rip james gandolfini

In my mind he was playing someone around 45 onwards, when it started.

his daughter isnt even a year old

oh man :(

yeah that fact is brutal

rough post from h4a there. :(
never watched sopranos and i'm not a movie buff, but i loved him in get shorty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7bN1wtmBL4

so many of my fav tv memories. whacking that poor Bevilacqua boy, screaming at Robert Patrick to "get the fuck back in (his) fucking hole", stapling a parking ticket to Mikey Parmeci's chest. Ultimate badass.

Gutted for his family and his daughter.

wtf

this is devastating. he was at a peak; just excellent in everything he'd been in lately - pretty often smaller parts in zero dark thirty, not fade away, &c&c. he had a movie coming out with steve carell; i wonder if it was finished. huge loss. i walked by him once in new york, he was speaking into a microphone & having to stoop to form himself into the human proportions of the interviewer.

formally rescind my crit of his last shot in not fade away feeling somewhat gratuitously elegiac - i would imagine this is a fairly hard-hitting watch, now

whaaaaaaaattttt this sucks rip james i can't believe it

saw this three places and rolled my eyes - 'he's not dead, c'mon guys this news is obv fake'. still can't believe it tbh, i don't know why. great in many roles obv (tony scott clearly loved him, he pops up in last boy scout also) but man did he lift the sopranos into greatness, his combination of charisma and menace really making the show work. stunned by this.

what I remember most about Gandolfini in "The Sopranos" was how he could turn on the fish-eyed stare of boredom and hate on a dime.

tony more than the role of a lifetime. iconic. legend. etc. don't think anyone has ever been that big on t.v. like, in every way.

i watched most of the sopranos w/my dad, me + him agewise each being within a few years of tony + aj meant that despite the irrelevant mob elements of the show their generational relationship mirrored ours in certain ways, often emotional or embarrassing ways, and the show nailed those kinds of character moments so completely well and of course gandolfini's acting in particular was so amazing and so powerful that there were definitely plenty of unspoken moments where i'm sure we were both thinking about the similar/parallel situation we had gone through together. that show is so real to me. tony was one of the best characters in history. rip

really shit news. he was perfect as tony but i'd watch him in anything, such a mesmerising presence

http://abload.de/img/13716864791691cosk.gif

aw don't

too much!

I still haven't seen the Sopranos but I saw him in God Of Carnage and he was great.

He had a sort of build, physical presence, I don't think I've seen in many other actors. And a way of using that build when acting, obvs

Reading Wolf Hall, his was exclusively the image of Cromwell to me. Ha, to the extent that it seems like I bring it up every time I talk about that book to anyone.

Genuinely upset by this and kinda freaked that he is only four years older than me. Like J.T. Walsh, he made everything he was in better. Kind of a strange career - a "hey, that guy!" character actor, then an American Pantheon-level role of a lifetime, then back to those support actor roles again. Totally mesmerising presence. I can't think of any other actor who has such a vocabulary in grunting.

Billy West made the best observation on how to imitate Gandolfini as Tony - always talk like you're about to cry.

going to check out Wartorn.

As posted by Patton Oswalt saying it's from Holsten's:

http://Instagram.com/p/aw0w0JwaYj/

So my father, who has had a FB for maybe 4 years now, posted his 2nd ever status update tonight.

George B.
sopranos best show ever i will miss tony very deeply

Dad otm.

aw

appearance by young gandolfini here - http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/29/realestate/the-apartment-gypsies-of-manhattan.html

Too young

RIP

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.

And then he plays these roles like the director of the CIA with lines like "Everybody's smart." And you buy that, too.

Such a great actor, and he seemed like a very real person - both good and bad parts, but still a person, and not a totally detached persona. I feel horrible for his family and his children. Rest in Peace, fellow Scarlet Knight.

yeah that was one of the more intuitive and real domestic anger scenes I've ever seen and he was particularly good in those moments imo. So good in 'in the loop' as well.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn-U6fVvgEQ

I just found the scene - It was the "Whitecaps" episode, and Furio. Jesus, he and Edie Falco were just amazing.

