The Sopranos

By The Huffington Post News Editors NEW YORK — Lillo Brancato says he didn't know an alleged accomplice was armed when he went looking for drugs. Brancato, who played a wannabe mobster on the HBO hit "The Sopranos," says he was suffering from heroin withdrawal when he and Steven Armento went to an apartment where the actor had...

By The Huffington Post News Editors After a lifelong battle with obesity, Caitlin VanZandt, of Guiding Light and The Sopranos, underwent a 45-minute laparoscopic adjustable gastric-banding procedure. Six months after surgery, VanZandt has shed 65 pounds, and went from a size 20 to a 12. The 5-foot-8 soap star, who is a spo...

By The Huffington Post News Editors So Mr. Gore, now better known as the star of "An Inconvenient Truth" than as the former vice president of the United States, called Brad Grey, the chairman of Paramount whose studio distributed his documentary, for a favor. Mr. Grey is also an executive producer of "The Sopranos," from his pr...

By The Huffington Post News Editors James Gandolfini told the Daily News in Friday's edition that he had "no idea" what to think was to happen to his character, the emotionally tortured mob boss and suburban dad Tony Soprano, after the hit series' final episode closed Sunday with an abrupt cut to a blank screen.

By The Huffington Post News Editors The 11.9 million viewers who watched "The Sopranos" finale brought HBO to the edge of a historic feat: a show on a pay cable network available in about 30 million homes was more popular last week than all but one show on the far larger world of broadcast television.

By The Huffington Post News Editors The line to cancel HBO starts here. What a ridiculously disappointing end lacking in creativity to The Sopranos saga. But if you're one of those who found it perversely interesting, then don't bother to read on. Even if David Chase, who wrote and directed the final episode, was demonstratin...

By The Huffington Post News Editors When The Sopranos wraps its final episode Sunday, it will mark the end of one of the most successful television series in the medium's history. Amid the gallons of ink that will be devoted to memorializing the myriad ways the show changed television and saved HBO, what many people really wa...

By Paul Krassner I usually watch The Sopranos at 9 p.m. on HBO, but this time I watched the East Coast feed at 6 p.m., so that I could also catch a two-hour documentary about hippies on The History Channel at 8 p.m. Paul Brownfield, one of the best TV critics around, wrote in his review of The Sopranos in the Los Angeles...