Saturday, March 15, 2014

David Brenner

Comedian -- via the Las Vegas Review-Journal.



Friday, March 14, 2014

Cao Shunli

Dissident; murdered by the Chinese government by being denied medical treatment in detention -- via GMA Network.


Tony "Wedgie" Benn

Left-wing political figure -- via the New York Times. "A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world."


Marilyn Butler

Literary scholar -- via the Guardian.


Ray Still

Oboist -- via the Chicago Tribune.


Joel Brinkley

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist -- via the Washington Post.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Abner E. "Abby" Singer

Production manager and assistant director -- via Deadline. His name is the origin of the phrase, "the Abby Singer shot," meaning the second-to-last shot of the working day. He called it out so that technical staff could begin to pack up and move to prepare for the first shot of the next day.

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Richard de Vere

Illusionist -- via The Stage.

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Alexis Hunter

Artist -- via the Guardian.

Vera Chytilova

Director -- via the Prague Post.

Daisies (Sedmikrásky) 1966 from Icosahedron on Vimeo.

Kazuo Yairi

Luthier -- via the Chicago Tribune.

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Alan Rodgers

Writer and poet -- via Locus.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Richard Coogan

Actor; the beloved "Captain Video" of early television -- via the Hollywood Reporter. It was a show so popular that it became the subject of an episode of "The Honeymooners" --

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Jean Vallee

Songwriter and performer -- via esctoday.com.

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Kjell Nupen

Artist -- via aftenposten.no.

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Mohamed Suleyman Tubeec

Musician -- via gaafo.com.

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Nils Horner

Journalist -- via the Guardian.


Christine Buckley

Activist against institutional abuse -- via the Independent.

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Cynthia Lynn

Actress -- via TMZ. You may remember her as Helga on "Hogan's Heroes."

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Jerry Corbitt

Guitarist and music producer; founding member of the Youngbloods -- via Vintage Vinyl News.

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Matthew Power

Journalist -- via the New York Times.

Paul van Schalkwyk

Photographer -- via The Namibian.

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Roldan Aquino

Actor -- via the Philippine Star.


Sunday, March 9, 2014

Wendy Hughes

Actress -- via the Guardian.




Jimmy Ellis

Actor -- via the Daily Mail.

Ali Mustafa

Photojournalist -- via the New York Daily News.


Renato Cioni

Tenor -- via artsjournal.com.





Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov

Actor -- via Interfax-Ukraine.

Gerard Mortier

Opera director and administrator -- via the New York Times.

Martin Gottfried

Theater critic and writer -- via the New York Times. A prodigious and highly informed and intelligent writer on and about the theater; he composed several stage-related biographies, and some theater history, as well. His "Broadway Musicals" revived contemporary interest in the the genre's deep reservoir of productions by revealing its history.


Maria Donata Nanetta Paulina Gustava Ermina Wilhemine Stein Lascelles Thorpe

Pianist -- via the Guardian.

Maja Petrin

Actress -- via http://www.jutarnji.hr.

Scott Kalvert

Director -- via the L.A. Times. Best known for "The Basketball Diaries."