Thursday, July 24, 2014

Saado Ali Warsame

Musician -- via the BBC.




Ariano Suassuna

Writer and playwright -- via the Folha de S. Paulo.

Louis Lentin

Film, TV, and theater director -- via independent.ie.

Gene Walker

Saxophonist -- via the Columbus Dispatch.





Robert Van Ezell

Guitarist and singer -- via the Shreveport Times.

Dora Bryan aka Dora May Broadbent

Actress -- via the BBC. Her film career lasted from 1947 to 2006!





Liam Davison

Writer -- via the Association for Study of Australian Literature.


Panna Rittikrai

Martial arts choreographer, stuntman, actor, and film director -- via the Bangkok Post. The stunt coordinator behind the epic four-minute one-take fight sequence in "The Protector."








Madeline Amgott

TV news producer -- via the New York Times.

Vera Mihic-Jolić

Filmmaker -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Jessie Gruman

Randall Stout

Architect -- via the L.A. Times.

Gavin Jones

Aboriginal leader -- via the Guardian.

Steve London aka Walter Gragg

Actor and lawyer -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Curt Gentry

Award-winning writer; co-writer of "Helter Skelter" -- via sfgate.com. A native of Lamar, Colorado, he was a graduate of CU.

Jim Russell

Manfred Wekwerth

Theater and film director and writer -- via Berliner Zeitung.

Shuba Jay aka Shubashini Jeyaratnam

Actress -- via MSN.

Manouchehr Darafsheh

Illustrator -- via presstv.ir.

Václav Sloup

Actor -- via Radio Prague.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Rubem Alves

Writer, philosopher, and theologian -- via sbs.com.au. A major proponent of liberation theology.

Alex Angulo

Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Manfred Sexauer

Radio and television host -- via t-online.de.

Kadhal Dhandapani

Actor -- via International Business News.

Fred Brookfield

Stuntman -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Edward Clay "Tap" Canutt

Stuntman and actor; son of Yakima Canutt -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

John Fasano

Yehuda Nir

Psychiatrist -- via the New York Times.

Tom Tierney

Paper-doll book maker -- via the New York Times.






Hans Funck

Film editor -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Lionel Ferbos

Trumpeter -- via the New Orleans Times-Picayune.






Leopoldo Verona

Actor -- via El Dia.

Vilma Ferran

Actress -- via Primicias Ya.

Szymon Szurmiej

Actor and director -- via rp.pl.





Abdukadir Osman aka Abdukadir Oromo

Writer -- via Raxanreeb.

Monday, July 21, 2014

Thomas Berger

One of America's most underrated novelists -- via the New York Times. Best known for writing "Little Big Man," he could write in any genre with ease, making sardonic points about society and mankind in general along the way. His Carlo Reinhart novels, "Sneaky People," "The Feud," "Regiment of Women," "Killing Time," and on and on . . . superb work. Pick up anything of his and you will enjoy it.

Great quote from him in the New York Times obituary: "I should like the reader to be aware that a book of mine is written in the English language, which I love with all my heart and write to the best of my ability and with the most honorable of intentions -- which is to say, I am peddling no quackery, masking no intent to tyrannize, and asking nobody's pity. (I suspect that I am trying to save my own soul, but that's nobody else's business.)"

Claudine Bouche

http://www.criterion.com/films/218-jules-and-jim

Film editor of such classics as "Jules et Jim," "Shoot the Piano Player," and "The Bride Wore Black" -- via A'voire A'lire. Declared dead after disappearing in early April.

Lennie Sogoloff

Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro

Writer --via Fox News Latino.

J Sasikumar aka N Varkey John

Film director -- via NDTV.

Cashmere Jackson

Former champion boxer -- via the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

OBIT READER: Our weekly roundup of stories on death, dying, and more

A photo from the collection of the Museum of Mourning Photography and Memorial Practice, courtesy the Cult of Mac website.
TOP STORIES

David Pierini of the Cult of Mac visits the Museum of Mourning Photography and Memorial Practice in Chicago

Zachary T. Sampson and Martin Finucane of the Boston Globe report on an unlicensed funeral director who possessed 12 bodies in a storage unit. And the New York Daily News adds that the same individual had 40 sets of cremated remains in another storage unit.

A tribute to a man not well-known reminds us that actions, not renown, are how a life should be measured – written by Soo Ewe Jin of the Star of Malaysia

DEATH

From Still Standing magazine, Loni H.E. describes life after the death of an infant

Richard Harris on Forbes magazine investigates the growing call for the legalization of assisted death

Postmortem digital existence – the possibilities debated, from Jeff Stone at the International Business Times


MOURNING


Grandpa’s funeral – a very beautiful and loving tribute from just a couple of regular folks. Via paigeandchris.com.

OBITS

Jack Know of the Alberni Valley Colonist examines obits – good, bad, and indifferent


FUNERAL HOMES

Does the funeral industry need tighter regulation? Roddie Burris of Columbia, SC’s The State reports on widely differing charges for the same services

Annie Pilon of Small Business Trends tells us about a mortician who’s also a magician

Evicting landlord finds decomposing bodies in funeral home – via Mitch Mitchell of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

MISC


Tom Rolf

Oscar-winning film editor -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Among his films: "The Right Stuff," "Taxi Driver," "Heat," and "Jacob's Ladder."

Jerry McNeeley

Dietmar Schönherr

Actor and TV personality -- via corabuhlert.com.

Otto Piene

Painter and sculptor -- via the New York Times.




Alan Stanbrook

Film critic -- via the Telegraph.

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Elaine M. Brody

Sociologist and expert on aging, she championed the 'women in the middle' -- adult children of aging parents -- via the New York Times. 

Ustad Aqeel Ahmed Khan aka Mohan Piya

Singer -- via IBN Live.