James Gandolfini as Ernest Hemingway?

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  03.02.06 | 10:25 AM ET

Interesting note in a USA Today story yesterday about “The Sopranos”: Star James Gandolfini, the article mentions in an aside, “is still toying with playing Ernest Hemingway in a biopic, though he’s finding it a long and difficult process to set up the project at a studio.” Apparently there’s been talk of a Hemingway project for some time. This 2004 article suggested the film, about Hemingway’s romance with journalist Marth Gellhorn, would be made last year. It also noted Gandolfini’s involvement with The Hemingway Preservation Foundation and its efforts to restore Hemingway’s Cuba home.