Sons of Italy CSJ Urges"Now or Never" Campaign Against Projected NBC Series, "Mafia Wives"
Washington, DC--
September 12, 2007
The anti-defamation arm of the Order Sons of Italy in
America (OSIA) is urging all concerned Italian
Americans to protest NBC's plans for a new television
series on the Mafia.
The project, Mafia Wives is about women who
take over the "family business." The brainchild of
BermanBraun and Universal Media Studios, it is
written by Lynda LaPlante.
"The good news is that the project is still 'in
development,' which means that the network has not
yet invested a lot of money in it so it still can be
dropped," says Anthony Baratta, national
president of the Sons of Italy Commission for Social
Justice (CSJ). "However, once actors are signed and
a pilot is filmed, nothing will stop it. It's now or never,"
Baratta says.
To protest, write to two key NBC execs: Marc
Graboff, co-chairman of NBC, and Vince Manze,
president of NBC Program Planning. Graboff is a
lawyer who is very protective of NBC's reputation.
Manze is an Italian American.
E-mail:
MARK.GRABOFF@NBCUNI.COM
;
VINCE.MANZE@NBCUNI.COM
Telephone: (818) 840-3538
Address: NBC Studios, 3000 W. Alameda Avenue,
Burbank, CA 91523
Order Sons of Italy in America
The Sons of Italy CSJ is the anti-defamation arm of the
Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA), the largest and
oldest national organization for people of Italian
descent in the U.S. To learn more about the CSJ, visit
us on the Web at www.osia.org or contact us via e-
mail at
csj@osia.org
.
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Contact:
Kylie Cafiero
Director of Communications
phone:
202/547-2900
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