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How to smell like your favourite spaghetti-slurping mob boss


November 13, 2008 1:00 a.m.
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BUT ISN’T THAT THE POINT?: Tony Sirico’s Paulie Walnuts was one of the best characters on HBO’s The Sopranos – twitchy and volatile, constantly on the verge of a psychotic episode, he was a soothing reminder that, with guys like this around, the long term viability of the Mafia would always be in doubt.

 

Not content with a character actor’s career, Sirico has apparently put his name on a new cologne – Paolo Per Uomo – that’s gotten a fairly scathing review from the New York Post, who took it out to Times Square to test it out on New Yorkers.

“It reminds me of a hard night,” said one young woman. “It's way too much. If you put it on, you have to air yourself out,” said another.

“At first whiff, we were sipping wine with Tony and Big Pussy at the Bada Bing,” wrote the Post’s Raahkee Mirchandani, obviously warming to the task. “A few more whiffs - and we sensed top notes of cigar ash and polyester jumpsuits with hints of stripper sweat and a cream-filled cannoli.”

Paolo Per Uomo was unveiled at the Perfumers Choice Awards in Manhattan, and will be joined by an aftershave and deodorant, according to Sirico, though there’s no news about whether they’ll also smell “like every lasagna-loving, spaghetti-slurping mob-boss wannabe or cheap imitation consigliere,” as per the Post’s description. Evocative words, no doubt, but you have to wonder who’d buy the stuff if it didn’t.

LIKE JACKASS FOR STUPID PEOPLE…DID I JUST SAY THAT?
: Human Wrecking Balls is a new show on the G4 network in the U.S., where two brothers demonstrate how to tear things apart using just their bare hands, shoulders and bodies, accompanied by the odd guest star, like the Danzig bassist who helps them wreck a hotel room.

“An office, an ‘80s muscle car and a small airplane” are all the victims of the Pumphrey brothers’ unique skill set, according to a USA Today story, while experts like a structural engineer offer the educational component, describing “the strength of the items being destroyed and the force needed to pulverize them.” If I know anything about young men with too much time on their hands, this and a few cases of Red Bull could have a ripple effect on apartment leases and struggling relationships all over the country.

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