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Steven Van Zandt says staying apart from his wife for a total of 10 years is the secret to their happy 42-year marriage. The actor and E Street Band guitarist, 73, git hitched to actress Maureen Santoro in New York City on 31 December, 1982 – with the pair starring together on ‘The Sopranos’ as a married couple – and he has now revealed they keep their relationship in harmony as he has spent around a decade in total working on his music and acting away from home. He told People: “As I often say, the key to staying together is stay apart. We’ve been together, God, what is it now, 40-plus years ...
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James Gandolfini left ‘The Sopranos’ creator David Chase constantly mesmerised with his “otherworldly” eyes. The actor played mob boss Tony Soprano in the smash HBO mafia drama from 1999 to 2007 alongside stars including Edie Falco before he was killed by a heart attack aged 51 in 2013 after years of drug and alcohol issues – which often caused havoc with the making of the show. David, 78, has now fondly remembered the star, telling a CBS News retrospective on the creation of the landmark show in honour of its 25th anniversary about his love for James’ trademark looks on the series: “He’s incr...
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Edie Falco “couldn’t stop crying” during the script read-through for ‘The Sopranos’ finale. The actress, 60, played despairing mob wife Carmela Soprano in the hit HBO mafia series from 1999 to 2007 and has now recalled how she was overcome with emotion while preparing to shoot its final episode with her co-stars. She said during a retrospective film about the show for CBS News: “I was out of control. I was embarrassed. “I really couldn’t stop crying – it was ridiculous. It was, ‘This thing in this moment will never happen again to me, to anyone.’” The series finale is infamous for cutting to b...
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Drea de Matteo has blasted a new book that highlights her ‘Sopranos’ co-star James Gandolfini’s drugs battles. The actress, 52, famed for playing Christopher Moltisanti’s long-suffering girlfriend Adriana La Cerva on the hit HBO mafia show alongside James – who was killed by a heart attack aged 51 in 2013 – hit out at mention of the actor’s demons in Mark Kamine’s ‘On Locations: Lessons Learned from My Life On Set with The Sopranos and in the Film Industry’. She told Page Six: “It’s just kind of a money grab for that guy.” Drea added she felt compelled to speak out as she is “really tight with...
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Patti LuPone has paid tribute to her late brother Robert as an “unparalleled” dancer. The actress, 73, spoke about her older sibling on Monday (29.08.22) after it was confirmed her ‘The Sopranos’ actor had died aged 76 after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Broadway veteran Patti told Page Six: “My brother Bobby was a dancer unparalleled. And it all started when he saw me in a dance recital wearing a hula skirt. I was four, he was seven.” Patti and Robert were admitted to The Juilliard School, with Robert, who was three years ahead of his sister, studying dance, while Patti was a th...
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'The Sopranos' star Rae Allen has died, aged 95. The New Yorker passed away peacefully in her sleep of natural causes, her manager Kyle Fritz of Kyle Fritz Management confirmed. Kyle told The Hollywood Reporter: "I had the pleasure of representing Rae Allen for over 20 years. She was one of the most gifted actresses I have ever had the pleasure of working with. I will be forever grateful to have been a part of her incredible journey." The actress started out on Broadway after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1947. The 'Damn Yankee' star went on to earn a Tony Award for ...
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Edie Falco says James Gandolfini once halted 'The Sopranos' filming when he went into a "sugar coma". The 58-year-old actress - who played Tony Soprano's wife Carmela in the classic crime drama - has opened up about what it was like to film meal scenes on set with her late co-star. She told The Guardian newspaper: "We learned tricks so it looked like we were eating, but we weren’t. But Jim ate in every frigging take, and he ate between takes. "There was one scene we were shooting, where he was eating a bowl of ice-cream, and in every take he ate and would then re-fill the bowl, and then at one...
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Edie Falco says James Gandolfini was her “true soul mate” The 58-year-old actress admitted she and her 'Sopranos' co-star - who died in 2013 - had the same approach to their work and were both just as surprised as each other at how successful they and the show were. She told The New Yorker: "We had such a strangely specific, similar way that we work, and a similar background. "I don’t know how to explain this. We were just really regular middle-class, suburban kids that were never supposed to become famous actors. “My interpretation is that the whole time, he was, like, ‘What the hell is going...
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Alan Taylor was grateful to have more resources while directing 'The Many Saints Of Newark'. The 62-year-old filmmaker has helmed the new movie, which serves as the prequel to the acclaimed TV series 'The Sopranos', and was pleased that he was able to more elaborate with some of the scenes in the film. Asked about the differences with the increased production budget, Alan told CinemaBlend.com: "I mean, there's, two ways, I guess. "One was, you know that the budget is different than the Warner Bros. movie, that's meant for the big screen you can see, you know, there were some scenes, we were st...
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Ray Liotta flew out to New York to ask for a role in 'The Many Saints of Newark'. The 66-year-old actor plays Aldo 'Hollywood Dick' Moltisanti in the prequel to 'The Sopranos' and revealed that he was so desperate to land the part that he paid for his own flights and accommodation to meet David Chase, who created the acclaimed TV series and co-wrote the new movie - even if he wasn't sure why he did it. Ray told The Guardian newspaper: "I’m really not sure what made me so determined, "But I was and luckily it all worked out." The 'Field of Dreams' star also rejected rumours that he turned down ...
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