Sound engineer, music producer, sound studio builder -- via the Jamaica Observer. Recorded the Wailers, the Skatalites, Desmond Dekker, and many more. His remix of "Israelites" was the key to its big success.
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.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
June Randall
Script supervisor extraordinaire -- via the Telegraph. She ensured continuity, and much more, for projects as diverse as the Bond series, and those of director Stanley Kubrick.
Monday, March 2, 2015
Maurice Hurley
TV writer and producer ("Star Trek: The Next Generation"); screenwriter -- via the Hollywood Reporter.
Chris Rainbow
Vocalist with the Alan Parsons Project, Camel, and Jon Anderson -- via Ultimate Classic Rock. AKA Christopher James Harley.
Deathcetera: The week in death and mourning
A slow week. Which is good!
DEATH
Achieving a good
death
– via Alex Lickerman at Slate
Painter renders
last meals of 600 executed prisoners – via Anna van Wagtendonk at PBS News
Hour
Why we like to
read the words of the dying – by Eve Wiseman at the Guardian
Death and . . .
improv?
– from Barbara Brotman at the Chicago Tribune
FUNERALS
Fascinating
funeral traditions from around the globe – via Kate Torgovnick May at
ideas.ted.com
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Richard Bakalyan
Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter. One of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood, Bakalyan played gangsters and the like for more than 50 years.
"The Face is Familiar" - Dick Bakalyan from Encore Video Services on Vimeo.
"The Face is Familiar" - Dick Bakalyan from Encore Video Services on Vimeo.
Minnie Miñoso
Great left fielder for the Chicago White Sox -- via the Chicago Tribune. AKA Saturnino Orestes Armas Miñoso Arrieta, the Cuban Comet, Mr. White Sox. A power hitter, he was fast on the bases as well, second only to Willie Mays at the time. He was also noted for standing in and getting hit by pitches. He is referenced in a notable comedy routine by Robert Klein -- One of those guys I think should be in the Hall of Fame.
The Minnie bit comes at 4:30 in this clip --
The Minnie bit comes at 4:30 in this clip --
Friday, February 27, 2015
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.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Marlene Barrow-Tate
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