Paulie's "Whattaya hear? Whattaya say? is an Easter egg to 1938's Angels With Dirty Faces, one of the best gangster films ever made.

His Paulie Walnuts was vain and petty ... Nobody can touch his hair. The stories. The way he bugs his eyes when he’s surprised. Great expressions. It was sort of beyond doing.” ...

And then there was his hair: a pompadour first sculpted into ... When Mr. Sirico took the role of Paulie Walnuts on “The Sopranos,” he said he would do anything except rat out his friends ...

On Friday, it was reported that Tony Sirico, best known as Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri on The ... a mafia lifer with fascinating hair, a fear of germs, hatred of cats, and a love of track ...

During an interview with Deadline in 2019, Sirico explained: David Chase didn’t know me the first time we met, but I had the greased back hair ... play a guy named Paulie Walnuts.” ...

Sirico refused to let anyone touch his hair and spent hours combing and spraying it before shooting a scene. open image in gallery Old school: Paulie Walnuts (Sirico) takes Christopher (Michael Im ...

According to David Chase, the only time an actor ever convinced him to change a line of dialogue on The Sopranos was when Tony Sirico, deeply resentful that his character, Paulie, a mob captain ...

Paulie Walnuts — that was Paul Gualtieri’s nickname ... No hairdresser on the “Sopranos” set was allowed to touch Mr. Sirico’s hair — dark and luxuriant, with two silver “wings ...

Sirico burst on the scene late in his career as "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri, a character marked by gray-streaked hair, twisted street wisdom, and the inevitable deterioration of physical strength.