"Can I be a 'Sopranos' baby?" Ertischek asked the star in a whiny, tough-guy accent.
What does a "Sopranos baby" mean in that context, anyway? Was he trying to pitch a Muppet Babies style prequel show?
I'm intrigued by the writer's use of "the hulking actor suddenly whipped around and
smushed the man's face with his hand" vs. the guy's version of the story, wherein Gandolfini very specifically "turned around and choked me by the neck and
punched me with a closed fist to the right side of my face." A closed fist punch is clearly different from a smushing, right? Smushing has to be open-handed, sort of like
piefacing somebody, but with less pushing and more hand movement, if you ask me. I think the definition of smushing is going to be very important in this trial, especially as a precedent-setter for future smush-related laws.
Really, though, both this guy and Gandolfini should probably just be glad they got involved in a face-off and not a
Face/Off. That would have made five hours in the hospital seem like nothing.
