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	Livia Soprano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Livia Soprano, played by Nancy Marchand, was the mother of Tony Soprano on the fictional HBO TV series, The Sopranos.
		Livia Soprano, the family matriarch, was scheming, manipulative, conniving and abusive.
		Livia has nevertheless appeared as a young woman (played by a different actress) in a flashback since then, as well as being frequently referenced, with Tony still far from resolving his feelings towards her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Livia_Soprano (325 words)

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		Though many TV fans are familiar with Marchand as the strong-willed Margaret Pynchon in Lou Grant (CBS, 1978-82), and later as the malicious Livia Soprano in HBO's The Sopranos, her early career is steeped in theatre.
		Accolades aside, it was her work as Livia Soprano that made me admire her with an equal measure of awe and giddiness.
		In the beginning, Livia was to have died at the end of the first season, but was brought back for the second, a risky move given that she conspired to have her son Tony killed.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-06-30/screens_tveye.html (868 words)

	Salon.com ent \| A grande dame -- and a grand pain
		Marchand's Livia, the angry, demanding, manipulative, verbally abusive mother of mobster Tony Soprano, was a towering character, a monster in a housecoat.
		When Marchand took the role of Livia, she made it clear to all concerned that she was battling cancer, as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but Chase and HBO took a chance on her anyway.
		Livia was supposed to have died at the end of the first season, after putting out a hit on her own son.
	www.salon.com /ent/tv/feature/2000/06/20/marchand (870 words)

	Livia Let Die By Jodi Kantor
		Livia's lines consist almost solely of her signature phrases: "Now look here, I don't like that kind of talk," "I wish the Lord would take me now," "I suppose I should just keep my mouth shut, like a mute," and so on.
		The show's writers were already abusing these refrains last season, but now Livia sounds like one of those dolls that repeats one of several alternating phrases each time you pull the cord in her back.
		Livia Soprano is clearly based in large part on Livia, wife of Augustus--and there's a lot of other parallels between the scheming, murderous, but intriguing Romans and the scheming murderous, but intriguing Sopranos.
	www.slate.com /id/101783 (1100 words)

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		Livia Soprano is arguably the most important person in Tony Soprano's life.
		JEFFREY WERNICK: Livia Soprano was always a tough cookie, but maybe part of her abiding frustration was that she never really got to put her brain to use.
		Soprano had to be restrained by dance staff from inflicting further damage on Mr.
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	Salon.com Sex \| Back story
		Livia Soprano went to a convent school but gave it up because she knew too much about life.
		I only wish "The Sopranos" had the time to give you a sniff of the Livia that was.
		You should have known Livia when she was Livia Barzini, a tall slip of a girl, with raven eyes and hair the color of dark persimmons.
	archive.salon.com /sex/turn_on/2001/03/02/livia/print.html (705 words)

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		70 year old Livia Soprano is the widow of Johnny Boy Soprano and the mother of Tony and his 2 sisters.
		Livia and Johnny Boy's free-spirited daughter, Janice, has been absent from the family for many years.
		Tony and Carmela's second-born, Anhtony Jr., is a garden variety suburban adolescent, a worshipper at the nintendo altar, the apple of his mother's and grandmother's eyes and the bane of his older sister's existence.
	www.geocities.com /sopranos_187/tony.html (523 words)

	HBO: Livia Soprano, played by Nancy Marchand: The Sopranos
		Livia's childhood was poverty-stricken and miserable, and she spent her adult life punishing everyone for it.
		Livia wasn't particularly interested in housework and as for motherhood, her take on it was that babies were "animals...no different from dogs." Although Johnny Boy was a good provider, in Livia's estimation he was never good enough.
		Nobody ever got the upper hand on Livia Soprano: a year later she died, peacefully, in her sleep.
	www.hbo.com /sopranos/cast/character/livia_soprano.shtml (375 words)

	Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
		While Marchand’s character of Livia Soprano may have started out as a sympathetic character in the first episode, by the time she disappointed young Anthony Soprano by forgetting the “fucking ziti” she was already making everyone’s shitlist.
		Livia was never happy with the place and her negative attitude came forward during every family visit.
		It was no surprise at the end of the first season when Tony found out about Livia’s treachery that he went to the hospital, where she had been transferred, and was determined to smother her.
	www.americanmafia.com /Allan_May_6-26-00.html (817 words)

