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7 July 2008 7:07 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The Sopranos star Michael Imperioli is returning to TV to fight crime, in a new American adaptation of a hit British cop show.

The actor, who played Christopher Moltisanti in the long-running mob drama, will play a "rough, sexist" New York detective in Life on Mars, which follows a cop who is transported back to the 1970s after he is hit by a car.

Imperioli will portray lead actor Jason O'Mara's partner in the series, a role played by Philip Glenister in the British version of the show.

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3 July 2008 12:15 AM, PDT | From syfyportal.com | See recent syfyportal news

There is no more David E. Kelley, but there is an ex-mafia guy on ABC's new series "Life on Mars." Michael Imperioli, who played Christopher Moltisanti in the hit HBO series "The Sopranos," has joined the cast of "Life on Mars" as Detective Ray Carling, a man who feels that the present-day cop-trapped-in-the-1970s Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) took a job that was supposed to be his. The show, which is based on a BBC series that starred "Doctor Who's" John Simm, also stars Rachelle Lefevre and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's" Colm Meaney. The original pilot, which if shown will probably contain some reshoots and re-editing, was directed by Kelley -- best known for "Ally McBeal" and "Boston Legal" -- but it will not be run by Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg, who worked ...

26 June 2008 4:59 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor James Gandolfini has sold his The Sopranos wardrobe for $187,750 (GBP93,875) at a charity auction in New York.

Twenty-five outfits worn by his iconic character Tony Soprano went under the hammer at a Christie's auction - with all proceeds going to Wounded Warrior Project, a charity that aids injured soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Other items auctioned included Janis Joplin's mugshot, poems handwritten by late rocker Jim Morrison, and a cane owned by Elvis Presley, which has a brass eagle top that can be removed to reveal a hidden dagger.

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24 June 2008 10:40 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

A boxed set containing every episode of The Sopranos is expected to go on sale on Nov. 11 for $400, HBO Video said Monday. The 30-disc set includes all seven seasons, controversially counting the '06 and '07 episodes as separate seasons, plus extras (mostly talks with actors -- James Gandolfini is conspicuously missing -- writers and producers). It will weigh nearly 10 pounds, the Associated Press observed Monday. Also included are 16 scenes from various episodes that wound up on the cutting room floor.

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23 June 2008 6:20 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Without A Trace star Anthony Lapaglia almost got a second chance to play Tony Soprano when The Sopranos writers considered a film-within-a-tv show for the series' final season.

Australian Lapaglia was one of the first actors considered as the Soprano family leader before the role went to James Gandolfini.

But, in a new interview with show creator David Chase for an upcoming final season DVD, the writer reveals Lapaglia was considered again as the star of a spin-off movie about Tony Soprano.

In the DVD special interview, Chase tells interviewer and Sopranos fan Alec Baldwin that he and producers dabbled with the idea of Soprano's psychologist, played by Lorraine Bracco, writing a book about her encounters with the mob boss.

Lapaglia would have played Soprano in the movie adaptation.

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23 June 2008 6:56 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The Sopranos star Edie Falco still shakes her head when she sees the much talked-about climax of the series - because she forgot to wear her character's jewellery.

The actress spent 10 years on the show - as mob boss Tony Soprano's wife Carmela - but simply forgot to wear her rings for the final scene.

And while many fans were trying to find hidden meanings in the diner scene, she felt sure some would read too much into Carmela's missing rings.

In a Suppers With The Sopranos segment filmed for the final season DVD, Falco says, "Ten years on that show, and I have never not put those rings on. I was sure this was going to come up on some website.

"I'm surprised I didn't hear from somebody that it had some significance that I was not aware of."

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22 June 2008 6:14 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The Sopranos star James Gandolfini was nicknamed Jesus after working in a New York City mortuary to research for a movie role - because no one died.

The actor volunteered working night shifts in the city morgue, handling corpses as they arrived from crime scenes and hospitals.

But Gandolfini was left with nothing to do, because his stint coincided with a drought of deaths.

He explains, "They started to call me Jesus Christ because no one would die in New York City."

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20 June 2008 10:27 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Pulp Fiction has topped a new magazine poll to find the best film of the past 25 years.

The Quentin Tarantino cult favourite beat the Lord of The Rings trilogy and Titanic to land at the top of Entertainment Weekly's New Classics list.

The publication claims the 1994 film "opened a new universe of mainstream storytelling".

