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- Etchika Choureau was born on 12 November 1929 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Darby's Rangers (1958), Lafayette Escadrille (1958) and The Vanquished (1953). She was married to Philippe Rheims and Max Choureau. She died on 24 January 2022 in Rabat, Morocco.
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Fatma Girik was born on 12 December 1942 in Istanbul, Turkey. She was an actress and producer, known for Ezo Gelin (1968), Sürtügün Kizi (1967) and Bos Besik (1969). She died on 24 January 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey.- Born in Mersin. He is a Turkish cinema and TV series actor. He spent his childhood and youth in Adana and Mersin. After completing his primary and secondary education in Adana and high school in Mersin, he graduated from Mersin University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Performing Arts, Department of Theater. Later, he started his acting career in Istanbul. He played the main roles in the television series Ihlamurlar Altinda, Yaprak Dökümü, Kurtlar Vadisi and Kesanli Ali Destani In 2010, the feature film Hair, in which he played the leading role, received awards at national and international film festivals. He was awarded the best supporting actor award at the 23rd Ankara International Film Festival for his performance in the movie Ask and Devrim, which was released in 2012. He announced on his social media account that he had lung cancer in October 2021. Famous actor Ayberk Pekcan, who had been treated for lung cancer for a while, was taken to the intensive care unit in his hometown Mersin last week. The 51-year-old actor passed away today.
- Theresa Amayo was born on 13 July 1933 in Belém, Pará, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Capital Sin (1975), Na Corda Bamba (1958) and O Camelô da Rua Larga (1958). She was married to Mário Brasini. She died on 24 January 2022 in Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Giorgos Tromaras was born in 1947 in Agia Sofia, Greece. He was an actor, known for Ta katharmata (1984), Thanasis in the Land of Slapping (1976) and Pagida stin Ellada (1982). He died on 24 January 2022 in Athens, Greece.
- She attended Memorial High School in West New York, New Jersey. She continued her education at Montclair State University, graduating in 1986 with a Bachelor's of Liberal Arts. She spent the majority of her professional career working as an executive assistant at several financial institutions; most recently at BlackRock. For the past several years, Lissette served as the Executive Assistant to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Montclair State University. Lissette was a beautiful soul who touched her family and friends in immeasurable ways. She always let the people in her life know how much they meant to her. Lissette acknowledged birthdays, anniversaires and personal events via her greeting cards and personal notes. She selflessly gave her time to numerous charitable organizations especially those that supported art programs in schools.
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Tadeusz Bradecki was born on 2 January 1955 in Zabrze, Slaskie, Poland. He was an actor and director, known for Television Theater (1953), Schindler's List (1993) and Camera Buff (1979). He died on 24 January 2022 in Katowice, Slaskie, Poland.- Writer
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Olavo de Carvalho, born in Campinas, State of São Paulo, Brazil, on April 29th, 1947, has been hailed by critics as one of the most original and audacious Brazilian thinkers of all time. People of intellectual inclinations as diverse as Wolfgang Smith, Diana West, Jeffrey Nyquist and President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro have already expressed their admiration for his person and for his work.
The keynote of his work is the defense of human interiority against the tyranny of collective authority, especially when supported by a "scientific" ideology. For Olavo de Carvalho, there is an indissoluble link between the objectivity of knowledge and the autonomy of individual conscience, a link that gets lost when the criterion of validity of knowledge is reduced to a uniform and impersonal form for use by the academic class. Believing that the most solid shelter of individual conscience against alienation and reification is found in ancient spiritual traditions -- Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam -- Olavo de Carvalho seeks to give a new interpretation to the symbols and rites of these traditions, making them the matrixes of a philosophical and scientific strategy for solving problems in today's culture.
An example of this strategy is his brief essay "Os Gêneros Literários: Seus Fundamentos Metafísicos" ["The Literary Genres: Their Metaphysical Foundations"], where he uses the symbolism of verb tenses in sacred languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Sanskrit and Greek) to re-substantiate the distinctions between literary genres. Another example is his reinterpretation of Aristotle's logical writings, where he discovers, among Poetics, Rhetoric, Dialectics and Logic, common principles that imply a unified science of discourse in which answers are found to many topical questions of interdisciplinarity and that he wrote about in "Aristóteles em Nova Perspectiva: Introdução à Teoria dos Quatro Discursos" ["An Aristotelian Philosophy of Culture - An Introduction to the Four Discourse Theory"].
Along the same lines is the essay "Símbolos e Mitos no Filme 'O Silêncio dos Inocentes'" ["Symbols and Myths in the Movie 'The Silence Of The Lambs'"] which was called a "fascinating and - dare I say - definitive analysis" by Prof. José Carlos Monteiro, from the Film School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In this work, Olavo applies to a discipline as modern as film criticism the criteria of the ancient symbolic hermeneutics.
His work published so far culminates in "O Jardim das Aflições" ["The Garden of Afflictions"], where some primordial symbols like the biblical Leviathan and Beemoth, the cross, the khien and the khouen of the Chinese tradition, etc., serve as structural molds for a philosophy of history, which, starting from an apparently minor event and taking it as an occasion to show the links between the small and the large, widens in concentric turns until it encompasses the entire horizon of Western culture. The subtlety of the construction makes "The Garden of Afflictions" also a work of art.
