Vocalist and music director -- via the Hindustan Times.
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, August 30, 2013
Mike Winters aka Michael Weinstein
Comedian, musician, businessman, and writer -- via the Guardian. Straight man to brother Bernie in their double act!
Seamus Heaney
Nobel Prize-winning poet, playwright, translator and lecturer -- via the New York Times. Known for not only his own work, but his translation of "Beowulf," which revived interest in this up-to-then painful experience of a poem.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Russell S. Doughten Jr.
Film producer; best known for the Christian Rapture tetralogy "A Thief in the Night" -- via the Chicago Sun-Times. Other landmarks in his career: he was the associate producer and uncredited assistant director on "The Blob," and helmed the last films of both John Carradine ("The Hostage") and Nick Adams ("Fever Heat"). Filmed these four films, seen by a purported 300 million people, in Des Moines, Carlisle, and Pella, Iowa.
Gilbert Taylor
Cinematographer -- via the New York Times. Among his creations: "A Hard Day's Night," "Dr. Strangelove," the Polanski "Macbeth," "The Omen," and "Star Wars."
Vadim Yusov
Cinematographer -- via the Guardian. Best known for his work with Tarkovsky, including "Ivan's Childhood," "Andrei Rublev," and "Solaris."
Richard Angas
Bass -- via the Telegraph. Best remembered for his titular role in the Jonathan Miller production of "The Mikado."
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Stephenie McMillan
Oscar-winning set decorator -- via the Telegraph. Like the "Hary Potter" movies? She did all of them.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
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