Ioan Gyuri Pascu is back

The “Pinocchio” Salon, organised at the Palace Hall, will host today the launch of the third volume in the “Povestile lui Gyuri” (Gyuri’s stories), called “Aventurile lui Chili Ramirez” (The adventures of Chili Ramirez), a mouse famous all over Mexico, the fear of Los Gatos, the city of cats. One of his most interesting stories was the one we discovered on the Divertis site on the Internet: a romanced story of his life. ” The year 1961 brought great losses to the Romanian culture,” he begins his story; “Sadoveanu and Blaga were physically expelled from it.

It was time a new culture was born. Nobody suspected on August 31 of that year that in the village of Agnita, in the county of Brasov, the dark, two pound baby of comrade Pascu will be the prize and glory of the town. The baby grew like no other and when he entered high school he stood five feet tall. He talked soon in life and even today he is hard to stop. Because he has a small body, his mind pulls double shifts. A self-taught intellectual, he reads, sings, dances and finally fails the exam for acting classes. He serves the country under arms and lifts his head with great pains over the butt of the rifle to remind his CO that army and mind are a bit like the rail tracks – not long but parallel.

Loved by every one he finally leaves the army arrest in April 1982. Determined to be an actor at any cost, he fails two more exams at the Film and Theatre Academy and he finally gets admitted (third time’s a charm) in Cluj. He plays theatre and gains weight. Divertis group has use for a chubby so he gets hooked. After the Revolution he was “the small, fat and bearded guy at Divertis.” Slowly he turns into the “small funny guy at Divertis.” Then he metamorphoses into “Ioan Gyuri Pascu, the guy who also sings.” Then “what, comedian and singer?” Then “That’s too much. Now he wants to do movies, too?” what remains to be seen is whether this is the story that “The adventures of Chili Ramirez” is based on.