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Silvano Campeggi, an Italian-born graphic artist who created posters and advertising art for more than 3,000 movies during a 60-year career, died today at age 95. Among his best-known posters are the ones he created for Casablanca, Exodus, Gigi, Ben-Hur, Gone With The Wind, West Side Story, Singin' In The Rain, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Breakfast At Tiffany's.
http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cult...93ca13d59.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvano_Campeggi
Marquez also appeared on episodes of Seinfeld, Malcolm & Eddie, Melrose Place and other series. She should have known better than to point a BB gun at officers who were checking on her welfare.
ER, Stand & Deliver actress Vanessa Marquez shot and killed by South Pasadena police
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...rities-1138965
Susan Brown, actress on General Hospital and Port Charles, dies at 86
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/sus...al-1202924125/
A short, photo-filled tribute to Susan Brown has been posted on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN0PulRuuJY
Weston idolized Thelonious Monk and emulated his style of piano playing. Weston released 50 albums and many of them featured musicians from Morocco, Nigeria, Egypt and other African nations. Weston turned 92 in March and continued to perform, most recently on July 21 at the Nice Jazz Festival in France.
Randy Weston, pianist who traced Africa in jazz, dies at 92
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/o...ston-dead.html
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds formed in 1983 in Melbourne and have released 20 albums. Keyboardist Conway Savage -- yes, that was his real name -- played on 15 of them. Of the band's nine albums that charted in the US, the biggest was Skeleton Tree, which reached #27 on Billboard's album chart in 2016.
Conway Savage of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds dead at 58
http://www.noise11.com/news/conway-s...r-i-p-20180903
In 1975, George Strait joined the Texas-based western swing band Stoney Ridge. They changed their name to the Ace In The Hole Band and since 1981 have toured with Strait and played on all his albums. Kennedy had been in the band since 1987.
Mike Kennedy, George Strait's longtime drummer, dies in car accident in Tennessee
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/02/enter...ait/index.html
Christopher, the son of Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, died after apparently suffering a heart attack at a yoga center. I guess the yoga lessons didn't do him much good.
Christopher Lawford, nephew of JFK and actor in General Hospital, Terminator 3, dies at 63
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...63-report.html
In his 1982 country hit If Hollywood Don't Need You, Don Williams tells his girlfriend, who hopes to become a movie star, "If you see Burt Reynolds, would you shake his hand for me? And tell ol' Burt I've seen all his movies."
Hundreds of millions of us have seen all his movies.
Burt Reynolds, star of Deliverance, The Longest Yard, Smokey & The Bandit, dies at 82
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...say/756143002/
Will Jordan impersonated Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Groucho Marx and many other celebrities but he was best known for impersonating television impresario Ed Sullivan in movies, a Broadway musical and music videos. Ed used to introduce each episode of his variety series with "We have a really big show tonight." Will, in his impersonations during the 1960s, said "Welcome to our shoooo" and every Sullivan impersonator since then has said "shoo" instead of "show." Perhaps without even being aware of it, they were really impersonating Will Jordan impersonating Ed Sullivan.
Actor and impressionist Will Jordan dies at 91
https://www.newsfromme.com/2018/09/0...-jordan-r-i-p/
Mac Miller, born Malcolm McCormick, began rapping at age 14 and originally called himself EZ Mac, which would be a good name for a McDonald's hamburger. He released five albums, all of which made the top ten. His first album, Blue Slide Park, went to number one. Miller also released a large number of singles, mixtapes and music videos -- and died today of a drug overdose.
Rapper and producer Mac Miller dies at 26
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mac-mil...26-2018-09-07/