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Kat form Kent UK, I have just read Ruby Wax's Book and found it to be a very good. I did understand her pain as well as her joy. Just like AR's Star sign, Pisces, It moves in both directions. Maybe that is why she is drawn to him as a platonic friend. I have just watched "PLAY" on SBS,and what I gathered from this short film is a man torn between these two women. AR's life is the opposite of this film. He has so many women around him and yet he is only interested in ONE. Once again we see him moving in two directions. His professional life - acting these characters- as opposed to his private life. That is why he is contented. Ruby Wax is too.
Barbara the Aussie
Gold Coast, Qld Australia. - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 22:01:28 (PST)
Has anyone read Ruby Wax's book? I just finished it. SPOILERS ahead for the book** She mentions AR quite frequently throughout. She is clearly very fond of him and very close. She talks about his ability to focus her comedy ramblings, and direct her. She mentions calling him when in labor with her first child and insisting they go out to dinner, while the doctor is insisting she go to the operating room for a c-section. She tells him to go ahead and order, she'll be a little late. She even describes a dinner with where her father is arguing capitalism/socialism/ ecconomics with Rima. The pictures are just yummy. One looks like AR in drag from the RSC, but no one is named in the caption. Does anyone have any thoughts on this book. It was not what I expected but very interesting and worth the read. She deals mainly with her abusive parents and the long lasting effects of that in her life. I am not too familiar with her performances. But, I understand that "Girls on Top" is about to be released on dvd in the US. I hope the episode w/AR is on it.
Kat
Kent, OH USA - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 21:09:19 (PST)
Claudia, Thank you so much. I'm pretty new to the whole Thing.
Nicole
- Friday, January 31, 2003 at 20:33:24 (PST)
kgb, here are the links to the mentioned fanfics, including an extra one:
Hope those worked.
Gigi
- Friday, January 31, 2003 at 20:30:43 (PST)
After years of patiently indulging my desire to talk about all things AR, a friend of mine has finally been won over to true fandom. I think it was the combination of seeing the first HP and then seeing PL in NYC that finally did the trick. Anyway she sent me a great jpg picture of AR hanging out at the beach years ago. Apparently it comes from a site that had to do with Ruby Wax's book, but I don't have the address for the site (I tried searching to no avail). I sent Claire an e-mail, using the "contact" information listed on her picture page, about a week ago but haven't heard back. Thanks for all those great photos over the years Claire!
Sadly I don't know how to put pictures up myself. My memory is that we are not supposed to paste them into the guestbook because it creates a bandwidth problem. So, anyone who is willing to put it up on their page, just drop me an e-mail and I'll send it along. I'm sure everyone will enjoy it. I've been dipping in and out of the guestbook, but I'm pretty sure this picture hasn't come up: Alan at the beach, nice tan and bathing suit with some other folks, probably early-mid 80s. Remember to remove the "foo" from the end of the e-mail address.
About Fanfic: I'm enjoying RicFan's story. Some other people have mentioned other good tales. Could we get the URLs for "Elrin and Snape" and "Gwen's Redemption"?
Thanks, kgb
kgb <kboyd@artsci.wustl.edufoo>
MO - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 19:36:38 (PST)
Anne from Manhattan, thank you so much, (this is totally, totally off-topic.) Yes, I bought this huge body-bag size of food, which didn't fit in my cupboard, so I found a container that fit but had no top. Now I'll find one that does. I really appreciate your answering because I want to do what's best for the damn cat but had no clue. David Aaron Baker is in a movie called The Tao of Steve which is a very light-hearted, funny, romantic, 'quality' movie. Just want to pass it on when I find a good movie.
AR, DAB fan
- Friday, January 31, 2003 at 18:32:36 (PST)
Ali-Pat, the IMDB entry lists Christopher Hampton for "The Moon and Sixpence" screenplay. Hampton also did the current adaptation of Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" with Michael Caine (GBers, if it's released in your city, see it), and in 1983 Hampton also adapted "Honorary Consul" again starring Caine. "The Quiet American" is a re-make of a 1950s movie. I think Graham Greene stories would suit AR well. I believe all the GG novels have been made into films but several early ones are due for updates; surely one could employ our hero (hmm, "21 Days"). Along the same lines, suppose anyone is working on turning those Alan Fuerst novels into good movies? I wish.
I spend idle moments putting together an imaginary cast for David Lodge's "Changing Places" and have come up with Judy Davis as Desiree Zapp (a small, witty, Berkeley faculty wife in the 1960s). AR would be Philip Swallow, the Brit who is Visiting Prof in the Berkeley English Department, who takes up with Desiree and a young woman or two. (I put AR in the Swallow role because it seemed possible that I could visit San Francisco during filming. (he,he.) And, there might be a faculty wife, or two, who reads here and might want to give up her home in the Berkeley Hills for filming. I'm not greedy in my fantasy life--share the wealth!) Swallow's wife back in England transforms from dowdy to voluptuous; Barbara Hersey looks the part but can she do the accent. The problem is there's no American actor who'd do justice to the role of American Prof. Morris Zapp. Rickman would be wonderfully wicked as Zapp, who gets to tool around England driving a Lotus. Just imagine. (I seem to have developed a thing for AR and cars. Weird!)
My other fantasy film for AR is the Alexander the Great bio-pic which now includes Nicole Kidman w/DiCaprio and is scheduled for 2004. The world situation could delay filming in N.Africa. If HP3 gets going, we could have AR free for that one later this year. (It's a plan. Now if only someone would just listen to me.)
Lily, again
- Friday, January 31, 2003 at 18:23:15 (PST)
Earlier post deleted.
Suz (D.o.C.)
Well, it should have had paragraphs. Have to remember the carrot-"p"-carrot thingie. How about if I enter again, with paragraphs but fewer words, and the Dept. of Corrections deletes the earlier post. Will try.
Lily
- Friday, January 31, 2003 at 17:47:42 (PST)
Anne, OR, regarding your questions: "How to explain the little film festival...anyone else having their domestic tranquility disrupted over this?" No ruses, excuses or explanations to offer you, but I share the problem. My son would catch that marvelous voice, no matter the movie, and shout out, "Hans! Hans! Take it easy!" I nipped the teasing in the bud (simply couldn't bear it) but at great personal cost: I lead a sneaky life. No AR movies unless I'm home alone or everyone is fast asleep and I can tolerate the thought of managing yet another day with an AR-related sleep deficit. All of this is aggravated by our Rickman drought. Just think of those actors out there who currently have multiple movies in release--Streep, John Reilly, Julianne Moore, come to mind. Boy, when did I turn into a slave-driver! Work, AR, Work! Where's that famous workaholism now when we need it (LOL)?!! We did pay for PL, didn't we. Well, it was worth it.
Anne, OR, what does "DH" (who has caught on and is eyeing you suspiciously) stand for? Dearest Husband? Cute!
Lily
Chicago, IL - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 17:16:24 (PST)
Really must be h*** if you can't put those pages away, even if you dislike the story or writing and have to continue reading......same for posts you don't like...bl**dy h***, really!
black sheriff
you, who know me, know where to find me, Germany - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 17:06:54 (PST)
O/T to wonderful Judy from Sydney, thanks for the heads up re "PLAY"! Will check today re the time. Without you we would not have known AR was on this Arvo. Suzanne, how many cards do you have now for AR's Birthday?
Barbara the Aussie
Gold Coast, Australia. - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 16:14:42 (PST)
"A critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation"
IMHO - or Addisons, anyway.
Josephine
UK - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 14:20:43 (PST)
It's a long time since i posted on the GB simply because i lost interest in it. This fan-fic buisness is a good example why. Surely a fan-fic is writen by a person because he/she wants to express herself. If it is put on a website it's because she wants to share it. Snape in Love, Elrin and Snape, and Gwenn's Redempton, are three that i have read and thoughly enjoyed, other's i have read are completely tasteless. If you don't like them you don't have to read them, you know what they are and you know what to expect. why moan about it.
Mary
UK - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 12:53:07 (PST)
ES, you are the soul of discretion and calm....
how nice to hear from you and Gwen and Spider!. Wow! thank you for your support of my fanfic – ahem – correction - it is Elrin and Snape of Slytherin - but that's a really a very nigglypoint. Sorry.
Superwitch (Superadolescent)
UK - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 12:39:19 (PST)
Well stated, Gwenn. Thank you for voicing what I believe many here feel. Creativity should be celebrated in all of its glorious forms. One should not be too quick to judge it, for it is a manifestation of someone else's thoughts, emotions, and time. Who are we to deem it worthy or unworthy?
And Spider, too right.
The Stars Hold Nine Serpents
- Friday, January 31, 2003 at 12:36:45 (PST)
Hey Spider! Howya doin? Still adolescent and immature eh? Cuh! You wouldn't catch me acting like that. Nope not me. Would I SuperWitch? Eh, eh? Not me.
ES
UK, - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 12:26:42 (PST)
Hmm--I can only say how much I agree with the opinions of ES, SW, Gwenn, and Spider on ff and especially "Snape in Love" and "Elrin and Snape." I would add my own comments, but theirs captures what I mean to say so well that I need not repeat what they have said.
Also agree with SW that I do not enjoy posting very much on the GB anymore due the I find I find that ther are there are some here (only a few) who are quite aggressive in their opinions and somewhat rude. "Hello to nice people!"
CG
USA - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 12:23:40 (PST)
OH, Gwenn, and ES, and Superwitch -
so *nice* to see you all again! Your contributions to the GB have been sorely missed.
I myself haven't been posting because I'm adolescent and immature. But I do enjoy a good fanfic - it gives me a break from the adolescent angst that poses as serious adult fiction that I have to teach at my school. At least fanfic is honest fun, and not a load of pretentious crap, like most published work these days.
Spider
USA - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 12:13:57 (PST)
To all readers, writers, and critics of fanfiction:
I think we all need to keep in mind that it's easy to criticize--anyone can do it. But those who commit to writing and posting fanfic are doers, riskers, and adventurers.
Before you post a cavalier criticism, or calously dismiss a story or writing style, try to remember that the author is a real person who may very well be reading this GB. I'm not saying it has to be a love-fest here--*constructive* criticism that is well thought-out and well-articulated is almost always welcome. But negativity can only hurt the writer and, IMHO, reflects poorly on the critic.
I mean, let's face it, it's not like posting to a GB is a pasttime of a much higher spiritual and intellectual order,
or a far more worthy pursuit, than writing a story that might be considered a "Mary Sue." It's all indulgent, and what's wrong with that?
Who cares if a story is a "Mary Sue" anyway? Fanfic writers publish for fun, they're having fun doing
it, and may even find it to be a stimulating and
possibly cathartic and healing experience--I know I do. No one is forced to continue reading anything that doesn't suit their tastes.
These writers are putting their stories out there for other people's enjoyment. That is an act of generosity, and no one should be made to feel badly about that (Mary Sue or not). Sure, I know, there's a measure of ego involved in writing, but they are still taking a risk and exposing themselves to criticism.
I am a huge fan of several of the fanfics mentioned in recent posts, especially "Snape in Love" and "Elrin and Snape", and I thank their authors for having the courage and commitment to publish their stories. It's no one's place to judge either them, for writing it, or me for enjoying it.
--Gwenn
Gwenn
NYC, - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 12:02:29 (PST)
Superwitch - Your story is not a MarySue it is a BloodySoddingGood. IMHO - for what that's worth when surrounded by such obviously amazing talent as you get round here. And despite the fact its got....shhhh....sex...in it. *gasp, shock, horror!*
LOL
ES *
UK, - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 11:29:30 (PST)
I have loved Alan ever since 'Truly, Madly, Deeply'. He is such a wonderful, versatile actor and I would love to meet him.
Annie <Annie29750@aol.com>
- Friday, January 31, 2003 at 11:27:44 (PST)
In the last few days, I've spent every waking moment reading "Snape In Love." I admit that it's a fascinating story, and not badly written, either (although terribly sad). Now I'm obsessively waiting for the next chapter. I'm beginning to think that I'm becoming pretty pathetic, as I'm living, breathing, and thinking nothing but Professor Snape! ;o)
Katie C
USA - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 11:10:50 (PST)
Troy08:
Happy Belated Birthday! Hope it was a great day.
--Gwenn
Gwenn
NYC, - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 10:31:04 (PST)
Letty,
I'm just curious, when foreign language films are shown on tv in the Netherlands and Belgium, are they dubbed or shown with subtitles? It would be such a waste to dub Alan Rickman's voice. Groeten uit America!
sonoma
usa - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 10:30:12 (PST)
as someone who has enjoyed Rickfan37 Snape In Love i would like to put in a word for it since i think it is a fascinating story and i do not believe that it is sexually indulgent but is intent on writing about the emotions behind relationships.
i have to admit that maybe my own fanfic is a Mary Sue, though i hope not indulgent, because i have to say that at the root of it is a fascination with Snape.
i do not really like posting here now because i find that there are some here (only a couple mind) who are quite aggressive in their opinions and are rather intimidating.
hello to the nice people!
Superwitch
UK - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 10:23:26 (PST)
Thank you, Aussie girl. My last foray into fan fiction was actually in the mid-80's--a novel which I sold to Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster but, due to legal complications, was never published. My main genre is essays and feature articles--I've written for the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, LA Times, Woman's Day, and American Film. I've also written a published murder mystery and 2 unproduced screenplays and served as a staff writer for a TV drama series. However, as I am now "over retirement age" for Hollywood, i.e. over 40, I focus on slice-of-life essays with a dollop of humor that I can sell periodically, so to speak. Haven't tried my hand at an AR piece...yet.
A critic
- Friday, January 31, 2003 at 09:31:43 (PST)
Happy birthday, Rima Horton, you lucky lady!
And happy belated birthday to you, Georgiana...our little news gatherer!
Claudia
GA US - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 08:52:38 (PST)
The press at the time of original signings indicated that the cast members were committing to the first four HP films--which were all the books there were/are so far.
Georgiana (whose birthday was last Saturday--just a week older than Rima)
Seattle - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 07:17:43 (PST)
great site keep it up guys.
o dave <22MUGU@MUGU.COMfoo>
lomet, togo - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 05:29:19 (PST)
Happy birthday to Troy08 (yesterday), Rima Horton (today) and all other late January babies! There seem to be a lot of us about.
I have enjoyed all the discussion about fan fiction, and am especially grateful for the definitions of the terms Mary Sue and Slash Fiction--had no ken of either term. Taste in fiction is an endlessly arguable topic (and I have...argued..at length). But I have come to realize that it all boils down to what you are looking for when you pick up a book, story, magazine--whatever. Some people are after entertainment and escape, which is perfectly fine. Some people want character development, an intricate plot, or a stunning use of language. Perfectly fine as well. Some people are able to appreciate all forms of fiction for what they are and have universal taste in reading, and I say bully for them--they will never run out of satisfying reading material. But my point is, everybody has an opinion and I would hope that none of those opinions are taken as personal insults by those who do not agree.
Peace, everybody, and let the discussion flow!
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 05:06:35 (PST)
Ali-Pat, thanks for reacting to my post, that feels good (the first time I posted no one did).
Next friday Belgian television is showing 'The Winter Guest', so I finally get to see that movie as well. I´m looking forward to it.
Last year both Dutch and Belgian television showed quite a few of Alan´s movies, thus I was able to record about 7 films.
Letty
The Netherlands - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 04:45:07 (PST)
Ali-Pat, I'm late to wish you an happy birthday... but well... with all my heart...truly.
Sue, having no answer about the marmite you like so much, I just hope you understood that I was joking… You know that famous joke : What is paradise ? It is a place where organisation in German, welcome is English, cook is French, fun is Italian. What is hell? It is a place where organisation is Italian, welcome is French, cook is English and fun is German. Isn’t it a truly racial joke ? ;o)
Nathalie, je vois que nous avons les mêmes valeurs !
VH thank you for your advice, but the problem is that I don’t find the VHS of Pride and Prejudice! But I tried only on French sites. I’m very suspicious and careful because I’ve heard and read so many things about payment by card on the Internet that I don’t do that. Have anyone of you ever had a problems of stolen numbers and fraud ? Maybe I’m just a little paranoiac. Yes, I know that I am. Anyway, Darcy doesn’t swim in a lake in the book of Jane Austen. Does this scene bring something to the movie? Just a little sex I imagine.
Studio Magazine writes a very short article about Love Actually this month. Just to say that it is an expected movie of the year (end of 2003 only alas) . Rickman isn’t mentioned (but Thompson, Grant and Firth are) and there is a pic of Colin Firth with a charming blond girl I don’t know and I don’t remember the name.
A little late, but I’ve got a little more time today to share my thought with you : we’ve got the same problem of justice and media in France and I agree with everything that had been said about that. And yes it is brave to stand and to defend a friend… But you know a man I work with has been accused of paedophilia last year (or the year before… ? Time s going so fast !) and it happened that he was guilty. I was not a friend of him but I could have been. Some of my colleagues were. And for them it was astonishing… They really couldn’t believe that that man could be what he was actually. Even if I wasn’t privately touched (I was so relieved that he wasn’t my friend and that I ‘ve never invited him at home and introduced him to my children) I am absolutely sure that paedophiles are lurkers and that it is impossible to know what they are. Just want to tell you that.
Marialis
FRANCE - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 04:42:15 (PST)
A critic thank you for you clear translations. OT/ I liked your analogy of Gene Roddenberry writing Wesley Crusher as his alter ego into ST:TNG. It is interesting that GR seemed to have a fixation for divine beings and he was nicknamed Goddenberry from those who questioned his control.
Ah Aussiegirl I understand your modesty. Yet I am always outed these days. Unfortunately for me my son has a sharp eye and constantly announces, "There is your beloved." Now I say that wasn't me on that guestbook who used to say that (Who was it anyway). As my son still can make me blush when he announces that. My husband finds it flattering as I have mentioned that TMD was an important motivation in our early dating years. He never minds if I am motivated..
While my happy home doesn't need an extra AR character around I could use a studio and wouldn't mind sharing it with Ed. Mind you if you could employ a character to do something I think Hans could do my taxes, as I am sure he would make sure you receive a good return.
Happy Chinese New Year. Happy Birthday to Ali-Pat and Troy08.
Janine
Melbourne, Vic Australia - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 03:05:01 (PST)
A Critic - Thanks much. Some time ago when trying to check out a Snape fanfic at work I got a warning about explicit content/homosexual slash, and when I clicked OK I got kicked off the Net. That had never happened before so I thought it must be really wicked stuff!
