Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Joe Lee Wilson

Jazz vocalist -- via Spinner.

Dekha Ibrahim Abdi

Peace activist - via dai.com.

David Ngoombujarra Starr

Actor -- via the Guardian.

Eric Delaney

Jazz drummer and bandleader -- via the Telegraph.

John Mosca

Restaurateur -- via the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Antonio Prieto

Actor and singer -- via Yahoo News.

Hal John Norman

Actor -- westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Tatiana Pankova

Actress -- via en.ura-inform.com.

James Schwartz

Journalism teacher -- via the Iowa State Daily.

Violet Large

She won the lottery and gave it all away -- via the Toronto Sun.

John Kraaijkamp

Actor, comic and singer -- via DutchNews.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Marketa Kimbrell

Actress, teacher and co-founder of the New York Street Theater Caravan -- via the New York Times.

T. Lux Feininger

Photographer and painter -- via the Boston Globe.

Pierrette Alarie

Coloratura soprano -- via the National Post.

Jerry Ragovoy aka Jordan Ragovoy aka Norman Meade

Songwriter, producer and arranger -- via the New York Times. He wrote some great soul tunes -- "Time Is on My Side," "Piece of My Heart" and "Cry Baby," to name a few.

Travis Bean

Guitarmaker -- via the L.A. Times.

Zdenek Sykora

Artist -- via the Washington Post and AP.

William Crozier

Artist -- via Art Lyst.

Howard Hilton

Pitcher -- via the Ventura County Star.

Heinz Reincke

Actor -- via westernsallitaliana.blogspot.com.

Al Debbo

Comedian -- via Eyewitnees News.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Cornell MacNeil

Baritone -- via Minnesota Public Radio. One of the great baritones of the 20th century. Period. He will always be the definitive Scarpia for me, and an inspired Rigoletto, Iago and other classic roles.


Saturday, July 16, 2011

Googie Withers aka Georgette Lizette Withers

Actress on stage ,and in film and TV -- via the Guardian. A beautiful and wickedly intelligent performer, she can be seen in such classic films as "Dead of Night," "Night and the City," "Shine" and "The Lady Vanishes."

Friday, July 15, 2011

George M. Ross aka George Martin Rosenkoff

Philanthropist -- via the New York Times. His persistence and funding gave birth to the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.

W.L. Mundell

Teacher, community leader and theatrical producer -- via the Chillicothe Gazette.

Lee Vines

TV announcer -- via the L.A. Times.

Daniel Claps aka Marshal Wild Windy Bill McKay

Amusement park entertainer - via AP.

Alfonso "Fonce" Mizell

Music producer -- via NME.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Roberts Blossom

Actor on stage and in film and TV -- via the New York Times.

Theodore Roszak

Historian, writer and teacher -- via the San Francisco Chronicle. He originated the concpet of a "counter culture."

Bruce Trinz

Art-house cinema manager -- via Roger Ebert.

Pat Jackson

Film and television director -- via the Guardian.

Frank Riordan

"Renaissance man" -- via the ST. Louis Post-Dispatch.