't in "Schindler's List"? Because he's never sold commemorative "Holocaust ashtrays."


TheCoolerKing was saddened to hear of the recent death of HBO's "John From Cincinatti."

Well, Artie Lange is endorsing it on their web site, so it can't be bad. Seriously, you're right-most people don't give a shit these days as long as there's a dollar in it. I would like to see one of those singing fish things with Big Pussy singing Strangers in the Night.

It's a pool cue. It was a T.V. show. No ones REALLY getting hurt. We do live in a capitalist democracy. What a bunch of whiners. Let the people make their money. No one is getting hurt!

Yes because Artie Lange is the ultimate judge of what a good, tasteful idea is.

Of tact and taste, he has none. Seriously.

I suppose they could have called it "The Sodomiser" instead.

As great as The Sopranos was, they product placed the shit out of everything on that show.

"What's this about Jews?"

"No! Jamba Juice! It's smoothies!"

+1

who cares how someone makes a buck? there is many worst ways others earn their living. Leave the poor unemployed actor alone.

You know, there's really absolutely nothing wrong with someone saying, in essence, "Ew. Bad taste."

Which is what is going on here.

damn you, there was no spoiler warning! i'm only halfway through season 5

I sympathize, but as a general rule spoiler warnings sort of expire after a season.

In bad taste, sure...

But I lol'd, as the kids say these days...

Don't you understand that anybody who criticizes anything is an anti-capitalist enemy of free speech who wants a full government ban on things they find distasteful?

No! That's not true! That's impossible!

i hope to one day be as healthy as he. the man's body is like an unspoiled eden. a modern day adonis, even!

How ironic that a huge dildo like TheCoolerKing wrote an article griping about this

Umm...what? No. The character was savagely beaten to death because of his sexual orientation. You honestly think it's "whining" to object to the use of a hate crime plot point as marketing for a goddamn pool cue? Endorsed by the actor who played that character? That's...wow. I'm not convinced that you know what whining means. (for reference/definition see: your post). Not sure you're clear on "capitalist democracy" either.

...says a huge dildo.

oh wait, that wasn't constructive at all. oops.

Frankly, I think my biggest problem here is the branding phrase. "A Cue to Die For" That's not funny. More than that, it's about as cliche as they come. Let's try "And You Thought Your Feces Were Impacted Before." Or how about "The Only Mafia-Approved Method for a Man to Get Wood up His Ass"? And those are just off the top of my head. You might not like them. You might not think they're funny, but at least you (probably) haven't heard them before. As such, they are not burdened with being both obvious and unfunny. (And, while I'm at it, incorrect. Vito didn't die for a cue; he died -- at least partially, I think -- from one.)