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Sopranos Genius Returns with Tale of Old Hollywood
David Chase, the creator/writer mastermind behind The Sopranos, is journeying back in time for his next HBO project. He's developing a miniseries about the early days of Hollywood, when the West was still sorta wild. More »
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David Chase Survives Whack Job
It's a sad day for scheming opportunists everywhere, as the jury in the case of David Chase Vs. Some Guy Who Didn't Write The Sopranos has ruled in favor of the genius creator/showrunner and against Robert Baer. Who? Exactly. More » -
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David Chase took to the stand on Tuesday to offer his defense in a lawsuit alleging that the Sopranos creator bilked Robert Baer, an early contributor to the series, out of financial compensation. David Chase has responded by calling Baer "self-delusional." Chase's lawyer has adduced evidence to corroborate the charge of mental illness: Baer liked the dream sequence episode. [AP] -
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David Chase Tells Pathetic 'Sopranos' Fans To Feel Guilty About Wanting Tony Whacked
With HBO subscribers understandably less engrossed in the mysteries with which the network now presents them on Sunday nights—such as whether or not Tell Me You Love Me's Adam Scott employs an ejaculating stunt-cock or how much longer we have to wait before producers serve up that hotly anticipated sexagenarian-penetration scene—it's inevitable that viewers don't seem quite ready to end their speculation about what actually happened in The Sopranos final, endlessly discussed moment. Series creator David Chase, who once emerged from post-finale hiding to reassure us that he wasn't fucking with America's collective head with his creative choices, now returns (in the form of an interview in a new Sopranos book) to offer people a greater degree of closure. Reports the AP: More » -
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Bricks, Chicks, And Guns
· Treat yourself to one of the bricks from the facade of The Sopranos' legendary Satriale's Pork Store, then use it to smash your TV out of frustration that John from Cincinnati isn't watchable. More »
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By MarkComment by raincoaster: Okay, what about this little item, buried deep beyond the Bing story: "Heroes" cutie Hayden Panettiere made a furry friend at... more » | Other threads
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The Emmy Nominations: Let's Just Hand Over The Statues to 'The Sopranos' And Call It A Day
We have, on more than one occasion, referred to the Emmys as "Oscar's paste-eating cousin," but even Hollywood's touched-in-the-head awards-proferring youngster gets his turn in the spotlight once in a while, and early this morning a legion of entertainment reporters were invited over to look at the names of the nominees he has sloppily finger-painted on some handy poster board, tousling the well-meaning tyke's hair as he noisily smacked away on a fresh mouthful of his beloved, adhesive snack. Their best guess at transcribing his illegible—but brightly rendered—scribblings reveals that mad-for-HBO movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was the most nominated of any program, garnering a staggering™ 17 nods, while the network's The Sopranos, the retiring series that tried to lessen the blow of depriving us of the Greatest Television Show Of All Time by reintroducing us to the genius of Journey, earned 15 nominations, including recognition in various acting categories for Tony, Carmela, Christopher, Janice, and Dr. Melfi. (Sadly, it seems that an inspired late push for The Kid Who Pooped in the Shower fell short.) More »
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Journey Thrilled Cheese-Rock Anthem Finally Used In Unironic Fashion
If we've learned anything from the The Sopranos finale, it's that nothing punches up a scene emotionally like Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'." There has been no shortage of media coverage asking the members of the 1980s supergroup with the penchant for winged scarab cover art what it feels like to be immortalized in the Most Important Final Scene in TV History: More » -
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Most Expensive Comedy In History Balances Wastefulness With Environmental Awareness
· Universal is partnering with environmentally conscious marketers to promote Evan Almighty, culminating in a spectacular stunt in which the studio will flood its Universal City theme park, washing away thousands of tourists to emphasize the film's uplifting, "green" message that God will kill us all if we don't take better care of our planet. [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.: Moonves, please. more » | Other threads
