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Thursday, June 20. 2013

RIP

Fine actor. Thought he was much older.




Posted by The News Junkie at 09:55 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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I was crazy about him, starting with his mesmerizing short turn in "True Romance."
#1 Texan99 on 2013-06-20 11:20 (Reply)
Fine actor. Thought he was much older.

Which may help explain why he died at age 51: aging faster than the norm, for whatever reason.
I have never seen the Sopranos, as I don't have cable.
#2 Gringo on 2013-06-20 11:44 (Reply)
Cable fees are obscene here, especially for sports and HBO, so I don't get it either.
But I realized many years ago that I could pick the better cable shows up on DVD, used yearly sets could be had cheaply.
The Sopranos was one of the first cable series I followed that way. James Gandolfini was an intense actor, I enjoyed The Sopranos greatly.

Try your local library, they (unfortunately) have become video rental stores.
#2.1 John the River (Link) on 2013-06-20 12:23 (Reply)
You're right. The local library has them. Seems worth investigating: the two minute intro video shown here is very well done. It almost makes New Jersey attractive- which is very hard to do.

I suppose another attraction for the Sopranos show for me would be that like a lot of people growing up in the Northeast, I knew some people with Mafia stories of their own to tell. Not that they told them to me, mind you: people don't like to advertise their Mafia connections. What the hell, I knew a Red Diaper baby, too. Again, this was not a connection that was shouted from the rooftops. I only found out as an adult about the Red connection, from print and/or Internet resources
#2.1.1 Gringo on 2013-06-20 13:32 (Reply)
Never saw the show, I'll take everyone's word for what a fine actor he was. I am a poor judge of such things anyway.

But while pounding the treadmill this morning I found the news coverage of this preposterous. It is a shame that the man died, especially so young. But I actually heard a prominent talking head (pretty sure it was the show Stephanopolis does and it was the woman who had cancer or whatever) refer to his death as "an incalculable loss."

The world is coming apart at the seams. Our government is in open warfare with We The People, and all they can talk about on the news is the death of an actor, the return to court of that lunatic woman who shot and stabbed her husband a zillion times, and some other nonsense even less important.
#3 Knucklehead (Link) on 2013-06-20 12:25 (Reply)
Crime is crime and murder is murder no matter how pretty the face of the evildoer.

Mafiosi suck the devil's hind quarter and have no right to privacy, either.
#4 Leag on 2013-06-20 14:41 (Reply)
Perhaps this would be a preferred legacy by which to remember Mr. Gandolfini:

http://www.americanthinker.com/video/2013/06/james_gandolfini_honors_wounded_warriors_with_alive_day_documentary.html
#5 Dave J on 2013-06-21 10:33 (Reply)
You are right.

Thank you for that link.
#5.1 John the River (Link) on 2013-06-22 10:34 (Reply)

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