[Magdalen] RIP Holder and Seldes

[Jim Guthrie]

I note that both Geoffrey Holder and Marian Seldess have passed this week.

Two greats of the stage (and radio and other media).

Seldes was not only a regal presence on Broadway, but played in 179 episodes of 
Himan Brown's "CBS Mystery Theater" in the 1970s.
Some will remember Holder for nothing more than the "Un-Cola Nut" commercials, 
but he had a remarkable career as well.

"Geoffrey Holder, the dancer, choreographer, actor, composer, designer and 
painter who used his manifold talents to infuse the arts with the flavor of his 
native West Indies and to put a singular stamp on the American cultural scene, 
not least with his outsize personality, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 84."

See:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/arts/geoffrey-holder-dancer-choreographer-and-man-of-flair-dies-at-84.html

and

"Marian Seldes, a regal personality in New York theater for more than six 
decades in plays ranging from whodunits to the work of Tennessee Williams, 
Samuel Beckett and, especially, Edward Albee, died on Monday at her home in 
Manhattan. She was 86."

See:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/theater/marian-seldes-regal-presence-of-broadway-dies-at-86.html

Jim Guthrie

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the enemy isn’t conservatism.
The enemy, is baloney." - Lars Erik Nelson