RIP Tinto Brass

 Tinto Brass, Italian mastro of the Erotica was 93...

Salon Kiltty, Calogula, La Chiave, paprika...

https://variety.com/2026/film/global/tinto-brass-dead-caligula-salon-kitty-1236939212/

Deep Purple: Game Over ?

Saw Deep Purple for the seventh time or so on Oct. 1st in Cluj. 

Wrote about it on Sunete Live here.

Deep Purple in Rock Forever Cluj, BT Arena, 1 octombrie 2026

It was the 2nd concert of the tour and I was fearing Ian Gillan is too frail to keep on going and finish the tour that was suppose to went on 'til the end of November, with sold-out shows at Apollo Hammersmith in London. 

And Saturday the inveviable happened, Gillan went to hospital and Leipzig and the next two dates were 'postponed' or 'rescheduled'. And tonight the announcerment broke:

RIP Patrick Stewart

Sir  Patrick Stewart, aka Professor X (Charles Xavier) and Jean-Luc Picard is gone to the Final Frontier at 86...

The Brit shakespearian actor achieved fame via SF series fandom and comicbook fodder (Marvel's X Men) but my fondlier memories of him are from way back, as in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981) and Gurney Halleck in David Lych's Dune (1984). 

Or the villain from  Deran Sarafian's Gunmen (1993), the evil Dr. Jonas in Richard Donner's Conspiracy Theory (1997), captain Ahab in the Moby Dick mini series (1998) and captain Nemo on Russell Mulcahy's Mysterious Island (2005, Hallmark), and another villain in Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room (2015). Or his cameo as King Richard in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).

And of course as himself in an episode of Ricky Gervais' Extras (2005), where he was funny as hell.

RIP Elke Sommer

 Elke Sommer, another link with Peter Sellers after Peter Medak...

A Shot in the Dark (1954, the 2nd Pink Panther flick), or how my buddy T. calls it, Maria Gambrelli, the maid who killed the chauffeur ;) 

Lisa and the Devil -Mario Bava's Exorcist rip-off.

And Bava's Baron Blood.

Bond girl in the non Bond Matt Helm's Wrecking Crew (1968, next to Sharon Tate, film that was shown in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood!)