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Artist, Aliens, And The Christmas Story : Modern Pop Traditions Images Of Hungarians in the US
? They? re heeeeerrrrreeeeee??: Alien-(n)ation.

One of the most enduring and even entertaining images involving Hungarians during the particular second half the 20th century is the thought of Hungarians as aliens or Martians. Much of this is tongue-in-cheek, is usually not intended to be able to be pejorative, plus has been taken advantage of to good effect and with fantastic enjoyment by Hungarians themselves - to be able to the point with their likely having recently been behind its application. There are multiple overlapping/competing descriptions of exactly how all this started. Consensus suggests that will it came away of the communities of �migr� elemental scientists, physicists, plus mathematicians who came to the US in the course of 1930s and nineteen forties, a lot of whom had been collocated at Los Alamos, New South america for your Manhattan Job.

As George Marx, a Hungarian teacher of atomic physics in Budapest, requires in the extremely interesting chapter entitled? Typically the Martians? Vision associated with the Future,? how s it that there were groups regarding Austrians, Germans, in addition to Italians associated with these kinds of scientific breakthroughs and yet it seemed to be Hungarians alone that appeared to gain typically the moniker and connection of? alien?? Marx appears to prefer the account in accordance with which often one day the particular Italian Enrico Fermi was speculating regarding the universe and the possibility of life upon other planets, and even Leo Szilard, the Hungarian, ventured the answer to Fermi? s question:

? Therefore,? Fermi came to be able to his overwhelming question,? if all this specific has been taking place, they should possess arrived here simply by now, so how are that they?? It was Leo Szilard, a man having an impish impression of humor, that supplied the ideal answer Fermi's unsupported claims:? They may be among people,? he said,? although they call themselves Hungarians.? (according to be able to Marx, this will be Francis Crick? t version of typically the myth)

Marx elaborates on the? birth to a legend?:

The parable of the particular Martian origin involving the Hungarian scientists who entered world history on American soil during Ww ii probably originated within Los Alamos. Leon Lederman, director of the Fermilab, described possible hidden intentions. The production regarding scientists and mathematicians within the early 20 th century was therefore prolific that numerous otherwise calm experts believe Budapest has been settled by Martians in an intend to imbed and take over the particular planet Earth? Based on myth, at a " inside info " meeting of typically the Manhattan Project, Basic Groves left for the gents' place. Szilard then stated:? Perhaps organic beef today continue in Hungarian!? Hungarian �migr�s loved speaking their mom tongue whenever a chance offered itself. This has made them look suspicious. Los Alamos was some sort of place of best security. General Orchards was annoyed that will Neumann and Wigner had frequent cell phone conversations in Hungarian. [Teller, talk in Budapest 1991. ] The? thick Hungarian feature? was often observed even in the particular corridors of the Pentagon. (The Lugosi accent made the particular alien power of Dracula, the count from the faraway Transylvania even more practical. )

Marx recounts the important points of the arrival with the Martians-cum-Hungarians on planet Earth:

--Gabor, von K�rm�n, Kemeny, von Neumann, Szilard, Teller, and Wigner were born throughout the same 1 / 4 of Budapest [author? s notice? most were Jewish? it is fascinating to note that some anti-Semitic Hungarian nationalists simultaneously assiduously include these names throughout lists of famous Hungarians]. No wonder the scientists inside Los Alamos acknowledged the idea that around one thousands of years ago the Martian spaceship crashlanded somewhere in the particular center of European countries. There are three firm proofs associated with the extraterrestrial beginnings of the Hungarians: they like to wander about (such gypsies radiating away from the same region). They speak a very simple and logical language which in turn has not the particular slightest connection along with chinese of their particular neighbors. Plus they are therefore much smarter than the terrestrials. (In a slight Martian accent Steve G. Kemeny extra an explanation, such as, that it can be so much easier to study writing and reading in Hungarian than in English or perhaps French, that Hungarian kids have very much more time remaining to study mathematics. ) [quoted by Marx by? Yankee? Magazine (? ) 1980] ([http://www.mek.iif.hu/kiallit/tudtor/tudos1/martians.html])

Finally, in a new somewhat more severe vein, the peculiar connotation continues to be discussed in analytical phrases as follows:

