Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Don Featherstone

Joseph de Pasquale

Violist -- via Philly.com.






Tony Longo

Actor -- via Deadline.


Joan Riordan

Actress -- via legacy.com.


Colette Marchand

Ballerina -- via the New York Times. Received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Marie in "Moulin Rouge" (1952).


Magali Noel

Actress and singer -- via ANSA. A favorite of Fellini, she is best known for playing Gradisca in "Amarcord." As a singer, her big hit was the controversial "Hurt Me Johnny" in 1959 -- an extrememly masochistic rock 'n' roll song that was banned from French radio. She also appeared in classics such as "Rififi" and "Satyricon."








Miriam Schapiro

Artist -- via Hyperallergic. A pioneer of feminist art.



Gary Quackenbush

Aryeh Sivan

Poet -- via Haaretz. AKA Aryeh Bornstein.

Stuart Sherwin

Actor -- via the Telegraph.


Dick Van Patten

Actor -- via Entertainment Weekly. A stalwart character actor who started on Broadway at age 7 in 1935, Van Patten is best known for playing Tom Bradford, the father on American TV dramedy "Eight is Enough." A Mel Brooks regular as well, he specialized in comedy and playing nebbishes.



James Horner

Oscar-winning composer, conductor, and orchestrator -- via  the Hollywood Reporter.

Monday, June 22, 2015

George "Foghorn" Wilson

Child actor -- via Digital Spy UK. AKA Karl Wentzlaff. He pestered Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," annoyed Clifton Webb in "Mister Scoutmaster," and traded quips with Cary Grant in "Monkey Business." His one starring vehicle was "The Rocket Man."




Darryl Hamilton

Former MLB outfielder and baseball analyst -- via Sports Illustrated.

James Salter

Remo Remotti

Alice Whyte Wojtecki

Drummer -- via lifestorynet.com. AKA "The female Gene Krupa."


Veijo Meri

Gunther Schuller

Composer, conductor, writer, and teacher -- via the New York Times. A gifted musician who moved into composing and conducting. He was adept in both classical and jazz, and advocated a Third Stream movement that combined the best of both. This wound up happening primarily inside his own compositions, but he was a catalyst for the cross-pollination that enriches cultures. He ran Tanglewood for a while; his GM Recordings put a lot of good music out that might never have been heard otherwise.






Laura Antonelli

Actress -- via ANSA. AKA Laura Antonaz. Known primarily for her sexual allure in films, and despite her tragic personal life, she could act, conveying character in films that often weren't up to par. Part of the brief wave of sophisticated European erotic that vanished when cheaper cable-TV imitators churned out product.

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Earl Norem

Illustrator -- via Facebook. He worked across a vast array of media -- magazines, comic books, trading cards, murals, program covers, movie posters and the like.






Vlastimir "Djuza" Stojiljkovic

Actor -- via In News.


Chang Ch'ung-ho

Poet, educator, opera singer, and calligrapher -- via book.ifeng.com. AKA Ch'ung-ho Frankel.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Harold Battiste

Composer, label founder, arranger, saxophonist, pianist, music producer, and educator -- via the L.A. Times . He arranged "You Send Me" for Sam Cooke; founded AFO Records, the first African American artist-owned label. They produced Barbara George's "I Know," and Ellis Marsalis's first album. He worked on "Ya Ya," "You Talk Too Much," and "I Got You Babe" (he worked with Sonny and Cher for 15 years). You can even hear his piano of the early Tom Waits album "Blue Valentine." He discovered Dr. John.

His crisp, simple, tasteful settings that support the music are a model for future music producers. And who else would have put an oboe in "I Got You Babe" and have it make the song? That's a heck of a lot of good music he sent our way.

















Wendell Holmes

Vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and songwriter -- via Billboard. A guy who could and did play just about anything, with his brother Sherman and drummer Popsy Dixon as the Holmes Brothers. Great makers of inspirational music! Soul music was derived from gospel -- the Brothers weren't afraid to use the complete arsenal of sul, blues, and funk technique to create a rich, propulsive Christian music.



Charles Correa

Architect -- via TIME.

Tony Ranasinghe

Actor -- via newsfirst.lk.

Hilary Masters

Friday, June 19, 2015

Phil Austin

Jack Rollins

Comedy manager and film producer -- via the New York Times. AKA Jacob Rabinowitz. Key to the careers of talent such as Woody Allen, Harry Belafonte, Nichols and May, Letterman, and Robin Williams.




Peter Prier

Violin maker -- via Deseret News.

Julie Kirkham

Film producer -- via the Hollywood Reporter. An important developer of screenwriters, including Zallian, Shelton, Jordan Roberts, and W. Blake Herron.


Jean Vautrin

Writer, screenwriter, and director -- via Le Monde. AKA Jean Herman.

Jung In Ah

Actress -- via SBS.


Thursday, June 18, 2015

Mighty Sam McClain

Singer and songwriter -- via American Blues Scene.





Jesus Moroles

Sculptor -- via My San Antonio.

Harry Rowohlt

Writer, translator, and performer -- via Deutsche Welle. AKA Harry Rupp.

Josef Topol

Poet and playwright -- via ABC News.

Zhanna Friske

Singer and actor -- via Billboard. AKA Jeana Friske.




Walter Weller

Conductor and violinist -- via Slipped Disc.

Amy Wallis

Actor -- via Broadway World.



Rick Ducommun

Comedian and actor -- via Movie Pilot.


Rainer Riehn

Composer and conductor -- via blogs.nmz.de.



Jill Hyem

Writer for radio and TV; actor -- via the Guardian.


Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Hugo Blanco

Musician and composer -- via El Tiempo. Noted for his "Moliendo Cafe," which morphed into the popular soccer chant "Dale Cavese."



Buddy Boudreaux

Jazz musician and bandleader -- via The Advocate.

Graham Lord

Journalist, novelist, editor, and biographer -- via the Telegraph. Also invented the short-lived but brilliant Sunday Express Book of the Year competition, an "anti-Booker" that rewarded READABLE novels.


Boris Godjunov

Singer -- via fakti.bg.

Mary Cherry