75 Reasons It Is Cool To Be Italian
1.Martin Scorcese (okay, forget the Polanski thing for a minute, will ya? Think "Goodfellas")
2.Machiavelli
3.Mona Lisa (the)
4.Venice
5.Mario Puzo
6.Gay Talese
7. Rita Ciresi
8.the fact that Dom DeLuise wrote a cookbook called EAT THIS
9.Dante
10.Louis Prima
11.Palermo
12. the films "Life is Beautiful" and "Johnny Toothpick"
13.The Venetian Restaurant in Torrington, CT
14.Tony Bennett, the singer, and Anthony Bennetto, the painter (who happen to be the same person).
15.John's Restaurant in the East Village
16. The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing
17.Stanley Tucci
18.Al Pacino
19.Robert DeNiro
20.The phrase "Guardare e non toccare sono cose da crepare" --which can be translated as "To see and not to touch is enough to make you croak."
21.chianti
22.more chianti
23.espresso (to mitigate the effects of more chianti)
24.being able to ward off the evil-eye by making a simple and non-obscene hand-gesture
25. extra-virgin olive oil
26.Frank Sinatra
27.Madonna
28.The Madonna
29.Sandra (Mortola)Gilbert
30.Louise DeSalvo
31.Sergio Franci
32.Rosemary Clooney singing "Mambo Italiano"
33.al dente
34.Don DeLillo
35. Sophia Loren
36.sweet sausage
37.hot sausage
38.The Sistine Chapel
39. real Chicago pizza (the kind they serve in Chicago, not "at" Chicago)
40.The fact that my Aunt Josephine defined "vendetta" as "Italian for ‘what do you mean, you want to see other women?'"
41. Isabella Rosselli
42. Liza Minelli
43. Puccini
44. The fact that Michael Corleone from Mario Puzo's novels goes to Dartmouth
45. canolli
46. cappucino
47. Villa D'Este
48. Fermi
49. Fendi
50. Francis Ford Coppolla
51.Columbus
52.America
53. Tirumisu
54. Wally Lamb
55. Serpico
56. Salami
57. Giancarlo Giannini in "Swept Away."
58.Heroes (both Roman and Parmagiane)
59.Linguini
60.Kids singing "When an eel lunges out and it bites off your snout, that's amore."
61.Nicholas Cage
62.Umberto Eco,
63.Waste removal.
64.Galileo
65.Ferragamo
66.Prada
67.Caruso
68.Dean Martin
69.Mario Andretti
70.The fact that thin pasta is called "Angel Hair."
71.The feast of St. Gennaro.
72.The word "Ciao."
73.The word "Bella."
74.The word "paisan."
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