Originally Posted by Lana


Connie breezed into Anthony's party, with Merle but no kids

It seems the children were either living or already at Tahoe compound Hence Mama's “You go see your children first”

Even when Connie is not flying around the world with free loading men, she only sees her children on weekends ie: it seems Connie's children were not living with Connie


Reasonable and insightful inference, Lana.

In the boathouse, with Merle, Michael tells Connie: "Your oldest son, Victor, was picked up for some petty theft that you know nothing about." That indicates that Victor either was not living with Connie, or that he was, but Connie wasn't around when he was arrested. Who knows? Also, Connie was carrying Victor when Carlo beat her the first time. That'd be 1946. But, Michael Francis Rizzi was baptized in 1955. Nine year gap between kids in an Italian family of that era?

Keeping track of family members is part of the fun (or challenge) of being on this board. As I've posted before: A marvelous deleted scene from Anthony's party, in which Gardner Shaw asks permission from Michael to marry Sonny's daughter Francesca, ends with Michael telling Tom, "Make sure her dowry's big--these people think Italian brides go barefoot." But, the same scene as shown on cable TV in the Saga version has an additional ten seconds at the end. Michael turns to a hulking young man in a plaid sport coat and says, "How's the football, Santino?" "Fine, Uncle Michael," he replies. That'd be Sonny's (probably) oldest son. His (probably) second son, Frank, was the one who presented Vito with a hand-written card when he returned from the hospital. But, again, who knows for sure which one was oldest?


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