Jody - Try this Lindsay Duncan fansite: Jagged With Sophistication. I wouldn't say she was a household name in New York before PL but she was here for a Pinter festival a year or so earlier and got raves. IBDB lists only her three Broadway appearances (the Pinter was at Lincoln Center, I think).
Anne/Manhattan
- Friday, January 31, 2003 at 02:03:34 (PST)
Nicole--"Murder Obliquely" (MO) was a short film for Showtime's Fallen Angels series. They only did two volumes of Fallen Angels. MO was on volume 1. Incidently, MO was directed by Alfonso Cuaron--the new director for the Harry Potter films. And another little tidbit--Laura Dern, whom did a voice over on the same "King of the Hill, Joust Like A Woman" co-stars with The Man in MO.
Claudia
GA US - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 01:53:55 (PST)
Hello again.
I'm a little confused by the Murder, Obliquely (did I spell that right?} What exactly is it? This is the first that I have heard of it. Can someone please claify? Thanks
Nicole
Canada - Friday, January 31, 2003 at 00:40:52 (PST)
I mean "Mary Sues"! D'oh!
Aussiegirl
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 22:50:14 (PST)
Also just have to add that my education is expanding by the day since discovering this site! Had never even heard of fanfic until yesterday! Now I know about "Mary Janes" and "Slash" as well! What else is out there - I feel like I've been living in a cave!
Aussiegirl
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 22:47:42 (PST)
When I wrote that last post the previous post (from A Critic) hadn't appeared on my screen yet so please read it in that context - thanks! I was wrong about the Slash thing - thanks A Critic for letting us know about it (where do you learn these things - are you a fanfic writer also?)
Aussiegirl
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 22:42:16 (PST)
Been searching out reviews of Les Liasion when it was on Broadway. Out of curiosity, at that time (1987), was Lindsey Duncan well-known, both in UK and in States? (Or for that matter, how well-known is LD now in the States? I confess I never heard of her until PL.)
I think I drooled over some books today, over those fabulous pics. He has aged extremely well over the last 15yrs. Truly wished I had the chance to see LLD in person; alas, I was only 8yo at the time...
Anyone out there that'd seen LLD staging and willing to share their account of it?
And O/T, but..the movie version of CAMELOT...does anyone see the older Richard Harris in King Arthur? I see VRedgrave, (the facial structure, the smile...) but I just don't see Harris. Fabulous movie; go rent it if you ever get the chance.
Y'know, as much as I do drool over his pics, he's not exactly handsome (oh sure, throw the tomatoes, I could use some for the pizza tomorrow night...) in the sense of "classically handsome", whatever that may mean, or "naturally handsome." I'm thinking Cary Grant or Jude Law when I think 'handsome'. OMG, those cheekbones of Law's...
BUT, as always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I'd rather have a pic of AR to admire than JL.
jody
CA USA - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 22:35:35 (PST)
Thanks BTW - I've never heard the term before - but isn't that what most fantasies are - its just that Rickfan37 has put hers into print. As for "A Critics" obviously derisive tone I say - if its a type of mental m*st*rb*tion, keep w*nk*ng away Rickfan 37 - we're enjoying it too! To answer Anne from Manhattan's query I assumed too that they were referring to Slash as similar to Slasher Movies - but I may be wrong. And Anne from OR - I've got the same problem so direct any solutions to me as well too please! As I have previously stated this is a "secret obsession" of mine and I enjoy it that way! However my husband has started to give me strange looks when AR "pops up" coincidently in all the movies I watch *isn't that that guy from Galaxy Quest, said during S & S?* I don't think he's twigged that he and Snape are one and the same because of the different hair and I think the American accent and glasses threw him in Bob Roberts!
And I've no idea how I'm going to be watching the Beckett programme on SBS at 2.15 on a Saturday afternoon as Husbands and kids have a habit of hanging around the house on weekends! (didn't I mention dear that I've gone back to University?)
Aussiegirl
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 22:24:23 (PST)
Slash comes from fan-fiction that explores relationships between two characters, generally male. Early examples are Holmes/Watson or Kirk/Spock. The fiction, typically written by females, can be G rated to X rated, and usually springs from emotional subtext in the original roles/stories. Slash does not automatically imply S and M.
Barbara is on target with Mary Sues. They can be male as well--a famous example being Gene Roddenberry writing Wesley Crusher as his alter ego into ST:TNG.
Mary Sue's friend, I didn't bring up slash in my comment, but, since you asked, there are some pieces in several slash genres I enjoy--especially Snape/Malfoy. However, a good writer needn't be physically explicit--it is the emotions that attract. In other words, I like my slash "shaken, not stirred".
Finally, re many Mary Sue stories, especially those weakly written, I frankly feel like a voyeur in a lady's fantasy. We've all had mental Mary Sue fantasies...and I feel like I've accidentally opened someone's bedroom door. Lots of essays on Mary Sues on the web for those interested. Just Google.
A critic
Imperial States of America - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 22:05:34 (PST)
BTW - Thanks for explaining "Mary Sue" which I didn't know either. Now would someone please tell me what exactly is "slash"? The fanfic equivalent of a slasher film?
Anne/Manhattan
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 21:27:28 (PST)
Uh oh - I think I've blown my cover. The teenage sons thought it odd that their mother, who heretofore had shown nothing but contempt for electronic media, was showing a sudden interest in the DVD player. After the 5th AR film in a week's time they realized it was the same actor showing up in every movie (who IS that guy??). DH has also caught on and is eyeing me suspiciously (his comment during Rasputin last night, during hot and heavy scene with the tsarina's sister or whoever that lady was - "can you think what kind of BREATH that guy must have?" - meanwhile my thoughts are going a completely different direction). How to explain the little film festival... anyone else having their domestic tranquillity disrupted over this?
Anne
OR - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 20:54:31 (PST)
Mary Sue
When an author writes herself into a story as the heroine, to be madly loved by the hero (who is someone the author has a decisive crush on).
It's mental m*strub*tion.
Barbara the Wallpaperer
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 20:48:15 (PST)
What is a "Mary Sue"? Is it an American expression?
Aussiegirl
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 20:30:01 (PST)
Alan Rickman is so fine and I an only 13 yeas old and I have been in love with him for 4 years and I will NEVER stop loving him and he has the best voice in the world.
samantha <samflo90foo>
tacoma, wa - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 20:21:00 (PST)
Italics fixed.
Suz (D.o.C.)
And I italicized the GB.
DoC, HELP!
Barbara the Wallpaperer
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 19:56:51 (PST)
On one of the Harry Potter mailing lists, we're talking about the casting and someone said:
Alan Rickman isn't very cute. I mean, he might be hot to someone who's sixty, but....Then she goes on to enumerate the fine and hot qualities of Ewan MacGregor.
*sigh* What are they teaching children these days?
Anyway, one of the list admins replies:
on the topic of alan rickman... i may only be eighteen and
you can call me names if you please....but i am proud to
stand up and say that i think alan rickman is a very
attractive man! sure, he may not be on my top ten list, or
my top 20 for that matter! but hell, he's very handsome and
especially good looking for his age!
i DARE anyone to deny seeing some kind of beauty in
a natural pic of him: http://space.tin.it/cinema/jprossat/tgoer.jpg
Isn't that excellent? Some of these young whippersnappers are shaping up well!
Barbara the Wallpaperer
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 19:56:27 (PST)
Hi!
I got a question:
does anyone of you know, if Alan is going to take part in Harry Potter 3? For I heard some rumours he wouldn't!
Thanx
Diana
PS: Sorry, I know...my Englisch's not the best!
Diana
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 09:36:18 (PST)
Thank you so much for the Murder Obliquely clips, Suzanne, and thanks to Judy for asking. Sometimes I find dead links and assume I've just missed out. I guess it's good to ask! It's been a good day--this morning I was finally able to see the actual CD video of In Demand and get the full impact of that wonderful tango...
sonoma
usa - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 17:48:15 (PST)
Many thanks Suzanne,
Judy
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 17:44:16 (PST)
To finish my comments-think I hit send to quickly there-another great read is the "Hufflepuff" series by Christina Teresa and an exceptional story called "Beloved on this Earth" by Chary. They are all on ff.net. Just go to find and type in the authors name. I agree with another poster, I would much rather read a Mary Sue then those horrid Snape/student stories or even worse, SLASH stories.
Troy08
Lewiston, Me - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 17:10:37 (PST)
A few comments tonight,it actually hit 31 degrees F. here today(first time in almost three weeks its been that HOT). To Ensnaring Snape-its o.k. about aging me, today is my birthday so I guess its unavoidable!!My lovely daughter bought me a Barry Manilow CD and the DVD of Robin Hood for my birthday. Now about fan fiction, I like a good sex scene as well as the next gal, but it has to add or enhance the story, not be the central focus. It's funny too because my all time favorite HP/Snape stories are all rated PG-13. They include the wonderful R.J. Anderson trilogy, The
Troy08
Lewiston, Me USA - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 17:06:42 (PST)
Thanks, Mierin, and nope, no official site or club (that I know of).
Hey, Judy, below are the Murder, Obliquely Videograms:
I have to say...I may only be 20, but I want Alan Rickman's babies! He is TOO FINE! I love this site and all the links! Thanks to all of you who have done those pages...a ton of effort went into them, and we truly appreciate it! Does anyone know if there's an "official" fan site for our beautiful Alan? Much appreciated if you can tell me!
~Mierin
Mierin <cfehriba@indiana.edufoo>
Bloomington, IN - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 16:37:48 (PST)
rorget to mention for Australians some listings are indicating that Play will be shown at 2.15 pm and others at 2.45 pm on 1/02 so check
Judy
AustraliaFo - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 14:47:56 (PST)
Suzanne, could you please re post your link to Murder Obliquely videogram - have tried searching but cannot find the correct reference to it. Many thanks
judySu
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 14:46:09 (PST)
To A Critic...when can we read some of YOURS? Better a (wrongly diagnosed!!)MarySue than a schoolgirl/teacher or a slash relationship, surely! There's some REALLY sicko stuff out there, people!
MarySue's Friend
England - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 14:14:20 (PST)
Letty, RE TMD, I have also observed that Jamie and Mark have groups around them. It is one of my favorite things about the movie. Nina also has group--all those men in her kitchen watching her hang up the laundry as they do the washing up. Very sweet portraits, all three.
As for Emma Thompson coming from Dayton, surely I am not the only one who remembers that famous episode of Ellen where she revealed her humble origins?
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 13:59:18 (PST)
ES, Welcome back! Your humor and wit were sorely missed. I am positively ADDICTED to Snape In Love and find myself checking for new chapters constantly (don't tell my boss!). I am also throughly enjoying the RJ Anderson fic recommended earlier. Thanks to everyone for the great suggestions.
Strega
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 13:34:06 (PST)
Troy08 not Troy88 *bangs head furiously on desk* Sorry Troy!! I may have aged you a few years there! ;-)
ES
UK, - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 13:09:42 (PST)
Smiles sweetly and holds out a gold star for Carolyn. Thanks for putting my mind at rest. Rickfan37 is an extremely talented writer, a good friend to many here and a regular visitor to this GB. The sex in her story whether graphic or not, is only a fraction of the whole story, and it would be a shame for anyone to skip reading it based on one person's view (another GBer's previous comment) of they think is unnecessarily sexual. The story is beautiful, well written and extremely moving in places. And I know from her reviews that I'm not alone in this opinion.
Well, I'm done here. Thanks for helping me (and a few friends) out. And thanks to Troy88 for missing me, but I fear you may be the only one...! HAHAHAHAHAaaaaaaa *cackling madly as she dissapears once more in a cloud of blue smoke*
ES
UK, - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 12:47:10 (PST)
Re Snape in Love: Mary Sue, Mary Sue, Mary Sue...
A critic
Imperial States of America - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 12:39:18 (PST)
Yes, the site I cited does contain some errors, but at least it's funny.
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO US - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 12:35:40 (PST)
NOT FOR YOUNGER VIEWERS
Snape teaches sex ed
http://www.geocities.com/grindylowe/sexed.html
Should be required reading. JMHO
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO US - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 12:28:26 (PST)
[cowering behind desk and turning red] Ummm, it was the second that wasn't worth the time, ma'am. I'm open to almost any titillation [vigorous head-nodding from all other readers of the GB] but I turn squeamish when things get ungrammatical and really sloppy. My mother says it was because I was stung by the spelling bee as a wee'un but I think it was because I was traumatized by a really severe creative writing professor who brandished a red pencil and a pointer. No ma'am, I'm not talking about dogs; I mean a pointer like a long stick thing. Rambling, ma'am? Oh, sorry. I just meant to say that I liked Snape In Love a lot. In fact, I recommend it to all my friends. See? I've even got a Snape In Love badge on my lapel [pointing at chest]. What's that tiny writing at the bottom? Oh, that! Something in latin about angst and sex making life more piquant. Sit down? Oh, yes ma'am.
Yes, of course.
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO US - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 12:25:05 (PST)
Okay, I'm a few days late on this topic. The problem of sharing one account means mom has to wait for a turn! The subject was AR characters doing housework: I expect Colonel Brandon didn't show up becuase we were busy playing piano duos and Rasputin was busy ckecking the fridge to make sure I had enough food (no wait, that was my son)and checking on my liquor supply. Jamie was practicing his cello truly and madly, Hans was editing my wardrobe (you shop at Wal Mart????Horrors!),George was counting spoons for some unknown reason, and PL kept us all supplied with tea. The rest of the guys must have finished all the chores and left because the house was clean, dishes were washed, dried and put away,dinner was ready, the laundry was done, the dogs were walked and fed,the errands were run, and my job work was done. (No wait, I did all that.)Ah well. Nice idea.
kit
pa usa - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 11:49:20 (PST)
The door slams open, spraying dust and mist high into the dingy candle-lit air, a figure strides impatiently to the front of the class, spins round and waits for all whispers to cease. ES stands before her desk, arms folded, eyebrow raised and an quizzical look on her face.
“Tell me, while I’ve been gone, what manner of topics have you covered?” She picks up a textbook from the nearest desk. “Hmmm…‘Snape in Love – a fanfic by Rickfan37’. Excellent, I’m glad you’re finally reading something of fine quality.”
Oh enough of all that nonsense. Carolyn, dear Carolyn, could you please un-confuse me momentarily? I read some comments about Snape In Love by Rickfan37. In one of your messages you wrote "it was tame compared to another" you'd read. In the next message you said "not only was it graphic but...it was poorly written". Are you still referring here to Snape In Love? or to the "other" more graphic fiction you read. I'm assuming you are referring to the other one, the one that shocked you. Am I right? I'd like to get my facts straight before I unleash my unspeakable curses in defense of S.I.L.
Thanks ES
ES
UK, - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 11:30:05 (PST)
Did you see this already?
http://bettyjack.com/angie/index.html
You must scroll a bit down...
*gggggggggggggggg*
Lisa
Bavaria, - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 09:33:47 (PST)
I AM LORI.26 YEARS OLD, AND I LOVE ALAN RICKMAN AND I WANT TO MARRY HIM EVEN IF HE IS 56 YEARS OLD.
LORI <lori26rowe@hotmail.comfoo>
nfld canada - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 08:34:11 (PST)
Alan Rickman is AMAZING!!! Definately one of the best actors around! Great site. There's not much for him on the web, but this site is really informative. Well done!
I don't know if you are interested or not, but I stumbled across this site, and our favorite man is there. I don't know if I'm allowed to post links or not, but here goes. http://www.freevote.com/booth/kia_67 I hope it works. If I'm not allowed, please accept my sincerest apology. I've been having fun trying to vote him to the top, and I thought you might to join in.
Again, brilliant site!!!!
Rachel <don't want to say, because I keep getting spammed.foo>
Calgary, AB Canada - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 07:55:55 (PST)
Hmmmm, Emma Thompson can sure do a mean British accent to be from Dayton! *wink wink*
Claudia
GA US - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 07:26:36 (PST)
no ali-pat, it brings completely other images to my mind, but I won't say which*lol*.
and it really is a nice film - the sheriff as a fish.
mortianna
but then again, of course, the Tin man doesn't belong to classical education over here - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 07:21:11 (PST)
Well, I usually know the difference between "to" and "too". Sorry!
Ali-Pat
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 06:46:21 (PST)
HELP, THERE IS AN HIAF SPOILER BELOW!
I watched Help! I'm a Fish last night again. Cute little film--to bad there is no U.S. distributor. Anyway, I think my favorite part is where Joe learns that he can speak. Does his initial sputtering remind anyone else of the the scene in The Wizard of Oz where the Tin Man's mouth gets de-rusted so he can speak?
Ali-Pat
Emma Thompson's alleged home town, Dayton, OH USA - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 06:45:19 (PST)
Just revisting Private Lives and the Tony's. Found the producer and Lindsay Duncan's interviews on Real Player with AR references.
Claire
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 04:54:41 (PST)
Re. the household jobs; since I'm currently reading 'Pawn to queen' and 'Snape in love', who needs anyone else but seductive Severus?!
TMD SPOILER
Recently I bought a used VHS-copy of TMD at my local videostore for only 1,25 euro (still fairly watchable). Allthough I don't really like men with just a moustache I thought Jamie looked rather cute. I liked the movie a lot, but it didn't make me cry (as I read it did to most of you). But it held a very pleasant surprise for me; namely Alan singing a few lines of my most favourite song (Tangled up in blue) of my most favourite singer (Bob Dylan)! Wow, speaking of a double treat. (I just had to share this bit with you all, even if it only means something to me).
I was watching this film together with my 12 year old daughter, and at the end when Nina walks away with her new boyfriend and Jamie and his friends are sort of waving at them, she said they made her remind of the group of handicapped people the boyfriend works with.I thought that was quite a good remark. Both Mark and Jamie take care of of a rather 'displaced' group of people and both groups are keen to accept Nina and 'help' her find a new life. I was wondering if this has ever been discussed before, if so, sorry for bringin it up. (I still have to go through the archives on this).
Take care everyone.
Letty
The Netherlands - Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 01:09:31 (PST)
Thank you so much Suzanne it was wonderful!
Nicole
- Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 00:02:02 (PST)
It was 32 degrees Celsius here today *phew* but I swear it hit 40 when I started reading "Snape In Love"! OHMIGOD - LOVE IT! Thanks for letting us know the web address - can't wait to continue reading it!
Aussiegirl
- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 23:29:45 (PST)
Oh brother....
Anna
UK - Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 22:56:32 (PST)
Totally off-topic:
AR/David Aaron Baker fan - Dry cat food will go stale, eventually. How much do you buy at a time and how long does it take her to go through it? If you buy a 1-lb. box of Friskies every week, don't worry about it. If you get a giant bag that lasts her for a couple of months, keep the food in a closed container. The bag it comes in, rolled up tightly or clipped shut, should do fine, provided she doesn't chew through it.
