If you haven’t heard by now, the Bloomfield Town Council is rejecting permits allowing The Sopranos to film the final scene of the series in a local ice cream parlor. The genius Mayor of the town had this to say:
The mayor, whose wife is Italian, said: “I don’t think ‘The Sopranos’ depicts the life of a typical Italian-American in a positive way and I still don’t like the way people see New Jersey based upon ‘The Sopranos’ series.”
He added that he plans to oppose filming again on Monday. “What the rest of the council does, that’s their choice. I stand by my convictions.”
How completely ridiculous? Where in the Councilman job description does it say, “If you disagree with a television show’s portrayal of a certain ethnic group, you have the ability to deny this group their right to film in your town, even though they meet all necessary regulations.”
In a country where the Klu Klux Klan is still allowed to march and where Nazis and Communists are allowed to run for public office, are we really at a point where we need to start going after television shows? I mean come on, idiots!
And the really sad part about this situation is that the ice cream parlor, Holsten’s Brookdale Confectionary, and its owners are the ones being hurt the most from this arrogant Mayor and his “personal convictions.” Quite frankly, I don’t see why in our lawsuit-happy state, these folks wouldn’t file every lawsuit in the book against the Mayor. By virtue of this parlor being the location of the final scene of the show, their sales would go through the roof just as they would become a statewide legend.
The amount of lost profits that the store would be suffering through is monumental!
And all of this because the Mayor of the town doesn’t like the show?
Come on…this state’s local politicians CAN’T be that stupid!
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