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| | Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Tony Soprano's female trouble |
 | | The first scene of David Chase's audacious HBO TV series, "The Sopranos," carried a different message: We saw the virile James Gandolfini, curious and apprehensive, shot from between the thighs of a nude bronze female statue. |
 | | Tony Soprano was born from between the legs of his vindictive, joyless mother, Livia; and he was caught, when the series opened, in the vise of several other women as well -- his dissatisfied wife, Carmela; his increasingly disdainful daughter, Meadow; his volatile 24-year-old Russian girlfriend, Irina; and his rather unconventional shrink, Dr. Melfi. |
 | | The joy of "The Sopranos" is the furious pace of the storytelling, its shotgun approach to narrative, its carefully doled-out violence. |
| archive.salon.com /ent/tv/feature/2001/05/19/sopranos_final/index.html (664 words) |
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