Fuck, this is really really bumming me out.

Only saw The Sopranos once, but he was REALLY good in Not Fade Away and In the Loop.

A friend said he and his wife were at a party in NYC a few years ago and suddenly heard the loudest Yelling Man of all time in the next room. Guess who?

Tony's Greatest Hits

Look at Season Four, Ep. 13. Man, what a performance by both of them.

I'm curious if Falco is going to issue a statement, and if so, what it might say. To have done so much acting together with so much emotional investment must have been something powerful and unique and so much else.

So everybody can agree that THIS time he actually dies, right?

sorry

this is wrenching

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

To have done so much acting together with so much emotional investment must have been something powerful and unique and so much else.

― Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:00 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

“I’m still in love with Edie,” says James Gandolfini of Edie Falco, the woman who played his television wife, Carmela, for six seasons on The Sopranos. “Of course, I love my wife, but I’m in love with Edie. I don’t know if I’m in love with Carmela or Edie or both. I’m in love with her.” Falco reveals a similar possessiveness over her HBO-wedded husband. “It was weird to sit down at a table read with the actresses playing Tony’s girlfriends. Occasionally I would get a sharp twinge at the back of my neck,” she recalls. “I’d have to kind of keep my bearings and remember, No, no, no, this is your job, and at home you have your life. Even years later, I remember when I saw Jim in God of Carnage on Broadway, and he was Marcia Gay Harden’s husband, and I had this ‘How come I have to be O.K. with this?’ kind of feeling.”

that's awesome, I love hearing that. <3

I was watching the clip of when Tony kills Ralphie - really good example of him using that bottled anger so perfectly, seeing it in lead up when he's moving so slow and deliberate, like a boxer waiting for the first punch...and then WHAM the brute strength

also the yelling about beautiful innocent creatures while he's slamming Ralphie's head into the floor...

It's like he had all those moods on one big dial, and you could see him twist the dial all the way around from doofus to psycho in the space of a few moments, it was so great to watch

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

fucking hell. a guy I know just had a stroke. apparently healthy, in his mid-forties. just smoked and drank a bit. this is really making me think i need to start taking care of myself better.

sorry if this seems like the wrong thing to say or something - just really what's going through my head - on top of the gut-punch of losing such a great actor. weirdly feel like i know the guy after all those hours of the sopranos.

When I was searching for YouTube clips, I went straight to the clip of Tony entering the house after Janice shoots Ritchie Aprile. Barely any words at all and his expression at seeing dead Ritchie is priceless.

http://youtu.be/3X6AaNbZZfQ?t=4m3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X6AaNbZZfQ

ugggh otm elvis, so good

ENBB's dad otm

have only begun dipping into clips - feel like I might start rewatching from the beginning tomorrow - but he was a terrific comic actor, too, in weird territory. grabbing the pillow, you know? or re: Richie, assuring Janice that they'd buried him on a hill, under a tree, &c

His physical appearance that (among other qualities) gave him the role of Soprano,also killed him
RIP

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

Ha also the quotes from other non-invitees, fans who just walked in.

I saw the crowd on 110th St. yesterday and asked a cop what was going on. "They're having a funeral for Tony Soprano."

No doubt that shithead wells is sticking to his guns, claiming that if he was not invited then technically he was crashing.

JW's blog is usu a good read if he's being a particularly shitbrained asshole, cuz over half his reg commenters roast him.

it is definitely compelling

last film is now out, a Lehane-based crimer w/ Tom Hardy

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-drop

I hope nothing happens to the dog in that movie.

spoiler alert

the dog survives and is fine the whole time

the movie which i will only refer to as "tom hardy with a puppy" was a reasonably decent way to spend a tuesday night.

saw tom hardy with a puppy on a plane and really enjoyed it. feel like i "get" tom hardy now.

I don't think I'll ever get Tom Hardy.

Lovely memories here.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/06/james-gandolfini-the-sopranos-remembered

so good - that falco story w the icecream is <3

i’m gonna re-restart my sopranos rewatch, i never finished it last time i rewatched