YOU LOOKIN' AT ME? (BX. BOY'S ITALIAN BIT A WEB HIT)

New York Post ^ | 4/20/06 | FARRAH WEINSTEIN

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He's been kicked off MySpace three times. He's got a mouth as filthy as Andrew Dice Clay's. He's cuter than the Gotti boys. And he charges upwards of $5,000 for a gig.

He's not even a teenager yet.

Meet Gino the Ginny, a little rascal from Arthur Avenue in The Bronx, who was bored during the blizzard of 2005 and convinced his NYU filmmaker cousin to videotape him making fun of Guidos and meatheads at nightclubs.

Within four days, the controversial and somewhat offensive five-minute video of him dancing to the techno hit "Satisfaction" - titled "Gino the Ginny Hits the Clubs" - got 850,000 hits on YouTube.com. So far, it's gotten 1.5 million hits on MySpace.

The wise-boy already has 30,000 friends on MySpace, is filming a DVD movie, has a record deal, is in negotiations for a ring tone, and headlines at clubs like Club Posh in Long Island.

"It's like a cult following he's got," says Brian Rosenberg, a promoter who booked Gino the Ginny at Club Posh. "And now people are starting to use his terminology as pop culture."

Each week, he's got a new skit on myspace.com/ ginomania, be it shopping for a "wi febeater," going to the tanning salon, or hit ting the gym and getting " 'roid rage." Lines like "My armpits smell like garlic," or "I'm at Crobar and they're pumping the mega-mix," have become popular catchphrases.

With techno playing in the background and a yellowish backdrop wall, Gino does the running man, flails his arms around, does jumping jacks, smells his armpits, boxes and sticks up his middle fingers.

"It was so instant and fast," says Renzo D'Amore, Gino the Ginny's cousin/manager, who lives downstairs from him and is a filmmaker.

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He'll never make it to teenager.

R.I.P.

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apparently, Gino The Ginny ain't too popular here at FR.

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That's a crying shame.