Thursday, May 24, 2012

Mark Deitch

Dissident and journalist -- via JTA.

Ronny aka Wolfgang Roloff

Singer, composer and producer -- via westernboothill.blogspotcom.



Eddy Paape

Comics artist -- via the Comics Reporter.


Mario Trejo

Poet, playwright, screenwriter and journalist -- via infonews.com.

Ernst Hinterberger

Novelist, playwright and poet -- via Die Salzburger Nachrichten.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Frederick E. Smith

Author -- via the Bournemouth Daily Echo. The film adaptation of his most popular work, "633 Squadron," featured a final sequence that inspired George Lucas to steal it for the climatic sequence in "Star Wars."

Sanae Nakahara

Actress -- via Yomiuri Online. Best known for her role as a villainess in the film "Lady Snowblood."

Patricia Aakhus aka Patricia McDowell

Novelist -- via legacy.com.


France Clidat

Pianist -- la-croix.com.

Marco Antonio Avila Garcia

Journalist -- via the Guardian. Tortured, murdered, left in a garbage bag. Fifth journalist killed in a month. WTF.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Friday, May 18, 2012

Ruth Foster

Actress -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Kevin Hickey

Former MLB pitcher -- via the Chicago Tribune.


Katya Filipova

Singer -- via novinite.com.

Jean Craighead George

Writer -- via the New York Times. She is best know for her young people's literature, especially "My Side of the Mountain" (one of my faves) and "Julie of the Wolves" -- both Newbery Prize winners.

Maria Biesu

Soprano -- via allmoldava.com.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Baritone; one of the great singers of the 20th century -- via the Guardian.Not just a pretty voice -- he understood and could communicate the most subtle shades of meaning, making clear the most complex lieder and aria! Here is a wonderful meditation on his talent, integrity, influence and importance by Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times. I was another one of those people who never "got" lieder, and could see no use for it -- until I put on Fischer-Dieskau. An indispensable artist.