Monday, February 23, 2015

Deathcetera: the week in death and mourning

DEATH



More on the debate on doctor-assisted death – from Elizabeth Picciuto at the Daily Beast



MOURNING

Against euphemizing in grief – by Julienne Grey in the New York Times

On art and mourning – via jordansarti at creative communityreview.wordpress.com


FUNERALS




OBITS

The joys of being an obit writer – by Alena Hall at the Huffington Post


Funny obits compiled – by Jackie Taurinanen at HLN

Dave Cloud

Outsider musician and actor -- via the Nashville Scene. What a wonderfully strange person! An icon in the southeastern underground scene (ang big in Scandinavia), Cloud was an early punker who moved into his own inimitable area -- collage tape compositions, contemptuous/worshipful covers of bubblegum, psychedelic, and schmaltz, and his own songs. A frenetic performer who Phil Hebblethwaite referred to as a "garage rock lounge lizard extraordinaire."





Mats Olausson

Andrzej Koszewski

Composer -- via amuz.edu.pl.



John-Edward Kelly

Frank Ramirez

Actor -- via emol.com.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Bruce Sinofsky

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.

Kenneth "Wally" Kelley

Oliver Rackham

Botanist and historical ecologist -- via the Guardian.

Gary Woods

Former MLB player -- via the Chicago Tribune.

Gerard Calvi

Composer -- via Le Monde.

Paul Rodriguez

Ashraful Haque

Actor -- via the Hindustan Times.

Pat Taylor

Singer and guitarist -- via the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

Herman Tuck

Drummer -- via Beards Funeral Chapel.

Robert E. Herzstein

Stopped Nixon from destroying the tapes -- via the New York Times.

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.





Thursday, February 19, 2015

Harris Wittels

John Miranda



Actor and playwright -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Anne Cuneo

Jan Pohan

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Richie Pratt

Drummer -- via allaboutjazz.com.

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.

Ed DeLatte

Actor and director -- via the Dallas Morning News.

Richard Meryman

Writer, editor, and journalist -- via the New York Times.

Georgia Ayers

Activist and humanitarian worker -- via the Miami Herald.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Narcisse Blood

Artist -- via the Calgary Herald.

Michael Green

Theater director -- via the CBC.

Lacy Morin-Desjarlais

Dancer -- via legacy.com. AKA Kimiwan piyesiw iskwew (Raining Thunderbird Woman).


Michele Sereda

Theater director -- via Regina Memorial.

Stan Chambers

TV reporter -- via KTLA.

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."






Lorena Rojas

Telenovela star -- via CNN.

Pamela Cundell

Actress -- via the Guardian. Best remembered as Mrs. Fox in "Dad's Army."




Corrine le Poulain

Actress -- via Demotix.

Genevieve Dormann

Journalist and novelist -- via Le Figaro.