Cast members of "The Sopranos'' performed stage readings of "On the Waterfront'' days after Mayor Peter Cammarano was arrested in a corruption sting.
Actors included Vincent Pastore, who played the genial mob killer Salvatore "Big Pussy'' Bonpensiero on the HBO drama. The
95-year-old screenplay author Budd Schulberg also was there Wednesday.
Hudson County political blogger Kim Gardiner tells the Jersey Journal, "there are scenes in the play where you can just change a few names and ... you're here today.''
Cammarano was in office only weeks when he was arrested in the federal sting.
"On the Waterfront,'' the Oscar-winning story of corruption among longshoremen, was filmed in Hoboken in 1954.
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