The Sopranos (TV Series)

Full Leather Jacket (2000)

Saundra Santiago: Joan, Jean Cusamano

Quotes 

• Carmela Soprano : [over the phone]  hi, how are you?

  Jeanie Cusamano : listen, I spoke to my sister about the letter of recommendation for Meadow and she's sorry, she just can't do it... I'm sorry

  Carmela Soprano : she can't? Why not?

  Jeanie Cusamano : well because she already wrote a letter for someone else: a wonderful Dominican from the housing projects, with a 5.2 average and a crack addict mother with Cerebral palsy

  Carmela Soprano : so, what does that mean? She can't send two?

  Jeanie Cusamano : did you think about asking one of the priests at the church? A letter from Father Intintola would "probably" mean more I bet? Especially at Georgetown. I gotta go, bye, good luck

• Carmela Soprano : [surprising her in her backyard]  Jeanie, hi, you're putting your roses to bed huh?

  Jeanie Cusamano : Carmela, hi

  Carmela Soprano : I haven't seen you in spinning class lately and I went by and couple times and ran your bell couple times but you weren't home either

  Jeanie Cusamano : really?

  Carmela Soprano : [referring to Jeanie's identical twin sister]  The other day I'm at the Willow Brook mall and I see you going on the down escalator and I'm yelling "Jeanie, Jeanie," and that's when I realized it was your sister: didn't she go to Georgetown?

  Jeanie Cusamano : [listing her sister's credentials with the university]  Georgetown Law, Georgetown Law Review, Regional Secretary of the Georgetown Alumni Association of Short Hill

  Carmela Soprano : Because you know my Meadow applied to Georgetown? And I am hoping and praying to Jesus that she gets in, she keeps talking about Berkley

  Jeanie Cusamano : College already huh? They get big so fast

  Jeanie Cusamano : [after looking at her watch]  Oh God, is that the time?

  Carmela Soprano : I need to ask you a favor. I was wondering if you would ask your sister to write Meadow a letter of recommendation? Is that too forward?

  Jeanie Cusamano : Well, she doesn't really know Meadow

  Carmela Soprano : but you do and you can give her Meadow's transcripts, which are excellent by the way: her paper on the melting icecaps made me cry, it was so poignant. It was published in the Daily Caduceus

  Jeanie Cusamano : My sister... she's so busy

  Carmela Soprano : Really? Is there's any way you can find yourself to help me out here?

  Jeanie Cusamano : I'll ask

• Jeanie Cusamano : [after knocking and entering her office]  Hi

  Joan : Oh my God, did we have a lunch? I'm rushing out the door to a deposition

  Jeanie Cusamano : I was in the neighborhood

  Joan : Downtown Newark?

  Jeanie Cusamano : [referring to making a mistake]  I think I goofed, I don't know how I got into this conversation but Carmela Soprano from next door, trapped me and asked me if I'd ask you to write her daughter a letter of recommendation to Georgetown

  Joan : [surprised]  The gangster's wife?

  Jeanie Cusamano : I'm sorry... she just blindsided me in the backyard, what I suppose to say?

  Joan : That I'm busy, which I am, that I don't even know the girl

  Jeanie Cusamano : Come on, you met Meadow, Fourth of July barbeque

  Joan : That's not what I mean: you can't expect me to do this

  Jeanie Cusamano : It's just a letter. Bruce just wrote one to UVM, you do it all the time

  Joan : Bring gangsters onto the Georgetown campus? I don't think so

  Jeanie Cusamano : [irritated]  Oh, spare me the elitist bullshit, they're my neighbors

  Joan : Have you lost your mind?

  Jeanie Cusamano : Carmela asked me

  Joan : what're you frightened? What'd you think they're going to do? Put you in cement boots over some college applications?

  Jeanie Cusamano : It's not that: it's a question of manners, what am I supposed to say?

  Joan : That I'm writing a letter of recommendation for someone else, which I am. A wonderful young Dominican boy from the projects with a 5.2 average, I have a reputation to protect

  Jeanie Cusamano : I knew you wouldn't do it

  Joan : You want to be a doormat for the rest of your life? Just deal with it ok?