Emmy Award-winning actor, James Gandolfini, best known for his role as Tony Soprano in the HBO drama, The Sopranos, died on Wednesday at age 51. Gandolfini’s portrayal of the often conflicted, New Jersey Mafia boss earned him three Emmy Awards for “Best Actor in Drama” during the shows six season run from 1999-2007. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly included Gandolfini in their list of “The 50 Greatest TV Icons” for his ability to take the Mob boss “through rage, self-pity, love, and depression,” in the course of a single episode, calling his portrayal of Tony Soprano “a weekly how-to manual on Greek tragedy.” Gandolfini began his acting career in 1987, starring in several…
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G-S-T Review…Not Fade Away
I left my recollection of David Chase’s Not Fade Away in the theater shortly after walking out during the credits. Maybe that sounds like bad news, and maybe I’m putting myself in a hole by starting off my review on that note, but truthfully, memorability happens to be Not Fade Away‘s biggest Achilles’ heel. Chase hasn’t made a bad film, not by any stretch of the means, but he’s made one that suffers from diminishing returns, one which our connection to slackens and grows hazier the longer that the picture runs. He’s also made a picture about listless, directionless youth; appropriately, Not Fade Away meanders and lazes as much as its…