Mine is Cristoforo Colombo or, as you call him, Christopher Columbus.
Oh, and as for the Italian Americans I got more than one.
Al Pacino (too easy ) Robert DeNiro John Travolta Silvester Stallone
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth (Blanche/A streetcar named desire)
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