	Salon Column \| Happy Mother's Day, and screw you (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Livia is toxic, for sure, taking out a lifetime of bottled-up hurt and anger toward her philandering husband on Tony.
		"The Sopranos" is, after all, a comedy and Chase (who told Salon that he based Livia on his own mother) deeply understands the morbid humor of A) a tough guy who's afraid of his mama, and B) a comfortable, successful boomer on the shrink's couch whining about his wretched upbringing.
		Livia is a big-boned woman to begin with (she could eat Estelle Getty for lunch), but as the first season of "The Sopranos" ended, she seemed to loom above the action, larger than life.
	archive.salon.com /ent/col/mill/1999/05/03/livia/print.html (1032 words)

	Who's Gonna Get Whacked? - CBS News
		When "The Sopranos" made its debut on HBO in 1999, critics hailed the show as a great work of art, and Chase as a genius.
		Livia Soprano, Tony’s mother on the show, and a nasty piece of work, was played by the late Nancy Marchand.
		Besides being a son and a gangster, Tony’s a husband, a father, a philanderer, a thief, and a murderer.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/05/12/60II/main694894.shtml (840 words)

	The Sopranos - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Meadow Soprano is born to Tony and Carmela.
		His fears are alleviated when Livia Soprano dies in her sleep of a massive stroke.
		A parody of The Sopranos was targeted during the FOX pre-race show in 2001, leading to the Coca-Cola 600 called "The Pit Reporters".
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/The_Sopranos (7270 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| Sopranos star digitally recreated
		Mob drama The Sopranos is to incorporate a digital recreation of actress Nancy Marchand, who died last year, in its forthcoming series.
		Since Livia Soprano tended to repeat stock phrases constantly and rave about her perceived mistreatment by her son Tony, this technique works.
		The third series of The Sopranos, which appears on Channel 4 in the UK, is due to begin on the HBO network on Sunday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/1194218.stm (278 words)

	Movie Info for The Sopranos: I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano on MSN Movies
		After she suffers a disorienting episode, Livia Soprano (Nancy Marchand), the manipulative mother of a powerful New Jersey crime boss, is moved to the nursing wing of her retirement home.
		Visiting with Livia, Tony's friend Artie Bucco (John Ventimiglia) discovers Tony's role in the destruction of his restaurant and confronts Tony with a shotgun, but Tony is able to convince his friend that Livia is losing her mind.
		Livia has a stroke, and an incensed Tony confronts her about her role in the attempt on his life as she is wheeled away.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=82617 (280 words)

	The Sopranos episode guide • thecustard.tv
		As part of his punishment, he is forced to visit Livia every day, and tells her his father is seeing a therapist.
		Livia tells Junior that Tony is being treated by a psychiatrist.
		Livia dies and Janice returns from Seattle to arrange the funeral.
	www.thecustard.tv /shows/thesopranos.html (2843 words)

	JS Online: Series' women pack independent heat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But in a genre not exactly noted for its rich array of female characters, "The Sopranos" boasts a half-dozen women in substantial roles and at least twice that many in recurring parts that add spice to the sauce: cousins, girlfriends, maids, mistresses, mothers and others.
		She credits creator David Chase with giving "The Sopranos" the kind of female characters that have helped one of its actresses, Edie Falco, win an Emmy and two others, Lorraine Bracco and the late Nancy Marchand, snare nominations.
		There's no way to put this nicely: The sickly, bitter, possibly paranoid Livia seems to be trying to have Tony, her only son, murdered.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/tvradio/wein/mar01/soprano04030201.asp?format=print (1463 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| Happy Mother's Day, and screw you (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As Mother's Day approaches, consider the dilemma of Tony Soprano, the anxiety-ridden hero of HBO's wickedly good Mafia serial "The Sopranos." Tony (James Gandolfini) is the dutiful Italian son, but widowed 70-year-old Livia Soprano would test the patience of a saint.
		Livia (Nancy Marchand) is a manipulative martyr, a sour, suspicious-eyed old bird who never had a kind word for anyone.
		By the end of its terrific first season, "The Sopranos" (reruns begin June 1, with the second season launching in January 2000) was as much about the power struggle between parent and child as it was about mob moves -- as much about family business as Family business.
	www.salon.com /ent/col/mill/1999/05/03/livia (383 words)

	CBS News \| Livia Soprano Really Lives On \| March 2, 2001 11:03:51
		Producers of the HBO series used tape editing and computer technology to craft a scene with Livia Soprano talking to her son, Tony, even though actress Nancy Marchand died last June before filming for the new season began.
		It was crucial to convey her unloving nature up to the very end so viewers could understand Tony's reaction to her death, he said.
		The attention to detail is such that when a housekeeper walks between Livia Soprano and a sun-filled window, a shadow briefly passes over Marchand's face.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/02/28/entertainment/main275249.shtml (533 words)

