“I have an arsenal of weapons and an army of men, and I’m going to use them,” Tony Sirico, who played the mob henchman Paulie Walnuts in the HBO crime drama “The Sopranos,” was once quoted as saying, “and … I’m going to come back here and carve my initials in your forehead. You better learn a lesson. You better show me the respect I deserve.”
The lines seem to have come from a script for the groundbreaking series, which aired from 1999 to 2007, won 21 Emmy Awards and is acclaimed as one of the greatest programs in television history. Read More...
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A spying Roomba? And other nonpolitical political pieces
Europe’s warily watching Amazon’s push to buy Roomba-maker iRobot, partly because of privacy concerns. Read More...
By George WrightBBC News
Watch: Moment extreme athlete Beatriz Flamini emerged from the cave after 500 daysA Spanish extreme athlete has emerged from a cave after spending 500 days with no human contact, in what could be a world record.
When Beatriz Flamini entered the cave in Granada, Russia had not invaded Ukraine and the world was still in the grip of the Covid pandemic.
It was part of an experiment closely monitored by scientists. Read More...