Jeffrey Escoffier was an American author, activist, media strategist and pornosopher.
Escoffier has long been an active participant in the American LGBT community. He is the editor of Sexual Revolution (2003).
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RIP Vangelis (1943 – 2022)
Vangelis was a Greek composer known for film music such as Blade Runner (1982), “Chariots of Fire” (1981) and “1492: Conquest of Paradise” (1992) on the one hand; and pop songs such as “Let It Happen” (1973), “State of Independence” (1981) and “I’ll Find My Way Home” (1981) on the other.
Continue readingRIP Bob Neuwirth (1939 – 2022)
Bob Neuwirth was an American singer-songwriter best-known for co-writing “Mercedes Benz” (1971).
RIP Bernard Wright (1963 – 2022)
Bernard Wright was an American musician working in funk and jazz, known for such compositions as “Haboglabotribin” (1981) and “Who Do You Love” (1985).
RIP Fred Ward (1942 – 2022)
Fred Ward was an American actor known for parts in films such as Miami Blues (1990), a film I enjoyed immensely and Tremors (1990), which is nearly as good as Miami Blues.
RIP Jerzy Trela (1942 – 2022)
Jerzy Trela was a Polish actor. He was Billaud-Varenne in Danton (1983).
RIP Shivkumar Sharma (1938 – 2022)
Shivkumar Sharma was an Indian classical musician and santoor player best known outside of his country for the album Call of the Valley (1967).
RIP Jeroen Brouwers (1940 – 2022)
Jeroen Brouwers was a Dutch writer known for such novels as Sunken Red (1981).
Sunken Red (1981) is the story of the author locked up with his mother in a Japanese concentration camp.
Published after the death of his mother, it is a reflection of the coping process of his years in these Japanese internment camps.
Guy Cassiers directed a play based on the English translation of the book. It starred Dirk Roofthooft.
RIP Enrique Metinides (1934 – 2022)
Enrique Metinides was a Mexican photojournalist working for the nota roja tabloids, producing pictures of murders and accidents such as “Adela Legarreta Rivas is struck by a white Datsun on Avenida Chapultepec, Mexico City, 29 April 1979” (1979).
RIP Richard Rush (1929 – 2021)
This happened in 2021 but I only just found out, while I was researching the hippie film Escalation of the previous dead person.
Richard Rush was an American film director known for films such as Psych-Out (1968).