There is great difficulty in translating Olavo de Carvalho's texts into another language other than its original highly expressive Portuguese, where the depth of the themes, the relentless logic of the demonstrations and the breadth of cultural references are combined with a most unique style, which introduces the use of popular language -- including many wordplays of Brazilian daily life, of great comicality, practically untranslatable, as well as sudden changes of tone where the expressions of the sermo vulgaris, interspersed with the most technical and rigorous philosophical language, acquire unforeseen connotations and surprising depth.
Olavo de Carvalho's work also has a controversial component, where, with forceful eloquence and a fearful sense of humor, he exposes the false academic prestige and the fallacies of the current intellectual discourse. His book "O Imbecil Coletivo: Atualidades Inculturais Brasileiras" ["The Collective Imbecile: Brazilian Incultural News"] earned him a good number of enemies in the so-called "literate circles", but also a multitude of devout readers, who sold out the first edition of the work in three weeks, and the second in four days.
Based in the United States from 2005 until his death in early 2022, Olavo de Carvalho undertook one of the most ambitious and successful educational projects that Brazil has ever known, the Online Philosophy Course, better known as "COF" (acronym for Curso Online de Filosofia, in Portuguese), reaching thousands of students. A successor to the Permanent Seminar on Philosophy and Humanities, a course that he taught in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Curitiba, the COF has been educating a new generation of Brazilian aiming at a rebirth of high culture in the country after decades on intellectual decline brought about by a Marxist take over of the cultural fields.
In philosophy, his main area of expertise, he also published "Maquiavel ou A Confusão Demoníaca" ["Machiavelli or The Demonic Confusion"], "A Filosofia e seu Inverso" ["Philosophy and Its Inverse"] and "Visões de Descartes - Entre o Gênio Mau e o Espírito da Verdade" ["Visions of Descartes And The Psychology of Doubt."], all published in Brazil by Vide Editorial publishing company.
Important for the understanding of Vladimir Putin's political-military strategy and the precepts of Eurasianism on the world stage was the internet debate between the Olavo and professor Alexandre Dugin, an eminent Russian thinker and strategist, which took place in 2011 and was published in book form by Vide Editorial under the title "Os EUA e a Nova Ordem Mundial" ["The USA and the New World Order"].
In 2013, Olavo soared to the top of the bestseller lists in Brazil with "O Mínimo que Você Precisa Saber Para Não Ser um Idiota" ["The Minimum You Need to Know to Not Be an Idiot"], with a selection of articles published in the Brazilian press, between 1997 and 2013. This book elevated him to the status of one of the most successful authors of recent times, with more than 400 thousand copies sold.
His time as a columnist for the newspaper Diário do Comércio between 2005 and 2015 also yielded the 8-volume collection "Cartas de Um Terráqueo ao Planeta Brasil" ["Letters From An Earthling To Planet Brazil"] also published by Vide Editorial. With an acute, fierce and profoundly critical voice, his articles cover topics related to culture, politics, education, philosophy, behavior and society with a stylistic richness that has not been seen in the Brazilian press for a long time.
In contrast to the image of being a spiteful bully that his opponents wanted to superimpose on his authentic figure, Olavo de Carvalho is recognized, among those who enjoy his acquaintanceship, as a man of balanced and calm temperament even in the most difficult situations, and as a generous soul capable of taking to the ultimate consequences, even at his own loss, the gift of loving, helping and forgiving others.
He died in Virginia on January 24, 2022 and is survived by his wife and 8 children.- Arben Shaka was born on 1 March 1952 in Tirana, Albania. He was an actor, known for Cirku në fshat (1977), Përse bie kjo daulle (1969) and Odiseja e tifozave (1972). He was married to Florentina Rizi. He died on 24 January 2022 in Athens, Greece.
- Lóránt Kabdebó was born on 9 August 1936 in Budapest, Hungary. He died on 24 January 2022.
- Boris Pfeiffer was an actor, known for In Extremo: Wind (2001) and Rockpalast (1974). He died on 24 January 2022 in Wandlitz, Germany.
- Alan F. Ross was an actor, known for Monstrosity (1987) and Infinity (1991). He died on 24 January 2022 in the USA.
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Kim Lile was born on 29 July 1956 in Knox, Indiana, USA. Kim was a director and writer, known for A Mind in Quicksand: Life with Huntington's (2012). Kim was married to Danny Sokolowski. Kim died on 24 January 2022 in Palos Heights, Illinois, USA.- Actor
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Jud Bogard was born on 8 July 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Brothers (1998) and Goodbye Promise (2012). He died on 24 January 2022 in North Hollywood, California, USA.- Sheldon Silver was born on 13 February 1944 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Rosa Mandelkern. He died on 24 January 2022 in Ayer, Massachussets, USA.
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Mark Deetjen was born on 28 May 1971 in California, USA. Mark was an executive. Mark died on 24 January 2022.- Osvaldo Peredo was born in 1930 in Boedo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Sounds of Buenos Aires (2008). He died on 24 January 2022.
- Szilveszter Csollány was born on 13 April 1970 in Sopron, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Nicsak, ki vagyok? - A rejtélyek színpada (2020), Atlanta 1996: Games of the XXVI Olympiad (1996) and Sydney 2000: Games of the XXVII Olympiad (2000). He died on 24 January 2022 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Honor Griffith was born on 8 October 1946 in Canada. She was an editor, known for Me (1975), Journey (1972) and The Mourning Suit (1975). She died on 24 January 2022 in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada.- Art Department
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Vera Líznerová was born on 16 November 1927 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. She was an art director and writer, known for Kazdému jeho nebe (1981), Nahá pastýrka (1966) and Stenata (1958). She died on 24 January 2022 in Prague, Czech Republic.