Whenever we understand SteeDee's idea correctly, the first Hungarians-
are-aliens story arose from many minor human occurrence. The
Hungarians may have stood out of the rest of the particular staff at Los
Alamos, perhaps simply by maintaining their own cliques and talking
their very own indecipherable language, and this made the English
speakers uncomfortable. The Hungarians have been like aliens to be able to the
rest, in addition to since there were many reports regarding "flying saucers" in the
popular press in the 50s and late forties, the "Martian" label was a
practical solution to sublimate typically the social tensions. To be able to be referred to as
extraterrestrials, in a jocular, rib-poking way, may have helped
reduce this kind of social friction both inside and outside the house the Hungarian
party. If there was a difficulty with communication, typically the recurring
alien tall tale would provide a way to make light than it, thereby
expressing let-downs that could not otherwise be used. (http://www.ufomind.com/area51/desertrat/1995/dr29/ )

Relating to Marx,? since a matter regarding fact, these suspicious Hungarians? Theodore des K�rm�n, John von Neumann, Leo Szilard? enjoyed the fantasy. Edward Teller grew to be especially happy regarding his E. To. initials, but he or she complained about indiscretion,? Von K�rm�n must have been speaking?.?

From Teller in order to Talleah? Zsa and Her Siblings

This specific brings us coming from Teller to Talleah, the difference being that Teller had been a real Hungarian scientist who pretended to play typically the part of a good alien? whereas Talleah is the title of an unfamiliar from the 1958 King of the B Sci-fi Movies,? Queen of Outside Space?? starring none other than perhaps the most well-known Hungarian among Americans, Zsa Gabor, who plays the particular role of your peculiar scientist! [More about this hysterical film and it is hysterical reviews below. ]

Of program, June 1989 place Hungarians around the map for many Americans. The reburial involving Imre Nagy, the large crowds, the solemn ceremony before hundreds of thousands and an are living television audience, the landmark event inside the great Hungary? No, that was sixteen June 1989? I actually is referring below to 14 June 1989, the day time Zsa slapped the Beverly Hills law enforcement officials officer, an occurrence that immediately became fodder for each later night comedian and in many cases two years later on was your subject regarding a spoof starring the actress throughout the satirical motion picture series, the Undressed Gun. Such will be the fate of Hungary and Hungarians in the usa.

There were really three Gabor sisters: Zsa, Eva, and even Magda. I are not sure whether to say relationship or divorce went within the family. The particular three sisters had more marriages than they did crucial movie roles. In order to borrow a page from Dave Craig within context (Dave Barry Slept Here, Random House 1989, p. 101), below are a final tallies of the about three sisters in Relationships:

Final (? ) Gabor Sister Marital life Standings

Zsa 9* *** ****

Magda 6**

Eva a few

*It is challenging to know how precisely to calculate Zsa? s total number of husbands? considering that as she once responded:? The number of husbands have I had? You mean besides my own??

**These numbers may be impacted by the point that equally Zsa and Magda were married to the English professional George Sanders, in case sixteen years apart. Not to make too much light of things, but Sanders eventually committed destruction. He played typically the part of Mister. Freeze in typically the Batman television collection, that Zsa made guest appearances upon (see below).

***It seemed only appropriate in early 2007 surrounding the macabre and absurd Anna Nicole Smith guardianship fight that Zsa? s most latest husband? Prinz des Anhalt? claimed that he a new ten year affair using Anna Nicole plus was the father of her orphaned child. (Supposedly, Zsa was angered in addition to hurt by this specific admission, but could one completely discount the possibility that will it was yet another attempt for Zsa to get back in the limelight, and after just about all, hadn? t Anna Nicole Smith been known for being renowned. )

****It might surprise almost zero one in some sense, but Zsa? s daughter by Conrad Hilton (the only child of most three Gabor sisters) is grand-aunt to be able to Paris and Nicole Hilton.

