- Some details of a top-secret film project by Giammarco and friend/producing partner Kevin Costner concerning E. Howard Hunt and the Kennedy Assassination were leaked by Rolling Stone Magazine (#1024, 1025/1026) in 2007.
- His years as an investigative journalist resulted in the National Archives in Washington requesting his extensive work on the secrets of the Cold War - and specifically the assassination of John F. Kennedy - being included into the historical collection of U.S. record.
- Has written countless features for a wide array of international publications, including Cigar Aficionado, The Hollywood Reporter, Playboy, Ocean Drive, ELLE, Razor, Max, Cinefantastique, Hello! and FilmMaker Magazine. Also for newspapers The Globe & Mail, The Financial Post, The National Post, The Miami Herald, The Sydney Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Express, and The Times of London.
- As an actor, he got his start at Toronto's famed Second City and he also studied filmmaking in his early 20s. One of the first films he wrote, directed, and starred in featured cameos from Dan Aykroyd, Martin Short, Don Rickles, Leslie Nielsen, and G. Gordon Liddy.
- Bob Hope became a frequent guest on his radio show, often calling in "unannounced" to plug his latest TV special.
- Began writing celebrity features for the Toronto Sun at 14 and hosting his own radio show at 16. Within a few years, his feature celebrity interviews and movie reviews were being syndicated in Canada, and soon after, to countless magazines and newspapers around the world.
- Talk Show legend Johnny Carson helped him land his first celebrity interview at age 14 with actor Sean Connery.
- Born in Toronto. Growing up, he spent his summers in Southern California and attended school in Canada.
- Senior Entertainment Reporter and Host for eTalk Daily (2002) since 2003.
- Is related to Amadeo Peter Giannini (A.P. Giannini), who founded Bank of America in 1928.
- His father was born in Abruzzo, Italy, just outside of Rome. The well-established family owned many vineyards and olive groves in the area, and a number of members of the Giammarco family were police and law enforcement officials in Italy.
- His grandfather Giuseppe Giammarco led a famously daring escape for captured troops from a German POW camp in the throes of World War II.
- Flew around the world with Director Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise for War of the Worlds (2005) in 2005, with stops in Italy, France, Spain, England, Germany, Japan, America, and Mexico. In 2006, Cruise and Giammarco, along with Director J.J. Abrams, repeated the same flight plan for Mission: Impossible III (2006).
- Has had a song dedicated to him by iconic Classic Rock band Steely Dan, the result of an inside joke between Giammarco and legendary Steely Dan singer/songwriter Donald Fagen.
- Battled Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) in bonus scenes filmed for the deluxe two-disc DVD version of Freddy vs. Jason (2003). The confrontation between Giammarco and Englund was lensed on location in Las Vegas during July 2003.
- As a young reporter, David worked with fellow James Bond alumni Lois Maxwell, best known as Miss Moneypenny in the first 14 James Bond films - from Dr. No (1962) to A View to a Kill (1985), where they both wrote for the entertainment section of The Toronto Sun.
- Has served as Juror on a number of Canadian and American Film Festivals. At the San Diego World Film Festival, where legendary director John Frankenheimer was presented the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, Giammarco conducted a rare Q&A session with Frankenheimer about his most controversial films: The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Seven Days in May (1964).
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