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Celebrity Deaths and Memoirs
Vincent Pastore, an actor known for his role in The Sopranos, passed away at the age of 80. Angela Nissel's new memoir, 'Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead,' explores her experience with grief through humor.
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The Verge
Angela Nissel's latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead, is my kind of memoir. Sure, it's a deeply emotional tale about caring for a terminally ill parent. But it's delivered with the sort of gallows humor that I often turn to to get me through tough times. Of course, that sort of [R
2026-08-01 20:15 UTC
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Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters in film and TV, most notably Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s The Sopranos, has died. He was 80. The veteran actor was found dead in his Bronx residence today, Aug. 1, by a neighbor after he had not been heard from for the past
2026-08-01 20:08 UTC