Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2010 (22. évfolyam, 1-50. szám)
2010-12-17 / 48-49. szám
English page m mmmmmm m M mmm Hungarian Journal Celine Dion introduces her twins HUNGARIAN COINS Official Representative Office c/o THE COIN & CURRENCY INSTITUTE, Inc. P.O. Box 1057, Clifton, New Jersey 07014 Contact: A. Friedberg Phone (973) 471-1441 Telefax (973) 471-1062 mail@coin-currency.com Céline Dion admits it’s hard to find time to sleep and shower these days as she and husband René Angeld care for their two-month-old fraternal twin boys, Nelson and Eddy. The superstar singer, who also has a 9-year-old son, René-Charles, opens up about motherhood in a new issue of Hello! Canada magazine. “I don’t know how women do it,” she tells in an interview at the family’s expansive, “tropical-themed” home on Jupiter Island, Fla. “Every day René asks, ‘Did you sleep well?’ I’m like, ‘You must be kidding! There is no sleep!’” Dion and her twins are featured in a 20-page pictorial spread in the magazine. They also grace the cover, wearing white pyjamas on a bed that is decked out in white linens. Dion, her hair tied back, is smiling at the camera as one of the twins rests in her arms and the other sleeps on the bed beside her. Pyjamas are a staple wardrobe these days, Dion tells Eastwood. “I nurse both babies at the same time. ... I’m in my pyjamas until lunchtime and there’s no time to shower.” The multiple Grammy Award winner also says the twins are developing personalities. “Nelson is Angeld, Eddy is Dion,” she tells the magazine. Dion, who kicks off her next Las Vegas show on March 15, gave birth to the twins Oct. 23. One would think, hearing the names for the first time, that the twins were named after the famous operetta singer of old, who was the partner of Jeanette MacDonald, but no: Nelson is named after South African leader Nelson Mandela and Eddy is for French songwriter Eddy Marnay. John Lennon Remembered on 30th Anniversary NEW YORK - Said Saber’s eyes teared up as he looked at the nook just inside the door of the West Side Pharmacy, where John Lennon would wait his turn to make an order. “Said, I need some diapers for Sean,” the pharmacist remembered the singer telling him one day. “Right away, Mr. Lennon,” Saber told him. “Said, it’s John,” said Lennon. “It’s just John.” “Yes, Mr. Lennon,” Saber said. Yes, the singer was a regular customer at the tiny Columbus Ave. drugstore. He came by all the time. But he was also John Lennon. A United Nations of fans, mourners and the just plain curious crowded the sidewalks outside the narrow front entrance of the Dakota Building on West 72nd St. where 30 years ago Wednesday Lennon was shot four times in the back by Mark David Chapman, a loner obsessed with Holden Caulfield, the character in the 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye. “The tourists are always going past the Dakota in their buses,” said Viorel Pasku, a doorman at the apartment on Central Park West just south of the fortress-like Dakota. “But this year is different.” The media was there to prove it. Trucks with satellite dishes hugged nearby street corners while a reporter from Radio-Canada interviewed French-speaking passersby. As a fiercely bright day became a chilling night, ever growing crowds of people clustered around Strawberry Fields, the modest memorial wedge of land across from the Dakota, where Yoko Ono, Lennon’s widow still lives. “It’s emotional, it’s sad, it’s a celebration of the huge impact he made on the world,” said 52-year-old Ian Walker, who’d just flown in from Liverpool, with his sons Ben, 25 and David, 24. To the younger Walkers, listening to Lennon’s music growing up was the same as hearing nursery rhymes. “We feel we have a lot of links with The Beatles by living in Liverpool,” said Ian Walker. “Ben actually went to the same school that John did before him. But we wanted to come here and pay our respects.” Lennon once told me he felt protected by New York, both by its size and its familiarity with celebrity culture. “I can go out and people will say ‘Hi,’ but that’s it. They won’t bug you.” “The feral nature of this city appeared to stabilize him,” Lennon expert Keith Elliot Greenberg wrote in Wednesday’s Daily News. “New York was a very flawed place in 1980. But to paraphrase a song of his, John also understood how it felt to be ‘crippled inside.’ He was, and will always be, one of us.” Lennon loved his stroll in the area. After he’d drop in at West Side Pharmacy — which still has a faded photo of the singer in its front window — he’d head a block south for breakfast to La Fortuna Café, which folded three years ago. Absolute Hardware has taken over the space, but Lennon fans can’t stay away. Hungarian Art Masters Gallery Launches Website Hungarian Art Masters Gallery (HamG) is pleased to announce the launching of its e-commerce website at www.hungarianartmastersgallery.com effective December 10th, 2010. The Internet gallery focuses on museum-quality classical and modern artworks of the late-19th to mid-20th century. Legendary Hungarian art collector Margaret Schik has joined forces with her Godson, Thomas Schwartz, to offer authenticated artworks at their fair market value, without mark-ups of any kind and below wholesale or dealer’s cost, yielding discounts of 50% or more off retail gallery prices! We’ve combined world-class masterworks with extraordinary savings and service, and added unparalleled online data security and privacy safeguards to make collecting with confidence from the comfort and convenience of your home a reality. For further information, please contact: Thomas Schwartz, HamG Gallery Director 310-477-2940 Final Two Hungarian Coins of 2010 National Bank of Hungary Releases Final Commemorative Issues of 2010. Gold and Silver Coins for 200th Birthday of Composer Ferenc Erkel. Square Coins Commemorating László Biro, Creator of the Ball Point Pen. (Budapest) - Ferenc Erkel, one of the outstanding figures of Hungarian music, was a renowned composer whose works included the score to the national anthem, and the operas Hunyadi László (1844) and Bánk bán (1861). He laid the foundations for Hungarian opera, established the Philharmonic Association (1853), was a supporter of Hungarian folk music, and ended his career as the head of the Hungarian Academy of Music. Erkel also played a key role in 19th century Hungarian music as a conductor, pianist and music instructor. Following his studies in Pozsony (Bratislava), he was a professional pianist in Kolozsvár before returning to Budapest in 1834. His first opera, Bátori Mária, was completed in 1840. Other highlights of his illustrious career included his appointment as superintendent of the National Theater in 1873, of the Opera House from 1884, and as director of the Hungarian Academy of Music under the presidency of Ferenc Liszt in 1875. His works are marked by careful attention to Hungarian national traditions. In addition to his opera works, he also composed a wide range of other orchestral, lyrical and piano pieces. Erkel was also a well-known chess player and a founder of the Budapest Chess Club . In celebration of the 200th birthday of Ferenc Erkel, the Magyar Nemzeti Bank is issuing gold and silver collector coins. The gold coin is a unique issue thanks to its size: The new coin, which is intended to call the attention of coin collectors around the world to the composer of Hungary’s national anthem, is the first Hungarian coin to be included in the international collector’s program as the “smallest gold coin of the world”. There are 10,000 .999 fine, .5 gram, 11 mm gold coins authorized, which are available at $62.75 each. They feature a facing portrait of the composer created by László Szlávics. The 5,000 forint silver coin depicts the house in Gyula where Ferenc Erkel was bom, and which is now a museum dedicated to this great figure of Hungarian music.lt was designed by György Kiss, measures 38.61 mm in diameter and contains 31.46 grams of .925 (sterling) silver. Mintage is 5,000 proof coins which are priced at $62.50. To order, or for more information on these and other coins of Hungary, contact the Hungarian Mint’s North American Representative at P.O. Box 1057, Clifton, NJ 07014. Tollfree 1-800-421-1866. Fax 973-471-1062. E-mail:mail@coincurrency.com. Add $5.50 to each order for shipping and handling. New Jersey residents add 7% sales tax. Those desiring to receive information and photographs electronically on a regular basis are asked to provide their e-mail address to maiI@coincurrency.com. December 17,2010 j26
