rip james gandolfini

http://www.tmz.com/2013/06/19/james-gandolfini-dead-dies-italy/

no way!

I am really sad about this!

that is rotten terrible news

kind of a great actor imo.

horrible. he was good in everything i saw him in.

he was a really great actor!!

great at comedy, great at sheer menace, great at drama

absolutely, this is really bumming me out

this is shit

heart attack not all that surprising when all is said and done? or did his role as tony just set me up to fear for his health?

i first saw him in true romance, that scene with arquette is all-time.

I think the first thing I ever noticed him in was Night Falls on Manhattan. He's very good in that one.

amazing actor, should've had a much longer career, rip

Oh right, True Romance!

over the course of the sopranos he got noticeably heavier, you watch season 1 and it's surprising how relatively svelte he is.

gutted by this

fatal heart attack at 51 is fairly surprising even considering

heart attack not all that surprising when all is said and done?

― scott seward

nah. he was looking bad.

RIP big guy

sad; recently v good in 'killing them softly'

yeah...i'm surprised tbh by the fact he must've been only 30 or so when true romance was filmed?

also he was one of the only decent things about 8MM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/ScreenShot2013-06-19at44808PM_zpsb9a79ccf.png

I thought this was a joke when I saw the news on FB!

Yeah, I just called my dad and was saying the same. I def would have thought he was older than 51.

i first saw him in true romance, that scene with arquette is all-time.

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:43 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES

Also loved him in Get Shorty as Bear.

he was great last year in Not Fade Away and Killing Them Softly

In 2007, Gandolfini produced the documentary Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, in which he interviewed 10 injured Iraq War veterans. In 2010, Gandolfini produced another documentary, Wartorn: 1861-2010, in which posttraumatic stress disorder and its impact on soldiers and families is analyzed throughout several wars in American history, from 1861 to 2010.

yeah alf, that 'get shorty' role was pretty great, polar opposite of 'true romance', one of the seminal 'gentle giant' kinda performances.

def read wartorn as warton & was like damn dude

Marcy Gandolfini, 35, is seeking sole custody of their three-year-old son, citing her husband's use of guns. According to the legal documents, an assistant found one that Gandolfini confessed he had bought for protection while visiting Harlem to buy drugs.

His wife, whom he married three years ago, hired private detectives to tail Gandolfini in Los Angeles and New York and submitted evidence from them to the court.

It included claims that two years ago, he was so out of control on cocaine and alcohol on the set of his first major film, The Mexican, co-starring Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, that filming had to be stopped.

The Mexican was his first major film?

omg. will always <3 his Tony Soprano. incredible actor, too many great performers going down this year.

rotten :(

Wartorn is a fantastic doc, highly recommend

He was only born in 1961. Can't believe that

love him sparring with capaldi in 'in the loop' too. RIP

which means he was only like 5-6 years older than I am now when he first shot the Sopranos. wayyyyyyy younger than I thought.

xpost

wow yeah he was like 38 when the sopranos first came on? that is younger than i thought too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5J050upihY

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

great, great piece: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/ill-always-love-you-tony-soprano

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2013/06/james-gandolfini-1961-2013.html this is great

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.

scary bear.

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.

Remember when Janet and Richie had sex and he was holding a gun to her head!

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.

I guess I need to watch Not Fade Away.

Haha at 1:07. Gonna miss that guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG-3_3Oo-fg

xxp and of course Janice doing the nasty with Ralphie Cifaretto in a particularly unpleasant way!

Janice, just in general

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

manson lamps

manson lamps!

haha x-post!

yeah i gotta watch the whole thing again.

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."

i don't remember him from mean streets but i haven't seen mean streets in almost 30 years.

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

on being a large icon

http://gawker.com/the-fatness-of-james-gandolfini-inspiring-iconic-and-519198685

i have a copy of Not Fade AWay to watch this weekend

thanks thread!

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, June 21, 2013 9:06 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't remember him from mean streets but i haven't seen mean streets in almost 30 years.

― scott seward, Friday, June 21, 2013 9:07 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.

otm

Watching the first episode. It's cute how Gandolfini's accent isn't perfect yet.

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, June 21, 2013 3:47 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

he's insanely good. "i'm old schooooool"

Watching the first episode. It's cute how Gandolfini's accent isn't perfect yet.

yeah there are some funny kinks you can see them feeling their way through in the first few episodes

the voiceover is kind of weird

they also dialed back on the wildly unprofessional stuff Melfi does

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.

Technology and trends that became most recently obsolete (laserdiscs, portable CD players, Skeet Ulrich) age worse than really old stuff.

my skeet ulrich works fine

the voiceover is kind of weird

― 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.

"Just another crazy day in the Sopranos household. Fuhgeddaboutit!"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/jun/26/james-gandolfini-sopranos-david-chase/print

Stay classy, Jeffrey Wells

so is David Chase Italian, and is that his real name?

born David DeCesare

why do people pay attention to jeffrey wells

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.

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

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