'Real Housewives of New Jersey' have 'Sopranos' connection
Ubiquitous
There couldn't be a "Real Housewives of New Jersey" without a little
"Sopranos."
The cast of the Garden State version of the Bravo series, filmed in and
around Franklin Lakes in Bergen County, includes sisters Dina and
Caroline Manzo, who married the brothers who own Paterson's storied The
Brownstone, a catering hall that has been featured on the HBO series.
What's more, the paterfamilias of the clan, restaurateur Albert "Tiny"
Manzo was found naked, partially bound in plastic and shot to death
inside the trunk of his Lincoln Continental in Hillside in 1983. In a
case that went all the way up to the state Supreme Court, the judges
ruled that his widow could not collect on his life insurance policy
because the 350-pound man lied on his application about having diabetes.
What else did we dig up on these Housewives? Dina Manzo, described by
People magazine as an interior designer, event planner and founder of
the children's cancer charity Project Ladybug, appeared with her future
husband on VH1's "My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding." The bill for the
million-dollar-plus nuptials included a $10,000 Badgley Mischka gown,
$50,000 for hand-blown glass butterflies, and nearly $500,000 in
flowers. The tender memory of her future husband admitting on camera
that he had cheated on her? Free.
Her sister Caroline is a mother of three and the owner of a real estate
firm, and their brother Chris is married to another castmate, Jacqueline
Laurita, a former cosmetologist turned stay-at-home mom. (She has a
teenage daughter from another marriage and a six-year-old son with
Chris.)
Rounding out the cast: Teresa Giudice, who has three young daughters
with husband Joe, who owns a construction company, and Danielle Staub, a
single mother of two daughters who boasts of being one of the first
female American Express Black card members in New Jersey. In a clip reel
shown to reporters last year, Staub boasted of 19 engagements and of
kissing Mick Jagger. We're not sure which of those three accomplishments
is more impressive.
The show premieres May 12. We know you're gonna watch.
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Mike
Guess again..
Ubiquitous
>> by Vicki Hyman
>>
>> The show premieres May 12. We know you're gonna watch.
>
>Guess again..
Youse will if youse knows whats goods fer yew!
Dick Hertz
"Ubiquitous" <web...@polaris.net> wrote in message
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> texa...@hotmail.com wrote:
>>On Apr 2, 7:06 pm, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>>> by Vicki Hyman
>>>
>
>>> The show premieres May 12. We know you're gonna watch.
>>
>>Guess again..
>
> Youse will if youse knows whats goods fer yew!
I'll skip The Carmella Soprano Show, thanks.
Wysock, Laurie
>"Ubiquitous" <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
>> texa...@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>On Apr 2, 7:06 pm, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>> by Vicki Hyman
>>
>>>> The show premieres May 12. We know you're gonna watch.
>>>
>>>Guess again..
>>
>> Youse will if youse knows whats goods fer yew!
>
>I'll skip The Carmella Soprano Show, thanks.
I thought maybe I'd like the Danielle character at first because it felt
like her introduction was somewhat of a diss towards Tamra about being a
hot housewife, but then she talked about someone "saving" her and her
kids? I yelled, "save yourself and get a damn job!", followed by "or
sell the house you got as part of the settlement" you lazy entitled
pulled too tight plasticene cow! I'm so looking forward to loathing that
one. From the stretch pants that apparently she keeps inside her vagina
and pulls out over her legs to what looks like an even worse attempt at
cougaring than OC Lauri. Women who looked melted should never ever be
seens slowly shimmy-ing down into a jacuzzi. Do they not get that
everyone automatically casts them as post-water-bucket Wicked witch. And
she can go try and rub against the Klassy Strip-Club/Car Wash son all
she wants, but I swear I see her trying to pet little law student as
well and he is way to hot for something like to ooze against.
The fact that it is family makes the show's contrived phoniness actually
a bit better. I hope. First it means that the set-ups are not so heavy
handed in bringing together people that obviously have nothing to do
with each other. Let alone silly "events" like Ramona showing off her
ability to Google to Kelly while Kelly drops non-sequitor after
non-sequitor that only cause Ramona to bug her eyes a bit and undetered
return to what she is saying. Or poor Russell Simmons trying to pretend
hos fashion fabulous he by having the entire cast add tons of cachet by
taking up the front row of his men's line show.
Granted, being all family they are in on the joke. But being huge
famewhores and none looking all that bright? I'm seeing some real
trainwrecks here. Old grudges. New peeves. Lingering elements of love
layered with familiar contempt? It's not so much a trainwreck heading
our way as it is a garbage scow off the coast running aground on some
shoals, going under and the tide is coming in. This is going to be the
medical waste on the beach of BRAVO reality shows. And no matter how
hard it is going to be to brush, rinse and gargle in post viewing shame;
unable to look at myself in the mirror? I'm thinking this one could be
the best one of all. I was so worried this particular take would be
nothing but RH-The Bridge and Tunnel set. But taking on the "family" and
their business like this is, well, it is beyond words.
May cannot come too soon. I wonder if BRAVO is gong to have an
incredibly awkward stage moment next week to introduce the show like
they did last A-List awards?