The Cologne Theater Performs "Ballad of the Whiskey Robber"
at LitCologne 2007, the literary festival in Cologne, Germany
For video of the event, click here
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On the Emerging Filmmaker Jury at the
2007 Denver International Film Festival
before announcing Stephane Gauger's
the Owl and the Sparrow as the winner.
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Recording "Ballad of the Whiskey Robber"’
at Gramercy Post Studios, NYC
Clockwise from left: Writer/performer Barry Yourgrau,
Producer Joe Mendelson, Writer Arthur Phillips,
Writer/performer Eric Bogosian,
Writer Gary Shteyngart (seated),
Writer Julian Rubinstein (back facing).
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Gary Shteyngart, Julian Rubinstein and
Arthur Phillips during the recording sessions. |
Tommy Ramone, of the Ramones, a native Hungarian
whose real name is Tommy Erdelyi
(or Tommy "Transylvania"),
during the recording sessions.
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Daily Show contributor and comedian extraordinaire
Demeitri Martin reading from Ballad of the Whiskey Robber.
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Julian Rubinstein and Jonathan Spottiswoode of
Spottiswoode and His Enemies during the recording
session. |
Author Darin Strauss during the recording sessions. |
Attila, in disguise, captured on bank surveillance camera,
about to pull off his 29th and final bank robbery, October
18, 1999, Budapest. |
Julian Rubinstein during the recording of
the song Ballad of the Whiskey Robber.
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Attila Ambrus, aka the "Whiskey Robber," behind glass,
in prison in Satoraljuahely, Hungary, June, 2003.
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Attila Ambrus, arguably the worst hockey goalie in the
history of the sport, once gave up 23 goals in a single
game as goaltender of Hungary's formerly vaunted UTE
pro club. He lived a double life throughout the 1990s as
both a pro goalie for UTE, Budapest's best-known team,
and as the "Whiskey Robber," Eastern Europe's
most infamous bandit.
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