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Article: Meet the Real Boss; Tony Soprano? Nah, David Chase Calls the Shots
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- The Washington Post
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- June 10, 2007
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What began quietly in the mind of writer David Chase as a movie
about "a mob boss in therapy whose mother was his enemy" became
instead the most successful series in the history of American cable
TV.
Seven seasons stretched over nearly a decade -- a run that ends
tomorrow night at 9 when the final one-hour chapter airs -- and
"The Sopranos" brought new viewers and new attention to Home Box
Office, Time Warner's pioneer premium-cable network.
The intense, richly detailed and shockingly violent vision of one
man, the show's continuing story of mob conflict in New Jersey
achieved a status usually reserved for literary, cinematic or
theatrical milestones -- a "Death of a Salesman," ...