Comedian and musician -- via the Kansas City Star.
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.
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Lori Callahan
Comic -- via Colorado Public Radio. We started about the same time, over 30 years ago. She was funny! She had a great work ethic! She was a real, regular human being! To have all three of these in a comic is extremely rare.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Edith Kramer
Artist and art therapist -- via Psychology Today.
Edith Kramer. Art Tells the Truth from LenFim Studio on Vimeo.
Edith Kramer. Art Tells the Truth from LenFim Studio on Vimeo.
Loni Nest aka Eleonore Smythe
Child actress in silent and early sound film -- via forevermissed.com. Her most significant screen moment -- as the child who removes the star from the chest of the golem, destroying him, in BoeseWegener's 1920 "Der Golem."
Franny Beecher
Long-time guitarist for Bill Haley and the Comets -- via the L.A. Times. While he was not on the the original recording of "Rock Around the Clock" (that was Danny Cedrone), he was the mainstay of the group for decades.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Jim Lange
Broadcaster and game-show host best known as the face of "The Dating Game" -- via the San Francisco Chronicle.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Robert M. Fresco
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, and screenwriter -- via the New York Times. He made "Czechoslovakia 1968," and "Trial: The City and County of Denver vs. Lauren R. Watson," a six-hour TV documentary that was the first complete account of a trial on American television. Earlier in his career, he wrote some of my favorite chesy horro movies -- "The Monolith Monsters," "The Alligator People," and "Tarantula".
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
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