re: It's just a matter of time before it happens....which one happens first...

Re: the crying Indian from the 70s commercial:

His name was "Iron Eyes Cody"

Cody was born Espera de Corti, a son of Antonio de Corti and his wife Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from Sicily. In some of his earliest acting credits Cody was listed as Tony de Corti. He would soon change his name and claim to be part Cherokee and part Cree.

In 1996, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported his Sicilian heritage, but Cody denied it at the time because he was "ashamed" of his Italian heritage. Cody and his wife Bertha adopted several children, all Native Americans.

Cody began his acting career at the age of 12 and continued to work until the time of his death. He appeared in more than 200 films, including The Big Trail (1930) with John Wayne, A Man Called Horse (1970) with Richard Harris, and Ernest Goes to Camp in 1987 with Jim Varney.

However, he is most famous for his "Crying Indian" role in the Keep America Beautiful public service announcement in the early 1970s. It was an ecology commercial in which an Indian (Cody) sheds a tear after some trash is thrown from a speeding car and lands at his feet. The announcer states "People start pollution; people can stop it."