Chase has always maintained, and justifiably so, that THE SOPRANOS is more GOODFELLAS than it is GODFATHER.

I'm just wondering if the final act of THE SOPRANOS will echo "the fall of a mobster" as it did in CASINO and GOODFELLAS. You know, some mobsters were jailed, some were killed, some cooperated, yet virtually none escaped the life unscathed.

At one time or another most of us have paralleled to THE SOPRANOS to Shakespeare. How often did Shakespeare give us a happy ending ?