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Searching for Johnny Salami

The perfectly-named Satin Dolls patron told a Reuters reporter that the enigmatic ending to 'The Sopranos' "left us hanging." Then, he disappeared. Gelf went looking for him.

Michael Gluckstadt

Throughout its celebrated run, The Sopranos featured some of the most intriguing characters on television: an overweight homosexual mobster; a comely hostess who suffered from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and her murderer/addict/screenwriter husband; and of course Tony Soprano himself, the heavy-breathing physical embodiment of American entitlement. But no character on the HBO showsave perhaps for the man in the Members Only jacketwas as enigmatic as one who was introduced to the world after the screen went dark: the elusive Johnny Salami.