Friday, February 27, 2015

Robert "Wolfman" Belfour

Bluesman -- via the Memphis Commercial Appeal.




A. Vincent

Cinematographer -- via the Hindu.

Giacomo Rondinella

Singer and actor -- via Il Mattino.



Ariel Camacho

Singer for Los Plebes del Rancho -- via the New York Times.



Tyzen Hsiao

Composer -- via Focus Taiwan.

Leonard Nimoy

Actor, director, poet, singer, and photographer; our beloved Spock from the original "Star Trek" TV series -- via the New York Times. He enacted one of the most memorable and enduring characters in American culture -- as the Vulcan science officer of the starship Enterprise, he played a brilliant but tormented outsider who struggled to keep his all-too-human side at bay. Nimoy was a versatile actor who later figured prominently in shows such as "Mission: Impossible"; he directed two "Star Trek" films successfully, and the comedy hit "3 Men and a Baby" as well. Lest we forget, he served as the host of the syndicated series "In Search of . . . ", and did a nice turn as a therapist in the remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Famous for what some might consider a silly role, he took it all with good humor.









Thursday, February 26, 2015

Gerardo Reyes

Ranchera singer -- via El Siglo de Torreon. AKA The Son of the People, the Godfather of Cinco de Mayo.



Eugenie Clark

Fritz J. Raddatz

Writer and critic -- via newsdirectory1.com.

Ruth Denison

Buddhist teacher -- via Tricycle.

R.C. Sakthi

Director and actor -- via the Hindu.

John Crocker

Actor -- via the Telegraph.

Tonya Gonnella Frichner

Indigenous leader -- via the New York Times.

Steve Bristow

Engineer and game designer -- via Ars Technica.

Roger Cecil

Artist -- via the Guardian.


Alan Mayor

Photographer -- via the Tennessean.

John Rowlands

Writer and critic -- via the BBC.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Marlene Barrow-Tate

Marlene is center in photo.
Backup singer; member of Motown's unsung (pardon) trio, the Andantes -- via Vintage Vinyl News. Here's just a partial list of the songs she can be heard on: "I Heard It through the Grapevine," "My Guy," "Bernadette," "Don't Mess with Bill," "Ain't That Peculiar," and "Higher and Higher." Not too shabby.






Terry Gill

Actor -- via the Sydney Morning Herald.

Paul Napier

Actor -- via Deadline.

Maureen Guy

Mezzo-soprano -- via the Telegraph.

Cecil Morton

Artist -- via the Telegraph.


Bobby Emmons

Songwriter and keyboardist -- via Rolling Stone. A long-time, expert session musician in Memphis, he wrote some beautiful songs, including "Luckenbach, Texas" and "The Wurlitzer Prize."





Ramon Aupart Cisneros

Film editor and documentary filmmaker - via Fox News Latino.

Don Stolz

'Godfather' of Minneapolis theater -- via the Star-Tribune.

Robert Pookapu "Uncle Robert" Keliihoomalu, Sr.

Musician -- via the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.

Don Johnson

Former MLB pitcher -- via Oregon Live.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

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.