dean martin

He spoke only Italian until age five and dropped out of school at sixteen. He delivered bootleg liquor, worked as a speakeasy croupier and millworker and then became a boxer. But by 1964, he knocked the Beatles from the number one chart position and was recently named by Playboy as "the coolest man who ever lived." Today's great Italian is Dino Crocetti (a.k.a. Dean Martin).