Dancer and singer -- via Satellite News. She is best remembered for her starring role in the 1956 short promotional film "Mr. B Natural," which later became a camp classic thanks to the TV/movie comedy show "Mystery Science Theater 3000." She passed away on May 25, 2011, but her death was not generally reported until recently.
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.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Denise Gence
Actress -- via voy.com.
http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/arts-du-spectacle/video/CAC92055513/denise-gence-oh-les-beaux-jours-de-samuel-beckett.fr.html
http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/arts-du-spectacle/video/CAC92055513/denise-gence-oh-les-beaux-jours-de-samuel-beckett.fr.html
Clarence Johnson
Singer and record producer; an early member of the Chi-Lites -- via the Chicago Sun-Times.
Roger G. Kennedy
Director of the National Park Service, leader of the Smithsonian, scholar and author -- via the New York Times.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Emanuel Litvinoff
Poet and memoirist -- via the Telegraph. He notably stood up to the horrible anti-Semitism of T.S. Eliot.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Brooke Ostrander
Keyboardist -- via samessenger.com. He started the band Rainbow with Chaim Witz and Stanley Eisen; later they became Wicked Lester. Finally Ostrander quit, becoming a studio musician and music educator. His bandmates? They changed their names to Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, and the band changed its name to Kiss.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Marv Tarplin
Guitarist and songwriter -- via the Detroit News. A great American musician, he also wrote or co-wrote such classics as "The Tracks of My Tears," "Ain't That Peculiar," "I'll Be Doggone," and "Being with You."
Sylvia Robinson
Singer, songwriter and music producer; the "Mother of Hip-Hop" -- via the New York Times. Half of the vocal duo Mickey and Sylvia, she later produced the pioneering rap tracks -- "Raper's Delight" and "The Message."
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Shirley Chambers
Actress -- via voy.com. Almost forgotten, she had small parts in a number of highly significant films -- "Gone with the Wind," "The Women," "Nothing Sacred," "Viva Villa!" and Lubitsch's "Merry Widow." She worked with the Three Stooges, Eddie Cantor and Wheeler and Woolsey.
David Zelag Goodman
Don't let the sour look fool you. Out of the frame, he is making Sam Peckinpaugh hold his leg ala Harpo Marx. |
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