With the season's end of HBO's "The Sopranos," diehard fans are wondering what sort of major plot twists are in store for them next season. (Of course, we'll all have to wait until March 2007 to find out, but that's another tale.)

Right now, the character with the most controversy swirling around him has already been whacked. Joseph Gannascoli, who played the gruesomely murdered gay mobster Vito Scatafore, is in the midst of a legal battle with the company that manufactures Stacker 2 diet pills. Gannascoli was paid over $300,000 to promote the pills, which he said helped him to lose 140 pounds in 2005. But because the company didn't think he did enough for the product, they severed ties with the actor and filed a lawsuit against him.

Gannascoli, on the other hand, claims the Stacker 2 people no longer wanted to work with him because his character was gay. In a conversation with the NY Post, he said: "That was their problem. They were anti-gay."

Who knows what's true or not true, but with the evidence presented, you've got to root for Gannascoli, right? Despite being dishonest and, well, a murderer, Vito was kind of lovable. And really, hasn't he endured enough already? --Mike Conklin