Talk on the street was a mob kidnapping conspiracy, and Tony Soprano was the target. HBO's Courteney Monroe was startled on a Century City sidewalk last month, overhearing three men plotting how to pry open the glass case of a nearby bus shelter. The goal: stealing a giant, stark poster touting the fifth season return of The Sopranos. "A thrilling moment," says Monroe, HBO's senior VP of advertising. The men failed, but legions have scored. Crazed fans have snagged a third of those chilling Sopranos posters on both coasts, and the , company was forced to print more.
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