	The Sopranos - Wikiquote
		Livia Soprano: Well, all I know is, daughters are better at taking care of their mothers than sons.
		Livia Soprano: That man is so full of himself since becoming caporegime, he makes me sick.
		Soprano, you have to stay in a wheelchair until you leave the building.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/The_Sopranos (10519 words)

	USATODAY.com - A 'Soprano' family tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Her deranged maternal instincts are what drove mobster son Tony to see a shrink — and when she found out, she tried to have him killed.
		He might have returned the favor had Livia not died first (a story line prompted by the death of the much-missed Marchand).
		Tony's Uncle Junior thought he was the head of the Soprano Mob family until he discovered Tony had usurped his power and set him up for an FBI sting.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/2002-09-12-soprano-tree_x.htm (931 words)

	Nancy Marchand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nancy Marchand (June 19, 1928 – June 18, 2000) was an American actress best known for her Emmy award-winning role on the HBO series, The Sopranos as Soprano family matriarch Livia Soprano, the mother of Tony Soprano.
		A lifelong chain smoker, she died prior to filming the third season of The Sopranos of emphysema and lung cancer, and the writers wrote her character's death into the story.
		She died the day before what would have been her 72nd birthday.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nancy_Marchand (186 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sopranos - The Complete Third Season: DVD: Sopranos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Livia Soprano, Tony's wicked mother and a canker in her children's lives, dies, bringing daughter Janice back from where she had fled, after she had bumped off her manic boyfriend, Richie Aprile, last season.
		Anthony Soprano, Jr., the Sopranos' other angst ridden teenager and youngest child, who has turned out to be an unexpected gridiron wonder, is also sowing his wild oats, getting himself in deep trouble at school, much to his parents' anger and dismay.
		The late, great actress, Nancy Marchand, whose portrayal of the venomous Livia Soprano was a feather in her cap, left a legacy of memories, having died after creating such a memorable character.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000067S1G?v=glance (3068 words)

	"Sopranos" Shocker: Livia Returns from the Dead - Feb 27, 2001 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Indeed it is, as Sopranos creator David Chase had to find some way to wrap up the Mama Soprano storyline after the inimitable Nancy Marchand's untimely death last June--in between the HBO show's second and third seasons.
		The solution: The godfather of everything Soprano is officially adhering to omerta (the reputed Mafia code of silence), but he's confirming, in a roundabout way, that the Livia we see briefly interacting with son Tony (James Gandolfini) in the second of back-to-back season premiere episodes Sunday (9 p.m.
		"We had some existing footage of Livia, and Livia's repertoire of comments were usually the same--'Out of sight, out of mind,' 'What do you care'--she said these things all the time, so we were able to build a scene using those responses," Chase says.
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		JEFFREY WERNICK: Anthony John Soprano was born August, 1959, the middle child of Johnny Boy and Livia Pollio Soprano.
		And Livia had a big stereo to play her Broadway musicals and Italian crooners at ten in the morning.
		CLOSE FAMILY FRIEND, NAME WITHHELD: Livia was a terrible housekeeper, a terrible cook - I think she made one baked ziti dish over and over - and not the world's greatest mother, either.
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	Forum: The-Sopranos.com
		Hello Soprano fans, I heard a story-line theory that deserves to be repeated.
		Here goes: Although the great actress Nancy Marschand is deceased, Livia Soprano is alive and well in witness protection.
		Namely why Svetlana was hired to take care of Livia and why AJ thought he heard his grandmother in the hallway by his room.
	www.the-sopranos.com /feedback2.cfm?id=14 (79 words)

	Deaths of November - December 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It seems appropriate that Nancy Marchand, the actress who capped her long and distinguished acting career with the cable TV role of Livia Soprano, would use her four Emmy awards as the legs of a coffee table.
		In the role of Lydia Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos, Marchand found a nice antidote to the “tasteful lady syndrome.” As Lydia she portrayed a sullen, self-pitying, and perhaps senile matriarch of a mafia family who sought to undermine her son Tony, the titular head of the family business.
		The finale of last season’s The Sopranos found Livia Soprano’s son posed to smother his mother with a pillow, when he suffered a stroke and collapsed; Livia survived.
	www.goodbyemag.com /may00/marchand.html (834 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sopranos - The Complete First Season: DVD: James Gandolfini,Edie Falco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: Like 1999's other screen touchstone, American Beauty, the HBO series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief.
		As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco).
		Livia is an interesting character, in that it took me the full first season to fully grasp that her character wasn't some wishy-washy old lady, but actually quite calculating.
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