I lost my dad at 50 to a stroke which I think has contributed to this hitting me so hard. Same sort of body shape as Gandolfini as well (hell, same lack of hair, though i doubt that was a contributing factor in either case).

I don't know the details but I do remember it being reported that he held out in support of his castmates while they were negotiating, despite his salary obviously being very well taken care of.

Stick The Public Enemy on and mourn the Tony Soprano way.

And I love that the scene was completely superfluous but Iannucci (rightfully) realised that you couldn't have Tony Soprano and Malcolm Tucker in a film together and not have a scene of them sparring against each other.

If you don't have time to start it straight away then watching him in True Romance and In The Loop is a fantastic way to watch him be incredible in two very different ways (shades of both of which find themselves in Tony Soprano).

Yeah, the film itself didn't work for me but seeing Gandolfini hold the screen in the way he did was the highlight of it. Mild spoilers for the film but I spent most of it excited about the prospect of Tony Soprano whacking Johnny Sacks and then was disappointed.

Brian Blessed is 76 but, to back up your statement, whenever I see him I always assume it's a matter of time (let me be clear - I hate thinking that and it's one of the things I love being wrong about)

Same here - this has just hit me like a sledgehammer. The only other time I remember getting worked up over a celebrity death before was when Dermot Morgan of Father Ted died, also far too young (he was 46).

Damn it. I just clicked "Complete Order" on my 'The period in this sentence is an NSA spy camera.' T-shirt - and selected the slowest mail option too!

I didn't even know he'd done an AMA. And here was I thinking I'd ran out of internets to use to waste time at work!

'Oh that he were here to blog me down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not podcasted, yet forget not that I am an ass.'

Just the last part where an impassioned and emotional plea/confessional from Harmon is neutered by a shrugging Bill Murray who doesn't know who he is.

The casting of Woodley suggests they're branching out into other Payne films. Meaning that by Spidey 4 the Secret Six will be using Naked Kathy Bates as their hideout.

Yeah, Spider-Man 2's the one we all agree on!

*does the maths*

Because in the comic it's all 'fucks' and 'cunts'?

Not only has he loved the character from childhood but I imagine he'll make enough money from these films to set him up for life. Plus, as a bonus, he got to meet Emma Stone through the role and now gets to go home with her every night.

I sometimes think that but then I realise the original songs would probably take up ten minutes at most (still, an .mp3 playlist would work).

I really enjoyed the variations of the theme for season 4, to fit with the tweaked character narration and titles of the opening credits. By the end each characters' slight variations would intrude on other characters' themes which I thought was cool.

Garfield's crying wasn't much better. He sounded autistic when he was talking to Uncle Ben during the death scene. And I don't mean that flippantly, I mean he literally sounded like he was playing someone with severe mental disabilities.