“When I first saw the ending, I said, ‘What the f–k?’ I mean, after all I went through, all this death, and then it’s over like that? After I had a day to sleep, I just sat there and said, ‘That’s perfect.’” —James Gandolfini talks about the final episode of "The Sopranos." Much of the rest of the cast do, too. Mostly unrelated: Remember how great Sting was before he sucked?

In the course of a column explaining why Tony nominee James Gandolfini will not host the awards ceremony, the Post's Michael Riedel shares an anecdote about the God of Carnage star's refusal to play the game. (There is also a photo composite of Gandolfini in a tutu.)

James Gandolfini, star of the Yasmina Reza play God of Carnage, has received an American Theatre Wing nomination for best actor, ensuring an abundance of "Tony's Tony" jokes among the eighteen people who actually care about the Tonys and the seven others who are inexplicably still paid to cover them.