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Many psychotherapists consider Dr. Melfi, the leggy shrink who counsels murderous mafioso Tony Soprano on HBO's The Sopranos, one of television's most realistic depictions of their work. Now the actress who plays her, Lorraine Bracco, is ready to discuss a real-life mental-health problem of her own. In TV spots launching next month and on a website for Pfizer, the Brooklyn-born actress will describe her struggle with depression. Bracco is just the latest celebrity to go public with such a personal admission. Last summer Jane Pauley spilled the beans on her bipolar disorder, and this spring...
...Saloonkeeper Al Swearengen on HBO's Deadwood, Ian McShane once swindled a prospector, had him killed and then tried to fleece his widow. He has bribed officials and orchestrated or covered up numerous robberies and murders. And he very nearly killed an orphan girl for witnessing her family's massacre...
...greatest act of criminality was stealing the show. When Deadwood debuted last year, HBO did not promote Swearengen as the lead. The cast is an ensemble, and since when is the bad guy the star of a western? But as the season unfolded, the complex, amoral yet philosophical master of the Gem Saloon came to dominate the show with greasy, foulmouthed splendor...
...feel that way. Before Deadwood, TV westerns had been out of fashion. But the story of the bloody pursuit of riches and the emergence of law in a South Dakota gold-prospecting outpost turned into a respectable hit for HBO...
...chance. (Hey, she started it!) Since the launches of Twin Peaks and The X-Files, the network schedules have been littered with failed attempts at spooky, paranormal series: Millennium, The Others, Miracles, Wolf Lake and more. (The exceptions, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joan of Arcadia and HBO's Carnivale, have been cult hits or cable shows.) Viewers, meanwhile, gravitated to reality shows and firmly realistic cop procedurals...