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Last week, the rumors about the Friends movie were shot down by Warners. Now, you can put The Sopranos feature in the dead zone, too. Who's the voice of authority with the lowdown on what's really going on in David Chase's fevered mind? A psychiatrist, of course.

Okay, seriously, he's not a shrink, he just played one on The Sopranos. Director-actor Peter Bogdanovich was asked about a possible big-screen Sopranos and he said it's not going to happen.

"I spoke to David Chase a month ago, and he said no. He said he thought about it, and he can't figure out a way to do it. So I don't think it will ever happen. I don't think you can ever say never, but my hunch is it won't happen."

Bogdanovich should know. He played Dr. Melfi's psychiatrist, Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, and he spoke directly to Chase. No middle men, the big enchilada himself, the creator of The Sopranos himself, told it to him straight.

Peter, is also somebody who really knows about feature films. His filmography includes The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc, Paper Moon and Mask, among others.

You could argue that in every one of those four films, Bogdanovich came up with a perfect ending, the right ending. When asked what he thought of Chase's dramatic choice in The Sopranos with a cut to black, he said, "It certainly got a lot of attention. I thought it worked. Everybody was talking about it. I don't know that it was satisfying, but it certainly was paid a lot of attention."

Dramatically, it also keeps the possibility of The Sopranos coming back someday in some way. So while Chase may have told Peter recently that he doesn't know what to do with Tony and the family right now, he could come up with a great idea a year from now and the big-screen Sopranos could be back on the horizon.

If you ask me, Chase loves playing mind games with the public. He's never going to rule out a return. He may never write one, but he'll never speak in absolutes. You watch.