[You just gotta get your kids to read] Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family, ... The Sopranos. |
All I can tell ya is that Bobby is around pretty much and I'm still alive so far. There will be a few more funerals. That's all I can say. |
At the beginning of the season you look at the front of the script, then you go straight to the back to make sure you're still on the show. |
But it's really about the Bensonhurst I knew growing up in the '60s and '70s. The Bensonhurst where the little old Italian ladies went out with their cart and shopped at seven stores along Bath Ave. |
David Chase invented the Big Pussy rule, which is that no one lives forever. I would've bought something five years ago, but I thought they'd kill me. |
David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision. |
It's really sad because besides losing the money and having to find work again, you're also leaving the greatest working situation you're ever going to get. |
So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor. |
The book is set in 2005, |
The grandmother is the matriarch, and by the end she helps reunite the estranged family. |
There's already some movie interest, and this is the first of a series of books. In the next book, Nicky Deuce brings the Brooklyn gang to his New Jersey hometown and sets it on its ear. |
We always have a big dinner. |