Sopranos star sings anthem at Mets game as castmate Vincent Pastore dies

On a summer Saturday in New York, two moments from the same fictional world arrived on the same real day — one a public performance, one a private ending. Jamie-Lynn Sigler sang the national anthem at Citi Field while her Sopranos castmate Vincent Pastore, who played the unforgettable Big Pussy, died at eighty. The coincidence was meaningless in the mechanical sense, yet it reminded a generation that the people who shaped their imagination are mortal, and that some stories never quite finish being told.