Saturday, June 25, 2005

Rade & Me - Rade i ja

Well, yesterday was one of the greatest days this year, so far.
It started normally - getting up, having breakfast, going to work. Then about noon, the most gorgeous girl called me and said she'll be coming in 30 minutes time so I could help her with her exam. The exam will be on Tuesday, June 28th - her birthday (we met on my birthday, when she also came for some help with the same professor), and her professor is a good friend of mine who went to work at the other faculty (which she is attending). So, she came, I explained her what I could, and we agreed for me to come to the exam.
When I walked her off, I came back to work, stayed there an hour or two, and then remembered that Rade Serbedzija (
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784884/), the greatest Yugoslav actor will be signing his book at a bookshop here in Belgrade, and decided to go there.
Just a quick note, so you don't have to go to the imdb site: Rade Serbedzija starred alongside Tom Cruise in Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" and in "Mission Impossible II", beside Brad Pitt in "Snatch.", and with Val Kilmer in "The Saint", and of course so many Yugoslav films before the wars...I got myself a book, it costs about 5.5 euros, and went over to him to sign it. I just said my name, he looked at me with the most sincere smile, and in his incredibly sweet and warm voice, with a perfect rhythm said "To Marko", and signed his name. I asked him if I could take a picture of us together on my mobile phone, and he said "Of course!". But, as some girl I gave my mobile to do it tried it, some press came in, and she didn't have the chance. I went outside for a walk, and got back in about half an hour, asked one of the ladies that worked there to do it, and she did. At the end, Rade and me shook hands, and I went home, thinking how I met the person (a great person) who worked with Kubrick, Cruise, Pitt, Kilmer…
When I got there, I started reading it, just the few first pages, and it was great. I could almost hear his voice, incredible in every possible way...

Pa, juce je bio jedan od najboljih dana ove godine, zasad.
Poceo je normalno - ustajanje, dorucak, odlazak na posao. Onda me je negde oko podneva zvala najdivnija devojka i rekla da ce doci za pola sata da joj nešto pomognem oko ispita. Ispit će biti 28. juna – na njen rođendan (upoznali smo se za moj rođendan, kada joj je tekođe trebala pomoć oko ispita kod istog profesora), a profesor joj je moj dobar prijatelj koji je prešao da radi na drugi fakultet (koji ona studira). I ona je došla, pomogao sam joj koliko sam mogao, i dogovorili smo se da i ja dođem na ispit.
Kada sam je ispratio, vratio sam se na posao, ostao još sat-dva, a onda sam se setio da će Rade Šerbedžija (
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784884/), najveći jugoslovenski glumac potpisivati svoju knjigu u jednoj knjižari ovde u Beogradu, i rešio da odem tamo.
Samo mala napomena za one koji ne žele da idu na stranicu imdb-a: Rade je glumio pored Toma Kruza u “Širom Zatvorene Oči“ Stenlija Kjubrika i “Nemogućoj misij 2“, pored Breda Pita u “Sneču“, pored Vala Kilmera u “Svecu“, i naravno u bezbroj jugoslovenskih filmova pre ratova…
Kupio sam knjigu za 440 dinara i prišao mu da je potpiše. Samo sam rekao svoje ime, on me je pogledao sa najiskrenijim osmehom, i svojim neverovatno prijatnim i toplim glasom savršenog ritma rekao “Marku“ i potpisao se. Pitao sam ga smem li da se slikam pored njega preko mobilnog telefona, a on je odgovorio “Naravno!“ Ali, dok je jedna devojka pokušavala da nas uslika, ušli su neki novinari i nije bilo prilike. Izašao sam napolje da prošetam, vrati se posle nekih pola sata i zamolio jednu drugu devojku koja je tamo radila da na fotografiše, što je ona i učinila. Rade i ja smo se rukovali i otišao sam kući razmišljajući o tome kako sam upoznao osobu (predivnu osobu) koja je radila sa Kjubrikom, Kruzom, Pitom, Kilmerom…
Kada sam stigao, počeo sam da je čitam, samo par prvih strana, i bilo je odlično. Skoro da sam mogao da čujem njegov u svakom pogledu savršeni glas…