James Gandolfini left us far too soon at age 51; he died of cardiac arrest on June 19 in an ambulance on the way to a Rome hospital after suffering a severe heart attack. The actor was scheduled to receive the City of Taormina award on Saturday during his stay in Italy; the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily is now preparing a tribute to the actor. Gandolfini not only carried the iconic role of gangster and family man Tony Soprano in the HBO series "The Sopranos"--a cable show that redefined what was possible on television-- but delivered a remarkable series of movie performances as well. He was on a roll last year alone: he starred in "Sopranos" creator David Chase's 60s family drama "Not Fade Away," as a tough old-school suburban Italian-American Dad trying to hold the line with his rock-loving musician son; as authoritative Leon Panetta in Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," deciding to make the call to make the hit on Osama bin Laden; and as a gone-to-seed hitman unable to pull...
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