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As 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the beloved HBO drama The Sopranos, women have celebrating by bringing the 'mob wife' aesthetic back. But perhaps the most important part of the look is a good set of French nails - and FEMAIL has spoken to Maria Salandra, the manicurist behind The Sopranos, to get all the best tips - literally. Salandra is the artist responsible for Carmela Soprano's famous French tipped nails, and many other of the characters' looks.

The long-rumored video produced by the New York Knicks in 2010 to entice LeBron James to sign in the Big Apple has finally surfaced, showing everyone from Donald Trump to Tony Soprano urging the NBA superstar to come to Madison Square Garden. 'The real winners of the world want to be here,' Trump said in the video, which was unearthed by podcaster Pablo Torre. 'They want to come to New York, whether it's Wall Street, whether it's fashion, no matter what it is, this is the place the real winners want to be.' James was undoubtedly the biggest free agent in league history at the time, and with a bevy of teams in position to sign him, a string of NBA executives paid the Akron native a visit to make their pitches.

The eBay listing for Holsten's in Bloomfield, a real New Jersey haunt where multiple scenes from the legendary HBO drama were shot, ended with a win for a bidder whose identity was not revealed. As the series's memorable conclusion coincides with Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin', the Soprano family (Mames Gandolfini), Carmela (Edie Falco), AJ (Robert Iler) and Meadow (Jamie Sigler) eats at the diner.' It's a total score for Holsten's, whose co-owner was hoping for $10,000 to help cover the estimated $60,000 it would cost to replace the booths.

If the price is correct, fans of The Sopranos will now own a must have piece of the hit HBO film. Nearly 17 years after the crime drama series ended, leaving many viewers wondering if their televisions had unexpectedly blacked out, Holsten's in Bloomfield, New Jersey, is now auctioning off the original booth where mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and his family sat at during the final scene. As of Saturday evening, the eBay top bid has already received 218 bids, with the new top bid now priced at $76,300.

Drea de Matteo, the Sopranos' doomed Adriana, is releasing a new book that details her exacerbation with heroin use. The 52-year-old actress, who founded an OnlyFans account last year, was reacting to Mark Kamine's latest book On Locations: Lessons Learned From My Life On Set With The Sopranos And In The Film Industry. Kamine produced major films and television shows, including the Oscar winners of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, as well as the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning HBO series The White Lotus.

The three-time Emmy winner's personal struggles have been chronicled often, with HBO executives apprehension that he would die from alcohol and opioid binges before the series's conclusion. Mark Kamine, a location scout, has written a new book. 'On Locations: Lessons Learned from My Life On Set with The Sopranos and in the Film Industry.' In the show's fifth season, Kamine writes that his acquaintance with Gandolfini - who died of a heart attack in Rome in 2013 - began to fray.

Tony Soprano was a natural performer. But then he was raised by a monster, his psychotic mother Livia, who had attempted to have him killed. Tony himself was a murderer and an accomplice to many murders. He was a serial philanderer, to whom violence against women appeared as normal as breathing. Given his adenoidal difficulties, it may be simpler. Tony had no intention of menacing his wife Carmela, his counselor Dr Jennifer Melfi, or any other woman who enraged him. He was also a bigote and a homophobe. Nevertheless, he was the most recognizable one in his New Jersey crime family. The bulk of the men who served for him were miserable. Tony was also a fictional, superbly portrayed by James Gandolfini in arguably the best TV drama there has ever been, The Sopranos, which ran for six seasons from 1999 to 2007.

On Monday night, the Emmy Awards celebrated nostalgic cast reunions of some of the best and most beloved shows in television history. In an interview with Variety last week, Emmy Awards executive producers Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay hinted two of these reunions for the hit 90s sitcom Martin and the hit legal thriller Ally McBeal. In the interview, Rouzan-Clay said, 'I think they'll be talking about the ones that they might not see on television.'

At Sunday's 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Sopranos actress Lorraine Bracco and Michael Imperioli paid their respects to the iconic HBO show for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Bracco, 69, appeared in the reimagined psychiatry office, where her character Dr. Jennifer Melfi treated Tony Soprano (played by James Gandolfini) throughout the seven seasons.

On Wednesday night, the stars of HBO's show The Sopranos were out in force, as they arrived at the 25th anniversary party. The bash took place at Da Nico Ristorante in Little Italy, New York, and the iconic one of the event turned heads when she appeared at the soirée. The actress wore all-black ensemble and without her signature glasses on the show, she looked a little different when not in character.

