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...brisk afternoon in late April, and the Evita crew has set up shop outside a small white church in a suburb of Budapest. They are filming the wedding of Eva and Juan Peron, and 100 or so onlookers from the neighborhood are watching Jonathan Pryce and Madonna, as the Argentine general and his bride, emerge from the front door, wave and get showered with rice--then repeat the sequence half a dozen times. One person in the crowd is not watching the actors: a tall, well-muscled man, standing with his arms folded, named Bob Izzard. Each time the cameras...
...dart out of the crowd without warning and try to touch the star. In Buenos Aires, where the Evita crew spent its first five weeks of filming, M.D.s and other unruly fans were a big problem, and Izzard had to get the help of a six-man security detail. Budapest is more laid back--but so are the police. When the cameras roll, they too stare at Madonna...
...know this country's been uniquely blessed. But as I sit dejected, bored, depressed, I wonder if a strict emissions test Is part of life in Rome, or Budapest...
Today, as on every other October 23 over the past seven years, people are celebrating in Budapest, and even in Boston. To any thoughtful person, however, such celebrations are more an occasion for reflection than for pure rejoicing. The struggles over the memory of 1956 show that layers and layers of history must be peeled away and dealt with. Rampant nationalism and anti-Semitism in Hungary, as in the rest of Eastern Europe, predate the communist past, and so does a system of privilege based on wealth...
Susan R. Suleiman, professor of romance and comparative literatures, just published Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook...