Writer and actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Wrote the screenplay for the cult hit "The King of Hearts" and the Oscar-nominated "That Man from Rio." Appeared in films such as "Breathless," "Shoot the Piano Player," and "The Bride Wore Black."
Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Friday, October 31, 2014
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Michael Hayes
Director, producer, actor, and newsreader -- via the Telegraph. Among his better-known projects: three Doctor Who series with Tom Baker; "An Age of Kings," and Julie Christie's first screen appearance, "A for Andromeda."
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
WEEKLY READER: Our roundup of the world of death and mourning
Eight days late due to dead hardware -- thanks, readers, for your patience!
TOP
STORIES
·
Interview with
Patty Rosen, chief spokesperson for Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act campaign of
1994
– via Samantha O’Connor from KTVZ-TV
Kate
Schweitzer at Popsugar discusses the Metropolitan
Museum of Art’s new exhibit on mourning dress;
as
does Art in America, Glam, National News
Wire,
Complex, Newsweek, TIME, and artcritical. Hillary Kelly’s
meditation
in the New Republic is particularly well-thought.
Oh, dear – Dr.
Tanzler really loved Maria Hoyos; so much that he lived with her decaying
corpse for a decade – until the trial. From Jessica Guerra in Atlas Obscura.
3D printing
company offers designer cremation urns (as used by Bob Casale of Devo!) – from Rodrigo
Cokting of The Weather Network?
DEATH
Death and
popular culture – a survey by Ruth LaFerla in the New York Times
What does a
death investigator do? – from Katy Moeller at the Idaho Statesman
Unique
cemeteries
– from Emma Morton in Slate
Determining
death: a collision of legal, medical, scientific, and religious qualifications – by Daniel
Schwartz of the CBC
Art project
leads to 50 “Boxes of Death” – from Nastia Voynovskaya at Hi
Fructose
Can you be
scared to death? Yes – stress cardiomyopathy explained by MSN’s Trace
and Wilson
A very sad story
about a couple with a child doomed to live only four hours – by Chelsea
Lacey-Mabe at NBC Philadelphia.
In
the Guardian, Imogen Russell Williams discusses books
that help young children understand death
Explaining death
to children: a humanist perspective – by Joan Reisman-Brill in The Humanist
Dying man wrote,
left cache of letters for wife, infant daughter – by Alyssa
Newcomb on Good Morning America
MOURNING
Chuck Klosterman
on whether we should have told Koko the gorilla that Robin Williams died – from the
pages of the New York Times
A soldier’s room
is preserved as he left it – since his death in World War I – via Anne
Penketh at the Guardian
Older mourning
customs explored
– by Irene Bowers at the Virginia Beach Beacon
Bereavement
photography comforts parents of dead infants – via Sarah Le Trent of CNN
Victorian
mourning biscuits
– from “Rebeccac” at Daily Two Cents
“ReTweet if
You’re Grieving”
from Anna Altman at the New York Times
Doors are focus
of grieving families’ art projects – via the Chicago Tribune
Muslim imambara
are houses of mourning – from M H Heider at The Daily Star
END-OF-LIFE
ISSUES
Right-to-die
campaigner starves herself to death to evade UK laws on assisted suicide – via Natasha
Culzac
On donating your
body to science
– from Gabrielle Monaghan from the Irish Independent
FUNERALS
Funerary
historian and curator Kathy Volkmann gives presentation – from Bob Dohr
at the Wausau Daily Herald
An interview
with Courtney Harris, who has dubbed herself “the blonde Morticia” – from Lee
DeVito at the Metro Times
South L.A.
funeral home offers colorful “home-going” ceremony – covered by
CBS Los Angeles
Growing up in a
funeral home: an interview with Kate Mayfield regarding her new book, “The
Undertaker’s Daughter” – from the Guardian.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Raphael Ravenscroft
Saxophonist, composer, and writer -- via the BBC. Best remembered for his sax solo on "Baker Street."
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Marcia Strassman
Actress and singer -- via deadline.com. Her two defining roles were first as Julie Kotter in he U.S. TV series "Welcome Back, Kotter," and as Diane Szalinski in the "Honey, I Shrunk the . . . " Disney film trilogy. She started as a singer, with the modest hit "The Flower People." Denver angle: her second record, "The Groovy World of Jack and Jill," charted only in Denver, evidently.
Oscar Taveras
Rookie outfielder for the Cardinals; killed in a car crash at 22 -- via MLB. Poor kid. Baruch dayan emet.
Leigh Kamman
Jazz radio host -- via MPR. Broadcast for 67 years, from 1940 through 2007. Denver angle: he broadcast from KOA-AM during World War II.
Sidney Shapiro
Writer, scholar, and translator -- via the Malay Mail. AKA Sha Boli. One of the very foreign-born Chinese citizens.
Saturday, October 25, 2014
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