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...ally/rival, New York boss Johnny Sack (Vincent Curatola) is locked up. He's fat and happy-as happy as Tony gets, anyway-in the prime of his career, shoveling $40-a-piece sushi down his gullet at dinner with his often-cheated-upon but newly reconciled wife, Carmela (Edie Falco...
...projects gets more and more combustible, with racist white cops on one side and vaguely offensive straw-men of feisty blacks on the other. And then, that plot line sort of disappears just in time for “The Soprano’s” Edie Falco to arrive as the leader of a group of mothers who organize hunts for missing children. Falco has the magic power of importing hundreds of volunteers on a moments notice...
MARCUS DIDIUS FALCO...
...even ancient Rome had its shamuses. Falco wisecracks his way through the empire's sleazy underside to provide amusing lessons on the way crime, greed and cover-ups were endemic even in 70 B.C. In the 17th Falco novel, See Delphi and Die, the Eternal City's original tough guy takes on the tourist industry. (Rome invented that too.) Davis' crimes are wickedly convoluted, but Falco's facetious tongue and domestic complications are the real...
...specialized in adapting stage works such as West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, he achieved his greatest glory the previous decade, when he used his background in publicity to craft two glorious Broadway vipers, J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) and Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), for the film Sweet Smell of Success, and wrote Alfred Hitchcock's smartest, snazziest caper, North by Northwest. In 2001 he became the first screenwriter to be awarded an honorary Oscar...