USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

George Peppard played a Polish-American detective in an older TV series once, and even he caught a lot of nasty flack for the character being Polish.

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Ted Knight simply translated the Polish word for his last name into English:-)
He was though somewhat sensitive regarding 'Polish jokes'.
Once on Carson way back in the '80's, he appeared on the show alongside Buddy Hackett,
who typically made some sort of gaff and asked the show's host if he could tell this great
Polish joke he'd just heard, to which Ted Knight sharply retorted (although keeping up a
winning smile and calm), "Why don't you tell it in Polish?"

Buddy Hackett looked kind of chagrinned and ended up changing the subject.

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

While we're still on the subject, her former radio host, Curtis Sliwa, is half-Polish, half-Italian/Sicilian! Current replacement, Juliette Huddy's half Polish too.

:-)

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

I seem to recall some pretty harrowing scenes from the film "Przesluchanie" (1982). Anybody care to comment?

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Of Polish heritage then, perhaps?

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

No idea. News anchor?

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

In that case, it must be an Italian, 'cuz Clyde Barrow and Dillinger had more W.A.S.P.Y along with ever so slightly Native American features.

If the photo's of a Mafioso, I'm stumped, sorry!

@That's right, Pawian.

I also saw that film about Bugsy Siegel and boy was he a bad one! His boys would work a guy over just like John Gotti or the like, no difference.

He even attended synagogue in a swanky Miami Beach temple. Similar to, for example, Vinnie Azzaro, wearing a cross and going
to church on Sunday.

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Dutch Schulz (nee Arthur Flegenheimer), I think.
See, paw? The US had plenty of Jewish gangster types. Add his name to Bugsy Siegel, Louis Lepke (and Gurrah) plus a number of others.

Don't see what he has to do with Polish-Americans though.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

I mean that he's a new breed of actor, so nearly as I can tell. If you compare him with
Zbigniew Cybulski, Leon Niemczyk, Andrzej Lapicki, going back even further to Danuta Szaflarska,
he's more intense instinct rather than charm, almost a Polish James Dean, a sort of Rebel Without
A Clue (whoops, "Clause" or was that "Cause"LOL).

Understand what I'm saying? Caught some of "Jedwabne" on YouTube and several others films
he's played in and this is simply my own impression.

Just curious that's all what you think about him as a film performer:-)

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

What do you all think of Maciej Stuhr, that is, as a new style- type of actor?

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Precisely! Whoever that lone gunman was, he inadventently aimed at and shot Czermak, rather than Roosevelt. Pawian misunderstood the post.

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Indeed, Lenka.
I meant to write "KTOS sprobowal zabic.."

Too much late afternoon ZubrowkaLOL

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Czolgosz chcial zostac kandydatem. Leon Czolgosz wanted to be a candidate for US president.

W 1938r. ktokolwiek sprobowal zabic Roosevelt'a, ale on wypadkowo zastrzelal burmistrza Chicago Antona Czermaka!
Teraz zrozumiales, pawian?

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

...to be precise, pawian, a disappointed office seeker.
When FDR was nearly assassinated back in '38 during a campaign stop, the Polish-born mayor of Chicago, Anton Czermak, took the bullet instead.
Sadly, there are many among us who wished it would have been the other way round.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Thanks, paw!

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Remind me then in which film did he play a soldier or something similar.
Could have sworn it was "Kanal"!

Guess I was wrong. He's still a wonderful actor, and that voice:-)

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

I was impressed by Andrzej Lapicki's performance in "Kanal". Forget his character's name though.

History / Polish treasures in Sweden? [18]

Absolutely correct, paw!

If anything, the onus lies with Sweden who may well have '"purloined" said artifacts, as I already posted earlier.
It was once again, Sweden, not Poland, which had considerable trading hegemony throughout much of Europe during the 17th, up through the middle 19th century, only to be overtaken (with a vengeance, I might add) by Germany:-)

History / Polish treasures in Sweden? [18]

Ohhhho, Crow!
Be careful before you castigate your Swedish "brethren". After all, wasn't Rurik, the "first " Slav, actually an ancestor of the Swedes??!
:-)

History / Polish treasures in Sweden? [18]

As the realm of the Vasa extended well beyond her own native domain, not too much of a stretch that, as with the Hanseatic League, the Swedes might indeed have plundered Polish national icons.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]

Ask yourself first why said minorities were oppressed to begin with, and perhaps you'd have a different answer.

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

@Rich,
You should be smart enough to think of such lines! It was also true, as Hitler was to be sure the very worst scourge which modern humanity had yet encountered, not including of course Genghis Khan or later, the Crusaders, yet for totally different reasons.

Social Darwinism is also a disease, roots perhaps somewhere in Kant, later a misreading of Charles Darwin, whose "Survival of the Fittest" related
solely to the four-legged species of fauna, NOT MAN!!
:-)

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Yet many are still a bunch of separatists.

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

As the Victor Laszlo character in "Casablanca" said it best: "If we stop breathing, we die. If we stop fighting the world will die!"
Never in recorded human history were the battle lines more sharply drawn, nor was self-sacrifice more as much an unthinking matter of
course.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]

Appreciate the heads up there, B.B.
Will try to access the link provided and print out.
:-)

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Touche, Joker!
:-)

And he was a bad one, boy, just think back to the Dems National Convention in your home town back round about '68.
Dicky had the cops bash Dan Rather for asking too many questionsLOL

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Poles are to Chicago what Irish, Italians, and Hispanics are to New York, for example.

In addition, Chicago had its version of a "Polish mafia", dramatized in the classic "Calling Northside 777" (1947) with James Stewart, featuring a fictional Polish-American, down on his luck sort named Frank Wiecek (pronounced "WHEETCHECK in the movieLOL) and his involvement with the Meatpacking Mob, which our hero, Jimmy Stewart, tries to infiltrate!

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Not forgetting about renowned Polish-Americans from the Windy City, such as Art Royko.

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

You forgot Kazimierz Pulaski:-)

Of course, mike larry, that's my whole point in post #8!

Love / Just started dating Polish guy - what is typical of a man from Poland? Cultural differences. [78]

Beats me:-)