Continuing my clean-up project for old 2008 Tribeca photos, I recently unearthed a few that I thought were pretty special and made them the new Wikipedia article leads.  The old one is on the left, the new one is on the right:

Debbie Harry – (born July 1, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and actress, most famous for being the lead singer for the punk rock/New Wave band Blondie. She has also had some success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she also performed and recorded as part of the Jazz Passengers. Harry has also engaged in an acting career with over 30 film roles and several television appearances to her credit.

Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini – (born Raymond Michael Mancino; March 4, 1961) is an Italian-American former boxer. He held the World Boxing Association lightweight championship for two years in the 1980s^. During a fight with Mancini, Duk Koo Kim sustained brained injuries in a prize fight with Mancini, and died.  Mancini went to the funeral in South Korea, but he fell into a deep depression afterwards. He has said that the hardest moments came when people approached him and asked if he was the boxer who “killed” Duk Koo Kim. Mancini went through a period of reflection, as he blamed himself for Kim’s death. In addition, Kim’s mother committed suicide four months after the fight, as did the bout’s referee, Richard Green, in July of 1983.

Enson Inoue – (born April 15, 1967) is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He has a professional MMA record of 11-8-0 as of April 16, 2004. He is the brother of Egan Inoue. Though relatively unknown among today’s MMA fanbase, Inoue holds a submission win (armbar) over former UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture as featured in the documentary film Rites of Passage.

Gaius Charles – (born May 2, 1983) is an American stage, television and film actor best known for playing Brian “Smash” Williams on NBC’s Friday Night Lights.

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Earlier in the week I wrote about Ice-T and his wife Coco at the premiere of Mandy Stein’s Burning Down the House, a documentary that explores the scene that surrounded the famed music venue CBGB.  Stein’s mother, Linda Stein, was the manager of the club’s most famous band, the Ramones; tragically, Linda was bludgeoned to death in 2007.  She was a fixture in the New York music scene, and she is missed.

Below are some shots of some of the people who turned out for the premiere (as with all of my photography, these images are licensed Creative Commons):

Marky Ramone of The Ramones and Debbie Harry

(found on the CBGB Wikipedia article)

Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss

Handsome Dick Manitoba

Fab Five Freddy

Jesse Malin

Marky Ramone

Click here to view all photos uploaded from the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for use on Wikipedias around the world.