The Unconventional Way This Film Got Made

Fans of cable television shows like "Boardwalk Empire" should have no trouble recognizing actor Michael Zegen. Part of the next generation of "that guys" -- those character actors who show up in what seems like everything -- Zegen has appeared on "The Sopranos," "How To Make It In America," "Rescue Me," "The Walking...

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As a hit man, 'Iceman' a model of productivity ★★★

For bracing proof that a) Michael Shannon can portray the coldest of killers, while b) complicating and enlivening a potentially monochromatic slab of nastiness, check out Shannon as Richard Kuklinski in director and co-writer Ariel Vromen's "The Iceman." In our mobbed-up popular culture, Kuklinski was destined for...

chicagotribune.com (4 days ago)

'Sopranos' Star on Tough Love

foxnews.com (5 days ago)

The 13 Rules for Creating a Prestige TV Drama

Warning: The following post contains spoilers for Breaking Bad, Dexter, Homeland, The Wire, The Sopranos, House of Cards, The Walking Dead, The Americans, Justified, Boardwalk Empire, Sons of Anarchy, True Blood, Lost, and Game of Thrones.  Rule 1: Start with an anti-hero. A. Make him middle-aged. Anti-heroes...

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'Sopranos' star discusses his 'Big Daddy' rules on raising daughters

foxnews.com (6 days ago)

Celebrity birthdays on May 15

Counterculture icon Wavy Gravy is 77. Singer Trini Lopez is 76. Actress-singer Lainie Kazan is 73. Country singer K.T. Oslin is 71. Musician Brian Eno is 65. Actor Chazz Palminteri is 61. Musician Mike Oldfield is 60. Actor Lee Horsley is 58. Singer Prince Be of PM Dawn is 43. Actor David Charvet (“Melrose Place”)...

miamiherald.com (6 days ago)

'How I Met Your Mother' Finale: And the 'Mother' Is...

So you've waited eight years to find out who the 'Mother' is. Finally, Monday night's episode of How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8 p.m. ET) brought the big reveal. The yellow umbrella wielding, titular character is … drum roll, please…  Oh. It's some unknown actress you've never seen on the show before. You might say...

ivillage.com (6 days ago)

Who Is The Mother?

"How I Met Your Mother" finally revealed the woman beneath the yellow umbrella in the season finale -- and it's someone you've probably never heard of. After eight seasons, the mother turned out to be an actress by the name of Cristin Milioti. Milioti has had guest spots on "30 Rock" (she was "sexy baby" Abby...

huffingtonpost.com (7 days ago)

Gandolfini gets ‘Justice’

Never count James Gandolfini out at HBO. The legendary “Sopranos” star, who has had several projects with the cable network since the popular mob drama ended in 2007, recently suffered a setback when his pilot, “Criminal Justice,” was rejected two months ago. In a stunning reversal, HBO yesterday ordered seven...

nypost.com (7 days ago)

James Gandolfini on 'Sopranos' Movie -- 'When David Chase Goes Broke'

Good news everyone ... James Gandolfini has spelled out the circumstances for a "SOPRANOS" MOVIE!!!!Bad news ... the plan entails the show creator being extremely irresponsible with the fortune he made from the series. Gandolfini was leaving Madeo with…

tmz.com (7 days ago)

Two New Shows Coming To NBC

NBC has picked up "Ironside," the remake of the 1960s series of the same name starring Blair Underwood. The reboot centers on Underwood as Robert T. Ironside (originated by Raymond Burr), a tough, sexy but acerbic police detective relegated to a wheelchair after a shooting. In addition to Underwood, NBC's "Ironside"...

huffingtonpost.com (10 days ago)

Actor Steve Schirripa Eats Off-Menu Tuna With Drew Nieporent, Hits the Garden’s Private...

Schirripa feasting at Harry's Italian Pizza Parlor, one of his go-to neighborhood spots. These days, actor and comedian Steve Schirripa - who you may recognize as pretend mobster Bobby Baccalieri on the Sopranos - is playing the toughest role of all: dad. He wrote Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than...

nymag.com (11 days ago)

Edie Falco Not Sure Why She Won Comedy Actress Emmy

Edie Falco has the honor of being the only actress to have won a best actress Emmy for both drama and comedy. She nabbed her drama award for her work in "The Sopranos," while the comedy one came for her current, show, "Nurse Jackie." But she told "Conan" that she doesn't understand why she won for comedy. “I always...

huffingtonpost.com (13 days ago)

Bart Motes: Game Review: RPG Nirvana in The Witcher and The Witcher 2, Enhanced Editions

Finally playing The Witcher after having slept on it for years reminded me of "discovering" The Wire. It's a peculiar feeling, indeed, to be bursting with enthusiasm and eagerness to share all you know, while hipper friends give you pitying looks as if to say "about time," and those poor souls as yet unenlightened...

huffingtonpost.com (13 days ago)

