Newsgasm: The Sopranos News

Gandolfini returns to the scene of the crime

James Gandolfini isn't going to wait to find out if Tony Soprano has done to his career what Superman did to George Reeves. No, we don't mean that Ben Affleck will one day play him in a middling movie, but that he's about to find out if he can ever play a role without bringing the mobster to mind.

And he's not making it any easier by returning to HBO to play a real-life figure whose name at least sounds like it's straight out of Sopranosland.

He'll star as tough guy sports marketer Sonny Vaccaro, the man who signed Michael Jordan to the first million-dollar shoe deal at Nike, in the movie ABCD Camp. Gandolfini will executive produce through his Attaboy Films company, along with a few others including Baron Davis, the star guard for the Golden State Warriors.

So what's so dramatic about Sonny boy?

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Hillary Clinton rides Sopranos bandwagon

Who says Hillary Clinton doesn't have a sense of humour?

What's funnier than an assassination joke in the middle of a presidential campaign?

Ha. Ha. Ha.

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Don't worry, Lost won't end like The Sopranos

"We will not be ending with a blackout."

That's the promise from the executive producer of Lost, amid fers that the surprise and unsatisfying finale of The Sopranos may have opened the door for other favorite shows to end in limbo. (Limbo? Isn't that another Lost theory?).

Carlton Cruse and co-creator Damon Lindelof say they haven't figured out yet how they're ending the series when it ends 48 episodes from now, in the springs of 2010.

"Obviously, we can't wait to the 48th hour to say, 'Here are all the mysteries of the show,' " says Lindelof.

Cuse adds: "I'm not sure there is any ending that will satisfy everyone. Our hope is that the ending will be... the logical conclusion of the story."

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"If The Sopranos were on a major network"

Big time writer and very funny blogger Ken Levine has a hilarious column worth passing around. It's a list of all the changes that would have been demanded, had The Sopranos run on, let's say, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, or the CW-- anywhere but HBO.

Item #1:

The finale would be at least two hours.

Funnier still is that the list is actually realistic. Read it... after the jump...

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