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{{Short description|Sideshow performer (born 1989)}}
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| name        = Alex Tomaini
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| birth_name  = Scott Alexzander Tomaini
| birth_date  = {{birth year and age|1989}}
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| other_names = Alex Zander Morrow<br/>Junior Torture King
| known_for   = youngest US swordswallower
| occupation  = sideshow performer
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| relatives   = [[Al Tomaini]] (grandfather)
<ref name='rollingstone'>{{Cite news
| last=Kushner
| first=David
| author-link=David Kushner (writer)
| title=I Was a Teenage Freak: In Gibsonton, Florida, the Carny Capital of the Nation, a New Generation of Glass Walkers and Knife Throwers Keeps the Sideshow Alive for at Least One More Summer
| newspaper=[[Rolling Stone Magazine]]
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| issue=930
| pages=104–106, 108, 110, 112
| date=September 4, 2003
| url=http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_dat=xri:pqil:res_ver=0.1&rft_val_fmt=ori:format:pl:ebnf:fulltext&res_id=xri:iimp&rft_id=xri:iipaft:aarticle:fulltext:00228592}} (Accessed on November 1, 2008) online version requires registration
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'''Alex Tomaini''' (stage name: '''Alex Zander Morrow''')<ref name='rollingstone'/><ref name='interview'>{{cite interview|subject=Alex Zander Morrow |interviewer=John Robinson |title=Alex Zander - The Junior Torture King |url=http://www.sideshowworld.com/interviewalexander.html |date=August 1, 2004 |accessdate=2008-11-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006092153/http://www.sideshowworld.com/interviewalexander.html |archivedate=October 6, 2008 }}</ref> is a [[sideshow]] performer. At the age of 14, he officially became the youngest confirmed [[sword swallowing|sword swallower]] in the [[United States]].<ref name="record">[http://www.swordswallow.com/records.php Records from Swordswallow.com] (accessed December 22, 2006).</ref> He swallowed his first [[sword]] at the 2003 Sword Swallowers Convention in [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]] before an audience of his peers and international [[News media|media]], only four hours after swallowing his first [[Clothes hanger|coat hanger]] as practice.<ref name="stomachsofsteel">{{cite video | people = Roz Mason (director), Andrew Waterworth (executive producer) | title = Stomachs of Steel | medium = documentary | publisher = [[NHNZ]] / Discovery Channel | date = July 2004}}</ref> He later joined a record attempt called "The Big Swallow" in which a group of sword swallowers try to simultaneously swallow as many swords as possible.<ref name="news">[http://www.swordswallow.com/news.php News article] on 2003 Big Swallow (accessed December 22, 2006).</ref>
Alex lost the record to [[Erik Kloeker]] of the Pickled Brothers Sideshow, who is one year younger than Alex.<ref name="record" />
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070217181003/http://www.offthefence.com/content/programme.php?ID=267 "Stomachs of Steel"] at Offthefence.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080821185047/http://bmeworld.com/amago/archives/roadshow/sideshow03.html The Lizard Man - 2nd Annual Sidehsow Gathering 2003]
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[[Category:1989 births]]
[[Category:Sideshow performers]]
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