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Trashy 'Sopranos' glorifies violence (GREELEY LAUGH ALERT)
Chicago Sun-Times "The Bright One" ^ | May 5, 2006 | ANDREW GREELEY

Posted on 05/06/2006 12:03:25 PM PDT by Chi-townChief

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To: aculeus

Actually the script writer is trying to establish how uncivilized Deadwood was at that point in history and how rapidly it changed. If HBO gives him enough seasons the intention of the show is to DRAMATICALLY clean up the language and look.


21 posted on 05/06/2006 12:58:21 PM PDT by discostu (raise your glass of beer on high, and seal your fate forever)
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To: dighton
Puzo’s characters will long outlive Greeley’s: in fact, no one remembers Greeley’s even now.

It could be worse. Greeley could be in Congress like that 60s Irish-American left-wing priest whose name, like Greeley's characters, is unrecallable.

22 posted on 05/06/2006 12:59:22 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: discostu
Actually the script writer is trying to establish how uncivilized Deadwood was at that point in history and how rapidly it changed. If HBO gives him enough seasons the intention of the show is to DRAMATICALLY clean up the language and look.

I like your sense of humor.

23 posted on 05/06/2006 1:01:08 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: aculeus

Just quoting the producer of the show. That's why he picked that town and that time in that town's history. Civilation came to Deadwood fast and hard. If you want to show an area getting civilized the first thing you have to do is show it as very uncivilized, basic dramatic techniques.


24 posted on 05/06/2006 1:02:55 PM PDT by discostu (raise your glass of beer on high, and seal your fate forever)
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To: Chi-townChief

Andrew needs to get wacked.


25 posted on 05/06/2006 1:04:07 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Ken522

Was he ever priest?


26 posted on 05/06/2006 1:14:17 PM PDT by petkus
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To: Restorer
Mob drama is a tried and true genre. Nobody thinks all Jews are like the ones in Seinfeld. It's FICTION. David Chase, who created The Sopranos is Italian, so what can I tell you.

The Sopranos isn't as good this year as past years, IMO, but over time it's been innovative and quite brilliant. It also paved the way for the whole current slew of "gritty" more true-to-life TV dramas on the free networks, a welcome change from the pablum of yesteryear.

27 posted on 05/06/2006 1:17:08 PM PDT by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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To: Chi-townChief

Tony Soprano would say that any self respecting journalist who used an AOL email address was an effin' pansy.

And he'd be right.


28 posted on 05/06/2006 1:21:28 PM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: aculeus

LOL!! Do you mean Kennedy?


29 posted on 05/06/2006 1:26:58 PM PDT by Rollee (I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.)
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To: dighton; Hildy

The funny thing is that Mary Jo Buttafucco has been back in the news lately, and she is so like Carmela Soprano in style and attitude it's uncanny.


30 posted on 05/06/2006 1:29:43 PM PDT by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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To: Chi-townChief

There should be a HBO series centered around the Lavindar Mafia in a Catholic seminary including an episode of Cardinal McCarrick, another modernist POS, sleeping with young seminarians. The perverts.


31 posted on 05/06/2006 1:32:24 PM PDT by Pittsburg Phil
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To: Chi-townChief

Greeley's own mystery novels are full of sex and violence.

What a hypocrite!

He claims to know who killed a Milwaukee priest and that it was a "hit" ordered by an Italian cardinal.

But he never went to the police or the FBI with his information.

Silly old woman, he is!


32 posted on 05/06/2006 1:39:59 PM PDT by Palladin ("Governor Lynn Swann."...it has a nice ring to it!)
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To: x

(There is something perverse about the show. It makes us -- or a lot of us anyway -- cheer on the evil characters, and that's disturbing.)

I can't speak for others but I have a theory that the reason this show is so popular because these 'people' live by a very strict code of honor which is missing in everyday life and when it is broken, there is swift justice, which is something else that is missing. They also put a lot of stock in loyalty and family, something else which is in decline in this country.

They believe a man's word should never be taken lightly and if it is broken, there is a price to be paid, just ask the kennedy's.


33 posted on 05/06/2006 2:04:21 PM PDT by RetSignman (( HELP...I'm trapped between these curved things))
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To: RetSignman

Also no commercials. That alone makes it far more watchable than network crap. But I think Rome has replaced it as my favorite HBO drama series.


34 posted on 05/06/2006 2:07:18 PM PDT by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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To: Chi-townChief

Really! .. "glorifies violence" .. since when were the liberals upset about glorifying violence - WE SEE IT ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE PAPER EVERY DAY - and that's all we see - violence in Iraq - but then "Iraq is a quagmire and is about to descend into civil war" .. isn't that the mantra ..??


35 posted on 05/06/2006 2:22:06 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-by Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: Chi-townChief

Fat, unnattractive middle-aged people leading lives filled with danger, power and sex?

No wonder the Sopranos is like crack for baby boomers.


36 posted on 05/06/2006 2:23:20 PM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: Restorer
The Northern League.

As far as I know it still exists, and is still led-to the best of my recollection-by Umberto Bossi.

37 posted on 05/06/2006 2:32:52 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: aculeus
Fr. Drinan, from Massachusetts.
38 posted on 05/06/2006 2:36:58 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: Chi-townChief

Best thing about the Sopranos are the promotional posters. Photos by Annie Leibovitz


39 posted on 05/06/2006 2:38:56 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: Chi-townChief
just imagine a similar series about African-American(s)

He is kidding, right? Hasn't he seen most of the "gangsta" movies, videos, and hip hop style around us? Does this guy live on a farm in northern Siberia?

40 posted on 05/06/2006 2:43:58 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Why isn't there an "NRA" for the rest of my rights?)
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