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.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Gunnar Fischer
Cinematographer -- via the New York Times. He will be best remembered for his collaborations with Ingmar Bergman on all of that director's early significant films.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Robert Velaise aka Robert Bloch
Film producer -- via the Independent. As a distributor, he purchased the rights to and preserved many rare and important films.
Alan Rubin aka Mr. Fabulous
Instrumentalist -- via the Bangor Daily News. He played just about everything with just about everyone.
Monday, June 13, 2011
John Mackenzie aka Frenzy Mackenzie
Film director -- via the Telegraph. He made one of the most amazing movies ever -- "The Long Good Friday."
Laura Ziskin
Movie producer -- via popeater.com. No Ziskin, no "No Way Out," "Pretty Woman," "What About Bob?", "To Die For" and the "Spiderman" trilogy.
Carl Gardner
Co-founder and lead vocalist of The Coasters -- via Spinner. He co-founded the group with Billy Nunn, after leaving The Robins in 1955. The Coasters are one of the great vocal groups of all time -- a conduit for the profound silliness of Leiber and Stoller's brilliant songwriting, which had a truckload of hits and got exploited and shortchanged.
Gardner's theatricality, fine voice and ability to entertain helped make this ensemble's efforts forever memorable.
Not only did they serve as the exponents of the Lieber and Stoller songbook, but they made amazing covers of songs such as "Brazil," "Besame Mucho" and "Zing! Went the Strings of my Heart".
Gardner's theatricality, fine voice and ability to entertain helped make this ensemble's efforts forever memorable.
Not only did they serve as the exponents of the Lieber and Stoller songbook, but they made amazing covers of songs such as "Brazil," "Besame Mucho" and "Zing! Went the Strings of my Heart".
Larry Berg
He led the town band for 30 years, and did much more for his community -- via the Bonner Springs Chieftain.
Lee J. Ames
Artist and illustrator -- via newsfromme.com. The author of the famous "Draw 50" instructional series.
Mietek Pemper
Man who typed "Schindler's List," saving more than 1,000 Jewish lives during the Holocaust -- via the Jerusalem Post.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Edgar Zivanai Tekere
Revolutionary -- via the New York Times. A compatriot of Mugabe, he helped free Zimbabwe. Later, he fought against Mugabe's oppression and was jailed for a second time.
Sir Patrick "Paddy" Michael Leigh Fermor
Brilliant travel writer, author, scholar and soldier -- via the Telegraph. He walked across Europe; he kidnapped a German general; a man of mythic stature.
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