Sentences with phrase «soprano gave»
The Sopranos gave HBO a new, bankable, brand.
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The only players in this drama who seem capable of escape are Tony Soprano himself, the mob boss and antihero who makes repeated excursions into psychotherapy, and his wife, Carmela, whose guilt over her husband's lifestyle coexists with an unwillingness to give up the possessions and status that his criminality has won for her.
Via Internally Erased @ Tumblr Perhaps it is a subconscious result of all the Sopranos being watched in my household, but I am giving Italian cuisine some serious love lately!
A classical soprano with an MFA in Theatre Education / Outreach and Dramatic writing, she started her blog because having a family gave her a point of view as a cook, and being a mother (to boys, ages 2 & 5, one with sensory - motor problems) made her even more eager to learn about food systems and how the stuff we eat affects little people's bodies and brains.
Okay, I'll give the Clinton campaign a reasonable number of cool points for announcing the winner of her campaign song contest through a video that very cleverly parodies the last episode of The Sopranos.
Creepy old guy that looks like a Sopranos extra makes pretty young women touch the tumors in his armpit, gives another young woman pinkeye.
It was breath - taking for an amateur mezzo - soprano to be given such a challenge and privilege.
Not only is the series as entertaining, well - produced, and agreeably shrewd with its layered characters, but creator Vince Gilligan has given a daring, nutty jolt to themes long mastered by others shows i.e. the drug war (The Wire) and the rapport between money and mortality (The Sopranos).
But in this, the series's penultimate episode, Sopranos director Allen Coulter gives us a taste of what the darker Luck many of us had been wishing for might have been like.
Given the plentiful violence found in previous shows by executive producers Michael Mann and David Milch, early speculation on what Luck would feel like often ended up somewhere in The Sopranos territory.
Ah HBO, the cable network that just keeps on giving, providing countless hours of compulsive viewing with the likes of The Sopranos, The Wire, True Blood and Game of Thrones, to name just a few of its quality, adult focused entertainment.
In case you were wondering what the movie version of The Sopranos might have looked like, director Luc Besson and producer Martin Scorsese are giving you a taste with The Family, a film that seems to follow the HBO drama's lead, albeit with a madcap comedic spin.
Miles is positioned as a family man looking for a way out of his chosen profession, which softens the role enough to perhaps better fit both O'Dowd and the series» format — though «Make him more sympathetic by giving him a wife and kid» seems like the kind of network note someone would have given in the days of the movie, not after its co-star James Gandolfini moved to TV for The Sopranos — but knocks the tone of the series off - kilter.
«Bel Canto» centers on Roxane Coss (Moore), a famous American soprano, who travels to South America to give a private concert at the birthday party of a Japanese mogul (Watanabe).
The studio, though, is reportedly hoping Chase's film will headline its 2012 campaign, with specific mention from Deadline for James Gandolfini, reuniting here with his «Sopranos» helmer as «a post-war, post-Depression Era parent who has worked hard to give his son everything he didn't have but now feels some jealousy about the free - wheeling life the boy gets to experience.»
The film has three unknowns in John Magaro, Will Brill and Jack Huston (who has since broken out with his role on «Boardwalk Empire «-RRB- as the leads, which shouldn't be a problem as Chase's depiction of youth with inexperienced talent on his HBO show was stellar, but it also boasts a strong supporting cast with Bella Heathcote as the protagonist Magaro's girlfriend, Christopher McDonald as her father, Molly Price as Magaro's mother, Lisa Lampenelli as his aunt, Brad Garrett as a composer / producer, and Chase's «Sopranos» leading man James Gandolfini, who apparently shines as Magaro's father, «a postwar, post-Depression era parent who has given his kid every advantage that he didn't have growing up.»
On Aug. 12 — the moment in the summer movie - release calendar when blockbuster season traditionally gives way to blockbuster - fatigue season — Paramount Pictures will release Meryl Streep's new movie Florence Foster Jenkins, a period comedy - drama about a famously incompetent and famously undeterrable aspiring soprano.
In Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss has given perhaps the finest female dramatic performance on American television this side of Edie Falco in The Sopranos, and this simple exchange contains everything that makes her Peggy so fascinating and affecting — the unexpected cadences and pauses, the precise line readings, and her face, on the cusp of either smile or frown, dominated by her wide, soulful eyes, which seem constantly to search for, connect with, and then avert those of her scene partner.
Emmy - winning Sopranos star James Gandolfini has been remembered at the 2013 awards ceremony, with co-star Edie Falco giving a tearful speech.
While Falco (The Sopranos) is the most accomplished actor in the cast, she is given the least to do here.
As a homage to the man who pushed the limits of what television could be, we give you a sampling of some of the many ways Tony Soprano broke the law.