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...having the experience two times in my life of doing something that makes New Jersey fashionable. What are the odds on that?' STEVEN VAN ZANDT, on being in both Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and the TV show The Sopranos, which ended its eight-year U.S. run on June...
...Tony, unsurprisingly, palms $500 from the bank and believes in the Free Parking--jackpot rule.) But Tony's personal crises--getting older, trying to break his family's cycle of dysfunction--mirror his business problem: figuring out who will lead the Mob family after him. Consigliere Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) proved unsuited to lead; protégé Christopher (Michael Imperioli) is off making his low-budget Mafia-slasher movie, with a pseudo-Tony played by Daniel Baldwin. ("Imitation's a form of flattery," Tony says with a shrug. "He's a tough prick, that Baldwin...
...ahead to life after college, while nihilist son A.J. (Robert Iler) is taking cellphone pictures of himself instead of studying in class. Carmela has settled into a melancholy peace with having chosen the good (but bad) life with Tony over being a poor-but-noble divorcee. Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) and Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico) are still the mafia princes of comic relief. ("It was f___in' mayham!" Paulie blusters after a holdup gone awry.) Uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese) is slipping deeper into senility, believing that he's being harassed by a long-dead enemy. ("We'll get J. Edgar...
...sense, in this last season, of a deathbed taking-stock, even a few self-referential scenes in which the series' history flashes before our eyes. Silvio, for instance, reveals that he was once considered to take over the family instead of Tony, an allusion to the fact that Van Zandt was originally asked to read for the role of Tony...
DIED. TOWNES VAN ZANDT, 52, country singer whose dark recordings about life's losers included Pancho and Lefty (recorded by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard); of a heart attack; in Smyrna, Tennessee. Born to wealth, Van Zandt spent part of his teens institutionalized for manic depression. At one point he became so poor he subsisted on dog food. But his songs influenced generations of country and rock singers, from Neil Young to the Cowboy Junkies...