Hill Street Blues, The Sopranos, The Following: Chris Tarrant's favourite TV

The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host on his telly predilectionsUnmissable show?The Following. I'm really hooked. I absolutely love it. It's my post-pub fix. I don't normally like gratuitously violent things. But the news I've been watching recently is horrific anyway. A bit like 24, every week there's some sort...

guardian.co.uk (15 days ago)

Michael Shannon in The Iceman: A Stone-Cold Killer

A knock on the door interrupts Marty (James Franco), a minor entrepreneur of teen porn, in the middle of a photo session. His visitor, Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), has come to kill him. When he sees Marty clasping his hands, Kuklinski instructs him to pray to God to save him. Silence from above. “I think...

time.com (19 days ago)

Deanna Durbin: Actress and singer who became one of the biggest stars in Hollywood

Deanna Durbin, possessor of arguably the most beautiful and silken lyric soprano to grace the screen, was one of Hollywood's most popular stars for a over a decade. Though such sopranos as Jeanette MacDonald, Jane Powell and Kathryn Grayson achieved considerable fame, only Julie Andrews can be said to have commanded...

independent.co.uk (19 days ago)

Grand Theft Auto 5 – new trailers revel in chaos, humour and a pitch-perfect soundtrack

Rockstar has launched a trio of fresh GTAV trailers, introducing us to the hoodlums at the centre of its latest gangland adventure – and it looks things are going totally Radio Ga GaA rich ex-con now dissatisfied with his cosseted life; a kid from South Central looking to escape gang life; a maniac drug dealer with...

guardian.co.uk (20 days ago)

David Chase on rock 'n' roll, 'casual racism' and offbeat endings

As "Not Fade Away" makes its home-video debut, Chase weighs in on the music that shaped him and says of his "Sopranos" characters: "I think about them all the time."

nj.com (23 days ago)

For Christine Brewer, a rare miss at Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

Christine Brewer does not play it safe in programming, which means that not every recital by the lauded American singer will be a winner. She is one of the most exciting dramatic sopranos in the music of Wagner and Strauss, but she has excelled in everything from Gluck to contemporary song. Her recital of Iberian...

washingtonpost.com (24 days ago)

America In Primetime, an engrossing squint at US television

• Sarah Dempster's TV OD: From Dick Van Dyke to Tony Soprano, America In Primetime tries to find the definitive US TV dadWho is the definitive American TV dad? What are his hopes and fears? How does he deal with change? Where did he get that hat? Are those Findus Crispy Pancakes? Why is he shouting at us to get off...

guardian.co.uk (1 month ago)

The Rascals (Briefly) Reunite in Once Upon a Dream

Like a number of legendary bands from the 1960s, The Rascals’ time in the spotlight was short and sweet. But, as the Broadway musical production, Once Upon A Dream proves, the quartet’s moment-in-the sun was highly inspiring. Just ask Steven Van Zandt, the polymath figure best known as Bruce Springsteen’s right-hand...

time.com (1 month and 3 days ago)

50 most influential TV shows: Coronation Street and Columbo in, but no Mad Men or Sopranos

Television insiders revealed the most influential shows which kept us on the edge of our seats, from soap opera Neighbours and the reality show Big Brother.

dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 3 days ago)

Schirripa still a wanted man

Steve Schirripa, the former Riviera entertainment director who hit it big on “The Sopranos,” is still churning out new projects.

lvrj.com (1 month and 6 days ago)

Is Netflix's Newest Show a Bomb?

Filed under: Investing Whether you're an investor or a consumer, quite a bit has been going right for Netflix  in 2013. The company's stock is up an impressive 87% so far this year, and its first major original programming, House of Cards, was met with fantastic reviews and quickly became Netflix's most-watched...

dailyfinance.com (1 month and 6 days ago)

The Americans Watch: The Commitments

Spoilers for last night’s The Americans below: The Americans killed off a major supporting character last night, but that wasn’t the most daring thing about “Only You.” At this point, really, killing off significant characters is pretty much the price of admission for a cable drama of a certain level of ambition....

time.com (1 month and 8 days ago)

'Sopranos' alum Michael Imperioli joins cast of 'Californication'

He'll play an "old-school" television producer, report says

nj.com (1 month and 10 days ago)

Michael Imperioli joins cast of "Californication"

"The Sopranos" star will appear in a multi-episode arc during the show's seventh season, to air on Showtime in 2014

cbsnews.com (1 month and 10 days ago)

Tuesday Q&A: 'The Sopranos' Vincent Pastore opens play in Nyack

Memories travel. Vincent Pastore - who came to fame as Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero on 'The Sopranos' - took his memories of running The Crazy Horse Cafe in New Rochelle in the '80s and spun it into the play '

lohud.com (1 month and 11 days ago)

'Mad Men' Season 6 Premiere: When America Ruled The World

'Mad Men,' the AMC show about a New York advertisement firm in the 1960s that had its sixth season premier Sunday night, is one of the most popular programs on television and has struck a chord with millions of viewers. Created by Matthew Weiner, who wrote for HBO's extraordinary mafia drama, 'The Sopranos,' the...

ibtimes.com (1 month and 11 days ago)