Word: carmela
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Nurse Jackie has a fine-grained sense of hospitals' feudal hierarchy, but it's ultimately about the paradox of Jackie: she's dedicated and moral in her professional life but - in ways it's better not to spoil - hurtful in her private life. As when Falco portrayed Carmela Soprano, she plays tough while letting her emotions spark from every nerve, and she shows a gift for tart comedy here too. To get her job done, Jackie needs to be part nurturer, part con artist, part stand-up comic. "What do you call a nurse with a bad back?" she asks...
...topical or resonate with current events: nearly every season opens with a newspaper landing in Tony's driveway, underlining the suburban setting and reminding us that, to some extent, the show intends to deliver the news. Tony (James Gandolfini) has fretted about terrorism and suffered through recessions; wife Carmela (Edie Falco) dabbled in stocks during the NASDAQ craze and in real estate when that market took off. There have been parallels to politics--like Tony's Clintonian appetites and his Bushian yen for simple answers--and direct references, as when Carmela copped to voting for Bush...
Regardless, a feeling of doom hangs over these episodes. Early in the debut, police wake up the Soprano household to arrest Tony on a weapons charge. "Is this it?" shrieks Carmela, as if she had been expecting this moment every morning she opened her eyes next to her husband...
...times and witnessed his Oct. 25 execution by lethal injection. Shortly before his death, Summers accepted a last-minute offer to be buried in Tuscany after attempts to obtain burial rights in the Netherlands, Britain and Tennessee had been unsuccessful. The benefactor was Cascina middle school principal Maria Carmela Carretta, who'd been following the case with a class of sixth-graders after reading about it in a Catholic magazine...
...attention, and you’ll notice that, while talking about the medieval letters of Abelard and Heloise (a great literary reference), Carmela accidentally calls Heloise “Eloise”—a very subtle allusion to the fact that Carm and her daughter used to have a tradition of imitating the classic children’s book “Eloise...