James Gandolfini, 1961 - 2013

I always thought that James Gandolfini, who died yesterday at the too-young age of 51, would have made a good lead in a romantic film, something along the lines of Marty done as a romantic comedy. Not that he wasn't brilliant at playing hard men and gangsters, but there was something about his sad eyes that made me think he would have knocked it out of the park as a middle-aged man finding love. I'm sure that film would never have happened, but I will miss seeing Gandolfini on the screen in what would have been, I'm sure, a great continuing career as a character actor. RIP.