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David Chase Emerges From Hiding To Reassure 'Sopranos' Fans He Wasn't Just Fucking With Them
[Do we still need to say there will be spoilers in a post about the Sopranos finale? Well, there will be. Adjust your reading accordingly.—Ed.] Knowing that ending his beloved Sopranos—the Greatest Achievement in the History of a Debased Medium, unless you're one of those The Wire cultists—with four and a half minutes of "Don't Stop Believin'," Meadow's heart-palpitating struggles to parallel park in an enormous space, paranoid shots of a man whose Members Only-inspired fashion sense was a clear signifier of murderous intent, and then the Cut to Black That Shook The World might frustrate fans seeking the tidy closure only a spectacular whacking could provide, series creator David Chase escaped to France to wait out any angry mobs wanting to put two bullets in his temple and then crush his skull beneath an SUV's tire. He's now reemerged from his overseas cooling-off period with an interview with the Star-Ledger, in which he swears he didn't choose this ending just to fuck with viewers' heads: More »
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Tony Makes Tonys His Dirty Little Goomar
· Preliminary overnight ratings reveal that The Sopranos finale delivered a big number, stealing viewers from both the Tonys and the NBA finals. [Variety] More »
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By MarkComment by raincoaster: @metroville: Guess they didn't get to see A Chinese Ghost Story I, II, or III either. Their loss. Me wuvs me... more » | Other threads
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The Obligatory 'Sopranos' Finale Post
[Warning: This post will contain spoilers. If you chose to ignore the most significant moment in the history of pop culture by time-shifting last night's Sopranos finale, we recommend that you smash your monitor with a rock and save yourself the anguish of having your life ruined. —Ed.] More » -
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Time Is Preciously Short For Agencies To Suck Up To 'Sopranos' Clients
Virtually any morning flip through the trades reveals a delightful succession of full-page reacharounds celebrating this milestone or that meaningless award, but today's special All-Star Tribute to the Final Season of The Sopranos edition of Variety provided a special occasion for the industry's finest talent agencies to engage in a particularly vigorous round of congratulatory handjobbery. So which agency loves its Sopranos earners the most? More »
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Trade Round-Up: Daniel Baldwin To Stretch For 'Sopranos' Gig As Washed-Up, Desperate Actor
Serially troubled, lesser Baldwin brother Daniel gets a recurring guest role on The Sopranos, playing the star of the horrible horror film that Christopher has been working on. Baldwin will join Kevin "Johnny Drama" Dillon in HBO's stable of actors cast because their relationships to far more successful kin provide an instant, vaguely depressing subtext to every line they deliver. [THR] More » -
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Tony Soprano's Tap-Dancing Dream Sequence Cut From Final Season
No sooner had the pay dispute involving Paulie Walnuts and Silvio been resolved, the curse of The Sopranos' final mini-season strikes again. This time, it's a production delay due to a surprise knee surgery for James Gandolfini:
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Trade Round-Up: 'Superman' Solidly Unspectacular
· Superman Returns pulls in just™ $106 million over its seven-day opening weekend, as well as a Fantastic Four/Hulk-trailing, somewhat disappointing™ $52 million over the traditional three-day frame. [Variety] More »
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Trade Round-Up: Tony Soprano To Lead Mobster Sit-Down
· Tony Soprano plans to meet with Paulie and Silvio in the back room of the Bada Bing, where he will tell them they're out of the their fucking minds if they think they're gonna shake down HBO for $200K an episode, ignoring Dr. Melfi's advice that he should try and see the dispute from the perspective of two character actors who are feeling somewhat underappreciated. [THR] More »
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Gay Vito Sued For Not Sufficiently Pimping Diet Pills
