Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)

Subject: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Dec 16 - 10:10 AM

What a woman. 99!

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Dec 16 - 11:11 AM

A true icon of a past era..who could forget her ?

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Dec 16 - 12:09 PM

And a wit: I'm a great housekeeper - every time I leave a man, I keep his house.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Dec 16 - 01:08 PM

And she wrote in her memoirs that she was schooled about espionage etc. in the bed of Kemal Ataturk. Some claim.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Dec 16 - 05:54 PM

She was a very interesting. I get the impression that there was depth and intelligence underneath all that "bling." She carried her glamour with a great sense of humor. I think she had a good life.

I suppose that for many Americans, Zsa Zsa and her sisters were all they knew of Hungary. They certainly made us think well of their homeland.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Dec 16 - 06:55 PM

Her famous video of how to behave at a police stop is priceless.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Dec 16 - 09:31 AM

Sorry - "maaarvelous" housekeeper.

Also her age is actually unclear - 99 is the best guess.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Dec 16 - 01:55 PM

Here's a detail that escaped me. Mama Jolie Gabor, and her husband, came from Hungary, but had Jewish ancestors. That was one reason they got out of there. The United States was safer for them.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Dec 16 - 08:33 PM

It's the day after Christmas, and one reason it occurs to me to revisit Zsa Zsa Gabor is because of Christmas as Saturnalia: one of the parts she plays to perfection, besides the whole Hungarian thing, is the stereotype of the imperial matron of decadent Rome.
I agree with the previous poster that, even though Zsa Zsa as some have said was famous for being famous, she never lost her sense of humor and she kept her wits about her. A long way from some of today's fifteen-minutes-of-fame celebrity wonders who have nervous breakdowns in public.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: theleveller
Date: 27 Dec 16 - 04:26 AM

I don't remember much of that sense of humour on the Eamonn Andrews show in 1967 when she came on dressed to the nines and carrying a stupid little lap dog and Peter Cook said of her, '1 think that you are one of the shallowest, stupidest and most trivial individuals I have ever encountered...'. As Peter later related, she didn't say a thing after the show, just ...'went off in a chauffeur-driven huff.' It was one of the funniest things I've seen on television - wish I could find a recording of it.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 27 Dec 16 - 06:00 AM

Perhaps to counter the previous post, one of her admirers should list some of her achievements?

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Dec 16 - 10:28 AM

Confirmed from memories of older relatives at Christmas - we are related to the Gabor sisters on our Hungarian mom's side, as the family story goes, by divorce. Mom's first cousin, we know, divorced theirs, we think.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: meself
Date: 27 Dec 16 - 12:19 PM

Not sure what the Peter Cook business is supposed to show - other than that he, whoever he is, is extremely rude, and that Gabor was human. Did I miss something?

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: voyager
Date: 27 Dec 16 - 01:11 PM

Zsa Zsa Gabor will be forever in my scary, campy, dreams for her role as
Ylana - The Queen of Outer Space (1958)

Especially, since my aunt Barbara got a supporting role (Kaeel) as a part of the security detail (all-women, mini-skirts, go-go boots, and rayguns).

voyager

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 16 - 01:18 PM

A Great Astronomer who saw the unseen Vera Rubin dies at 88.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: theleveller
Date: 28 Dec 16 - 03:57 AM

Meself, you did, indeed, miss something. The fact that you have heard of someone whose only talents were vanity and greed, but appear not to have heard of one of the world's greatest comic geniuses. Perhaps this is the nature of 'fame' - or maybe you just need to broaden your horizons.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Dec 16 - 05:45 AM

Indeed. A bit like Judge Pickles asking in court "Who are these Beatles?" I think I might have had a quiet Google before admitting to never having heard of Peter Cook. Jaysus!

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Dec 16 - 10:30 AM

And now her son is dead too.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: meself
Date: 28 Dec 16 - 11:51 AM

Okay, so it was one of the world's great comic geniuses who was so rude .... And now, of course, I'll go off and wallow in humiliation re: Peter Cook. Think I'll skip the Google business, though, if it's all the same.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: theleveller
Date: 29 Dec 16 - 09:37 AM

Well,meself, if you fancy discovering what genius looks like as opposed to mediocrity, this gives you a rough idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7zgMJiDx3w

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Dec 16 - 09:05 PM

Zsa Zsa got a bit heavy later in her life. As she said, "There comes a time when a woman must choose between her derriere and her face. I chose my face."

I don't suppose she accomplished anything too lasting in our society but I don't know of any harm she did. In my opinion, she and her sisters were perhaps the Kardasians of their time.

Subject: RE: Obit: Zsa Zsa Gabor, A Great Hungarian (1917-2016)
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 30 Dec 16 - 03:47 AM

Just to follow on from Steve Shaw's comment on 28 December, legal decisions may be used as precedent many years down the line, so when judges (in my experience a well-informed and wide-awake bunch) spot something that may not stand the test of tine, they will ask what may seem a naive question to clarify the record. I suspect that the notorious reply 'A popular beat combo, m'lud' may owe more to Private Eye......