Mostly True Tales

This is me with the son of Bela Lugosi. Unfortunately, I can’t recall his first name. This picture was taken by my good friend, the Amazing Zucchini, at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, April 21st, 2001.

It actually took me a while to find this picture as I couldn’t remember the year it was taken. After I found it, I went on a search for the name of this gentleman, to no avail. However, I did run across the Bela Lugosi site, which is fantastic. The bio featured on the site, I believe to be written by this same man. He refer’s to Lugosi as “Dad,” but never states his own name. I guess everyone asks the same questions, because many of the same questions I asked that evening are answered in the bio.

A few days ago, early in the morning, TCM or AE (one of them), was featuring Bela Lugosi movies. After getting my morning coffee and sitting down to read the news, I noticed playing on the TV was the 1931 classic, Dracula.

I would venture to guess I’ve seen this movie a couple hundred times. I even own it as part of a Bela Lugosi box set, so it was just background material as I enjoyed my morning coffee and read the news from my laptop.

It’s weird when you’ve seen a movie several times and suddenly you notice something you’ve never appreciated before. If you ask me, that’s the sign of a really great movie.

So I’m sitting there, reading the news with Dracula in the background, and suddenly, as if I’m hearing it for the first time, I notice the fantastic sound track of this movie. Out of curiosity, I did a search for the music and found it, performed by the Phillip Glass Quartet, on my favorite top secret music site, allofmp3.com. If you like strings, you’ll love it. I would have to call it extraordinary, even Amazing.

So watching this movie for the umpteenth time and listening to the soundtrack prompted the memory of this moment.

That’s the story and I’m sticking to it.

UPDATE 1/9/2006: I received an email from Timothy B. Lugosi (who, I assume is the Grandson), here’s what he had to say. . .

[Bela Lugosi] He had only one child, a son, and his name is Bela G. Lugosi. Thanks for the interest!

TIMOTHY B. LUGOSI
PASADENA COMPUTER WORKS

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