In Remembrance---2009

GrayLinnorm · Mar 9, 2009

Country singer and Grand Ole Opry member Hank Locklin died yesterday. He was 91.

GrayLinnorm · Mar 9, 2009

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Tullio Pinelli, best known for his collaborations with Fellini, died March 7. He was 100.

His son, Carlo Alberto Pinelli, is a director.

GrayLinnorm · Mar 9, 2009

Schulyer Chapin, general manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1972 to 1975, died March 7. He was 86.

GrayLinnorm · Mar 10, 2009

South Korean actress and model Jang Ja Yun, best known for playing Sunny on the Korean series Boys Before Flowers, hung herself March 7. She was 27.

GrayLinnorm · Mar 10, 2009

Tony award winning actress Anna Manahan, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 60 years, died Sunday of multiple organ failure. She was 84.

GrayLinnorm · Mar 11, 2009

Jimmy Boyd, a former child singer and actor, died last Saturday. He was 70.

Boyd had a #1 hit in 1952 with I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.

Dannyalcatraz · Mar 12, 2009

Charles Lewis Jr., better known to MMA fans as “Mask,” was killed in a hit-and-run accident early Wednesday morning in Newport Beach, Calif.

Lewis was the founder of Tapout Clothing, Inc., and the face of its popular reality show on cable channel Versus.

GrayLinnorm · Mar 12, 2009

Hungarian film director and screenwriter Peter Basco, known for his satirical films about life in Hungary during the Stalin era, died yesterday. He was 81.

GrayLinnorm · Mar 13, 2009

Celebrated Danish ballet dancer and choreographer Flemming Flindt died March 3 after a short illness. He was 72.

Flindt was known for staging ballets with bizarre storylines. His first ballet, The Lesson (1963), is about a ballet teacher who murders his students. Two other ballets, The Triumph of Death and Salome, were known for their nude scenes.