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Q: What would your long-range goal be? Summers: I’ve always said it was to set up a community in South America. I don’t know why it’s got to be South America; it could be anywhere in the world. You see, I believe that we, as Americans, as well as the British, the Germans, the French, have always taken. We’ve gone to other countries and taken, taken, taken, castrating the people, making them second-rate citizens in their own country. I’d like to go into a country where it isn’t expensive to do a lot of things and just give, let the people of this country retain their sense of themselves. I’d like people without any advantages or abilities to be trained so that they could then use that training in their own country. It’s almost a communistic theory - utopian, perhaps - because there are certainly a lot of people who are going to be greedy and people who are not going to, want to do certain things. But I don’t mind giving up what I have. My accountants are always telling me, “You’re spending too much!” And I tell them, “Tomorrow will come whether I have a penny in the bank or not.” I’m not afraid of tomorrow, and I’m not afraid to be hungry. I can risk whatever money I have because I know that with my own intelligence, with my strength, I will get back to where I was.” via Penthouse Magazine, circa ?

Q: What would your long-range goal be?

Summers: I’ve always said it was to set up a community in South America. I don’t know why it’s got to be South America; it could be anywhere in the world. You see, I believe that we, as Americans, as well as the British, the Germans, the French, have always taken. We’ve gone to other countries and taken, taken, taken, castrating the people, making them second-rate citizens in their own country. I’d like to go into a country where it isn’t expensive to do a lot of things and just give, let the people of this country retain their sense of themselves. I’d like people without any advantages or abilities to be trained so that they could then use that training in their own country. It’s almost a communistic theory - utopian, perhaps - because there are certainly a lot of people who are going to be greedy and people who are not going to, want to do certain things. But I don’t mind giving up what I have. My accountants are always telling me, “You’re spending too much!” And I tell them, “Tomorrow will come whether I have a penny in the bank or not.” I’m not afraid of tomorrow, and I’m not afraid to be hungry. I can risk whatever money I have because I know that with my own intelligence, with my strength, I will get back to where I was.”

via Penthouse Magazine, circa ?

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Mariska Hargitay Singing In Hungarian!

Ok so I found a video of my favorite actress Mariska Hargitay singing a Hungarian song. Mariska Hargitay is the daughter of 50’s sex symbol Jayne Mansfield and Micky Hargitay a Hungarian body builder. She is an actress on Law & Order SVU, and plays the main character Olivia Benson. She speaks Hungarian, French, Italian (and of course English) fluently. So here is the link to the video, I’m not sure if you have ever posted it before. The link is to the video on my blog. If you can find it’s original sourse you can use that. I do not own that video, I just found it posted by someone else.

http://allycatk.tumblr.com/post/17986438622/mariska-singing-in-hungarian-this-is-sooooooooo

Thanks Allykat!

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Long before the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was known for wearing fashion ensembles from the French houses of Chanel, Givenchy, and Dior, she was studying abroad in France.

Of Irish descent on her mother’s side and French on her father’s, her first two years of college was spent at Vassar College, followed by her junior year in the south eastern area of France at the University of Grenoble. She returned to France later, attending the Sorbonne, located in Paris for a study-abroad program through Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

When she returned to the U.S., she transferred to The George Washington University, located in Washington, D.C., graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature in 1951.

During her late husband John F. Kennedy’s presidency she publicly displayed her fluency in French and Spanish, in addition to speaking in Italian and Polish in public.

Here is the television special shot in French in 1961, before the Kennedys were to visit France. The interview aired in France garnering praise from the public who were impressed with her French fluency, as well as her extensive knowledge of French history. She had Puerto Rican educator María Teresa Babín Cortés to thank for that, as she aided her in learning the French language.

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Actress Morena Baccarin speaks fluent Portuguese thanks to her Brazilian roots. She moved to New York at the age of 10 when her father, the Italian journalist Fernando Baccarin and Brazilian stage and TV actress mother, Vera Setta and attended the LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts and then the Juilliard School.

After college, she landed bit parts and appeared on Firefly, The O.C., Stargate SG-1, and Las Vegas before landing starring roles on the defunct shows, Heartland and V. You can see her on the Showtime series alongside Claire Danes in Homeland.

Video is from an episode of 2007’s defunct TV show, Heartland opposite Treat Williams.

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British actress Emma Thompson speaks French and Spanish fluently. She studied at the Camden School for Girls and the Newnham College at the University of Cambridge  where she was a member (along with fellow actors Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Tony Slattery) and vice-president of the university’s comedy troupe, the Footlights.

Here she promotes Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang in French for  leshistoiressansfin.com

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I had to work on my German, for sure — it was rusty — to get rid of certain vowel sounds which would obviously make me English-speaking, and just tighten the screws on that so there was something off about the accent, but not immediately ‘well, you’ve got to be English’ for that German audience and you know, my family. I wanted to get it as close to Hochdeutsche, which is high spoken German, as possible. So I went to see a coach pretty much every day. And in terms of finding the character himself, Quentin gave me all the inspiration — he said, ‘I see this as a young George Sanders,’ so basically he was like ‘I’ll organize and get the films for you,’ and I just watched as many as I could. Mainly ‘The Saint’ I took Hicox from that era, that physicality and way of speaking, which during the ’30s and the ’40s were very particular.

Michael Fassbender on brushing up on his German for Tarantino’s, Inglorious Basterds.

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Actress from the Fox TV series, Breaking In, Odette Annable (née Yustman) is fluent in Spanish. With a Cuban mother and Italian-French father who grew up in Nicaragua, Spanish was her first language she knew before learning English in grade school.

She made her acting debut playing a young, Spanish-speaking student named Rosa in Kindergarten Cop, and later moved on to various television shows and movies such as South Beach and October Road. She is most known for her breakthrough role in Cloverfield and the horror flick, The Unborn. 

Odette married Brothers & Sisters actor Dave Annable in 2010. In their wedding vows, she made him promise to learn Spanish and pass the language to her kids one day.

From Latina.com, “I made Dave promise me that he’d learn Spanish. He’s got the Rosetta Stone and I’m trying to teach him. He knows what a tenedor is, un cuchillo, una botella de agua, but he’s got a lot of work to do.”