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0 Comments | USA TODAY, June, 2006 | by Peter Johnson

NEW YORK -- Robert Duvall is a big fan of HBO's The Sopranos, but he has no love for Deadwood, HBO's gritty Western set in the 1890s, which producers say is based on reality.

"None of the cowboys and ranchers I know think much of it at all," says Duvall, who summered in Montana as a child. Ranch hands there, he says, used a fraction of Deadwood's profanity. "I get the feeling that it's a provincial New Yorker's concept of what the West was like."

But The Sopranos is a different story, says Duvall, who famously played lawyer Tom Hagen in The Godfather and Godfather II. Actors in the HBO Mob drama "were born to play those parts. The show is stunning in its authenticity."

He ranks The Godfather movies and CBS' Lonesome Dove miniseries among his best works. The...