The late actor James Gandolfini, star of television's "The Sopranos," will be honored at the 9th Annual Morris County Columbus Day Parade sponsored by the East Hanover Italian American Club at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13 along Ridgedale Avenue from the fire house to Lurker Park. Parade spokesman and former East Hanover Mayor William Agnellino said he e...

by Dave Itzkoff   James Gandolfini, the Emmy Award-winning actor who shot to fame on the HBO drama "The Sopranos" as Tony Soprano, a tough-talking, hard-living crime boss with a stolid exterior but a rich interior life, died on Wednesday. He was 51. Mr. Gandolfini's death was confirmed by HBO. He was traveling in Rome, where he was on vacat...

by Shari Puterman   From a mobster on HBO to a "sausage king" on ABC Family, Steve Schirripa has seen it all. But at the core of it, the "Sopranos" star has deep Jersey Italian roots. Schirripa's sister has been a longtime school bus driver in Hazlet, where she continues to reside today.   His mother lived in a Shrewsbury nu...

by Lydia Warren   Grinning with his head on the lap of a school friend as he pulls her cheek, this is James Gandolfini in his happy teenage years - when the New Jersey native was voted 'Class Flirt' and 'Best Looking'. This larger-than-life character smiling among the pages of the Park Ridge High School yearbook in the 1970s hints at the po...

New Jersey inducted the late "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini into its Hall of Fame on Thursday, hoping no one will ever fuhgeddaboudhim. Five cast members of the hit HBO drama were on hand as Gandolfini, who played mob boss Tony Soprano, was honored, as much for his love of the state as for his TV fame. "Hey, J stands for Jersey and for Jimm...

When James Gandolfini died of a heart attack in June 2013, the news came as a particularly jolting shock, in part because the actor was only 51.   But the loss also felt like a gut punch because in so much of his work, including his signature role as suburban mafioso Tony Soprano on "The Sopranos," Gandolfini exuded an air of indestructibili...

Cast members of The Sopranos were on hand over the weekend as a New Jersey town remembered native son James Gandolfini.Park Ridge dedicated a section of Park Avenue to the actor best known for his role as mobster Tony Soprano in the TV series. Gandolfini died in Italy in June. Cast members Steve Schirripa, Vincent Curatola, Tony Sirico, Dominic Ch...

Edie Falco will always miss her dear friend, James Gandolfini. Fighting back tears, The Sopranos actress remembered her late costar during an emotional tribute at the 2013 Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Sunday, Sept. 22 in L.A. Emmy-winning Sopranos actor Gandolfini died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 51 while on vacation...

After the death of Sopranos star James Gandolfini, Douglas Rogers joins a tour of the show's familiar New Jersey landmarks. On a crowded corner of 39th Street and 7th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, a roly-poly Italian-American man is selling Sopranos memorabilia to tourists from the back of a van. He has books, posters, New York number plates sa...

As it turns out, the late James Gandolfini, known to many as just Tony Soprano, was acting the whole time – he wasn't actually a tough guy mobster.   In fact, "the true Jim", as Julia Louis-Dreyfus affectionately nicknames him, was more accurately depicted in Enough Said.   Read more   Source: http://cphpost.dk   &n...