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This is the story of Michael Costello, known as the Amazing Blondini. But for someone who could swallow swords, pull cars with his teeth and have one drive over his head, eat fire and razor blades, and have men stand on him while he lay on a bed of nails, “amazing” hardly did him justice.
I love how this biography takes us through his incredibly unusual life journey that began when he was born into a circus family on a fairground in Dublin in 1922 and eventually began learning stunts through the mentorship of a variety of colorful characters. As…
From Dan and Marc's list on sideshow performers making the impossible possible.
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