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''Sopranos'' finale splits fans
And so on the first day of Year One A.T. -- After Tony, that is -- the "Sopranos"-viewing world was split in two camps. One was muttering bitterly into its morning coffee at the open-ended conclusion of the epic series, a banal family moment over onion rings that would have delighted existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, author of "Being and Nothingness." The other was lavishly praising the iconic HBO drama for capturing life's essential ambiguity and disorderliness. Forget Tony for a minute -- the guy's been psychoanalyzed for years. Does all this say anything about US? For some popular culture critics, the two reactions speak to the difference between entertainment and art, and which of them we want. If we wanted pure entertainment, there was obvious disappointment -- no, aggravation -- in a finale that set up threats to Tony's life in that last diner scene, then ended abruptly. Website: http://beta.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/12/tv.sopranos.ending.ap/index.html ENTERTAINMENT ARTICLES
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