rip james gandolfini

interviewed at age 26 in the NYT about being an 'apartment gypsy'

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/29/realestate/the-apartment-gypsies-of-manhattan.html

lol schlump i was just remembering that, wish i could find that clip of him seeing janice off at the bus station. been meaning to for awhile but i think i'm gonna start rewatching from the beginning also.

I watched the first ten minutes earlier, it was terrific

Once the current Mad Men season is over, I think I'll rewatch also

Shitty news to wake up to. Great actor. So, so good in killing them softly playing a sad sweaty wreck. I think that'll be another hard-to-watch one for a while. Luckily the bits without gandolfini ain't great.

oh man wtf, wtf.

RIP

RIP big T

sorry to hear. his "What kind of man are you?" bit in Man Who Wasn't There stands out for me.

shit, I have to start watching this goddamn show now? which are the seasons to skip, again?

First three are essential, all the rest have good bits and draggy stretches.

Gandolfini never puts a foot wrong though.

There were many, many scenes throughout his career in which his sheer brute physicality was on display. There is one particular scene, and I don't have the time to go and look for it now, but I think it comes from one time in the Sopranos where Tony and Carmella are separated and he's basically living in the home theater. They get into a really nasty yelling match - I think Carm had slept with someone else or, more likely, Tony THOUGHT she had - and out of frustration and anger that is SO FUCKING CLOSE to unleashing total destruction on her but not quite over the edge, he punches two quick holes in the drywall that were the size of his loaf of bread sized fists. SO FUCKING TERRIFYING in a very real sense.

"Good Morning, America" showed this scene: Carm admits to having a crush on Furio.

yeah really can't get past this one, i essentially spent so many hours w/this guy

Same. I was a bit late to the Sopranos which gave me the opportunity of digesting box sets over weekends. I remember being ill in sync with Tony (the one where he has food poisoning and hallucinates about going to Cony Island and speaking to Big Pussy The Fish) and being crashed out for two days on the couch with a pile of Sopranos episodes for company.

I don't know how deliberate it was to start with but he really used his breathing brilliantly in those scenes where he's seething and getting ready to shout/cry/kill - a noisy sniff then exhaling like an angry bull.

I imagine he'd be an intimidating man to do those kinds of scenes with.

Glad he lived to see The Sopranos through to the end. Role of a lifetime.

― lols lane (Eazy), Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:49 PM (

shit, I have to start watching this goddamn show now? which are the seasons to skip, again?

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

watch them all

anyone who tells you otherwise doesnt get it

this is horrible

shit, I have to start watching this goddamn show now?
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:59

shit you have to?? shit! SHIT! fuck.

the sopranos is the greatest tv show of all time, and it would have been... inconceivable without him.

I am extremely wary of proclamations of this ilk.

It was a damn good show. You'll love the first season best because of Nancy Marchand.

true, the CGI version of her was not nearly as good

if anyone is going to pull out the Sopranos is overrated card, i think it's gonna be Morbs

Didn't realise he was only 51, he seemed to have been around for ever.
It's a shame.

acc to s1ocki, i can pull it if i think it's not as good as The Prisoner.

RIP

dunno if it has been said already, but the number of people I know posting on fb/twitter/etc "RIP Tony Soprano" really irks me

if it has been said already, consider this post an otm to that

Dr. M, If you liked him in other movies and liked Not Fade Away, I bet you'll like this as well. Season 1 feels the most dated to me. I might suggest diving in with the Buscemi season, Season 5, get bearings there (starting off the bat with Robert Loggia, avoiding Joey Pants til later), then doing the rest from there.

If you want a 'try it and see' episode, go with College from S1.

no I would be interested in the mother angle, so Alfred's right there.

My preference for seeing plays or films about characters who are the scum of the earth is that they are over in 3 hours, and usually don't dwell in the NJ county where I grew up.

You're in luck: each episode is 50 minutes long.

I might suggest diving in with the Buscemi season, Season 5, get bearings there (starting off the bat with Robert Loggia, avoiding Joey Pants til later), then doing the rest from there.

― lols lane (Eazy), Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:50 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

is this a joke suggestion

It's got my favorite episode ("Irregular Around The Margins"). It's got Loggia. It's got Buscemi in the perfect white 80s jacket of a guy who has been locked up for 16 years. It's got some great Johnny Sack (though it's missing "The Weight").

You're in luck: each episode is 50 minutes long.

cute, but lifetime is my only unit of measure now.

so sad. james the great.

I think I'll pull out season 1 this weekend too

it's been too long.

i kinda want to watch every season again now too except i think of all the therapy sessions i have to go through...

always my least favorite part of the show. maybe the first couple of times it was fun.

morbz you have my permission to just watch the first season and then stop if you want. there is always good stuff all the way through, but like breaking bad or other shows, you have to want to continue to wade in the muck and mire. it can be pretty brutal.

it's really cinematic for a tv show, though. Or at least in my memory it was one of the first tv shows where I felt more like I was watching a movie than watching a tv show

According to La Stampa he was staying here:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5LzVXMv_uTk/UNMra6tjBDI/AAAAAABya9Y/qam_h8EAs34/s672-no/Boscolo+Exedra+Roma

Someone on "Good Morning America" said in that airy fact-free TV way that "The Sopranos" put the final nail in the coffin of broadcast TV. True?

there is still t.v., so, no.

yeah that's fuckin dumb

pretty sure she meant broadcast TV's primacy,

My parents got HBO in 2001 just to watch "The Sopranos."

This is quite affecting, esp re his attempt to wriggle out of a pre-premiere interview cuz "Who cares?":

http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/james-gandolfini-obit-matt-zoller-seitz.html

wow that is a great write-up

the Mickey Rourke admiration makes a lot of sense to me, you can sorta see that in him

Man this is awful news.
I was in Rome the other week, imagining what it woulda been like to run into Tony Soprano.

morbs man just watch the show you'll like it. the acting at least is pretty unimpeachable

RIP

dunno if it has been said already, but the number of people I know posting on fb/twitter/etc "RIP Tony Soprano" really irks me

if it has been said already, consider this post an otm to that

― Just Elevate... And Decide In The Air -- Above the Rim (dan m), Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:48 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i mean, whatever. the guy was an actor. he spent his life pretending to be other people