James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano (26 page)

Loud

loyalty to friends and

media and access to

money for

Park Ridge home of

privacy of

sisters in

The Sopranos
and

television and

time for

with Wudarski

fathers.
See also
Gandolfini, James, Sr. (father)

films and film set.
See also specific films

acting on

for children

death and
The Sopranos

documentaries

early

favorite

financing for

first role in

New Jersey setting for

New York City

with Scott

The Sopranos
and better

television and

finances and financing

Foderaro, T. J.

food

Friedkin, William

friends and friendship

with Aston

Bart

with Batali

celebrity

college

Di Ionno

with Foderaro, T. J.

at funeral

loyalty from

loyalty to family and

money for

New Jersey

with Richardson

from Ryan’s

The Star-Ledger
and

The Frog and Peach

funeral service

Gandolfini, James, Sr. (father)

automobile for

background of

death of

employment

military service of

money for

privilege and

Gandolfini, Leta (sister)

Gandolfini, Liliana Ruth (daughter)

Gandolfini, Michael (son)

Gandolfini, Patricia (cousin)

Gandolfini, Santa (mother)

Gately, Kathryn

acting with

Aston with

family of

food and meeting with

Meisner technique from

generosity

Get Shorty

Gilbert, Craig

Giordano, Al

The God of Carnage

The Godfather

GQ

Guskin, Harold

HBO

health

Heath, Chris

Hemingway & Gelhorn

hitmen

Hoboken, New Jersey

Hollywood

business of

Get Shorty
on hype in

physical appearance in

substance abuse in

tough guy characters in

working class appreciation in

Holofcener, Nicole

Holsten’s ice cream parlor

homes

homosexuals and homosexuality

humor

identity

ideology

Iler, Robert

immigration and immigrants

Imperioli, Michael

In the Loop

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Inside the Actors Studio

Italian Movie

Italians and Italian heritage

assimilation and

in childhood

crime and stereotypes of

exploring

family and

food and

identity with

justice, law, and

language and

for men

mothers in

in Newark

personality evincing

privacy in

in
The Sopranos

U.S. immigration and

Italy vacation

Jacobson, Lynne

Jennings, Sandra

The Juror

justice and law

Kiddie Ride

Killing Them Softly

Kiss Me, Kate

The Last Boy Scout

The Last Castle

Laurino, Maria

law.
See
justice and law

lifestyle

Lin, Deborah

litigation

Loftin, Lennie

Lonely Hearts

Los Angeles.
See also
Hollywood

Loud family

Lowell, Stewart

loyalty

Luce, Julie

Mafia

The Man Who Wasn’t There

management,
The Sopranos

Mancinelli, Donna

manhood and men

marriage.
See also
Wudarski, Marcy

Martin, Brett

media.
See also specific media

celebrity treatment from

on charitable work

on death

on divorce

on estate

family and access from

at OctoberWoman Foundation dinners

privacy and

relationship with

on
The Sopranos

on substance abuse

Meisner technique

in
The Sopranos

memorization, line

memory

method acting

The Mexican

middle class, anger of

The Mighty

military and military service

money

for family and friends

finances and financing

for Gandolfini, James, Sr.

generosity with

lifestyle change and

politics and

The Sopranos
and

television and

unionization and

wealth and

Money for Nothing

monster.
See
beast or monster

mother.
See
Gandolfini, Santa (mother)

mothers

movie.
See
film, films, and film set

The National Enquirer

neurosis

New Brunswick, New Jersey

New Jersey.
See also
Park Ridge, New Jersey

actors and performers from

birthplace

celebrity in

Chase roots in

childhood and heritage in

creativity in

culture of

death impact on

films set in

food in

friends and friendship

Guinea Gulch in

Hoboken

homes in

identity

New Brunswick

New York City in relation to

Newark

personality

The Sopranos
reception in

as
Sopranos
setting

The Star-Ledger
of

New York City

apartments in

blizzard

film career

home in

New Jersey in relation to

New York Post

The New Yorker

Newark, New Jersey

nickname

Night Falls on Manhattan

nightclubs.
See
bars, nightclubs, and restaurants

9/11

Not Fade Away

Le Nouveau Monde
(
The New World
)

