Monday, May 18, 2015

Garo Yepremian

Football place kicker -- via newser.com.


Martin St. James

Hypnotist -- via the Daily Mail.

Franz Wright

Pulitzer-winning poet --via the New York Times.

Ortheia Barnes-Kennerly

Singer and minister -- via the Detroit Free Press.

Gill Dennis

Screenwriter -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Best known for writing the screenplay for the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line."

Robert Drasnin

Composer for film and television -- via Variety. Worked primarily in TV on such shows as "The Wild Wild West," both versions of "The Twilight Zone," "Mission" Impossible," and the like. He also created the cult classic exotica album "Voodoo" in 1959.




Bob Randall

Indigenous activist; musician and songwriter -- via the ABC. Among the first of the "Stolen Generations" of aboriginal children taken from their birth families to expose the government policy that did so; he wrote the Stolen Generations anthem "Brown Skin Baby."




Earl Averill, Jr.

Former MLB catcher -- via the Seattle Times.

Arlette Thomas

Actress and voice actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Ed Fouhy

TV news producer -- via the New York Times.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Dean Potter and Graham Hunt

Dean Potter. Footage of Hunt in video clip below.
Climber/BASE jumpers -- via Outside. Killed attempting wingsuit flight in Yosemite.

Mervyn Burtch

Composer -- via Wales Online. An extremely "practical" composer, he is being termed in his obituaries -- meaning, of course, that he responded to reality. It is fascinating that he composed many fine works for younger performers without abandoning his modernist vocabulary. It is quite a tricky business to write something challenging for less experienced players, but not so challenging that it defeats their will.

Suchitra Battacharya

Novelist -- via DNA India.




Francois Zanella

Shipbuilder -- via Ouest France. Self-taught, he constructed a fully functional 1/8 scale model of cruise ship "Majesty of the Seas," for plying canals.

Luther "Captain Luke" Mayer

Packie Byrne

Folk singer and musician -- via the Guardian.

William Zinssler

Writer, editor, and teacher --via the New York Times. Author of the invaluable classic "On Writing Well."




Peter Gay

Historian -- via the New York Times. AKA Peter Joachim Frohlich.

Ananta Bijoy Das

Secular blogger -- via the BBC.

Glenn Orbik

Illustrator -- via robot6.comicbookresources.com.


"Downtown" Ollie Brown

John Stephenson

Prolific and distinctive actor and voice actor -- via Mark Evanier's News from Me. Instantly recognizable visually from his dozens of appearances in film and television from the 1950s through the 1990s. However, his claim to fame comes from his equally familiar voice. Starting in radio, he became a go-to guy for voice work in animation. He was the voice of Mr. Slate in "The Flintstones," Fancy-Fancy in "Top Cat," and the original voice of Dr. Quest in "Jonny Quest" (Don Messick took over after five episodes). He also intoned the verdicts at the end of each episode of "Dragnet."Still working up to the time of his death, he can still be heard as Mr. Fernwell on radio's Accountemps ads.





Saturday, May 16, 2015

Gideon Singer

Actor -- via Haaretz.


Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou

Alan Borovoy

Civil rights activist -- via the CBC.

Stan Cornyn

Jef Geeraerts

Writer -- via deredactie.be.


Derek Colquitt

Bassist -- via the Washington Post. AKA House.

Anita Gordon

Actress and singer -- via dignitymemorial.com. AKA Anita Gordon Chan. She started as a teen vocalist on the Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy radio show in 1939. She was the voice of the Singing Harp in "Mickey and the Beanstalk" in 1947, and sang for non-singing actresses, such as Jean Seberg in "Paint Your Wagon." After many years in entertainment, including lots of appearances in early TV, she moved on to writing music and producing videos.






Victor Salvi

Donald Neff

Journalist and writer -- via the Washington Post.

Alex Marquez Rodriguez

Writer -- via Notiglobo.


Friday, May 15, 2015

Rachel Rosenthal

Performance artist -- via the New York Times.



Charles "Etok" Edwardsen Jr.

Inuit activist -- via Alaska Dispatch News.


Michael O'Brien

Historian -- via the Guardian.


Ann Shaw

Activist and civic leader -- via mynewsla.com.

Alan Marcus

Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, writer for radio, film and TV; advocate for bilingual education; pianist -- via legacy.com. His story "Wives Ahoy" became the brief TV series "Here Come the Brides."




Felicity Powell

Shawn Tyler Chavez

Guitarist for HAVOK -- via blabbermouth.net.

Drew Cook

Guitarist -- via contactmusic.com.

Marjorie Townsend

William Delafield Cook

Artist -- via the Independent.


B.B. King

Legendary bluesman; singer, songwriter, and guitarist -- via CNN. AKA Riley B. King. His amazing ability gave his music an intensity and emotional honesty that really reached people. Besides his anthem "The Thrill is Gone," songs such as "Caldonia," "Three O'Clock Blues," and "Sweet Sixteen" gave us all a lot of joy and comfort through the years.






Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Zoltan Lalovic

Musician -- via story.rs.

Sam Gordon

Drummer, songwriter, and talent manager -- via legacy.com. AK Samuel Goldberg.


Jose Maria Castiniera de Dios

Poet -- via Diario la Provincia.