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Before taking a bullet in the first episode of this season of The Sopranos, mob boss Tony Soprano was at the top of his game: secure in his business, flush with income, gorging on expensive sushi. When it comes to the TV-crime business, Tony has largely been the unchallenged boss too. Television has occasionally featured wrongfully accused men (The Fugitive) or misunderstood rogues (The Dukes of Hazzard), but TV has mainly been a good guys' zone. Now there are people gunning for Tony in the TV biz as well; the medium is in the middle of a full-blown...
...network standards, but all paying customers. "It showed us that audiences could connect to a guy so deeply flawed as to be a murderer," says NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly. The networks have tried and failed to emulate it before: CBS with Falcone in 2000, NBC with Mexican-mob drama Kingpin...
...environment that is rife with corruption and repression. Frustration at this dual monopoly appear to have been behind a violent outburst yesterday at Halabja, the town on which Saddam Hussein inflicted a barbaric chemical attack in 1988, killing 5,000. It was the anniversary of the atrocity, and the mob destroyed the government-sanctioned shrine to the victims of the attack...
...can’t name ‘em all so just take a shot whenever Dafoe does something annoying. 9. When you see the Harvard motto written on one of the brothers’ left hands. 10. Every time Ron Jeremy appears on screen as a mob boss who eerily resembles Oprah. —Kyle L. K. McAuley and Nicholas K. Tabor
...film’s greatest success is its staggeringly coherent cinematography. Harlequin fireworks, dramatic iconography, and overpowering mob images dominate the silver screen. From beginning to end, the choreography of the explosive sequences succeeds with the same grandeur of the accompanying Tchaikovsky score...