Friday 21 June 2013

So farewell, James Gandolfini – the best TV acting performance ever immortalised in the funniest TV parody ever


It’s obviously a generational thing, but when I told my 19-year old son that the great James Gandolfini had died, he responded with "Don't call me English!":



I'll leave you with the best TV drama opening sequence of all time:



So long, Big Man - and many, many thanks.
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2 comments:

  1. Gandolfini fan21 June 2013 at 19:51

    Thank you for this. During the 6 seasons of the Sopranos he never struck a false note and in his other filmwork he was never less than very good. Like Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall he was incapable of bad acting. 51-years old! Steve McQueen was 50 and Warren Oates 53.

    And what are we left with? Catch James Lipton's 250-episodes celebration of his guests on "Inside the Actor-s Studio" on Sky Arts. I wonder about the ages of Will Ferrel, Adam Sandler or Vince Vaughn - but it never works like that, does it?

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  2. Colin G finlay8 December 2014 at 11:45

    Jamal Ginsberg? As Lowell George sang in 'Rock n Roll Doctor' - " Can't be beat."

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