look, michael coreleone got married there, it is so fantastic! [ laughter ] >>> is one of the most beautiful places in europe, a place whose roots are very much the town where i live, but somehow, i've never been able to get it right. to tell the story, any story of sicily. it is the biggest island in the mediterranean, two main towns of palermo and catania on opposite sides. i've done a show in palermo before, it was an epic goat rodeo, a failure of humiliating scale. this time, i was going to get it right. >> there is the sicily we know from films, an provocative deeply from film that is not reality, but cool anyway, right? there is the simple fact of its location, tucked away under the boot of italy, a part of it, but not really a part of that country. its own language, culture, its own history of norman, arab, spanish, roman, turkish, egyptian interlopers, all leaving their mark and their influence. i grew up in new jersey, pretty much sicily on the hudson. the italian americans next door weren't from milan, i can tell you that much. i guess