Earl Sherman wrote:
>
> Hello JSP,
> I have enjoyed your site for some time now, have learned a great deal,
> and recommend your site to those who care about music. But how often do you
> update? I haven't seen any changes though admittedly I don't look at very
> page when I visit. Thanks for a great site, especially the Brazillian music
> info. It's been invaluable in my explorations of that genre.Keep up the good
> work,
>
> Earl Sherman

Hi Joesixpack,

I checked out your home page and I was wondering what obits have to do with music?

What I really would like to know, actually, is how you became interested in obits, and if you've had a lot of feedback about them?

Thanks Jen

Hi Joe,

I saw a Karady LP on your webpage and I think it's really fun that you know and like her! First, something about her name: Katalin is her first name, Karady is her family name (though I think not her real one - but I don't remember her real name), but in Hungarian it is the other way round like in China or Japan (family name first, given name afterward), this is why there can be some confusion. In foreign languages, though, one normally turns it around, so I'd rather write of Katalin Karady in the following than of Karady Katalin, though the latter would be the correct form. (Japanese people do the same, that's why in English we say Akira Kurosawa and not Kurosawa Akira as it should be in Japanese, etc.)

Yes, Karady really was a big star in Hungary in the late 30s and in the 40s, though only for about ten years, from 1939 to 1949. Her first film (and at the same time, her first big role!) was Halalos tavasz (Deadly Spring) in 1939, where she played alongside Pal Javor, the main male star of those years. From this film on, she became THE femme fatale of Hungarian film, the mysterious and "deadly", but also a bit "masculine", dominant type (similar to Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich). Her famous song in Halalos tavasz (Ez lesz a vesztunk, mind a kettonk veszte - We are doomed because of this, both of us) also made her a famous singer, somewhat of the Marlene Dietrich type, though she never was as gifted a singer as Marlene. She was one of the few real movie stars in Hungary (a star of the Hollywood type, not just another famous actress), probably the only female one ever. Her most famous songs were: Hamvado cigarettaveg (End of a cigarette falling to ashes), Egy asszony nem sokat kivan (A woman doesn't want much), Gyulolom a vadviragos retet (I hate that meadow full of wild flowers). She emigrated to the U. S. when the communist regime began (in 1949) and I think she never made any film afterwards. (At least according to the IMDb.) This is probably why she has stayed a legend and "forever young" in our minds. Her songs were banned for several decades in Hungary, the LP you found was actually the first one since the Forties and also the one that launched a huge Karady revival around 1980. (Actress and singer Judit Hernadi even made an album in hommage of Karady in the early Eighties, where she sang tangos in her style.) Karady died in New York in 1990. Nowadays, she and her songs an films is still widely known, though of course mostly among older people. Just recently, director Peter Bacso has made a film about some episodes of her life at the end of the World War II (she reportedly had a love affair with an officer who took part in anti-Nazi activities; I think she also helped some Jews) with the title "Hamvado cigarettaveg", but I have read and heard quite bad things about it.

I hope I could help you!
Bye,
Petra
Vienna/Austria
(though I live in Austria, I'm Hungarian actually...)

mister, your site is fabu.
i particularly like your shoot-from-the-hip assessments of the brazillian
stuff. keep it coming,
thanks
sam

Marco Alan Rotta wrote:
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> Hi, Joe.
>
> As far as I know, everything we hear and see in the
> movie is made-up by Hanks and his team. And probably
> The Norm Wooster Singers too, once that "Lovin' You
> Lots and Lots" was also written by Hanks (I guess...).
>
> Sincerely.
>
> =====
> Marco Alan Rotta
> misteryus@fakename.com
> The Wonders' Home Page
> http://thatthingyoudo.cjb.net

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Thank you.

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...so...

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Regardless your decision, thanx for taking the time to read this.

Humbly yours;
Princess Lola.

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LolaPop@fakename.com
NYC NY 1009