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166 [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?/ Why not the best for the working class ? -- rank: 544

... in a >golden age of TV at the moment - The Sopranos, etc. But I do agree with Lord >Reith, former director ... give them something better." > >CB: I've never seen the Sopranos, but I'll take Carl's word that it's ... thread of the Godfather genre. I don't watch "The Sopranos" but is glorifying unbridled unregulated capitalism, which is what organized ... years of "MASH" or the early SNL shows. Is The Sopranos as good and subversive as these were or just a ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Mon Oct 4 10:44:35 PDT 2004

167 [lbo-talk] Tony Trips -- rank: 544

The recent Vanity Fair Sopranos cover article is online here: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/04/sopranos200704 some excerpts: >The Sopranos is more GoodFellas than Godfather; >it's the Mob in ... s career >goes like this: When the idea for The Sopranos >finally floated to the surface, he had been >laboring in ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon May 14 13:59:22 PDT 2007

168 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo tv guide poll -- rank: 544

Michael Pugliese wrote: > The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am (Popular Culture > and ... feminist? Morally speaking, > who is the worst person on The Sopranos? Is watching the show harmful > to one's moral health ... who are also > fans does a deep probe of the Sopranos, analyzing the adventures - > and personalities - of Tony, Carmela, Livia, and ...

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Author:	Owen Byrne
Date:	Tue Oct 5 12:55:58 PDT 2004

169 [lbo-talk] This is the End of Tony -- rank: 544

On 6/12/07, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote: > > Jerry wrote: > > > > >Chase hates and despises Tony Soprano. It is > >in every episode of the show. And it is a big joke that so many people > love > >the character. I also thinks he hates the kind of Italian American I ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Tue Jun 12 10:59:13 PDT 2007

170 [lbo-talk] Black Panther Coloring Book -- rank: 544

Dennis: "your take on The Sopranos" [WS:] My take on The Sopranos? I have not seen a single episode for a very ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Nov 3 07:28:21 PDT 2010

171 [lbo-talk] Cognitive dissonance -- rank: 469

... d suggest you and he take two episodes of >the Sopranos and go to bed. Try the one where Tony gets ... Else" playing over the credits. I don't believe the Sopranos are included on the schedule of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme ... year, when there is only total crap on TV. No Sopranos. However I have picked up a couple of novels to ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Fri Jan 19 01:40:19 PST 2007

172 [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?/ (An offer you can't refuse) -- rank: 469

Dennis Perrin wrote: > If anyone finds "The Sopranos" uplifting or otherwise inspirational, I don't > want to meet ... mind would wanna be around these people in real life?! > "Sopranos" gives us a fictional glimpse into a world few of ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Tue Oct 5 04:44:09 PDT 2004

173 [lbo-talk] Pres. candidates upload painfully unfunny campaign vids to YouTube -- rank: 469

... the last one, a vid by Hillary Clinton spoofing the Sopranos ending, are on YouTube. -B] http://www.youtube.com/watch ... on abortion w/ a fake phone call interview. Clinton spoofs Sopranos in Web video By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer 58 ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Tue Jun 19 15:28:40 PDT 2007

174 [lbo-talk] jury duty -- rank: 469

... of executive government. > >Allow me once again to cite The Sopranos, where Johnny "Sack" >Sacramoni takes 15 years in a deal ... he's guilty as hell, but still... I like the Sopranos, but I liked Rumpole of the Bailey a lot more. I'll see your Sopranos and cite you a Rumpole: "NEVER plead guilty!" Unfortunately you ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Thu May 18 08:03:17 PDT 2006

175 [lbo-talk] Is this the end of Tony? -- rank: 469

... trashy kitsch - is suddenly causing so much rave about the Sopranos. I mean, virtually every decent novel or film has characters ... that hardly earns that novel or film the attention that Sopranos are getting. That yields some validity to Brian's claim ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Jun 12 08:04:09 PDT 2007

176 [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?/ Why not the bestfor the working class ? -- rank: 469

... Certainly not. Let me rephrase the question however. Is The Sopranos a >program that glorifies unbridled unregulated capitalism in the form ... taken as evidence of a Golden Age >for TV? The Sopranos glorifies nothing: not capitalism, not organized crime, not the feds ... I don't think there is any doubt that The Sopranos is the best US TV drama series ever made -- one ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Mon Oct 4 22:03:26 PDT 2004

177 [lbo-talk] This is the End of Tony -- rank: 469

... wrote: > > > This started with you asking why people like the Sopranos > so much. I've been trying to answer that. I ... find fascinating is many people > (not you Dennis) accord THE SOPRANOS a status of aesthetic > greatness based on their perception of ... You are correct, this is not a thread on THE SOPRANOS

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Thu Jun 14 09:15:24 PDT 2007

178 [lbo-talk] Is this the end of Tony? -- rank: 469

... he finds a great deal that is good about The >Sopranos and Chase. > >Sucking up to the boss maybe? What, everyone's an idiot to you? >The quintessential Sopranos viewer. That is what made the show great -- >you never ... and I'm going to do my best to use Sopranos lines

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Tue Jun 12 10:30:18 PDT 2007

179 [lbo-talk] Is this the end of Tony? -- rank: 469

... do not think they > were numerous/complex enough for THE SOPRANOS to be deemed > a great work of visual art. > > Let's keep this in perspective: the Sopranos is an episodic TV show on a cable network. I ... amazes me is how a show as good as the Sopranos (and measured against other episodic TV shows on cable, it ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Tue Jun 12 07:55:58 PDT 2007

180 [lbo-talk] This is the End of Tony -- rank: 469

> This started with you asking why people like the Sopranos so much. I've been trying to answer that. I ... find fascinating is many people (not you Dennis) accord THE SOPRANOS a status of aesthetic greatness based on their perception of ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Wed Jun 13 10:53:15 PDT 2007