Same origin, same countries. Tom Cruise is not officially the leader of the church, he is the most known high rank member. Here is the site of the Hungarian poet Béla Kasza i believe it's him (initially pictures look low res, but if you click on them you will see some in full HD). Born in 62, he is not only good looking and sometimes doing his own stunts. He is a man of action. On 5:33 PM May 20 (picture date), mimicking a drunk Mexican caught in a road rage incident, he tried to kill me. When i called the Police, an operatic female voice asked me was if i was on a private property. Apparently they declined jurisdiction because of being on an reservation.
1974 was the year i started HS in Iași. Following grade school in Câmpulung (Suceava county, suci meaning needle or pine needle in Sanskrit), where apparently all kids where about 2 years younger than me, on the model of Palatine Class, my hole HS class, B, including teachers, where celebrities. I described this in detail on this blog post. Architect of all that happen in Câmpulung, later, until his death was Emil Bodnăraș. He had a brother and a villa în Câmpulung, but also appeared as a poor miner neighbor across the street, Aurel Bedrule. Another big mark in my life was made by native Hungarian Károly Király (Kiraly meaning king in Hungarian, with Carol being father of Michael, son of Mary, like in Mary Hill), mentioned by Pacepa in his book as being tortured by Ceaușescu. But this is just the intro.
Some of the teachers in grade school. School director, Theodor Darie, looked like Austrian actor Karlheinz Böhm, who lived across the school with of course his wife who looked of course like Romy Schneider, age adjusted. Others; 1-4 grade teacher, Claudia Cardinale. 5-8 grade tutor, math, Elisabeth Taylor, physics Laura Antonelli.
Could not have started without all these, cause it was my chemistry teacher who told me i should go to HS in a different place than Câmplulung, who had a few decent HSs though. I wanted to go to Bucharest, my father went there with my application, in the train he met someone who told him there was a new HS in Iași with some electronics classes built or assigned to the new Tehnoton electronics factory (mostly radios at that time). So he went in Iași at Tehnoton High School instead which was much closer (4 hours by train) with my application.
In September 1975 my father took me to Iași, however too late, could not find a place in the dorm so he went to IPL (furniture factory) which was next to Tehnoton HS where he knew the Party Secretary who again looked like Bodnăraș, in a different attire than my neighbor, big office, suit, whatever. He arranged for me to live with a supervisor who lived in a room in a building for singles who worked there. (At that time most of the married people hired in factories in Romania where assigned an apartment in a condo).
The guy looked like a Japanese actor. I could never find a room in the dorm the next years so i lived in rooms subrented in condos alone or with mates, each trimester in a different one, so i had like 12 different addresses in HS in Iași, except for vacations where i went to Câmpulung, mostly working at the furniture factory across the street.
Looking very poor, we became "friends" at the end of the first year i guess. Opera singer Dénes Gulyás was 6 years my senior. Older than me all my colleagues (i mean, the actors) in HS, the exact opposite from grade school. I lived a whole trimester in an empty apartment with him, at the end of 3rd year or 1977, the year when Grease movie was made. He was athletic, was going to karate classes (something very rare indeed in communist Romania), i believe that's where he got his moves in the movie, he could swim 25 meters under water without breathing, he also had an electric guitar which he didn't let me touch. We were all playing ping-pong like crazy, at school and outside wherever we found a table. Towards the end of the week he started to become more and more depressed, Sunday was missing, he said he was going to church whatever and he was coming back Sunday night, shining. I remember the whole 3 months period i was eating only beans. One jar of beans, one hot dog (cold) and one piece of bread every lunch, for 5 lei.
Liliana, we haven't spoke much. I remember one time i went to an Indian movie, Vandana something just out of curiosity and i met with her "by chance" outside the cinema near where she lived. She told me her father put some sort of timer on her TV and she could not turn it on (those days we were going at school in the afternoon, i guess), it crossed my mind, but then i said to myself, if her father is like that what if he catches me there. So i didn't say the words, i just passed. Olivia Newton John was 12 years my senior, though she looked like a 7 grader, just too fragile to touch.
One day i took one of my cameras (Soviet "Smena 8M") at school, (had a portable lab at "home"), with a flash attached and all the girls, including Ioana (Joan Jett of course, who was then just so shy) started to run, hide their faces and yell. "No pictures", said the tutor, soprano Marina Krilovici. However hours later, they came down and we all went in the courtyard and took group pictures. This one is taken by me.
John on the left, ONJ in the middle left to Jane Fonda (chemistry teacher) with the flowers.
to be continued of course