James Francis Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, Lower East Side Manhattan accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He often referred to his nose as the schnozzola, and the word became his nickname.
Jumbo is a musical produced by Billy Rose, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
Anthony Durante was an American professional wrestler best known under the ring name "Pitbull #2" as one half of the tag team The Pitbulls, with "Pitbull #1" Gary Wolfe. The team is best known for their time in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), where the team was the promotion's World Tag Team Championship once. Apart from tag team competition, Durante also achieved success briefly as a singles competitor, challenging for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship on a few occasions while holding the ECW World Television Championship once.
"Rules" is a song from KMFDM's 1996 album Xtort. It was also released on a three track EP.
The Pitbulls were a professional wrestling tag team that consisted of "Pitbull #1" Gary Wolfe and "Pitbull #2" Anthony Durante. They were best known for their tenure in Extreme Championship Wrestling, where they were one-time Tag Team Champions. In addition to tag team success, both members were each one time Television Champions as well.
Andrew James Durante is a New Zealand international footballer who plays for Wellington Phoenix in the A-League.
The genus Megachile is a cosmopolitan group of solitary bees, often called leafcutter bees or leafcutting bees. While other genera within the family Megachilidae may chew leaves or petals into fragments to build their nests, certain species within Megachile neatly cut pieces of leaves or petals, hence their common name. This is one of the largest genera of bees, with almost 1500 species in over 50 subgenera. North America has many native Megachile species. The introduced alfalfa leafcutter bee is managed for crop pollination.
Chalicodoma is a subgenus of the bee genus Megachile in the family Megachilidae.
The New Yorkers is a musical written by Cole Porter and Herbert Fields (book). Star Jimmy Durante also wrote the words and music for the songs in which his character was featured.
Mark Durante is an American musician and songwiter who is based in Chicago.
The Jimmy Durante Show is a 51-episode half-hour comedy/variety television program presented live on NBC from October 2, 1954, to June 23, 1956.
Megachile bomplandensis is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Silvana Patricia Durante in 1996.
Megachile insignis is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by van der Zanden in 1996.
Megachile santacrucensis is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Silvana Patricia Durante, Alberto H. Abrahamovich and Mariano Lucia in 2006.
Megachile semicircularis is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by van der Zanden in 1996.
Megachile tkalcui is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by van der Zanden in 1996.
Megachile mendocensis is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Silvana Patricia Durante, Alberto H. Abrahamovich and Mariano Lucia in 2006.
Hanka Pachale-Durante, is a German volleyball player; she played for the German Women's National Team, representing them in consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. She represented her native country in at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing in ninth place, and at the 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship, finishing third. For the 2009–10 season, she played for Italian club Pavia.