If she eats dry food exclusively, it's especially important to see that she drinks enough water. If her water bowl is right next to her food bowl, move it to another room; they prefer not to drink where they eat.
What a good girl she must be if you can keep an open container of cat food around and not have crunchies all over the floor! I hate to think what my place would look like if I did the same. Or what my Linus would weigh.
Anne/Manhattan
- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 22:20:42 (PST)
I just got a cat who is a closet Alan Rickman fan. I found her in my closet chewing on an old New York Times article on PL. Since she is one of us, I have a question on her behalf. I give her dry cat food which I keep in a bin that has no top. Can it go stale? Should I find a container with a top, or does it not matter? People who like to spend their evenings crying over TMD are the kind of people who like cats, reading, tea and introspection, so I felt I could ask this of you all. Thank you, and kitty thanks you too.
An AR and a David Aaron Baker fan
- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 20:46:24 (PST)
Julia in Canada: Thanks, I feel a little better about the age difference now that I know about you and your age difference.
Ann
Poulsbo, WA USA - Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 17:43:28 (PST)
Ann in WA: You too? Hurrah! But 36 years is nothing. My first love, Jeremy Brett, was 44 years older than me! (and dead, but that's a small detail.)
Julia
Calgary, Canada - Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 17:11:31 (PST)
ALL AUSSIES, Forgot to mention that "PLAY" by Beckett will be on SBS this Saturday afternoon! Don't miss AR in this one! Bye.
Barbara thwe Australian.
Gold Coast, Australia. - Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 16:54:31 (PST)
It is so good to be back from Holidays!! So much to read and catch up on! A big Hello to "Aussiegirl" from Brissie 1 hour to the north of me! I have to say that I am a BIG Vegemite fan as well! I am pleased to hear that David Thewlis will play Lupin. All Three- Sirus, Lupin, James (Harry's Dad) are about the same age as Snape. I think that Ewan Mc Gregor is wonderful but too YOUNG. I also heard that Michael Gambon will be Dumbledore. I would like to wish AR's Lady a Happy birthday for Tomorrow the 31st! All these Aquarians! Good people to know. PS Keep eating Vegemite - it puts a rose in every Cheek!!!
Barbara the Australian
Gold Coast, Qld Australia. - Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 16:50:45 (PST)
Ok,OK, I know he is 36 years older than me but I just have to admit it: I am smitten with Alan Rickman.
Ann
Poulsbo, WA USA - Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 14:52:30 (PST)
Not Exactly ON Topic
Would anyone here be interested in winning a one week trip to London? Well, it's "Dickens' London" to be exact--wonder if that means you'd have to stay in a workhouse and eat gruel. Anyway, it's one entry per person. If you don't enter I don't want to hear you whining about never getting to go to London, okay? http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Nickleby/Nickleby.htm
P.S. Magic is afoot. My potted hyacinths in the stairway window are blooming and they smell wonderful every time I walk by. I figure Snape must've taken care of them while I was cleaning.
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 12:40:43 (PST)
15 Birthday cards!!!! Is that all???Now I know there are more then 15 people who post here. And speaking of posters??? What ever happenned to Ensnaring Snape. She used to post on an almost daily basis.
Troy08
LewistonMe, - Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 11:22:54 (PST)
Nicole, here's the Videogram to the Conan O'Brien interview (C-O'Brien122199.exe, 7.6MB, 6 min, 46 sec). And here's Renie's great transcript.
And yes, Verena. Click the birthday link above for more details. We're up to 15 cards now, by the way.
Suzanne <Suz@mail.usa.comfoo>
TX USA - Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 06:48:56 (PST)
Thank you, everyone, for all the birthday wishes! It certainly made my day.
And Carolyn, dear Carolyn--what a great warmup for February 21! (with the proper name inserted, of course)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 06:34:38 (PST)
A Jumble of Things
Thanks, Georgiana for the additional clarification On TSFJG. I appreciate it. Have you heard anything regarding the status of this film? Have they found a distributor yet?
And, just one more question: Did you get an opportunity to see it?
(Obviously, I'm desperate for some new Rickman material,even resorting to sending Hans into the BBC. ~LOL)
Happy Belated Birthday, Ali-Pat!
Speaking of birthdays, isn't Rima's birthday coming up? Are we going to send her package?.....just kidding.......
Kimberly
- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 04:40:16 (PST)
Oops! I lost a bit in the middle there with bad punctuation!! There is also a 12A rating that has just been brought in that allows under 12's to see a film if accompanied by an adult. This was brought in after outcries from younger kids desperate to see Spiderman etc.
Sue
- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 02:04:07 (PST)
Sonoma - Yes Universal is a Film Board rating that is suitable for absolutely everybody. British Ratings are as folows:
U = Suitable for All Four letter words are acceptable in 15s (Dogma was a 15)and some sex and violence. Hi, I am a huge Alan Rickman fan. I was wondering if anybody has the interview with him on Conan O'Brian on file? I would be eternally grateful. Anne, here is site address, hope you enjoy. I found Snape in Love along with many others to be well written and I love the sex. To each his own. For other stories go to the reviews and click on other authors names (in different colors) and see their stories. Enjoy I know I have and thank you to fanfic writers.http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=981820 Kim Sorry, Anne; I can't help you there. Not only was it graphic, but worse--it was poorly written and I just didn't feel like wasting my time on it. Great, now everybody knows my priorities! lol So, Carolyn, I hope you will be sharing that web address with us... Why Jizel, I am in fact quite psychic. I see a tall, dark-eyed man with shoulder-length hair...someone in the field of education...perhaps with a pot, no, a cauldron stealing into your dreams tonight. Oh, and there are people with squirt guns...and they are...they are...yelling, "Spill it, Riffraff!" Whatever could it mean? As to Snape In Love: it's tame compared to one I came across the other day. I was shocked! Can you imagine? Me shocked! Actually, I am a well-behaved, responsible faculty wife except on the GB. Interesting thought about Snape in fishnets.... not bad, as he's got great legs, but I'd rather see him (twenty years younger) in his birthday suit, LOL. Fishnets just seem a bit off when you can wonder about what's under those wonderful robes. *Grins Evily* Tee hee hee. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALI-PAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Taking an extra moment to think, Universal is probably some kind of British rating system, isn't it? Oh well! Warning, way O/T. Sorry yall. Ali-Pat, Happy Birfday!!! Hope you have a most wonderful one. LEE! What a brilliant idear!!! P.L. at Auburn...and to think, I actually watched that movie last night for the first time in...a while!!! Not sure where the house is that you're talking about but I'm sure it's there. I don't travel up that way much. AU of course has it's own Rugby fields for the Rugby team, great organization. By the way, LTNS! I was going to e-mail you but got side tracked. HI! Amanda, I got my HIAF from Playdotcom for about 5 pounds. But I have a friend in England who ordered it for me and sent it on. I could have ordered it directly from Amazon UK but for twice as much plus postage. I assumed the DVD would be region 2 which is ok because our DVD player can play all regions, but I see that the DVD I received says "Universal--suitable for all." I'm still new to DVDs--does this mean it'll play on different region players? Hope this helps. Italics fixed. Isn't the GB lovely italicized? NOT Please fix whoever fixes this site. Hey Barbara: I'm all for using the imagination, but sometimes, especially after a hard day's work, the imagination needs some help. I absolutely adore "Snape in Love." RJ's work is excellent reading, I agree, as is the legendary "Pawn to Queen" by Riley. Sorry, Kimberly. "The Search for John Gissing" opened the 2002 Cinefest Festival on February 21 (himself's 56th birthday). The 2003 festival opens on February 27. That schedule is not yet online. Carolyn, you won't believe this, i just got back from seeing the rocky horror show at the mayflower in southampton. How psychic you are. However, i kept having pervy thoughts about Snape in fishnets. Bad, bad Jizel. If we're recommending fan fiction in the Harry Potter universe, may I recommend RJ Anderson Damn fine writer, good characterization, willing to leave the graphic s*x to the imagination (I tried reading Snape in Love and found it surrended sensuality in favor of graphic sex, and thus, stopped reading it) RJ Anderson Or click on my name to link Sorry Amanda, HIAF is only available in Region 2 DVD at the moment. I finally got tired of waiting for a Region 1 and ordered from Blackstar just the other day. I saw someone identified as in the US mention that they got a DVD of "Help, I'm a Fish." Is it available? Legally? Where? AAAAAGGGGHH. I have dutifully (struggled and managed to) avoid buying one of the pirated VHS's off eBay; the man who sells them told me straight out that he bought the 35mm film legally, but he is not authorized to make or sell copies. So, can I actually GET it now? On DVD? (crosses fingers) Hello to everyone, I only post occasionally but I must ask if eveyone has read Snape In Love by Rickfan 37. It is exceptionally good and puts an extra special light on Pro fessor Snape. You really should read it it's fun! As to who I would like to help me in the house it has to be either PL O'Hara or Professor Snape, PL for a lot of TLC and the Professor for things better kept to oneself (see Rickfan37's book) Annie Ali-Pat - if it really is your birthday and not only your gratefulness for the sublime topic on this guestbook, I should like to add my congratulations to those of the people more in the know of the native language here than I am. see there? I could write that all by myself, the Professor didn't turn up here either, Carolyn. "Damn it, Janet!" [my favorite cursewords,as in Rocky Horror Show, except "Bjorn Borg-it-all" which is great when you're driving behind some moron with his blinker on and no intention of turning] I see a lot of enthusiasm from the REAL people here for MY idea of CHARACTERS doing the chores, but did any of the CHARACTERS actually show up for work? Nooooo! Now I'm pissed! I had to do it all by myself and then dh (another REAL person) cooked dinner (cashew chicken, if you really want to know)and I cleaned up the kitchen! Where is the justice? I make a nice home for all these fantasy CHARACTERS and they won't even pitch in when I need them. My back hurts, my head aches, I'm bloated, and I feel really, really cranky. Does Mesmer do housecalls for anger management issues? Jamie had better show up on Thursday to help me dish up the Poulet Elastique at the Soup Kitchen or there will be hell to pay! Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday, dear Ali-P-a-a-t Happy Birthday to you! [singing again] Jayne-Claire-- I can see PL O'Hara playing rugby for Auburn on the field across from the TKE House (if house and field are still there). The guys used to somersault out of the scrum practically into our laps when we were sitting on the sidelines! Ali-Pat-- Happy Birthday! O/T - Marialis, the made-for-TV version of Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth is FANTASTIC! I cannot recommend it highly enough. I have not actually read the book (yet) but it is my understanding that the movie is very faithful to it. In any case, be warned that it is long (over 4 hours) and once you start watching you won't want to stop. And as for that swimming in the lake scene... yummy! Well, I only need one of Alan's characters at the moment: Hans Gruber. I need Hans to use his "exceptional thieving skills" and relieve the BBC vault of all Alan Rickman videos and radio plays! Hopefully, Hans won't have to "blow the roof" to the complete the job, either. LOL That's all. Je te comprend très bien Marialis. Et si, c'est de la culture française avec un grand K!!! I'd like Elyot Chase as door opener for all the people you don't want to see - you know them. Hey All--I got word from Blackstar this morning that the Region 2 DVD of HP-COS is available for pre-order. Blackstar Video These jobs for certain people have been some of the best guestbook reading I have ever read in my life. Keep up the excellent work, ladies!! Ali-Pat - good one. Yes Ed as food provider - with that grin he could even hand me the M-word (never tasted it, Sue, I'm awfully sorry). Thanks to everybody for entertaining me so much this morning! (omigosh-it's my birthday already again). Let's see...what's left in the household help department... Considering how much coffee David Friedman drinks, he is probably in the bathroom a lot, so I would put him in charge of keeping it clean (Tami--David Friedberg--very funny typo!). However, I would never send him out to run errands. I would probably ask Ed to pack my lunch every day, but I would put in a request for more produce. And of course, Franz Anton has already demonstrated his unique skill at CLEANING THE HOUSE! Tami, in two words : Rickman himself… I’ think I’m with you ! But if I've got to choose one... Brandon for ever ! Sue, the marmite might be this sort of course that made the high reputation of English cook… (despising remark of a haughty French girl !)… GML, your post about the “M-word” made me LOL … It reminds me the scene of “Le Père Noël est une ordure” in a pharmacy, when Jacques François takes his dirty jacket and says : “mais qu’est ce que c’est que cette substance ? Mais c’est de la M … » I imagined Sue a moment as a sort of Mrs Preskovitch highly enthousiast fo her country specialities. I’m sorry , Sue, I don’t want to be impolite, but I can’t explain you more and I doubt you could see this movie. This is a reference for French cinema. Yes I know, my references are not always very intellectual… Anyway, I promise to taste marmite as soon as possible, and not actually think it would be alike “M-word” before having trying it! OT – last Saturday I read Pride and Prejudice and adored it ! For having read the Bridget Jones Diary I know that this novel had been turned as a TV movie with Colin Firth (why are there so many sexy English actors ?) But it seems to me, even if I don’t have re-reading it, that Bridget likes particularly a scene where Darcy wears a wet shirt or about him coming out of a lake, I don’t remember well… I didn’t read anything about that in Jane Austen novel. Was the adaptation faithful of the novel or was it a free interpretation. I’d like to buy this video or DVD too if I find it. But when a movie is based on a novel I like it to be faithful. Because for me it is a big responsibilities towards people who don’t read, especially classics. David Thewlis… well why not ? No - no I won't share anymore, Claudia allready took my Jamie, she has to be satisfied with him. Puuuuh,have to go to work now, hope Rasputin will do a good job as babysitter in the meantime. okay, Lelefua - you can have him till the end of August, but I see you'll have to share with Claudia till then:-) I trust you don't damage him - much. After all, he doesn't die easily, one might even say he gets the better for wear... O.k. Mortianna I'm going to share Gregorij, but for the next 6 months he's mine and then I understand you're going to need him. When is it exactly, by the way? Hmmmm, Raspy...babysitter by day...womansitter by night. He sure is a handy little fella isn't he? well, lelefua, we'd have to fight over father Raz:-) I quite liked some of the suggestions (the barber chair comes to mind easily), and as Phil is one of my favourite characters - that would be quite nice, especially as my hair is horrid in winter and could definitely use an - expert. the description of franz anton letting in a bath and giving a massage - lovely, oh lovely As GQ is another all time fav I should like to add Alexander dane. But on second thought - I'm not really sure. He might have more nervous breakdowns than I have. But then again, it would be nice to go to the pub with him:-) plus of course - Snape. for everything else... O.k. I'll take Rasputin. You all are afraid, that he would ruin your furniture, isn't it. Oh, I'll have some change then chance to get some new furniture. But I think he will be a good babysitter, healing the kids with his magic, when they are ill. Playing with them, skating on inliners through the hall, or something like that. And in the evening when children are in bed, ooooooh, dancing on the table??? Sorry-scratch my previous post--guess I need glasses--the Cinequest Festival was last year, 2002. :( For those lucky individuals in the San Jose, CA area: "The Search for John Gissing" will be shown on the opening night of the Cinequest Film Festival, February 21, 2003. The complete press release can be found here 2003 Cinequest Festival Tami, Wow! That was wonderful!!! I applaud that post with all enthuasim. (Scuse my spelling this late at night.) So yeah, with the thoughts of the hair dresser's chair, I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get...my mind tangled in thoughts of a tidy lil life style. Tami!!!!! Girl...I didn't know you had it in ya! Hmmm, up and down in the haridresser chair I see! You bad bad girl! *wink* Very well thought out help list you have there! I could really use some help around the house, so here's the AR characters I would choose for each task: Sinclair seems to enjoy grocery shopping (although he might be pretty slow what with talking to himself and tying his shoelaces) but he is completely hopeless with household chores, although he makes a pretty good detective if I ever needed to trace my phone messages. Franz Anton would have the pleasure of drawing my bath, giving me a soothing massage after work, and healing my aches and pains. Jamie would be great at rearranging my furniture and tearing up the old carpet while I'm at work. He also has plenty of friends to pitch in when needed. David Freiberg can cook my meals every day and be my badminton partner for a little needed exercise. Sheriff George seems to be good with silverware, so maybe he could keep the knives nice and sharp and do all the chopping, slicing and cutting with spoons (melon balls, anyone?) Severus would come in handy for all my potions needs... something to cure every ailment and he would be the perfect babysitter, no child would dare cross him. And for those especially difficult clean-up jobs, he could always use magic. Phil would be my own personal hair stylist and provide me with shampoos and blowdrys daily, not to mention the fun we could have going up and down in his barber chair (ahem). He would, of course, sweep the floor when he's finished. PL O'Hara would love to make my tea, bring me flowers, and take me for rides on his motorcycle. Col Brandon would read me poetry in bed, buy me a piano (I've always wanted one!), and carry me home if it starts to the rain when I'm out walking. Well, Elyot would be most content in lighting my cigarettes, pouring my drinks, and amusing me with his quick wit and flippant remarks. Lastly, Metatron would guard the whole kit and kaboodle with his awesome angelic presence and voice. What more could a girl want?? I am a HUGE Alan Rickman fan !!!!!!!!And i especially like his role in harry potter HE IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!! I nearly wet my own pants! Do you know how disconceritng it is to see someone famous whom you're quite taken with (alright, rather obsessed) standing in the next aisle over? I swear, it was the funniest thing you ever saw. And you could have fried an egg on my face, as I was blushing rather madly for the next few days. Hi to everyone - I'm back from my long week-end break. Had a very busy morning getting the kids back to school for the start of the school year here - esp. as my "baby" was starting Grade 1 (no tears from him or me!) Absolutely loved Terra's post - talk about LOL - I NWM (Nearly Wet Myself!). Sprung big-time AR! Surely he's got a copy of THAT BOOK stashed away somewhere at home and so doesn't need to lurk around bookstores sneaking a peek! Anyway - got me thinking a bit about AR (as you do!) and thought it would be fun to set a little challenge to all our "spies on the ground" in London (who we are all so jealous of). Until Terra's story we would have probably thought that was the last thing anyone would spot AR doing - so is it so much of a stretch to think that maybe he would take the ocassional peek at this site? The challenge is - The first person to spot AR in an Internet Cafe taking a furtive peek at his "unofficial" website wins "A jar of Vegemite, Promite AND Marmite" (I'll donate and send!) Also, I wasn't going to send a Birthday Card only because I only discovered this site last week and thought it wouldn't get there on time (when my Husband sends postcards back from the USA to Australia when on business trips it takes weeks). However I notice Janine from Melbourne has only just sent hers and Australia Post's website says it should only take 4-6 days (don't believe that for a second!) Anyway I'll send one off today and keep my fingers crossed. As to which AR character I'd like around the house - Jamie would be nice to discuss art and literature and politics with but I think in the "Handyman" dept. he'd be a bit useless. The Colonel could probably afford to employ servants for me but then The Professor could just wave his magic wand and get the chores all out of the way and leave time for other things! Thanks, Claudia. Oh, I'm sorry you had to miss this, but Carrie and I just had a wrestle over which AR movie we were going to watch first. it was hilarious! I won, though, as she's ticklish! I like HIM with or without a moustache, as I think he's terribly sexy anyway!!! You know, I wouldn't mind writing his biography myself. Just so long as I got to talk to his family & friends to find out what kind of mischief he got into as a young man, tee hee. Oh, and I wouldn't mind seeing Metatron do my laundry. He seems to have an efinity for clean shirts... ;o) And I forget something every time! Cynic there's no offense taken on the 'stache. Some people don't like facial hair at all. To each their own I say. If everyone were alike....what a boring world this would be! As far as AR with or without facial hair....bring him on any "ole" way! LOL JC--Email me--I found JK at my locally owned video store and I *muffling speech* copied it. But since then I was given the DVD (in region 2 only at the moment) by a wonderful dear friend. DVD players. The paper work that came with your player should tell you what regions it will read (play). Terra--if artists are up your alley...then you would like Vidal from Therese Raquin too. He was the prequel to Ed. Metatron. Definitely. I have a fondness for designer clothing, not to mention The Voice. And of course, having a slightly corrupted angel around would be a plus-- fun nights on the town AND God's ear when you need it! It's almost too bad I'm not a Catholic. And the thought of Metatron walking on water brought to mind that song on Marian's miserablemelodies.com site: My Bathroom is my Special Place. Hee hee hee! PS: Terra's story gave me hope that perhaps he'll change his mind and authorise a biography after all. I've already volunteered to write it. Twice. Hullo again, all. O/T: I'm staying with my friend Carrie in New York, and I just found out that she's a closet Rickmaniac! She's got all the movies I haven't seen, but as of yet, the only ones she hasn't got are his stage performances! Thanks Ulrike, I'll try that film, I already found a place to lend it. lelefua Had a good laugh at the "special place" question. As for me, I think Snape perhaps. I've always had a good run for bad boys, tee hee hee. ;o) Wow, Snape to guard my special place. That's an idear! That's also wishful thinking. I've got my Snape figure hanging on my wall next to Ellyot. I asked Snape this morning to put a curse on my roomie. So far, so good...her shelf fell...