Media Reviews

Silvian Centiu ’93, a former revolutionary in his native Romania, may have failed in his one-time plan to assassinate former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu …

Centiu bitingly describes life in Romania in the 1980s, where people use humor as a way of dealing with food shortages, rationed electricity, and the many other problems of living in a totalitarian state …

Here’s a guy who lived through San Leandro’s crawl from racist pit to poster city for diversity, and another who made the trek from Eastern Bloc oppression to Oracle’s upper management …

Storytelling. Why is it so difficult these days? Are there no real heroes left? It seems the art of weaving reality and the hero’s quest into a good story has been turned on its head by television studios …

Es un fascinante relato de la vida real de Silvian Centiu, un inmigrante Rumano que nos cuenta sus experiencias, en un lapso de 70 minutos, desde su vida …

Centiu’s adventures range from trekking across Europe as a refugee to learning how to speak English from used car salesmen, and he sets out to prove that these adventures are worth hearing …

After fleeing Cold War-era Romania, he lived as a refugee under a bridge in Vienna. Later he came to the United States, where he couldn’t even get a job delivering pizza …