Sentences with phrase «the sopranos»

«They have «The Godfather,» «Rocky,» «Goodfellas,» «The Sopranos»... We have Long Duk Dong,» he said, referring to an infamously stereotypical character from «Sixteen Candles.»

Sure, it's a promotional campaign for the league, but how often do you see John Stamos, Jerry Seinfeld and Tony Soprano sharing screen time in their finest football gear?

It did a starring role in the TV show «The Sopranos»,.

CNBC Meets» Tania Bryer speaks to celebrated soprano opera singer Jessye Norman, who speaks about her childhood growing up in Augusta, Georgia.

Its first original series, Lilyhammer, starring Steven Van Zandt of The Sopranos, starts streaming in February.

I used to ride my Big Wheels around Edison to all my different lemonade stands, picking up my cash like I was Tony Soprano.

For example, as low - cost as BillFloat might be compared with charges for bounced checks, 3 percent per month works out to a near - Sopranos level of 36 percent annually.

The Sopranos gave HBO a new, bankable, brand.

The outpouring of love following the recent death of James Gandolfini, who played Tony Soprano, is a testament to the cultural impact the show had.

The greatest thing ever written about the way television used to be — back before cable and cord cutting, before HBO, TiVo, Netflix and Tony Soprano — was «Within the Context of No Context,» an essay by George W. S. Trow.

It was the year 2000, and David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos and one of the most influential American artists of the past 50 years, had had an epiphany.

A former assistant told Martin that his antics and needs escalated as The Sopranos became more popular.

The «difficult men» are at once the characters who defined this current golden age of television — Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Walter White — and the obsessive, cantankerous men who thought them up, including Chase, but also Matt Weiner (Mad Men), David Milch (NYPD Blue and Deadwood) and others.

Take this one, devoted to the 10th anniversary of the last episode of The Sopranos, that includes two Wagyu beef patties, fried gabagool, deep fried ravioli, meatballs, garlic aioli, and Parmesan and American cheese.

CNBC Meets» Tania Bryer speaks to celebrated soprano opera singer Jessye Norman, who speaks about her childhood growing up in Augusta, Georgia and her first experience of racial segregation.

Accountants are usually portrayed as the guy who gets whacked first, like in The Sopranos.

The problem is that most don't qualify for bank loans with an 8 % interest rate, and even more don't want to do business with predatory lenders who charge 40 % and remind them of Tony Soprano.

The video leads viewers behind the wheel of a car into Jersey City with scenes of the tower, all to the tune of the theme song from The Sopranos, «Woke Up This Morning.»

It has become a staple of pop culture, appearing in everything from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and «Gossip Girl» to «The Sopranos.»

It includes a performance by mezzo - soprano Jessica Lloyd, greetings from the federal government and a group photo of all new Canadians.

He also landed guest appearances on such popular shows as Sex and the City and The Sopranos.

He could be the guy next door, which is why his sins startle us in a way Tony Soprano's never could.

Let me add, for the record that reading Carl's thread brought to my mind immediately Tony Soprano — who brutally murders Ralphie with his bare hands after finding out that Ralphie had the horse he had become attached to killed for the insurance money.

James Gandolfini, a prolific actor best known as Tony Soprano in The Sopranos but also for key, memorable roles in True Romance and Where the Wild Things Are has passed...

Ross Douthat, in his piece A Case for Hell, turns the table on the Universalist by asking an even more provocative question: «Is Tony Soprano really in heaven?»

It is easy to write off Tony Soprano because he can be lumped together with other (real) villains like Hitler, Stalin, and Charles Manson.

But Bach, astute student of the liturgy and of human nature, did not simply end the piece with the last words sung by the soprano.

It contains a rollicking soprano aria, «My faithful heart, rejoice, sing, be glad.»

I will not wave my hand in the air with the arrogance of the sopranos for I am not welcome here in this house;

Tony could be Tony Soprano, and Julie, Julie Andrews.)

These Muslim families on TV seem to be as nice as the Addams Family and The Munsters but deep inside, they are like The Sopranos but in the terroristic sense.

I had a tape of the soprano Janet Baker.

Driving on the Solstice, tuning in to Public Radio, I heard a voice, legitimately trained, a little thin, but earnest; the soprano's every....

Douglas Yeo (bass trombonist with the Boston Symphony), Phil Smith (principal trumpet with the New York Philharmonic), Wendy White (mezzo — soprano with the Metropolitan Opera), Jerry Blackstone (co — director of the country's leading conducting program at the University of Michigan), and Michael Kurick (award — winning composer on Vanderbilt's faculty) are but a handful of the hundreds upon hundreds of Christians active as professional musicians outside of C — Pop.

I saw every episode of the Sopranos two times.

I guess that explains why you are singing soprano in the church choir these days.

I've never seen Italian people attack The Sopranos.

As shafts of light illuminate the darkness, a soprano voice sings lyrics commissioned by Disney from poet and novelist Rachael Field specifically for Fantasia:

(He was fond of picking up sopranos» usually no small objects in the opera world» and holding them over his head.)

The soprano Teresa Stratas, who was at the conservatory with Vickers and knew them both well, characterized their relationship as «one of the great love stories of our time.»

Like the soprano, the tenor could not hit the high notes, but he made up for that by sporting a frizzy hairdo and by ripping open his ruffled shirt front, in the process making one wonder if he were really bald under the curls.

Whenever a high note approached, the soprano surreptitiously hit the volume control on the tape deck and opened her mouth a little wider.

The turn began around the start of the new century when HBO's The Sopranos pushed Americans to question whether something had to be dumber just because it was on a smaller screen.

Did you ever watch The Sopranos?

These two are only the latest in what is now a long line of books with similar titles, starting years ago with Robert Short's The Gospel According to Peanuts, and now including Pinsky's previous work on The Simpsons and planned volume on South Park, and myriad others like The Gospel According to Dr Seuss and The Gospel According to Tony Soprano.

There are plenty of sopranos and altos among the choirs of the blessed.

In 2001, music categorized as ccm accounted for more than $ 1 billion in sales — up 12 percent in a year when the recording industry as a whole took a downturn, Newsweek ran a cover story on «Jesus Rock» and HBO's The Sopranos featured a humorous subplot about the mob family trying to get in on the action.

The role very well may become, along with Richard Strauss» Octavian, one of the most important and rewarding roles for a mezzo «soprano in the repertory.

Remember The Sopranos episode Fleshy Part of the Thigh?

Mozart's Exultate Jubilate, Allegri's Miserere and other famous pieces from this period now sung by sopranos and countertenors were written for castrati.