(whoops!) Elloyt would be a...fun...guard. I'm sure he could sas anyone away from my end of the room with his "darned flippancy". Tehehe, love that part... My *special place* ... I'd rather Snape with his malevolence or benevolence ?!! Or maybe the Colonel and his sweet manners. Claudia, I haven't seen Judas Kiss yet!!! I have to see it!!! But for now, I'll agree with you. How'd you find that?! Especially in the south? So how'd you know if your DVD player is a region 1, 2, whatever? Is there a sticker someone that says "Hi, my name is Region 1"? Pff...yall can keep the stash' The only thing that creeped me out about that movie..TMD...was that..ICKY ICKY Moustache... Sorry to offend anyones sensiblities...in facial hair..=) Well I'm happy today. My dvd of Help I'm a Fish! just arrived and the extras are great. I'll finish watching the cartoon tonight, but I've already thoroughly enjoyed the great interview with Alan Rickman. It's nice seeing him looking so natural and relaxed. Oh and my "special place" would be guarded by none other than the moody but gorgeous Jamie--'stache and all! LOL Hey JC..What about David Friedman from Judas Kiss? He could be a Auburn Tiger fan. Alright Carolyn and Claudia...now that you two've got me into the "who's going to clean..." mode...Who shall I pick to help me...tidy up the dorm room? I don't quite see any of AR's characters as an Auburn fan, which my room is quite the War Eagle zone. However, I'd rather like the idear/fact of someone assertive like the Colonel or Metatron GUARDING my half of the room from my roommate and her friends. Now I ask you, who would guard your special place? You know what, I might go to London to do my last year probation. I've receive quite a lot of offers but I just keep on holding this one for many good reasons. Firstly, London is a great place to start. Secondly, it's a good occasion to become fluent in English. And at least but not last, there's our favorite and unique actor(but this one I didn't mention). It's quite *bizarre* that I've become an anglophile seen AR because when I was young I used to hate England just as many Frenchy and now I'd rather be English than French. Isn't it *bizarre*? Green with envy...as usual...London peeps are sooo lucky... On a happy note I may have a chance to study abroad..... since I am a Comparative Politics/ International Relations (up and coming) major...I hope I get a chance to study there I have heard its quite nice.....Europe in the summer...=) Good night...the self-professed Anglophile CYNIC Hugh Grant? Oh pul-leaz! Sorry, he just doesn't ring my chimes. And don't think I hadn't mulled over what the Sheriff meant about the sex of the friend to bring at 10:45! "Stories that pander to my taste for candor give me a pleasure sublime. Let's face it, I love slime! Oh books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth (I'm glad to say) is in the mind of the beholder. When directly viewed, everything is lewd. I could tell you things about Peter Pan, and the Wizard of Oz--there's a dirty old man!" Didn't know I could sing, didja? Ali-Pat, don't be depressed. Yes, I'm considering flying to England and breaking into the BBC to hunt for those radio plays, but there's still a lot to enjoy. And right now I'm reading a Bill Bryson book, but hearing AR's voice reading it in my head. It started with Private Lives. I couldn't go to the play, so I read it, putting in AR's and LD's voices as best as I could. Man, I hope I'm not becoming obsessive....did I mention I've completely memorized The Preacher? As for the chores, I think I'd be too nervous to have most of AR's characters come to my house, but I'd like a portrait of myself done by Ed! "Naughty" is my middle name, Carolyn dear Carolyn. ;-) And I don't know...the Sheriff was a pretty naughty fella in RHPOT but you know what? He didn't specify what gender that friend had to be! ROTFLMAO! So that would mean that one could bring ummm let's see....maybe Colin Firth or maybe Hugh Grant. The possibilities are endless! Naughty, naughty, Claudia! And I was trying so hard to be good for a change! I have to admit that I was thinking of nominating the Sheriff for something else after the cleaning is done, but I'm not sure if his actions in RHPOT bode well or not. I mean, "You, 10:30! And you, 10:45...bring a friend!" Tee hee Carolyn That was very cute, Carolyn dear Carolyn! Thanks for the chuckle! How about Col. Brandon for dusting the miles of Victorian woodwork? As for me, I think I have other duties more of a personal nature for the AR characters in my life! LOL I don't have to shovel walks today--it's beautiful in Colorado this morning--but I did have to do a lot of housework. Just for fun, I was thinking of which AR character would have to do which chore if it were up to me. For example, I have Hans taking care of making appointments, paying the bills, and seeing that the books and videos get returned to the library and video store on time. He seems organized. Jamie could hike on down to the soup kitchen with me to dish up food to the poor. We social reformers should always put up or shut up. Metatron could clean the bird cages. He's got wings and feathers. Snape could clear out the refrigerator and wash the kitchen floor. We make our potions in there; it's where the mortar and pestle stay. And I'd set the Sherriff to scrubbing the toilet, sink, and tub as penance for his sins. Now, this leaves an awful lot for me to take care of, so I'm looking for suggestions for who to assign to the other housework. I have vacuuming, windows to wash, laundry including delicates, general picking up and putting away, and miles of Victorian woodwork to dust and clean. And, just because I can't stand to have other people mess with my art supplies, nobody has to clean my "toy room." So, who would you have working in your home? Hey ladies and gentlemen. I´m back and glad to see/read you all again ;) Well,ahm, I read this *Sending Birthday Cards from all over the world* and I´d like to write,too. So,how does it work? Do I have to write to Suzanne? Sending my card to her? (I mean, to you, Suzanne?) Thank you very much, Verena OMG...I liked and respected you before, Kimberly. But with the revelation of your former career, I have gained a whole new respect for you! High school? My, my you were a brave soul, weren't you? Thanks for the reassuring words, Eleanor! As a former high school English teacher, I can relate many spelling and grammatical horror stories. Fortunately, this is the Alan Rickman, not the "Atrocious Revelations," GB, so you are all saved from my "Tales from the Crypt of an Ex-High School Teacher." LOL Kimberly, I can't speak for that Bee, (I believe she's dangerous), but I am harmless. I only reign over a lot and similar, and I merely fly to your region and repeat annoyingly, "a lot is two words, a lot is two words", etc. So far, I am the only one who has misspelled similar, (similiar.) Fear not! I finally got around to reading W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence and now I am depressed. I'm not depressed because of the book, I am depressed because, in spite of all the rumors and the absolute rightness of Strickland as a role for AR, it will probably never happen. Oh well, I will add this to my list of things that are highly desired but unlikely to happen anytime soon (soundtrack to TMD, cut scenes from RHPOT, release of TSFJG, tapes of LLD and PL, release of all the BBC tv/radio dramas on tape--you know the litany...) If you have not read the novel, I urge you to do so--it's a terrific read! Also here is a tantalizing, but probably spurious, entry in the IMDB. Going out now to shovel my walks. If I'm going to be depressed, I might as well get some exercise... Dear lelefua, some days ago you mentioned Stephen Fry. No, he and AR have never been together in a film. As for stage and TV, I don’t know – perhaps can somebody from the UK inform us? But if you like Stephen Fry, let me recommend a little masterpiece of a film (and one of my favourites):"Peter’s Friends". It has everything that makes a good film: laughter and tears, friendship, honesty, partnership and the problem of finding one’s self. And great actors: Emma Thompson, her mother Phyllida Law, Kenneth Branagh, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton (see Sense and Sensibility!) and Stephen Fry. The only flaw is: No Alan Rickman in it. He would have fitted in perfectly! By the way: Stephen Fry is also a writer! Try one of his books – so funny!! I have to say I have followed Alan Rickman's career and seen many of his movies for years. I jsut think he is the greatest. One of my all time favorites his is movie Rasputin for which he won his Golden Globe. Yippie!! He was recognized as well he should be!!! Avril, Did you ever think that black is his favorite color? LOL Seriously, to answer your question he does not "always" wear black. If you check out the pictures that have been taken by our fellow GBer's at the stagedoor in NY you will see he wears other colors as well. The one that I liked was when he was wearing black jeans and a yellow striped shirt over a white T shirt. Oops! Caught a typo: *Birthday* Don't want Eleanor after me or that stinging Spelling Bee. :) WHY DOES HE JUST WEAR BLACK?BLACK PANTS, BLACK SHOES, EVERYTHING!!WHY?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Please answer this for me.Thanks Thanks, Catherine, for your efforts in putting the RADA donation together. I appreciate it. Thanks, also, to Suzanne for handling the Great Birthday Project (my card will be in the mail early this week, I promise!), and to Ali-Pat for the "Rolling Birtday Song Rendition." Hi everybody, If you noticed the USA thing, don't be confused. I flew to New York this morning to visit friends. (i bought the book before I left) Hello Again! Oh, and about the marmite thing, I can't stand the taste, but I eat a bit on toast every morning out of habit. ;o) Ok Claudia,now, Georgia lady who was at Private Lives the night of the little dogs, email me sometime! Cool Got a new computer at work, and my Windows media player now accesses AMG for albulm information. Was listening to When Love Speaks on Friday and was utterly delighted to have my computer come up with the following: An unusual collaboration, When Love Speaks features interpretations of William Shakespeare's sonnets and excerpts from his plays by high-profile actors and musicians. It almost goes without saying that performers such as John Gielgud, Jonathan Pryce, Diana Rigg, Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, and Susannah York give accomplished readings of the Bard's work; the musical interludes, which range from the adult alternative pop of Annie Lennox's "Live With Me and Be My Love" to Keb' Mo''s bluesy "No More Be Grieved at That Which Thou Hast Done," aren't quite as successful but add diversity. Highlights include Alan Rickman's reading of "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" (emphasis mine), Rufus Wainwright's "When, in Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes," and Bryan Ferry's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day." Other featured performers include Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Barbara Bonney, Tom Courtenay, and Kenneth Branagh. As a benefit album for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts -- where most of the featured actors on this album studied -- and as a tribute to Shakespeare, When Love Speaks does an admirable job of marrying high culture to pop culture. http://windowsmedia.com/mg/albuminfo.asp?a_id=R+++586705&name=When+Love+Speaks No Kit, that wasn't me. I don't do the stage door thing. By the time a play is over, I'm ready to find the closest place that serves a good red wine. Claudia Ga, are you by chance the Georgia gal who was at Private Lives the night of the little dogs? If you are you took my picture andd I never got a chance to take yours! Sorry! We all had a lovely time that night, during the show and later at the stage door meeting AR. Ah, Helen, you beat me to it. I was just thinking that since the unauthorized biography is not available from any chain bookshop yet, it must have been in a second-hand bookshop. And since, due to high demand, most of the copies available in these have been snapped up for very profitable re-sale on Ebay, I must say finding a copy AND Alan in the same shop sure was lucky! But if that was the case, I would love to hear the shop's address as I am always on the prowl for difficult-to-find books :) - I read a few pages from that one once in my local library, was soon bored to death (what a great exercise in pseudo-psycho padding) and so put it back on the shelf. When I looked for it again to have another look at the pictures, I found the book had been nicked from the library (soon after the first Harry Potter movie release). I wasn't too worried about that, but I was most annoyed to find that the Return of the Native tapes had been nicked too as I had listened to them once and was about ready to listen to them again. I can't believe I was stupid enough not to copy them the first time round, umph! And since I'm not in a serious mood, I have to ask a metaphysical question (these never get answers) : why "foo"? I know what it is *for*, but why "foo" rather than "tuu" or "gii"? Sigh. Back to real life... I have to say, well done eagle-eyed Alan for spotting a copy of his unauthorised biog in a bookstore! I had been under the impression that it has been out of print for the last few years, and the new, revised version isn't due out until February 6!!! I was obviously mistaken... Linda, your son deserves recognition for such fluid and skilled writing. Congratulations on his work and AR's recognition. Maybe he could write the authorised biography! There are plenty here who would read it. From what people say about the other book you son seems to be the superior writer. Happy Australia Day to all. Aussie Girl I like your six degrees of seperation, I wish I could claim to have such a clear line as that. Sometimes when I watch a movie and see an actor I think of the 6th degree thing. When I saw the Cat's Meow Eddy Izzard was Chaplin and Eddy Izzard did the Monty Python sketch thing with AR. Or the actress in Bend it like Beckham, ..Does anyone else do this? ..Or do I have a problem? Either in real life as - 1. I know Fred. 2 Fred know's Jane. 3 Jane knows's Harry 4. Harry knows Jill 5. Jill went to school. 6. With AR In Mad About You thay linked everyone with Kevin Bacon and on the The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia web site, if you put in Alan Rickman it states - Alan Rickman was in Bob Roberts (1992) with Tim Robbins Tim Robbins was in Mystic River (2003) with Kevin Bacon. I think it better fun to link to AR. Okay, okay--I have FINALLY found the perfect birthday card and I promise to mail it on Monday!! Can I help it if I am a deliberate shopper? By the way, what is the status of the project for contributions to RADA? Katie C--email me about the Dark Harbor video. (Remember to remove the "foo" from the end!) Suzanne *whew!* I was worried.... Linda "A born journalist?" Kudos to your son! What a lovely compliment. *laughing* Although, when you remember what AR usually says about journalists, perhaps it's not.... ALan seems to spend his *wasting* time in bookstore. It's the second bookstore story I heard. Well, your 'Londonien' rickmaniacs should do the same. You never know, one might share with us another great story (wish it could be me LOL) Linda, I knew Alan wouldn't let you down! I'm so glad that Brian got a response in time for his birthday. When will we cease to be amazed by him? This will be my last post for the night, as it's rather late. Have to get some sleep. Oh Terra, you dropped your purse?? Hee hee, at least you weren't holding a spatula at the time...(::laughs at own joke::) I am also jealous of all you Londoners that can conveniently go to his live performances and see him in public. *Sigh...oh to be in England.... Well, speaking of this book, is there any way to get it in the states? Linda/NJ, Great to hear about the reply!!! That's such a wonderful thought to be placed upon someone. If I were your son, I'd truly honor that response. I'm glad that you two had that kind of opportunity together. Only eight cards?? Oh come on guys! We can do better! Let's make it a big huge box. Linda, that is so cool about your son. Thanks for sharing the story, its good to know that Mr. Rickman is so friendly to his fans! Yay, what a great guy. And for the record, it doesn't matter so much to me who plays who in HP and the PoA as long as Alan plays Snape. :) Oh, and for anyone who has the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone DVD, if you go to the "Interviews" on the special features, you get an interview with the director and producer. If you watch the whole thing, Chris Columbus starts talking about how he loves working with actors, and it goes to a shot of HAgrid and then Alan as Snape, walking with his hands in his pockets toward the director with this grin on his face...