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...help us - "quirky drama." Numerous characters were added; some episodes meandered; others - a trip to Italy, his nephew's flirtation with Hollywood - were self-indulgent and untrue to the tone of the series. When it connected, especially in Tony's increasingly strained relations with his wife Carmela (Edie Falco) and his moody son, it was fantastic. But sometimes, it wasn't much...
...story. The way Chase handles the scene shows how this series is in a league above anything else on TV. On a network show - even in the heyday of "All in the Family" -Tony's wife would have to be a sympathetic counterbalance, the tolerant peacemaker. But Chase and Falco don't let Carm off the hook: She subtly betrays that she's not entirely comfortable with her daughter dating a black man either, nor is she comfortable saying how she does feel. She tells Tony not to "make things worse. Keep playing the race card and you'll drive...
...Method kids in jeans, Sir John's classical diction might seem as fuddy a theater relic as tights and gaslights. Yet on the night after his death, on a West End stage, Edie Falco and her American co-stars in the gritty play Side Man paused at the end to pay tribute, leading a final standing ovation, to a man whose love of the theater was so artful and ardent...
...always the night of the living dead. The emotional zombies are disguised as parents and teachers. If they weren't so well behaved, they'd scream with perplexed rage. The only bright spot in this spiffy shtetl of depression is the manic, half-Italian Judy (The Sopranos' Edie Falco), and she's leaving town. Barbara Barrie, Bob Dishy and the late Madeline Kahn shine in a pristinely black-and-white portrait of domestic derangement. But the film is one-note; misery is the only game in town. Poor Jews, the movie says--what they really want to be is...Italian...
...season for the chance to write in "a writer's medium, rather than a director's... I felt like such a part of this world, writing for actors I knew." The team shares a gift for the fluid patter of Northeastern Italian Americans (like Chase, ancestral name DeCesare); Edie Falco, who won an Emmy as Tony's steely wife Carmela, says that on other projects, "I instinctively start rewriting my lines--which I'm sure writers hate...[But] I have never, ever had to second-guess with The Sopranos...