Sid Haig RIP

Captain Spaulding is no more ...
just before the release of 3 From Hell, the 3d part of Rob Zombie's Devil Rejects Odyssey that started with his 1st film, The House of 1000 Corpses (2003), Sid Haig, aka Captain Spaulding passed away. He was 80.

His debut was in Jack Hill's Spider Baby in 1967. His eclectic career includes tons of TV, but also THX 1138, Emperor of the North, Fred Olen Smith flicks but he was in many blaxploitation flicks (Tarantino was a big fan, put him in Jackie Brown, his homage to the genre, and in Kill Bill 2), presenting him to a new generation. Recently he had a fun part in Bone Tomahawk.

Here is a video tribute:

Eddie Money RIP

unsung hero of FM Rock, died at 70 !
his songs i know from  all the cheesy films of nostalgia and parody, most recently The Beach Bum ! Well, Eddy made it in money and now he can spend it in space....
check out his story:

and cool (and sad enough :( Reo Speedwagon honored him LIVE today:

Bond 25

Daniel Craig vs. Freddie Mercury aka Mr. Robot !
And after Spectre,  Christoph Walz returns as Blofeld !
after Live and Let Die, Tomorrow Never Dies and Die Another Day, now there;s... No Time to Die ! though some of us already think this franchise is dead already but let's give it another try !
Directed by Cary Ioji Fukunaga (SIn Nombre, Beasts of No Nation, True Detective season 1)

Peter Fonda RIP

Mr. Easy Rider went for a last ride, ...:(
Peter Fonda was 79, Easy Rider is 50 this year, and he was in Cannes Classics and at Cinema de la Plage presenting it. It won here when it was presented back in 1969. Missed him by 10 minutes :(
My DVD has Dennis Hopper's autograph on it, the film is still the bastion of counter-culture...-
Peter Fonda, Hollywood royalty as the son of Henry, was against it !  He was  "Born to be Wild". Wyatt (from Earp ?) aka Captain America, who expresses the remains of the American Dream:
"We Blew it"...

I 1st saw Peter as a kid in the sequel to Westword, Futureworld (1976, in Romania as Evadati din viitor), but later on I had the pleasure of seeing the essential Corman biker picure The Wild Angelas in The Trip, Race with the Devil, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, 92 in the Shade. Comeback with Ulee's Gold, Ocar nominated. The Limey, fun cameo bit on Escape from L.A., Mephistopheles in Ghost Rider
He directed The Hired Hand in 1971, a great and very little seen odd anti-western. He had a bit in The Last Movie, of his friend and sometimes fiend Dennis Hopper. His other friend was Warren Oates and they were in a lot of films together, and of course Jack Nicholson whose career was kickstarted by Easy Rider.

Brother of Hanoi Jane, father of Bridget. One of "the last of the only ones" ....