{"id":1684,"date":"2007-06-13T12:33:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2007-06-13T12:33:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T16:33:48","slug":"waiting-for-leotardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Leotardo, or Sopranos Theories Debunking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's a lot of pure nonsense flying around about the Sopranos finale. Let's clear some of it up...<\/p>\n<p>[spoilers below]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First of all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0141842\/fullcredits#cast\">there is no<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintsreport.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=24602&page=12\">Nikky\/Nicky Leotardo<\/a> - never was. The guy who is alleged to have played him in the finale has never been on the show before, so he obviously didn't play Phil's nephew (a character who had never appeared on the show in the first place) way back when.<\/p>\n<p>The two black guys? They aren't the same guys from seasons ago trying to get another shot at Tony. How do we know this? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baristanet.com\/2007\/06\/sopranos.php#comment-192848\">at least one of them is dead.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brother of the dead trucker? <a href=\"http:\/\/testpattern.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2007\/06\/11\/222698.aspx\">Nope<\/a>, different actor.<\/p>\n<p>From the last link, Chase says:<\/p>\n<ul>\"I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there ...No one was trying to be audacious, honest to God. \"We did what we thought we had to do. No one was trying to blow people's minds, or thinking, 'Wow, this'll (tick) them off.' People get the impression that you're trying to (mess) with them and it's not true. You're trying to entertain them.\"<\/ul>\n<p>That email that's been flying around the net propagating this stuff is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/ent\/stories\/DN-maurstad_0613gl.State.Edition1.243b79d.html\">hoax<\/a>. Someone is laughing his ass off right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's a lot of pure nonsense flying around about the Sopranos finale. Let's clear some of it up... [spoilers below]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}