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121 [lbo-talk] Da Sopranos -- rank: 744

>> Tony Soprano's America: The Criminal Side of the American Dream >>by David R. Simon (Hardcover - September 2002) > >Some people'll write anything for tenure. >Damn literary/cultural critics. It's just a TV show, right? Doesn't >mean a damn thing that millions watch it, talk about it, mull ...

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Author:	npchilds at connect.ab.ca
Date:	Thu Oct 2 15:57:40 PDT 2003

122 [lbo-talk] reviewing the end of the Sopranos... -- rank: 744

Uh, err (cough cough) -- here's mine: <http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/06/11/bada-bye/> Dennis

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Mon Jun 11 09:34:48 PDT 2007

123 [lbo-talk] Leon Wieseltier chews over The Sopranos! -- rank: 744

Yeah, Leon Wieselfuckintier: <http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070618&s=diarist061807> [T]he thing is so good it is almost not American.... Now that the show is over, sadness accrues. I console myself with the knowledge that I will never see Janice Soprano again.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 11 08:33:16 PDT 2007

124 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

http://members.iglou.com/lyons/bitchGen.html

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Sat Mar 9 12:29:17 PST 2002

125 O Brother (was Sopranos) -- rank: 744

I think the soundtrack and the movie were both great. The soundtrack had oodles of talented singers and musicians (I have always been a fan of Gillian Welch and Emmylou Harris's voice is divine). They also picked some great songs. Although it really wasn't my favorite album of last ...

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Author:	Jim Westrich
Date:	Wed Mar 6 07:55:38 PST 2002

126 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

Max wrote -- "We haven't mentioned one of the major features of the show for the first three seasons -- Tony's mother. She doesn't seem to fit easily into any systematic explanation of the story. She's just a volcano. The scenes between her and Tony's equally conniving sister ...

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Author:	Christopher Rhoades D˙kema
Date:	Wed Mar 6 08:08:01 PST 2002

127 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

> > Do you watch Oz? > > Oz is great entertainment, but it's nothing more > than a prison soap opera. It varies, but in the best episodes there has been a very bitter critique of both the American prison system and the corruption that inevitably comes from ruling by force. How many ...

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Author:	Cian O'Connor
Date:	Wed Mar 6 06:06:17 PST 2002

128 Sopranos. -- rank: 744

At 05:13 PM 03/05/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I never miss an episode. I don't think these or their predecessors >are about capitalists. I think they are about workers trying to be >capitalists who justify their behavior -- with some support from the >story -- by making an analogy to ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Tue Mar 5 14:33:51 PST 2002

129 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

At 11:59 AM 3/5/02 -0800, Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >I haven't had a chance to sit down and watch this show >(I'm more of a "Law and Order" freak myself), but I do >know that the title song is written by a >country/techno group called ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Tue Mar 5 12:36:31 PST 2002

130 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

I haven't had a chance to sit down and watch this show (I'm more of a "Law and Order" freak myself), but I do know that the title song is written by a country/techno group called A3. Some of their song titles are "Mao Tse Tung Said" and ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Tue Mar 5 11:59:16 PST 2002

131 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, joanna bujes wrote: > But, seriously, I think it's the best show on T.V. and don't quite get why > my bisexuality or feminism (whatever that means) should affect that > perception. Do you watch Oz? Matt -- Matt Cramer <cramer at voicenet.com> http://www.voicenet ...

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Author:	Matt Cramer
Date:	Tue Mar 5 06:59:44 PST 2002

132 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I would have thought feminists would see it as an exercise >in raging masculinism. Which can look like critique, if you watch it right. Tony is under the care of a female shrink, after all. Besides, apropos the aesthetics thread, the show is so damn good that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 5 05:55:18 PST 2002

133 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

At 12:36 AM 3/5/02 -0500, Seth Ackerman wrote: >Kelley wrote: > > > i got a couple > > of offlists that suggested that i was too opaque, so i felt we needed to > > establish a common meaning behind what i said. i don't have an alternative > > explanation. i don't need ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Mon Mar 4 21:51:49 PST 2002

134 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

Kelley wrote: > i got a couple > of offlists that suggested that i was too opaque, so i felt we needed to > establish a common meaning behind what i said. i don't have an alternative > explanation. i don't need one in order to poke holes in the one proffered. > > there ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Mon Mar 4 21:36:10 PST 2002

135 The Sopranos -- rank: 744

At 11:48 PM 3/4/02 -0500, Seth Ackerman wrote: >Kelley wrote: > >Yeah, yeah, completely. You're saying when a woman who commands a lot of >money and power ends up with a nerdy nebbish the standard explanation that >women are attracted to power doesn't explain anything and therefore ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Mon Mar 4 21:21:31 PST 2002