Thursday, September 4, 2014

Donatas Banionis

Iconic actor -- via rferl.org. Best remembered in the West for his leading role as Kris in Tarkovsky's original "Solaris"







Elena Varzi

Actress -- via h24notizie.com.

Bapu

Film director, and artist -- via NDTV. AKA Sattiraju Lakshmi Narayana




Maya Rao

Mark Gil

Actor -- via astig.ph. AKA Raphael Joseph De Mesa Eigenmann

Joan Rivers

Comedian -- via ABC News. AKA Joan Molinsky

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

David Anderle

Record producer and music executive -- via Billboard. He signed Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention to Verve! Records produced for Judy Collins, Delaney & Bonnie, Rita Coolidge, and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

Ken Rees

Rhuna Martin

Renowned cello teacher -- via the Guardian.

Frank Shipway

Conductor -- via the Oxfordshire & Wiltshire Gazette and Herald.

Elizabeth Egbert

Artist -- via the Arizona Republic.

Elizabeth Egbert from Architectural League of New York on Vimeo.

Andrew V. McLaglen

Director of film and television -- via the Hollywood Reporter. The son of Oscar-winning actor Victor McLaglen, Andrew specialized in Westerns, and was a key contributor to the genre during one of its lean periods. He shot 96 episodes of "Gunsmoke" and 116 of "Have Gun-Will Travel." Among his films are "Shenandoah," "Chisum," "Hellfighters," "The Devil's Brigade," and "The Rare Breed."







Jimi Jamison

Lead singer for Survivor -- via Rolling Stone.







A.J. Langguth


Journalist and historian -- via the L.A. Times.


Stan Goldberg

Comics artist -- via Newsday.

Bill McElvaney

Minister who worked hard for social justice -- via the Dallas Morning News.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Gottfried John

Actor -- via Deutsche Welle. A frequent collaborator with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, he was also seen in the Bond film "GoldenEye."




Walt Shotwell

Journalist and writer -- via the Des Moines Register.

Michael Katz

History professor -- via philly.com.

David Bala

Actor -- via insing.com.

Lars-Erik "Brasse" Brannstrom

Actor -- svd.se.

Steven Sotloff

Journalist -- via the Telegraph. Reportedly beheaded by jihadist group ISIS.

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

TOP STORIES

“10 reasons why I want to talk about death” from Elaine Voci in the Indianapolis Star

Mourning Michael Brown, from Stacia Brown

Caleb Wilde in Confessions of a Funeral Director makes some predictions about the future of the funeral industry

DEATH





Sierra Leone funeral is catalyst for 14 Ebola infections – via Donald G. McNeil, Jr. at the New York Times

Death over Dinner’s Michael Hebb talks to the Tennessean’s Alex Tolbert


MOURNING

Police violence victim Michael Brown’s funeral – reported by Monica Davey in the New York Times

Grief and change, by Eliza Berman in Slate


FUNERALS

Hearse horse dies in harness – via arbroath.blogspot.com.

A rundown on funeral costs from Michael Camacho in the Pacific Daily News

Portrait of a funeral home’s staff beautician – by Tom Eblen in the Lexington Herald-Leader


Charles Bowden

Journalist -- via Forbes. A pretty amazing writer, with the guts to go into Ciudad Juarez and write extensively about the evil going on there.








Stephen Lee

Actor -- via People.

Joe Bethancourt

Musician -- via the Arizona Republic.







Petr Sporcl

Actor -- via Zpravy.

Masakane Yonekura

Monday, September 1, 2014

Bipan Chandra

Historian -- via the Indian Express.

Bryce Dion

Sound supervisor -- via the Guardian. Killed while filming an episode of "Cops" in Omaha.

Maria Lassnig

Artist -- via the Guardian.

Uziah "Sticky" Thompson

Percussionist on many reggae classics -- via the Jamaica Observer.






Arthur H. White

Helped found Reading is Fundamental -- via the New York Times.

Stu Gilliam

Lida Moser

Photographer -- via the Washington Post.


Bill Kerr

Actor -- via the BBC.



Renato Mori

Actor and voice talent -- via Yahoo Cinema Italia.

Aldo Donati

Singer and composer -- via Spettacoli e Cultura.

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Victoria Mallory

Actress and singer -- via Broadway World.





Tim "Rawbiz" Williams

Jim Petrie

Peter Hales

Art history professor -- via the University of Illinois at Chicago.


Benno Pludra

Children's writer -- via mdr.de.

Glenn Cornick

Original bassist for Jethro Tull -- via Rolling Stone.

Valeri Petrov

Poet and translator -- via ABC News.

Peret

Singer and guitarist; "king of the Catalan rumba" -- via Billboard. AKA Pedro Pubill Calaf



Lars Mortimer

Cartoonist -- via Vasterbottens-Kuriren.

Jan Groth

Singer -- via eurovoix.com.

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."