TMC
09-19-2016, 12:42 AM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/09/18/september-18-happy-birthday-frankie-avalon-and-james-gandolfini/
About the time that Avalon’s music career was slowing down, James Gandolfini (1961-2013) was probably taking his first steps. Gandolfini worked for several years as a bartender and club manager in New York before going into acting. He had a few noteworthy supporting parts in the 1990s: in True Romance as the hitman Virgil, who gets his ticket punched by Alabama (tiny Patricia Arquette) in a memorable and very rough fight scene, and in Get Shorty as Bear, a stuntman turned enforcer. But he didn’t land his signature role until the very end of the decade, as mob boss who is in regular therapy:
Gandolfini won three Emmys and a Golden Globe as Tony Soprano, and was nominated for one or the other every season that the show aired. He also continued working in film, winning a lot of critical praise for his next-to-last role in Enough Said, and putting his past experience to work portraying bar manager Marv in The Drop, his final film, which was released after his death from a heart attack in June 2013.
About the time that Avalon’s music career was slowing down, James Gandolfini (1961-2013) was probably taking his first steps. Gandolfini worked for several years as a bartender and club manager in New York before going into acting. He had a few noteworthy supporting parts in the 1990s: in True Romance as the hitman Virgil, who gets his ticket punched by Alabama (tiny Patricia Arquette) in a memorable and very rough fight scene, and in Get Shorty as Bear, a stuntman turned enforcer. But he didn’t land his signature role until the very end of the decade, as mob boss who is in regular therapy:
Gandolfini won three Emmys and a Golden Globe as Tony Soprano, and was nominated for one or the other every season that the show aired. He also continued working in film, winning a lot of critical praise for his next-to-last role in Enough Said, and putting his past experience to work portraying bar manager Marv in The Drop, his final film, which was released after his death from a heart attack in June 2013.