James Gandolfini was shopping in West Village in New York City when he lost his temper after a paparazzo kept following and filming him from a distance.

Gandolfini hit the paparazzo several times. This isn’t the first time Gandolfini lost his temper. The last time was at JFK airport when he punched a fan who wanted an autograph.

Kristen Stewart will reportedly play a young lap dancer, and prostitute, in a new film called Welcome to the Rileys by Sopranos star James Gandolfini.

The role includes multiple scenes of Stewart walking around n*de (without clothes on), which is something Kristen says will most likely bring in quite an audience:

“It’s an independent movie that nobody would normally see and now it’s like, ‘Oh, let’s go see Bella [her Twilight character] in this stripper movie; it’ll be crazy!’”

“Working with James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo, who is just incredible, was the most fruitful life-changing experience on a movie that I’ve ever had. It was just the hardest subject matter I’ve ever had to deal with. I play a very broken young girl who is a runaway. She’s a street kid. She’s working in a strip club, and James Gandolfini’s character is just as dead inside as she is, and they wake each other up.”

Let’s see, Elizabeth Berkley stripped Showgirls, and her career ended, Lindsay Lohan stripped in I Know Who Killed Me, and her career was already in the dumps with all her movies going straight to DVD, and Jessica Biel who stripped in Powder Blue, and has always had a luke warm career that never really got out of cruise control mode.

We suspect Kristen is smoking too much pot if she thinks playing a stripper in a movie where she actually strips is going to somehow help her career, if anything, it can only make it worse, but then again she was never much of an actress anyway, so she’ll take her place amongst the actresses mentioned above.

Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini, John Turturro star in The Taking of Pelham 123.

Synopsis: Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day’s work for dispatcher Walter Garbe into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.

The movie will hit theaters on June 12, 2009. With so many good upcoming movies, I will probably see this one on DVD, or not at all.

James Gandolfini (46) and Deborah Lin (40) got married on Saturday in her hometown Honolulu, Hawaii at Central Union Church. Gandolfini’s son Michael (8) from his first marriage to Marcy Wudarsk, which ended in 2002, served as best man. Gandolfini and Lin dated for about one year before becoming engaged in late 2007.

Congrats!

James Gandolfini first pushed a fan who got too close in the face, then grabbed him by the collar and gave him a good talking to, but the fan started shouting how he was assaulted/whached by Gandolfini. After a minute Gandolfini shook the fan’s hand, and took a few pictures with him. Forget about it.