Tara’s Reviews > Woke Up This Morning: The Bestselling, Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos > Status Update

The scene was, Christopher is high on heroin and wakes up from his drug-induced stupor and the dog, Cosette, is underneath his butt and the dog is suffocated and dead. I was always amazed at how fans would be, yes, Christopher killed sixteen people. Nobody is really complaining about any of that or batting an eyelash, but you sit on one dog and people will never forgive you for that. […]

There was an episode where they were going to go to Paulie’s apartment, and the set designers and producers were racking their brains to figure out what the apartment would look like. They were going on and on. “What would Paulie’s apartment look like?” Finally, somebody said, “The guy is the guy. Let’s go to Tony Sirico’s apartment.” That’s what wound up being Paulie Walnuts’s apartment. [...]