rip james gandolfini

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y-v6T4gUmkw

goddamn it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-v6T4gUmkw

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").

― lols lane (Eazy), Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:09 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

start on season 5 because of buscemi's jacket??? this is insane. start with S1 and watch them all.

i was always kinda intrigued by his take on the army prison warden in that robert redford movie. you know the one. he played him weird. not like a big guy. like a pencil-pushing guy.

i remember his character in that had a "SALIERI" record in his office, because all insecure also-rans love salieri

https://mobile.twitter.com/sesamestreet/status/347762849386475520

haha Sotosyn, like I went near a Billy Crystal film in the last 20 years besides Monsters Inc.

I've never seen The Sopranos, either. Hesitated for a long time because, as Eazy will attest, I thought it was just Mafioso cliches. And I'm not much of a Godfather fan. (Too many hard-to-distinguish men, too many hard-to-follow vendettas.) But now I've seen and liked Mad Men and Breaking Bad and The Wire, and I'm finally open to it. Just haven't started yet.

xxpost Scott, yeah I kinda dug him in that. Last Castle is the one you're thinking of right?

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

pretty inhumane outlook on life imo

ok that sesame street video is killing me w/saddo

remnick's obit & sopranos/chase profile,

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/06/david-remnick-remembers-james-gandolfini.html

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/04/02/010402fa_fact_remnick

aw fuck :(

"'The Sopranos'? Why would I want to watch 'The Sopranos'? It's all 'I'm gonna kill that guy.' 'No, fuck you, I'm gonna kill that guy.'"
-Jaymc, at a party, 2005-6

i admire to some degree almost all the prestige tv dramas that have followed in its wake, but The Sopranos towers over them all imo.

No way, Mad Men is better

lol, come on didn't everyone tell you to step the trolling up just a lil tiny bit. you can do it waterface.

lol, sleeping bag, you live your life on the floor

people sleep in you

and pee in you

and then you post on a message board soaked in urine

"'The Sopranos'? Why would I want to watch 'The Sopranos'? It's all 'I'm gonna kill that guy.' 'No, fuck you, I'm gonna kill that guy.'"
-Jaymc, at a party, 2005-6

Yeah, that's pretty much verbatim.

why did we let gabbneb back again?

gabbneb only obnoxious in the political threads

mad men is genuinely great imo and has many of the same qualities as the sopranos esp in the fact that both shows are possibly overlooked for being often hilarious, but i think the sopranos edges it out.

trying to think of another actor like gandolfini who has some of the same qualities but coming up short.

if anything he was underrated, as weird as it is to think that.

I totally agree Gandalfini is an amazing actor, iconic, etc.. totally, I just prefer MadMen

i prefer kara thrace. but gandolfini just so great as tony. no way around it. so hard to make people care about someone that brutal for so long. loveable monster thing ain't easy to pull off. that's why dads love that show so much. total dad rock.

I avoid MM (saw 2 episodes) bcz ad people were basically the Mafia in my life for 8 miserable years.

I get that.

trying to think of another actor like gandolfini who has some of the same qualities but coming up short.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:34 PM

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/The_Wire_Frank_Sobotka.jpg

^ coulda been a contender

am0n on the mark. Chris Bauer is my pick for the lead in "The Bobby Petrino Story" at any rate.

On the other end of the scale, when the series ended, someone said Gandolfini had the opportunity to the next Gene Hackman, which I could totally have seen happening.

I keep leaving out important parts of my sentences, things like verbs.

one of the things that sopranos had over its (often great) successors was... gandolfini. i like everybody in all those other shows but nobody comes close.

long link roundup, some of which havent come up

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-james-gandolfini-1961-2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-v6T4gUmkw

Always kind of hard to be an actor where your one role makes any other role distracting. Everything else he did post- (and during) the Sopranos was always like watching Tony Soprano try to act in a movie for me.

He was awesome in In the Loop

and not like TS at all

yes he was awesome but he was still Tony. The physicality alone is really hard for me to let go of. And sure, that might be my problem but I suspect I'm not alone.

what about the shield? i thought you guys loved the shield guy.

ive never seen the shield but come on

i dunno i thought you guys loved that guy.

s1ocki, can you see why "i like everybody in all those other shows" sounds like Golden Age of TV Hyperbole?

the thing about tony was if he walked past you on the street you would just think he was a guy. if big pussy or paulie walked by you you would go uh oh those dudes are bad news. tony unleashed his powers like a fucked up superhero. not that he wss mild-mannered, but he looked like a lot of jersey or new york guys. he got bigger and more powerful around his people. he was perfect casting. really couldn't be any more perfect. anyone know who else they wanted for the part? must have been a lot of people who auditioned.

s1ocki, can you see why "i like everybody in all those other shows" sounds like Golden Age of TV Hyperbole?

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, June 20, 2013 3:42 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's meant as kind of the opposite of that d00d!

must have been a lot of people who auditioned.

http://thechaselounge.net/showthread.php?t=2093

I haven't looked this back up, but I think they seriously considered Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco as Mr. and Mrs. Soprano at one point.

xp

FWIW, Little Steven was always marginal. The weakest cast member. And he auditioned for Tony?????

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a103592/lapaglia-almost-played-tony-soprano.html

Small wonder this wasn't a raging success:

http://tvmedia.ign.com/tv/image/article/121/1217924/20120103135943enprnprn7-netflix-lilyhammer-1y-1325599183mr_1328305808-000.jpg