Luxury Lounge
- Episode aired Apr 23, 2006
- TV-MA
- 55m
Christopher and Carmine travel to Hollywood to take the next step in making their movie but quickly realize they're out of their depth. Artie feuds with Benny after his restaurant falls prey... Read allChristopher and Carmine travel to Hollywood to take the next step in making their movie but quickly realize they're out of their depth. Artie feuds with Benny after his restaurant falls prey to one of Tony's scams.Christopher and Carmine travel to Hollywood to take the next step in making their movie but quickly realize they're out of their depth. Artie feuds with Benny after his restaurant falls prey to one of Tony's scams.
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri
- (as Steven R. Schirripa)
- Charmaine Bucco
- (as Katherine Narducci)
- Carlo Gervasi
- (as Arthur Nascarella)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDavid Chase: A passenger on the plane during the last scene of the episode.
- GoofsWhen Artie pulls the tablecloth off the table, the items left change from camera shot to camera shot.
- Quotes
Tony Soprano: You bitch and you moan, and you blame everybody else for your problems. Instead of maybe not letting the Mexicans do all the cooking for you, or maybe changing the menu, or changing the decorum.
Artie Bucco: I guess because you know how to eat, you know how to run a restaurant.
Tony Soprano: On one of the bleakest nights of my life, after the shit with my mother, and that fucking storm outside, I came here. To this place. I sat out there with Carm and my two kids and we ate and we drank and we were so happy to be here. More than any other place in the world. And you know I'm gonna eat here til I fall off the chair. But in business sometimes shit happens, the playing field changes, whatever. And you gotta do whatever you gotta do to keep your dick up.
Artie Bucco: If you hate it here so much, why don't you go Don Giovanni. See if he'll cook you that bland shit for your shattered pancreas.
Tony Soprano: [pauses] Alright, I'll tell you one thing. And this is very hard. Nobody wants to hear you talk. They're trying to eat out there, and you come along, with your corny jokes, and your stupid stories. Just stay in the kitchen. That'd be a start.
- ConnectionsEdited into Making 'Cleaver' (2007)
- SoundtracksDazz
Performed by Brick
With Little Carmine willing to produce his gangster-horror movie, Chrissy heads out to L.A. to meet with Ben Kingsley, his scary work in Sexy Beast making him the ideal choice for the role of the mob boss. Sadly, Sir Ben isn't impressed, leaving Chris with nothing to but drink and do drugs again. Oh, and mug Lauren Bacall just for the sake of it. Back in Jersey, things get bad for Artie Bucco as he discovers one of Chris's pals has been using his new waitress to run a credit card scam. When things threaten to turn bloody, Tony has to step in once again.
Juxtaposing two story lines, Luxury Lounge alternates between sincerely touching in the Artie section and cruelly satirical in the Hollywood plot batch. The latter part is particularly appealing on account of Kingsley and Bacall's willingness to get their hands (and mouths) dirty, Kingsley especially having a great time making fun of his Englishness. Then again, his casting probably wasn't accidental: perhaps David Chase read Roger Ebert's famous review of Sexy Beast, which ended with the following sentence describing British crooks: "These are hard people. They could have the Sopranos for dinner, throw up and have them again." Judging from Sir Ben's hugely enjoyable self-mockery and cracking final line (it's just one priceless word), Ebert had a point, although the man who played Don Logan never actually meets Tony. Maybe he found him too hard to swallow.
- MaxBorg89
- May 21, 2008
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- Punta Dura - 34th Avenue, Long Island City, New York, USA(Nuovo Vesuvio)
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- Runtime55 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1