Acting giant James Gandolfini has died at the age of 51, reports Variety. HBO, the network that broadcast his hit show The Sopranos, has confirmed the news, claiming he was on vacation in Italy at the time. In addition to his wife, Deborah Lin, and their baby daughter, Mr. Gandolfini has left behind a legacy of fantastic film and television roles. Here are his most iconic performances.

TRUE ROMANCE (1993)

The stakes are enormous. With its distribution deal with superhero factory Marvel kaput, Paramount is desperate for a new film franchise to hang its hat on—and zombies, experiencing a renaissance of sorts, seem like a solid bet. In 2007 Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B Entertainment, acquired the rights to Max Brooks’s 2006 bestselling novel World War Z, a sequel to his earlier book The Zombie Survival Guide, after a heated bidding war with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way. After several years of script rewrites and searching for financiers, the blockbuster hopeful hits theaters June 21.

Paramount initially budgeted the project at $125 million, reported New York magazine, with the studio hedging that audiences could be sold on a large-scale zombie franchise the way they historically have with superhero flicks. After all, zombies have infiltrated the public consciousness—from the Miami face-eater to AMC’s hit TV series The Walking Dead, whose Season 3 finale notched 12.4 million viewers, making it the most watched drama series in basic cable history. And the zombie genre, with its superstitious adversaries, seems well suited to address our global modern-day fears and anxieties—ones that have surpassed those of a more insular era dominated by superhero films, which reinforce our sense of security, idealism, and rah-rah patriotism. But has Paramount bitten off more than it can chew? In a word: maybe.

In the cool, dark fitness studio painted in camouflage and lit like a nightclub, instructor Todd Mendiola shouts, “Let’s get this done!” This is the Sunday-morning full-body session of Barry’s Bootcamp in New York City’s TriBeCa neighborhood. About a dozen students warming up on a treadmill pick up their pace; a second group prepares to hold the beginning position of a pushup known as the “plank” for one minute. Fifteen minutes of grueling drills later, the groups switch places.

The hourlong sequence is billed as the “1,000-calorie workout.” The “treaders” practice speed intervals, and the “floor” cycles through classic gym routines: lunges, bicycle-style sit-ups, and free weights. “The idea is to burn out your legs,” Mendiola shouts to the panting, sweating group of men and women in their 20s and 30s.

The exercises aren’t particularly original, yet group fitness instructor and founder Barry Jay has hit on a formula that has inspired a fervent following willing to plunk down up to $38 a class, the price at the franchise’s Hamptons outpost (the average session ranges from $20 to $30, depending on location). Jay’s brainchild is one of a growing niche of boutique fitness studios, such as CrossFit and SoulCyle spinning, that are attracting a health-and-fitness-conscious set willing to pay a premium to be barked at and pushed to their limits to mixes featuring Lana Del Rey and Justin Timberlake. It’s a concept that’s helping to boost the $22 billion health-club industry patronized by approximately one fifth of American adults.

It has been 14 years since we first saw pizza boy Philip J. Fry (Billy West) fall into a cryogenic freezer on New Year’s Eve in 1999 and get thawed out 1,000 years in the future. His ragtag Planet Express Ship delivery crew, including his descendant Professor Hubert Farnsworth (Billy West), love interest Leela (Katey Sagal), and robot bestie Bender (John DiMaggio), are nearing the end of their intergalactic journey as Comedy Central starts running the first of Futurama’s last 13 episodes tonight. (The final installment airs on September 4.) However, the future of the show is uncertain as this isn’t the first go-round creator Matt Groening has had with Futurama. It was canceled back in 2003 on Fox and resurrected in 2009. In honor of the show’s seven-season run on adventures and starting anew, we take a look back at some of the most hilarious moments.

Fry on Love

The Voice is a hit. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about that. It’s almost singlehandedly carrying NBC with its strong ratings and water-cooler presence. It’s the first of the endless stream of American Idol copycats to finally compete with the reality-TV juggernaut in terms of popularity and relevance, even outdrawing the longtime Goliath in ratings some weeks. But at least in one crucial measure, The Voice is not a success.

Like American Idol, The Voice is a talent competition. Its mission is to find the next great recording artist, just as Idol discovered Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, Katharine McPhee, Kellie Pickler, Daughtry, Clay Aiken, Adam Lambert, Scotty McCreery, and, as recently as last year, Phillip Phillips. Now about to crown its fourth winner, The Voice has discovered ... exactly no one. That is, not one contestant from the show—winner or otherwise (and who even remembers the names of the three past winners?)—has made so much as a blip in the record industry. A talent competition can only be taken seriously for so long when it’s not producing successful talent.

There’s never a lack of interest in anything Kim Kardashian–related. So when the reality star gave birth to her baby girl on June 15—five weeks earlier than her reported due date—the rumors began to fly. Had the Kardashian clan pulled one over on the unsuspecting public? Was it just another publicity stunt? Did Kanye West, the baby’s father, have anything to do with it? While there are some reports that medical complications led to an early delivery, the Internet needed no proof to start spinning crazy conspiracy theories. Here are a few of the best.

Timed Birth to Kanye’s Record Release

Move over, Yeezus.

During a special edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live that aired Tuesday night before Game Six of the NBA Finals, Kimmel premiered the music video for a smooth—and hilarious—sexually suggestive R&B ballad called, “(I Wanna) Channing All Over Your Tatum.” In the video, Channing Tatum and his White House Down co-star Jamie Foxx are seen frolicking on a beach in white suits while bikini babes pop bottles of ‘Channing Champagne.’

Kanye West’s sixth solo album, Yeezus, is in stores now and is already being hailed by critics as one of the best LP’s of the year. We called it “bizarre, brilliant, and like nothing you’ve heard before.” It’s also incredibly, incredibly quotable, with lines touching on Chewbacca furs, croissants, and lascivious Hamptons spouses. If you thought West’s interview with The New York Times was packed with quotables, well, you ain’t heard nothing yet.

“Real nigga back in the house again / Black Timbs all on your couch again / Black dick all in your spouse again / And I know she like chocolate men / She got more niggas off than Cochran, huh?!?” – Kanye West, “On Sight”