Sopranos denied film permit over ‘negative’ image

THE producers of hit TV show The Sopranos were denied a permit to film in Bloomfield, New Jersey, because the mayor and some city council members say the series negatively depicts Italian-Americans.

The owners of an old-fashioned ice cream parlour selected for the series’s final scene, however, said such “personal feelings” shouldn’t stand in the way.

“He should do what’s good for the town,” Chris Carley, co-owner of Holsten’s Brookdale Confectionery, said of Bloomfield Mayor Raymond McCarthy.