Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Jack Fishman aka Jacob Fiszman

Drug researcher; developer of naloxone, which prevents overdose deaths -- via the New York Times.

Hugh Nissenson

Novelist -- via the New York Times.

Pete Naton

Former MLB catcher -- via syracuse.com.

Mzechabuk "Chabua" Amirejibi

Novelist -- via Radio Free Europe.

Zbigniew Karkowski

Composer -- via wyborcza.pl.



Carole Ann Scaldeferri Spada

Dancer on "American Bandstand" -- via philly.com.

Mado Maurin

Actress -- via Le Monde.


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Shiva Regmi

Director -- via The Himalayan Times.

David Vestal

Photographer -- via Broadway World.


Ravella Venkatarama Rao aka Jayasri

Writer and poet -- via the Hans India.


Monday, December 16, 2013

Fred Scherer

Diorama painter -- via the New York Times.


Louis Waldon

Actor -- via the New York Times.

Glauco Mirko Laurelli


Director -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Sonia Fraser

Actor, writer, director, and therapist -- via the Guardian.


Chris Howland

TV and radio host -- via DW.

Ray Price

Country singer; one of the greats! -- via the Hollywood Reporter. LOVE ME some Ray Price.







Don Lund

Former MLB player -- via the Detroit Free Press


Rossana Podesta

Actress -- the National Enquirer.

Kees Brusse

Actor, director, and screenwriter -- via NRC Handelsblad.

Lynne Kieran

Singer; best known as a member of the Rounder Girls -- via esctoday.com.

Hung Sin-nui

Opera singer -- via the South China Morning Post.

Audrey Totter

Actress -- via Variety. One of the great, though less-known femme fatales from the classic American noir period. She appeared in classic potboilers such as "Women's Prison," "The Woman They Almost Lynched," "The Set-up," "The Lady in the Lake," and "The Unsuspected."





Sandor Szokolay

Composer -- via hvg.hu.

Jack Purcell

Trombonist and bandleader -- via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Nya Quesada

Actress -- via tn.com.ar.

Robert L. "Chick" Willis

Blues composer, guitarist, and singer -- via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.



Sunday, December 15, 2013

Tom Laughlin

Actor and filmmaker; man behind the "Billy Jack" films -- via the L.A. Times.












Joan Fontaine aka Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Sister of Olivia de Haviland, she won the Oscar for "Suspicion." Best in that, the Orson Welles' "Jne Eyre," and Hitchcock's "Rebecca."



Peter O'Toole

Actor -- via the New York Times. He said he imagined heaven as a series of smoky pub rooms. He turned down a knighthood.

Here are the top films for me -- "Lawrence of Arabia," "What's New, Pussycat?", "The Lion in Winter," "The Ruling Class," "Man Friday," "The Stunt Man," "My Favorite Year," "Masada," "Troy," "Venus."

























Thursday, December 12, 2013

Jim Hall

Guitarist -- via the New York Times.