Singer -- via the Kremlin.
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, September 4, 2011
Rod Garrett
Urban planner and landscape designer -- via the New York Times. He created Black Rock City, the temporary development that is created each year for the Burning Man festival.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Price Berkley aka Price Berkowitz
Founder and editor of the trade publication the Theatrical Index -- via the New York Times.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Jeanette Ingberman
Founder of cultural center Exit Art and curator -- via the New York Times.
Jeanette Ingberman: "Fuck The Magic" from Trickster Theater on Vimeo.
Jeanette Ingberman: "Fuck The Magic" from Trickster Theater on Vimeo.
Willie "Curley" Williams
Negro Leagues and minor league baseball player -- via the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Rosel Zech
Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Best remembered in the lead role of Fassbinder's "Veronika Voss."
Jack J. Hayes
Composer and orchestrator for film and TV -- via MSN. Amazingly, he racked up more than 200 credits!
Tom Hennesy
Stuntman and actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. Most memorably, he played the Gill Man (aka the Creature from the Black Lagoon) in "Revenge of the Creature" (on land only -- Ricou Browning did the underwater sequences, as he did in all three "Creature" films.)
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Leonard Harris
Actor, novelist and arts and entertainment critic -- via the New York Times. His most memorable role was Senator Palantine in "Taxi Driver."
Wendell "Wendy" Ray
Broadcaster -- via the Register-Guard. Pretty sure he's dead this time -- his demise was incorrectly reported in 2004.
William "Stetson" Kennedy
Human rights activist, dissident, folklore scholar and author -- via the New York Times. He infiltrated and helped to dismantle the Klan.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
David "Honeyboy" Edwards
The last of the great Mississippi Delta bluesmen -- via the New York Times. In addition, he played with the legendary Robert Johnson, and was with him the night he died.
Collins "Coach" Lewis
A central figure in the culture of New Orleans -- via Louisiana Weekly. A historian, cultural preservationist, community leader, civil rights activist, proud member of the Spirit of Fi-Yi-Yi Mandigo Warriors Mardi Gras Indian gang and Tambourine and Fan, a drummer, singer and costumer.
Monday, August 29, 2011
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