Television
August, 1999
Tony Soprano, the brutal, often bewildered hit man of The Sopranos, likes to call himself a waste management consultant. Most TV executives could make the same claim with greater accuracy.Every once in a while, though, a new show with a grabber of a premise gives us fresh, surprising stuff, and this season it was The Sopranos. This HBO series about an Italian mobster, his family and his sexy, earnest shrink succeeds brilliantly in what was once the exclusive province of feature films (and I say...
