by M.C. Antil on February 20, 2013
At long last, here it is: the final installment on my list of the most over-looked, poorly reported and/or under-appreciated deaths of 2012. And of all those who we lost this past year, these five lives are five I felt strongest about making sure to include, as they either touched me personally, were the greatest at what [...]
by M.C. Antil on February 18, 2013
As I continued piecing together the stories behind this list of 40 people who died this past year, whose lives and impact were under-appreciated or mis-represented by many in the media, one thing became clear. The deeper into the list I got, the harder it became to distill the legacies into two hundred or so words. [...]
by M.C. Antil on January 24, 2013
In advance of the final part of my four-part list of some of the most overlooked or under-reported deaths of 2012, please enjoy some more of the varied and often esoteric names, faces and characters who left us in 2012, any number of whom may have touched your life and somehow escaped your notice. Widow of the [...]
by M.C. Antil on January 18, 2013
Below, please enjoy part three of my four part tribute to those we lost this year whose deaths and legacies were largely overlooked, or at least under-reported, by the mainstream media. 21. Helen Gurley Brown In one sense she was just like so many others girls her age. Born in Arkansas in the 20s; raised [...]
by M.C. Antil on January 10, 2013
You won’t find people like Charles Durning, Levon Helm, or for that matter even Fern Parsons, as they’ll most likely show up in Parts III or IV of my “most overlooked deaths of 2012,” which I should have posted in a week or so. But below, in advance of that, are some of the more noteworthy film [...]
by M.C. Antil on January 6, 2013
Please enjoy part two of my four-part list of 40 people who died this year whose lives, legacies and passings were given short shrift by far too many in the mainstream media. 30. Charles “Skip” Pitts He was a talented session man and a Memphis-based guitarist who scratchy, bold playing style helped lend the Isley [...]
by M.C. Antil on January 2, 2013
This list could have been even longer, but here’s part one of my four-part list covering some of the many people whose passing this year, whose lives, and whose legacies, were given far too short a shrift by far too many in the mainstream media. 40. David N. Martin It remains the single most iconic and successful tourist and travel [...]
by M.C. Antil on December 20, 2012
To a 14-year old part-time busboy and dish-washer, he wasn’t Carmen Basilio, the former Middleweight Champion of the World. He was Carmen Basilio, the funny guy who always talked like he had a cold, the guy with those gnarled features and that slightly humorous face, at the center of which was a nose that could [...]
by M.C. Antil on December 12, 2012
Adam Sandler may have once rued the dearth of great Hanukkah songs, but the same can’t be said of great Christmas songs – especially Christmas songs penned by Jewish songwriters. Here’s a list of twelve of the best, not to mention favorites of mine. I’ll Be Home for Christmas A song with something of an uncertain genealogy. But [...]
by M.C. Antil on November 30, 2012
Over the course of the past few years, many pop music insiders, fans and geeks have done their best to label them as the Wrecking Crew; the stable of ferociously talented studio musicians and sidemen that producers Quincy Jones, Phil Spector, Lou Adler, Lee Hazelwood, Brian Wilson and their ilk used to regularly use on [...]
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