Pynchon mention

[Doug Millison]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/a/AP-Obit-Marchand.html

STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Nancy Marchand, a shy woman who played a 
powerful newspaper publisher on ``Lou Grant'' and turned the 
Machiavellian matriarch of a Mafia family into a popular character on 
``The Sopranos,'' died a day before her 72nd birthday.

The Emmy-winning actress died Sunday night at her home of lung 
cancer, HBO spokeswoman Tobe Becker said.

While Marchand excelled on the stage, she was most lauded for her TV 
roles -- four consecutive Emmys on ``Lou Grant,'' from 1979 through 
1982, and a nomination for her role on ``The Sopranos.''

Marchand, who once said she was comfortable on stage but uneasy 
meeting people one-on-one, showed no fear as either Livia Soprano or 
patrician publisher Margaret Pynchon. Both women were in control -- 
Livia of a dysfunctional mobster family, Mrs. Pynchon of the 
newspaper where the gruff Grant, played by Ed Asner, was city editor.

As Mrs. Pynchon, Marchand was a formidable character in the mold of 
Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, whose 
Watergate-immortalized partnership with editor Ben Bradlee was 
mirrored by Marchand and Asner in the series, set at the mythical Los 
Angeles Tribune. [snip]
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