{"id":30172,"date":"2022-07-08T20:48:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T00:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30172"},"modified":"2022-07-08T20:48:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T00:48:42","slug":"rip-tony-sirico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30172","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Tony Sirico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z070822rip_tony_sirico.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tony Sirico, who rose to fame playing Peter Paul &#8220;Paulie Walnuts&#8221; Gualtieri on<em> The Sopranos<\/em> died this morning.\u00a0 Mr. Sirico was 79.\u00a0 Tony Sirico&#8217;s brother posted the following on Facebook&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is with great sadness, but with incredible pride, love and a whole lot of fond memories, that the family of Gennaro Anthony &#8216;Tony&#8217; Sirico wishes to inform you of his death&#8221; Friday morning,\u00a0 The family is deeply grateful for the many expressions of love, prayer and condolences and requests that the public respect its privacy in this time of bereavement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tony Sirico built a career playing tough guys and mobsters.\u00a0 He was convincing because Mr. Sirico was a real-life tough guy who knew first hand the view from the backseat of a police cruiser.\u00a0 Tony Sirico was arrested 28 times and served two prison terms.\u00a0 It was during his second stint in prison that he decided to give acting a try (after an acting troupe visited the prison).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tony Sirico appeared in both television and feature films.\u00a0 Some television shows\/movies where you can find Mr. Sirico include: <em>Kojak, Police Squad, Miami Vice, Gotti, Cosby, The Sopranos, Medium, A Muppets Christmas<\/em> and <em>Family Guy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Feature films that, uh, feature Tony Sirico include: <em>The Pick-Up Artist, Goodfellas, Romeo is Bleeding, Bullets Over Broadway, Dead Presidents<\/em> and <em>Cop Land<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tony Sirico brought a feeling of authenticity to his roles.\u00a0 One of my favorite Tony Sirico roles was Toy Torillo in <em>Cop Land<\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a huge role, but Mr. Sirico provided the gravitas needed.\u00a0 Of course if I have to pick just one Tony Sirico role, then of course I&#8217;m going with Paulie Walnuts in <em>The Sopranos<\/em>.\u00a0 Thankfully, we aren&#8217;t limited to just one because Tony Sirico was good in everything.<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Sirico, who rose to fame playing Peter Paul &#8220;Paulie Walnuts&#8221; Gualtieri on The Sopranos died this morning.\u00a0 Mr. Sirico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30173,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30172\/revisions\/30173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}