Monday, August 29, 2011

Johnson

Film composer -- via expressbuzz.com.

B.J. Hopper

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Juan Enrique "Chango" Farias Gomez

Folk musician -- via the Buenos Aires Herald.

Janey Cutler

Singer -- via the Sun.

Humberto Millan Salazar

Journalist -- via the BBC.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Mike Flanagan

Former MLB pitcher and broadcaster -- via USA Today. A Cy Young Award winner, All-Star and World Series ring holder -- one of the best pitchers in recent times.

Michael Showers

Actor -- via WWLTV.

Ross Barbour

Ross Barbour, the last surviving member of the original vocalise group the Four Freshmen, is pictured far leftV
Vocalist and musician; last of the original Four Freshmen -- via the New York Times.

Vilem Sokol

Conductor, violist and professor of music -- via the Seattle Times.

Scott Wannberg

Poet -- via the L.A. Times. Here's a nice quote from him: "If humanity had the big answers, it would probably stop scratching under its underwear and actually take time out to smell the nice coffee breeze going by in that unilateral moment of music that we are all made of. Because people are just too hung up on not listening to the music that actually is there. If they had the answers to the big questions, they could follow the music to the dance hall that never closes."

Vicco von Bulow aka Loriot aka Bernhard Victor Christoph Carl von Bülow

Comedian and cartoonist -- via the Washington Post.

Todd Green, Jon Egging, Bryan Jensen

Todd Green -- report here.
John Egging -- report here.
Bryan Jensen - report here.
Aerial stunt artists -- via the Detroit News, Daily Mail and the Kansas City Star. Green fell while wing-walking; Egging and Jensen will killed in plane crashes. The tragic trio of events took place at air shows last weekend. Fatalities at these events are actually relatively rare. No, I will not post video of their deaths!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Kamal El-Shennawi

Film actor -- via Almasry Alyoum.

Samir Chanda

Art director -- via the Times of India.

Reza Badyi

Filmmaker, and prolific TV director -- via the L.A. Times.

George Hendry

Member of the Table Tennis Hall of Fame -- via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Christine Cole Catley

Journalist, publisher and author -- via the Marlborough Express.

John Howard Davies

TV comedy producer/director, and child actor -- via the Telegraph. This remarkable man started his career as David Lean's Oliver Twist --

Eventually, he worked his way into comedy at the BBC. He directed the first episodes of "Monty Python's Flying Circus," and produced and directed "The Good Life," "Fawlty Towers," "Yes, Minister," "Not the Nine o'Clock News," "Mr. Bean" and many more (including the pilot for "Blackadder".)