Friday, August 29, 2014

Rosetta Hightower Green

Lead singer with the Orlons -- via Facebook. Among their hits: "Don't Hang Up," "South Street," and "The Wah Watusi."









Yehezkel Braun

Composer -- via Slipped Disc.







Walter Mazzone

Dive master and underwater expert -- via the New York Times.

Mervyn Susser

Epidemiologist -- via the New York Times.

Ahmed Seif al-Islam

Human rights lawyer -- via the New York Times.

Enrique Zileri

Publisher who defied dictators -- via the New York Times.

George Barrett

Civil rights lawyer -- via the Tennessean.

William Greaves

Filmmaker and journalist -- via the New York Times. Best known for his creation of TV's "Black Journal," and the unique film project "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One."








Jason Curley

Bassist -- via the Sydney Morning Herald.



Inga Juuso

Jindrich Pokorny

Translator, editor, and writer -- via Radio Prague.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Birgitta Stenberg

Writer -- via dn.se.

Verna Vels

Writer -- via channel24.co.za.

U R Ananthamurthy

Writer -- via Indian Express. AKA Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy

Earl Calloway

Lois Mai Chan

Librarian -- via the University of Kentucky.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Alexander Gailbraith "Sandy" Wilson

Florian Flicker

Filmmaker -- via derstandard.at.

"Tommy" Talmadge Gough

Tommy is second from right.
Singer with The Crests -- via voy.com. Their big hit: "Sixteen Candles."






Rebecca Lepkoff

Documentary photographer -- via The Commons Online.

Elaine Marie Bonilla Alphin

Children's author -- via Gorman Funeral Homes.


John Mitchell

Artist -- via the Guardian.


Greg Corbett

Banjo player -- via Bluegrass Today.

Buddy MacMaster

Fiddler -- via CTV News.






Barry Frischer

Camera operator -- via the Television Academy.

Walt Maxam

Comedian -- via Tucson Weekly.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Derek Rieth

Percussionist for Pink Martini -- via oregonlive.com.

Don Cannon

Radio host -- via philly.com. AKA Dominic Canzano

Ryan P. Gillis

Addictions activist -- via the Chronicle Herald.

Tana Hicken

Actress -- via the Washington Post.

Nadia Sophie Seiler

Austyn Njoku

Poet -- via punchng.com.

Robert Sherrill

Rogue journalist and and writer -- via the New York Times.

Jeremiah Healy

Writer -- via the Guardian. AKA Terry Devane.

Lyndam Gregory

Actor -- via the Guardian.




Paul Hutchinson

Journalist -- via the Denver Post.


Monday, August 25, 2014

Bohumila Grögerová

Writer -- via kultura.idnes.cz.


Adyar K. Lakshman

Dancer and choreographer -- via The Hindu.



Richard Dauenhauer

Terry Kyne

Anton Buslov

Astrophysicist and blogger -- via The Moscow Times.




Tom Pevsner

Odessa Sathyan

Maruxa Vilalta

Playwright and director -- via exelsior.com.mx.

Caterina De Nave

TV producer and executive -- via nzonair.govt.nz.

Miodrag Pavlovic

Poet -- via InSerbia.

WEEKLY READER: Our roundup of stories on death, dying, mourning and more

TOP STORIES

Photographer makes series of before-and-after-death photos – reported by David Rosenberg in Slate

Grief shaming: judging others’ mourning by Caleb Wilde in Confessions of a Funeral Director


DEATH

The Death of Balzac, by Victor Hugo – from balzacbooks.wordpress.com

Is death a path to political power? In Brazil, perhaps – via Dom Phillips in the Washington Post



Death in the digital age – an infographic from Robin Hyde-Chambers in SiteProNews

Arwa Salah Mahmoud talks about her laissez-faire affair with death

MOURNING



In Medium’s Bereavement and Mourning category, talking about the dead with Charles McCullagh

OBITS

Are digital-age obits an improvement? – Mario Garcia of Garcia Media weighs in

Delightful self-penned (if a bit lengthy) obit – from Ann Brenoff at the Huffington Post

FUNERALS

Crowdfunding funerals – by Jodi Helmer in Forbes

From Lynn Haney-Trowbridge in the Shoreline Times, how to write a eulogy

A very civil British funeral – from Judy Batalion in Modern Loss



Sunday, August 24, 2014

Richard Attenborough

Actor, director ,and producer -- via the BBC. An Oscar-winner for his direction of "Gandhi," he made a number of good films, inlcuding "Oh! What A Lovely War," "Young Winston," "A Bridge Too Far," "Magic," "Chaplin," and "Shadowlands." However, his work as an actor was incredible, spanning 60 years. He could play drama, comedy, and melodrama. Among his best roles: The young stoker in "In Which We Serve" (his name was mistakenly omitted from the credits), Pinkie Brown in "Brighton Rock," Roger Bartlett in "the Great Escape," Billy in "Seance on a Wet Afternoon," Frenchy in "The Sand Pebbles," and Christie in "10 Rillington Place." He is best known in America for his roles as John Hammond in "Jurassic Park" and Kris Kringle in the 1994 remake of "Miracle on 34th Street."

"In Which We Serve."