Monday, September 8, 2014

Penelope Niven

Biographer -- via the New York Times.

Bernard Yvon

Actor -- via Fox Chicago.

Molly Glynn

Actress -- via Fox News.

Roy Heather

Actor -- via Rogues & Vagabonds.

Mizchif

Rapper -- via Times LIVE. AKA Hechichamunorwa Mount Zion Kwenda



WEEKLY READER for Sept. 8, 2014 -- Stories on death, dying, mourning and more

TOP STORIES

Google-backed life-extension company Calico partners with pharmaceutical company AbbVie for $500 million project to “cure death” – from Ben Popper at The Verge


On Politico, Oren Kessler remembers the murdered journalist Steve Sotloff

DEATH

Network helps parents of terminally ill children – by Gabrielle Birkner in Modern Loss

Interview: Simon Worrall of National Geographic talks to Judy Bacharach, journalist and author of “Glimpsing Heaven: The Stories and Science of Life after Death” (CAVEAT: The book publisher is National Geographic!)

Via Dodai Stwart at Jezebel – Caitlin Doughty at Ask a Mortician answers: “What Happens to Your Breast Implants When You Are Cremated?”



MOURNING

Emma G. Fitzsimmons and James Barron of the New York Times report on Joan Rivers’s funeral

Mementoes as embodiments of mourning – from Susan Dunne at the Hartford Courant

Four dozen tow trucks form procession for deceased young driver – via Marilyn Miller at the Akron Beacon Journal

OBITS/TRIBUTES

Better a feature story than a paid obit – from Katherine Crosier on Another Year of insanity


Kwon Ri-Se

Singer -- via the Wall Street Journal.

William James Bell

Actor -- via legacy.com.


Simone Battle

Singer -- via the L.A. Times.

Hopeton Lewis

Kerrie Biddell

Jazz singer -- via The Australian.




Sunday, September 7, 2014

Bruce Morton

Journalist -- via CBS News.

Wlodzimierz Kotonski

Composer -- via The Rambler.





Habib Wali Muhammad

Ghazi singer -- via the Express Tribune.






Eddie Quarless

Steelband arranger and musician -- via Trinidad and Tobago Express.





Karel Cerny

Oscar-winning art director -- via the Hollywood Reporter.


Friday, September 5, 2014

Octavio Brunetti

Pianist, arranger, and composer -- via SDP Noticias.







Antonis Vardis

Composer and singer -- via greekreporter.com.



EunB

Singer -- via the Sun Star. AKA Go Eun-bi

Maria Eugenia Llamas

Actress -- via CNN Mexico. AKA 'La Tucita'





Nicky da B

Rapper -- via the New Orleans Times-Picayune. AKA Nickesse Toney




Gustavo Cerati

Rock star -- via the L.A. Times.





Mayumi Inaba

Writer and poet -- via sankei.jp.msn.com.

Rogers McKee

Former MLB player -- via the Shelby Star.

Ken Griffiths

Photographer -- via the Guardian.

Daniel Dicenta

Actor -- via El Pais.

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.