James Gandolfini Books

This book isn't very good and definitely isn't worth the money. First of all, most of the vice it contains is incredibly obvious. I don't think most people need to be told to take a shower every day. Second, it is almost completely about New York. If you don't happen to live in Manhattan, she doesn't have much interest in you. Third, it is incredibly self-centered. The author is a gossip reporter and the bulk of the book is about what people should do to make your job easier and save her time and money. If you are calling an item into her, you have to do it at a certain time, and on a certain day, or she will be too busy to deal with you. That kind of stuff. It doesn't seem to occur to Ms. Froelich that she has to do some work to earn her salary. Finally, the book contains an incredible amount of blatantly obvious name-dropping and brownnosing. She quotes her boss, at length, and writes at equal, pointless length about what a great guy he is, a genius and so on.

It was a fun book but geared toward people who want to get into the celebrity world...it was not my kind of book... Especially since It! is a book that once you reach everything you want you will sit and think so... what next???

Paula has it right on the money and I still follow her at Page Six in the NY Post! Great and Easy read for those that want to be famous.

If you are looking for a fast read that will give you suggestions on how to make it, then this is the book for you!

Ja-Naé
Wild Women Entrepreneurs President/Founder

It's well written and the info moves quickly.

WOW, is all I can say about Sean Penn in this great movie. I've had FARGO as my all time favorite movie, now this is replacing it. I watched twice in one night.

The cinematography was excellent and being a Southern lover, I enjoyed the scenery and New Orleans scenes.

I never thought Sean Penn would be my new favorite actor, but he did an excellent job in this film as the viewer vacillates between love and hate for his colorful portrayal of Huey Long-like Governor of Louisiana.

The re-make of"All the king's men" based upon the novel by Robert Penn Warren is a classic,despite the general atmosphere of failure and mis-casting fabricated by many of the paid critics..One need only watch the film to understand this.Sean Penn,a great actor but also an outspoken critic of The Bush war and the Bush white house,and an unapologetic"liberal"to boot,stars as Louisiana politician Willie Stark,a personage based on real life Louisiana icon Huey"Kingfish"Long..The fact that Penn is widely recognised not so much for his acting as for his own politics perhaps made him an easy target,both for critics and for the viewing public at large..James Carville,political pundit and Bill Clinton confidant produced the film as much as a political statement as a piece of entertainment,another strike against it...and then there is the storyline itself,still rich and alive despite the fact that it was first outlined more than half a century ago..A basicly honest populist small time politician defeats both the entrenched interests and the political bosses and becomes the people's govenor,only to fall prey to flaws in his own charecter,and ultimately fail..Sound familiar?(I mean other than as the plotline of this movie & the novel upon which it is based that is?)...Once again it would seem to me that reactions to this film,with this star,this producer and this message at this time had more to do with the poor reception the film got than with any short-comings in either acting or direction...

Alabama Governor George Wallace and Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long
were pretty much extreme opposites that led to the same kind of end.
The 1949 version of the movie of the Pulitzer prize winning novel
wasn't as good as this one. The Robert Penn Warren novel
is much like the tales in poetry of legendary figures who are bigger than
others of their time. Andrew Jackson was a similar populist leader
of the south. Why does love and hate come together in a leader
such that people seek to kill him?
The acting in this movie is first rate and the filming and direction are also good. I think this is closer than the original movie
to capturing the poetry of the novel.

Ehh!....that's how I feel about "All the King's Men"....ehh! Based on the exploits of the real-life Gov. Huey Long of Louisiana in the person of Willie Stark as "interpreted" by Sean Penn and written AND directed by Steve Zaillian (and that is where I see the problem in this film; Zaillian who wrote Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition), Awakenings and Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) maybe should have stepped away!!!)

A great cast of actors, very miscast, a wandering screenplay, uneven direction, a film badly in need of a dialogue coach...what else? This film seemed as if it aspired to greatness, but alas I was left ultimately flat after 128 minutes. Sean Penn was overbaked and Winslet and Ruffalo undercooked. Clarkson-spot-on as she always is, but not much of a part! Hopkins as a Louisiana Judge????????

Set designer, Patrizia Brandenstein (Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)), does expert work, only to have it choked out by ton's of closeups. What a waste!

Even the extras on the DVD did nothing to really spark my enthusiasm any more than the film tried to do. Filmed on location? Big deal when you hardly see any of it! Truly, a film with lots of rhetoric with no real punch. Hmmm....just like politicians!

James Horner soundtrack was better than this film was.

"All the King's Men" is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren. Warren, who shifted from poetry to prose to write this novel, got his inspiration from the Populist Louisiana politician, Huey Long.

The film, based on a screenplay by Steve Zaillian, is also based in Louisiana. The politician, Willie Stark (Penn), runs a parallel course to Long's illustrious career. He started out meaning well and his interest was always in the common man, 'hicks' like him. The story is narrated by newspaper reporter, Jack Burden (Law) who works for Sparks.

There's a lot of strong messages in "All the King's Men." You can watch it from the perspective of a soap opera, a parallel to contemporary politics (the discussion of the oil companies' influence, for example) or an Ivory Tower comparison to Machiavelli.

This film could have been great, had they decided a few aspects differently. To quote the film itself: "You only get a couple of moments that determine your life. Sometimes only one. And then it's gone. Forever." Probably the worst decision the directors made was changing the timeframe the film is set in. If you ignore that the film's set twenty years past Long's time, it works a lot better. I don't agree with the decision that the 50's are interchangeable historically with the 30's.