Posts Tagged ‘Carmela Soprano’
Monday, September 10th, 2007
Hollywood seems to love the graphic horror genre known as ‘gore porn’ or more succinctly, ‘gorn’ at the moment. With endless movies featuring gruesome torture and murder (see the Saw movies – or if you have any sense – don’t) littering cinemas, Christopher Moltisanti is clearly on to a winner with his new mafia/ slasher flick Cleaver. Having been his pet project for a while now, Tony’s protégé finally got to unveil his work at the film’s premiere.
Carmela was upset with what she saw onscreen: a chubby mob boss with a taste for white bathrobes and ordering his crew from his basement. Mmm – sound like Tony? Her mood worsened when the cinematic Tony, as played by Daniel Baldwin in the absence of Sir Ben Kingsley, got it on with his minion’s fiancé. Was this scene a direct reference to Tony and Adriana? Carmela certainly thought so, and her suspicions were further aroused when the boss was killed by his subordinate, depicting what she labelled Chris’s ‘revenge fantasy.’
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Tags: cancer, Carmela Soprano, Christopher Moltisanti, Cleaver, criminals, Dr. melfi, Drama, E4, film, gangsters, Johnny Sack, mobsters, movie, organised crime, premiere, programme, show, the Mafia, The Sopranos, therapy, Tony Soprano, TV
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
In my younger years, Sunday evenings were all about packing your bag for school the next day and having a bath. Now thankfully with no school bag to pack and without my parents to nag me to wash behind my ears, Sunday evenings have come to adopt an entirely new meaning: that of great TV. Dexter on FX, Weeds on Sky One and last night came the cherry on top – the first of the final nine episodes of The Sopranos on E4.
Last night’s instalment took us back to 2004 and the season five finale when a meeting between Tony and Johnny Sack was interrupted by the Feds. Oblivious to the police assault, Johnny Sack was arrested but Tony made a run for it, discarding his gun in the snow in the process. This fateful fire-arm was found by a local teenage boy who back in the present day has blabbed to police authorities on the gun’s origins. With some potential dirt on Tony, the Essex County authorities came knocking rather loudly on his door before cuffing him and taking him back to the station. But where were the FBI and will this long-forgotten act be enough to take down the great Tony Soprano?
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Tags: birthday, Bobby Bacala, Carmela Soprano, criminals, drug deal, E4, gangsters, Janice, lake house, mobsters, murder, organised crime, the Mafia, the Mob, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Only nine episodes left and so many questions remain. For fans that have stuck with the drama since Tony first met with Dr. Melfi, these last instalments are the final pieces to the jigsaw. But do we think that creator David Chase will help us with any answers or is The Sopranos going to keep us guessing? For those of us looking for some degree of closure, we hope the following issues might be addressed. Here are TV Scoop’s top ten burning questions.
10. Will Bobby Bacala be made a ‘capo’?
Tony’s sister Janice is a woman operating in man’s world and she certainly has the skills of manipulation and cruelty required. Now married to lovable loser Bobby Bacala she is desperate for her hubby to earn the power and prestige she thinks he deserves. Has he got what it takes? Obviously not, but whether he’ll get the promotion Janice is angling for is another matter.
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Tags: A. J. Soprano, Adriana, Bobby Bacala, Carmela Soprano, criminals, Drama, E4, gansters, Janice, Meadow Soprano, mobsters, Paulie Walnuts, Phil, Silvio, the Feds, the Mob, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, top questions, Uncle Junior
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From:Set The Video: NASA: Triumph and Tragedy, BBC Two, Wednesday, 24 June, 9pm