Articles tagged "the sopranos"

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Edie ‘Carmela Soprano’ Falco returns to TV in new Showtime series

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[5.Jun.09] :. LOS ANGELES — During the filming of the final season of “The Sopranos,” Edie Falco wasn’t sure she wanted to be part of another TV series. That landmark HBO show set a pretty...

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In Treatment: Fantasy Therapy for All

by Meta Wagner

[27.May.09] :. Explorations of the outer limits of the patient/ therapist relationship titillate viewers with the possibilities of what could happen.

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Club manager gets ‘inside tip’ that ‘Sopranos’ film is in the works

by Giovanna Fabiano [The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT)]

[6.Mar.08] :. LODI, N.J. - “The Sopranos” may not be swimming with the fishes after all. The manager of Satin Dolls, known to fans as the infamous Bada Bing, says Tony Soprano and his crew could be...

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Organized crime: Out of the closet and into our living rooms

by Silvio Laccetti [(MCT)]

[9.Oct.07] :. Fifty years ago this fall, in the tiny town of Apalachin, near Binghamton, N.Y., Americans were unexpected guests at the coming-out party for organized crime. American popular culture has never been...

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The Sopranos: Series Finale

by Marisa Carroll

[19.Jun.07] :. A priest once explained to Carmela, "God understands that we all live in the middle of tensions." David Chase understands that too.

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Even if you didn’t watch ‘The Sopranos,’ you knew about it

by Eric Mink [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[14.Jun.07] :. Sunday night, in a stream of post-finale babble veering dangerously close to rant, my comparison of “The Sopranos” to the serialized fiction of Charles Dickens proved to be the last...

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‘Sopranos’ doesn’t end - it just stops

by David Bianculli [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[11.Jun.07] :. NEW YORK - After all the hype and expectations about Sunday night’s final episode of HBO’s “The Sopranos,” the mob drama series didn’t end with a bang. It didn’t...

 

At the center of ‘The Sopranos’ was its genuine humanity

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[7.Jun.07] :. There was a moment a few weeks back, when Tony Soprano was talking with his psychiatrist, complaining that bad things keep happening around him. “I’m a good guy,” he said....

 

How will ‘The Sopranos’ end?

by Hal Boedeker [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[4.Jun.07] :. How will it end? Badly. For the characters, that is. The series finale of “The Sopranos” will be a much-analyzed event. All signs point to a grim conclusion on June 10. Death, decline...

 
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The Sopranos

by Marisa Carroll

[25.Apr.07] :. The problem with the Soprano family, as Bobby chided Tony, is that they "always go too far." It's also a primary reason the show is so compelling.

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The Sopranos Is the Most Influential Television Drama Ever

by Maureen Ryan [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[23.Apr.07] :. No one-hour drama series has had a bigger impact on how stories are told on the small screen, or more influence on what kind of fare we've been offered by an ever-growing array of television networks.

 

PopMatters - Television - Reviews - The Sopranos

by Joe Luscombe

[7.Apr.07] :. During the end of year round up on the British arts discussion programme The Late Review, the subject of The Sopranos came up. After viewing the clip, each critic in turn gave an...

 

Who knew? ‘The Sopranos’ isn’t the only surprise hit

by Julia Keller [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[6.Apr.07] :. In the beginning, nobody gave a rat’s derriere about Tony Soprano. How about Carmela, Christopher, Paulie, Dr. Melfi? Fugettabout it. As a matter of fact, the executives at HBO who were...

 

Exit ‘Sopranos’: HBO’s mob show starts a long goodbye

by Ellen Gray [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[3.Apr.07] :. “Is this it?” Carmela Soprano (Edie Falco) asks her mobster husband as they’re awakened by a furious banging on their door in the opening minutes of Sunday’s “The...

 

The Sopranos

by G. Christopher Williams

[1.Dec.06] :. There are enough of the sights and sounds of The Sopranos to feel immersed in its ambience as a show but there is not enough game here to feel immersed in a, well, game.

 

The Sopranos

by Amanda Ann Klein

[16.Mar.06] :. The 'circle of life' refers to how, in The Sopranos, the dead continuously circle the living.

 

The Sopranos

by Oliver Wang

[12.Apr.04] :. As The Sopranos enters its fifth season, it's clear that things will not go well for New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano.

 

The Sopranos

by Lesley Smith

[23.Sep.02] :. While reality hounds might say that this is exactly how banal contemporary mob life is, they might also remember that a stamped certificate of authenticity doesn't inoculate drama against tedium.