Grieving parents have become such a movie staple that the theme is now a demonstrable cliché. Such grief isn't new in movies, but the preponderance of these stories -- recent examples include ''The Lovely Bones,''''Creation,''''Antichrist,''''I've Loved You So Long'' and the forthcoming ''Rabbit Hole'' -- suggests that filmmakers believe that...
''What the hell is happening now?'' James Gandolfini asked, not quite smiling, at the start of an interview last week. Mr. Gandolfini is not big on interviews; journalists who mention his most famous role, playing the mob boss Tony Soprano, get swatted away. ''I never think about him, ever,'' Mr. Gandolfini, 49, said. But some projects are worth...
FOR a guy who claims he was ''sort of whacked'' in the pilot episode of ''The Sopranos,'' Marc Baron has had quite an afterlife. ''I've done more than a thousand of these,'' Mr. Baron said during a recent bus tour of the show's New Jersey sites, in a rare moment when he wasn't, as a thoroughly enjoyable guide, dispensing nuggets of insider...