NPH! NPH!

Update: Also, there’s this interview. This combined with the NYT profile makes me love NPH so, so, so, so much. Like in the very grounded, has good taste in stuff, doesn’t take himself seriously, we-could-hang-out-and- watch-movies-together! type of way.

Last night I watched The Sopranos with my mom and sister-in-law (my brother is in Lincoln, Nebraska — yeah, I don’t know) and one of my unofficial duties was to let them know when they could look at the screen after something really violent happened.  Here’s the first installment of what will be a weekly round-up of crazy violence on The Sopranos.

1.  Artie gets into a fistfight with Benny (played by Max Casella, formerly of Doogie Howser, M.D.), who ends up with a big bloody face.

2.  Benny sticks Artie’s hand in a boiling pot of red sauce, which Tony later says caused the skin on his hand to slide off “like a glove.”

3.  Rusty Millio (played by Frankie Valli, of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons) gets whacked by two Italians, along with his bodyguard.  Both are shot in the head.

4.  Lauren Bacall (as herself) gets punched in the face.

5.  Artie shoots a rabbit who he spied eating his arrugala.  Said rabbit is subsequently served with garlic.