As HBO commemorated its 25th anniversary, James Gandolfini's son Michael looked exactly like his late father when he appeared on the Sopranos. Michael, 24, commanded the ball at the Da Nico Ristorante in Little Italy, New York, which was held on October 24. In The Sopranos' prequel, The Many Saints Of Newark, which was released in 2021, the actor appeared in the teenage version of Tony Soprano.

On Wednesday, the day HBO premiered The Sopranos, a number of actors and colleagues of the show made television history. On Wednesday, Michael Gandolfini, the son of late great James Gandolfini, arrived on the red carpet of a 25th anniversary celebration in New York City. In four episodes over the past two seasons, Julianna Margulies, who played Julianna Skiff, the mistress of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), was joined by him.

Federico Castelluccio was unrecognizable from his clean-shaven, long-haired hitman character Furio Giunta when he arrived in Manhattan on Wednesday at the 25th anniversary of The Sopranos. At the red carpet dinner for the HBO tribute, the 59-year-old painter-director looked dapper wearing a black coat over a blue blazer, patterned scarf, black slacks, and matching Oxfords.

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Fans of The Sopranos can buy a float piece of television history as a boat possessed by the show's patriarch has gone up for auction. In the cult classic series, Tony Soprano's boat, dubbed 'The Stugots,' has been listed on the market for $299,900. The yacht, now branded 'Never Enough,' is a 1999 Cape Fear 47 Sportfish replica and is currently docked in Stamford, Connecticut. It's not the first time the ship, which was on the first season of the legendary HBO show about a New Jersey mob family, has gone up for auction.

Michael Gandolfini, 24, and his partner, actress Mia Healey, 24, are in love. This week, the Many Saints of Newark actor was seen on PDA with his Australian love in New York City, announcing their new love.

On Tuesday's episode of The Real Housewives Of New Jersey on Bravo, Jennifer Fessler revealed that she had a sexual relationship with late actor James Gandolfini. After a brief stint at actor college, the 52-year-old 'friend' of the cast during a group trip to Ireland revealed that she became a talent agent. 'How many people did you sleep with?' Margaret Josephs, 56, wondered.

In The Super Mario Bros Movie, which opened Wednesday, Chris Pratt said he had trouble finding the voice for Mario. In a Zoom talk with costars Charlie Day, Anya Taylor-Joy, Keegan-Michael Key, and Jack Black, the 43-year-old actor whose participation in the animated film had his first attempt at an accent dismissed because it hued too closely to James Gandolfini's accent on HBO's legendary crime drama The Sopranos Pratt revealed that he had very few clues to go on in creating the character.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, an 11-time Emmy winner, starred in a film starring 11-time Emmy winners Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a woman pondering the difference between lying and encouraging, A24 released the first trailer for the film You Hurt My Feelings on Tuesday. Beth, the 62-year-old Seinfeld alum, did double duty as author and actress, after her long marriage is upended when she mishears her therapist husband Don's (Tobias Menzies) true opinion of her latest book.

John Ventimiglia's daughter, Shiloh, died at the age of 25, according to her family only three months after she welcomed her baby girl. Odele Ventimiglia died on January 12th, although her cause of death is uncertain. In a Facebook post, Belinda Cape's mother said the family had been left "heartbroken" by the tragic news.

On Monday, Michael Gandolfini was casually dressed at the Landscape With Invisible Hand premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. On the red carpet in Park City for the special screening, the 23-year-old talented actor, who appeared in the science fiction film, joined his other co-stars. The son of late actor James Gandolfini, who played Tony Soprano on the award-winning HBO series The Sopranos, is the star of Ocean's 8.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is looking forward to the unveiling of her new project. You Hurt My Feelings is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Sunday. The 62-year-old actress stars in the comedy as a novelist whose marriage is ended after she hears her husband's honest reaction to her new book. In an interview with Variety, she discussed why she loved to act in Enough Said, the award-winning 2013 film starring late James Gandolfini.'

Anthony Saunderson, Paul Mount, and Darren Owens, among six others (right, inset), were sentenced to more than 187 years in prison for producing hundreds of kilograms of drugs (middle, inset). The criminal syndicate arranged their cocaine, opium, ketamine, and mainly amphetamine trade in messages sent over the Encrochat network, which prompted the big police probe. Saunderson, 42, of Formby, who was also guilty of a weapons offense, was given Encrochat handles after the notorious TV crime lords were released, which the judge said gave him 'intelligence.' Jesse Pinkman (left), a Breaking Bad actor who also works an amphetamine dealer (right, inset, drug manufacturing facilities), appeared in the hit series, as well as Sopranos actor James Gandolfini (right), who plays Tony Soprano.