Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Deathcetera: The week in death and mourning

DEATH

Want to become compost? Urban Death Project needs you – via Mark Prigg in the Daily Mail


Cincinnati Ballet does Mozart ‘Requiem’ – via David Lyman at the Cincinnati Enquirer

Death apps – from Kelly McEvers at NPR


MOURNING

Anger from some regarding roadside memorials – via Chris Holmstrom at KOIN

Lessons in 19th-Century mourning – via Kate Seckinger i the Daily Mail

Review of Scott Simo’s new memoir of his late mother – by Carlos Lozada at the Washington Post



FUNERALS

Program provides burial, services for homeless vets – via Capi Lynn at the Statesman Journal

Richard III reburied – via Sylvia Hui of AP


Hans Erni

Artist -- via the Guardian.




Rhoda Winkler

Gilbert Markle

Liliane Covington

Harley Parnell "Jim" Hisner

Former MLB player -- via the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. Pitched one game for the Red Sox -- he gave up two runs to rookie Mickey Mantle, as well as DiMaggio's last regular-season hit.

Monday, March 23, 2015

Gregory Walcott

Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Although mocked for his work in the classic Z-movie "Plan 9 from Outer Space," he worked in film and television for decades.

Don Robertson

Songwriter and pianist -- via legacy.com. He co-wrote such gems as "The Happy Whistler," "I Don't Hurt Any More," and "Ringo."











Alberta Watson

Actress -- via Us magazine.

Robert Clatworthy

Sculptor -- via the Telegraph.

Bernice Steadman

Stuart Croft

Artist and filmmaker -- via Art Review.

Angels Poch

Actress -- via El Pais.

Nazmi Yukselen

Singer and songwriter -- via milliyet.com.

"Chainsaw" Tommy May

Key grip -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Roy Doty

Cartoonist and illustrator -- via the National Cartoonists Society.


Sunday, March 22, 2015

Walter Grauman

Director of film and TV -- via . A pulp master -- one of the most prolific talents on TV, here's just a sample of some of his work -- Film: "Lady in a Cage," "633 Squadron" (from which George Lucas stole the attack on the Death Star scene in "Star Wars"), and "A Rage to Live" . . .







TV: The pilots for "The Fugitive," "The Streets of San Francisco," "Barnaby Jones," and "Honey West"; episodes of "Columbo," "TheUntouchables," "Naked City," "Route 66," and "Murder, She Wrote"; and many TV movies and miniseries as well.












Jim Berry


Cartoonist; creator of "Berry's World" -- via the National Cartoonists Society. He produced more than six one-panel syndicated cartoons a week and a larger color bit on Sundays, for 40 years. Never missed a deadline.





Ralph Taeger

Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Jackie Trent

Singer and songwriter -- via the BBC. AKA Yvonne Burgess.





Paul Jeffrey

Saxophonist and composer -- via Duke Today.



Thursday, March 19, 2015

Louis Silverstone

Judith Bustany

Samuel Charters

Robert X. Modica

Acting teacher and actor -- via Yahoo News.

Danny Lermer

Producer and director -- via Variety.

Buddy Elias

Eusebiu Stefanescu

Actor -- via agerpres.ro.

Miguel Donoso Pareja

Writer -- via La Republica.

Shaw Taylor

TV and radio host and actor -- via the Daily Mail. The iconic face of Police 5, an early crime-stopping segment. His tag line: "Keep 'em peeled!"

David Maxwell

Pianist -- via the Boston Globe.

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Robert Rosenblum

Writer -- via legacy.com. AKA Nicholas Condei, Johanna Kingsley, Jessica March, Jeanne Day Lord, and other nom de plumes.


Luciano Ercoli

Director and producer -- via Starburst Magazine.



Janice Rebibo

Poet -- via the Jewish Journal.

Krishna Kalle

Playback singer -- via the Business Standard.

Magda Guzman

Actress -- via Vanguardia. AKA Maria Magdalena Guzman Garza.

Bob Anderson

Former MLB player -- via Tulsa World. He was involved in the crazy play on June 30, 1959, when Stan Musial was put out by two baseballs, perhaps the first and only time this has happened in major league history.


Harri Pritchard Jones

Writer -- via the BBC.

Ada Jafri

Poet -- via The News Teller. AKA Aziz Jahan.

Inger Sitter

Artist - via aftenposten.no.

Meena Shah

Badminton champion -- via the Times of India.

Ib Melchior

Novelist, short-story writer, director, producer, and screenwriter -- via the Hollywood Reporter. A fascinating life. He was the son of famed Danish heldentenor Lauritz Melchior. He was a decorated counterintelligence officer in World War II; he helped liberate the Flossenburg concentration camp, discovered a Nazi gold hoard, and captured a German Werwolf unit.

He wrote many adventure novels, but it's his work in film that made the biggest impact. After some work in American television, he started writing sci-fi scripts -- "The Angry Red Planet," "Robinson Crusoe on Mars," "Reptilicus," "Journey to the Seventh Planet," and "The Time Travelers." He also wrote the English translation of Bava's "Planet of the Vampires."

Most importantly, his story "The Racer" became the film "Death Race 2000"; his idea for a "Space Family Robinson" was stolen by Irwin Allen and became "Lost in Space."

While many of his films may be regarded as cheesy, Melchior's imagination fueled my own as a child. These crude space operas and monster stories, many of them adaptations of classic literary sources, helped give sci-fi some momentum as it moved from being merely "kiddie fare" to a gerne that could handle adult, complex themes.