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SHOCK TREATMENT.('The Sopranos')(Television Program Review)

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| December 16, 2002 | Franklin, Nancy | COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

At the beginning of the first episode of "The Sopranos," back in 1999, Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) sat in a psychiatrist's waiting room, about to embark on what would be a transformative journey--not so much for Tony but for TV viewers. The series has penetrated the culture to a degree that no one could have predicted (certainly not all the network executives who passed on it when David Chase, the show's creator, pitched it to them). The first three seasons are out on DVD and have brought in more than seventy million dollars; some dozen "Sopranos" books have been published (a cookbook, a psychological study, a collection of essays by Italian-Americans, a selection of ...

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