Kevin Finnerty

Trouble in the Finnerty Family

According to the Charlotte Observer, Kevin Finnerty's son was arrested yesterday on charges of first-degree rape, sexual offense and kidnapping. Here's some stats on the younger Finnerty:

NAME: Collin Finnerty. No. 13.

AGE: 19. Born Aug. 10, 1986.

EDUCATION: Chaminade High School, a Catholic boys school in Mineola, N.Y. Sophomore at Duke.

FAMILY: Son of Kevin and Maryellen Finnerty. Brother Kyle is a senior at Duke. From Garden City, N.Y.

VITALS: 6-foot-3, 175 pounds.

PLAYING EXPERIENCE: In high school had 18 goals, 10 assists as a junior and 48 goals, 22 assists as a senior. At Duke, played in four games in 2005 season; before this season was canceled, played in five games, with 2 goals and 1 assist. No career starts for the Blue Devils.

Two Finnerty Predictions

The HBO message boards are an interesting place to find obsessiveness about The Sopranos. I was there today and saw two feasible predictions about the fate of Kevin Finnerty:

> How about this. After all is said and done Tony's > new name is Kevin Finnerty in the witness protection > program.

Or Kevin Finnerty is the name Tony uses on his overseas bank accounts....

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Silvio leaves a paper trail

Some conjecture from the hometown Sopranos newspaper:

Silvio leaves a paper trail.

Fortunately, Tony finally returned to the land of the living -- fortunately for both the overwhelmed Sil and for viewers whose patience might have been fraying over the Kevin Finnerty scenes. Much as I fell in love with them last week, there was maybe an episode and a half's worth of mileage to be gotten from them. By the time Tony was asking the bartender if he might actually be Finnerty, the show was veering dangerously close to check-your-watch territory.

And to clarify, all David Chase told me was that they weren't dreams; the Purgatory stuff was just conjecture that will never be confirmed because he prefers to let the work speak for itself. Some readers contested the Purgatory theory, saying Tony couldn't get there until after he died, and that if you're bound for Hell, you don't stop in Purgatory along the way.

Kevin Finnerty is Tony Soprano.

Tony Soprano is you.
You are Kevin Finnerty.
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