Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Fred Kaz

Improvisational pianist; composer -- via the Chicago Sun-Times.



Michel Francini

Actor -- via Le Monde.

Marco Anghileri

Mountaineer -- via planetmountain.com.

Yulisa Amadu Maddy ak Pat Maddy aka Prof

Poet, playwright, and novelist -- via cocrioko.info.

Ravindranath

Director -- via the Times of India.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Oswald Morris

Oscar-winning cinematographer -- via the L.A. Times. He won for "Fiddler on the Roof," but was adept at both black-and-white and color cinematography. He worked with John Huston eight times, from "Moulin Rouge" through "Beat the Devil" through "Moby Dick," culminating in "The Man Who Would Be King." Also did "The Guns of Navarone," "Lolita," "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," "Sleuth," "The Odessa File" . . . suffice it to say he could work with directors of every temperament.


Terry "Bud" Bulling

Former MLB player -- via legacy.com.


Joe Mudele


Bassist -- via the Telegraph.

Clarissa Dickson Wright aka Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright

Cook and co-host of "Two Fat Ladies" -- via the New York Times.

Ann Murray Paige

Journalist and writer -- via the Portland Press Herald.

Med Flory

Sax man -- via the L.A. Times.



Huseyn Darya

Rapper -- via apa.az.

Cees Veerman

Guitarist and performer -- via elsevier.nl.

Otakar Brousek

Actor -- via Radio Prague.

George Donaldson

Singer -- via Broadway World.

Valentin Fortunov

Writer -- via cross.bg.

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.