Zita the Greek

Zita Görög is in Hungarian girlie magazines, she's Queen Latifah's voice in the Hungarian version of Taxi, she's a supermodel. She's the host of Megasztár and the star of a December romantic farce in Hungary. Sex, sex, sex scream the ubiquitous placards and so does the sheet-clad, hot-from-the shower Zita upon them. She's everywhere in her native Magyarország.

A true woman among women, Hungarian Zita Görög is about to become bigger, albeit slowly, her reputation growing beyond Hungary. Sex appeal is what she's selling, and it's still first Hungarian, hot second. Zita has starred in one American film to popular acclaim, and was shredded by a vampire pack in another to popular acclaim among cult horror-film buffs.

The film 8mm 2 might just threaten to push Zita the Greek (for "görög" in Hungarian translates as "Greek.") over the edge in Hollywood, the tip of the top, the crème de la crème of international popcorn cinema. 8mm 2 is a barely-related sequel to the 1999 Joel Schumacher film centered on snuff films starring Nicolas Cage. Zita's has J.S. Cardone (who?) for a director and stars Lori Heuring (who?), Johnathon Schaech (who?), Alex Scarlis (you get the point) in a straight-to-video plotline that sounds hokier than ten or twelve Drew Barrymore films put together: A Budapest resident and American politico has a ménage a trois with his bride-to-be and good old Zita Görög. Hungarian starlets on American film never looked better.

No matter, there's further hope for the career of the gorgeous Hungarian. Zita drew enough attention while being beautifully torn apart by vampires in Underworld among the horror flick geek crowd that a prequel, Underworld: Evolution, was written for the sole purpose of putting Zita in the star role. Zita Görög plus blood and long teeth? Hmmm, seems sure to make her the Sybil Danning of the 2000s.

So not a bad little resume for a woman twenty-seven years of age from a mining family in the teeny-weeny village of Nagybátony, in Nograd County, Hungary. This woman among women all the Hungarian men dream of rides her star rising still. And guess what, boys: She divorced that Canadian actor (Chris Kramer by name, but who cares?) and so she's single again. Go, Zita!