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" Tony Parsons for GQ James Gandolfini, who has died at the age of 51, was the blood and bone of the greatest TV series of all time - The Sopranos. We have never had a screen gangster like him and we never will again. Tony Soprano was infinitely more complex than any mobster we had ever seen on screens big or small - and that made him all the more terrifying, and ultimately loveable. We will not see his like again. But we were lucky to have him, we were lucky that he was cast as Tony Soprano, and we were lucky to share a planet with him. Matt Zoller Seitz for Vulture The decent part of Tony, the part that stood in for the tragically wasted human potential Dr. Melfi kept trying to tease out and embrace, came from Gandolfini. His humanity shone through Tony&amp;#039;s rotten fa\u00E7ade. When people said they sensed good in Tony, it was James Gandolfini they sensed.  Kate Aurthur for Buzzfeed As Tony Soprano, Gandolfini seemed to act with every cell in his body... Amazing, transformative, and historic acting. Alan Sepinwall for HitFix James Gandolfini is dead, robbing us of several decades of amazing performances. Whatever happened when the lights turned out at Holsten&amp;#039;s, Gandolfini&amp;#039;s performance means that Tony Soprano will live forever. Michael Hogan for The Telegraph Gandolfini inhabited the character with physicality \u2013 Soprano shuffled like a bear down the drive to fetch his newspaper each morning \u2013 and immense vulnerability. As Sopranos creator David Chase said last night: &amp;#039;He was a genius and a great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times: &amp;#039;You don&amp;#039;t get it. You&amp;#039;re like Mozart&amp;#039;.&amp;#039;  The LA Times &amp;quot;In Gandolfini&amp;#039;s hands, a potentially unsympathetic and unrelatable character became a kind of post-modern Everyman. He won three Emmy Awards for the role, now considered one of the hallmark characters of television drama.&amp;quot; Jack Searle for the Radio Times &amp;quot;People will be discovering and re-watching The Sopranos, and failing to match it, for decades to come. James Gandolfini was the boss.&amp;quot; Mark Harris for Entertainment Weekly &amp;quot;All of us who loved and admired his work are, naturally, going to spend a lot of time thinking about The Sopranos, 86 hours of television that was not simply the perfect marriage of actor and role, but the exceedingly rare instance of an actor expanding the possibilities of the medium by the sheer force of his talent, daring, and commitment.&amp;quot;  Robert Bianco for USA TODAY Sometimes, one blinding flash of brilliance is all we get. That&amp;#039;s seldom easy to accept, and never more so than with James Gandolfini, the Sopranos star who died unexpectedly Wednesday at the age of 51. This was a man whose talent and career seemed to be expanding, not contracting - a great actor who had added &amp;quot;producer&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;documentarian&amp;quot; to his skill set, and who was poised to make another run at TV stardom. To his fans, at least, this was not a man who was ready to fade to black. Kevin O&amp;#039;Sullivan for The Mirror Throughout six engrossing series, Soprano was the main attraction. There were plenty of colourful mobsters to entertain us. But, thanks to Gandolfini&amp;#039;s daunting physical presence and enormous charisma, Tony always stole the show. We&amp;#039;ve lost a colossus. And that is immeasurably sad. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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