Your Morning Carmela
For Friday, July 19th, 2024
Week 68 of our regular morning feature here at Friedman of the Plains Worldwide in which we highlight the great words and works of great men and women, as well as those who are insufferable, delusional, and even fictional.
This week Carmela Soprano
“It’s not a nursing home, Ma, it’s a . . . retirement community!”
Nancy Marchand was so good at being evil that I almost couldn't watch the screen when she was on it.
It was originally a resort hotel... in West Orange, NJ, back when it was a more rural area, a kind of mini-Catskills closer to NYC. Located along a thoroughfare named Pleasant Valley Way. A well-known songwriting couple moved to town at one point, and wrote a minor hit song about the area.
Greene's Hotel later did convert to a residence facility. The clientele was a mix of Jews and Italians, so Livia would have found a variety of people to despise.