This kind of crap would not be tolerated when Tony Soprano was running things.

Denise Borino-Quinn, who played mobster Johnny Sacrimoni's wife, Ginny, on The Sopranos, has died of cancer. She'd been a manicurist and legal secretary when she got the Sopranos gig, beating out 14,000 other women for the part. That's badass.

Hildegard Behrens, a dramatic sopranao famed for her interpretation of Wagner, has died at 72. The cause of death was apparently aneurism. [NYT]