Editing Lou Costello (section)

==Early life==
Louis Francis Cristillo was born on March 6, 1906, in [[Paterson, New Jersey]], the son of Sebastiano Cristillo, an [[insurance]] sales agent, and Helen Rege, a [[Silk weaving|silk weaver]].<ref name=nytobit /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1801932 |title=Abbott and Costello |last=Deutsch |first=James I. |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1801932 |access-date=August 22, 2022 |quote=He was the son of Sebastian Cristillo, an Italian-born silk weaver and insurance sales agent, and Helen Rege.}}</ref> His father was Italian, from [[Caserta]],<ref name="ReferenceA">Costello, Chris and Raymond Strait."Lou's On First." New York: St. Martin's Press.</ref> while his mother was an American of [[Italian Americans|Italian]], [[French Americans|French]] and [[Irish Americans|Irish ancestry]], with her grandfather Francesco Rege being a native of [[Piedmont]], Italy.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

Costello attended Public School 15<ref name="k12">{{cite web|url=http://www.paterson.k12.nj.us/schools/ps15/|title=Public School #15|publisher=paterson.k12.nj.us|access-date=November 15, 2014|archive-date=November 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141125015633/http://www.paterson.k12.nj.us/schools/ps15/|url-status=dead}}</ref> in Paterson and was considered a gifted athlete. He excelled in [[basketball]] and reportedly was twice Paterson's [[free throw|free-throw]] champion{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}. His basketball prowess can be seen in ''[[Here Come the Co-Eds]]'' (1945), in which he performs his own trick basketball shots. He also fought as a boxer under the name of Lou King.<ref name="First, p. 7.">C. Costello (1981), p. 7.</ref>