June 19, 2008 -- COULD James Gandolfini have a mystical power over death? When the "Sopranos" star was visiting the city morgue to research a role, he had no luck finding corpses. At the retirement party for Lt. Jay Fagan, former head of the NYPD's TV & Film Unit, Gandolfini thanked Fagan forgiving him access to the morgue, but complained that the first night there were no dead bodies, and the second night, just one elderly man who had died on the toilet. The third night, he struck out again. "They [the cops] started to call me Jesus Christ because no one would die in New York City," Gandolfini told the crowd at Capi tale, drawing laughs from director Michael Tadross Jr. and actors Danny Masterson and Richard Masur.
