He was advising people "to be less sensitive" about stereotypes on "The Sopranos." Oh, damn it, this is a TimesSelect piece! (Link.) Actually, Giuliani said that a while ago, but the topic is back, because the show is back. It's gotten to be a rather tedious topic, hasn't it? Or do you take issue with Giuliani and think it's important to remain ever-sensitive to stereotypes? At some point, don't you have to just say that this show is so great that it has license to do whatever it wants?
So then, what do you think will happen this season, the last one? Will you focus on trying to figure out how Tony Soprano will die? Because he must die in the end, right?
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NOW maybe he has to die. Back when this was truly an artistic vision of a three-year story arc and it was mapped directly to the trojan war...not so much.
Then the money took hold, and another season and another season and then cunnilingus and pure greed brought us to this.
Lorraine Braco [Dr. Melfi] said on The Colbert Report last night that she is not certain this is the last season. She's sworn to secrecy, of course, but she'd know more than me.
OT: You seem to be back in full blogging form. Did your house sell?
Part of me really wishes I had taken up with this show, though I am finding good drama and intensity with The Shield. I suppose I could jump in and learn as I go.
Giuliani is "the nuts" (that's my new favorite Texas Hold 'em term!!).
Tony's not going to get knocked off... there are movies in the pipeline, so they franchise is not going to jeopardize that.
Here's an off-the-wall prediction: Tony's shrink gets whacked and Tony ends up going to her shrink. How do you like those gnocci?
Very nice, yetanotherjohn.
Perhaps Giuliani's comments would be better addressed to those who brought Larry Summers down at Harvard, and those at Harvard and now Yale who made and still are making such a to-do about class notes written by then-17 year old Harvard LS student Kiwi Camara. I suspect that those academics think it's beneficial to them, politically or ideologically, to create the impression of a civil rights crisis demanding constant vigilance. Hard lefties of that sort certainly sound like folks that "spend their whole lives wanting to be insulted" so they can keep trying to elbow their agenda to center stage and elbow off stage any who might disagree.
But, Althousefan, even when Sopranos is bad, it's very, very good (with apologies to Woody Allen). :)
And, yes, every self-appointed ethnic guardian has to demonstrate its aauthenticity chops by claiming offense. Feh.
Oh, and Rudy for President, as long as he doesn't go wobbly in the meantime.
There's talk about a movie. Tony could still die, but then the movie would have to be a prequel.
Anyway, David Chase is about unpredictability. After the Sopranos ruined regular TV drama series for me, I noticed more than ever that I could predict much of what was going to happen and what people would say in a regular series. You never, ever know what's going to happen, so there isn't even any point in speculating. It's like life -- lifelike -- in that respect. You know how, in life your catastrophic fantasies never come true -- something just as bad, but different, blindsides you.
Verification word: surrp (RISE!)
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