(it is a strange thing to see Snape smiling ;)) I'm sure most of you have already noticed this part, but I thought I'd mention it for the benefit of those who haven't! Have a nice evening all. That's hilarious, Terra! I only wish I could have been there with you. I can see the look on his face! By the way, does anyone know where I cna find a good price on Dark Harbors? I managed to get a copy, but the tape was bad!!!!!! Grrrrrrr! I've heard that it's a horrible script/plot, but that the ending is to die for (laughing or not)! Didn't someone say that THAT BOOK would be re-issued with updated info on his career? I wonder if he had heard that also and was checking to see if it was the updated version. Well, don't be that jealous. Thank you so much for the great story, Terra. I'm glad he's able to laugh at the book because sometimes I feel guilty for having it since I've read how much he hates it. You know, I'm becoming pretty jealous of the London fans who can just run into him like that! Honestly, I'm not sure that he doesn't hate THAT BOOK (as you people seem to put it), LOL. Hi Suzanne, i just wanted you to know that i too have sent my card in as well, just hope it gets to you on time to be sent to the Man. Hope everyone is having a good evening and staying warm if you're in cold places, here we are coming out of a cold freeze. Probably will stay in tomorrow and watch an Alan Rickman movie. All the best to everyone.... Oh Terra! That is so funny. Especially since it's general thought that he "thoroughly HATES" That Book. I would think that if he hated it soooo much...he would have never picked it up in the first place. Not only did he pick it up...he apparently thumbed through it! Hmmm, maybe its just the request for his autograph on the "UNAUTHORIZED" biography that puts him in a bad mood. Ahhh, to be able to find That Book in a US bookstore. Thanks for sharing your experience, Terra. Oh, I thought it rather funny myself... I wish you could have seen the expression on his face! Faintly embarrassed, faintly amused, faintly shocked... It was quite the picture! And I wonder as well, what did he find so amusing? Terra, thanks for that great story! Gave me quite a belly-laugh. Wonder which part he found so amusing? No, last I heard, Michael Gambon got the part of Dumbledore, not Ian McKellen. Though either would be fine with me. And Alan Rickman is definitely the opposite of a villain in real life, Emily! In fact, he's my hero. :) You must think that this is a stuped think, but i’d like to know Alan Rickman as a person.For example I ‘d like to know if in real life he may be a villain as in the movies that he does or maybe the opposite.I think he is a good men, with a great heart,and I hope it.But I’d like to be sure.Maybe one day. Linda in New Jersey-congrats on Brian receiving a letter from Alan Rickman. What a birthday present. I also have a birthday on January 30, but will ,ahem, be slightly older then 12. Give your son my best birthday regards!!! IAN MCKELLEN...I believe is cast as dumbledore for the third HP movie... Oooh, so many posts to respond to... Eleanor, the GB is edited quite often to delete spam, trolls and to fix problems, etc.. Yours and Sue's posts may have been accidentally overwritten yesterday while the GB was being edited to fix an HTML mistake. Sorry about that! Barbara, I am alive and well! Was out of town for a couple of days, so I couldn't make it to the AR chat on Thursday (or send out reminders). But thank you for missing me. :-) Received eight Birthday cards so far. Come on, people, we can do better than that, get those cards in the mail! They're just now starting to roll in, however, so I expect the quantity will increase in the coming days/weeks. Linda, that's amazing news! What a fantastic birthday present for Brian. Here's Brian's wonderful article, for those who missed it. And finally, thank you, Georgiana, for the ISP info. I was wondering why I was having such a difficult time getting connected today. Kind of scary news, though... Wow, I love your guestbook. You won't believe what happened to me a few eeks ago! Off topic: In case anyone has noticed problems. I just received this notification from my ISP: "Last night, Friday, January 25, 2003, the Internet experienced a massive, worldwide Denial of Service attack. The attack was caused by a new computer 'worm' known as Sapphire which exploited a known vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL database server program. It is believed the worm originated in Asia or Europe, but its effects were felt around the globe. . . . As of this writing on Saturday morning, the Internet is recovering, but there are still pockets of networks where servers are unreachable. We anticipate conditions will improve steadily as network administrators around the world isolate and repair their affected servers. But in the short term, users should expect delays or an inability to reach some sites over the next several hours, possibly days." That was so sweet of Alan to send Brian that letter & photo! I'm a bit surprised, but sometimes I forget that he's human... he just seems so distant from the rest of us, you know? Love to all! *giggle* Kit. I'm the same way. I own both the VHS and DVD formats of TMD and still search for it on the tube to watch. And still cry every single time I watch it! *gag me with a spoon* Ground Force and Changing Rooms. Gawd, I wish BBC-A would stop airing it sooooo much! In its place, they could easily go into their archives and air some of AR's old things. Let's see...."Pity In History" (number one on my list)....."Busted"......"From Sleep and Shadow".....Benefactors......and the list goes on and on! BBC America is showing TMD twice tonight. I've watched four segments of Ground Force and three Changing Rooms (plus my fave - Eastenders) mainly to hear the commercials. I KNOW I OWN THIS MOVIE, but my family gamely plans to watch it with me and hand me kleenex as needed (lots). An AR night. Hi Sonoma, The article was about how and when Brian met him in NYC after seeing Private Lives with me. He was so excited about meeting him and was very impressed on how sincere and nice Alan was, he wanted to share it. So in August, I called my local paper to see if it was something that they would be interested in, they said "Yes, most definately", and I mailed it off. Our paper has a section for kids to write whatever they would like. When I went back to PL in late Aug, the article hadnt appeared so at the stage door, I told AR about it and asked if I could send it to him. He said "Sure, Please do". So I mailed him a laminated copy in late Nov. and got the reply today! I know that Suzanne posted a link to the article in early Sept. so you may have to search the archives, or I could send it to you. My email is brimatand@yahooDOTcom. Wow, I'm sure that photo will be a great encouragement to your son. How nice that Alan Rickman did that! What did the article say? Regarding Harry Potter, I'm very happy with the choices of Gary Oldman as Sirius Black and Thewlis as Lupin. Thewlis was great in Naked by Mike Leigh, even if his character wasn't very likeable. And finally, I don't think it's a shame that some people would rather admire a hat than discuss world problems in this guestbook. What's wrong with a little oasis free from the troubles that surround our daily lives? I'm glad that Alan Rickman has convictions and stands up for them. I'm sure we all do, even if we don't debate them here. But the hat made me smile and that's worth a lot in these times we're living in. Sorry, obviously I am too excited to check my spelling. not ALAS but ALAN. :o) Hi all! I have to share some exciting news. Some of you may know that I sent Alan an newspaper article that was written by my 11 year old son Brian. Brian wrote it after meeting Alan in NYC this past summer. I received a letter from Melanie Parker today saying that Alas was very impressed with it. With the letter is a 5X7 pic of AR and these words: Dear Brian - Excellent piece in the newspaper. You are a born journalist! All good wishes Alan Rickman I am so excited. Brian's 12th birthday is Jan. 30. What a nice present this will be! Thanks for letting me share! That's David Thewlis??? Just popped out to my local Sainsbury's supermarket and found myself in the next queue to Uncle Vernon from An Awfully Big Adventure!! Small world, eh? Discovered a film about Oscar Wildes life, a quite good one. I looked for the actor playing Wilde, there are about 700 notations in the net about "Stephen Fry + Alan Rickman". But I don't find, whether they ever acted on stage together or were on screen in the same film. Does anybody know?Thanks. Are we being secretly censored? I post I made yesterday has disappeared from the guestbook. I see, Claudia, that Sue believes there is still hope on the RHPOT DVD. It would be wonderful! For one thing, if ever there was a film crying for a "director's cut," it is that one. And, as Magda/Canada has pointed out (must be years ago now!), there were quite a few scenes between George and his Mommy that were in the script, but not in the final film. Whether they would have weakened the final product or not, it would still be lovely to see more of what was such a landmark performance. OK, the link *does* work... if you click on it, get the 'sorry' page, go 'back' a page on your browser and then 'next' again. You always have to do that with Geocities links, weird. And of course I meant the Southwark Playhouse, not Southward. Mirror keyboard syndrome ;) Is it my imagination or was there a whiff of spring here in the UK this morning? It felt too warm in the sun. The 'M word', Sue? I'm afraid you'll have to clarify that one because to a French ear, the 'M word' can only be one thing and surely, SURely you didn't mean that? ;) Re Iraq, I have to say I find it a shame that AR fans's reaction when seeing a photo of him demonstrating against the war is "Omygod let's not talk about the war, let's talk about the hat". Anyway... I will obey the rules of the house and respect the anglo-saxon deep fear of serious discussions ;)... but only after I've recorded my opinion that the only reason French leaders are not joining the war propaganda is not for the good reasons (as in because they care about justice or the Iraqi people) but because they hope they can play the good guys while somebody else goes and protect the West's financial interests there for them - which frankly probably is the worst attitude of all. And by the way, I agree with Nathalie that the hat is co-ool. I have the same one, in dark blue, so there! OK, it makes you look vaguely related to a Smurf, but it does a great job of keeping your ears warm ;) The Old Vic show with Kevin Spacey singing sounds good, I do like all the guests, not so sure about Elton John songs though... never mind, I won't be in London that day anyway. I will be there for a day in a couple of weeks though, and am looking forward to Béjart's new show in the afternoon (Mother Theresa and the Children of the World) and maybe an evening seat for 'Through the Leaves' (did somebody mention the Southward Playhouse?) but this one was sold out long before I rang and I'll have to queue for returns, booh :( - Anyway, these are two shows that sound fantastic and which I can afford, which is good. Talking affordable theatre, I'm sure theatre fans will be glad to hear that "Incoming National artistic director Nicholas Hytner (pictured), who takes over from Trevor Nunn on 1 April 2003, announced full details of his inaugural season at a press conference held today at the theatre. In addition to a wide-ranging programme of productions, Hytner's new regime is distinguished by a marked return to repertory (which the National has gradually edged away from over the past year), the appointment of a large advisory panel of associate actors, director and designers, and major reductions of ticket prices, to include an experimental six-month season in the NT Olivier (the largest of the South Bank complex's three auditoria) where two-thirds of the seats will be reduced to just £10 (with the other third priced at £25)." Which adds to the older news that "Ian McKellen, Alan Davies, Stephen Tompkinson, Michael Greco, Caprice, Leigh Zimmerman, Michael Praed, Owen Teale and other West End stars joined Ken Livingstone today at the Criterion Theatre to launch the mayor's new West End ticket promotion, aimed at enticing young audiences into theatres ". OK, I'm scr... er... not concerned anyway because I'm too old, too young and too fit, but it's very good news nonetheless. So I've decided to go and see Dance of Death after all. And for the people more into Harry Potter, David Thewlis as Lupin sounds good to me. He has been in a number of *good* films, and he certainly looks like Lupin. I found a great photo of him in Lupin-ish gear but I'm not sure the link will work as it was on a geocities site. If it doesn't work, just cut and paste the address http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9633/dragonheart2.jpg into your browser window but try this first: DDavid Thewlis, wig and all waouh! Thank you lelefua for the info, now I think that I'll try to look after some marmite in Paris. Just to taste a little bite of british's culture and maybe being addict to it ?!! Sorry link didn't work, hope that one is better:marmite Didn't know what marmite is, so I looked for it, seems to be a normal yeastextract, whe call it "Hefepaste", very tasty and filled with B-vitamins. Mmmmmh. If you want to know more visitor.marmite I'm a bit surprised that Gary Oldman's a choice for Sirius Black! I'm too used to him in really creepy roles (think Leon the Professional) to see him in that one. Sent off my card today, Suz! Hope it gets there in a few! The art of vegemite. Spread it thinly over buttered bread or toast. A daily rquirement for all our little vegemites here (children) and those somewhat evolved (those pretending to be adults). I say this as I have met many non vegemite/marmite kids who have suffered Aussie humor and had it spread thickly like peanut butter or jam. YUK! Running late to the Post Office I sent the almost 10yr old in with the birthday - post card. (I though a postcard would be a bit more light hearted). By the time I arrived (3 minutes behind him) the Post Office was a hum with Rickmaniac who were advising each other of Beckett showings and HP, S&S delights. Wow! The power of AR! Thought this was interesting-LONDON (AP) - Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey will show off his vocal talents alongside Elton John at a fund-raiser next month for a historic London theater. The pair will perform a duet on some of John's hit songs at a Feb. 5 benefit for the Old Vic, organizers said Thursday. John is chairman of the Old Vic Theater Trust, which bought the 185-year-old theater in 1998 when it was in danger of closing. Built in 1818, the Old Vic was for generations the proving ground of British actors, and is the former home of Laurence Olivier's National Theater company. But the venue has struggled to forge an identity for itself since the trust took it over from Canadian owners Ed and David Mirvish five years ago. Spacey, who starred in Eugene O'Neill's ``The Iceman Cometh'' at the Old Vic in 1998, is a board member of the trust. In November 2001, he performed The Beatles' ``Hey Jude'' at the Old Vic during a tribute to Sept. 11 victims. He won a best-actor Oscar for 1999's ``American Beauty'' and a best supporting actor Oscar for 1995's ``The Usual Suspects.'' The benefit also will feature Sinead O'Connor, Ms. Dynamite, Sharleen Spiteri from Scottish band Texas, Lulu, Diana Krall and Elvis Costello. They will perform hits by John. Ticket prices range from $400 to $1,600.>>>>>>this sounds like the sort of thing Alan would attend. Plus,Sharleen Spiteri will be there. Maybe they could re-enact "In Demand," Hopefully, they will be pictures of this event. Troy08 Oops, I meant Gary Oldman. Honestly, I think my brain has gone south for the winter ;)! Katie ~ There have been several speculations about who will play Sirius, the Leaky Cauldron mentioned Gary Oldham as a possible candidate. I guess we'll find out...but I'm sure we won't be disappointed. After all, these are the same people that cast Alan as Snape, Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy, and Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy. Hey Suz ~ How many b-day cards for Alan do you have so far? I hope it is lots! He deserves it. Have a good weekend everyone!!! NOOOOO!!! I have currently read what I had missed...and I feel like I walked into the CNN form or my international relations class... instead of AR gb... NO MORE REALITY!! My body is still recoving from the shock of standing outside for an entire day...in front of the White House...=( I live In Maryland...very close to D.C. and my entire school basicly left to protest last weekend...I got dragged along as usual...oi! I missed Lord of the Rings also..=( Anyway..I read the S&S journal and I guess AR is a dog person..hehe I already hear enough about politics/war/Iraq on TV, I DON'T want to read about it here on the AR guestbook too!!! To answer your question, Katie, I heard Gary Oldman will be playing Sirius Black which I think is wonderful. It was in this weeks Entertainment Weekly magazine. It also listed David Thewlis as Remus which I'm having a hard time with, because I thought Ewan McGregor would be perfect. Oh well, I guess I'll get used to it. I've got just one question about Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban... David Thewlis as Remus! I feel much better now about the 3rd film. I hope they will give him and AR as much interplay as JKR did. I can't wait to see Crookshanks either. Well, Concerned Citizen! I hope with all that "enforced celibacy" that sexuality is all one exudes! Couldn't resist. Sorry. Would love to hear more about marmite and less about Iraq. Lucida, you have tell all that I was thinking. So now let's talking about more *serious* things like Alan's hat. He's just look cool with that. It makes him younger but always so sexy. OK Here is the post AGAIN!!LOL Tonight's ES Magazine - "Is Baltic becoming the new Ivy? On one sitting last week, my man with the blinis spotted Ralph Fiennes, Simon Callow, Miranda Richardson and Alan Rickman at seperate tables. The fact that the venue is within sashaying distance of the National, the Old and Young Vic, the Globe and Southwark Playhouse could have something to do with this new luvvie haven. That or the brooding presence of sultry Polish prince John Woroniecki who runs the joint." Georgiana - RHPOT has been available as a single-sided Region 2 dvd for some time over here, so they must have something *else* to put on the other disc. Anyone who has seen the American promotional *documentary* "Robin Hood, The Man, the Myth and the Movie" will know that the production was filmed, so the least we can hope for is a "Making of the Movie" feature. The most we can hope for are deleted scenes!!!! Oh, I forgot to say that I simply love Painting With Light. AR is so sweet! *smile* Lucinda, I agree on all counts. Normally, I try to avoid discussions of religion and politics since everyone has their own strong convictions and are not likely to be persuaded anyway. I believe in freedom of speech, but since this is Suzanne's guestbook, I think we should honor her wishes concerning appropriate material for posting. Just for the record, I'm a liberal Catholic and a Libra, too. That means I love fine arts and fair-play. Go Alan! Mr. Rickman, from his appearance at a peace rally, seems to be against any military action in the Middle East. There, we know his opinion on the matter, which should exhaust its potential as a topic on this Guestbook. Can we change subjects now? We don't appear to be able to discuss this without hard feelings. Where the he** has my post, about an hour ago, about AR's restaurant and the RH dvd gone!!!??? Nothing of offence there surely?????????? As I have sworn never to mention the *M* word again and we mustn't discuss politics or religion, I shall just say "Hear,Hear" to Lucida and then duck below the barricades!! And if it is all right to post about Rickman's comings and goings and charity work outside stage or screen, I don't quite understand why it is not right to speak about his involvement in this matter. At least everybody should be entitled to express themselves once or twice if they so wish and as long as they remain polite. "The United States has been blessed in so many ways, and one of them is the ability to protect itself and others." Look dear, this is not about protecting other people, however much they need protecting. Many other people in many other nations need protection from their tyrannical leaders and we are not proposing to offer it. This is about OIL. Irak had the only very long-term reserves in the world, OK? Something like 500 years' worth left of it. The West has 10, other Arab countries a few dozen years. Whoever controls Irak controls their oil-dependent economy for decades to come. The US have installed dictators in South America, financed and lent secret troops to US-friendly dictators in Central America, trained and financed Bin Laden when he was directing his fanaticism towards 'ennemies' of the US, financed and sold weapons to Saddam Hussein when it was in the US's interest to do so and generally caused more innocent deaths from civil wars and breached more human rights in recent history than any other country I can think of. What the US is doing now is protecting its interests again. What the UK is doing is siding with the strongest country as this might be useful one day. And if other Western countries are against the war, this is purely because they take the view that it is in their interest to be against it as they do not wish to alienate other Muslim countries and encourage retaliatory terrorism. Every single country is acting in self-interest. Please do your homework and don't let yourself be endoctrinated, guys. Saddam is a tyrannical dictator, no doubt, and he probably does have weapons - but so have many other countries and he would never be stupid enough to use them now, or at least he hasn't yet, and that certainly is not why we are proposing to go bomb innocents. This is pure self-interest and Rickman and co are absolutely right to protest. Italics fixed. Discussions on politics and religion should be taken to email please. I know, that just leaves marmite as the divisive topic which is probably just as well. YOU ARE AMAZIN ALAN RICKMAN!! I IDLE YOU... Ali-Pat, would you mind sending that little jar to a grateful neighbor in Indiana? That would be me ;-) Thanks. Oh Dear............. I have managed to italisize the whole Guest Book! Serves me right for getting on my soap box, arrogant old bat! Dear Kim! Thank You! After almost two years of being the token Conservative Republican on the GB, I welcome the company (ideologically that is, what party you suscribe to is irrelevant)! Your points are very valid. No one wants WAR. It is really cartoon politics to paint one side as war-mongering ravid dogs and the other as daisy-totting,idealistic peace-niks! We are all one family on this planet and strive with the best intentions for harmony. The problem always lies when our our definitions of Peace are not accuratly translated, from one country/culture to another. Let us not forget that when the Cold War was upon us, the russian word MIR , (meaning ,peace,) was in soviet meaning, "Communism to all". That was what they percieved as "peace", as the ideal society and they strove to convert or subvert the rest of the globe in that direction. If we had not been as strong as we were, they might have won! Our problem with the Middle East is very complicated. We,in the West (whether religious or not) are ideologically girdled my Judeo-Christian values, our definitions of GOOD and EVIL and of what is fair and just. Using these deliniations in International