“Willie Davis, who succeeded Duke Snider as the center fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and used his blazing speed to steal 20 or more bases 11 straight years, led the National League in triples twice and set a record of three stolen bases in a World Series game, was found dead on Tuesday at [...]
Archive for the ‘Obituaries’ Category
R.I.P. – Willie Davis (1940-2010)
Posted in Baseball, Obituaries, Popular Culture, Sports on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
R.I.P. – Barry Hannah (1942-2010)
Posted in American South, Books, Literature, Obituaries, Writers & Writing on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Author Barry Hannah, whose fiction was laced with dark humor and populated by hard-drinking Southerners, died Monday at his home in Oxford, Miss. He was 67. . . . “Hannah’s first novel, ‘Geronimo Rex,’ was published in 1972. It received the William Faulkner prize for writing and was nominated for a National Book Award. His 1996 short [...]
R.I.P. – J. D. Salinger (1919-2010)
Posted in Books, Literature, Obituaries, Writers & Writing on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., where he had [...]
R.I.P. – Eric Rohmer (1920-2010)
Posted in Cinema, Europe, Movie Reviews, Obituaries, Popular Culture on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Eric Rohmer, the French critic and filmmaker who was one of the founding figures of the internationally influential movement that became known as the French New Wave, and the director of more than 50 films for theaters and television, including the Oscar-nominated ’My Night at Maud’s‘ (1969), died on Monday. He was 89. . . . [...]
R.I.P. – Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009)
Posted in Art & Artists, Museums & Exhibitions, New York City, Obituaries on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Jeanne-Claude, who collaborated with her husband, Christo, on dozens of environmental arts projects, notably the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin, and the installation of 7,503 vinyl gates with saffron-colored nylon panels in Central Park, died Thursday in Manhattan, where she lived. She was 74. “The cause was complications [...]
R.I.P. – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)
Posted in Anthropology, Books, Human Behavior, Obituaries, Writers & Writing on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist who transformed Western understanding of what was once called ‘primitive man’ and who towered over the French intellectual scene in the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 100. . . . “A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss was an avatar of ‘structuralism,’ a school of thought in which universal ‘structures’ were [...]
R.I.P. – Milton Supman, aka “Soupy Sales” (1926-2009)
Posted in Actors & Acting, New York City, Obituaries, Popular Culture, Television on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Soupy Sales, whose zany television routines turned the smashing of a pie to the face into a madcap art form, died Thursday night. He was 83. “Mr. Sales’s former manager, Dave Usher, said the entertainer died in a hospice in New York City after suffering from multiple health problems. “Cavorting with his puppet sidekicks White [...]
R.I.P. – Lucy O’Donnell, aka “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (1963-2009)
Posted in Counter Culture, Obituaries, Popular Culture, Popular Music, Rock 'n' Roll on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Lucy O’Donnell, the woman who inspired the classic Beatles song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, has died aged 46. “The song [was] featured on the ground-breaking 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. “John Lennon’s elder son Julian said it was inspired by a picture he drew of his classmate Lucy O’Donnell when [...]
R.I.P. – Jim Carroll (1950-2009)
Posted in Books, Counter Culture, Obituaries, Poets & Poetry, Popular Culture, Rock 'n' Roll, Writers & Writing on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in ‘The Basketball Diaries,’ died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60. . . . “As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, an elite private school on the Upper [...]
R.I.P. – Gordon Waller (1945-2009)
Posted in Counter Culture, Obituaries, Popular Culture, Popular Music, Rock 'n' Roll on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Gordon Waller, who formed half of Peter and Gordon, a successful pop duo that followed the Beatles to America as part of the British Invasion of the 1960s and that scored a No. 1 hit with ‘A World Without Love,’ died on Friday in Norwich, Conn. He was 64 and lived in Ledyard, Conn. . . [...]
R.I.P. – Tom Wilkes (1939-2009)
Posted in Counter Culture, Design, Obituaries, Popular Culture, Popular Music, Rock 'n' Roll on July 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Tom Wilkes, an art director, photographer and designer whose posters for the Monterey Pop Festival and album covers for the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, George Harrison and others helped illustrate the age of rock ’n’ roll, died on June 28 in Pioneertown, Calif., in the high desert east of Los Angeles. He was [...]
