When things got messy, The Boot had a way of destroying evidence. There were not many mob bosses with their own crematorium. He quickly worked his way up the ranks as a mobster, but many thugs disliked him. Exactly what happened next is shrouded in mystery. Tony Boy was spirited to Florida. An associate of Smudgy was murdered a day later.
Needing to clean up the mess, The Boot jetted home from an Italian vacation with his sweetheart. Throughout that decade, the family business got driven into the ground.
I drove my mother and aunt there to visit him in Leesburg State Prison. I fed his dogs and checked out his house. They let him have his own garden at Leesburg. Tony Boy died of a heart attack in , at age His father passed six years later, due to heart failure at The Port is still heavy in loan-sharking and gambling.
Plus you now have street gangs that need to be dealt with. A container full of perfume got stolen [from the Port]; that was worth another million. The DeCavalcante family made its money by racketeering, controlling a powerful division of the Laborers International Union of N orth America in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which helped push millions into mob coffers.
Riggi was released from federal prison in November , after serving time for racketeering and murder, before he died in at the pretty impressive age of Seglem also added: "Under Riggi , the DeCavalcante family raised labor racketeering to something of an art form. He said: Chase said: "90 percent of [ The Sopranos ] is made up, [but] it's patterned after this [fami ly]. Along with his son, Anthony 'Tony Boy' Boiardo, Richie used 'waste management' as a cover for their activities, according to the Express.
They even had an incinerator in the grounds of their huge mansion, which was used as their own private crematorium. Once cremated, ashes were then apparently scattered across a vegetable patch, dubbed 'The Godfather's Garden'. It's perhaps the most influential TV drama ever made, and it will forever remain the subject of debate, academic analysis, and discussion.
Well, maybe not forever , but certainly for some time to come. And everyone knows the story of The Sopranos. But what you may not know is the story behind the story. Like all great television shows, the making of The Sopranos is fascinating, and it proves an interesting glimpse into how a monumental and influential TV show is made. These are ten behind the scenes about The Sopranos you never knew.
If David Chase had his way, The Sopranos would have been a one-and-done ordeal. He had this idea for a movie - "A mobster in therapy having problems with his mother, who's also involved in some sort of a gang war or mob business problem. He originally pitched the concept as a film and always envisioned it as such. That is, until media executive and Chase's manager Lloyd Braun convinced him to extend it into a series.
The general idea for the film then morphed into the first and second seasons of The Sopranos. The Sopranos is a mob series kind of , but it's also a deeply intimate and complex family drama.
It's also David Chase's most personal and autobiographical work - you know, minus all the mob stuff. That's because David Chase actually modeled Tony Soprano after himself and based Tony and Livia's tumultuous relationship on the relationship he shared with his own problematic mother. Chase was also in therapy at the time, leading to the creation of Dr.
Presumably, Chase's mother didn't try to have him whacked, though David Chase grew up around the New Jersey mob not in the mob, mind you , and he had personal insight into many of the "families. He took inspiration from the Boiardo family, which was run by Richard Boiardo and based primarily in Newark. He also modeled the family after the DeCavalcante family, an Italian American family based in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which is only about six miles southwest of Newark.
After being convinced to film The Sopranos as a series, Chase got to work directing the pilot , which was filmed in He shopped the series around to various networks, including Fox and HBO.
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