than we had seen it before. chris matthews has a question for you, mr. lipton. chris? talk about the technique, i m thinking when i look at him and think back on him now, that sort of italian movie from the 60s fatigue he had, the board of the it showed in his eyes. they weren t bedroom eyes, they were eyes of i ve been through too much of this. how does that fit in to the technique? is that him or the actor? what you re talking about is that i think he was an exestential hero. that was very much him, but at the same time he was creating every single minute that character tony soprano had. i go back over and over again to the fact that the man was a sublime actor. and i think he should get credit at that now at this moment when we have lost him. he was one of our best actors and he did it technically. he would study every show with
that was clear from the first moment, but there was something else about the show. i think chris matthews put his finger on it. what is the most valuable word in television? the most valuable word in television is family, family guy, and modern family. here was a show about two families. he had a personal family that abused him and a mob family where he was the abuser. that was the extraordinary chemistry that worked great for that show. and it is part of its secret. and he was able, because of his technical skill, to handle both sides of it. you felt such compassion for him. when he was abused, when nobody treated him well enough, and then you were terrified by him when he took over with his other family and abused other people, that was the chemistry of the show. it was family in a different way
things that make it better for us law-abiding gun owners to make decisions that keep people that shouldn t have guns. why can t we do that ourselves and take the initiative? so we started talking. and had everybody involved in this dialogue. give me your information. i gave you a copy of the bill. there was a lot of people, lawrence, involved 49 pages. but we went section by section by section. the first premise is, if i m a law-abiding gun owner, i ll do the right thing. don t look at me as something wrong because you didn t grow up in a gun culture. with that being said, we have a responsibility to say now, now i m in a commercial transaction. i don t know that person coming to the gun show. i m on the internet where there s so much you know, transactions going on. that i never have any facial contact with them or personal contact. my goodness. that s a beautiful check for us law-abiding gun owner. i m not going to sell it to somebody like that. now, so so you got this thes
us law-abiding gun owners to make decisions that keep people that shouldn t have guns. why can t we do that ourselves and take the initiative? so we started talking. and had everybody involved in this dialogue. give me your information. i gave you a copy of the bill. there was a lot of people, lawrence, involved 49 pages. but we went section by section by section. the first premise is, if i m a law-abiding gun owner, i ll do the right thing. don t look at me as something wrong because you didn t grow up in a gun culture. with that being said, we have a responsibility to say now, now i m in a commercial transaction. i don t know that person coming to the gun show. i m on the internet where there s so much you know, transactions going on. that i never have any facial contact with them or personal contact. my goodness. that s a beautiful check for us law-abiding gun owner. i m not going to sell it to somebody like that. now, so so you got this these people in the dialogue, in yo
state lines. manchin went deep into the state of west virgina found people were okay with this. the compromise measure would require background checks for currently exempt online and gun show sales but not for most other private transactions. they were really going for the gun show background check, and the online background check. that was the meat of the legislation, correct? correct. neither of which, we ll remind our viewers would have prevented something like sandy hook or jared loughner in tucson or so many gun tragedies we ve seen over the past several years. background checks i believe are sensible. majority of the americans believe background checks are sensible. so is enforcing existing law. there is a new provision in the bill basically says the department of justice should prosecute those who try to purchase guns illegally to the fullest extent of the law. that exists currently because we have background checks in most of our states. we only prosecute, .1%.