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

> Either that, or it could be, you know, like really well-written and well-acted? But is there some Platonic form "well-written" or "well-acted" against which one is supposed to hold up the object under consideration for comparison? What constitutes a well-acted performance or a well-written ...

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Author:	Brian Charles Dauth
Date:	Tue Jun 12 05:00:14 PDT 2007

182 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo tv guide poll -- rank: 469

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:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Oct 5 12:30:57 PDT 2004

183 [lbo-talk] favorite lines -- rank: 370

Dennis Claxton wrote: >Some of this week's Sopranos lines: > >http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/favoritelines/episode73.shtml Ah, these overlook the tasty subtheme about ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 2 14:27:19 PDT 2006

184 [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?/ Why not the best for theworking class ? -- rank: 370

... Henwood wrote: > > John Thornton wrote: > > >I don't watch "The Sopranos" but is glorifying unbridled unregulated > >capitalism, which is what organized ... second part? > There is more than enough information about The Sopranos in the air for anyone to make general statements as ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Oct 4 17:50:15 PDT 2004

185 The Oscars -- rank: 370

... like Susan Sontag talking half-seriously about movies. Why is "Sopranos" an exception, it comes from the same factory with same ...

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Author:	Abdee
Date:	Tue Mar 26 16:51:01 PST 2002

186 [lbo-talk] The Bush-Fuckyourself '04 Strategy -- rank: 370

Also, Michael Pollak might like this piece http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-strategy22aug22,1,3635747.story?coll=la-home-headlines (Note: I think this is a plant from Bush-Fuckyourself '04, frankly) And this outstanding party-pop-psychoan: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004 ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Sun Aug 22 09:04:06 PDT 2004

187 [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?/ (An offer you can't refuse) -- rank: 370

>but is the character >of tony soprano any different from that portrayed in earlier gangster/mob >movies and shows? did Michael corleone have two sides (and very similar >to the ones above) too? I think Tony Soprano is portrayed differently. I hesitate to use the expression 'well rounded' given the ...

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Author:	paul childs
Date:	Thu Oct 7 12:28:11 PDT 2004

188 [lbo-talk] Is this the end of Tony? -- rank: 370

... amazes me is how a show as good as the Sopranos (and measured against other episodic TV shows on cable, it ... could be off pitch all of the time. That THE SOPRANOS was better than most of the wretched fare on t

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Tue Jun 12 09:52:16 PDT 2007

189 [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?/ Why not the best for the working class ? -- rank: 370

... 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 ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Oct 4 08:59:03 PDT 2004

190 [lbo-talk] Is this the end of Tony? -- rank: 370

... they dealt with the Iraq War in a critical way. Sopranos did too. Does this happen on any other TV shows ... mostly fails is that it is this way, too). But Sopranos and The L Word are mass consumer products th

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Author:	Matt
Date:	Tue Jun 12 11:07:00 PDT 2007

191 [lbo-talk] The Bush-Fuckyourself '04 Strategy -- rank: 370

here's a similar analysis that i thought was insightful: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_08_15.php#003295 excerpts: There is a meta-debate going on here, one that I'm not sure even the practitioners fully articulate to themselves and one that I'm painfully aware the ...

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Author:	Adam Souzis
Date:	Sun Aug 22 12:08:20 PDT 2004

192 [lbo-talk] Re: Thesis, antithesis, thesis! ... -- rank: 370

... yea. I forgot about the Simpsons and Stewart and Colbert. Sopranos was great too, but I didn't think cable counted ... crop of hbo dramas have been mostly very good > (Rome, Sopranos) and at times of singular brilliance (the wire and > deadwood ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Wed Nov 15 23:12:56 PST 2006

193 [lbo-talk] Achilleus -- So "Uncool" 1 -- rank: 370

Subject: Avoiding Bad Taste Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:31 Justin wrote: Is good taste politically incorrect? Snobbish? An indication of unjustified feelings of class superiority? Is it, in short, in bad taste to claim to have good taste? - - - - I think my original post answered these question by not in fact ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Oct 13 11:51:42 PDT 2004

194 [lbo-talk] This is the End of Tony -- rank: 370

> He's a murderous scumbag, he's a charmer A charmer? I found nothing charming about him (but then, I rarely react to characters on the screen in a personal way). > he's sexy Huh? > We must have been watching different shows. We watched the same show. I must admit ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Mon Jun 11 15:27:50 PDT 2007

195 [lbo-talk] Is This the End of Tony? -- rank: 370

... the same as the plot. But the problem with THE SOPRANOS is that the story was not told often enough through ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Tue Jun 12 13:06:14 PDT 2007