NYT/AP: Gay 'Sopranos' Mobster Glad for Exposure

[DeepModem Mom]

Gay 'Sopranos' Mobster Glad for Exposure
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 10, 2006

NEW YORK (AP) -- Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhall and ... Joseph R. Gannascoli? In what Gannascoli cheerfully calls ''the year of the queer,'' when ''Brokeback Mountain'' became a phenomenon and Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Oscar playing Truman Capote, Gannascoli's character (spoiler alert: read no further if you haven't seen the episode yet) was outed Sunday night on ''The Sopranos.''

Dressed in appropriate leather bar attire, Vito Spatafore -- the heretofore closeted gay mobster -- was sighted by a couple wiseguys who came by the sweaty S&M joint to collect their protection money.

''It's a joke,'' Vito weakly offers, then begs: ''Don't say nothin'!''

By the end of the episode, he's checked into a motel with a gun, looking suicidal.

Fans of the HBO series were stunned last season when Meadow's boyfriend, Finn, saw a security guard sitting in the driver's seat of a truck -- and then Vito's head popped up....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-TV-Sopranos-Gay-Mobster.html

[Crankie Avalon]

1. I have to admit...

...I laughed out loud at the sight of Vito in his leather outfit last night. :wow: :rofl:

It's a pretty good plot twist. It (and the revelation of his hopes for a future with no Tony Soprano in the way) helped make Vito a lot more of an interesting character than he was before.