Zsa says that she received the 1936 Hungarian beauty pageant (according to one Hungarian source, Sandor Incze who discovered Zsa, invented the concept of the beauty pageant? don? capital t think so), although her mother Jolie (? pretty? throughout French), married only twice, and fond of? new math concepts? long before many of us knew it seemed to be new? like the woman daughters she looked genetically incapable associated with telling her real age; if the lady was being honest the girl first daughter, Magda, would have already been born when Jolie was thirteen!? said it was the girl (the mother) in addition to not Zsa which had won the beauty pageant. (To use the famous Casey Stengel line? You can easily look it upward!?? these things needs to be verifiable, although I am going to leave that in front of large audiences to investigate since it is further than the intended range of this paper. )

The? Queen of Outer Place? or? Damn this, Jim, I? meters an ex Hungarian Beauty Queen, Not a(n Alien) Scientist?

Zsa? s film profession is summarized simply by the online motion picture critic? Jabootu? because follows:

Unfortunately, Master of science. Gabor? s Showmanship career proved a lot less epic [than her married existence or run-ins with the law]. Inside John Huston? h 1952 Moulin Rouge, Zsa played, inside a bold maneuver, an Euro-sexpot contrary Jose Ferrer? s i9000 Toulouse-Lautrec. The using year she made an appearance within a supporting role within the musical Lili, which co-starred the particular unrelated but in the same way monikered Mel Ferrer. Following that, though, that was all downhill. Her few glancing roles included using twins (!! ) in the hilarious-sounding espionage meller Young lady in the Kremlin. Just in case you? re wondering, one of the twins [is] Stalin? s mistress (!! ), the various other a spy operating against the Soviets. Zsa also a new bit part in Orson Welles? Feel of Evil. (http://www.jabootu.com/queen.htm)

But perhaps? Jabootu? is being also hasty and superficial in judging Ms. Gabor? s profession. Maybe we need underestimated Zsa? s i9000 roles in film and television. With regard to example, Zsa has recounted how your woman liked playing the role of? traveler? when she guest-starred on the Batman serial as Minerva, a beauty shop owner, whose hairdryers could see the thoughts of (male) consumers. Was the instance perhaps a skillful allegory about how the totalitarian express uses the most banal and subversive means to pry into the existence of its citizens? (Was the? mullet? a new communist plot to be able to make Americans appear stupid? Tune in following time, same Battime, same Batchannel? )

Evidence for this kind of, more enlightened, revisionist view comes by the 1958 movie? Queen of Outside Space,? in which Zsa plays Talleah, an alien scientist, that leads the ladies of Venus up against the sadistic, disfigured Queen Yllana, thereby saving some sort of flight crew of men from Soil whom Yllana offers cruelly imprisoned. We argue here of which this film simply appears to always be a sexist, pathetic, and moronic motor vehicle for profit, if in fact that will is part associated with its subterfuge in addition to inner-brilliance. The movie is, inside fact, a refined and sophisticated love knot of communist Hungary and the outbreak and crushing with the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Let us consider another look from this film? although, unfortunately, we are generally forced to rely on the subject of the flippant and sometimes juvenile comments of? Jabootu? to get a discussion of typically the plot.

In this specific first extended article, we find Zsa? s Talleah (symbolizing the Hungarian resistance) being informed that will recently arrived Earthmen (? bourgeois? intellectuals,? men? had already been banished from the particular planet, although? experts and mathematicians? have been retained simply because they were needed) happen to be imprisoned by the evil Yllana (the communists/Soviets). Talleah recounts for your guys, the sad historical past of the globe, the destructive battle, how Yllana gone from well-meaning rebel to tyrant, and so forth. The astute audience will notice here that Zsa is definitely in fact recounting the destruction of World War II in Hungary? the lady says? Ten Planet years ago?!? the coming to energy of the communists, the initial? popular? picture of the Soviets as liberators, and even their construction regarding a people? s dictatorship?.

? To Be Hungarian Is Certainly not Enough??: Hollywood and even Hungarians

As to be able to be expected of space travelers, Hungarians claim to include founded certain areas? one of these being Hollywood. Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures, 1 of the early on Hungarians in The show biz industry is said to have had upon the wall associated with his office an inscription:? TO BE A HUNGARIAN WILL BE NOT ENOUGH.? For this George Marx offers,? in a lower voice Adolph would likely add,? but this may help?.? This individual continues,? Non-Hungarians within Hollywood used to say,? If a person have a Hungarian friend, you may need an opponent.? The MGM commissary was believed to have got a sign which in turn read,? Just because you? re Hungarian, doesn? t suggest you? re some sort of genius!?

