Apparently the contract dispute between HBO and James Gandolfini, star of The Sopranos, is getting pretty ugly. (Basically Gandolfini has sued to get out of his contract for a fifth season because of an issue over salary, and HBO has countersued for $100 million.) The most amusing thing about the whole mess is how HBO laywer and spokesman Bert Fields seems to think that, because he's suing the actor who plays Tony Soprano, he suddenly has the right to talk like Joe Pesci's character in GoodFellas. Two sample quotes from Fields: "Lawyers don't say things like this, but I'll say it: He can't win; he's just dead; he is dead, he just won't lie down." And: "Gandolfini's agents believe they're holding a gun to HBO's head to get them to pay this massive salary increase, but it's really a water pistol -- and doesn't even have any water in it."

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