Who of us did not find ourselves getting lost in the melodrama of the "Gay Vito" Spatafore plotline on The Sopranos this season? After dieting his way down several velour tracksuit sizes, Vito followed his heart and found johnny cake-flipping love, only to lose it all in one of the show's all-time ugliest whackings. Joseph R. Gannascoli, the straight actor who brought Gay Vito to life, has made no secret of his shady, pharmaceutical-hustling past, but his more recent, legitimate pill-pushing dealings are now the source of a lawsuit: More » -
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Trade Round-Up: Virtual Tony Soprano Panic Attacks Closer To Reality
· A video game version of The Sopranos is going forward with much of the show's cast, and with David Chase co-writing a story about Big Pussy's bastard son fighting with Philly mob. However, to get to the action, gamers will have to sit through an unskippable two-hour sequence involving Tony's strange dream about an unconsummated hunt for a cheesesteak. [Variety] More »
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Gay Vito Does Some WeHo Fieldwork
Unlike many of his fellow cast members, The Sopranos' Big Gay Vito has managed to steer clear of the law since abandoning his lucrative barbiturate distribution venture years ago. The actor has instantly shot up in visibility since his character's assless-chaps-wearing proclivities became known to the rest of the wiseguys. More »
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Tony's Bodyguard Busted: Second 'Sopranos' Arrest Of The Day
Like a reluctantly implemented early bird special at Vesuvio, today you get two-for-one Sopranos cast member arrests. Louis Gross, the musclebound lunk who joined the series this season as Tony's bodyguard, was arrested yesterday for burglary—now downgraded to "criminal mischief"—and has also been accused in a separate incident of shoplifting and injuring the store manager in the process:
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Artie Bucco Booked: Another 'Soprano' Arrested
While The Sopranos' Artie Bucco still nurses his stirring hand back to health after its inopportune encounter with a pot of molten marinara, the actor who plays Artie, John Ventimiglia, has also found himself in some proverbial hot water: The Smoking Gun posted the police report from Ventimiglia's arrest last night, after cops spotted him weaving his Jetta around Brooklyn with the lights off, only to find an envelope containing cocaine residue in his pocket: More » -
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Gay Vito But Were Afraid To Ask
The morning after The Sopranos' Gay Vito Spatafore cemented his status as the breakout character of the new season [SPOILER ALERT] by being caught cavorting in a leather bar by a couple of wiseguys, the AP profiles the man behind the bear mobster, actor Joseph R. Giannascoli. Giannascoli claims that taking Vito's arc gayward was his own, somewhat cynical idea, a ploy to push his character from "Hey, want some more gabbagoo, Tone?" Satriale's back room space-filler to front-and-center made guy, and shares some of the colorful past (gambler, restaurateur, and dabbling drug-dealer) that gives so many Sopranos regulars a tinge of authenticity: More » -
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HBO.com Accidentally Posts Sopranos Season Premiere Spoiler
A reader just tipped us that a complete episode recap for this Sunday's The Sopranos premiere was mistakenly posted over the one for last year's season finale on HBO's web site. So if you're dying to know what happens in the first new Sopranos episode in about a year and a half and want to kill the crippling sense of anticpation that's been building since then, you can follow this link and throw yourself a little spoiler party—at least until HBO's web staff catches on and rips it down, which we estimate will take about 15 minutes. More »
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Rikers Christmas For Lillo Brancato Jr.
An interview in the NY Post with Lillo Brancato Jr., the star of A Bronx Tale and The Sopranos, who was charged recently with the shooting death of a cop in a failed attempt at stealing Valium, reveals many new, sad details of the story. Brancato claims he had no idea his co-defendant, the one who pulled the trigger, was carrying a gun the night of the botched burglary. Now, sitting in prison on Rikers Island, recovering from two bullet wounds, the reality of the situation has fully set in: More »
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"Sopranos" Police Blotter: Actor An Alleged Cop-Killer
Over the weekend, another former Sopranos cast member did his part to tear a new hole in the fragile Reality/Fantasy Continuum, and is being held for killing a NY cop during a bungled burglary: More »
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