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Other artisans found their reward in discovering, and helping to build, an artistic League of Nations in their new land. Casablanca, the best-loved film of the 1940s, could have served as a travel poster for this international spirit. The director, Michael Curtiz, was from Budapest; the art director, Carl Jules Weyl, from Germany; the composer, Max Steiner, from Vienna. And of the top 20 names on the cast list, only three belonged to native Americans (Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson and Joy Page); the rest represented the tattered flags of Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Italy, the Soviet Union...
Armin, 72, and Leah, 67, are refugees from Hungary. When World War II broke out, he was running a raincoat factory and she was preparing to study chemistry. He was eventually shipped off to a labor camp, while she lived in Budapest in hiding. In 1949 they arrived in a transit camp east of Tel Aviv with two small daughters and $100. At first the Gottliebs tried to resume their trade, but they soon discovered that selling raincoats in dry, sunny Israel did not have much future. With $65,000 borrowed from Armin's brother in the U.S., the Gottliebs...
When he took over in 1938, the stocky, diminutive (5-ft. 5-in.) Hungarian- born conductor (real name: Jeno Blau) was an unlikely candidate for a daunting task. His father, a Budapest dentist and an amateur violinist, put a fiddle in his son's hands when the child was four, and for a time Ormandy seemed destined for the life of a touring virtuoso. Stranded in America after a promised concert tour failed to materialize, he was nearly penniless when he drifted into New York City's Capitol Theater and landed a job in the pit orchestra in 1921. Within...
...Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and his attempt at disrupting that nation's socialist system. Still, I was shaken by the brutality of the reprisals. It was in this context that I first heard of Yuri Andropov, our Ambassador to Hungary. A classmate at our embassy in Budapest described how Andropov handled the erupting crisis: "He was so calm, even while the bullets were flying--when everyone else at the embassy felt as if we were in a besieged fortress...
This saggy-dog story, made for $120,000 by American Independent Film Maker Jim Jarmusch, asks the musical question: How hip are you? A coupla white guys sit around talking, or moping. One of the guys plays desultory host to his cousin from Budapest...