I aspire to become more "Christ Like", but allow me to "relapse" 
momentarily, and snicker up my sleeve, at the misfortunes of others,
but only when they are spending too much of their time involved in a 
TV series that so tarnishes my Italian Heritage. 

May "Shrink" Melfi find another "Shrink" to help her with her 
Psycological or is it a Moral problem? Or is it merely that, she is not
careful enough about who she "associates" with, or is she is a victim 
of her "environment"? [;-)     
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BRACCO ENDS A VANISHING ACT
by Richard Johnson and Paula Froelich and Chris Wilson

LORRAINE Bracco has sticky fingers. Last month, Bracco and her 
"Sopranos" castmates were photographed for a spread in a major 
fashion magazine. 

The stylist dressed her in a $5,000  "Celine by Michael Kors" dress. 
But when it came time to pack up, Bracco's frock couldn't be found 
anywhere. 

Lorraine Bracco insisted she'd handed it to an assistant, but the dress 
had disappeared. For two weeks the frantic stylist, magazine and designer
called Bracco's people asking if she might have "accidentally" put it 
somewhere, but she continued to deny it. 

Then one night Bracco showed up to an event wearing the dress. 

Realizing she'd been photographed, she called Kors' people the next 
morning, saying she had "borrowed" it after all and wanted to send it 
back. 

"It was so tacky," says our insider. "I'm sure she wouldn't have given it 
back if she hadn't got caught." 

"Lorraine continues to have a wonderful relationship with Michael Kors," 
says Bracco's rep. "The dress was borrowed and promptly returned." 

Kors' rep did not return  calls. 
        
Provided  by  Richard Johnson, Page Six columnist, 
The New York Post
SIGHTINGS        
December 24, 2001