Friday, December 13, 2013

Maurice James "Mac" McGarry

Quizmaster; host of "It's Academic!" -- via the Washington Post.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/video/#!/multimedia/A-Tribute-to-Mac-McGarry/137801233

Richard Coughlan

Percussionist -- via Ultimate Classic Rock.

Dharmavarapu Subramanyam

Comedian -- via the Times of India.

Esther Streit-Wurzel

Writer -- via Israel Hayom.

Ronald Lee Hunter

Actor -- via Variety.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Jim Hall

Guitarist -- via the New York Times.





Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Chet Krule aka Chester Krolewicz

Guitarist -- via ricksmusic.com.

Edward Kleinhammer

Trombonist -- via the Chicago Sun-Times.

Charles "Buddy" Bicknell

Former MLB player -- via legacy.com.

Danny Wells aka Jack Westelman

Actor -- via TV Guide.

Brian Torrey Scott

Writer, playwright, and filmmaker -- via the Brown Daily Herald.

Sister Mary Nerney

Advocate for women in prison -- via the New York Times.

George Werley

Former MLB pitcher -- via legacy.com.

Mary Riggans

Actress -- via The Herald.


Robert Allman

Bass-baritone -- via Limelight Magazine.

Lynne Hazelden

Background artist -- via starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com.

Bill Porter

Door-to-door salesman -- via the New York Times.

Larry Pennell

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com. Best remembered for his guest role as Dash Riprock on "The Beverly Hillbillies."




Claire Grove

Radio drama producer -- via the Guardian. Most memorably, she staged the ENTIRE "Ulysses" for audio on Bloomsday, 2012.

Colin Wilson

Writer -- via Eyewear (the blog). "Wilson wrote and published around 100 books - he was a jobbing, hack writer, true - and he repeated his main idea endlessly.  But it was a compelling idea, that extreme states of experience make us glimpse eternity, another better world.  He was that rare thing, an optimistic existential thinker.  It seems very strange that England's very own Poe - the critic as creative writer, obsessed with sex, murder, sci-fi, ideas, the uncanny, and religion, should not have been recognised as a nutty but essential figure on the landscape."

Colin Eglin

Anti-apartheid activist -- via the New York Times.

Monday, December 9, 2013

Eleanor Parker

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. She will probably be typed in memory as The Baroness in "The Sound of Music," but for decades before that she was a solid heroine in a slew of films, earning many award nominations for work in films such as "Detective Story," "Caged," "Interrupted Melody," and "The Man with the Golden Arm."

Christopher Evan Welch

Actor -- via the New York Times.

Ahmed Fouad Negm

The "poet of the people" in Egypt -- via CNN.




Tabu Ley Rochereau

Singer, songwriter, and bandleader -- via the New York Times.






Joe Bihari

Blues producer, label owner, and talent scout -- via the L.A. Times.

Michael Kammen

Historian -- via the Washington Post.

Sunday, December 8, 2013