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 nameStanislaw Ponte Preta.[1]
Porto was born inRio de Janeiro, and began his journalistic career in the late 1940s, writing for such publications asSombra andManchete magazines and the newspapersÚltima Hora,Tribuna da Imprensa andDiário Carioca. In the same periodTomás 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 byOswald de Andrade. 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 pageantAs Certinhas do Lalau, which featuredvedettes such asAnilza Leoni, 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),anews satire column where he made corrosive jokes against themilitary dictatorship, and the social moralism of his time.[2][3] Porto died in 1968, before the dictatorship'sInstitutional Act n°5, that established censorship in the Brazilian press.
As Stanislaw Ponte Preta
As Sérgio Porto
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