The great illustrator Drew Struzan reportedly died yesterday at 78.
In memoriam . . .
"After completing the extensive artwork required
for the campaign of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom
of the Crystal Skull, Struzan announced his retirement
on September 3, 2008.[26]
26. "Drew Struzan Retired". TheRaider.net. April 9, 2008.
This journal shortly after the above Sept. 3, 2008, announcement —
From actor James Spader, whose birthday is today —
"… my father taught English. My mother taught art…."
— Spader in a 2014 interview
See as well the 2013 film "Words and Pictures"
and Log24 posts on a 2007 film, "The Last Mimzy."
Above: A scene from Spader's TV series "The Blacklist"
that was aired on Thursday, February 5, 2015.
For Emma Watson and the late Lizabeth Scott —
"… a groundbreaking impact …."
On author Madeleine L'Engle:
"Madeleine’s adult books– including the autobiographical titles that eventually would be grouped together as the Crosswicks Journals– A Circle of Quiet (1971), The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (1974), The Irrational Season (1976), and Two-Part Invention (1988)– were edited by Robert Giroux. If Roger Straus was FSG’s [Farrar, Straus & Giroux’s] worldly sophisticate presiding over editorial meetings, Bob Giroux was the white-haired, rosy-cheeked favorite uncle (if you happened to have an erudite uncle who had edited T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, Isaac Bashevitz Singer, Elizabeth Bishop, Flannery O’Connor, and Walker Percy)."
On Robert Giroux, who died early this morning:
For a less demanding standard, see today's previous entry.
For Mike Hammer
Block That Metaphor
"Michael Hammer, an engineer and author on management who helped popularize the 're-engineering' movement in the 1990s, died Thursday [Sept. 4, 2008].
A spokesman for Mr. Hammer's consulting firm, Hammer and Co., said Mr. Hammer died from cranial bleeding that began Aug. 22 while he was vacationing in Massachusetts. He was 60 years old.
Mr. Hammer was the co-author of the bestselling management book Reengineering the Corporation and founder and president of Hammer and Co., Cambridge, Mass."
"An engineer by training, Hammer focused on the operational nuts and bolts of business.
Hammer's relentless pursuit of 'why?' drove his entire career. 'My modus operandi is simple,' he once wrote, 'though not always easy to carry out. I take nothing at face value. I approach all business issues and practices with the same skepticism: Why?'
A funeral will be held at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 5 in Stanetsky Memorial Chapel, 1668 Beacon St., Brookline. Interment will follow at the Shaarei Tefillah Section of the Chevra Shaas Cemetery at Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries in West Roxbury."
Related material:
"I need a photo opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard…"
— Paul Simon
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