Sérgio Marcus Rangel Porto (January 11, 1923 – September 30, 1968) was a Brazilian columnist, writer, broadcaster and composer. He was better known by his pen name Stanislaw Ponte Preta.
Porto was born in
Rio de Janeiro
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, and began his journalistic career in the late 1940s, writing for such publications as ''Sombra'' and ''
Manchete
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'' magazines and the newspapers ''
Última Hora'', ''Tribuna da Imprensa'' and ''Diário Carioca''. In the same period
Tomás Santa Rosa also acted in several newspapers and newsletters as an illustrator. It was then that the character Stanislaw Ponte Preta and his satirical and critical chronicles was born, a creation of Porto along with Santa Rosa - the character's first illustrator - inspired by the character Serafim Ponte Grande by
Oswald de Andrade
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. Porto has also contributed to music publications and wrote musical shows for nightclubs, as well as composing the song "Samba do Crioulo Doido" for revue theater.
He was also the creator and producer of the beauty pageant ''As Certinhas do Lalau'', which featured
vedettes such as
Anilza Leoni
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, Diana Morel, Rose Rondelli, Maria Pompeo, and Irma Alvarez, and of the FEBEAPÁ - Festival de Besteira que Assola o País (''Festival of Nonsense that Sweeps the Country''),a
news satire
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column where he made corrosive jokes against the
military dictatorship
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The reverse situation is to have civilian control of the m ...
, and the social moralism of his time.
Porto died in 1968, before the dictatorship's
Institutional Act n°5, that established censorship in the Brazilian press.
Published works
As Stanislaw Ponte Preta
*''Tia Zulmira e Eu'' (1961)
*''Primo Altamirando e Elas'' (1962)
*''Rosamundo e os Outros'' (1963)
*''Garoto Linha Dura'' (1964)
*''FEBEAPÁ1 (Primeiro Festival de Besteira que Assola o País)'' (1966)
*''FEBEAPÁ2 (Segundo Festival de Besteira que Assola o Pais)'' (1967)
*''Na Terra do Crioulo Doido'' (1968)
*''FEBEAPÁ3'' (1968)
*''A Máquina de Fazer Doido'' (1968)
*''Gol de Padre''
As Sérgio Porto
*''A Casa Demolida'' (1963)
*''As Cariocas'' (1967)
*''A Velhinha Contrabandista'' (1967)
References
External links
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Brazilian humorists
Brazilian composers
Brazilian male writers
Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
1923 births
1968 deaths
20th-century composers
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