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Soon after the Lithuanian-born Mekas came to the US in 1949, he borrowed money to buy a Bolex 16-millimeter movie camera and thus began a 63-year career as an avant-garde filmmaker. He made more than 400 films ranging in length from a few minutes to nearly five hours. They have been shown worldwide at film festivals and museums. In 1954, he and his brother launched Film Culture magazine, which published 79 issues before going out of business in 1996. Mekas was also a poet, artist and teacher and collaborated with Allen Ginsberg, Salvador Dali, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol.
Jonas Mekas, 'godfather' of American avant-garde film, dies at 96
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...-96/ar-BBSDXzd
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Goldsmith was a regular on the 1980 tv series Goodtime Girls, appeared in five episodes of the 1983 mini-series Kennedy and played a judge on 12 episodes of Law & Order, 1991-2005. He also appeared in several movies including Rounders, Quiz Show, The Hurricane and It Could Happen To You.
Stage, film and TV actor Merwin Goldsmith dies at 81
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...81/2661559002/
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Frawley won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1967 for directing the first episode of The Monkees. He directed many episodes of That Girl, Columbo, Chicago Hope, Law & Order, Judging Amy, Grey's Anatomy and other series and he acted in several movies and tv shows, including four episodes of The Monkees. His father, William Frawley, played Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy.
James Frawley, director of The Monkees and The Muppet Movie, dies at 82
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-82-1178797
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In 1993, Baker succeeded Alistair Cooke as host of the PBS drama series Masterpiece Theatre and remained until 2004. (It was retitled Masterpiece in 2008.) In a 1994 speech, Baker said he didn't ask to be called a humorist but the New York Times was filled with "High-Church, polysyllabic writing" and "if you wrote short sentences and plain English in the Times, everybody naturally assumed you were being funny."
Russell Baker, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and humorist, dies at 93
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/b...-pulitzer.html
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Corbitt recorded two albums with Dallas thrash metal band Rigor Mortis and four with Warbeast. Among his best-known songs -- best-known to thrash metal fans, at least -- are Destroy, Die In Pain, Wizard Of Gore, Krush The Enemy, Condemned To Hell and Bodily Dismemberment. Yeah, his parents must have been really proud of him.
Rigor Mortis/Warbeast vocalist Bruce Corbitt dies at 56
http://loudwire.com/bruce-corbitt-death/
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Legrand composed songs and scores for more than 200 movies, musicals and television programs. He won three Oscars and five Emmys. Among his best-known compositions: Yentl, Brian's Song, The Summer Knows, Watch What Happens, I Will Wait For You, The Windmills Of Your Mind and What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life. As a pianist and band leader, Legrand recorded more than 100 albums. He conducted the orchestra on hundreds of recordings by dozens of artists including Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Jones, Frankie Laine, Andy Williams, Neil Diamond, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Lena Horne and Ella Fitzgerald. Whew!
Oscar-winning French composer Michel Legrand dies at 86
https://www.france24.com/en/20190126...legrand-dies-8
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Bell worked at ABC from 1967 to 1986, including 11 years as a news anchor on Good Morning America. On June 5, 1968, he was covering a televised, early-morning campaign event at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Senator and Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, who had won the previous day's California primary, had just finished speaking and was shot by a 24-year-old gunman. Kennedy died the next day. Bell also worked at USA Network and tv stations in Omaha, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia.
Steve Bell, former ABC News anchor and Ball State professor, dies at 83
https://www.10news.com/news/local-ne...sor-dies-at-83
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Smith was known as "the choreographer to the stars" and, for his contributions to Broadway, "the king of New York." He starred in eight musicals including Something More and West Side Story, worked as a dancer on several television variety series in the 1960s-70s and staged the choreography for dozens of movies, tv shows and pop music concerts. He and his wife founded JoJo's Dance Factory, now known as Broadway Dance Center, in New York City.
JoJo Smith, dance consultant for Saturday Night Fever, dies at 80
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-80-1180307
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Ingram won Grammy awards for One Hundred Ways (with Quincy Jones) and Yah Mo B There (with Michael McDonald). Among his other hits: Baby Come To Me (with Patti Austin), Somewhere Out There (with Linda Ronstadt), Always, It's Real, Just Once, Party Animal, I Don't Have The Heart and There's No Easy Way.
James Ingram, Grammy-winning R&B singer, dies at 66
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-66-1180817
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Luisa Castro Netto was born in Havana, Cuba, and took her stage name from the Hotel St. Moritz in New York City. She starred opposite Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and appeared in dozens of movies and tv shows including Cannonball, Up In Smoke, Death Race 2000, M*A*S*H, Happy Days, The Rockford Files and Love American Style.
Louisa Moritz, actress and Bill Cosby accuser, dead at 72
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ser-dies-at-72
