This year, Woodlawn will offer docent-led tours focusing on the cemetery's Italian stone carvings, astronomical designs on memorials and stage actors' grave sites, the last in honor of the 100th anniversary of Actors Equityy, the labor union.
It brought the world's media to LA's streets, clogged its freeways, filled the sky with helicopters - and in the early hours of yesterday morning, saw a procession of elephants wander past the arena where the memorial was staged.
Torn by huge levels of corruption, ravaged by terrorist attack, boycotted to the point of meaninglessness, usurped by Hitler, colonised at vast state expense by China, reduced almost to a cheap-jack bazaar in Atlanta in 1996, riddled with drugs – this evening a memorial was staged on its behalf, and the embrace could hardly have been more affectionate.
Last year we held a memorial service for stage manager Mitch Erickson, who was my mentor and pretty much a brother to Biff.
The night's somber tone was set by the decision to stage memorial moments for high-profile TV personalities who died in the last year: actors James Gandolfini, Jean Stapleton and Cory Monteith, comic legend Jonathan Winters and writer-producer Gary David Goldberg.
Trenton War Memorial, Memorial Drive.
The story led the television newscasts at breakfast time, with frequent replays of the fireball that Wheldon's cartwheeling, disintegrating car became, and the melancholy sight of his fellow drivers staging a memorial parade in his memory.
Broadway honoured the actor on Wednesday night by dimming its lights for a minute, a memorial common for renowned stage actors.
A memorial service for the stage and screen actor Roscoe Lee Browne is scheduled for 6 p.m. Sunday at the Church of St. Charles Borromeo, 211 West 141st Street, in Harlem.
Today's funeral director might stage a memorial service featuring the release of butterflies at the grave site, or with the deceased's Harley parked ceremonially at the entrance to the chapel.