R.I.P. – Ernie Barnes (1938-2009)
Posted in Art & Artists, Obituaries, Popular Culture, Race, Sports on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Ernie Barnes, whose drawings and paintings of athletes, dancers and other figures in motion reflected his first career as a professional football player, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 70. . . . “Mr. Barnes was an offensive lineman in the old American Football League, playing four seasons in the 1960s for the [...]
R.I.P. – Judith F. Krug (1940-2009)
Posted in Books, Literature, Obituaries, Politics on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Judith F. Krug, who led the campaign by libraries against efforts to ban books, including helping found Banned Books Week, then fought laws and regulations to limit children’s access to the Internet, died Saturday in Evanston, Ill. She was 69. . . . “As the American Library Association’s official proponent of the First Amendment’s guarantee of [...]
R.I.P. – Mark “The Bird” Fidrych (1954-2009)
Posted in Baseball, Obituaries, Popular Culture, Sports on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Mark Fidrych, an eccentric All-Star pitcher nicknamed ‘The Bird’ whose career was shortened by injuries, was found dead Monday in an apparent accident at his farm. He was 54. . . . “The curly-haired right-hander was the American League Rookie of the Year in 1976 when he went 19-9 with a 2.34 ERA and 24 complete [...]
R.I.P. – Robert Delford Brown (1930-2009)
Posted in Art & Artists, Counter Culture, New York City, Obituaries on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Robert Delford Brown, a painter, sculptor, performance artist and avant-garde philosopher whose exuberantly provocative works challenged orthodoxies of both the art world and the world at large, usually with a big wink, was found dead on March 24 in the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, N.C. . . . “A colleague of artists like Jim [...]
R.I.P. – Helen Levitt (1913-2009)
Posted in Art & Artists, Brooklyn, New York City, Obituaries, Photography on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Helen Levitt, a major photographer of the 20th century who caught fleeting moments of surpassing lyricism, mystery and quiet drama on the streets of her native New York, died in her sleep at her home in Manhattan on Sunday. She was 95. . . . “Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully guileless [...]
R.I.P. – John Hope Franklin (1915-2009)
Posted in American History, Books, Obituaries, Politics, Race on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“John Hope Franklin, a prolific scholar of African-American history who profoundly influenced thinking about slavery and Reconstruction while helping to further the civil rights struggle, died Wednesday in Durham, N.C. He was 94. . . . “During a career of scholarship, teaching and advocacy that spanned more than 70 years, Dr. Franklin was deeply involved [...]
R.I.P. – Johnny Blanchard (1933-2009)
Posted in Baseball, New York City, Obituaries, Popular Culture, Sports on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Johnny Blanchard, a power-hitting catcher and outfielder known as Super Sub who played in five consecutive World Series for the Yankees in the 1960s, died Wednesday in Robbinsdale, Minn. He was 76. . . . “As a left-handed hitter who could deliver the long ball, Blanchard seemed a perfect fit for Yankee Stadium and its short right-field [...]
R.I.P. – George Kell (1922-2009)
Posted in Baseball, Obituaries, Popular Culture, Sports on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“George Kell, the Hall of Fame third baseman who won the American League batting title in 1949 with the Detroit Tigers and was a longtime broadcaster for the team, died Tuesday at his home in Swifton, Ark. He was 86. . . . “Kell played in the A.L. for 15 seasons, was an All-Star 10 times and [...]
R.I.P. – Alan W. Livingston (1917-2009)
Posted in Business, Cinema, Counter Culture, Obituaries, Popular Culture, Popular Music, Rock 'n' Roll, Television on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Alan W. Livingston, an entertainment executive who had significant roles in bringing Bozo, the Beatles and ‘Bonanza‘ to American audiences, died Friday at home in Beverly Hills. He was 91. . . . “In 1963, Mr. Livingston was president of Capitol Records, which had declined three different times to release singles by a British band, then little [...]
