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76 [lbo-talk] Fw: Fidel watches The Sopranos -- rank: 744

Grant Lee wrote: >[From the New York Post's "Page Six" gossip column...hmmm, how reliable is >this, you NYers? *lol*] They had a correction to a story the other day because the "interview" from which the original item came was done very late in a loud club and the reporter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 9 13:06:35 PST 2004

77 [lbo-talk] Chase on the Sopranos final scene -- rank: 744

<http://blog.nj.com/alltv/2007/06/david_chase_speaks.html>http://blog.nj.com/alltv/2007/06/david_chase_speaks.html "I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there," he says of the final scene. "No one was trying to be audacious, honest ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Tue Jun 12 10:44:06 PDT 2007

78 [lbo-talk] This is the End of Tony -- rank: 744

On 6/11/07, BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > > We watched the same show. I must admit > that I do not respond to characters in films > or television as if they were actual people > with personal psychologies to respond to. > The cutie who just walked past my door is ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Tue Jun 12 09:03:02 PDT 2007

79 [lbo-talk] The Sopranos vs. Spiderman another brick in that neolib wall -- rank: 744

I think Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, working together, would be able to fix what's going on in Darfur in a week, two weeks tops. Less if you send in the Avengers as backup. What are we waiting for! :) --- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote: > > That's ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon May 1 04:35:38 PDT 2006

80 [lbo-talk] The Sopranos vs. Spiderman another brick in that neolib wall -- rank: 744

On 4/30/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > >the age of "Save Darfur" rallies > > Interesting article in the NYT today. This line - > "Rabbi Dubinsky and other Jews deny that their > interest in Darfur is motivated by anti-Arab > sentiment" - reminds me of Claud Cockburn's ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Apr 30 09:37:58 PDT 2006

81 [lbo-talk] The Sopranos vs. Spiderman another brick in that neolib wall -- rank: 744

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >the age of "Save Darfur" rallies Interesting article in the NYT today. This line - "Rabbi Dubinsky and other Jews deny that their interest in Darfur is motivated by anti-Arab sentiment" - reminds me of Claud Cockburn's commandment: Never believe anything until it's officially denied. Doug ---- New ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 30 08:14:05 PDT 2006

82 [lbo-talk] The Sopranos vs. Spiderman another brick in that neolib wall -- rank: 744

On 4/29/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > joanna wrote: > > >In one of the best episodes of the 1st season(?), Tony's shrink, a > >woman, is raped. She is able to identify the rapist, but the police > >mishandle the evidence and the man walks free. > > > >At the next ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Apr 29 11:30:18 PDT 2006

83 [lbo-talk] Sopranos -- rank: 744

>There's lots of good stuff and a pretty solid, unvarnished look at >contemporary U.S. I was very disappointed that they kept 9/11 out of the >show though. I agree with just about everything you've said here, but I do think they let 9/11 into the ...

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Author:	N P Childs
Date:	Sat Oct 9 10:50:13 PDT 2004

84 [lbo-talk] Sopranos -- rank: 744

John McPhee wrote a wonderful book about The Pine Barrens. New Jersey is not as bad or declasse as its rep. Nor is Connecticut as elegant and cool as its rep. jks --- ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org> wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > > > Carl Remick wrote: > > > >> That lost-in-the-woods episode is ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sat Oct 9 10:53:45 PDT 2004

85 [lbo-talk] Sopranos -- rank: 744

Doug Henwood wrote: > Carl Remick wrote: > >> That lost-in-the-woods episode is another of the all-time greats. >> Tony's henchmen Paulie and Chris take a Russian gangster (apparently a >> highly trained former commando) off into the woods to whack him. > > > An episode rich with New Jersey content. They're ...

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Author:	ravi
Date:	Sat Oct 9 10:48:11 PDT 2004

86 [lbo-talk] Sopranos -- rank: 744

Carl Remick wrote: >That lost-in-the-woods episode is another of the all-time greats. >Tony's henchmen Paulie and Chris take a Russian gangster (apparently >a highly trained former commando) off into the woods to whack him. An episode rich with New Jersey content. They're in the Pine ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 9 09:18:42 PDT 2004

87 [lbo-talk] Sopranos -- rank: 744

----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> One of the episodes he wrote was the one in which Carmella went to see a shrink on her own. The shrink, instead of taking the neutral line, tells her she's not merely an enabler, but is complicit in Tony ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Fri Oct 8 15:17:44 PDT 2004

88 [lbo-talk] in which lbo-talk defends 'the sopranos' -- rank: 744

Would you hate me if I said that I was attracted to J.S. Mill's idea that there are different orders of pleasures, some are better than others objectively, and that you are a better person for being able to enjoy, indeed for preferring on the whole, higher pleasures? Not ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Oct 6 14:29:13 PDT 2004

89 [lbo-talk] in which lbo-talk defends 'the sopranos' -- rank: 744

Ted Winslow wrote: > > But as much I personally love Vivaldi's > Gloria, I would find it offensive if some one were to write: "Vivaldi's > Gloria gives more pleasure than "Achy-breaky-heart." > > This is claiming, isn't it, that your "subjective feeling" - "I find offensive etc." - is superior to "the ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Oct 6 14:06:47 PDT 2004

90 [lbo-talk] in which lbo-talk defends 'the sopranos' -- rank: 744

>From: Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> > >We spend many (perhaps most) of our hours trapped in one form of amber or >another - in traffic, in offices, in, if we're very poor, run down and >perhaps dangerous environments, etc. Under these circumstances, it's >natural to indulge in a ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Wed Oct 6 11:57:28 PDT 2004