Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Patricia Medina

Actress -- via the Telegraph.



Fred Hakim

Proprietor of the Grand Luncheonette, the last of its kind (the short-order joint) in Times Square -- via the New York Times.

Jim O'Brien

Film and television director -- via the Telegraph.

Kristiina Kolehmainen

Librarian and comics expert -- via The Comics Reporter.

Moscelyne Larkin aka Edna Moscelyne Larkin Jasinski

Dancer -- via the New York Times.


Chut Wuthy

Environmental activist -- via worldpress.org.

Regina Martinez

Journalist -- via the Global Post.

Khalil Dale

Doctor and aid worker -- via the Guardian.


Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Eric Charden aka Jacques Puissant

Singer and songwriter -- via Le Monde.

Peter Carsten

Actor -- via westernsallitaliana.blogspot.com.

Manfred Richter

Actor -- via westernsalliitaliana.blogspot.com.

Robert O. Ragland

Film composer -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Among his titles: "Q: The Winged Serpent," "Grizzly," and "The Thing with Two Heads."

Gladys Gewirtz

Composer, music director for Camp Ramah, actress -- via the Eulogizer.


Greg Ham

Multi-instrumentalist and mainstay of the band Men at Work -- via the L.A. Times.





Tommy Marth

Saxophonist -- via MSNBC.

Todd Simko

Guitarist, producer and engineer -- via the Vancouver Sun.


Frank Bulkley II

Founder of the Eskimo Ski Club and the Denver-Winter Park Ski Train; taught thousands of children to ski -- via the Denver Post.

Leila Berg

Children's author; journalist and writer on education and children's rights -- via the Guardian.


John Birch

Organist, choirmaster; and director of music at Chichester Cathedral -- via the Telegraph. Most famously, he commissioned Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms."

Joe Muryani

Clarinetist, music producer and writer -- via the New York Times.

Albert Falco

Diver, undersea explorer and ship captain -- via the Telegraph. A long-time associate of Jacques Cousteau; when we were kids and would pretend to be deep-ocean explorers, we would vie to see who would play him . . . as he had the coolest name. "Falco weel now attempt to engage zee elooseeve jiant squeed!"

Walter L. Gordon Jr.

Pioneering African American lawyer -- via the L.A. Times.

Wanda Weiskopf

Singer, voice teacher, poet and writer -- via oregonlive.com.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Robert Miles Parker

Artist and preservationist -- via the New York Times.


Hugo Fiorato

Long-time conductor for the New York City Ballet -- via the New York Times.


Irving Millman

Microbiologist -- via the New York Times. He helped develop the vaccine for hepatitis B, as well as a test for it.

Pete Fornatale

Visionary, pioneer radio dj -- via the New York Times. He invented a new way of listening to radio, and music, crafting long thematic sets of wildly varied musics; playing entire albums; and generally created the "FM sound."

Ernest Callenbach

Writer, editor and futurist -- via the New York Times. His fiction and non-fiction writing on "ecotopias" predicted and called for many of the ideas used in sustainable, selective-tech living today -- recycling, solar power, legalized marijuana, local organic food growth, etc.

Friday, April 27, 2012

Bill "Moose" Skowron

Stellar first baseman -- via the New York Daily News. An eight-time All-Star and a member of five World Series-winning teams -- he hit 211 homers during the course of his career.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Paul Bogart aka Paul Bogoff

Emmy-winning television and film director -- via the New York Times. A master of live television and the situation comedy; also directed one of my favorite filmed performances of all time, Hal Holbrook's "Mark Twain Tonight!"



Dom Valentino

Sportscaster -- via the New York Times.

Anne Drew

Filmmaker -- via IndieWire.

Herbert Maurice William 'Bert' Weedon

Guitarist -- via the BBC.

Jack Ashley aka Lord Ashley

Politician who actually did good things! -- via the Independent.