BRAVO MEDIA PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE LATE JAMES GANDOLFINI WITH HIS APPEARANCE ON "INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO" AIRING SUNDAY, JUNE 23 AT 6PM ET/PT

NEW YORK - June 20, 2013 - Bravo Media's "Inside the Actors Studio," hosted by James Lipton, commemorates the life and career of legendary actor James Gandolfini with a special broadcast of his appearance on the award-winning series on Sunday, June 23 at 6pm ET/PT. Bravo will encore the episode, which originally aired on October 17, 2004, on Monday, June 24 at 10:30am and Wednesday, June 26 at 6pm. For a look back at the episode, visit: http://www.bravotv.com/inside-the-actors-studio/videos/james-gandolfini

"When James Gandolfini was on Inside the Actors Studio, our students discovered how thoughtful the real James was - and how knowledgeable and caring he was about the craft he practiced so effortlessly that it didn't look like acting at all," Lipton said. "Like all of the finest actors, James convinced you that whatever you were seeing and hearing was just James being James, with no artifice or design. In fact, it was James being precisely what the writer had written and the director had asked for. We've lost a wonderfully skilled actor."

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