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...enough history. What everyone wants to know now is: Who gets whacked this season? People die in the Mob, and Chase has killed off major characters before (including Vincent Pastore's "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero and Tony's mother Livia, after the death of actress Nancy Marchand, who played her). When HBO released an Annie Leibovitz promotional photo of the cast (see opening spread), the New York Post scrutinized it for clues as if it were the cover of Abbey Road. (Why is Paulie wearing a white suit? Is he with the angels?) But when it comes to secrets--down...
...seamless, self-contained, original and stunning work, spread over 13 installments, following New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) through his business and family entanglements. These two threads came together in his furtive psychoanalysis sessions, and in the person of Tony's mother, Livia (Nancy Marchand), who arranged an attempt on his life. It ended, neatly if ambiguously, with Tony angrily confronting her in the hospital after she had a stroke...
...Chase signed on for three more years, things changed. "The Sopranos," unavoidably, became just another damn TV show. That it remained still the best, most challenging and ambitious show on TV didn't alleviate the letdown. The popular character Livia lived on, given an understandably deflated role owing to Marchand's real-life illness. Her role as Tony's antagonist was assumed by his estranged sister Janice (Aida Turturro), a flaky West Coastie who threatened to turn the series into yet another - God help us - "quirky drama." Numerous characters were added; some episodes meandered; others - a trip to Italy...
...Nancy Marchand 71 The Sopranos Mob matriarch won four Emmy Awards...
...poetry, had intended his explosive to be used mostly for peaceful purposes and was dismayed that it became so powerful an instrument of war. In 1888 a French newspaper--thinking it was Alfred and not his brother who had passed on--ran his obituary under the cutting headline "Le marchand de la mort est mort" (the merchant of death is dead). With the family name obviously in need of some burnishing, Nobel hit on the idea of his golden prize...