David Chase

AGE 57

WHY HIM His ''Sopranos'' fourth-season premiere whacked the networks in ratings, drawing 13.4 million viewers -- the biggest audience in the history of HBO for a piece of original programming. After the next, supposedly final, season, he's talking about turning the show into a feature film -- possibly a franchise. (''Sopranos: The Wrath of Tony''?) Beyond that, Chase has said he has a drawerful of old scripts and some new feature ideas, which any studio would leap to produce.

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