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Averna Social Club
You add up all your mortal sins and multiply that number by 50. Then you add up all your venial sins and multiply that by 25. You add that together and that’s your sentence. I figure I’m gonna have to do 6,000 years before I get accepted into heaven and 6,000 years is nothin’ in eternity terms. I can do that standing on my head. It’s like a couple of days here.
Paulie Gualtieri (Tony Sirico)
In The Sopranos, Mulberry Street Bar sees Carmine Lupertazzi (Ray Abruzzo) and Johnny “Sack” Sacrimoni (Vincent Curatola) running the Lupertazzi family in Brooklyn. David Chase, the showrunner, decided to rename the place the Averna Social Club, without denaturing its essence. Except for the façade, represented on the screen by the small black door of 202 Mott Street, three blocks north. This back entrance was more in keeping with the secret nature of this meeting place for Cosa Nostra pundits in the United States.
Appearing in fifteen episodes, as of season 4, the Mulberry Street Bar was thus the theatre of the sometimes difficult negotiations between Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), the godfather of the DiMeo family of New Jersey, and the pundits of the New York side of the Italian-American mafia. This is a powerful way to anchor the place in the collective unconscious of the fans of the series. Many fans still push the door of the bar and sometimes take a trip to New Jersey to admire the Sopranos’ home in Caldwell, then the Bada Bing club or the Holsten restaurant, the scene of the final sequence.
By exploiting places like the Mulberry Street Bar but also by employing, for example, 28 actors known to mafia film fans for having played in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, The Sopranos has earned its stripes as a cult series and an iconic mafia work. The series has multiplied links with other pop culture references while exploring its own path. Through its shooting locations, its casting but also its ability to strongly impregnate itself with the essence of its environment or to transcend its soundtrack. Steven Van Zandt, the interpreter of consigliere Silvio Dante but also the first guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, is the only proof of this fact.
The series earned James Gandolfini ten major awards including three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Mulberry Street Bar
The Mulberry Street Bar is one of the most famous movie sets in the Big Apple. A true sanctuary in the heart of New York on which time has no hold!
For over 100 years, Mulberry Street Bar has clung to Little Italy, resisting the inexorable shrinking of this Lower Manhattan enclave. A true institution that embodies the spirit of the neighborhood and has been adored by the greatest icons. Frank Sinatra, for example, used to hang out here, and it was here that some of the greatest mob movies were filmed, including The Sopranos, The Godfather and Donnie Brasco.
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Fanspots Stories New York
Discover the secrets of the cult places of the greatest masterpieces of pop culture in New York!
The world capital of pop culture, New York embodies unbridled creative freedom. The city that never sleeps has been the muse of a large number of directors, actors, screenwriters, singers, musicians, cartoonists and writers…
Many have passed on their fascination for the city to the general public and made some of its places famous worldwide, making them into the legend of pop culture. These are the secrets of a hundred of them revealed in this first volume of the Fanspots Stories collection.
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By Gilles Rolland
Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.