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Aug 13 2007 12:00am EDT

Life After The Sopranos

Attention Sopranos fans. James Gandolfini is returning to HBO.

He's set to play John "Sonny" Vaccaro, the man who signed Michael Jordan to the first million-dollar shoe deal, according to Variety.

The funny thing is, ESPN Magazine compared Vaccaro to a Sopranos character in a 2002 profile, saying he's " long been cast as some kind of mafioso, strong-arming amateur basketball for much of his 63 years."

Tim Swanson's full Hollywood Inc. blog post on this subject can be found here.


Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.
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