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'Soprano Sue' Knows Where Tony Buries Bodies

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One place you won't go on the Sopranos On Location Tour is Tony and Carmela's house. The family who lives there has begged for privacy, after several incidents of fans wandering up the driveway and in the backyard.

"I can't take you there," she says. "To me, it's sacred ground,"

Wire Taps: Wise Guys Watch Cable

If honest, everyday Americans have an obsession with "The Sopranos," so do real-life wise guys. James Gandolfini says he's gotten unsolicited advice — even fashion tips — for his portrayal of Tony Soprano.

"I talk to some gentlemen who have friends who are these people and most of them enjoy the show," Gandolfini told reporters when he was promoting "The Mexican."

"They get a good laugh out of it, although once when I wore shorts in a barbecue scene it was relayed to me that it was not something these gentlemen would do, even at a barbecue."

When "Sopranos" creator James Chase heard that, he wrote it into the show, having New York boss Carmine Lupertazzi tell Tony at a lawn party, "a don never wears shorts." The Lupertazzi character died last season, and Tony subsequently started showing some more leg.

Of course, the mob's love of mob movies is a running joke on "The Sopranos." As Silvio Dante, Steve Van Zandt regales the rest of the Soprano gang with his Michael Corleone impression. And as Van Zandt's fictional character did his impression of another pretend gangster, some real gangsters were watching, according to FBI wiretaps.

Members of the DeCavalcante family — a New Jersey crime syndicate said to be the model for the HBO show — were secretly recorded in 1999 gushing over the show, and how it's given them more respect among their elitist New York peers, who once dismissed them as "Farmers."

"Every show you watch, more and more, you pick somebody," says Anthony Rotondo, a DeCavalcante turncoat who called the show "amusing."

"Yeah, but where do they get this information from?" family soldier Joseph "Tin Ear" Sclafani asks.

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