Jonathon Brandmeier, radio dj in Chicago, used to play tapes of silly songs that his listeners came up with. One of the recurring ones concerned Zsa Zsa Gabor, and how the specific reason for her fame was unknown. “Zsa Zsa, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nobody knows what she’s famous for.” RIP
This made me laugh.
Zsa Zsa: “I’ve never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.”
She sure comes off as a golddigger !
…and Green Acres isn’t the place to be either, but… what other choice did she have?
RIP, Zsa Zsa…
She was the Queen of Outer Space (well, actually, her sister, if I recall correctly; the Queen was played by Laurie Mitchell) in what was supposed to be a satiric screenplay originally by veteran scripter Ben Hecht, then worked over by later Twilight Zone writer Charles Beaumont (his first screenplay). That it was touched up by as Three Stooges scripter and directed by a Three Stooges director, Edward Bernds, didn’t help.
That sounds ridiculous, but aside from Moulin Rouge and Touch of Evil, it’s the only non-cameo movie role I saw her in.
Zsa Zsa was more tabloid fodder than actress, like the oft-compared Kardashians. They have their own entry in Jan and Michael Stern’s Encyclopedia of Bad Taste.
I wish that she’d gone a lot earlier, when she was still Zsa Zsa, but I’m glad that such as it was she went peacefully. I just hope that due to her advanced age and round the clock medical care for years that when her estate is settled there’s nothing left for her sleazoid pseudo-aristocrat husband.
The Gabor sisters were their own category: a link between the courtesans like Ninon de Lenclos and Madame Pompadour and today’s incomparably less elegant celebutantes. It’s impossible to compare Zsa Zsa to her step-great-granddaughter (of course as many times as she was married there’s a chance she has step-great-grandchildren reading this thread) Paris Hilton- there’s no mystery or wit or style to Paris. If there were nude photos of any Gabor sisters you can be sure they were artful and in a discreet album in their boudoir. I suppose the biggest difference between them and today’s celebutantes is that to the Gabors a “spread” in a magazine wasn’t a verb.
Funny, I have Queen Of Outer Space in a DVD collection. I couple of weeks ago I thought about watching it. (I’d seen it before, and it’s really bad.)
I’ll give this to her, she was a lot more self-aware than the “famous for being famous” we have today. After her “cop-slapping” incident she had a cameo in the opening credits for The Naked Gun 2-1/2. The segment ended with the “police car” pulling over her Rolls-Royce, her getting out, walking up to the “police car,” and slapping the roof light. As she went back to her car she muttered “Ugh! Zis happens every fucking time when I go shopping!”
Dr. Demento played a song about her, performed by Jeff Weinstein and sung to the tune of “Girl from Ipanema”:
*Short and fat and pale and sixty
That pudgy loud Hungarian pixie
Is giving me nausea, her name is Zsa Zsa,
Who cares?
What makes her above the law?
She slapped a cop right on the jaw!
There’s people in breadlines
But she gets the headlines
Who cares?
Oh, she thinks she’s a big shot;
Oh, but she’s just a big snot;
Oh, with a brain like a kumquat;
And can’t anyone keep her mouth shut,
It’s almost as big as her butt!
There’s no ifs or even a maybe,
On trial is America’s biggest crybaby;
Give her the chair or deport her somewhere, I don’t care!
I really don’t care!
Ask me if I care!*
Olivia de Havilland has her now beat. She already turned 100 this past July.
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s adopted son has died. Forty-five-year-old Oliver Prinz Von Anhalt was involved in a motorcycle crash in Los Angeles on 18 December, and fell into a coma. He died Christmas Day.
Damn. That means she adopted him at 64 years old!
45+64=109.
He was adopted as an adult. Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt and Gabor were paid to adopt at least ten adult males, including Oliver Prinz von Anhalt.
Yep, that’s also how her husband got his “title” in the first place.
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Math is hard.
Nah. She said in April of 2016 that she wanted to move back to Hungary in 2017.
One of my favorite Zsa Zsa clips is of her and David Letterman driving around in a Pontiac convertible eating at a bunch of fast food restaurants. She was a class act all the way.
Did she speak Hungarian?