Monday, June 9, 2014

Rik Mayall

Comedian, writer, and actor -- via the BBC. Best remembered in America for his work on the pioneering, anarchic sitcom "The Young Ones."









Sunday, June 8, 2014

Dhondutai Kulkarni aka Gaan-Yogini

Singer -- via the Times of India.



Tanya Masalitinova

Actress -- via novinite.com.

Karlheinz Hackl

Actor and director -- via wien.orf.at.

Cedric Thornberry

Peacemaker -- via the Guardian.

Brajanath Ratha

Poet -- via the Odisha Sun Times.

Hanna Maron aka Hannele Meierzak

Legendary actress -- via the Jerusalem Post. More significantly, even after losing a leg in a terrorist attack in 1970, she continued as a vocal activist for peace.



Lyudmila Makarova

Actress -- via the St. Petersburg Times.

Henning Carlsen

Hienadz Buraukin

Poet and journalist -- via charter97.org.

Nongchanai Prinyathawat aka Kanchana Nakhanan

Novelist -- via the Bangkok Post.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Don Zimmer aka Zim aka Popeye aka The Gerbil

Former MLB player, manager, and coach -- via the New York Times. The reason for the batting helmet. Wish he had dug Bill Lee.



James Alan Shelton

Alexander 'Sasha' Shulgin aka the Godfather of Psychedelics

Psychedelic pharmacologist who synthesized more than 230 pschoactive compounds, most notably MDMA or "ecstasy" -- via the Independent. "Our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability."



Anna Berger

Actress -- via the New York Times.




Lee Chamberlin aka Alverta La Pallo

Actress who was a charter member of educational series "The Electric Company" -- via the New York Times. A wonderful performer, she was also quite memorable as Cordelia to James Earl Jones' Lear in 1975; also figured in Sidney Poitier's ubran films of the 1970s and much, much TV.







Barbara Murray