Word: milano
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union's membership swells to several million under his leadership. Always attuned to the needs of the rank-and-file, Stallone is also aware of the importance of "push," and consequently falls into bad company: he inadvertently sells his soul to the Mafia (in the guise of mobster Babe Milano, played in sleazy enough fashion by Tony Lo Bianco), and watches--along with millions of Americans who saw him do so well against Apollo Creed--as his self-created American dream grows, and then collapses in disarray, about...
...history of Italian-Americans, The Children of Columbus. Amfitheatrof has run up against the usual double take when people ask his name. Explains he: "In Italy, the custom is to spell out your name using an Italian city to represent each letter. In my case, it is Ancona, Milano, Firenze, Imola, etc. By the time I'm through, I've toured the country...
...bills himself as "el compere extraordinario" has advertised in the local press of Trujillo, Honduras, that he has assembled a nightclub act of internationally famous cabaret stars. They include Señor Blind Joe Jackson (el blues cantante de Jackson, Mississippi), Giuseppe y Giovanni (el duo dinamico de Milano, Italia), and Las Dos La-La-Las (dos chiquitas frivolantes de Barcelona, Espa...
Four parts remain, with Italian palazzi to be used as backdrops and famous ladies like Isabella d'Este to be viewed. Painting the Last Supper on the wall of Milano's Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, experimenting with flight and war machines, feuding with that young punk and fellow genius Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci may yet prove that not even television can keep a good Renaissance man down...