Sunday, March 2, 2014

Natalie Kotsch

Founder of the International Surfing Museum -- via the L.A. Times.

Aaron Allston

Game designer and sci-fi writer -- via locusmag.com.

Michio Mado

Poet -- via asahi.com.

Hugo Brandt Corstius

Writer -- via volkskrant.nl.

Rabi Mustapha

Actress -- via Premium Times.

Alain Resnais

Director -- via the Guardian. He directed some of the most significant ("Night and Fog," "Hiroshima Mon Amour") and infuriating ("Last Year at Marienbad") films of the last half of the 20th century.

Nuit et Brouillard (1955) from KICK TO KILL on Vimeo.



Saturday, March 1, 2014

Tim Wilson

Comedian and musician -- via the Kansas City Star.



Jophrey Brown

Former MLB player -- via legacy.com.

Penny DeHaven

Singer and actress -- via musicrow.com.

Ian Cutter Sala

Art director -- via popcrush.com.

Sorel Etrog

Artist -- via the Toronto Star.

Sarah Jones

Camera assistant -- via Variety. Killed on set due to bad safety protocols!


Jordan Oschin

Former child actor -- via NBC Los Angeles.

Gert "Kralle" Krawinkel

Musician -- via Der Spiegel.



Nicolae Herlea

Baritone -- via artsjournal.com.

Kelly Holland

Singer -- via the News & Observer.

Lori Callahan

Comic -- via Colorado Public Radio. We started about the same time, over 30 years ago. She was funny! She had a great work ethic! She was a real, regular human being! To have all three of these in a comic is extremely rare.

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.