"Sopranos" Beginning Controversy Continues - December 11, 2007

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Lawsuit Forces David Chase To Be Way More Forthcoming With Sopranos' Beginning Than He Was With Their Ending [Owning Tony]
Published 12/11/2007 by Seth at Defamer
... , has made the pilgrimage back to his old stomping grounds to testify in a federal lawsuit brought against him from a former judge who claims he was never fairly compensated for helping to create the now-legendary series: ...

Tony Soprano's day in court
Published 12/13/2007 by Simon Vozick-Levinson at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... Still, I can't complain, considering that the lawsuit has gifted the Sopranos-loving public with this 12-page deposition, wherein Chase lays out his own far more convincing account of the show's decades-long genesis. It's packed with fascinating little details: "At fourteen," he tells the court, "I made the mob the subject of my oral presentation in sophomore speech class." This has to have been the most awesome sophomore speech class of all time. I'd also love to see Chase's apparently unproduced 1981 script for a movie called Female ...

That 'Sopranos' Lawsuit? Fugghedaboutit!
Published 12/20/2007 at MSN TV Blog
... Not that there was much chance Chase actually was guilty, from the little I followed the case. It was interesting to read his deposition and find out a little bit more about how everybody's favorite mob family came to the screen. ...