Crime paid for Chris Albrecht once before, and clearly he's hoping it does once again. The former head of HBO — who was the executive that put The Sopranos on the air — is planning a remake of the Australian crime drama Underbelly for his new network, Starz. The series — which centers on Read More
Sometimes we actually find ourselves wondering what we’re going to needlessly obsess over once Lost shuffles off this mortal coil in May of next year. Case in point: We used the end-of-the-world thunderstorms yesterday afternoon as an excuse to spend hours catching up on Saturday’s Lost panel at Comic-Con, which featured things both slight Read More
"I've got bigger tits than the broads in here!" quipped the jovial Steve Schirripa.
The Brooklyn-born actor perhaps best known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on HBO's The Sopranos had just arrived at the boozy grand-opening party for the newly rebranded Sapphire New York strip club on Monday, April 27, looking very "legitimate businessman" in Read More
David Chase and Jerry Seinfeld have a lot in common. Both men were the creative forces behind two of the most incendiary television shows of the past twenty years; shows which a large majority of the viewing audience (not us!) felt ended with disappointing whimpers. Both men will forever attempt to live up to past Read More
The Hartford Courant's Roger Catlin got a press release touting HBO's 19-disc box set for its critically-acclaimed series Deadwood.
According to Mr. Catlin, it will sell for $179.97, which would be pretty steep even if people weren't about to start boiling their boots for soup, but the 36-hour disc contains something fans Read More
It's just like a cat teetering in a state of anamnesis between lives four and five! One: Sex and the City, the newspaper column (right here in The New York Observer); Two: Sex and the City, the book by Candace Bushnell; Three: Sex and the City, the television series; Four: Sex and the City, the Read More
The Sopranos alum Terence Winter, a Sopranos writer, is coming down to the dark, seedy Atlantic City boardwalk for Martin Scorsese. He'll be writing the director's new HBO project Boardwalk Empire, which will be produced by Entourage bros Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson. The drama is based on Nelson Johnson's book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, Read More
On Monday, Feb. 25, Lorraine Bracco—who around here is still better known as the shrieky wife in GoodFellas than for her role as the shrink with a smoky voice on The Sopranos—threw a launch party for her new line of wines at the Hard Rock Café on Broadway and 43rd Street. No matter how Read More
The Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men won the top prize at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild awards show, while The Sopranos cleaned up in the television categories. With this year's Golden Globes reduced to a press conference and the fate of next month's Oscars uncertain, the ordinarily downplayed Screen Actors Read More
Robert Baer lost his lawsuit against David Chase, the Sopranos' series creator, last week, but the trail revealed how Hollywood writers turn their ideas into successful television and the way the industry often revolves around friends doing favors for friends. Mr. Baer was seeking compensation for giving Mr. Chase a tour of Mafia sights around Read More
Today, a federal jury in New Jersey threw out a case brought against Sopranos creator David Chase by a certain Robert Baer. After the verdict was read, following less than two hours of deliberations, the defense attorneys hugged one another. As we reported yesterday, Mr. Baer, a budding screenwriter and onetime prosecutor, claimed Read More
Life imitated art in a New Jersey courtroom earlier today when David Chase, the mind behind The Sopranos, testified in the state's federal court to defend his creative ownership of the HBO series.
Twelve years ago, it seems, he collaborated with a man named Robert Baer, a budding screenwriter and former prosecutor who set up meetings Read More
Growing up in the 60’s in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Steve Schirripa, best known as The Sopranos’ gentle giant, Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri, would wake up on Sunday mornings to the smell of meatballs gusting from his mother’s kitchen. He’d watch her prepare for Sunday dinner: stuffing ricotta into pasta shells, carving peppers to fill with provolone cheese, Read More
'The Sopranos' took home the Best Drama award, and creator David Chase and director Alan Taylor won for writing and directing.
But in a big upset, favorite James Gandolfini lost to James Spader of 'Boston Legal.'
'30 Rock' took home its single primetime award--but it Read More
By now my readers have taken a stand on David Chase’s ending episode of The Sopranos or feigned an unconvincing lack of interest in the whole tortured subject. I have followed The Sopranos with reasonable fidelity over the past eight years and was not at all surprised by the now famous or infamous “onion rings” Read More
