Filmmaker and television director -- via Variety. Best known for ducmentaries such as "Brother's Keeper," "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster," and the "Paradise Lost" trilogy.
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.
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Clark Terry
Trumpeter and flugelhornist, composer, and educator -- via Variety. One of the most prolifically recorded talents in jazz history, Terry's career began in 1947 and continued almost to the present day. He played with everyone, including Basie, Ellington, Mingus, Peterson . . . He TAUGHT Miles.
Friday, February 20, 2015
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Alan Howard
Great Shakespearian actor -- via the Guardian. One of the great voices in the theater, he played all the kings and many of the knaves. His Coriolanus is the best. (Talented family: his uncle Leslie Howard, and his uncle wrote "Whiskey Galore.")
June Fairchild
Actress -- via TMZ. Best remembered for a scene she did in "Up in Smoke," she also happened to name the Band Three Dog Night.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Movita
Actress and singer -- via the L.A. Times. AKA Maria Castenada. She was in such classics as "Flying Down to Rio," "Mutiny on the Bounty," and "Fort Apache."
Monday, February 16, 2015
Lesley Gore
Singer and songwriter -- via TMZ. AKA Lesley Sue Goldstein. Her big hits were "It's My Party" and "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows," tha latter Marvin Hamlisch's first big hit. She worte some of the songs for the movie "Fame" as well.
Deathcetera: The week in death and mourning worldwide
DEATH
Fighting off
bodysnatchers: grave cages – from Annetta Black at Atlas Obscura
Different
doctors’ voices heard on end-of-life issues – by Jason Breslow at PBS’s
Frontline
How can you
implement an end-of-life plan for someone with dementia? – from Robin
Marantz Henig at NPR
Yikes! Death in
Victorian times was really gross – by Mike Cahill at Viralnova
‘The Orpheus
Variations’ a theatrical meditation on death, mourning – from Emily
Snyder at The Jewish Week
Facebook
establishes ‘legacy contact’ designation to manage decedent’s account – by Jack
Linshi at TIME magazine
And, what is it
like to have a ‘digital mortician’? – via Jim Herrera at the Washington
Post
Egyptian
government restricts news of activist’s death – via David D.
Kirkpatrick at the New York Times
Death
professionals and dating – by Rebecca Solomon at Fox 43
MOURNING
‘My Dead
Husband, the Serial Adulterer’ – from Robyn Woodman at Modern Loss
‘Living Memory
Project’ seeks to further the altruistic goals of the deceased – by Randall P.
Lieberman at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
‘Why we must
grieve’ – an interview with a mourning-custom expert – via Kyle
Norris at Michigan Radio
A concise
history of mourning jewelry – via the Derby Telegraph
FUNERALS
In defiance,
women carry coffin of murdered Turkish woman – via al Arabiya News.
DNA banking
could be new sideline for funeral homes – via Tim Grant at the Green Bay Press
Gazette
Funeral home
launches mobile showroom – by Meredith Shamburger at the Dallas Morning News
Preparing the
body of someone you knew – from Nora Menkin at the Order of the Good Death
10 Worst Things
to Eat at a Funeral
– via Straight White Males at the Huffington Post
Coffin pops open
as lowered into too-small grave – via Josh Saul at the New York Post
‘Star Wars’ fan
gets Stormtrooper send-off – via Kevin Melrose at Comic Book Resources
Funeral director
overcoming racial divide in business – via Doug Moore at the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
OBITS
Dana Lods:
portrait of a troubled man – via Bianca Montes at the Vancouver Advocate
Why didn’t the
BAFTAs honor the late Bob Hoskins? – by Nick Romano at Cinemablend
An entry in ‘The
Art of the Obituary’
– from Bob Collins at MPR
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