in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Gyp Rosetti is a Sicilian bootlegger who can “find an insult in a bouquet of roses.” He is a fictional character – a composite of all those loose cannons that even the criminals he does business with would prefer him six feet under.

Gyp was born in Sicily where he grew up in a cave, a hut carved into the side of a mountain in Sperlinga. He is married. Still, Gyp has a thing for redheads, and that includes Gillian Darmody and a redheaded waitress in Tabor Heights.

That waitress thing turned out very badly