rip james gandolfini

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

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.