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, December 7, 2018
Pete Shelley
Singer, songwriter, and guitarist; frontman for the Buzzcocks -- via NME. AKA Peter Campbell McNeish.
Lisa Schwartz
Doctor and writer; key voice against "the medicalization of everyday life" -- via the New York Times.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Charles Harrison
Industrial designer; master of the View-Master -- via the New York Times. His influence is vast -- he weighed in on hundreds of consumer products and markedly improved most of them.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Paul Gregory
Overlooked but key producer in film, theater, and television (Don Juan in Hell, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The Night of the Hunter) -- via the New York Times. AKA James Burton Lenhart.
Geoff Murphy
Director, screenwriter, and producer -- via NewsHub. Later, he ground out some projects for the money, but he created three great films in a row in the 1980s, right at the birth of the New Cinema in Australia and New Zealand -- Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu, and The Quiet Earth, the last simly one of the best science fiction films ever,
Fred Caligiuri
Former MLB pitcher --via the Charlotte Observer. Played for the then-Philadelphia Athletics in 1941 and 1942.
Monday, December 3, 2018
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