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...first things you notice here is the smoking. Everyone smokes, male and female, young and old. They smoke on the street, in restaurants, in office, in hotel lobbies. I was relieved when I discovered that my flight on Malev, the Hungarian national airline, would be smoke-free; that plane might have been the last smoke-free public place I see before boarding my return flight to the States...
...lungs will be in worse shape when I cross the Atlantic again, but so will my arteries. On my second night in Budapest, I digested a traditional Hungarian meal of cabbage stuffed with meat accompanied by a small black sausage, a slice of pork and a hunk of fat from an undetermined animal. The entire dish was sitting in deep red oil half-an-inch thick, and the cabbage was topped with sour cream...
...food has one thing going for it: the price. Thanks to constant devaluation of the Hungarian Forint, the dollar goes a long way here along the Danube. A slice of pizza costs 50 cents; a 0.2-liter bottle of Coke is about 25 cents; hefty hero sandwiches are $1; ice cream--available in dozens of flavors in little carts on every street--is about 20 cents a scoop...
...Even Hungarian animals are different. The dogs have more personality and more importance than their American cousins. They look older, more serious and more spoiled, seemingly leading their owners down the street. Dirty gray pigeons of American cities are joined by white and beige varieties on Hungarian streets...
Halmi may not relish talking about show business, but he can't escape the fact that he is show business. His life is even something of a mini-series. Born in Budapest and married five times, he fought in the Hungarian resistance before moving in the 1950s to the U.S., where he worked as a LIFE magazine photographer and dabbled in race-car driving before turning to TV as a producer of wildlife documentaries...