Ocean Harbor House

OctoberWoman Foundation

Ohlstein, Mark

One Day Wonder

Pantoliano, Joe

parents.
See
Gandolfini, James, Sr. (father); Gandolfini, Santa (mother)

Park Ridge, New Jersey

childhood in

culture of

demographics

economics in

education in

family home in

funeral service

sports in

as working class

Pastore, Vincent

Perdita Durango

personality

of actors

anger in

as bartender

celebrity and

of Chase

childhood

in college

down-to-earth

of Gandolfini, Santa

humorous

ideology of

Italian heritage evinced in

of Jacobson

neurosis in

New Jersey

privacy and reticence in

self-deprecation and doubt in

teenage

physical appearance

in acting

in childhood

college scar and

health and

identity and

of Jacobson

on
The Sopranos

in
Tarantula’s Dancing

teenage

weight in

physical strength

“Pine Barrens” episode

Pitt, Brad

politics and politicians

preparation, acting

pressure and stress

privacy and reticence

Private Eyes

privilege

Pugliesi, Giovanna

realism.
See
authenticity or realism

restaurants.
See
bars, nightclubs, and restaurants

reticence.
See
privacy and reticence

Richardson, Tom

Roberts, Julia

The Rockford Files

roles.
See also
characters

acting

biographical nature of

comic

first film

quitting

romantic

romance and romantic relationships

in college

ease with

roles with

with Somoza

teenage interest in

with Wudarski

Romance & Cigarettes

Roskam, Michaël

Ruschman, Don

Rutgers.
See also
college

Ryan’s

SAG.
See
Screen Actors Guild

Saint John’s funeral

Schirripa, Steve

Scott, George C.

Screen Actors Guild (SAG)

self-control

self-deprecation and doubt

in acting

big scenes and

method acting and

in personality

The Sopranos
and

Sendak, Maurice

set,
The Sopranos

sex symbol

She’s So Lovely

Shock! Shock! Shock!

Sigler, Jamie-Lynn

The Simpsons

Sirico, Tony

charitable work of

criminal behavior of

money demands of

9/11 for

on
Sopranos
celebrity

soldiers

Somoza, Lora

Soprano, Tony

acting as

actors for

anger of

audition for

as beast or monster

as biographical

Chase and

drama and darkness from

escaping

nature of

pressure and stress as

The Sopranos
built around

sympathy for

as television antihero

The Sopranos

Analyze This
and

art and banality combined in

Aston involvement in

audience of

authenticity or realism of

better films after

big scenes and going missing from

cast and crew of

celebrity from

character death on

crime and

death and film of

economics in

Emmy Awards for

ending of

episodes

as family

glamour in

HBO and pitching

Italian heritage in

Mafia writing on

marriage on

media on

Meisner technique in

memorization of lines for

men in

method acting and set of

money and

New Jersey actors in

New Jersey as setting of

New Jersey reception of

OctoberWoman Foundation and

physical appearance

seasons

self-doubt and

set of

show management

Soprano, Tony as center of

success of

violence in

writing and single viewpoint on

sports

The Star-Ledger
(New Jersey)

A Stranger Among Us

A Streetcar Named Desire
(Williams)

stress.
See
pressure and stress

substance abuse

Summer Winds
(Pugliese)

sympathy

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Tarantino, Quentin

Tarantulas Dancing

teenage years

television

acting on

cable, season

commercialism in

drama on

family and

films and

money in

Soprano, Tony, as antihero on

Terminal Velocity

theater, acting in

time and timing

tough guy character

True Romance

Turturro, Aida

Turturro, John

Twelve Angry Men

unions and unionization

United States (U.S.)

Van Zandt, Steven

Vanity Fair

violence

acting and

anger and

soldiers and

in
The Sopranos

in
True Romance

Walken, Christopher

Wartorn 1861–2010

wealth

weight

Welcome to the Rileys

Were You Always Italian?
(Laurino)

The West Wing

Where the Wild Things Are

Williams, Tennessee

Winter, Terence

women.
See also
romance and romantic relationships

working class

actors

anger

characters

hero

ideology

Park Ridge as

Wounded Warriors Project

writing and writers

Wudarski, Marcy

background of

divorce from

family with

romantic relationship with

on substance abuse

Zero Dark Thirty

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