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The Cologne Theater Performs "Ballad of the Whiskey Robber"
at LitCologne 2007, the literary festival in Cologne, Germany
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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.


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).


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.

 



Daily Show contributor and comedian extraordinaire
Demeitri Martin reading from Ballad of the Whiskey Robber.

 


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.



Attila Ambrus, aka the "Whiskey Robber," behind glass,
in prison in Satoraljuahely, Hungary, June, 2003.

 



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.