July 18, 2007
Tomorrow morning at 8:30am ET (5:30am PT), The Closer’s Kyra Sedgwick and Two and a Half Men’s Jon Cryer will announce the nominees for the 2007 Emmy Awards. Over the past couple of weeks, list of the top 10 finalists in many major categories, including Drama and Comedy Series, have been leaked, predominately at TheEnvelope.com.
What will be the biggest shows? It’s always a bit difficult trying to predict the future, but it’s a safe bet that these four shows will all make quite a showing:
June 19, 2007
After the culmination of the long-running mafia series The Sopranos, James Gandolfini, who played the Italian-American crime boss Tony Soprano, will return to the TV loop with a documentary about the survival experiences of the U.S. veterans of the Iraq war entitled “Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq.”
Scheduled to premiere on Sunday, September 9 on HBO, the war documentary will feature Gandolfini’s interviews with 10 American GIs narrating their stories in the combat zone, as well as their near encounters with death.
June 18, 2007
After much buzz over the controversial ending of the long-running mob drama The Sopranos, cast members have finally revealed their sentiments over the abrupt and baffling culmination.
James Gandolfini, who played the mafia boss Tony Soprano, and the rest of the cast members of the show have nothing but compliments for show creator David Chase. The cast also commends Chase for leaving the viewers guessing after cutting the screen to black for 10 seconds at the series finale, which aired on Sunday, June 10, 2007.
June 11, 2007
The Sopranos creator David Chase wrote and directed last night's final installment of the long-running HBO mob epic, and he gave fans a relatively uneventful and, at times, bizarre send-off after six seasons of award-winning drama. The ending is what everyone will be talking about (or, more likely, complaining about) this morning, but the whole episode deserves careful examination. After the tension of last Sunday's spectacular entry, the finale felt like a toothless epilogue, an hour of anticipation with no pay-off.
June 5, 2007
David Proval previously starred in many films but was distinctly known as Richie Aprile on the mob drama The Sopranos. In the The Sopranos, he played the older brother of acting DiMeo Crime Family boss Jackie Aprile, Sr. He was considered as a capo in the family prior to being sent to prison for ten years. After the death of Jackie, Richie came back to a different mob family with Tony Soprano in charge. Although Richie and Tony had gotten along in the past, tension between the two developed throughout season two. Richie tries to seek approval from other bosses such as Uncle Junior and Ally Boy but his efforts to take over, as boss of the family did not succeed. Richie met his end when he and his fiancée Janice, Tony’s sister, entered into an argument, which led Janice to shoot him twice.
June 5, 2007
Drea De Matteo was popularly known as Adriana La Cerva on the HBO series, The Sopranos. Known as the long-time girlfriend turned fiancée of Christopher Moltisanti, Tony Soprano’s nephew and right-hand man, she grew up exposed to the mafia lifestyle. Initially, she portrayed a shallow and materialistic character but eventually became ambitious, business minded and concerned about Christopher’s best interests. Although she was relatively loyal to the mob, she became an easy target for the FBI. She tried to avoid giving up any serious information about the mob family but her deception eventually caught up with her after the FBI discovered her involvement in a murder. Later, she confessed everything to Christopher, but Christopher’s loyalty to his family turned out to be greater than his love for her. In the episode entitled “Long Term Parking,” Tony had Silvio Dante put her to death. After her death in 2004, she appeared on several episodes in the form of dream sequences.
May 28, 2007
Lorraine Bracco, cast member on The Sopranos, guest starred in The Oprah Winfrey Show on Thursday, May 24, supposedly to promote Bracco Wines, a line of eight Italian wines in partnership with the 52-year old actress. Additionally, she candidly spoke about her infidelity on husband Harvey Keitel and her years of denial on her depression.
Bracco was first married to Daniel Guerard but after a brief period married actor Harvey Keitel, popularly known for movies like Pulp Fiction, The Piano and Reservoir Dogs, and had a daughter with him named Stella Keitel. Despite the long-term relationship, the marriage went down the drain due to Bracco’s cheating on him with actor Edward James Olmos, known for playing Admiral William Adama on Battlestar Galactica. This resulted in a five-year legal battle over the custody of their child Stella, in which she was forced to file for bankruptcy. Bracco and Olmos got married but eventually filed for divorce.
April 19, 2007
Are you a Sopranos’ fan? If you are, you might as well put your Soprano knowledge into good use. Who knows, you might even win $5,000. In line with the near closing of the long-running mob drama, The Sopranos, a contest emerges to satisfy countless Soprano fans in the U.S. The game, which promises to give $5,000 to the winner, comes in the form of a sweepstakes scavenger hunt.
The Sopranos Ultimate Hits is an interactive scavenger hunt that tests the fans’ familiarity and understanding of The Sopranos. The game challenges ComCast users to compete against the clock and explore through a city dump engulfed with symbolic clues that relate back to the popular and notable hits from the action-packed series. All players must be able to find and correctly identify clues that represent the killer, weapon, location and victim from 8 distinctly recognizable hits.