Michael Jeter, 1952–2003 April 6, 2008
Posted by Jeff in 1990s to present, In memoriam, Movies, Musicals, Theater.add a comment
From the Tony Award telecast of June 3, 1990, Brent Barrett and Michael Jeter perform “We’ll Take A Glass Together” from the musical Grand Hotel:
Giuseppe di Stefano, 1921-2008 March 3, 2008
Posted by Jeff in In memoriam, Italian, Opera, Theater.add a comment
The last of the great 20th-century Italian tenors, the man whom Luciano Pavarotti called a role model, has died at the age of eighty-seven.
George MacDonald Fraser, 1925-2008 January 9, 2008
Posted by Jeff in Books I like, In memoriam.7 comments
I had to comment on the passing of one of my favorite historical novelists, author of the twelve books known collectively as the Flashman Papers, and also several wonderful screenplays, most notably the Richard Lester movies The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers.
Ed LaDou, 1955-2007 January 8, 2008
Posted by Jeff in In memoriam, Zook.1 comment so far
Above: Ed LaDou shows a pizza topped with lamb sausage, lemon grilled eggplant, roasted garlic, feta, mozzarella and kalamata olives
My brother Marcus, like me a long-time pizza fanatic, has fallen in love with the pizza at a wonderful little joint in Micanopy, Florida called Blue Highway. I certainly share his enthusiasm for the place, but I told him the next time he came to visit me I was going to take him to the shrine of California pizza, the Caioti Pizza Café in Studio City.
Imagine my shock upon returning to L. A., to learn that on the very day we had most recently gone to Blue Highway, the high priest of the California pizza cult, the man you have to thank if you’ve ever had barbecue chicken on a pizza, had passed away of cancer at the age of fifty-two.
Ain’t no mountain high enough December 31, 2007
Posted by Jeff in Cartoons, In memoriam, Music, R&B.1 comment so far
Oscar Peterson, 1925-2007 December 26, 2007
Posted by Jeff in 1946 through 1960, Cartoons, Cool, Ella Fitzgerald, In memoriam, Jazz, John Hubley, Movies, Music.add a comment
One of the greatest jazz pianists of all time passed away on Sunday.
Too late for the fan club December 6, 2007
Posted by Jeff in In memoriam, Jazz, Music.add a comment
For all my passion for showtunes and classic jazz, I’ve never been a huge fan of the so-called “cabaret” style of crooning … what others laud as cool I frequently find sleep-inducing. So I had never heard of Nancy Lamott until I heard this on WMNR:
Norman Mailer, 1923-2007 November 13, 2007
Posted by Jeff in Books I like, In memoriam.add a comment
Of all the people I’ve ever met personally in my life, I don’t think I have ever been so much in awe of anyone as I was of Norman Mailer. I actually remember relatively little of the experience — I was in my early teens, a hanger-on at an adult party to which my parents had been invited, and I suspect no one besides them had any idea I had actually read several of his novels or knew as much about him as I did.
Robert Goulet, 1933-2007 November 1, 2007
Posted by Jeff in In memoriam, Musicals, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Theater.add a comment
Robert Goulet and Barbara Cook, from a 1962 Bell Telephone Hour, performing songs from that season’s Broadway hits, including Goulet’s best-known role, Lancelot in Camelot.
Luciano Pavarotti, 1935-2007 September 6, 2007
Posted by Jeff in In memoriam, Italian, La Boheme, Opera, Theater.1 comment so far
Luciano Pavarotti sings “Che gelida manina” from Act I of Puccini’s La Boheme, with soprano Mirella Freni.
Before the bombast and the insane managers and the overhype, there was, truly and honestly, one of the great tenors of the twentieth century.
Max Roach, 1924-2007 August 21, 2007
Posted by Jeff in Cool, In memoriam, Jazz, Music.add a comment
From the mid-1960s, featuring Coleridge Parkinson on piano, Eddie Kahn on bass, Clifford Jordan on tenor sax and the vocals of Roach’s second wife, the amazing Abbey Lincoln.
Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007 August 2, 2007
Posted by Jeff in 1946 through 1960, 1961 through 1989, In memoriam, Movies.add a comment
From Wild Strawberries, which I believe to be Ingmar Bergman‘s best film, the first dream of Professor Borg (Victor Sjöström).
Régine Crespin, 1927-2007 July 6, 2007
Posted by Jeff in French, In memoriam, Jacques Offenbach, Opera, Régine Crespin, Theater.add a comment
Régine Crespin in one of her signature roles, the entrance aria of the title character in Jacques Offenbach’s La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein.
Beverly Sills, 1929-2007 July 3, 2007
Posted by Jeff in Beverly Sills, In memoriam, Opera, Theater.add a comment
My dad never believed it.
It didn’t matter how many times we argued the point, how many books and magazine articles I showed him about her. He could never accept that an opera singer as good as Beverly Sills had never been trained in Europe.
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