Also on the movie list is Toy Story, Saving Private Ryan, Blue Velvet and Hannah and Her Sisters.

Meanwhile, The Silence of The Lambs was named the best movie poster, The A-Team nabbed the best TV theme song and The Simpsons beat The Sopranos and Seinfeld to land the best TV show on the small screen New Classics list.

In music, Prince's Purple Rain was named the top album, ahead of Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and Achtung Baby by U2.

And J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter + The Goblet of Fire came in second on the New Classics books list, behind Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

Finally, Madonna's wedding dress-clad appearance at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards beat the opening credits of TV show Sex and The City for the top Pop Culture Moment that Rocked Fashion, and Angels In America was named the top stage show of the past 25 years.

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17 June 2008 12:19 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Former The Sopranos star Vinny Vella is threatening legal action against New York state lottery officials after they rejected what he believes is his $5 million (GBP2.5 million) winning ticket.

The 61-year-old actor - who played Jimmy Petrille on the hit U.S. drama - purchased an Extravaganza lottery ticket last Thursday at a New York store to be in with a chance of winning a share of the $500 million (GBP250 million) jackpot.

And he was shocked to discover what he believed to be two sevens on the scratch ticket - which would have made him $5 million richer.

But Vella's good fortune was shortlived after officials at a state lottery office refuted his claims, insisting one of the sevens was actually a number 17.

The official also pointed out an abbreviation underneath the numeral to dispel any further queries.

However, Vella remains unsatisfied with the verdict and took the matter to lottery headquarters in Schenectady on Monday.

Experts enlarged a picture of the ticket and found a 'one' next to the seven, checking the barcode on the ticket to determine it was not a winner.

But Vella is now threatening legal action, fuming, "I will do everything I can until these people are down on their knees... I'm going to put the lawyers on it. Without a doubt. Without a doubt."

Lottery spokesman John Charlson is blaming a "rare" printing issue for the mix-up, admitting an ink problem affected 4,500 tickets, which have had to be withdrawn.

But Vella remains unsatisfied, promising to make an issue of the incident the local TV show he hosts and to carry protest signs in front of state lottery offices.

He adds, "If it's a misprint, it's not my fault. You know what I look like after telling everybody I won? I look like some big ass."

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12 June 2008 9:03 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Former Sopranos star Federico Castelluccio is taking method acting to a new level ahead of his role as Carvaggio in a new play - he is creating replicas of the legendary artist's works.

The 44-year-old Italian, who played mob soldier Furio in the hit TV show, will play Michaelangelo Merisi de Carvaggio in a production that opens in New York in October.

Castelluccio is an accomplished artist himself, having studied at Manhattan's School of Visual Arts - and is preparing to take on the 17th century artist by recreating classics, such as Carvaggio's David With the Head of Goliath.

He reveals to the New York Daily News, "Just as Caravaggio did. I've incorporated my self-portrait into the faces of David and Goliath."

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12 June 2008 9:03 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Former Sopranos actor Lillo Brancato Jr. has enlisted a movie producer and Catholic priest to help him win bail ahead of his trial for killing of a New York City police officer.

Brancato, 31, and Steven Armento have been in the city's Riker's Island jail for almost two years awaiting trial for the 2005 shooting of off-duty officer Daniel Enchautegui, who was trying to stop a burglary at the house next door to his.

Brancato has protested his innocence throughout, and is attempting to secure his release until the trial, with the help of Carlito's Way producer Michael Bregman and Reverend Chorbishop John Faris - who have both visited him and written letters to the Bronx Supreme Court administrative judge.

Bregman's letter reads, "Although I am not as familiar with the evidence as the court is - in my heart I believe Mr. Brancato was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Reverend Faris writes, "Throughout this period Lillo has shown true compassion at the death of the officer."

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27 May 2008 6:11 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor James Gandolfini is selling off outfits he wore on hit TV drama The Sopranos to raise cash for charity.

The TV heavyweight is to auction off 24 complete outfits from the award-winning series to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, which offers help and assistance to U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The highlight of the clothing auction is expected to be the short-sleeve, button-down blue shirt Tony Soprano wore in the show's opening credits.

Soprano's famous bathrobe is also going under the hammer at the Christie's Pop Culture auction, which takes place in Manhattan, New York on 25 June.

Gandolfini's wardrobe is expected to fetch up to $36,000 (GBP18,000).

