Sopranos creator David Chase is coming back to HBO.
The multi-award-winning writer-director is returning to the cable channel to develop A Ribbon of Dreams, a miniseries about the birth and growth of the Hollywood film industry. In addition to writing and producing the miniseries, Chase will also ...
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Bada bing! At long last, the seedy adventures of Tony Soprano & Co. finally arrive on shelves in one complete package. While we could argue about the merits of the show all day (and don't even get us started on that ending), the No. 1 question in every consumer's mind as it relates to this set is the price tag. Is this beautifully and carefully designed package really worth $400 bucks? Like most things in David Chase's world, the answer is a bit complicated ...
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After a five-day trial and 90 minutes of deliberation, a jury decided that Sopranos creator David Chase owes no money to Robert Baer, a former prosecutor and judge who gave Chase the idea for a show about north Jersey mobsters. Outside the courtroom, the New York Daily News reports, Chase likened the legal action to "a fly buzzing in your bathroom for several years, and now it's been swatted." He then made an awesome allusion to the Sopranos controversial conclusion, saying of the trial, "I hope [fans] like the ending."
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David Chase reported to a Trenton, NJ, courthouse on Wednesday morning to defend himself against former New Jersey municipal court judge Robert Baer's claim that ideas of his ideas helped Chase bring The Sopranos to life. Baer, also a former assistant prosecutor, filed suit in 2002, alleging that he suggested to Chase a TV series about organized crime in Jersey and gave Chase a crash course on the North Jersey mob, and as such wants credit and compensation. According to the AP, opening statements are expected after the lunch break.In a related class-action suit, absolutely no one is laying claim to John from Cincinnati.
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Question: I was wondering what you thought of David Chase's comments excerpted from an interview in the upcoming The Sopranos: The Complete Book. He kind of spit in the fans' faces and told them to get a life. Since reading that interview, I will never watch or buy anything made by him or his production company. What kind of pretentious jerk tells people that there is a war going on and that we should care about other things? He didn't seem to mind that there was a war going on when he picked up his Emmy. Talk about frivolous.
Answer: The quote that seems to have really riled you went like this: "It seemed that those people were just looking for an excuse to be pissed off. There was a war going on that week and attempted terror attacks in London. But these people were talking about onion rings." Gotta say, that does come off as arrogant, and I'm sorry he took that attitude, given some of the other more thoughtful things he had to say in this interview. But then, given the amount of abuse
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