Marcos Behmaras, humorist, writer. (Matanzas)
Born in Jovellanos, Matanzas, spent his childhood and part of his youth there. Then he moved to the capital, where he graduated in accounting from the School of Commerce. During the dictatorship of Batista, was arrested and booked.
In 1944 the leftist magazine circulated Mella, where ironically his writings the darkest time of the policy issues. Many of his writings were unsigned. It was in this magazine where it first appeared Pucho, the dog that had the “grace” of wetting Batista.
He studied accounting but very young turned to writing radio programs, what stood out sharply, and later television.
Marcos Behmaras was the first writer of the popular television program DETRAS DE LA FACHADA, and the author of the book that could be used as a weapon to kill a man laughing. I refer to the Reader’s Salaciones Indigest, also an imitation of the popular Reader’s Digest Selections. Headed humorous supplement Sable, the newspaper Juventud Rebelde.Había started his career as a librettist in the station Mil Diez the Popular Socialist Party, but his status as leader gave him the ability to target both relief stations like Radio Progreso and Radio Havana Cuba . By then he had already released the underground magazine Mella and created comic characters as unique as the dog Pucho and Supertiñosa (drawn both by Virgilio Martínez), the latter a caricature “Cuban style” of American Superman.
Sergio Nicols, director and actor in radio, claimed that Marcos Behmaras … “as head of programming decided Madness Radio Mil Diez, who used sound effects, characters and tricks to produce laughter. Marcos brings me one day a script related to The Isle of Parrots, I read, I crossed off a few things, but there were others that were interesting. This was his first script and from that moment began to write this program. “Thus arose the Behmaras would achieve be felt through the radio, television and theater.
To the first he wrote a detective series (Heroes of Justice) and a talk show (World Today). After majoring in scripts thriller, he wrote for television the voltage space (in addition to creating other programs like The Novel and Theatre, along with a block of programs dedicated to children), a fact that placed him as the undisputed father of the dramatized continuity for television. Even in 1958 he premiered Mom telenovela, which remained in the air for nearly two and a half years, with rates of hearing tele difficult to overcome. Another of his contributions, no longer used, was the introduction of the narrator on television. Until then (and since its invention by Felix B. Caignet), the narrator was only used on the radio. The first time that appealed to him was on the show DETRAS DE LA FACHADA, with the character played by Consuelito Vidal, who commented and narrated situations that developed the actors, while he remained invisible to them.
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For the theater, likewise. In 1960 the play premiered curtain bagasse, which was on the visit to Cuba of a Yankee journalist who only knew the island by what he had seen in Hollywood movies. Even earlier, in 1948, earned a mention in the contest ADAD Death landed and had led the Group Theatre in 1951, located in the Cultural Society Our Time.
The names of the characters in his texts are a sign of the sense of humor of Marcos Behmaras: Tom Isaboy, Jack Bodrio, Creolina Zabaleta, Dolores Fuertes, Lily Sedan, Megaterio Gonzalez Güinfredo Zeppelin, Polin Mechado (by Corin Tellado), Charles Ketchup , Goyito Pachorra, Pedro Vistilla, Hermenegildo Canallón Yarini, Ketty Guapachá, aka Flavor; Ciriaco Stifle, Margolis Skunk, alias Churre ball; Gumtree Razorwind, Güindemaro Late alias Slow Motion; Estreptococa Mapangre, aka the Serpent; Quintilian Squandering, Xenophon Moth, Hal Laporra, and countless others as well. Even the titles of their works and prepare the reader for what lies ahead: Can the hot dog beat the Russians? Maltrata a black or a white peaceful citizen. In Supertiñosa, the Star CIA agent named Pancho Tareco, and is nothing more than a mockery of the true agent of the comics Clark Kent.
He married María del Carmen Hernández and had four children: Mark Behmaras, who works in international relations, Elisa Behmaras, is wife of Alexander Gonzáles (Ambassador of Cuba in Spain), María del Carmen Behmaras, he is a Cuban singer living in Mexico and Carlos Behmaras, is a cardiologist at Angeles hospital Interlomas (Mexico) .It was director of Radio Progreso, Radio Havana Cuba, and the humorous weekly the Sable and vice president of ICR, a position he held when he died in an accident in the mountains of Baracoa in 1966.
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