Between Buddy and Mikey Salerno, the Brooklyn faction of the family has earned a lifetime's worth of contempt from the Bronx faction (who, by the way, are still firmly entrenched in the driver's seat, regardless of the online cheerleaders from Brooklyn who were predicting a "blood bath" when the two Georges came home ).

Re Ducks and Pistone: I don't believe that Ducks sat with Pistone for one second. And let me be clear to whoever posted it: I believe that Pistone wrote it in one of his books, so it's certainly not you who I don't believe. But Pistone is an ego driven asshole who can't stand it that his five minutes were up a long time ago. Is it any wonder why his latter two books were written at the height of Sopranos mania?