Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi B.D., Thanks for the cultural update. My TV watching habits are fairly minimal and consist mainly of BBC News in the morning, the Simpsons in the evening (the greatest thing conceived for television in my lifetime, IMO), more recently King of the Hill, and of course English and European football at the weekend. Nathan "B. D. Colen" wrote: > You are definitely out of touch with U.S. popular culture - which may > not be so bad! > > Pussy was a character in The Sopranos, a series on HBO that is probably > the best written, acted, directed, series on American television these > days. It is about a mafia "family" lead by a guy named Tony Soprano, and > the series plays off the contrasts between Tony the family man, who eats > Sugar Pops in his underwear, goes to his kids school functions, and > deals with the usual suburban "stuff," and Tony the Family Man, who > thinks nothing of engaging in the violence and mayhem that that line of > work entails. > > Pussy was a close friend and associate of Tonys, a member of the crew, > who flipped and became an FBI informant. He was "wacked" and dumped in > the ocean at the end of last season. > > B. D. Colen > A Slave to Pop Culture and a devoted Sopranos watcher - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/