Monday, March 3, 2014

Tim Kehoe

Writer and toymaker -- via the Minneapolis tar-Tribune.

Vicente Ximenes

Human-rights activist -- via the Albuquerque Journal.

Frank Reed

Vocalist with the Chi-Lites -- via blackamericaweb.com.

Angele Arsenault

Singer, songwriter, and musician -- via the Toronto Globe and Mail.

Philip Smart

Music producer -- via the Jamaica Observer.

Jerome Willis

Actor -- via the Guardian.

Irving Milchberg aka Ignac Milchberg

Child who smuggled weapons to the Warsaw Ghetto -- via the New York Times.

http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn511633


Edward F. Vassallo

Actor and producer -- via legacy.com.

Trebor Tichenor

Musician and scholar; world-class expert on Scott Joplin -- via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Anna Reynolds

Mezzo-soprano -- via pizzicto.lu.

George (Craig) "Porky" Chedwick

Radio DJ -- via WTAE. One of the greats from the golden era, he was the daddio of the radio and the platter-pushin' poppa!







ArduĂ­no Colassanti

Actor -- via El Diario de Pernambuco. He starred in the extremely dark Brazilian comedy "How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman."




Frank Sardo Avianca

Singer -- via the Somers Daily Voice.






Phyllis Krasilovsky

Children's writer -- via NPR.

Lee Lorch

Activist who desegregated Stuyvesant Village -- via the New York Times.

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Natalie Kotsch

Founder of the International Surfing Museum -- via the L.A. Times.

Aaron Allston

Game designer and sci-fi writer -- via locusmag.com.

Michio Mado

Poet -- via asahi.com.

Hugo Brandt Corstius

Writer -- via volkskrant.nl.

Rabi Mustapha

Actress -- via Premium Times.

Alain Resnais

Director -- via the Guardian. He directed some of the most significant ("Night and Fog," "Hiroshima Mon Amour") and infuriating ("Last Year at Marienbad") films of the last half of the 20th century.

Nuit et Brouillard (1955) from KICK TO KILL on Vimeo.



Saturday, March 1, 2014

Tim Wilson

Comedian and musician -- via the Kansas City Star.



Jophrey Brown

Former MLB player -- via legacy.com.

Penny DeHaven

Singer and actress -- via musicrow.com.

Ian Cutter Sala

Art director -- via popcrush.com.

Sorel Etrog

Artist -- via the Toronto Star.

Sarah Jones

Camera assistant -- via Variety. Killed on set due to bad safety protocols!


Jordan Oschin

Former child actor -- via NBC Los Angeles.

Gert "Kralle" Krawinkel

Musician -- via Der Spiegel.



Nicolae Herlea

Baritone -- via artsjournal.com.

Kelly Holland

Singer -- via the News & Observer.

Lori Callahan

Comic -- via Colorado Public Radio. We started about the same time, over 30 years ago. She was funny! She had a great work ethic! She was a real, regular human being! To have all three of these in a comic is extremely rare.

Friday, February 28, 2014

Gunter Reisch

Director and screenwriter -- viasueddeutschen.de.

Edith Kramer

Artist and art therapist -- via Psychology Today.

Edith Kramer. Art Tells the Truth from LenFim Studio on Vimeo.

Nick Spears

Comedian -- via the Daily Mail.

Carla Accardi

Artist -- via wantedinrome.com.

Valery Brezdenyuk


Artist -- via maidantranslations.wordpress.com.


Loni Nest aka Eleonore Smythe

Child actress in silent and early sound film -- via forevermissed.com. Her most significant screen moment -- as the child who removes the star from the chest of the golem, destroying him, in BoeseWegener's 1920 "Der Golem."


Raymond Louis Kennedy

Singer, songwriter, and musician -- via ultimateclassicrock.com.




Duffy Power aka Raymond Leslie Howard

Blues and rock 'n' roll singer -- via the afterword.co.uk.



Janusz Stanny

Illustrator, graphic artist, and teacher -- via linktopoland.com.


Roger Hill

Actor; best known for playing Cyrus in "The Warriors" -- via the New York Daily News.

Ivan Nagy

Dancer -- via the New York Times.

Carlos Paez Vilaro

Painter, sculptor, screenwriter, musician and architect -- via the L.A. Times.

Franny Beecher

Long-time guitarist for Bill Haley and the Comets -- via the L.A. Times. While he was not on the the original recording of "Rock Around the Clock" (that was Danny Cedrone), he was the mainstay of the group for decades.






Lu Xuechang

Director -- via Sina Entertainment.


Francesco Di Giacomo

Singer -- via La Stampa.