Manolis Chiotis Mary Linda -- From the movie "My friend Lefterakis"
Strike me pink! This is how I imagine every night ended in the clubs of Athens. Balloons! Smiles! Kisses! Clowns with cocktails! Spinning faces! Everyone blotto! Yet more from Manolis Chiotas and Mary Linda!
The name of the song might be "From the Butchers Shop". I'm not positive about that.
Sometimes the difference between perception and reality is laid bare, and never more so than here. I thought that the tipsy fellow who we meet while he he is engaged in a major PDA and who ends up florencing with his new friends... I thought he was kind of a likable extra in many of the Manolis Chiotis / Mary Linda videos -- an extra who would, on occasion, play a mean baglama*; instead he was one of Greece's big movie stars and these videos are excerpts from his movies (and it is MC/ML who are the extras).
Yes, the drunkalist with the loose lips is the man himself, Dinos Iliopoulis, and his filmography is extensive. My favorite titles from his Wikipedia page include...
- Wild Jokes in the Classroom
- Amazing, Different, and Good Looking
- A Priest's wife at the Bouzouki Joints
- Rocker in the Morning, Chambermaid at Night
- Wheels, Schoolbags and Hookey No. 3 (sic)
- A Short Man Will Save Us
- Cucumbers Here and Now
I sure hope I get to see some of these in their entirety! For now, here is three minutes and four seconds of bliss...
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