Sopranos add an hour

[ifilus]

“There are now going to be nine shows altogether,” cast member Steven Schirripa confirmed backstage at the Comic Relief show in Las Vegas on Saturday. “We added one show. We were only supposed to do 8, but they just added a ninth show.”


http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20061120/en_tv_eo/42350d5f-6f00-4d50-8104-68c62b8ab630

 

[dog428]

I seriously would not be surprised to hear that another season is a possibility.

Several show regulars are getting all antsy with the end in sight. Taking off while still relatively on top seems like a good idea, I guess, right up to the point where you can actually see the end.

 

[BYH]

Yes but the bad news is it's going to take David Chase 11 years to do the ninth show.

 

[Chef]

Taking off while still relatively on top seems like a good idea, I guess, right up to the point where you can actually see the end.

i.e. Cheers.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

As great as this cast is, I don't think too many of them are going to be that much in demand after the series is canceled. Gandolfini, Falco, Bracco and Imperioli will be fine... The rest of them will be begging to be extras in mob flicks. Look at the career path of Big ***** since his character was killed...

 

[JR]

Yeah, can you imagine someone casting Paulie Walnuts as the loving grandpa in a heart-warming Christmas movie?

 

[spnited]

The rest of them will go back to being what they were...character actors.

Except Silvio, who has some other career options.

 

[heyabbott]

Yeah, can you imagine someone casting Paulie Walnuts as the loving grandpa in a heart-warming Christmas movie?

Meet The Parents III: the Return of Paulie. He's Robert DeNiro's mobster father.

 

[Double Down]

Please, for the love of good storytelling, don't add an extra season. (Don't think it's happening anyway, since they've already shot six of the nine episodes). The one drawback of watching The Wire get stronger every season is that it has highlighted the what a meandering art house festival Season 5 of the Sopranos turned into.

 

[Webster]

It's my understanding that HBO paid a ton of money to the supporting actors for the final season and that they are not particularly inclined to extend the show any further. Given the lack of a real "go to" show to lure new subscribers to HBO (with the possible exception of Entourage), they might relent when everyone works out the finances.

 

[heyabbott]

Maybe the ninth show is a retrospective or a Very Special Episode of The Sopranos.

 

[Double Down]

Maybe the ninth show is a retrospective or a Very Special Episode of The Sopranos.

Or Maybe Chris just snorts heroin again, and stares off into the sky for 52 minutes during a Fourth of July show.

 

[heyabbott]

Maybe the ninth show is a retrospective or a Very Special Episode of The Sopranos.

Or Maybe Chris just snorts heroin again, and stares off into the sky for 52 minutes during a Fourth of July show.

I'm hoping for a Best of..Da Bing. An hour of clips of the best fake tits in New Jersey.

 

[BYH]

Maybe the ninth show is a retrospective or a Very Special Episode of The Sopranos.

Hopefully hosted by Troy McClure.

 

[Columbo]

As great as this cast is, I don't think too many of them are going to be that much in demand after the series is canceled. Gandolfini, Falco, Bracco and Imperioli will be fine... The rest of them will be begging to be extras in mob flicks. Look at the career path of Big ***** since his character was killed...

Oh... I don't think Gandolfini is fine at all.

He is simply putrid in everything else he is in.

 

[Double Down]

Gandolfini is a wonderful actor, Pube. Incredibly committed to the craft. Very good in True Romance, very good in Crimson Tide, respectable in Fallen, good in The Mexican (even though the rest of the film is total ****), and I'm very interested to see him in the HBO Hemingway biopic. He doesn't work very much, and when he does, he occasionally gets awful material (The Last Castle comes to mind, though I think he just jumped at the chance to work with Bob Redford), but the dedication he's put in to Tony Soprano -- the body language, the subtle gestures, the believable moments of both tenderness and rage -- has been awe inspiring. Without Gandolfini properly expressing Tony's deeply divided psyche and his infinite moral ambiguities, that show would never have received the kind of universal praise its gotten. He'll be just fine. So will Michael Imperioli and Edie Falco.

Of all the people who should be begging for a Sopranos movie or an additional season, I'd put Robert Iler, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Lorraine Bracco in an unbreakable three-way tie for first.

 

[Columbo]

Gandolfini is a wonderful actor, Pube. Incredibly committed to the craft. Very good in True Romance, very good in Crimson Tide, respectable in Fallen, good in The Mexican (even though the rest of the film is total ****), and I'm very interested to see him in the HBO Hemingway biopic. He doesn't work very much, and when he does, he occasionally gets awful material (The Last Castle comes to mind, though I think he just jumped at the chance to work with Bob Redford), but the dedication he's put in to Tony Soprano -- the body language, the subtle gestures, the believable moments of both tenderness and rage -- has been awe inspiring. Without Gandolfini properly expressing Tony's deeply divided psyche and his infinite moral ambiguities, that show would never have received the kind of universal praise its gotten. He'll be just fine. So will Michael Imperioli and Edie Falco.

Of all the people who should be begging for a Sopranos movie or an additional season, I'd put Robert Iler, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Lorraine Bracco in an unbreakable three-way tie for first.

His voice is a pure distraction.

With the exception of True Romance.... as a mobster..... I disagree with your assessment.

 

[Double Down]

Well, 99 percent of the critics seem to be on my side, and they know far more about acting than the both of us.

 

[Columbo]

Well, 99 percent of the critics seem to be on my side, and they know far more about acting than the both of us.

Regarding his work on The Sopranos?

Sure. I agree with that.

He is sublime in his career role.

 

[Columbo]

From Phoebe Flowers' review of All The King's Men:

The story, which has been moved from the '30s to the '50s, is told mainly from the perspective of Jack Burden (Jude Law), a newspaper reporter who, for reasons that never really become clear, gets involved with Stark. Law slushes his way through a woozy yet wooden performance.

At least he's better than James Gandolfini as Tiny Duffy, "an unimaginative but cunning Louisiana political operative." (That description was lifted directly from the production notes, because Duffy's character, like so much else in this incoherent film, was mostly lost on us.) Gandolfini sounds, no kidding, like Tony Soprano half-trying to affect a Southern accent to make his buddies laugh.