Founding member of the Beastie Boys -- via the New York Times.
Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Friday, May 4, 2012
George Murdock
Actor -- via . He was equally at home playing authority figures (such as God, in "Star Trek V"), villains and creeps (Lt. Scanlon on "Barney Miller"). Prolific -- 51 years in the biz, 186 roles on film and TV.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Buddy Saltzman
Drummer -- via artiewayne.wordpress.com. He played on a vast number of recordings, for among others, Peter Paul and Mary, Tim Hardin, Melanie, Ian & Sylvia, Janis Ian, Neil Diamond, Cyrkle, The Coasters, The Four Seasons, Frank Sinatra and Laura Nyro.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Robert O. Ragland
Film composer -- via the Hollywood Reporter. Among his titles: "Q: The Winged Serpent," "Grizzly," and "The Thing with Two Heads."
John Birch
Organist, choirmaster; and director of music at Chichester Cathedral -- via the Telegraph. Most famously, he commissioned Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms."
Albert Falco
Diver, undersea explorer and ship captain -- via the Telegraph. A long-time associate of Jacques Cousteau; when we were kids and would pretend to be deep-ocean explorers, we would vie to see who would play him . . . as he had the coolest name. "Falco weel now attempt to engage zee elooseeve jiant squeed!"
Monday, April 30, 2012
Irving Millman
Microbiologist -- via the New York Times. He helped develop the vaccine for hepatitis B, as well as a test for it.
Pete Fornatale
Visionary, pioneer radio dj -- via the New York Times. He invented a new way of listening to radio, and music, crafting long thematic sets of wildly varied musics; playing entire albums; and generally created the "FM sound."
Ernest Callenbach
Writer, editor and futurist -- via the New York Times. His fiction and non-fiction writing on "ecotopias" predicted and called for many of the ideas used in sustainable, selective-tech living today -- recycling, solar power, legalized marijuana, local organic food growth, etc.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Amos Vogel aka Amos Vogelbaum
Cineaste, film society director, co-founder of the New York Film Festival, and writer of the great text "Film as a Subversive Art" -- via the New York Times. "The commercialization of art and entertainment is a negative factor in human development," he said.
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