Sunday, September 29, 2013

James van Sweden

Landscape architect -- via the New York Times.

Tom Vernon

Writer and broadcaster -- via the Guardian.

Robert Barnard

Writer and teacher -- via the New York Times.


Sebastian "Billy" Mure

Guitarist and studio musician -- via voy.com.





William James "Gates" "Gator" Brown

Former MLB player -- via the New York Times. A genius pinch-hitter!

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Jane Connell

Character actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Michel Brault

Filmmaker -- via Radio Canada.




Roman Vlad

Composer, pianist, and musicologist -- via Corriere Della Sera.





Arthur Lamothe

Filmmaker -- via Radio Canada.









Lisa Otto

Soprano -- via lifepr.de.






Carolyn Cassady

Writer -- via the New York Times.





Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo

Writer and poet -- via the Guardian.

Luciano Vincenzoni

Screenwriter and script doctor -- via La Repubblica. One of the great spaghetti Western writers, he wrote "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," "For a Few Dollars More," and "Duck, You Sucker," as well as "Seduced and Abandoned" and five dozen more.










Marta Heflin

Actress and singer -- via legacy.com.

Christopher Koch

Writer -- via the Australian. Best known for "The Year of Living Dangerously."

Monday, September 23, 2013

Amidou aka Mohammed Hamidou Benmessaoud

Actor -- via westernboothill.blogspot.com.

Johnny Laboriel

Rock 'n' roller -- via the L.A. Times.



Pavlos Fyssas

Anti-fascist rapper -- via the Daily Mail.

Rafael Corkidi

Cinematographer, director, and screenwriter -- via correcamara.com. Responsible for the look of all early Jodorowsky films.






Ken Norton

Boxer -- via the New York Times. One of only two men to beat Ali straight up.

Lindsay Cooper

Bassoonist and oboist; composer; political activist -- via tinymixtapes.com.





Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Literary critic -- via the New York Times.


John Wright

Master of the mouth harp -- via the Guardian.


Roger Pope

Drummer -- via ultimateclassicrock.com.

Jimmy Ponder

Jazz guitarist -- via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.