Friday, February 28, 2014

Gunter Reisch

Director and screenwriter -- viasueddeutschen.de.

Edith Kramer

Artist and art therapist -- via Psychology Today.

Edith Kramer. Art Tells the Truth from LenFim Studio on Vimeo.

Nick Spears

Comedian -- via the Daily Mail.

Carla Accardi

Artist -- via wantedinrome.com.

Valery Brezdenyuk


Artist -- via maidantranslations.wordpress.com.


Loni Nest aka Eleonore Smythe

Child actress in silent and early sound film -- via forevermissed.com. Her most significant screen moment -- as the child who removes the star from the chest of the golem, destroying him, in BoeseWegener's 1920 "Der Golem."


Raymond Louis Kennedy

Singer, songwriter, and musician -- via ultimateclassicrock.com.




Duffy Power aka Raymond Leslie Howard

Blues and rock 'n' roll singer -- via the afterword.co.uk.



Janusz Stanny

Illustrator, graphic artist, and teacher -- via linktopoland.com.


Roger Hill

Actor; best known for playing Cyrus in "The Warriors" -- via the New York Daily News.

Ivan Nagy

Dancer -- via the New York Times.

Carlos Paez Vilaro

Painter, sculptor, screenwriter, musician and architect -- via the L.A. Times.

Franny Beecher

Long-time guitarist for Bill Haley and the Comets -- via the L.A. Times. While he was not on the the original recording of "Rock Around the Clock" (that was Danny Cedrone), he was the mainstay of the group for decades.






Lu Xuechang

Director -- via Sina Entertainment.


Francesco Di Giacomo

Singer -- via La Stampa.



Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Cliff Bole

TV director best known for his extensive work on the "Star Trek" TV franchise -- via Variety.


Robert M. Fresco

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, and screenwriter -- via the New York Times. He made "Czechoslovakia 1968," and "Trial: The City and County of Denver vs. Lauren R. Watson," a six-hour TV documentary that was the first complete account of a trial on American television. Earlier in his career, he wrote some of my favorite chesy horro movies -- "The Monolith Monsters," "The Alligator People," and "Tarantula".









John Christoforou

Painter -- via kathimerini.gk.

Calvin Russell

Sculptor -- via the Guardian.


Terry Adkins

Artist, musician, and teacher -- via Gallerist.

Horst Rechelbacher

Founder of Aveda; father of the non-toxic cosmetics movement -- via the New York Times.

Teruaki "Jimmy" Murakami

Animator and director -- via avclub.com.



Robert Descharnes

Photographer and expert on Salvador Dali -- via artmediaagency.com.

Drew Denson

Former MLB player -- via cincinnati.com.

Balu Mahendra

Director -- via the Times of India.

Monday, February 24, 2014

Chad Kellogg

Climber -- via the New York Times.

Bob Harris

Singer and performer -- via The Hollywood Reporter.