Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Husein Hasnai aka Cika Miso or Uncle Misho

The last shoeshiner in Sarajevo -- via radiosarajevo.ba.

Josef Lammerz

Composer, choral director, and organist -- via costanachrichten.com.

Joan Brickhill

Actress -- via Business Day.

Namdeo Dhasal

Poet, writer, and human rights activist -- via The Hindu.


Pierre F. Brault

Composer -- via Le Devoir.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Ruth Ducinni

Actress; last of the living female Munchkins from "the Wizard of Oz" -- via the L.A. Times.

Sarah Marshall

Actress -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Was in two significant sci-fi TV episodes -- "Star Trek"'s "the Deadly Years," and the "Little Girl Lost" episode of "the Twilight Zone," the latter of which was a great influence on the original "Poltergeist" film.



http://www.hulu.com/watch/283846

Maciej Dunal

Actor and singer -- via kultura.trojmiasto.pl.


Paul du Toit

Artist -- via remembered.co.za.

Mihai Fotino

Actor -- via antena3.ro.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Madeline Arakawa Gins

Architect, poet, and painter -- via the New York Times. Created "Reversible Destiny" housing -- eccentrically and nonintuitively designed in order to keep the inhabitants' senses off-balance, with the professed result of staving off death. Indefinitely. It didn't work, but it sure looks cool!

http://fora.tv/2010/10/02/New_Aging_Visiting_the_Future




Levon Khechoyan

Writer -- via aysor.am.

Armen Mazmanyan

Director and actor -- via Armenpress.

Hugo de la Torre

Folk musician -- via Diario La Provincia.




Luc Romann

Singer and songwriter -- via elianedaphy.org.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Dave Madden

Actor -- via USA Today. Best known as the slimy manager Reuben Kincaid on TV's "The Patridge Family" -- however, he was a prominent part of "Laugh-In" before that. I am ashamed to say that I even remember him in the short-lived 1965 sitcom "Camp Runamuck."






Russell Johnson

Actor -- via TMZ. He will be remembered as the beloved Professor on TV's "Gilligan's Island." He worked extensively in television, and in classic B movies in the '50s and '60s.



Sheila Guyse

Singer and actress -- via the New York Times.



Roger Lloyd Pack

Actor -- via the BBC.




Dick Shepherd

Film producer -- via the L.A. Times.


Juan Gelman

Poet -- via the BBC.

Aram Gharabekian

Conductor -- via the Armenian Weekly.