Tony Soprano Sopranos was part of a wave of American TV dramas that finally persuaded cineastes and critics who had been snobbish and dismissive about television as a medium to accept the smaller screen as an artistic equivalent of the larger one. Although many of those who watched and wrote about TV had got this message much earlier, the remarkable and sustained range of Gandolfini's portrayal of Tony Soprano played a major part in ending any remaining inferiority complex about the medium.” Tony Soprano Anthony John Soprano (born 1959) is a fictional character and the protagonist in the HBO television drama series
FBI on The Sopranos the Soprano residence under surveillance by the use of an old lamp in their basement. He has a sister that used to live in the same neighborhood as the Sopranos in North Caldwell, New Jersey. The plumber "Mr. Ruggiero" who comes to repair the water leak is the same plumber that worked the neighborhood when his sister lived there. He compares Tony to Harpo Marx in how much he is heard talking about incriminating information on the phone, despite having the phones tapped for the last four years. The operation ends when Meadow takes the old lamp to college. When