Dammit. All I wanted for Christmas was Die Hard. I wanted Bruce and bare feet and crunching chards of glass. I wanted foreign scoundrel Hans Gruber, complete with a team of rogue terrorists, implementing a devious heist, all encased in a skyscraper set to blow, with the calvary coming from within. I wanted YIPPIE-KAY-YAY and...
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In 1993, Quentin Tarantino’s True Romance instantaneously humanized both a quirky stoner played by Brad Pitt and a violent assassin portrayed by James Gandolfini. Six years later, David Chase used Gandolfini again to help America fall in love with The Sopranos, blending the nuances of upper-class suburbia with the chilling realities of being a...
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