The effect of Hungarians upon Hollywood is impressive. In 1996, the particular Associated Press documented those of the 136 Oscar nominations given that 1929, Hungarians got won 30 associated with them. Some involving the names are usually more familiar as compared to others. George Cukor? not to be confused with the above mentioned Adolph Zukor,? Mister. Motion Pictures,? founder of Paramount Photos, and producer associated with perhaps the primary film? Prisoner of Zenda?? captured several best director cession, including for My personal Fair Lady (? Enry? Iggins tells of Zoltan Karpathy:? Each time we seemed hanging about there he had been that hairy dog from Budapest. Never ever leaving us alone, never have My partner and i ever known some sort of ruder pest.? ). William Fox of? 20th Century Monk? was born near Tokaj, Hungary, famous for its lovely wines. Among the better-known actors other than Bela Lugosi (born Bela Blasko) as well as the Gabor clan, we are able to name Leslie Howard, given birth to Laszlo Steiner, and even Tony Curtis, put together Bernard Schwartz (born in Budapest, progressive in Hungarian), and Peter Lorre.

Speaking of Bela Lugosi? there is the following unforgettable swap between Johnny Depp playing legendary B-moviemaker Ed Wood and Martin Landau (himself of interplanetary space travel frequently) found in his Oscar-winning depiction of aging, foul-mouthed, bitter, and morphine-addicted Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton? s i9000? Ed Wood? (1994):

[Ed and Bela are watching Vampira's TV show. ]
Ed Wood: Oh, I hate that when she interrupts the style. She does not show 'em the proper respect.
Bela Lugosi: I do believe she actually is a honey. Look at those containers!
[Bela Lugosi casts a love mean on Vampira who will be on TV when moving his fingers like Dracula]
Edward cullen D. Wood, Junior.: My Gosh, Bela, how would you do that?
Bela Lugosi: A person must be double-jointed. And you need to be Hungarian. [! ]

A few? Hungarians? famous within film and television will come like a surprise. Drew Barrymore? s mother was initially Ildiko Jaid Mako. Jerry Seinfeld may possibly talk about Ceausescu above, but their father was named Kalman Seinfeld. John Newman? s mother was Hungarian. And even half the famed animator set behind? The particular Simpsons? and the series of additional cartoons, Klasky Csupo? Gabor Csupo? is a Hungarian (he fled Hungary in 1975 hiking through a new 2 � hrs through a darkened train tunnel to Austria).

The trivia regarding all these cases is to the least entertaining. Various other great finds within the webenetics site will be the following. Ilona Staller, aka Ciccolina, regarding blue movies plus green politics, a new red father? a member of the earlier communist Interior Ministry. And Juan Epstein? s mother? whoever signature concluded every excuse note Juan Epstein brought to class in the early 1970s DASAR sitcom? Welcome again, Kotter!?? is in fact Hungarian, Juan Epstein getting been played by simply Robert Hegyes.

? Exactly what? s that? Hungarian roots??: Budapest and even Wanting the Some other MTV

Then right now there are the Hungarian roots of steel and pop stars. Appropriately enough, although Art Garfunkel is of Romanian Jewish ancestry, Paul Claire is of Hungarian Jewish ancestry. Tommy Ramone, drummer intended for? The Ramones,? had been born using the a lot more sedate name of Thomas Erdelyi. All of us can salute Gene Simmons of HUG (or should it have been KISz? ) as half-Hungarian, and you might find this ironic, however, you should to know that Alanis Morissette is definitely supposedly half Hungarian. Additionally, it turns out there that the dad of the Knopfler brothers of the? Dire Straits? strap was a Hungarian Jew who fled the Nazis to Glasgow in 1939.

