Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Mitchell Jason

Actor -- via Variety.

Craig Hill

Actor -- via the Hollywood Reporter.

Alistair MacLeod

Novelist and short-story writer -- via the National Post.

Sanford Jay Frank

TV comedy writer and producer -- via the L.A. Times.

Win Tin

Journalist, activist, and political prisoner -- via the irrawaddy.org.

Madame Walter Andrews

Gospel singer and radio host -- via the Denver Post.

Kevin Sharp

Country singer -- via CNN.

Guru Dhanapal

Director -- via the Business Standard.

Mayra Alejandra

Actress -- via Latin Times.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

Writer, singer, songwriter, and computer scientist -- via the Liverpool Echo.

Crad Kilodney

Writer; referred to as a 'cult literary figure,' as he tried to figure things out for himself -- via the CBC. Gotta love a man who titled one of his works "Lightning Struck My Dick."

"I'm not sure that literature has the power to lift anyone out of anything or even have any significant impact on the real world."

"Writing is a sublimation for extreme hostility."

Crad Kilodney from Tristen Bakker on Vimeo.

Edna Dore aka Edna Lillian Gorring

Actress -- via the Guardian.

Epifania Archuleta

Weaver and textile artist -- via the Rio Grande Sun.

Nazih Khater

Art and literature critic -- via the Lebanon Daily Star.

Tony Gray

Comic performer; with his brother Doug, and Bruce Lacey, he formed The Alberts, a group that inspired Monty Python -- via the Telegraph.








Monday, April 21, 2014

Kshetra Pratap Adhikari

Lyricist and poet -- via ekantipur.com.

Nina Cassian

Poet, writer, and translator -- via the New York Times.




Phillip Hayes Dean

Actor, director, and playwright; best remembered as the author of "Paul Robeson" -- via the L.A. Times.

Jiří Načeradský

Artist -- via lidovky.cz.

Shane Gibson

Guitarist -- via NME.com.



Cheo Feliciano

Salsa singer -- via the New York Times.






Bill Henry

Former MLB pitcher -- via the Pasadena Independent School District.

Hal Smith

Former MLB player -- via ESPN.

Anna Reynolds

Mezzo-soprano -- via the Guardian.

Hal Cooper

TV comedy director -- via Variety.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Boxer and wrongfully convicted man who became a celebrated cause -- via the Globe and Mail.








Bob Dylan Hurricane by social7

Armando Peraza

Drummer; master of the bongo and conga -- via the L.A. Times.



Little Joe Cook

Doo-wop singer; with the Thrillers, had a hit with "Peanuts" -- via Boston Globe.




Gene Estess

Helped people -- via the New York Times. Left Wall Street 3 months before the '87 crash to lead the Jericho Project, which serves the homeless, mentally ill, and addicted. Per the story by Douglas Martin in the April 19 Times: "'I didn’t come home with stories to tell or satisfaction or a feeling I’d done anything to help anybody except myself and my family,' he said . . . "  “'He felt he wasn’t doing anything of great value,' his wife said in an interview. 'I mean in a moral and philosophical sense.'” "Mr. Estess cautioned against exaggerating his dramatic change of life. 'Please understand,' he said, 'it was nothing religious. It wasn’t Godlike.'"

Pierre Autin-Grenier

Writer -- via Le Monde.

Boris Karadimchev

Composer -- via novinite.com.




Friday, April 18, 2014

Brian Priestman

Conductor and music director -- via the Denver Post. My first conductor! A bright and ebullient spirit who infectiously transmitted his love of classical music to me immediately. We were bused to the old Denver Auditorium Theatre (now the site of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House) as schoolkids, where Priestman held sway in that nasty old acoustical nightmare. He talked to us, not down to us; he made us laugh, and he clearly demonstrated the beauty of his vocation.



Yaakov Birnbaum

The man who began the movement to save the Jews of the Soviet Union -- via Jewish Weekly.

Eddy Thomas

Dancer and choreographer -- via the Jamaica Observer.

Rolf Brem


Artist -- via derStandard.at.

Brita Koivunen

Singer -- iltasanomat.fi.

Perlita Neilson aka Margaret Phillipa Sowden

Actress -- via the Telegraph.

Josep Maria Subirachs Sitjar

Sculptor and painter; creation of the Passion Facade of the Sagrada Familia -- via El Pais Cultura.


Jacques Castérède

Composer -- via qobuz.fr.



Otis Head

Harmonica player, boxer, music promoter, record producer, and radio personality -- via cmacloseup.com.

Alfredo Alcon

Actor -- via clarin.com.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Phyllis Frelich

Tony-winning actress -- via the New York Times.