Yeah: Lorraine Bracco and Dominic Chianese, Dr. Melfi and Junior respectively. I hadn't heard about that before, but Wikipedia leads me to two pieces:

>>> ABC News: 'Sopranos' Banned From Parade

First the Emmy snub, now this?

Officials for New York City’s Columbus Day Parade are banning the cast of The Sopranos from marching in next week’s procession, due to the show’s less-than-P.C. portrayal of Italian-Americans.

David Chase, the show’s creator, is staying mum on the ban, but the rest of the show’s cast isn’t. Katherine Narducci, who plays the always disapproving wife of Tony’s pal Artie on the HBO series, tells the New York Daily News, “This is a television show! We’re acting! Get over it! If you are taking it that seriously, then you have a problem.” Michael Rispoli, who played the dying don Jackie Aprile on the show’s first season, also griped about the ban: “Unfortunately, what will be missed at the parade is the celebration of the fact that David Chase and James Gandolfini and Michael Imperioli and Edie Falco are all Italian-Americans who have put together a fantastic show that is watched by everybody out there. And, unfortunately, for them not to be celebrated as Italian-Americans, as actors, playing in a show that everybody watches, I think that’s where the crime is.” The show and its mob characters were previously hit with protests from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations.

>>> NY Times: Sopranos out of tune with parade

Columbus Day Parade organisers banned the Mayor from bringing The Sopranos, writes Michael Cooper from New York.

There was something bothering Charlie Romano on Sunday about the Mayor, the parade and the Mafia television show.

No, he was not offended that Mayor Michael Bloomberg had invited the actors who play Uncle Junior and Dr Melfi on The Sopranos to the Columbus Day Parade in Manhattan on Monday. Nor did it upset him that the Mayor decided to skip the parade on Monday after its organisers went to court to bar The Sopranos actors.

The thing that bothered Romano on Sunday as he watched the Mayor march in another Columbus Day Parade in the Bronx was that Bloomberg had not brought any of his actor friends. "Hey, Mayor!" Romano, 40, shouted as the Mayor's entourage passed by. "Where are the Sopranos?"

It was a question repeated several times along the route as Bloomberg - who wrapped himself, literally, in an Italian flag - made his way through the Bronx to the police marching band.

Yes, there were a few boos when Bloomberg reached the reviewing stand. But a majority of people along the route greeted the Mayor with cheers and handshakes, and one woman even gave him the flag that he donned. Many of them said they did not care that the Mayor had wanted to march with the actors.

"That's like saying that Marlon Brando can't march because he once played the Godfather," Romano said.

Some school cheerleaders even told the Mayor that he "rocks".

The Mayor, for his part, took his warm reception in the Bronx as evidence that some people take these things - actors playing mobsters - too seriously. "I think, you know, we should all lighten up a little bit," Bloomberg said at the end of the parade route. Bloomberg told the crowd, "It's great to be in the Bronx, and it's great to be at a parade where you can march with all your friends." (Actually, a Bronx parade organiser said later that The Sopranos cast would not have been welcome at that parade, either.)

One of the women who booed Bloomberg, Martha Parisi, said that she wished he had found more positive role models to march with.

"Yes, it's a show, and we understand it's all comedy, but it's a lot of bad language, it's a lot of things that we don't believe in as Italian-Americans," she said.

The Columbus Day Parade began to rival the St Patrick's Day Parade for controversy over who gets to march after the news got out last week that the Mayor planned to march up Fifth Avenue with the actors, Dominic Chianese and Lorraine Bracco. The organisers, who say The Sopranos denigrates Italian-Americans, went to court to block the Mayor from bringing the actors, and won. So the mayor decided to skip their parade.

Still, Bloomberg said that even though he was boycotting yesterday's Columbus Day Parade on Fifth Avenue, he hoped city workers would march. "It will be a great parade and people should have a good time, and people should celebrate everything that those of Italian descent contribute to this city," he said.

Dr Joseph Scelsa, an organiser of the Bronx parade, said the Mayor would have sent the wrong message by marching with only actors from a Mafia show and no other actors.

"When you come in with only those people, then you're making a statement," he said. "I don't think the Mayor realised it."

Both of those refer to the Columbus Parade(s) of October 2002; "Christopher" originally aired not long before, on September 29.