In 2022, many well-known names in the world of entertainment, in Italy and around the world, died. However, as so often and involuntarily, the deaths of these artists were treated with absolute indifference compared to others. In order not to forget them, we have selected the 5 artists who left us in 2022, giving great content to cinema, sports and music.
Unfortunately, in 2022, several personalities from the world of cinema, television and music have passed away. The really unfortunate fact was the silence of the media, who at the time of their deaths considered them sad protagonists despite having made a great contribution to art during their lifetime. For this reason we wanted to remember some artists who deserved more attention – also from the press – at the time of their departure.
Ivan Reitman
The actor Ivan Reitman He was a leading figure in American comedy for three decades through the 1990s. His credits include producing the film Animal House (1978), one of the highest-grossing starred comedies of all time John Belushi. But that title was only the first in a series of big box office hits, among many being the first and second films dedicated to the Ghostbusters starring Ghostbusters Bill Murray and Dan Aikroyd.
His contribution behind the camera continued into the early 2000s, in feature films such as Space Jam and Private Parts. In February 2022, the man died in his sleep at his home in Montecito at the age of 75, according to the Reitman family.
Bernard Shaw
Among the most famous news programs in America and the world in the early 1980’s was Bernard Shaw, the leader of cable television. Viewers of the time liked Shaw’s character and considered him one of the best and most professional journalists in the world of communications.
As he is always at the forefront when it comes to sharing information and news with the public, he has also led to inappropriate gestures. Shaw rose to world fame for covering the Watergate scandal for CBS while working at ABC News and managing to obtain videos of the mass suicides in Jonestown. From that moment he decided to change his name to CNN, with which he stayed until 2001.
It was CNN that announced the death of Bernard Shaw through a statement announcing his death in a Washington DC hospital of pneumonia at the age of 82.
Jean Luc Godard
It was the filmmaker who left this world in 2022 Jean Luc Godard, who managed to give the world of the seventh art a vigorous boost in the middle of the twentieth century. His distinctive style was soon appreciated not only by critics but also by his European and American peers.
For many film scholars, his writings in the renowned magazine Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950s still mark a focal point not only in his career but also in the history of cinema tout court.
French director Jean-Luc Godard – Source Ansa Photo
His provocative nature, encouraging risk taking and avoiding comfort zones, made him one of the leading names in the culture known as the Nouvelle Vague in the 1960s. His film Breathless was the first work in which Godard explored human experiences and feelings.
Jean-Luc Godard died at his Swiss home and decided to end his life alone through assisted suicide at the age of 91.
Guy Lafleur
The sports world in 2022 has lost the ice hockey player Guy Lafleur, familiar face of the Montreal Canadiens team. For 14 seasons, the player nicknamed The Flowers by fans was the one with the most points in the entire league in three seasons. Among his major accomplishments is leading his team to victory at the Stanley Cup Championships five times.
On April 22, 2022, it was announced by the National Hockey League that the French-Canadian player had died of cancer at the age of 70.
gospel
One of the most influential musicians in the world of cinema, currently excluding well-known names to the public – was gospel. Do you know the records of the famous film Chariots of Glory? The music playing as the two runners run in slow motion toward the finish line?
Well, the creator of this composition was precisely the Greek musician Evangelis Odysseys Papathanassiou, also known by the name Vangelis. Let’s just remember that this musical theme not only earned him first place in the classics around the world, but also earned him the Oscar for Best Soundtrack in 1982.
The news of the composer’s death, which arrived on May 17, 2022, occurred at a hospital in Paris due to some complications related to heart failure at the age of 79.