Not exactly.
Amazingly, I was able to find the 2013 Atlantic article.
I hope this is a gift link. Sorry, if it’s not.
I hope you can access it. It’s very clever. Here’s the salient paragraph:
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But perhaps no reporter’s name is more beloved than Sylvia Poggioli, NPR’s Italian correspondent. Sylvia has had a cow in Cambodia named after her, and a restaurant in Salem, Oregon. “Every time Sylvia says her name,” the restaurateur said, “I envision Italy, I see and smell good food.”Others just like that cozy round way she pronounces her name. “I whisper it along with her when I am in the car—Sil-vyah Poh-zjoly, Rome,” a commentator wrote on a “Best Name Ever” thread. Italian Americans write in to say that hearing Sylvia pronounce her name correctly inspired them to do the same. But could even Sylvia’s name be improved? “Sylvia Poggioli and Jim Zarroli have always had our admiration as first-rate news reporters” a listener once wrote into Saturday Edition. “We feel that the two should get married so that she could be Sylvia Poggioli-Zarroli.” But what if, the presenter wondered, he wanted to be Jim Zarroli-Poggioli?
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[HA! I learned how to add highlighting!]
The “Best Name Ever” link goes to an SDMB thread, but the link doesn’t work. Here’s a link to the thread in question that does work:
Thank you!
ETA: Well, I couldn’t get past the paywalls/hurdles. But it’s cool that others are noticing it. When you watch the original Gladiator movie, it’s impossible to miss the resemblance.