Tony Soprano: NOT dead

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Tony Soprano: NOT dead</h1>
                <h2><p>When author and entertainment critic Martha P. Nochimson popped the question to Sopranos creator David Chase recently — you know, the question millions of fans around the world have been arguing about since the controversial black-screen finale of Chase’s award-winning HBO mob opera — the laconic auteur reportedly shook his head</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>When author and entertainment critic Martha P. Nochimson <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/8/27/6006139/did-tony-die-at-the-end-of-the-sopranos?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">popped <em>the </em>question</a> to <em>Sopranos</em> creator David Chase recently — you know, the question millions of fans around the world have been arguing about since the controversial black-screen finale of Chase’s award-winning HBO mob opera — the laconic auteur reportedly shook his head and said (wait for it): “No, he isn’t.” Here's a clip of that last scene for refresher purposes, but forget any dreams of a Sopranos sequel. Tony may be alive and well in David Chase’s dark imagination, but James Gandolfini, the actor who <em>was and always will be </em>Tony, isn’t.  — M.B.</p>
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When author and entertainment critic Martha P. Nochimson popped the question to Sopranos creator David Chase recently — you know, the question millions of fans around the world have been arguing about since the controversial black-screen finale of Chase’s award-winning HBO mob opera — the laconic auteur reportedly shook his head and said (wait for it): “No, he isn’t.” Here's a clip of that last scene for refresher purposes, but forget any dreams of a Sopranos sequel. Tony may be alive and well in David Chase’s dark imagination, but James Gandolfini, the actor who was and always will be Tony, isn’t. — M.B.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi