Maggie's Farm

There are tons of Soprano clips on Youtube. You can waste lots of time sampling them. There is something fascinating about sociopathy, but how much brain space do you want it to take up?

Gerard linked to this New Yorker piece on Galdolfini and his too-short career, with this quote:

His death, at the age of fifty-one, in Italy, does not come entirely as a shock. But that makes it no less a loss. Gandolfini was not a fantastically varied actor. He played within a certain range. Like Jackie Gleason, he’ll be remembered for a particular role, and a particular kind of role, but there is no underestimating his devotion to the part of a lifetime that was given to him. In the dozens of hours he had on the screen, he made Tony Soprano—lovable, repulsive, cunning, ignorant, brutal—more ruthlessly alive than any character we’ve ever encountered in television.