Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2016 (28. évfolyam, 14-50. szám)

2016-12-23 / 50. szám

Married nine times, the former Miss Hungary contestant made a career joking about her numerous marriages and luxurious needs. Best known as a sex symbol, Gabor cultivated a comic image of an Old World gold digger. With her diamonds, furs and sense of privilege, she exuded a blond diva swagger, a persona fueled by her serial husbands. Former spouses included such well-heeled gents as Conrad Hilton and Oscar-winning actor and bon vivant George Sanders, who later married her sister Magda. She was the mother of actress Francesca Hilton. Although Gabor appeared early in her career in several movies, including a small part as a nightclub singer in Orson Welles’ 1958 classic A Touch of Evil, she was more recognized for her outlandish persona, extravagant lifestyle and penchant for calling everyone “dahling.” “I don’t remember anybody’s name,” she once said. “How do you think the ‘dahling’ thing got started? Gabor embodied the Hollywood concept of “celebrity”: A headline­grabbing, spotlight-attracting Bel Air resident regularly in the public eye not because of any unique accomplishment but simply for “being.” “Every age has its Madame Pompadour, its Lady Hamilton, its Queen of Sheba, it’s Cleopatra, and I wouldn’t be surprised if history singles out Zsa Zsa as its 20th century prototype of this exclusive coterie,” Sanders wrote in his 1992 autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad. Magda, who died in 1997, and Gabor’s other sister, Eva, who died in 1995, also were celebrated beauties, though Magda generally shunned the public eye. Eva co-starred with Eddie Albert in the 1965-71 CBS comedy Green Acres, playing scatter-brained city-slicker wife Lisa Douglas. Zsa Zsa Gabor’s haughty grandeur wore thin on occasion: In 1989, she was convicted of slapping a Beverly Hills policeman and sentenced to 72 hours in jail and perform community service. In 2002, she was involved in a serious car accident on Sunset Boulevard as the passenger in a car driven by her hairdresser. In addition to her celebrity status, Gabor was author of 1970’s How to Catch a Man, considered a how-to guide for gold diggers. Gabor’s zingy humor came to light unexpectedly on an early live TV show where she dismissed a compliment on her gaudy diamonds with, “Oh, Dahling, zese are just my vorking diamonds.” Her straight-faced, diva-style quips made her a popular talk-show guest in the ‘70s and ‘80s; in particular, Merv Griffin delighted in plumbing the comic depths of her shallowness. When queried by the mock-serious Griffin about her housekeeping, she retorted: “I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.” During more recent years, she was game for spoofing her own image: Gabor appeared in one of David Letterman’s Late Night gags, accompanying the baseball-capped host to suburban New Jersey, where they appeared on doorsteps with Gabor asking the stunned housewives if she could come in and take a look at the shoes in their closets. She even parlayed her jail term into maintaining a spot in the public eye. She appeared in the main tide sequence of The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) in a spoof of her jail-bird notoriety. In similar vein, Gabor did a self-mocking turn in the final episode of the 1960s TV series Batman, playing Minerva, a wily spa owner who fleeced her customers. She was born Sari Gabor to wealthy parents in Budapest, Hungary. The date, as expected, varies, but is considered to be Feb. 6, 1917. Her starry-eyed mother, Jolié, propelled her into the Miss Hungary contest in 1936. Gabor, her sisters and their mother emigrated to the U.S. about the time of outbreak of World War II. Gabor’s more serious acting credits include Moulin Rouge, Lovely to Look At and We’re Not Married, all from 1952, and 1953’s Lili. In 1958, she ran the gamut of moviemaking, appearing in Touch of Evil as well as the campy oddity Queen of Outer Space. During the ensuing years, she appeared on the big screen only rarely, appearing in such ditzy ditties as Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) and Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie (1984). She did cameos for Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (1987), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) and A Very Brady Sequel (1996) and voiced a char­acter in the animated Happily Ever After (1993). Survivors include Prince Frederic von Anhalt, whom she wed in 1986. Her marriage garnered her the title Princess von Anhalt, Duch­ess of Saxony. Eva died in 1995; Magda two years later. The Hol­lywood Reporter December 23, 2016 ip Hungarian Film Son Of Saul Named 2nd Best Film Of The Year By The Guardian In their annual list of “50 Best Films in the UK,” British news­paper the Guardian has chosen the Hungarian film Son of Saul (Saul Fia) as the second-best film of 2016. This is just the latest honor for the film, which the Guardian called a “traumatisingly plau­sible study of the brutalities of a Holocaust death camp, revolving around a Jewish Sonderkom­­mando gas-chamber worker.” The Hungarian movie beat out the recently-released Sci-fi film Arrival (No. 3 on the list), Alejandro Gonzglez Inárritu’s The Revenant (No. 8), Best Picture Oscar-Winner Spotlight (No. 18), and many other criti­cally acclaimed films to cinch the number two spot. Son of Saul, an intense, pain­fully gripping look at the Holo­caust, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars. The Guardian’s selection fol­lows British site timeout.com’s pick of Son of Saul as best film of the year. The Hungarian film, directed by Lászó Nemes, came in second behind Anomalisa, an American stop-motion puppet movie about “a motivational speaker under­going an identity crisis and his encounter with a fan” that the Guardian called “a masterpiece that inhabits its own spectrum of strangeness.” In explaining their second-place choice, the Guardian wrote that: With Son of Saul, Nemes has achieved something genu­inely extraordinary; in its ability to approach and apprehend the most ruinous tragedy of our age, he has succeeded where many others have failed - or at least come up short. 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