Word: budapester
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...Hungarian animator with a 5-min. movie about a cuckoo clock ascends to the stage on Oscar night, you may be tempted to take that post--Jennifer Hudson, pre--Helen Mirren bathroom break. But if you do, you will miss something besides an ecstatic shout-out to Budapest--you'll miss seeing a real Hollywood comeback story, the return of the short film. Thanks to downloadable video and an embrace of the form by some Hollywood heavyweights, something very old-fashioned is happening: people are watching short movies. On cell phones, computers, TVs and--this is really retro--in theaters...
...Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990), and Liquidation (2003) won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The distinction brought Kertész, now 77, a new platform for his ideas on the impact of 20th century totalitarian politics on the individual. Kertész spoke to John Nadler in Budapest about the Nobel, novels and the threats for the 21st century...
...language of the people we live among," says Oleg. But with the brothers' world travels, they've discovered that their art taps into the universal well of emotions that transcends dialect and local geography. "The best thing," says Oleg, "is when, in São Paolo or Budapest, Stockholm or Toronto, people come up and say, 'Hey, you've expressed just what I have on my mind, what really bothers...
...began like a carnival day. Thousands of people thronged Budapest's old cobblestoned streets wearing red, white and green boutonnieres, tossing red, white and green ribbons into passing cars. Then gradually the crowd began to gather at focal points and to express its will, and then to march. A scared Communist official told an American businessman: 'The earth is moving.' The earth moved to the tread of a million feet in Hungary last week, and a satellite which had been blindly spinning in the Soviet orbit for eleven years suddenly swung out of its gravitational course into a still unsteady...
...DIED. Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian soccer star whose girth and ungainly gait earned him the nickname the Galloping Major, a moniker that belied one of the deftest and deadliest strikers in the sport's history; in Budapest. Described by former England manager Ron Greenwood as a "roly-poly little fellow" who looked as if he "did most of his training in restaurants," Puskás was an unstoppable shotmaker, scoring 84 goals in 85 matches for his national team. In 1953 he starred in one of soccer's most famous contests: a surprise trouncing of England that debuted...