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-deprecatio
n 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
About the Author
DAN BISCHOFF is the award-winning art critic for The Star-Ledger, where he has been covering art and culture in New Jersey and New York since 1996. Previously, as the chief political and investigative editor for The Village Voice, he developed pieces that won several awards. Bischoff’s writing has been published in the Voice, Mother Jones, The Nation, the San Francisco Chronicle, the St. Petersburg Times, ARTnews, The Deal, CBS MoneyWatch.com, and elsewhere. He lives in South Orange, New Jersey.
JAMES GANDOLFINI. Copyright © 2014 by Dan Bischoff. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.stmartins.com
Cover photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders/Corbis Outline
The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request
ISBN 978-1-250-05132-5 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-5381-2 (e-book)
e-ISBN 9781466853812
First Edition: April 2014
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