Entertainment This Week: Who Wants to Be a Retard?
• "Legyen Ön is milliomos!" ("Who Wants to be a Millionaire?") host István Vágó says the rival show "Áll az alku!" ("Deal!") hosted by Gábos Gundel Takács is for idiots. On "Áll az alku!" (pictured right) people supposedly use statistics to guess how much money is in a suitcase, but Vágó says it's all about dumb luck. "If someone is stupid, they should just gamble, and if they are smart, they should try quiz games." But Gundel Takács disagrees: "I think both intelligent and less intelligent people like gambling, because it is a different kind of challenge." And don't forget the cowards! [Színes Bulvár lap]
• Noted actor Béla Paudits was recently released from a mental institution, just in time to take to the stage in the local production of the hit Broadway musical "The Producers" this summer, no doubt to many plaudits. [blikk.hu]
• Filmmaker Ferenc Rófusz celebrated the 25th anniversary of his short animated piece "A légy" ("The Fly"), which won an Academy Award despite not having a single homo cowboy in it. [rtlklub.hu]
• TV2 has canceled the long-running show "Buzera," on which viewers would send in strange or special words that contestants would have to figure out the meaning of. In case you are wondering, leveszik a műsorról is how you cancel a TV show in Hungarian. [origo.hu]
• TV2 will launch a show this fall called "Megatánc" ("Mega Dance") on which amateurs will strut their stuff, while RTL Klub will debut a program featuring famous people and professional dancers "competing" against each other. Both channels say they thought of the idea of a dance show first, though for the time being neither is accusing the other's show of being for retards. [index.hu]
• A show and workshop by world-famous belly-dancer Amar Gamal last weekend in Budapest was so successful that Gamal vows to return to Hungary again. [rtlklub.hu]
• Singer Adrienn Szekeres was named Eger's "Wine Ambassador" at the winemaker's ball in Eger over the weekend. Szekeres, it turns out, is from Eger, so we're not too steamed about her getting the job instead of us. [blikk.hu]
• Leading magazine publisher Sanoma Budapest has launched a new website called Tango.hu that sounds like it's about dancing, but is just for searching for whatever. [prim.hu]
• Massively irritating talking head Friderikusz's new show "Friderikusz, most" ("Friderikusz, Now") will not be launched now as planned, but in a few weeks, due to technical problems. [origo.hu]
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