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Curro Romero left Las Ventas one afternoon in July 87 threatened with death
and on his way to the police station, where he spent the night among whores and thieves for refusing to kill his first bull of the afternoon, already bullfighting, which made him spend more fatigued than the bill.
Antoñete
and
Rafael de Paula
witnessed the outrage of a fan who jumped from the cement to the ring to knock the
Pharaoh of Beds down
against the boards.
In one hand the entrance;
in the other, a roll of toilet paper.
The downpour of brick-hard pads -experience made Curro discover that in Madrid they weighed more than in Seville, where they were hovering- rose up in a ring from where the bullfighter,
a man who only fled from the rush
, escaped escorted by the national police.
At the exit,
200 people
waited for the camero shouting
"scoundrel"
and
"coward
.
"
Although the press dedicated its covers to the scandal, far from destroying
a legend forged in the cyclothymia of success and anger
, many of those present went to see it at the next bullfight. The wife of
Francisco Miguel Galayo
, spontaneous that pushed him, explained why her husband, described by neighbors as a quiet person and an exemplary husband, jumped to the exalted arena:
"It currista of life"
.
The journalist
Juan Diego Madueño
explains the phenomenon
: "Curro was difficult to understand because in front of him the mass is extinguished. It
put the fans before their miseries. It
generated rejection in the herd. It made the public wonder if the life they recommended us to lead had meaning. ,
that roll of the aspirations
, routine and regularity. Curro no attention to the conventions. "
Raised in Gambogaz, the farm that Seville gave to
Queipo de Llano
after the war, treated of you at the age of five and a poor son and swineherd of two peasants who never argued, Curro Romero threw himself in the grass while taking care of the sheep to listen to the distant oles that the wind dragged from the Maestranza to your ears.
It was the same gentleness with which bullfighting was revealed in a man whose only aspiration, like Camarón, was loneliness
: to fight slowly, calmly, caressing the bull with a pygmy cape. What ran from his hair to the nail of his big toe.
Not even the silence of Seville satisfied those whose favorite public was tennis
.
"He fought slowly when he felt like it and his only ambition was to be left alone. How could they understand it? Being understood is overrated. Maintaining balance is a fiasco.
Curro, luckily, was indecipherable in the ring,
" continues Madueño.
Curro in front of the Maestranza in 1999.MANOLO DEL POZO
"What happens to Curro is that when he fights, accoutrements, bull and bullfighter, he goes at the same time," said
Salomón Vargas
, the gypsy with the name of king and surname Calé who taught him to fight. Because Curro spent more time with gypsies than with non-payos, until he retaliated for a pain dragged all his life for not being treated like a child, that's why he played with his dolls, to talk to the bull about you. The naturalness expressed by those who did not show their suspenders when throwing. "Resource bullfighters need many faculties. An artist also has to be strong, but he needs it less, because
the important thing is to be able to give 15 or 20 passes when the others need to give at least 80 so that people find out something
",
Antonio Burgos would
write through the mouth of the bullfighter in his biography
Curro Romero, the essence.
Many were those who saw it for dozens of afternoons without even an ear wandering, those remains that he was disgusted to hold, because "before they cut a tip, now it is a steak with all the white hanging".
That is why it was said that to see Curro you had to be one of his gang;
And that is why the
seven big doors in Madrid and the five in Seville
of those who have to go to the dictionary to discover the meaning of the
record
word are
surprising
: 40 afternoons was his season with the most bullfights, that of 73.
The four in Seville of brawl and whistles, of escapism among the objects that fell from the stands like cluster bombs.
So passed the 70s.
"CURRO, I HATE YOU"
Because Curro measured himself against the world, against his world.
Not against
El Cordobés
in '63, day and night, refused the marquetin of poverty;
nor against
Rafael de Paula
, same elf, same angel;
nor against
Paco Camino
, some local and initiatory duels that ended with the release of rockets from the supporters of the winner.
"Qué Camino and Qué Romero"
was sung in Beds.
Rain of pads for Curro Romero in the Maestranza in Seville.
In April 79, one of the most disappointing years of his career, one of the most
curristas
, the greatest manifestation of love for the bullfighter was heard:
"Curro I hate you
.
"
The bullfighter told Burgos that it was the same voice that later asked him for 100 more seasons.
Because the fights are taken by the air and the
cornás
is taken by one.
Another time he heard a
"Curro, socialista"
, for annoying, although he refused the commitment to offer the bulls to the ministers of the
UCD
: "He did not agree with submission when there was a dictatorship, he would receive communion when there was freedom ...". Also the usual
"Curro, learn"
of the
anticurristas
, Taliban infiltrated a stand full of rosemary bushes on the lapel;
thrown, if it was not Curro's day, most of the time, well, to other bullfighters.
When for
Doña María de las Mercedes
, mother of King Don Juan Carlos, they then became dandelions.
The aroused passions ended the
currismo
ended up in the courts.
And won.
On March 10, 1998,
José Domingo Ruíz Florencio
, driver of a sanitation company, was fired after insulting a client, offended after a comment about Curro Romero "in a jocular tone."
"Whoever has the balls to say that to my face,"
snapped the fervent currista.
The worker appealed the dismissal and began a judicial journey that ended in the
Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia
.
Santiago Romero Bustillo, president of the room and renowned
currista
,
agreed
with José Domingo: "(...) Regular customers, aware of the plaintiff's hobby and his
currista
sentiment
, (...)
creator of a permanent illusion, of an unconditional hope and of a way of understanding life
, for which it demands the utmost respect from those who do not - or do - have it, "foreseeable the reaction of those who" logically and naturally consider themselves offended. "
The cult of
currismo was shielded
.
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