Thursday, October 15, 2015

Hal Hackady


Lyricist, librettist, and screenwriter -- via Playbill. Wrote the lyrics to "Let's Go, Mets"!

Richard Davies

Actor -- via tobyhadoke.com.

Jean Badal

Levent Kirca

Actor -- via Today's Zaman.

Jorge Garbett

Musician, composer, and performer -- via ABC Color Paraguay.

Joan Leslie

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. AKA Joan Brodel. Started off as a part of a singing vaudeville trio with her sisters; at age 9 she pretended to be 16 to keep working. Appeared in many major films -- she was Velma in "High Sierra," Mary in "Yankee Doodle Dandy," and Gracie in "Sergeant York."






Nuriya Akhmedova

Actress -- via gun.az.


Wes Funk

Novelist -- via the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.


Sophie el Goulli

Carey Lander

Steve Mackay

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Smokin' Joe Kubeck

Blues guitarist -- via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

John Berg

Grammy-winning art director -- via the New York Times. His more than 5,000 album covers for Columbia were as big a part of the experience as the music! In fact, I have his posthumous re-release of Szell's recording of Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth Symphonies. It was meant to be a slam, evidently, but I love it.


Dean Chance

Cy Young Award-winning former MLB pitcher -- via the Sporting News.




Manorama

Actress -- via the Times of India. AKA Gopishantha, Aachi.


Claudia Barroso

Singer -- via UOL. AKA Amelia Rocha Barroso. A master of musica brega -- a kind of corny but beloved ensemble music.

Leny Escudero

Singer and songwriter -- via Le Monde. AKA Joaquim Escudero.

Natesan Ramani

Flutist -- via The Hindu. AKA N. Ramani.



Massimo Scaglione

Director and screenwriter -- via La Stampa.

Pushpa Bhuyan

Classical dancer -- via the Assam Tribune.


Jim "Sadist" Konya

Monday, October 12, 2015

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Frank Albanese

Actor and boxer -- via the New York Times.

Alvin Greenberg

Herschel Silverman

Poet -- via Culture Catch.

Elena Lucena

Actress -- via Buenos Aires Herald.

Elizabeth Ramsey

Dave Pike

Stasys Povilaitis

Singer and poet -- via en.delfi.lt.

Joseph "Smokey" Johnson

Legendary drummer -- via the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Played for everybody, including Fats Domino and Professor Longhair. Co-wrote and recordedthe Carnival classic "It Ain't My Fault."




Ed Sukla

Former MLB pitcher -- via legacy.com.


David Cook

Writer, screenwriter, and actor -- via the Guardian.

Friday, October 9, 2015

Carmen Marina Torres

Actress -- via El Heraldo.


Yves Barsacq

Actor -- via Il Nazionale.


Tomris Incer

Actress -- via hurriyet.com.tr.