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Gandolfini Sheds Tony Soprano's Threads for Charity | Today's News: Our Take | 5/27/2008
The Sopranos' patriarch may have had a debatable moral compass, but his real-life portrayer, James Gandolfini, knows how to give back. The actor is auctioning off many of his costumes from the HBO show at Christie's June 25 to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit that supports soldiers who have been injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of the items from Tony's wardrobe up for sale will include his monogrammed bathrobe, the blue shirt he wore in the show's opening credits and, for... read more
Sopranos' Gandolfini Goes from Mob Boss to Mayor | Today's News: Our Take | 3/24/2008
James Gandolfini's moving offices from Jersey to the heart of NYC. In The Taking of Pelham 123, a new film remake, the former Sopranos star will be playing the mayor of New York. His character faces a big crisis when a thug (played by John Travolta) and his posse hold a subway car full of people for ransom. Denzel Washington also stars.Since the close of The Sopranos, Gandolfini's been a busy man, with a number of upcoming films from his production group, Attaboy Films, as well as a starring... read more
Tony Soprano to Do Some Sexual Healing | Today's News: Our Take | 2/1/2008
James Gandolfini's going from the mob life to the soul scene in Sexual Healing, an indie pic that will explore the latter part of singer Marvin Gaye's life. The former Soprano will costar alongside Jesse L. Martin, who will play the legendary crooner.Gandolfini's company, Attaboy Films, is producing the project. The screenplay is loosely adapted from the book Trouble Man, which chronicles Gaye's life from when he left Motown records through his European self-exile and relationship with promoter... read more
Cheers: SAG Sings The Sopranos' Praises | Cheers & Jeers | 1/28/2008
Cheers to the Screen Actors Guild Awards for paying proper respect to The Sopranos. True, it would've been exciting if SAG had chosen up-and-comers like Mad Men or Damages, but those shows will have many more years to win prizes. (Fresh blood was rewarded with Tina Fey's and Alec Baldwin's well-deserved comedy wins for 30 Rock.) By honoring James Gandolfini, Edie Falco and the entire mob ensemble, it acknowledged the importance of HBO's landmark drama for one last time. Even after The Sopranos'... read more
Fight Club the Musical, and More News Briefs | Today's News: Our Take | 1/11/2008
On director David Fincher's wish list? A Broadway adaptation of Fight Club come 2009. "One of the things I want at the 10-year anniversary is to do Fight Club as a musical," he tells MTV.com. "I love the idea of that".... Morgan Spurlock (30 Days, Super Size Me) has inked a two-year deal with Fox Television Studios to develop scripted and unscripted programming — once the strike is over, that is.... James Gandolfini and girlfriend Deborah Lin got engaged over the holidays, says People....... read more
SAG Goes Mad for Men | Roush Dispatch | 12/20/2007
I suppose I could dwell on the fact that a major Hollywood guild has once again ignored the very existence of TV's finest acting ensemble, Friday Night Lights — in favor of the mugging and posturing on Boston Legal. As they'd say on another SAG favorite, Grey's Anatomy: Seriously? Is it wrong to want to form our own picket line?Also: What's up with snubbing Pushing Daisies and its fantastical cast?And yet the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, announced Thursday morning, did shower... read more
New Blood at the Globes | Roush Dispatch | 12/13/2007
If the barometer of an interesting TV awards show is the number of fresh faces invited to the party, then the Golden Globe nominations (announced Thursday morning) passes the test. Not with a perfect score, mind you. Any institution that so completely ignores NBC's wonderful Friday Night Lights deserves some spirited jeering.And the Globes' addiction to sexy sizzle and hype can lead to some puzzling choices: Big Love, fun as it is, over The Sopranos' final season? Bill Paxton over James... read more
Alba Seeing Sopranos Stars on Broadway? | Today's News: Our Take | 11/7/2007
Or for those who care to liken my headlines to a high-school newspaper: "Jessica Alba Gets Plow'd." The Fantastic Four's Invisible Woman may be making her first appearance on the Great White Way. According to the New York Post, though she possesses zero/zilch stage experience, Alba is being wooed to star in a spring 2008 revival of David Mamet's Speed the Plow. Alba's prospective role, Karen the secretary, last was inhabited (and not very well) by another Broadway baby, Madonna, back in '88.The... read more
When Emmy Winners Attack! | The Joy of Sets | 9/26/2007
OK, first off, how freakin’ hilarious was The Bachelor Monday night? Holy human desperation, I loved it! And Hillary from my hometown made the first cut. Represent, Philly ‘ho!Now that we have that out of the way, let’s talk last week’s Emmys. Yes, the in-the-round stage was a hot circular mess and why so many statues went to TV-movies, I’ll never know. It’s not like any of the good Sci Fi Originals get nominated. Hello, Mansquito? So robbed. But Seacrest... read more
