The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti - References To Other Media

References To Other Media

• Christopher's shooting the bakery employee in the foot mirrors an "innocent" Spider's getting shot in the foot in Goodfellas. Michael Imperioli plays both Spider and Christopher.
• Richard Romanus plays Dr. Melfi's ex-husband, Richard LaPenna, and he talks to Dr. Melfi (played by Lorraine Bracco) that the American culture is giving Italian-Americans a bad name, and mentions Goodfellas to Melfi. Both Richard Romanus and Lorraine Bracco co-starred in a Martin Scorsese film, Romanus co-starred in Mean Streets and Bracco co-starred in Goodfellas.
• Christopher's explanation of his sense of malaise to Paulie Gualtieri prompts Paulie to share: the writer "with the bullfights blew his head off". Paulie is referring to Ernest Hemingway, who committed suicide. Hemingway's bullfighting pieces include both non-fiction (e.g., the Toronto Star article "Pamplona in July; World's Series of Bull Fighting a Mad, Whirling Carnival", and the book Death in the Afternoon (1932)) and fiction (e.g., the short story "The Capital of the World", and the novel The Sun Also Rises (1926)).