The Sopranos

James Gandolfini Dead at 51

Updated at the bottom: Two HBO producers say Gandolfini died in Rome and not, as has been reported, in Sicily. First posted at 4:37 p.m. Wednesday. James Gandolfini has died, apparently of a heart attack, TMZ is reporting. The patriarch and antihero of HBO's Sopranos mob series was in Italy for th ... More >>

The Best TV Writer Panel Ever?

When the invitation went out from the Writers Guild of America, It seemed too good to be true. Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, James L. Books, Steven Bochco, and more, all on the same panel? And yet last night at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, to celebrate the organization's 101 Best Written TV Series ... More >>

American Men Don't Pay For Sex As Often As You Think

Men are whore-mongering pervs. But only in their secret lives. That has been the rap on American guys, at least since the postwar days when the infamous Kinsey report discovered that more than two-thirds of men had paid for prostitutes in their lifetimes. New research published in Southern Califor ... More >>

Sopranos Creator David Chase Talks About His New Movie Not Fade Away

Hollywood Museum Spotlights Women on TV, Including...a Naked Marilyn Monroe?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Marilyn Monroe's Seven Never-Before-Seen Mostly Nude Photos Two extremely significant moonwalks took place on television. One occurred when Neil Armstrong took his first extraterrestrial steps. The other occurred when Michael Jackson walked backwar ... More >>

Which Fictional Foods Stir Your Appetite?

Last week, a commenter on the "Talk" question boards on the Serious Eats website asked people what their favorite fictional foods are. It turns out many of us have shared strong relationships with the foods in the books we grew up reading.

Famous Food: The Dolce Group Puts Restaurant in the Capable Hands of Heidi Montag, et al.

Ketchup before. What will be the after?​What are reality stars qualified to do? Hmm. Let's think. Have meltdowns on camera, for sure. Gang up on the weak link, certainly. And they're definitely extremely good at identifying who is, and who is not, here to make friends. What about opening a re ... More >>

DOWN TERRACE

Top 10: Fictional TV Food Establishments

Even though The French Chef premiered in 1963, the rest of American TV land wasn't exactly keeping up with Julia in that decade. Nor would it catch up in the food department any time soon. But that's fine, because restaurants on television don't focus on the food. Until the non-fictional TV world ge ... More >>

DEAR MAFIA, PLEASE DON'T KILL US FOR THIS

Michele Scicolone's The Italian Slow Cooker Cookbook An Easy Braised Chicken With Olives Recipe

​Deep down the crock-pot is the bad ass Lacanche range of the 1970s. The Italain Slow Cooker, a new cookbook about the appliance, hit shelves last Friday from Italian food cookbook author Michele Scicolone. As she has written numerous Italian cookbooks, including The Sopranos Family Cookbook ... More >>

MORE PROOF THAT MAKING FUN OF PEOPLE CAN LEAD TO A FULFILLING CAREER

The Big Sleep: Raymond Chandler, 50 Years Dead

Writer who gave L.A. a lasting identity took the language of the street and made it sing

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

Ten Reasons We Long For More Deadwood

It's been over two years since HBO aired the final episode of Deadwood, laying to rest one of its greatest original series in startlingly abrupt fashion.  David Milch's gritty - at times, downright greezy - western epic earned a cadre of deeply devoted fans and as much acclaim as either The Sop ... More >>

End of the Wire

Jimmy McNulty and company take a last look at the Baltimore cityscape. TV may never see another series like it

Mothers, Gangsters and the Usual Boobs at the Emmys

Shout outs and murmurs

X-ers and Exes

Nightranger paints the town

Movies & More

Film Reviews: Black Sheep, 1408, You Kill Me

Also Yellow and Broken English

Fade to Black

If HBO doesn’t wise up, it could get whacked

Warning: Sopranos Spoiler Ahead

HBO's morality seesaw

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid

The Sopranos-like takeover of Tribune Co. could mean cement shoes for employees

Among the Squares

Are the upwardly mobile grifters of The Riches TV’s most relevant newfamily icons?

Black Donnellys Kinda Gray

Crash’s Paul Haggis gets his Irish up

Killing Them Softly

Club Emmy

Family Viewing

At the movies and on TV, the changing face of American domestic life

Cutthroat TV

Treachery, corruption and ambiguous alliances in Rome and Prison Break

Notable Scene Stealers

(In a Good Way)

Watch This Show ... Please

Making the Case for The Wire

Married to the Mob

The Sopranos, season five

The Sopranos of the Renaissance

And the idols of today

Freaky Sundays

Carnivàle comes to town, plus Navy NCIS, Threat Matrix and Joe Pantoliano in The Handler

A Divided Union

A Moment Like This

Minus 10

24 and counting . . .

The Nature of Fall TV

Bada-bing or just bad?

Maybe

Deep Thoughts

And sexy underwear

Mob Rules

David Chase on The Sopranos, the small screen, and rock & roll

B-Pictures

Bull, Bash, Blonde Bombshells and a Sandy Bottom

Desert Island Bisque

In Survivor, the Real World meets Outward Bound meets Lord of the Flies meets Esalen meets Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. Plus, Alec Baldwin in Nuremberg and a goodbye to The Sopranos’ Nancy Marchand

Kids in the Hall

More freaks and geeks

High Culture, Low-Def

The Year of The Sopranos

Adding up '99

Spun City

The big documentary, plus Kane redux

Pigs

Hollywood swine in Action, the real thing in Animal Farm

The Balding Soprano

From antipasto to antidepressants: a Mafioso's midlife crises

Cracks in the Screen

And a little light shone in