Country music signer and songwriter -- via Rolling Stone. Worked on hits such as "Love Bug," "The Fireman," and "One Piece at a Time."
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.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Deathcetera: the world's news in death and mourning
DEATH
So,
what happens when Queen Elizabeth II dies? – by Rob Price at Business
Insider
Life
is cheap for Nepali workers in the Mideast – from Sugam Pokharel at CNN
‘Death
with Dignity’ laws considered anew in American states – by Michael Ollove
at the Huffington Post
Program enables the
dying to view great art – via the Huffington Post
Coping with
the death of a spouse – from Kate Ashton at the BBC
Virginia
legislation protects postmortem electronic footprints – via the Associated
Press
Seven kinds of
near-death experiences – via Rachel Nuwer at the BBC
Thomas Ades’s
new work, “Totentanz,”
reviewed by Alex Ross in the New Yorker
Teacher jailed
for showing class extremely inappropriate film “The ABCs of Death” – from Isabelle
Khoo at parentdish.ca
Final tweets – from oddee.com
MOURNING
Putin critic
Nemtsov’s funeral march – by Masha Lipman at the New Yorker
Russian
TV covers Nemtsov’s death, funeral with massive amounts of character
assassination – via Yelena Rykovtsena at Radio Free Europe
Kurdish singers
preserve thousands of legends, and songs of mourning – via the
Anadolu Agency in the Daily Sabah
Celebrity death
and social media
– by Catrina Dennis at moviepilot
“Spocking fives”
tradition in Canada surges in wake of Leonard Nimoy’s death – via Anne
quito in Quartz
MMORPG
(Massively multi-player online role-playing game) “Star Trek online” builds
tributes to late Leonard Nimoy -- inside game – from Mtthew Jackson at Blastr
FUNERALS
Women
moving into mortuary profession – via Katherine Johnson at WDAZ
Victorian
architect dreamed of a giant London ‘vertical necropolis’ – via Kriston
Capps at CItylab
5th
Century B.C.E. funeral complex unearthed in France – via The Blaze
VA
causes delays in veterans’ funerals – via Nathan Baca at WBNS
Lighthearted
feature story about a young mortician – via Thaddeus Mast at the Laramie
Boomerang
Mortuary science
is changing
– from Andre Eggert at the Minnesota Post
Funeral protest
restrictions moved in Iowa – from James Q. Lynch at the Gazette
Analyzing
funeral costs – via Dustin Klemann at KTVQ
OBITS
Some
caveats concerning New York Times obits – from Kevin Lollar at the
News-Press
Dirk Shafer
Model and filmmaker -- via the New York Times. A sexual icon to straight women, Shafer's coming out as gay forms the substance of his documentary film "Man of the Year."
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Comics artist; founder of gekiga -- via bleedingcool.com. Gekiga is the non-manga, darker and more serious Japanese equivalent of what the West would come to cal graphic novels as opposed to comic books.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Jenna McMahon
Comedy writer, producer, and performer; co-creator of "The Facts of Life" and "Mama's Family" -- via lgacy.com. AKA Mary Virginia Skinner.
Monday, March 9, 2015
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Charlotte Spiegel
Created Window Guard program, saving thousands of children's lives -- via the New York Times.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Harve Bennett
TV and film writer and producer -- via the New York Times. AKA Harvard Bennett Fischman. He is best known for reinvigorating the "Star Trek" franchise with his scripts and producing work. He created the Star Trek films II through V. He also created memorable series and works such as "The Mod Squad," "Rich Man, Poor Man," "Th Bionic Woman," "The Six Million Dollar Man," and a good TV adapatatin of "From Here to Eternity." As a child, he was once a rather famous Quiz Kid -- a radio show in which precocious children answered difficult questions.
Bando Mitsugoro X
Kabuki actor -- via ajw.asahi.com. AKA Hisashi Morita. Kabuki actors traditionally take the name of their father or mentor, preserving it for generations.
Friday, March 6, 2015
Albert Maysles
Filmmaker -- via the New York Times. With his brother David and alone, he created some of the most influential documentaries in American history -- among them "Salesman," "Gimme Shelter," and "Grey Gardens." He made technical improvements, especially with sync sound, that allowed him to shoot "fly on the wall"-style observational films. Most of all, he had the sense when to shoot, and how to keep people relaxed.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
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