Politics is tricky when dealing with Radical Islam or any regime that is Machiavellian in it's reasoning. Imagin playing Chess with an opponent that insists on his Knight crossing the board unlimited times in the diagional. Impossible to play! Right? When Saddam hides his weapons from the UN Inspectors and we cry "FOUL", they just laugh at us because they are not playing by the rules, just playing to win: at all costs and most disturbingly, at the cost of their own people. Where IS Amnesty International? Pretty please....with sugar on top.....enough political and war talk! Georgiana--RHPOT SE that makes perfect sense! I feel soooooo DUH! Oh well....shall we dare to dream? I still don't want to give up hope! doc - please DO something or my fingers get very nervous - and that wouldn't do any good either. Not to dampen your enthusiasm, but I fear that 'special edition' RHPOT DVD in region 2 is likely the same DVD that has been available in region 1 for a number of years. The page you linked cites no special features, although they list them on other DVDs. The region 1 DVD is a 'flipper' or two disc DVD (yep, one of the cheap ones) with no special features. Ulrike, how very sad for you that you see NEVER a must for War. I do not remember who, where or the exact wording of this, but I will try to sum up. “When they came for the Jew I did nothing as I am not Jewish. When they came for the Black man, I did nothing, as I am not black. When they came for the Catholic, I did nothing, as I am no Catholic. When they came for me, no one did anything as no one was left. There are those in this world who are in need of protection and those who have been given the ability to protect. The United States has been blessed in so many ways, and one of them is the ability to protect itself and others. We have a moral obligation to do so. We have not always done this when and where we should, or for the right reasons. I hope we do better. I am a Christian also and believe what I said that no one should want war. There are times when it is necessary. To stop Hitler and the slaughter of Jews and a world that would have been run by hatred and fear; dominated by Evil is a MUST for war. There is GOOD and EVIL in this world and God has used his army of men to stop EVIL, being Christian does not mean you must be passive. I do not have all the answers, and the answers I have may not be the right ones. I pray for guidance in making choices and for guidance for our National leaders on these issues. I believe prayers are answered, and have faith the guidance is giving. I hope, as I believe in free choice, that when guidance is given that our leaders let it lead their actions. I hope this makes some sense in a hurry, have to go. I am sorry for you and your friend’s pain. Ali-Pat....I have not been able to find anything on an up and coming Region 1 RHPOT Special Edition--just Region 2 at the moment. If you find anything...please let us know. Just one or two thoughts about Iraq, the USA and War: First of all: I’m a Rickmaniac as you all are and I love this site and being connected to you in this way. I was born in 1956 (10 years younger than AR!!) and so never went through a war. But as I am German, my parents did. They never talked much about it, but what I kept in mind was: Pray to God every day and do everything you can to never let this happen again! This is perhaps why some Americans call us “soft” or “a problem”, as Mr. Rumsfeld did in his speech yesterday. We really are “the old Europe” with our memory of a long history of many wars in our part of the world. I have an American friend who has lived in Germany for many years (with her German husband) and I can very well remember how deeply shocked she was, when her mother-in-law once had to be evacuated from her house in Stuttgart (a big city in Southwest-Germany), because a war-bomb had been found in her street during road-works – that was in 1990! My friend – who knows a lot about European history – told me that she had realized for the first time, how close the war was to her husband’s family and to the people in Europe. And as I am a Christian, I wish no human being in the world, near or far from me, to go through a war. And I’m absolutely certain that there is NEVER a “must” for a war! I hope my English is good enough to make myself understandable and I wish you all out there a wonderful day! Two disks? The new release of RHPOT will be on two disks? I don't suppose they will be filling that second disk with music videos--the mind boggles at the possibilities!!! Something else to check Amazon for every day... Also, I have a small, gently used jar of Marmite which I will gladly ship to anyone who wants it, free of charge. However, I am keeping the lemon barley water concentrate which I purchased on the same shopping trip. Keep warm, everyone. Kim, very thoughful and interesting post. I think that a person either "exudes sensuality" or they don't. I don't believe it has anything to do with a person going for a sustained period of time without "it". As for "it" itself, I have always been of the opinion that its very much "quality" over "quantity". The news section at this site was interesting in that it provided more detail for the Kelly charges--an alleged enounter with an underage teen 30 years ago! One can see why friends like Alan would defend him against being labeled a pedophile for one supposed encounter, although one should really know the details first. A teacher I presumed was gay ended up being one of our state's accused priest pedophiles. Ann One more post before bed - Am going away tomorrow to the Beach for 3 days for our Australia Day (Jan 26th) Long Week-end Holiday. I promise to think of all of you in freezing climates as I lounge by the pool eating my Vegemite toast! Thought I'd leave you with something to ponder which I thought might be fun - it came to me as I was trawling earlier posts and someone mentioned the Kevin Bacon Game and then later as I was looking at the Rex pictures I noticed one of AR and Ruby Wax attending John Diamond's funeral. Anyway - it involves trying to link yourself with AR in the shortest number of steps (extra points for the lame, obscure, off-beat and just plain sad grasping at straws type reasons!!) If you think this is dumb just ignore it but I'm willing to go first - here goes ..... 1. I once worked for an Advertising Agency which was owned by Saatchi and Saatchi (Big British Ad Agency) 2. Charles Saatchi (co-owner of said Agency) is dating Nigella Lawson (Domestic Goddess & TV Presenter) 3. Nigella Lawson was married to John Diamond before he sadly passed away from cancer 4. Alan Rickman was obviously a friend of John Diamond's as he attended his funeral. Talk to you all in a few days time. Sorry, off topic, but important at the moment. Friedensdemo in München: 08.02.03 12.00 Uhr Marienplatz for more info Sometimes you people are just - - nuts! For some I mean that in a good way for others, glad I have locks on my doors! I am the one who is not the “joiner” but I do look in, get a kick out of the conversation swings, and love the links that the talented people add. Thanks. Just have to say a few things, if that is o.k. First, I respect anyone’s right to voice an opinion, and his or her efforts to persuade others to their point of view. I applaud people who exercise their right and have the conviction to take part in debate, or public demonstrations (as long as they are legal, controlled, and non-violent). I would support a statement, as I am sure most Americans and other world citizens would, that we do not want to see a war with Iraq break out. I am sorry to see people take the view that because our President George W. Bush, along with Prime Minister Tony Blair have shown a commitment to a strong policy that Iraq must comply with U. N. resolutions, and must disarm that it must mean they WANT to go to war. I think you people are naive to think that if either of these two powerful nations WANTED to go war that we would not already be in one. Yes I can hear you now, oh its politics and public opinion. Yes, it is, but when it comes down to it, if we are the “fxxxxxg” “bxxxxxxs” some in the world think we are why would we care? We are not expansionist; I do not believe we are willing to pay the price of war for their oil or just to put some person in there who likes us better. I believe that we have someone with a longer vision; this comes down to the issues of democracy, the right of choice, human rights and dignity for all people, our nations and the world’s security. Bush and Blair are not saying WAR NOW! They are trying to resolve peacefully, but logic 101 tells you when you are trying to get someone to do something you know they do not want to do you not only have to have the authority, but the power to persuade them. This power must include force in necessary. By the way, where is Amnesty International on this? I mean with Saddam’s treatment of his own people and all. Second, the pedophile issue; the man has convictions, which speaks to his character. He could be “burned”. I agree the press can and has ruined many lives, as have police departments, prosecutors … for the sake of ratings, selling papers, politics and personal gain. I hope AR is right on this one. Knowing someone a long time does not necessarily mean you know the intimate details of their sexuality and many, many people have and are unaware of a person’s sexual nature. Third, being sexy is something you are or are not to certain people. If one “exude sexuality” I believe, it is because it is part of that person’s persona, characteristic, or a natural phenomenon of that person, much as a “baby face” or appearance of arrogance on another. I do not believe it has anything to do with him not “getting any” while away from his “life partner”. These are all just my humble opinions and yes, I am LOL at myself. I wrote a book! SORRY! Here's something I thought was funny - I live in a small city, where my son plays in the jazz band at one of the high schools. At a recent concert, the program listed one of the pieces as Snape Eyes (instead of its usual title Snake Eyes). I thought it was an amusing misprint, but the band director called it Snape Eyes when introducing the piece and got a pretty good laugh from the audience. Think we have a few closet Rickmaniacs in this town... Concerned citizen, you certainly have a way with words. I love your analogy of a "slavering rutting moose." I can't imagine Alan ever behaving that way in real life, but I'd pay big money to see him act it out! *wink* Well.... I love Marmite. And what's more, it makes a great party trick. When they pass around the cheese and crackers, just say "I think I'll have some Marmite with that" and whip out your handy little jar. In America nobody knows what it is and you get lots of attention with people wanting to look at it, smell it, taste it (only for the very brave), and make awful faces with comments like, "How can you EAT that stuff?? It looks just like ear wax!!" I think this could be a good ad campaign for the American market... "Impress your friends, eat Marmite." The best part is, you don't have to share because nobody wants it. *LOL* I cannot make a comment on Rickman's sexual prowess, but enforced celibacy on a film shoot, which could last for weeks and months- or a theatre gig away from one's significant other for months at a time can cause one to "exude sexuality" since there is no where else to put it, if you take my meaning....Judging from the intensity of his film and theatre performances, I would say that Ms. Horton anxiously awaits his homecoming and has no cause for complaint. As to not acting like a slavering rutting moose for interviews, personal appearances film premieres, why should he? Most people learn to control themselves in public, for goodness sakes. You Americans can talk about the Brits eating blood and guts - what do you think MacDonald's Meat Patties are made of? It sure ain't the prime cuts of the beast! :) Jeez, you could just take a vitamin. Why spread a vitamin mixed with black goop on bread? Yura hardy bunch, lemmme tell ya, and with all the blood and guts you eat, yuran earthy bunch as well. LOL at Aussieggirl. Liked your last post. Very Cute... Nathalie, i hope this too.I really hope he is not this.But how can we be sure? Now that I know LOL means Laugh out loud I can say I LedOL at Sonoma's comment that she is looking to knit AR's hat. Not because the hat looks funny but because it reminded me of the best piece of graffiti I have ever heard. It was apparently on a wall in a ladies loo in an American College quite a few years ago. It said "My Mother made me a lesbian" to which some wit had written underneath "If I gave her the wool could she make me one too!" Please read the following with a grain of salt. It's always fun to check in here. I like the hat, too, thanks for the link. Inspired by Snape's fingerless gloves in the quidditch stands, I'm almost done knitting my second pair. Think I'll do a hat next...I just hope Rex fixes things so I can get a better look at it! Hi! Great site! I've just seen that wonderful videogram, "Painting With Light". I have a question: Alan Rickman is lefthanded? RHPOT Special Edition...Can not wait for it to go on pre-order! Two disks...Mmmm, wonder what on earth could fill two disks? Surely...some cut Sheriff scenes, wouldn't you think? LOL Sue you just love the region thing don't you? *tee hee* Bob Roberts...Yep...view it when you absolutely have NOTHING else AR to do! He is a cutie in those glasses, that's for sure. Marmite=salt+vitamin+salt+vitamin....! Maggi!!!!??Who is she?? LOL Actually are Maggi stock cube things? Marmite is a yeast extract Nathalie, it is savoury and can be put in soups, stews etc as well as on toast!! Bonjoooour, Aussie Girl! As a french I really don't know niether vegetamite nor marmite. Is it sugared or salt ?? Can you put it in everything just like Maggi? Just woke up and thought I check out what's been going on while I was asleep (OK - so I'm addicted to this site!) Great to see everyone discusssing such diverse topics as World Affairs, head fashions and toast spreads - what an eclectic bunch we Rickmaniacs are! Anyway, just wanted to add further to the Marmite/vegemite debate - yes, we Aussies LOVE Vegemite and are brought up on it from an early age and I do agree with Sue that there's nothing like it spread on toast as a first meal after you have been ill. It does have health benefits as it is bursting with Vitamins - (reading off the jar - 5 grams provides half your daily requirements of Vitamin B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin) and Niacin) - and as EVERYONE knows anything thats good for you tastes nasty! To add further to this debate when I met my husband he preferred Promite which is another brand so I have gradually weaned off Vegemite onto Promite. And to those who's stomaches churn at the thought of it on toast some people actually drink a spoonful of the stuff in boiling water as a substitute for tea and coffee! And Carolyn, dear Carolyn - you could very well already be a crumpet - I think the British refer to women as "crumpet" as in "I wouldn't mind a bit of crumpet" meaning "I wouldn't mind a bit of female company" although I not sure if it automatically applies that sexual activity is involved! Watched "Bob Roberts" video last night as there was absolutely NOTHING on TV (hard to believe when you've got about 40 channels). Love it's biting satire - especially relevant now as it features America's involvement in the Gulf War 11 years ago. But I really do prefer AR with a British accent! err That would be Region!! Don't want to excite anyone unduly!!!But there is a 2 disc Special Edition RHPOT due out in May!!!!!Reion 2 only apparently (oh dear, what a shame, never mind!!;))))See Play.com for details!!! ROTFLMAO Would seem to me that ole Brian Reade has egg (or worse...Marmite) on his face. Maybe that will teach him to get his facts straight before putting a story to rest....NOT! Georgiana, sometimes I think the UK press have nothing else to do... they didn't mention that Martin Sheen also was the keynote speaker at the huge San Francisco march on January 18, about a week later than the Los Angeles anti-war march, attended by about 15,000. Here in San Francisco, over 150,000 people marched. It was a unifying experience. Other protest photos are here. Youu are right Mesmer's patient. However it's all the same, he's right to stand for his conviction! Emily dear, don't be so naive. Not everyone who is accused is guilty. Haven't you ever seen Closet Land??? Ah, to be a celebrity! Mr. Rickman is castigated in a tabloid (see News) for lack of a public anti-war posture at the same time that Rex has photos up of him doing just that. By the way, the Rex people responded to my inquiry with the information that casual guests were overloading their servers and making it difficult for their commercial customers to access the photos. They indicate that they may be providing alternative access for their non-commercial visitors sometime in the next month. (I forget their exact wording--that email is on another machine...) *tee hee* Now how did I know you would say that, Sue? If I were going to raise off my sickbed to spread something...it would be something more tasty...like strawberry jam! LOL Elysia--I'm not sure about the Aussies but my London Bud says that British babies are fed Marmite from very early on so by the time they are old enough to say "Hey Mum, that stuff sucks--would you cease in feeding it to me?" its to late...they have already acquired the taste! LOL And it is full of vitamins...hence the vitamin after taste! All this is in good kidding...guys and gals. To each their own taste, I am sure! Eleanor, as expressed below [see reference to "crumpet tossing"] and several other instances, I would be happy to do the research to find out if your theory holds true. All in the name of Science, for the good of man--oops, womankind. I'm thinking of writing a grant proposal. There are simply too many questions left unanswered to, ummm, satisfy inquiring minds...like mine. Anybody willing to take up a collection to get me to England if the grant falls through? We could make it a group effort like the birthday cards. It would be a bonding experience. It's for the good of the nation. plaintively----> please? I had a friend from Australia, who of course loved Vegemite. She would give it to her child in little bits on bread. She knew he probably wouldn't like it, so she was introducing it slowly. My question to you Aussies and UKers is, why? If it tastes so bad that you have to acquire a taste for it, what's the point? Is it incredibly healthy for you? I've never read anything about its health benefits. You'd think the health nut world would have picked up on it if it was, but I don't see it in health food stores or read about it in health-related magazines. I'd just like to say that butter and honey taste really good on toast. Claudia, Claudia!!!! Marmite is nectar of the Gods!!When you are ill and can manage a little Marmite on toast you know you are on the mend!!! It's a travesty that you can't make the Rex pictures larger. What are they thinking?? There's not much point in visiting their site now. Re-think this Rex! I think in the face-front view of Alan in his hat it looks like the receptacle end of a condom. In the interview recently posted Alan says that a recipe for sex includes guilt and repression. That's my theory,(dinosaurs are thick in the middle and thin at the ends, that's my theory), no, my theory is, and I read it somewhere actually, but it makes sense to me, that celebrities, and muggles too, who exude sexuality, like Alan, are often sexually repressed in their private life. It's all pent up and is released on screen or stage. I read this theory in relation to Marilyn Monroe. She had been abused as a child, was a terribly troubled person and could not have a healthy love relationship with a man, but put her in front of a camera or a screen and she shot off rockets of sexuality. I think the same theory could be applied to Alan. I don't know his history, but he is very reserved. In interviews I can't sense his sexuality at all. When acting though, he's incredibly sexy. Even in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when Harry and Snape first see each other at Hogwarts,why would that scene call for sexiness? He's looking at a little boy. Yet he exudes this intense sexuality. I think Alan in real life is probably sexually very staid, as he says, guilt and repression. On stage and screen he gets to release feelings he doesn't in real life. It's a guess here, ladies, and one you probably won't like, but I bet Alan ain't that hot in the sack. Carolyn, dear Carolyn--Marmite is an awful lot like Vegamite. Sorry. Although, I have buds that swear by Marmite, I can't stomach it! It has to much of a vitamin after taste for my liking! YUK I'd rather bite down on a multivitamin than to spread that stuff on my toast! LOL From the post with the interview connected with the spitball and ruler photo [got that?]: Q. What do you always buy that's British? A. Marmite. Since I didn't have a clue as to what he was talking about, I did a little research and found the following enlightening site: http://www.gty.org/~phil/marmite.htm Bleccch! I'd rather put the sludge from my beermaking on the flowerbeds instead of spreading it on toast, but now that I know, I'm going to have to taste it. Oh please, God, don't let it taste like Vegamite! Sorry Aussies, but are you sure it's safe to eat that stuff? Also from the same interview: Q. A favourite British pastime? A. Crumpet tossing. Okay, where do I sign up to be a crumpet? thank you ali-pat. i simply can't have loose ends. now i can lay my omni-present curiosity to rest. for now:-) now that claudia got hold of THAT - hat again, i venture to say: he