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26 May 2008 7:00 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack died of cancer Monday. He was 73. Pollack, who was also an actor and producer, was surrounded by family at his home in Pacific Palisades when he passed, according to his publicist Leslee Dart. He was diagnosed with cancer ten months ago and had been undergoing treatment for the disease, she says. Pollack was credited with directing 20 films, including seven with Robert Redford – most famously The Way We Were and Out of Africa, which won him two Oscars as director and as producer of the film, which won the best picture Oscar. Pollack also received a best

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9 May 2008 1:07 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Sopranos creator David Chase has delivered a blow to fans hoping for a movie version of the TV show - he has signed a deal to make a new movie unconnected to the hit mob drama.

Rumours of a movie have circulated since the last episode of The Sopranos aired last year.

Hopes were raised earlier this year when the owner of the real life strip club that featured in the show was tipped off about plans for a movie. Nick D'Urso, the boss of New Jersey's Satin Dolls - which doubles for the Bada Bing - told a local newspaper, "I got an inside tip that they're going to do a movie, so I don't want to make any major changes. I'm not going to reveal my sources, but we got a call from somebody (working) on the script."

A number of cast members have also expressed a desire to return to the New Jersey set.

But Chase won't be reuniting them for a while at least - he has signed a deal with Paramount Studios to create an "original drama".

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9 May 2008 6:11 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

The Sopranos creator David Chase has signed a deal with Paramount to write, direct and produce his first film, Variety says.

The feature will be an original drama that won't revisit the world of the Mafia that Chase explored in his acclaimed HBO mob series.

"He's been there, done that. He's moving on," an insider is quoted as saying.

Paramount chairman . . .

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2 May 2008 5:07 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor James Gandolfini is to star in the big screen version of BBC sitcom The Thick Of It.

The Sopranos tough guy has signed on to play the lead role in the film, which has been renamed In The Loop.

The satirical British TV show originally starred disgraced actor Chris Langham, who was jailed last year on child porn charges.

In The Loop will focus on the inner workings of the U.S. and U.K. governments and will be filmed in both Britain and Washington, D.C.

A BBC source tells British newspaper The Sun, "We can't believe we've got James - it's his first major role since The Sopranos.

"But Chris Langham will not appear in the film, it would be too controversial."

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30 April 2008 5:13 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The Sopranos star Edie Falco kept her 2003 cancer battle a secret from her fellow castmates because she couldn't bear their sympathy.

The 44-year-old actress was given the all-clear from breast cancer in 2004, but didn't want to tell her co-stars as their well-wishes would have "driven (her) crazy".

She tells Health magazine, "I kept my diagnosis under the radar, even from the cast and crew, because well-meaning people would have driven me crazy asking, 'How are you feeling?' I would have wanted to say, 'I'm scared, I don't feel so good, and my hair is falling out!'

"I bucked up, put on my Carmela fingernails, and was ready to work."

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30 April 2008 2:55 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Edie Falco's family is getting bigger: The Emmy winner adopted a baby girl from Florida in February. Her daughter Macy joins older brother Anderson, 3. "Everybody is thrilled and doing great," says Falco's manager Richie Jackson. Falco, 44, best known for her role as Tony Soprano's wife Carmela on The Sopranos, recently played Alec Bladwin's love interest on 30 Rock. She'll return to work in mid-May when she begins shooting a pilot for Showtime in New York City. Falco will play an Er nurse in the untitled dark comedy. "Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun,

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26 March 2008 9:07 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Fans of TV hit The Sopranos have the chance to buy a Harley Davidson motorcycle signed by the cast of the mob drama.

Actor Federico Castellucio, who played gangster Furio in the show, has had his own 1994 bike signed by 20 cast members including James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco and Michael Imperioli, and is auctioning it online for charity.

Fans with at least $10,000 (GBP5,000) - the opening bid - can log on and join the auction at Steiner Marketplace's website from 2 April. All proceeds will go to the Little Baby Face Foundation, which funds corrective surgery for children born with facial deformities.

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24 March 2008 9:09 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

John Travolta and James Gandolfini are teaming up for crime movie The Taking Of Pelham 123 - the sixth time the stars have featured alongside one another on the big-screen.

Travolta has shot five films to date with The Sopranos actor, including Get Shorty, Broken Arrow, She's So Lovely and last year's Lonely Hearts.

In their latest silver-screen collaboration - a remake of the classic 1974 action-thriller which also stars Denzel Washington - Gandolfini stars as New York's mayor who struggles against Travolta's crime-boss, who has taken the city hostage.

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