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Sopranos begins its swan song
Edmonton Journal ^ | 04/07/07 | Alex Strachan

Posted on 04/08/2007 4:29:13 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

It's never over till it's over" goes the familiar refrain. This time, though, it's truly over for The Sopranos.

The quintessentially American family epic raises the curtain on the first of its nine final episodes tonight. The final aria will be sung June 10. The final scene was filmed in a wholesome family ice cream parlour, in Bloomfield, N.J. and includes James Gandolfini's gangster don and family man Tony Soprano, Edie Falco's pragmatic -- and legit -- mob moll Carmela Soprano and Tony Sirico's immaculately coiffed capo Peter Paul Gualtieri, a.k.a. Paulie Walnuts, a movie buff and debt collector given to saying things like, "I was born, grew up, spent a few years in the army, a few more in the can and here I am, a half o' wise guy."

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To: onward_xtian_soldier
Amen. One initiative we need in this country is to restore Hays Code standards to movies and extend them to cover all forms of broadcast media such as cable television. Under the Hays Code, the Sopranos would be banned for its profanity, sexual perversion and most importantly for glorifying criminality and depicting evil not being punished swiftly and surely. And that other show someone mentioned, the Shield, would be banned for showing our brave policemen as corrupt and violent. I pray for that day, and others should join me.

Please tell me you are kidding. Please. WAYR?

81 posted on 04/08/2007 10:24:03 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: cajungirl
If Christo-fuh gets offed, I won’t be sad after Adriana got offed b/o his blabbing. Art imitates life. bwahhaahahahahhaha!!!!
82 posted on 04/08/2007 10:26:23 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: onward_xtian_soldier
Amen. One initiative we need in this country is to restore Hays Code standards to movies and extend them to cover all forms of broadcast media such as cable television. Under the Hays Code, the Sopranos would be banned for its profanity, sexual perversion and most importantly for glorifying criminality and depicting evil not being punished swiftly and surely. And that other show someone mentioned, the Shield, would be banned for showing our brave policemen as corrupt and violent. I pray for that day, and others should join me.
Good news! You have the power to do this already. It's called the remote control. Change the channel or turn off the TV if you don't like it. Or are you dead set on telling everyone else what they can and can't watch?
83 posted on 04/08/2007 11:02:43 AM PDT by Scutter
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To: Graymatter
“The quintessentially American family epic” is about gangsters?

Yep.


84 posted on 04/08/2007 11:08:18 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: Wormwood
This is going to be a painful finale...

Not as painful as the last season and a half have been.

85 posted on 04/08/2007 11:11:06 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Wormwood
A fitting eulogy for an incredible series.

All true, but I think the series ran a year or so too long. The recent years have been a pale imitation of the first few.

86 posted on 04/08/2007 11:13:25 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Wormwood
You may not like The Sopranos, but to call it worse than Maury, Cheaters, Full House, or The View is overstating your case.

Or any of what pass for sitcoms these days.

87 posted on 04/08/2007 11:16:56 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: UB355

That’s it, thanks.


88 posted on 04/08/2007 11:19:32 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: OldSmaj

Just to be clear, the Hays Code was not a government nanny state program.


89 posted on 04/08/2007 11:26:12 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SamAdams76; MotleyGirl70; Cagey; Mr. Brightside
They will all die or go to jail in the end.

Nah, Seinfeld already did that.

90 posted on 04/08/2007 11:27:39 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Hunter-Thompson '08)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The Sopranos had great acting and great writing. After you watch the Sopranos, you wonder how anyone could spend much time watching the latest Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt, or Angelina Jolie fare. I never saw Mr and Mrs Smith but I heard it had enough of an audience to make money.


91 posted on 04/08/2007 11:31:41 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Polybius; All

“And give those Irish hoodlums a drink down there.”

(WARNING: Bad language, and not for the squeamish)

92 posted on 04/08/2007 12:11:46 PM PDT by dighton
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To: Non-Sequitur
All true, but I think the series ran a year or so too long.

I'd say at least two years too long.

But bad Sopranos is still better than most other television.

93 posted on 04/08/2007 1:11:52 PM PDT by Wormwood (Future Former Freeper)
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To: Wormwood
But bad Sopranos is still better than most other television.

Agreed. But pales by comparison to Deadwood.

94 posted on 04/08/2007 1:13:24 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
It cannot be overstated how revolutionary and brilliant this show was. And it dragged network TV into a new age of realism. From 24 to House, all the current, edgy, adult dramas series' owe The Sopranos a debt.

No actor ever inhabited a role more fully than James Gandolfini does Tony Soprano.

It's very depressing that it's ending, but it was glorious.

95 posted on 04/08/2007 1:20:32 PM PDT by veronica
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

The show has been weak the last season or two but I’ll be watching


96 posted on 04/08/2007 1:27:00 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (Giuliani: A strict constructionist judge can come to either conclusion about Roe against Wade.)
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To: NeoCaveman

I think it got weak when Tony Jr and Meadow grew up. And Tony is getting old and fat and I am scared he will have an MI on us. So I guess I am glad it is going. Gandolfini’s career I think is gone now,,he can never do anything again like this.

Whitaker in the SHield is fabulous,,that guy can act.


97 posted on 04/08/2007 1:30:48 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Kid Shelleen
I just hope they don't mail this season in like they did the last one.

Deadwood and Rome were both better than last season's Sopranos.

98 posted on 04/08/2007 1:32:36 PM PDT by Gurn (Islam is a cancer.)
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To: All
The Family that Preys Together An exclusive Q&A with Sopranos creator David Chase. interview by Peter Biskind Vanity Fair.COM March 13, 2007...


99 posted on 04/08/2007 1:36:50 PM PDT by veronica
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To: veronica
No actor ever inhabited a role more fully than James Gandolfini does Tony Soprano.

I just spent ten solid minutes attempting to prove your statement wrong.

I give up.

100 posted on 04/08/2007 2:22:23 PM PDT by Wormwood (Future Former Freeper)
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