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Is Tony Soprano Dead or Not?

In a new, authoritative book by Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall, the <em>Sopranos</em> creator David Chase appears to make an accidental confession.
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, by Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall, was published today. And while I have only skimmed early excerpts and fractions of the whole—I downloaded my copy in the wee, small hours of the morning—it looks to be the definitional take on the show that many of us had anticipated. Careful dissections of every episode, extended interviews with the famously recalcitrant

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