Hardbopjazz Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Damn, he was just a few months older than I am. Scary. http://tv.yahoo.com/news/james-gandolfini---the-sopranos--star--dead-at-51-234433183.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Damn...... Way too young at 51YO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 I know, my wife died at 52, it just seems like a rip. RIP James. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted June 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 I know, my wife died at 52, it just seems like a rip. RIP James. Wow, I did know, Sorry to hear that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Thanks. Over 5 and a half years ago, from Lymphoma and MDS, after two bone marrow transplants. Sigh. She was a wonderful woman. And I feel so sorry for her parents. Her youngest brother (there is one other sibling, a brother, between them) died of lung cancer last month at 53. They've lost two of their three children. I can only imagine, they're good people who shouldn't have to go through that. . .twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 I hope you're doing OK in Ohio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Well I wish I could say I'm as happy as a chipmunk in a bird feeder (watched one this morning) but. . . I don't want this to turn into a thread about my dramatic life, so I'll just say my folks, especially my Dad, need attention around the clock and at the moment it's me, at their house 12 hours or so a day, feeding them, getting them about the house, helping explain their confusions away, etc. It's a lot of work, and it is seven days a week and it's wearing me down. Back to Gandofini's thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Dang. And RIP to Gandolfini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin V Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Wow. RIP to a fine actor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 My wife and I are in the middle of watching The Sopranos for the 6th or 7th time through. His achievement there is simply titanic. When we watch the show I always have something to look forward to that day. It will be sad tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinuta Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 He will be missed very much, a big loss of a great actor. In The Sopranos he had a screen charisma to match Cagney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 This one's a bit of a shock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 One should not die so young! Great actor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Very sad news to start the day with. RIP JG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValerieB Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 I am devastated by this tremendous loss. and I didn't even know him well. he was a very special person, aside from his outrageous talent. he was warm, funny, smart, kind, humble and down-to-earth. and had a beautiful young wife, a young son and a baby daughter. it should be against the law! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Very sad news. Always a pleasure to watch, whatever the role. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Yes this is a pity and a bit of a shock. Not only because he is a wee bit younger than I am (so this makes you realize how the clock ticks ...) but also because his Sporano character (from what I have seen of that series here on TV) was something special. It isn't very oftenyou see those TV series that make you realize "this actor seems to be tailor-made for that role" (instead of just being another case of "actor X plays himself in series Y". Maybe the fact that I cannot consciously recall having seen him very often anywhere else here on TV helps in that assessment ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Great in this one from last year. Will be sadly missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Pomea Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Complex actor! Two recent Soprano episodes I have seen are the one in which he kills Ralphie over the horse and one in which he shows a tender side to Uncle Junior for his Alzheimer's. ("Believe me, there's a lot I'd rather forget!" "Me too.") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 I never could get into the Sopranos I know it's kinda weird.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 I never could get into the Sopranos I know it's kinda weird.... I liked it, but not quite as some others - definitely lost focus near the end. Later shows (THE WIRE, MAD MEN) probably improved on the highbrow-cable-drama thing, but "standing on the shoulders of giants", etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 I finally surrendered to the allure of the Sopranos last year and watched all the seasons. I didn't fall head over heels for the show but do see what the fuss was about. As Guy indicates, it got there first before some other shows that did build on the Sopranos. I liked some of the actors and guest stars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 One of Gandolfi's first film appearance was in 1994 in Alain Corneau's 'Le Nouveau Monde' which Corneau based on his recollections of a childhood in central France in the 50s near a US military base where he met Albert Ayler. Ayler is not mentioned in the film but his presence can be felt. Gandolfi played a US soldier who befriends a French teenager who plays drums in a jazz quintet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValerieB Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 apparently, not many of us were aware that Gandolfini played sax, was a jazz fan, and worked at NYC's Blue Note once upon a time. I, myself, had a conversation with him about jazz but, in his typical humble manner, did not mention the above. of course, I could tell that he liked jazz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted June 21, 2013 Report Share Posted June 21, 2013 Shocking, unexpected, and very saddening news. Chet Flippo just passed away, too; all of a sudden it seems like everybody is dying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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