Sunday, September 4, 2011

Alla Bayanova

Singer -- via the Kremlin.

David Pressman

Director and actor -- via the New York Daily News.

Patricia Hardy

Film and TV actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Richard "Cactus" Pryor

Broadcaster and humorist -- via the Austin American-Statesman.

Tony Lopez

Sculptor -- via the Miami Herald.

Kim Tai Chung aka Kim Tai-Jung aka Tong Lun

Taekwondo artist and film actor -- via cityonfire.com.

Bruce Ryan aka Bruce Ryan Hoffman

Disc jockey -- via the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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.


Roy Ford

History teacher -- via the Guardian.

George Band

Mountaineer -- via the Guardian.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Junpei Takiguchi

Voice actor and narrator -- via animenewsnetwork.com.

Martin Hines

Go-kart manufacturer and champion -- via the Hoddeson News & Broxbourne Mercury.

Lykourgos Kallergis

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.

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."

B. Jeff Stone

Member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame -- via satellite.tmcnet.com.

Dan Sicko

Journalist and author -- via Rolling Stone. An expert on techno.

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."

Lorenzo Morales aka Moralito

Singer, composer and musician -- via Columbia Reports.

Gale Cook

Journalist and editor -- via the San Francisco Chronicle.

VouLee Giokaris aka Stavroula Giokaris

Costumer -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Graham Leggat

Executive director of the San Francisco Film Society -- via IndieWire.

Iya Savvina

Actress -- via russianfilm.blogspot.com.

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.

Sybil Jason

Child film star -- via the Washington Post.

Abe Najamy



The "voice of Danbury" -- via the Danbury News Times.

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.

June Wayne

Artist and printmaker -- via the L.A. Times.

Monday, August 29, 2011