http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2013/06/james-gandolfini-1961-2013.html this is great
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 21 June 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link
well that scene is great (as noted in the thread where the mods won't put the title of the film on it).
I've seen a number of gay blogs where ppl are effusing over him as a bear among bears.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 June 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
scary bear.
― scott seward, Friday, 21 June 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
sex scenes on sopranos with him always frightened me a little. like, either he was gonna kill someone or he was gonna die. one or the other.
― scott seward, Friday, 21 June 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
Remember when Janet and Richie had sex and he was holding a gun to her head!
― copter (waterface), Friday, 21 June 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
oh god richie. he was the scariest of them all. so horrible. so happy to see him go. he was too real life for me. i've met guys like that. he's what the real mob dudes are like. not a whole lot of lovable going on. dumb and scary.
― scott seward, Friday, 21 June 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
I guess I need to watch Not Fade Away.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 June 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
Haha at 1:07. Gonna miss that guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG-3_3Oo-fg
― pplains, Friday, 21 June 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
xxp and of course Janice doing the nasty with Ralphie Cifaretto in a particularly unpleasant way!
― Neil S, Friday, 21 June 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
Janice, just in general
― copter (waterface), Friday, 21 June 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
I don't agree with everything Clive James says in this interesting piece, but he nails Janice (so to speak):http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10132678/Clive-James-on-The-Sopranos.html
― Neil S, Friday, 21 June 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
manson lamps
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 June 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
manson lamps!
haha x-post!
― scott seward, Friday, 21 June 2013 15:52 (ten years ago) link
yeah i gotta watch the whole thing again.
― scott seward, Friday, 21 June 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
fun fact about the guy who played richie:
"In 1977 his voice was heard in the cult animated film WIZARDS, as the robot assassin Necron 99."
― scott seward, Friday, 21 June 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
i don't remember him from mean streets but i haven't seen mean streets in almost 30 years.
― scott seward, Friday, 21 June 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
Holsten's restaurant in Bloomfield, New Jersey put a "Reserved" sign on the table where Gandolfini and his on-screen family filmed the final scene of HBO's "The Sopranos," which was both heralded and lambasted for the way it abruptly ended the award-winning drama.
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/james-gandolfini-holstens-reserved-sopranos-table.jpg
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2013/06/james-gandolfinis-tribute-at-holstens---reserved-table-from-sopranos-finale.html
― oh, the humanities (onimo), Friday, 21 June 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
on being a large icon
http://gawker.com/the-fatness-of-james-gandolfini-inspiring-iconic-and-519198685
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 June 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
i have a copy of Not Fade AWay to watch this weekend
thanks thread!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
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i know that david proval worked a lot between mean streets and the sopranos but i've still only seen him in those two roles, iirc. he was great in the sopranos, absolutely nailed it.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 21 June 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
otm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
Watching the first episode. It's cute how Gandolfini's accent isn't perfect yet.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 June 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, June 21, 2013 3:47 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark
he's insanely good. "i'm old schooooool"
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 21 June 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
yeah there are some funny kinks you can see them feeling their way through in the first few episodes
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 June 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
the voiceover is kind of weird
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 June 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
they also dialed back on the wildly unprofessional stuff Melfi does
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 June 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Edith Bunker spoke and acted differently in the early AITF episodes too.
NY tabloids really classin' it up re his dinner in Rome: TONY'S LAST BINGE etc.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 June 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
Technology and trends that became most recently obsolete (laserdiscs, portable CD players, Skeet Ulrich) age worse than really old stuff.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 June 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
my skeet ulrich works fine
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 21 June 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, June 21, 2013 5:25 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is true, but watching it again sorta conveys the leap into more cinematic storytelling it was making at the time - think this is pronounced as Tony goes over to his mother's. just how much is going on throughout the episode, & the kind of panoramic patience it dedicates to each thread, still feels very exemplary & fresh, i think.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Friday, 21 June 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link
"Just another crazy day in the Sopranos household. Fuhgeddaboutit!"
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 21 June 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/jun/26/james-gandolfini-sopranos-david-chase/print
― Šite New Answers (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
Stay classy, Jeffrey Wells
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 June 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
so is David Chase Italian, and is that his real name?
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 June 2013 06:43 (ten years ago) link
born David DeCesare
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 28 June 2013 06:48 (ten years ago) link
why do people pay attention to jeffrey wells
― Gukbe, Friday, 28 June 2013 06:56 (ten years ago) link
Years ago, I used to read Wells. Then it/he got so unpleasant I totally stopped and in fact forgot he even existed. It took this to remind me he was still alive. What a dick.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 June 2013 12:40 (ten years ago) link
haha that wells piece gets really good in the comments section when matt soller zeitz mentions that the funeral was actually open to the public
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 28 June 2013 12:55 (ten years ago) link
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."
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 28 June 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
No doubt that shithead wells is sticking to his guns, claiming that if he was not invited then technically he was crashing.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 June 2013 13:15 (ten years ago) link
JW's blog is usu a good read if he's being a particularly shitbrained asshole, cuz over half his reg commenters roast him.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 June 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
it is definitely compelling
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 28 June 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
last film is now out, a Lehane-based crimer w/ Tom Hardy
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-drop
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 September 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
I hope nothing happens to the dog in that movie.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 22 September 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link
saw tom hardy with a puppy on a plane and really enjoyed it. feel like i "get" tom hardy now.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 25 January 2015 07:15 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I'll ever get Tom Hardy.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link
Lovely memories here.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/06/james-gandolfini-the-sopranos-remembered
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 June 2023 17:37 (ten months ago) link
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
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 June 2023 18:02 (ten months ago) link