The Hungarian link of? Dire Straits? is interesting? even when probably entirely imprevisto? in light regarding the? video within a video? with the band? s most well-known commercial/video success,? Money for Nothing (1985).?? Money for Practically nothing? is better reputed for its line? I would like my MTV?? brilliant and somewhat satirical marketing, mention the video channel coming old in an iconic strategies your song/video and you should guarantee carry out there. (It had been also the first movie played when MTV Europe debuted about 1 August 1987? for those too young to keep in mind, MTV, no not Magyar Televizio, seemed to be a brief try things out in playing something called? music-video? right up until reality shows murdered the music online video star). The assumption, the inspiration of? Money for Little or nothing,? was a bunch of personnel moving appliances in addition to commenting while, as it turns outs, watching Sting? s? The Russians? movie on a wall membrane of TV monitors. (Ooohhhh, Sting pointed out the Russians, carry out they really like their children too? Ooooohhhhh, how daring? mainly because I? m confident the Russians perform love their youngsters too? 1985, the eighties, ugh). We had always wondered about? it within just the video? because the bikini-clad? mama the girl got it stickin? inside the camera zoom lens? model appears to be posing in the Halaszbastya (Fisherman? h Bastion on the Buda side regarding Budapest) which I had then just recently visited (May 1985, the video clip came out in September 1985). Turns out I wasn? t hallucinating for while Dennis O? Connell writes:

It was made by Steve Barron, who envisioned that will the entire online video be computer cartoon. The band desired a live movie. The final product was a mix: video clip from Budapest increased by computers alongside with a personal computer generated character, Garbo, which was encouraged by Joe Pesci's character in Strong Bull.

Sting, the particular object with the employees? derision that offered rise for the music, performs support words on? Money regarding Nothing.? Bringing almost everything full circle, my Russian History teacher in college decided to open his session with? Money for Nothing? blaring as college students entered the class room.

Camp. La(s)zlo

In keeping with the alien riff, Hungarians love their own inside jokes. The particular crowd-favorite, sentimentalist Hollywood film,? Casablanca,? along with Humphrey Bogart plus Ingrid Bergman (nope, neither of them Hungarian), was aimed by Michael Curtiz (Kertesz). S. Unces.? Cuddles? Sakall, some sort of Hungarian stage acting professional, played the part of Karl, the particular kindly Austrian cashier in Rick? s i9000 Caf�. The well-known historian John Lukacs (author of Budapest 1900) and others offers argued that there is a typical Hungarian within joke in this kind of film? or with least the film bears the signifies of its Hungarian director. Ingrid Bergman? s underground, Czech resistance leader hubby within the film is usually named Victor Laszlo. Now, naturally , while Lukacs notes? in person, he describes typically the movie as? imbecile??? Laszlo? is neither a first or last-name in Czech. It really is, however the sometimes last name, but frequent first-name in Hungarian? and even Curtiz was bounded? by a number of Hungarian scriptwriters in Hollywood, lots of whose first labels were Laszlo? (Lukacs, 1989, pp. 178-179). Hence, the brand inside the film. (There is yet a popular modern day cartoon named? Camp out Lazlo,? but Lazlo can be a Brazilian spider monkey, and as far web site could tell there is in no mindful Hungarian connection at the rear of title choice. )

But I would certainly argue there are even better inside Hungarian humor than those of? Victor Laszlo? woven straight into movies, as I might now demonstrate.

The particular Boy Named Bad guy in Hungarian Which Made Ralphie Be sad?

It took more than 30, 000 toes, several time area changes, and numerous years to work it out. A couple of years ago (2001) I was flying out west and scanning the music channels to the earphones. On the common music channel I actually suddenly came on a well-known tune. Sure, there it seemed to be: the tune that would repeat every time the school bully would appear in the particular lovable, sentimental, nostalgia-fest for a living that few regarding us ever kept, that is certainly? A Holiday Story (1983).? I thought I recognized the music: it absolutely was Sergei Prokofiev? t famous? Peter along with the Wolf,? and typically the theme? that which in turn Prokofiev utilized for typically the wolf? became the school bully? s i9000 signature in typically the film. Upon the particular first hearing regarding this tune, if the school bully can make his first frightening appearance, the reminiscing? Ralphie,? the little bit of boy who is usually the main leading part of the movie, exclaims,? it was initially Farkas, Scott Farkas, the school anstoß? he had yellowish eyes, yellow eyes I tell a person.? (Ralphie? s more youthful brother, Randy? put there just like a slug? it was their only defense?! )

(Spoiler Warning!: When I came to this personal epiphany within 2001, and perhaps while I seemed to be writing this article in 2005, there was no indicator on the Net that anybody different had recorded this kind of observation, which directed me to issue whether an overactive imagination had obtained the best of me yet again. Exactly what a great difference couple of years can get in the Web age: now a Google search for? farkas wolf? christmas story? prokofiev? yields 123 visitors, beginning with typically the wikipedia entry with regard to the film! )