looks like someone you could meet in the tube with that hat. thought that before when i saw the pics of the last day of pl in london, with him carrying all that stuff. i find that quite encouraging, i must say. brings one to believe there are more men like him. *oh, the possibilities of living in london:-)* claudia - does the string help? then give me one, too, please. Oh and a HUGE thank you to Annette for posting the link. For some odd reason, I tend to forget to check the Rex site. I like his hat. The head is the first place a person loses body heat so I am glad he is taking care of himself! He suffers awful colds sometimes! The puzzle for me is why he doesn't have it pulled down over those sexy ears! *tee hee* Sorry to cause confusion, Mortianna! I guess you couldn't see me shaking my head and rolling my eyes when I typed the line about the hat. What I meant to imply was that I never dreamed I would ever see anything like that on his precious head! (Sorry, but I really did not like the hat.) Anybody remember the exchange from Go Dog Go? Dog 1: Hello! Dog 2: Hello! Dog 1: Do you like my hat? Dog 2: No, I do not like your hat. Dog 1: Goodbye! Dog 2: Goodbye! uhmmmm......Nathalie: It wasn't Peter Townsend (guitarist of the legendary rock group "The Who")for whom Alan Rickman was reported to have signed a declaration of support. It was Matthew Kelly, host of a televison programme in the UK. (See New and Info. page of this website for more on this story.) I believe AR was right to help his friend by signing. The guitarist has been arrested only because he's a celebrity, so that makes an example. But he has declared to the police that the only thing he has done is to give his credit card to a peadophile site on the web in oder to know what it's all about. I could understand it quite well that we have to make some research on the web to know better what we want to talk about. And apparently that was what Pete Thonwsend wanted to do. Therefore I understand why AR has stand by his side. It could have happended to him after all and I sure he's not a peadophile!! Thank you, Mr. Rickman, for taking a stand about Iraq. I pray, from the bottom of my heart, that the rest of the world understands that not everybody in the US agrees with what George Duh is trying to promote. And no, I don't want to apologize for ANYTHING in this post. I THINK THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE TO STOP AND THINK ABOUT WHAT ALAN DID.I DON’T WANT TO HURT HIM OR ANYTHING,I DO LIKE ALAN RICKMAN!BUT HE SIGNED A LETTER DECLARING SUPPORT FOR A MEN WHO HAVE BEEN QUESTIONED ABOUT CHILD SEX ABUSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THIS IS REALLY SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!I KNOW THAT I AM LATE, I SHOULD HAVE WROTE THIS BEFORE.BUT I JUST COULD DO THAT NOW.BECAUSE I READ ABOUT THIS HERE,JUST YESTERDAY. ali-pat - i'm waiting with bated breath, if that is right. what about that - hat? Thank you, Annette, for those Rex photos! I do not wish to spark a political debate either, but I must say that he continues to engage in activities that make me proud to be a fan. ....now, about that hat. Enjoyed the link to the Rex pictures - thank you for that. Loved the fact that AR is prepared to stand by his convictions about matters he feels strongly about ie Britain's involvement in a War with Iraq and his friend's child pornography charges (what I think about these matters isn't relevant). He really is a "Man of Substance". By the way, in Australia we'd probably call that thing on his head a "beanie". Looks damn cold over there so extra points to him for braving the elements - I suppose "fashion" comes a poor second when staving off hypothermia! At the moment I can't really imagine it though - its about 30 degrees (Celsius!) here every day! annette - thanks for the link or the reminder of rex features. OT - I'm proud of him, seeing Tony Blair on TV, one could think other things. I was very eager to get to know his opinion on this. I'm happy now. slightly more on topic - girls - he's human after all. He's wearing a wotyoucallit on his head against the cold (pity you can't make the photo bigger:-) i had heard - and got the impression myself when in London - that the sturdy brits, especially fashionable Londoners, don't do something like that, women even go without stockings in the freezing cold - must be having kidney problems a lot, but I digress again:-) thing on his head looks like something Dumbledore would wear. heard "I am a rock" in the bath this morning which brought me to think of Alexander Dane in his big speech scene. Brought a smile to my face. Ist ganz gut geworden, die Seite.. Oh I see what you mean now, JC. Yeah it wasn't easy deciding what to write. Mine was probably really corny! LOL I appreciate his dissent. My thanks to AR for having taken part in the event. Elinor, yeah, I know how/where to send it. I just don't know what to write on the inside. I don't want to just sign my name, I just can't do that. I've got to do the "best wishes on this special day" thing. There are a couple of new, recent (1/21/03) pics of Alan on the Rex Features site. Rex Features has changed their site so that one can't enlarge the pics beyond how they appear; i.e., you can't click on them to get a larger viewing size, so, we're stuck with the small 1" x 2" size. If you place your cursor over the pic, the caption reads "Anti War With Iraq Lobby Outside Parliament London, Britain - 21 Jan 03". Not trying to start a debate here on this issue, just pointing out the event he was attending. Here's the link: Latest Rexfeatures Pics JC, you MAIL your card to Suzanne who will forward it to Mr. Rickman. It's all explained on the birthday page linked above. Mine's already in the mail! :) So, how's one supposed to sign this birthday card...thing? I'm having a hard time. I don't want to sound "stoopid". Anyone else having that problem? May I go a little more O/T once again? Has anyone noticed the Texas song "Summer Son" (I think) in the movie Notting Hill? Guess that's my say for tonight. I'm home now (in one piece from skiing) and haven't posted in a while. I've missed yall! Nathalie - dickens(1598) Used in oaths, especially what (who,why etc) the (formerly also a) dickens, usually expressing astonishment, impatience, or irritation; probably from the surname Dickens, used as a euphemistic substitute for devil. Double deleted. Sorry about the double-post, I've been having trouble with my pc!!! Hey there all, how's everyone doing? Thanks, Aussiegirl, and once again, welcome to the club. Even though I haven't been visiting this GB for very long, I know that almost everyone here wants everyone else to feel welcome. By the way, about the Christian Coulson Request, I found his biography at www.christiancoulson.com . It went as follows: Television Appearances: On-Screen Appearances: Theatrical Appearances: Hello! can someone explain me what's the meaning of the expression " How the Dickens are you? " in the interview. Is there any link with Charles Dickens ? I must apologize that I rarely have anything to contribute except photos of AR as Snape, but here's one I just found on a page linked from a Dan Radcliffe fan site. It's from the quidditch scene in COS: Snape hiya im ur biggest fan. ive fancied u eva since i saw u in help im a little fish. do u swim? if u like u can borrow my armbands and rubber ring" seeya love me xxxxxxxxxx Hello, i am an obsessed fan and i am nearly as old as you, Alan, my love. i love your magic wand (In Harry Potter)and i have your autobiography. my Grandaughter reckons you go to raves but i don't believe her. i know the truth. love Carolxxxxx i ardently love your bob hairdo in harry potter and your nose is so concorde like let me fly away with you. the way u talk sounds lke u have swallowed a brick but it turns me on! love your fanatical fan natzx How about another diversion? Has anybody noticed a new emerging very handsome actor in Chamber of Secrets - Tom Riddle - actor: Christian Coulson? He just replaced A.R. for me; however, there is no info. about him, since this is the only film he acted in. No worries K. After all, I lifted it from somewhere too, then found it on my hard drive months later. If I could remember where it came from, I would thank the original poster most humbly. Hi Vanessa: I hope you don't mind that I lifted your post so everyone could enjoy it on the GB. Thanks again! Actually I think it should say "crumpet toasting". Tossing was my typo but we decided on the forum that it sounded much more fun and left it. I'm going to link the photo again from another site, as the previous site I used appears to be down: AlanRuler "The Photo" from Arena Magazine: July,2001: The "Interview" that was with the photo: "Alan Rickman photographed back in his old school, Derwentwater Primary in Acton, West London." And the interview:- (Thank you to Vanessa and the fine people at the ezboard.com site "The Alan Rickman Forum." Oh, and Aussiegirl, LOL=Laughing Out Loud. Wow! What an active Guestbook! Just popped out to do some shopping and thought I'd check some more of your site out and I noticed someone has already acknowledged my earlier entry (thanks Katie C!). As I am new to this could someone tell me what LOL means - I notice it in some other entries. Also I forgot to mention I've also seen AR in An Awfully Big Adventure. Am trying to get hold of Quigley Down Under as I note its set in Australia but hope AR is not playing an Aussie in it as most "foreigners" do an appalling Australian accent no matter how talented they are (think Meryl Streep's "A Dingo's got my baby!") Am also wondering what others think - I can't decide if AR is "Gothically Gorgeous" or "Gergeously Gothic" in Harry Potter!?!? Also, (I'll go away soon!) in the video version of HP1 my son bought(and watched 20 times!) there is an additional scene added at the end (after the credits) which is a longer version of the "Snapes Potions Class" scene. Why was this scene cut short in the movie - it was the best part of the whole movie!! ..or have been friends with...it should have said. 5 years is too short for child abuse. What makes me uncomfortable with Alan or anybody signing a letter attesting to someone's stellar character who is arrested for child abuse is that neither Alan nor anyone can know if a friend, colleague, or whatever is a pedophile. They simply cannot know. I'm sure many of us has worked with or befriends with someone who's a pedophile without knowing it. How sad for the children abused that adults who have no way of knowing try to sway courts with letters of support. If the crime is possessing pictures, the children in those photos were abused in the making of them. There's a nice pics of Alan in his elementary school on the Arena magazine. I've seen it on the alan rickman forum (remember? The coffee shop story in NY). A girl call Vanessa has put it with the interview. I'd like to give you the link but I should first learn to use HTML...So if someone else can do it it would be nice for the rest of us ! Megan, dear, hate to burst your bubble, but we don't think Alan actually reads the guestbook. Not that he doesn't. We just don't know for sure. Sorry. Tee hee hee... Alan, I really think you are a cool actor!!!! I like your Charactor a lot!!! How are you and Snape alike and different? E-mail me back ok? To add to Troy08's news, here's this from the Leaky Cauldron; "WB confirms Chamber of Secrets DVD release date WB's press release confirms the April 11, 2003 release date for the US, UK, Germany and Australia, among other countries. Among the additional scenes are "more Dobby mischief, more flying car adventure and a frightening encounter with the Malfoys in Borgin and Burkes." There will also be interviews with Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron), Emma Watson (Hermione) and other cast members who talk about making the film, favorite scenes, and more, and on the DVD-ROM, you'll be able to access a history of Hogwarts (will this be an eText of Hogwarts - A History, we wonder?). " I hope Alan is one of those cast members interviewed. I have a burning desire to see Snape smile again! Joe D. GML and Sue While I agree that trial by media is wrong I must add many court cases involving the sexual abuse of children are tried in a closed court situation. Where justice is weighed, and the accused are "innocent until proven guilty" I agree the media's handling of both Kelly and Pete Townsend's "alleged child abuse" has been appalling. As to you are correct in your statement that Child abuse is an appalling crime BUT with all the publicity before conviction, genuinely innocent people are tarred forever. Yet it is also the victim or child that is not best served by the publicity as it colours the facts and makes a clear trial hard to be held. I need not cast stones yet I am sad for all those that must go through a trial like this especially as myself who as an adult had to live through the retelling crimes committed to me as a child in order for justice to be served. I never criticise those who in there naivety supported my relative and did not believe me. Yet I am glad that justice was served. (5yrs for the relative). While this is OT I do not like nice poeple nievity to be taken advantage of and do speak up in order to remind people that while the media are wrong to hound people please do not forget that these things are real, in order to protect you and yours. Thank you, as I get down from the soap box and think a good dose of S&S of Gewenns hot Snape stuff should cheer me up. I was looking through Yankee magazine (about New England, not the baseball team) and saw a familiar photo. An article and photo spread about interior designer/stylist Astrid Vigeland had a photo of her kitchen, showing off her collection of dishes on a rack. On the refrigerator door there were several black and white photos, one of which was the photo of Alan in profile with sideburns. Heh - it made me smile. Wonder if she knows him, just liked the photo or is a fan. (Hey Astrid, you lurking out there?) as a 30 something....alan rickam IS one of the most sexiest, amazingly talented actors in the UK...and thank god for that!! Welcome to the club, Aussie girl! I too must thank my son for dragging me along to see "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" for my new-found addiction to the delicious Mr Rickman! When he first appeared on screen I was stunned - "This is not how I pictured Prof. Snape when reading the books - THIS MAN IS GORGEOUS AND HIS VOICE IS MAGNIFICENT!" I had no idea who he was but soon got hold of a list of his previous movies and have been steadily working my way through them. I realised I had seen him in Sense and Sensibility and liked him in that but because he looks so different to Snape I didn't recognise him. Anyway, now I've seen Truly, Madly, Deeply (my favourite), the second Harry Potter, Dogma, Michael Collins, Bob Roberts, Judas Kiss, Rasputin, Robin Hood, Diehard, Galaxy Quest and The Winter Guest(directed). I would love to see him live in a play. I am looking forward to seeing "Love Actually" when it is released - with the "trifecta" of British Actors (Alan Rickman (gorgeous), Colin Firth (sexy) and Hugh Grant (cute)) it should be a blast! Anyway, thanks for the great site and its fun to share my secret obsession with other RICKMANIACS! 151 days until Order of the Phoenix is released! (Did you miss the big news? Click here!) Click here for pre-order information. CoS DVD Release Date! Newsround reports: The second Harry Potter film should be coming out on DVD and VHS on April 11th. As with the last DVD, we will get a selection of extras, including interviews with Dan, Emma and Rupert, magical games that let us into Lockhart's classroom and 19 new and extended scenes featuring the flying car, Dobby and an apparently scary encounter with the Malfoys! I copied this from mugglenet.com but also read it in todays copy of USA Today. Hopefully, they will NOT make us jump through hoops to view these 19 scenes like thy did for Sorcerers Stone. Thank Goodness someone here gave directions which I printed out or I would still be trying to see the extended Snape scene. I should also point out that SS was voted one of the worst DVD's of 2002 for being non-user friendly. Bit OFT: Anthony Minghella: "I also have a horribly evangelistic streak - I get Bach into all my movies somewhere." Has it been posted here already that Minghella is the new head of the British Film Institute (BFI)? A Guardian interview is here. Seems directing "Cold Mountain" was a challenge for him--I'm looking forward to it, though. Yes, GML I don't know what has become of "innocent until proven guilty" in this country. The media's handling of both Kelly's and Pete Townsend's "alleged child abuse" has been appalling. It apparently took 8 policemen to *raid* Pete Townsend's house and remove a pc, all within full glare of the media who appeared to have been tipped off by police. Child abuse is an appalling crime BUT with all the publicity before conviction, genuinely innocent people are tarred forever. I shall wait until convictions to cast any stones. Well, I haven't read the Daily Mail today (mmmh, I never read the Daily Mail) but if that letter does exist (what d'ya mean I don't trust the tabloids? ;) I must say it is courageous of anybody to put their name down in support of anybody accused of child abuse, THE big taboo. (well, that is true whether the letter exists or not btw;) - I seem to remember the guy (Kelly) was cheered by the audience in the theatre where he resumed his part in Peter Pan (?) after he was freed from the police station, so it seems his fans trust him too. I can't have an opinion on the subject one way or another as I don't know the man at all but hey, I'm always delighted to hear that somebody *I* admire and is better informed than I am has taken a stand. And to anybody wondering what this is all about, the UK (and gradually the rest of Europe) is becoming a place where if any kid or adult who once was a kid accuses you of abuse, you are presumed guilty, full stop. You might or you might not be - but the RRRighteous will throw stones at you before any kind of proper investigation is carried out. And boy, kids know that well, and don't some of them make the most of it... I blame the government... uh, I mean I blame the adults. Ananova Report - I don't have a DVD. How much do they cost? You're all making me wish I had one. I was trying to think of appetite-killing American names for food, but I couldn't think of any. There are whimisical names, like pigs-in-a-blanket. That's just sausages wrapped in pancakes. I can't think of any commom dishes made with appalling ingredients either. No lamb's larynx floating in jellied sheep's blood, or whatever. Well, bon appetit UKers. I do feel your pain, Sue. This topic is SUCH a thorn in my side! YET AGAIN the difference between US and UK dvds-Just checked out my GQ dvd and there ARE no Cast and Crew biogs!!!AND UK TMD has NO commentary, just a stingy trailer (AND it's British !!Dammit!!!) Kimberly....check this out. You may have to join this site to view but its a good site to bookmark. Hey, Ali-Pat, please share the "Easter Egg" on the GQ dvd. I have the dvd but haven't watched it yet. Might save some time if I knew where the Easter Egg was located. LOL Thank you, ma'am. Anne/OR--the DVD of TMD is definitely worth having. Same goes for the DVD of S&S, and for the same reason. In fact, S&S has two separate commentary tracks--one with Ang Lee and one with Emma Thompson. Most DVDs have goodies which make them worth the extra money, not to mention the clearer picture and better sound! My favorite AR film for extra goodies is GQ--he shows up in practically every outtake, and there is a short interview with him hidden in an "Easter egg". The interview is hidden, I mean, not AR. (Ha--an interesting variation on the "Alan Rickman in a box" theme!) Here! Here! Kimberly. Minghella's commentary on the TMD DVD is one of the best I have ever heard. Not a whole lot about The Man on it but it is fascinating to listen to AM talk about the hows and whys of the film. Oh, Anne, I would highly recommend the "Truly, Madly, Deeply" dvd! The director's commentary by Anthony Minghella is worth the price alone. I have the TMD VHS and am wondering if I should get the DVD. Can anyone advise me on this? Thanks! Anne Dear Nathalie. I am sure that if you found a man adored him and treated him with as much love that you have for AR you would have a magic time. But stick to the TMD or S&S images OK. LOL Annie_Cruickshank funny I refer to myself as an "artist sometimes" (drawing) . Maybe it is art school humility (or self humiliation when the work is not up to your own high aims) I speak of my own work as I always love AR's work even in the cringing QDU. Suzanne the card is in the Mail, thank you for your work Whatever happened to Colonel Gruber and the Black Sheriff? Did I miss something? They were burning up the wires a while ago and now they're gone. Can anybody fill me in? Cindie- I see what you're saying, but it's not the same thing. The way the plot was explained, the girl's mom dies and she's sent to live with him. Only he didn't know he had a kid. There's some other stuff that goes on between her and his best friend. I don't know if he's really doing it, it's just rumor. Don't take it seriously. I would like to deeply apologize for whoever emailed me that goes by the name of sassygirl4568.I'm very very sorry but my 15 year old silly cousin was on my computer pretending to be me again. I'm normally not on the computer I work and study all day and take care of my child.I do hope to chat with you later whoever you are. I only wish it was Mr.Alan himself no offense right. Right now I am very concern of what might be cancer in my stomach so if anyone wishes to pray for me I would deeply appreciate it there is no