Actress and dancer -- via El Universal. AKA Emelia Perez Castellanos. A great star in Mexico and Cuba, who did much to popularize the rhumba.
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.
Monday, January 5, 2015
(William) Patrick Gowers
Composer best known for his film and choral scores -- via Slipped Disc. He was the music director for the groundbreaking production of "Marat/Sade," and scored several film and TV works. He may be best remembered for his work on the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series.
DEATHCETERA: A weekly roundup of mortality-related news
Not many stories about death this week -- which, ironically, is just fine by me. Sometimes grief and thoughts of mortality must ebb.
DEATH
Do you mind if
we broadcast your husband’s death? Really? Too bad – from Charles
Ornstein via ProPublica and the New York Times
Oh
dear. The misadventures of famous people’s bodies after death – from Jef
Rouner at Cracked
Man
seeks to reunite cremains with dead man’s survivors – via Rachel Southmayd
at heraldonline.com.
MOURNING
Second
slain NYPD officer buried; some police protests continue – via Ashley
Fantz, Ben Brumfield, and Holly Yan at CNN
FUNERALS
Rising funeral
costs are crippling
– from Lucy Berry at al.com
OBITS
Interview with
Margalit Fox, long-time obit writer for the New York Times – via Lourdes
Garcia-Navarro at NPR
Shelly Bordas
Actress and teacher -- via John Moore at the DCPA. Once again, here's a prime example of a life that might be overlooked by big media, but one that made a lot of impact. Shelly's grit was incredible; another huge component of the story is the fact that a creative community of, quite literally, hundreds got on the same page and pitched in to help her and her son -- not just with money, but with time and care and support. I feel very lucky to be even a weensy, tangential part of the scene.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Robert D. San Souci
Children's writer -- via the Fort Bragg Advocate-News. He is best known for writing the story for the Disney film "Mulan."
Stuart Scott
Sports anchor and journalist -- via the Huffington Post. His speech about his struggle with cancer is true, inspiring, and heartbreaking.
Friday, January 2, 2015
Little Jimmy Dickens
Country music star -- via WKYC . AKA James Cecil Dickens. In addition to being the oldest surviving member of the Grand Ol' Opry and a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, he discovered Marty Robbins.
Donna Douglas
Actress; best known for playing Elly May Clampett on the TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies" -- via the New York Daily News. AKA Doris Smith. Also known for her emblematic appearance in the "Twilight Zone" episode "The Eye of the Beholder," and co-starred with Elvis in "Frankie and Johnny."
Roberta Leigh
Writer, artist, and TV producer -- via the Telegraph. AKA Rita Shulman Lewin, Rachael Lindsay, Janey Scott, Rozella Lake, and Roumelia Lane. Best known for creating the British puppet sci-fi series "Space Patrol."
Dave Parsons
Theater owner, comedian, and magician -- a very nice story y Bill Trotter in the Bangor Daily News.
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Mario Cuomo
Former Governor of New York -- via the New York Daily News. He was a politician, but I liked him. He used to play baseball; he could write and speak very charmingly.
Claude Frank
Pianist; a master of the German repertoire -- via the New York Times. Ironic, and beautiful, that he would choose to champion the cultural beauties of a land that expelled him and his family before Word War II.
Rhodes Reason
Actor -- via armandsrano.blogspot.com. The younger brother of actor Rex Reason, whom he greatly resembled, Rhodes was a ubiquitous player in television and film from 1951 to 1977. Sci-fi buffs will recall him as Flavius in the "Bread and Circuses" episode of the original "Star Trek" series ("At least defend yourself." "I AM defending myself!") and as the lead human actor in "King Kong Escapes!"
He was in seemingly everything -- "Highway Patrol," "Maverick," his own series "White Hunter," "The Rifleman," "77 Sunset Strip," "Daniel Boone," "The Time Tunnel," "Here's Lucy," "Mission: Impossible," and "The Bob Newhart Show." Watch his reel here -- it's a lot of fun.
He was in seemingly everything -- "Highway Patrol," "Maverick," his own series "White Hunter," "The Rifleman," "77 Sunset Strip," "Daniel Boone," "The Time Tunnel," "Here's Lucy," "Mission: Impossible," and "The Bob Newhart Show." Watch his reel here -- it's a lot of fun.
Jane Brown
Photographer -- via the Guardian. An absolutely astounding portraitist, and a great photojournalist as well.
Per-Ingvar Branemark
Orthopedic surgeon who discovered osseointegration -- via the New York Times. Now, stay with me. His discovery that titanium fuses to bone allowed him to initiate the development of dental implants, and may lead to new advances in artificial limbs and much more! And he only had to work for 30 years to get the medical community to accept his findings.
Gleb Yakunin
Priest and dissident -- via the New York Times. Not only did he go to the gulag for what he believed, he was into Pussy Riot.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Edward Herrmann
Emmy- and Tony-winning actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Best known as Richard Gilmore in the TV series "The Gilmore Girls," he made his first big impact playing FDR in the miniseries "Eleanor and Franklin." Generally typed as a lockjaw-Boston upperclass type, he was capable of much more -- witness his turn as a villain in "Lost Boys." Long known as the Voice of the History Channel.
Stephen Wootton
Child actor in film and television, 1952 to 1962 -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.
Sethma Williams Caspers
She is center in this still from the Three Stooges' "Dizzy Pilots." However, she does not appear in the final cut of the film. |
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