How Steven Soderbergh helped edit Spike Jonze's 'Her'

Posted by · 9:50 am · October 7th, 2013

…and how Chris Cooper got the chop.

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James Gandolfini always made an impact, as character actor or leading man

Posted by · 4:00 pm · June 19th, 2013

James Gandolfini is dead. A heart attack in Italy. Too soon doesn’t begin to say it, but as the news makes its way across the wires I find myself, as we always do at times like this, thinking back on the work. And Gandolfini had a wealth of it. You see, he wasn’t always this star, this “name.” He made his hay as a character actor in film after film, always leaving a deep impression, long before “The Sopranos” came calling.

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