Rapper -- via Consequence of Sound. He was a battle emcee, a freestyler, and a fine lyricist.
Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Dennis Taylor
Nashville session and stage saxophonist, and author of instructional texts -- via the Tennessean.
Fred Schuman aka Freddy 'Sez'
Legendary Yankees fan -- via the New York Daily News. Ate with him before the 2001 Division Series Game 5 against the A's, when Giambi forgot to slide. A crazy, cantankerous coot, and a great great fan. Here's a New York Times tribute to him.
Gregory Hart
Homeless man who got his wish, to live in a home of his own, for the last three years of his life -- via the Washington Post
Elizabeth "Missy" Barlow
Botanist and artist was granddaughter of pioneers, and lived in much the same primitive way -- via the Seattle Times
Eugene C. "Chip" West, Jr.
Businessman who specialized in tales and history of Wheeling, West Virginia -- via the Wheeling News-Register
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Janet MacLachlan
Actress in film and television -- via the Los Angeles Times. Here is a wonderful and well-deserved tribute to her from the folks at Bright Lights Film Journal:
Anne Schaddele Norris and Birger Juell
Couple who died together had memorable life together -- via Colleen Mastony at the Chicago Tribune.
John T. Williams
Carver whose death at hands of Seattle police sprks controversy -- via the Seattle Times.
Gloria Wasserman aka South Street Annie
Fixture of Fulton Fish Market and her fragmented life -- a great piece by Dan Barry in the New York Times.
Belva Plain
This incredibly popular writer completed more than 20 novels -- via the Star-Ledger. She started when she was 63. She wrote everything in longhand.
Yannis Dalianidis
Greek director of popular films of the 60's; later success with sitcoms -- via protothemo.gr.
Carly Henley
Promising singer/songwriter -- via King5.com. This 20-year-old University of Washington student took her own life.
Barbara Billingsley aka Barbara Lillian Combes
Actress -- via ABC-TV. She will be forever remembered as Mrs. Cleaver in "Leave It to Beaver"; she became the iconic Baby Boom mom. She was the modern Hestia, goddess of the hearth. In pearls and high heels, she served and supported in her suburban kingdom -- sexless, secure and compliant. An aseptic ideal.
Her work in "Airplane!" proved she had a great sense of humor as well.
Her work in "Airplane!" proved she had a great sense of humor as well.
Friday, October 15, 2010
John Alberhasky Sr
Ran John's Grocery in Iowa City -- via the Iowa City Press-Citizen. In business since 1948, it's the last independently-owned grocery in the city.
Simon MacCorkindale
Actor, director and producer -- via the Daily Mail. Unfortunately, he will be best remembered in America as the star of NBC's short-lived "Manimal."
Selma Al-Radi
Dr. Al-Radi (left) receives the Aga Khan Award in Architecture in 2007.
Archaeologist who restored the fabulous Amiriya Madrasa in Rada, Yemen (pictures below). Margalit Fox's obituary in the New York Times is exemplary. Thursday, October 14, 2010
General Norman Johnson
Lead singer for the Chairmen of the Board - via The News of Today. Their big 1970 hit? "Give Me Just a Little More Time."
Mary Malcolm
A prominent early BBC TV presenter -- via the Guardian. Interestingly, her mother was the illegitimate daughter of Edward VII and Lillie Langtry.
Raymond Castro
The man whose arrest sparked the Stonewall Riot in 1969, beginning the gay liberation movement -- via Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida.
Charles W. Utter
One of the last of the crusty old-school newspaper editors with a heart of gold -- via boston.com. He helmed the Westerly Sun of Rhode Island. His paper was the first in the country to publish a report on the attack on Pearl Harbor; then he joined the Air Force, completed 30 missions and got shot down over Germany. He returned from the war and continued there until 1991.
Vernon Biever
Official Green Bay Packers photographer had been covering them since 1941 -- via WFRV-TV. He is one of only two men (his son is the other) to have covered all of the first 35 Super Bowls.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Michel Hugo
Cinematographer -- via Variety. He served as d.p. on an astonishing variety of projects, including many now-obscure but vividly remembered TV series, movies-for-television, and cinema on the margins. It's a roll call of delicious strangeness! Misfires, cult hits, etc. The original "Mission: Impossible." "Head." "Bless the Beasts & Children." The original "The Night Stalker" TV film. "They Only Kill Their Masters." The remarkably funny "Shirts/Skins." Elizabeth Montgomery in "Mrs. Sundance." Dick van Dyke in "The Morning After." Martin Sheen in "The Last Survivors." The uniquely abysmal "Ode to Billy Joe." The Edward Herrmann/Blythe Danner Lou Gehrig bio. "The Manitou"! Andrew Stevens as "The Bastard"! "The Streets of San Francisco." "Terror from the Sky," the sequel to the TV-movie "The Savage Bees"! He worked on "The Octagon," ferChrissake. He wound up his career with stints on "Dynasty" and "Melrose Place." He could do it all.
Rodger Clayton aka Mr. Prinze
West Coast hip hop master -- via dubcnn.com. He was part of Uncle Jamm's Army; he produced "Dial-a-Freak."
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