Brian Dennehy RIP

Brian Dennehy has left us today :( He was 81...
He was the ultimate badass sheriff, Will Teasle, trying to mess with Rambo...in FIRST BLOOD (1982), the First film, where John Rambo was supposed to die and then we would not get ...Rambo V...  well now...
But then on the golden age of video (read-the 80's;) I saw him on Cocoon, Legal Eagles, Gorky Park, F/X-Murder By Illusion and the sequel, Silverado, Best Seller, Miles from Home, so on...
Wherever he showed up he filled the screen, massive big man with a great grand smile, but he could be evil too. Big was also an understatement, he was six foot 3 (1.90 m) tall and massive. For me he was like a father figure, sever or suave, smart and wise.
He was a great theater actor, won two Tony awards, won a Golden Globe for The Death of a Salesman TV movie in 2000, did a lot of TV.
One odd, strange choice brought him one of the best parts of his career, Peter Greenaway's The Belly of  an Architect (1987).  He was Ted Montague in Baz Luhrman's 1996 reinvention of Romeo + Juliet.
Last time I saw him on the Hap and Leonard TV series, season two (2017), as a redneckish sheriff, not that far from the one from First Blood and many other tough characters that he played so well...

obituary in The New York Times here. 

Malone Sibun-Live From Home @Transilvania Blues Nights

Joi 14 aprilie 2020, ora 21.00 EEST

Au fost de două ori la Transilvania Blues Nights. Live.

Acum vin a treia oară, tot live, dar de ACASĂ.
Come Together: Live from Home cu Marcus Malone & Innes Sibun

care ne vor cânta câteva piese live, sincronizați de la distanță!

Apoi vom transmite în premieră și înregistrarea concertului de la Rockstadt din 31.01.2020.
#TransilvaniaBluesNights #LetThereBeBlues #MaloneSibun #LiveFromHome #StaySafe
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They were live for Transilvania Blues Nights twice. Now they return for the third time. Still live, but from HOME!
Come Together: Live from Home with Marcus Malone & Innes Sibun, playing a couple of live songs, remotely sync'd! Afterwards we will broadcast for the first time their Rockstadt concert from 31.01.2020!
#TransilvaniaBluesNights #LetThereBeBlues #MaloneSibun #LiveFromHome #StaySafe

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                                      and now on youtube:

next week, signore Dany Franchi !!!

RIP Honor Blackman

"I must be dreamin'...."

She might've been the oldest Bond Girl,
wait no, that is Monica Bellucci in Spectre, but that was a Bond wo-man, and a widow too .),
but she made HIStory, back there in 1964 and GOLDFINGER
The name is/was and always will be Pussy Galore, and that's plenty :)
Mrs. Honor Blackman was very English and very 38 years at the time, which would made her a veeery mature woman in Bond's swingin sixties world !
She might have died also the oldest Bond woman, on April 6th 2020, at 94 !!!
She was also a fierce  Avenger, that is before those Marvel comics...she left the series to to Bond and that is her major legacy, but lookie here:
Blackman learned judo for the role. The experience helped spur her to co-write the 1966 book Honor Blackman’s Book of Self-Defence, a book that, as NBC News notes, was “among the first books about martial arts aimed at young women.”
obituary in Rolling Stone, here 

                                                    "You can turn off the charm, I am imune !"
well, now...:(

RIP Bill Withers (& SOTD)

Ain't No Sunshine When He's Gone...
Bill Withers was 81 and he retired from the music scene back in 1985.


(SOTD) 2day: Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder and John Legend perform "Lean On Me" at the 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

Essential listening: Live at Carnegie Hall, his album from 1972, released in 1973
*Rolling Stone ranked the recording 27th on the magazine's list of the 50 greatest live albums.*