Why is this specific important you inquire? Well, if an individual know Hungarian, you should understand that? farkas? may be the Hungarian word intended for? wolf.? Therefore, to play the theme of the? wolf? by Prokofiev? s function? a piece drafted, this would appear, with regard to children to understand the many instruments associated with an orchestra? is usually to play a good obscure? inside joke? on the visitors of the film. (Making it even far better is the reality that the actor who plays the particular part of Ralphie is Peter! Billingsley. ) Jean Shepherd, upon whose reserve film production company is based? and even who also narrates the film by the perspective regarding an adult Ralphie looking back in the childhood? appears to be able to have chosen the name of typically the bully,? Scott (Scut) Farkas,? himself. The story is set within 1940s northwestern In? significantly, Prokofiev? h? Peter and the Hair? debuted in 1936 and became the main topic of a Disney toon? so the occurrence of men and women of Hungarian ancestry and previous names is possible.

It usually is possible of which the Prokofiev-wolf-farkas nexus is just a good unintentional, if very witty happenstance. But the idea of that having been one of the ultimate Hungarian? inside jokes?? although Jean Shepherd does not appear to possess been Hungarian themself? is enhanced simply by the comparatively unfamiliar and definitely much less memorable sequel to? A Christmas Tale,?? It Runs inside the Family (1994),? in which Ralphie? s father recounts the story regarding? the Hungarian klipper (daglig tale)? s cross-eyed daughter.? Shepherd died in 1999, but since using many common final names from additional cultures? and farkas can perhaps end up being deemed one involving those? growing way up with Hungarian acquaintances it truly is conceivable that Shepherd would include known this is associated with the name inside Hungarian.

? Honky?: The Hungarian Roots of a Racial Epithet

Talking about the Hungarian(-American)? working class? in the Chicago environs. Based to the entry on the wikipedia: Honky, Honkey or Honkie is a good American racial slur for a White, usually applied to be able to males. The expression? honky? like a pejorative for Caucasians comes from "bohunk" in addition to "hunky". In the early 1900? s, these were derogatory conditions for Bohemian, Hungarian, and Polish foreign nationals. According to Robert Hendrickson, author of typically the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Beginnings, Black workers inside Chicago meat-packing crops picked up the definition of from white personnel and began using it indiscriminately to just about all Caucasians.

Honky, was basically later adopted just as a pejorative which means white, in 1967 by black résistant within SNCC in search of a rebuttal for the term nigger. They settled on a familiar word that they felt was abusive to certain People in america of European ancestry; hunkie meaning an American of Slavic or Hungarian nice.

In the Simpsons cartoon series, Homer Simpson is fond of saying when a thing goes wrong, specifically in the nuclear energy plant in which he works,? blame it in Tibor, the guy who doesn? capital t speak English.? A single can imagine that will this really is something involving an inside laugh among the creators of the Simpsons, considering that the chief cartoonist Gabor Csupo is usually Hungarian (supposedly Hank Azaria? s personality Doctor Nick Costa, a quack doctor, should be a parody of Ough Ricardo on? I actually Love Lucy??? Hi e-ver-y-bo-dy!?? but peers just assumed he was making fun involving Gabor. Personally, I possess always thought he or she sounds oddly just like Andrei Codrescu on NPR? ) In line with the online urban book of slang,? pin the consequence on it on? Tibor? has entered at least some marginal well-liked discourse as shorthand for blaming the foreigner? thus to keep perhaps, unintentionally, with the roots of? Honky?:

more info is definitely someone in your own office whom you blame when a person have done some thing stupid, illegal, or perhaps immoral. Typically typically the person is someone who cannot protect themself. Especially efficient when the Tibor cannot speak The english language.? You'll have to be able to jiggle the deal with. That idiot, Tibor, lost the main element.?

Richard Andrew Hall keeps a Ph. M. in Political Technology from Indiana College (1997), in which he focused his studies on east central Europe. He is typically the author of articles on Romania, Hungary, nationalism, and far east central Europe found in general, in educational journals and more lately on the Internet.
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