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Terence Winter: "The Sopranos"

  If Terence Winter were alive in an earlier era, he would be a great novelist. "Members Only," "Long Term Parking," "Pine Barrens," "The Second Coming," "University": Each of these standout SOPRANOS hours had its origins in Terence Winter's pen. Winter has observed that he himself is around the age of Tony Soprano; when looking for a memorable detail, Winter could just borrow from his own life. (I think "The Sopranos" is at its best when Tony is just a guy in a kitchen. Tony experiences rage when the OJ is "no pulp" rather than "some pulp." He opens the fridge and stares at its contents, selects nothing, then closes the door, his mind in a daze. He has seismic emotional struggles when he realizes he will need to go without smoked turkey. He clenches his jaw when he learns that tonight's dinner will be "takeout sandwiches from Italianissimo." He becomes visibly awkward when he discloses th...