Ask Matt | 9/21/2007
I'm probably one of many writing in about this, but you'll have to suffer through one more. I've seen only a few episodes of Boston Legal, enough to know that I didn't really enjoy the show but can see how people would like the characters. I even respect James Spader's work. He was excellent on The Practice way back when, and I'm assuming he's carried at least some of that over to the spin-off. But really, Emmy-worthy? This is even his second win, isn't it? I just don't understand it. Never ... read more
Emmys: Bravo to Winners, Boo to Show | Roush Dispatch | 9/17/2007
And some people worried that getting Ryan Seacrest to host this year’s Emmy telecast was going to be the producers’ worst idea. That’s before we got a look at the set, an unwieldy and unappealing theater-in-the-round setup that looked more suitable for the new American Gladiators revival than for an awards show. The nominees, half of whom saw only the backs of the various presenters and performers, had a deer-in-the-headlights look every time Seacrest approached them or the... read more
Torchwood: TV's Sexiest Alien Hunters | Roush Review | 8/29/2007
Over the years, I've somehow resisted the lure of the iconic British fantasy Doctor Who, in all of its incarnations. So imagine my surprise to be hooked on Torchwood, a cheeky and often startlingly adult spin-off. These are the provocative adventures of Torchwood, a super-secret team of dashing agents who specialize in containing alien threats. Think MI-5 in cahoots with The X-Files. That makes sense given that their underground lair, which houses a pterodactyl in the rafters, is near a ... read more
James Gandolfini Makes Camp with HBO Biopic | Today's News: Our Take | 8/13/2007
Per Variety, The Sopranos' James Gandolfini will produce and star as Sonny Vaccaro in ABCD Camp, a biopic about the onetime Nike exec who made a fortune inking deals to shoe college hoops teams and is also credited with helping launch the careers of such NBA stars as Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. Vaccaro, who later worked for Adidas and then Reebok, rubbed the NCAA the wrong way, allegedly playing a role in compensating amateur athletes. read more
Hillary Clinton's Sopranos Parody: Behind the Scenes! | TV Guide News Report | 6/22/2007
So who did Vince Curatola — aka The Sopranos’ New York mob boss Johnny Sack — have to whack to get his cameo in Hillary Clinton’s spoof of the series' finale (available in our Online Video Guide)? Curatola tells TV Guide he was having dinner with his wife when he got a call from Sopranos director Allen Coulter, telling him that Clinton media guy Jimmy Siegel was doing a video the next morning in a diner near the Clintons’ Chappaqua, New York, home. “I said it... read more
HBO Welcomes Back James Gandolfini | Today's News: Our Take | 6/19/2007
HBO has announced a Sept. 9 premiere for Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, a documentary special produced by Sopranos alum James Gandolfini and his nascient Attaboy Films shingle. Alive Day Memories looks at the new generation of war veterans from the point of view of 10 soldiers.... Oscar nominee Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds) will play wife Clemmie to Brendan Gleeson's Winston in Churchill at War, HBO Films/BBC Films' follow-up to The Gathering Storm. read more
Sopranos Clan Hails Ending; Plus: A Big Finale Clue | Today's News: Our Take | 6/15/2007
The Soprano family finally agrees on something: the way David Chase wound up the series was criminally good. "It was a great ending.... Exactly what it should have been," James Gandolfini tells the New York Daily News. Adds "daughter" Jamie-Lynn Sigler, "I can't think of a single better way to have ended the show" — though she cops to being befuddled by Meadow's spastic parking. Also deeming the finale "great" is Edie Falco: "I have never second-guessed David Chase, and I'm not about to... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/8/2007
About a year ago, I found out that Christopher was going to die. [Sopranos creator] David Chase told me. He told me how read more
TV Guide Magazine Cover Story | 6/6/2007
Feeling depressed about The Sopranos taking its final bow? You're in good company. Look at Tony's son, A.J. — if y read more
Roush Review | 3/28/2007
The clock is ticking for Vic Mackie and Tony Soprano, infamously iconic characters who blur the line between hero and vi read more
Sopranos' Return, Gandolfini's New Gig Confirmed | Today's News: Our Take | 1/16/2007
During HBO's portion of the TCA Tour, it was announced that The Sopranos and Entourage will both return on April 8. Sopranos creator David Chase will write and direct the last of his mob hit's final nine episodes. In related news, Sopranos star James Gandolfini is producing a documentary for HBO in which he interviews wounded soldiers. The special, whose working title is Alive Day: Home from Iraq, is scheduled to premiere on July 4. read more