need to email me THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS! "haackkup" Oh, you made my day! I have tears running down my cheeks! Along the same lines, you should've seen my son's face the first morning he faced a full Irish breakfast with blood sausage; I'd never actually seen anyone turn green before. The poor little darling had cornflakes the whole time we were there. To Fausta: Happy Anniversary Thank you for each and every one of your Rickmanasta Reviews. That sounds like *What Every Girl Wants* due out soon with Colin Firth. I'm not even going to ask about Toad in a Hole. I'm not sure I'd like the answer, LOL. Checked out J.Sheekey's, reviews say it's marvelous. Next time I'm in London, I'll swing by... Heard tell today that Alan's working on another new movie (not Love, Actually or HP), but it's a story about an actor trying to cope after finding out he's got a teenage daughter... don't know if it's true, but it sounded good. O/T - and we wont even mention Toad in a Hole will we Sue, or Elenor will never eat this side of the Atlantic! O/T - If you can't face "Spotted dick"!! How about "Deadman's Leg"!!?? Similar steamed pudding but with jam rolled in instead of Currants! Known as "Jam Roly-Poly" in more polite circles! After checking many times for two days for a sighting of the Light drawing video, I realized I was watching AMC instead of TCM! What a dummy! Then, I finally saw it come on when the phone rang. It was not a person I could say "wait, Alan Rickman is on" to, so I missed it. (family and other friends would sigh and understand!) It was on again this moring following Lilies of the Field and I was able to tape it, so I have the great videogram on my computer and a VHS of it. Most movies do not run as long as the schdeule says and these spots are between the movies in the odd times. It seemed to be alternating segments between AR and Vin Rimes (don't know him at all. I think he is facing a mirror and it is the mirror image that has been taped, which is why he appears to be left handed, but he is not. Nice spot. Thanks for the heads up whoever first mentioned it. Elenor, that's haggis you great pillock. Lol Ha! "Sometimes"???? That is just to funny. Thanks for sharing, Annie. Thought I would share a moment with everyone. I just returned from a trip to London to see theater. On Saturday, January 11, we were scheduled to see "She Stoops to Conquer" at the National Theatre. My daughter and I got there early to eat dinner and browse the wonderful bookstore. I was busily studying a volume when my daughter grabbed my arm and said, "Who IS that?" The bookstore was very crowded but I knew who she meant immediately. And I didn't know who it was so I approached the gentleman apologized for being rude and asked if he wasn't an actor. He replied, "Sometimes". I could tell he was anxious not to be spotted by others so I withdrew. I don't need to tell you who it was and I am mortified that I didn't make the connection immediately. He is so unique. Well, that's all there is to the story. We tried to avoid watching what he was doing to preserve his privacy and then he was gone. Thank you Concerned Citizen on the clarification re "The Pudding." LOL I think we Americans are in need of a short lesson from our British GBer's on British foods...... Thelma Holt's comments on AR from What's On Stage Online: Favourite actors I'm a bit of a tart in that it's always the ones I'm working with currently. Nigel Hawthorne was a very dear friend for 40 years; we were having our anniversary when he died. Ours was a very special and important relationship because we lived through so much together. His partner Trevor is still there for me. I've had wonderful experiences with Vanessa Redgrave, and I love Alan Rickman. He's a fine actor and, though he'd hate me for saying it, he's a very soft touch, particularly in terms of supporting the profession. We're on the Council at RADA together. The entire interview with Thelma Holt can be accessed here ThelmaHolt Hi everybody, long time no read - No time to catch up with everything again but I can't help jumping in: I once stupidly asked an American friend if they had 'spotted dicks' in the US and she answered something along the lines of 'yes but we avoid them' ;)) - and my workplace cafeteria regularly serves it but now modestly call it 'Spotted Richard' on the menu. Ah, ah. These Brits. Oh, and totally unrelated of course, thanks for the videogram, Suz. The only sort of clip my old and ailing PC can cope with :) "Spotted Dick" is not a disease, it is a steamed pudding=-it translates into "spotted dog"- farm dogs were traditionally named Dick in the region where it came from. The spotted bit is probably because of the currants and raisons. I think that it is tasty, and you can get a recipe off the net. My husband recoiled at the name and refused to let me make it again, as I did tease him a bit. My family prefers my cranberry steamed Christmas pudding, so no more spotted dogs for us... Kimberly, I saw that, but then immediately blocked it from consciousness. Now that you brought it up again, I have to ask the UKers out there; what the heck is spotted dick? Your food is frightening me. Do British people come to the U.S. and find food that sounds frightening or disgusting on American menus? If so, please give examples. Doesn't England have a dish call haackkup, some kind of sheep intestine meal? I used to think there was something wrong with me for finding Alan Rickman incredibly sexy and, to put it simply, amazing! It's refreshing to know others can see "it", too. Keep up the good work, and enjoy your mushy peas!! Re J. Sheekey's - I just had a lovely dinner there with several friends this past December. It is indeed on the pricey side, but it was for a special celebration. The food is mostly seafood (but the game was fabulous), and classically English -- but in the best culinary sense!. Service and reception are very warm. There are various rooms so the feeling is rather intimate, rather than barn-like. The restaurant is owned by the same folks who own the Ivy. (And yes, you can get an order of mushy peas - it's a common side dish to fish and chips...and they are exactly as they are named.) The restaurant is upscale without being snooty or overly formal. Yes, I'd go again... Oh, and fyi, at www.whatsonstage.com, in the '20 Questions with...' segment, Thelma Holt, the producer, when asked about 'favourite actors' has some nice words for Alan Rickman. Just a quick note to say, this site is wonderful, and also that its very refreshing to see so many people get along because of such a great actor..kinda makes you want everyone to see him in such light, im sure the world would be much better off! Also, thank you for organizing the birthday card collection, mine's on its way! Have a great day too all, and keep up the great work :) Too excessive bandwidth consumption on your site(the man and the light), Claudia! I wonder why... :) Eleanor, add "Spotted Dick" to your list. To my American ears, that sounds like a disease and not a scrumptious dish. UK INSOMNIACS TV INFO Where exactly is Sheekey's? I see mushy peas on the menu. That's a new one for me. Is this a British thing? Along with your mushy peas may I recommend over-cooked linguine and soft broccoli? A side of canned corn in it's original liquid rounds out the meal. I used Angelfire to post the pics and sound from TCM so you may have to wait to see it due to bandwidth. Sorry. Hi all! There are now two production stills from Love Actually on the net. Don't get too excited - no AR. But you can check them out here. With any luck there will be more soon. Claudia - thanks for the pics and the sound link great stills. Kim Oh and btw, AR isn't the only one doing the "Painting With Light" thing. While fighting off the Sandman the other night, I saw another actor doing the same thing (although not quite as good as The Man) for Humphrey Bogart. It would seem TCM did a whole series of these. Will be interesting to see whom else has attempted this. Ali-Pat...LOL...the horns disappeared by the finished product. I have watched this piece several times this morning while capturing images and sound and I am truly in awe of what he did with that light pen. I keep imagining the mess I would have made had I been at the stern! LOL Meanwhile, I have posted some stills and a sound clip from "Alan Rickman: Painting With Light" The Man and The Light Yes, Eleanor--I believe AR is using "painting with light" as a metaphor for Stewart's acting style. My goodness what a hurricane of response the clip has produced--like seagulls on a bread crust! Just shows how starved we all are for new material from The Man. Don't know about the rest of you, but last year's daily reports from the stage door spoiled me for all time. Now, can anybody tell me why AR draws horns on Jimmy Stewart? (giggles) Many thanks Suzanne for giving us the opportunity to share with you this wonderful videogram of Alan. This man has a magical presence. I understand now why I adore him so much. He just got to be there and I feel right. That is magical! If only I could have a man like him with me, it would make my day ... Suzanne, thank you for the Heavenly AR work of art. He looks ravishing. His hair is particularly wonderful. Your hard work is very much appreciated. Thank you so much. Link fixed. Okay, that's what I get for trying to use html before my morning coffee! Sorry to wake you so early on a Sunday DoC, but I think I need some clean-up assistance here. Well, Troy08, you can click on just about anything on the GB this morning and find info about JSheeky. :/ Troy08: Here are some links that will provide you with information about the restaurant AR was seen eating at-JSheeky. It's know as specializing in fish dishes and definitely would fall under the description of "fancy chi chi." LOL Perhaps one of the GBer's has been lucky enough to have taken a meal there and can describe the restaurant more fully from personal experience. WoW!!! What a great site a lot of hard work & much appreciated. Alan Rickman a fantastic Actor and I may add very easy on the eyes I don't know about anyone else but those eye's and that voice it certainly puts shiver down my spine nice ones I might add.I only wonder why he never married and has no children? I could'nt find the answer, anyway congrats on the site keep it up! Nikki Suzanne and Claudia, you two have outdone yourselves again. The clip was great!!! So...did/does that actually come on TCM?! If so, I have a renewed my reasons for watching that channel. Can I getta Amen? Thanks again gals! Yall're wonderful in what you do! Like everyone else, I have to thank Claudia and Suzanne for giving us that wonderful clip. It is fantastic. I love the was he says "True". And the laugh, OMG. A million THANKS! :O) Hey Sonoma, you're not insane at all. My mom thinks I'm nuts because whenever anything related to Alan comes up, I go on and on... she thinks it's sad, but I'm happy! :o) Let's see, I've taped the TCM promo twice from the tv and have both Suzanne's and Claudia's versions saved several times over...if I'm insane, please don't tell me because I'm really enjoying myself. Suzanne and Claudia, I am so glad you're both fans of Alan Rickman! A million thanks! Thank you to Suzanne for that wonderful clip. One thing I noticed, he said his name very quickly, like it was one long word-Alanrickman. It was wonderful to hear the laugh at the end. And I do agree with another poster, he does seem to be much more vivible since Harry Potter. By the way, does anyone know what kind of restaurant that was where he was seen eating alone? Diner, honky tonk, fast food, or fancy chi chi? Suzanne: Thanks for the TCM video capture. It is absolutely wonderful! SUZE, I COULD KISS YOU!!! Thank you so much for the AR clip. I watched it with my mom. It was awesome, and I think he (Alan) enjoyed it as much as we did, lol. I think he's a truly great purson, and so are you. All my love, Katie Thanks for working so diligently, Suzanne! We really appreciate it. Per yours and Kimberly's instructions (tee hee)...the .wmv file is FINALLY on the video site. I say finally...cause the day has been "one of those days"! Suzanne, thankyou so much for that videoclip, that was so wonderful, and that laugh , oh what a laugh. Mr Rickman seem to really enjoy himself there. WOW.... All right, I captured it again (at 12:50 p.m., for those wondering) on a better videotape! So if you'd like the non-jumpy version, you can download it here: Actually, the first link (in my original post) will now also lead to this fixed Videogram, since I merely replaced it. A thousand thankyous for the TCM clip, (a giraffe...hee hee hee. Who would have guessed??) but we don't have TCM where I live, so I didn't exactly understand what the point was. But who cares? It's Alan for gosh sakes. That quote from the Die Hard review was funny....the whole universe blows up and the bad guy still isn't dead yet....hee hee. You ladies make me laugh. ;) Alan is a lucky man to have so many wonderful people as his fans if you ask me! :) Thanks Ali-Pat, do you know what he is referring to? Jimmy Stewart's acting? (When he says "every single frame is painting with light.") I've been working hard promoting my site lately and checking out what others have done. It's great to see others as passionate about their site as I am about mine. My site is about jokes and humor. If you visit it, I hope you enjoy it. ...And if you can't find your local library... Dozens of movies are reduced to quick reads at the Movie-a-Minute Web site. Here's a recap of ... Die Hard (1988) Alan Rickman: "Har har har." Bruce Willis: "Grunt sigh moan grunt holler yell sigh wince groan cringe grunt." (A chair BLOWS UP. Then the elevator BLOWS UP. Then a room BLOWS UP. Then the building BLOWS UP. Then the entire universe BLOWS UP. But the badguy STILL ISN'T DEAD YET. Then the badguy dies.) THE END Anybody spot the misquote? Okay, quit throwing things. I'll go take my nap now. Thanks Lyn, for pointing that out. I know AR wears his watch on left wrist as I do. I kept looking over and over again at the clip. It does seem to be a mirror image. Isn't amazing how we seem to notice things like that? Moriarty: NO! And quit hounding me! Enedra: No! And you are not god with English Everybody: I count exactly 3 more pores on the hand with the watch and usually there are 3 more on his left hand except in RPoT, so they were probably taping the TCM thing for people in that other hemisphere. You know--the one where the water goes down the drain backwards. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must get back to counting how many times I can hear THE MAN inhaling on the 12 tapes comprising ROTN. Oh, for heaven's sake lighten up, people; we're getting way to serious. The best song in the world!!! The sun ain't gonna shine anymore. Bluening gonna rase in the skys. I'm not god on English. I'm not sure what the process is for drawing on light, but I was thinking that they were drawing on the other side of a glass, so what they drew had to be backwards to appear forwards to people on the other side of the glass. There must have been something difficult about it because both AR's and Ving Rhames' autographs were pretty wild looking, and at the very end, AR says "God knows what that looked like!"...and then he laughs. Great! Never mind, I've answered my own question. When I downloaded it to my hard drive, the clip is missing the very end where he laughs. When I played it directly from Suzanne's link, I saw all of it. Okey dokey. Suzanne, you are truly the Queen of Rickmanland. Loved the light-drawing clip, but one question... two people mentioned his laugh, and I think I missed it. At what point does he laugh? At the end he says, "My name is Alan Rickman. I drew Jimmy Stewart. I drew a giraffe." And that's where it stops... is there more at the end that I'm missing? Suzanne, I forgot to say thank you especially today for the TCM clip, it's a lovely birthday present for me! Thank you Suzanne for the video clip. It's amazing, and my computer actually was able to download in under 8 minutes! He looks so yummy. Is it my imagination or does he seem to be more visible since Private Lives and Harry Potter? Before those two I never saw him even mentioned in entertainment stuff. When Private Lives was in New York, it seemed like Die Hard and Quiggley were on twice a week. I tried not to watch them each time, but I'd sneak a little in when my family wasn't around (MOM! You're watching Die Hard AGAIN????) Most of the time I'd tune in just in time to see him die, not my favorite parts! The TCM thing is lovely. Thanks so much Suzanne! We get TCM over here (The kids refer to it as The Crappy Movie channel, they have no soul!!!LOL)Just hope he might pop up unannounced on here too!! Cathy and Sonoma, he might be ambidextrous but he didn't do the light drawing with his left hand. We're seeing a flip-flopped image of him working with his right hand. More magic. And that delightful laugh (sigh). Thanks again, Suzanne! :D RE the TCM Videogram: Someone mentioned that Alan is drawing with his left hand. On further review of the video, I think we are seeing a mirror image of AR. His watch appears to be on his right wrist, and I've only seen photos of him with his watch on his left wrist. I think he really was drawing with his right hand, but the mirror image we see makes it appear he's using his left. Suzanne, Suzanne, Suzanne--Thank You! You sure know how to make a girl feel better (I'm home sick with some strange virus at present). This is one of the few videograms that does not suffer when enlarged to full screen size. Again, copious thanks! Eleanor--he is saying something like, "every single frame is painting with light." Annie--I have seen that bumpersticker off and on on eBay. It is made by the people who are selling it, I think, and they produce a whole line of AR bumperstickers. Does anyone remember anything about a bumper sticker saying And On The Eigtht Day God Made Alan Rickman seen possibly in the USA and where it can be obtained from. Thanks Annie OH......MY.....GAWD!!!!! Thank you Suzanne! You are fantastic! Isn't he just soooo splendid? I absolutely love that piece. As soon as I can catch it, I'll put it up in .wmv format. Thanks again Suzanne for your diligence--I knew I shouldn't have went to sleep when I did!!!! But I have to tell you....I wrestled with the Sand Man during that old war movie with Vel Johnson...and the Sand Man won. LOL Just a Reminder to all Australians - thanks to the wonderful Judy from Sydney - AR in Beckett's "PLAY" will be shown on SBS Sat. Feb 1 @ 2.15pm!!! Claire - Really wonderful photo's from OK and CME's!!!! Thank you so much. Suzanne - Really great Video - will watch for it on TCM! Bye. Thanks for the information, Suzanne. I just want to add that AR never ceases to amaze me. His comments were incredibly eloquent and refreshing and truly captured the essence of James Stewart's acting in that miniscule time frame. His drawing was darn good, too, especially considering they have to do everything backwards! Thank you for the light drawing clip,Suzanne! Truly magical! And powerful magic at that! It came on last night at approximately 11:20 p.m. (Central Time) after a Shirley Temple movie and before an Elizabeth Taylor movie (can't remember the names). So I don't think the movie (either before or after) determines which "painting with light" ad they're going to show. Keep watching and good luck! Wow, thanks for the videogram Suzanne! Do you remember when you saw it and what movie it followed? I'm still hoping to catch it one of these days! My dear Alan, I am interested in you, besides for your handsomeness and sexual magnetism, because you discovered a talent early in your life and focused on it. You stayed with it, learned and improved and eventually excelled. You don't have to say, "if only". You took risks and were courageous. You are fulfilling your potential as an artist. That must be very satisfying. I tend to not push myself, or focus for the long term, so someone who does is fascinating. I'm also envious. Actually, I did work hard on one thing, and that's myself. I came from abusive "parents" and I've worked hard since I was 18 to repair the damage. I've done that consistently, with help. I've come pretty far. Does that count as focusing on a potential? I was suffering so much from depression and general emotional agony that I was driven to help myself and not conscious of working on something. I had to understand my feelings. Now people often remark on how in touch with my feelings I am. Does that count? I can draw, sculpt, play the piano and write, but I don't do them consistently. Alan has focused on one thing and has done well enough to please even himself at times. That must feel really good. THANKS SUZANNE !!! For the TCM videogram and for all your work on the BIRTHDAY Project and this website. THANKS CLAUDIA For all your videos and your touching words about your SOULMATE! I hope Alan Rickman shows up on both your doorsteps in Texas and Georgia And TANGOS with you Both!!! Eating ALONE??!! I was free!! Have you ever heard of karmic justice? There is none!!! I love that clip, thank you! It made me understand a little more the 'why' of Jimmy Stewart's appeal. What does Alan say toward the end..."and in every single frame..." what? It sounds like he says something about light, I can't understand it. Thanks for the clip! It seems our Man is ambidextrous!(I just said a big word! lol) I too can write and draw with both hands.!! Once again AR just shows us more and more of his Many talents. Thanks, Suzanne! The clip is wonderful and worth the wait. And, yes, Claudia, please add this to your page. LOL Thank you suzanne for the TCM videogram Got it! The TCM spot, that is. I made a clip, but for some reason it's a little jumpy. I think I used a bad videotape, so I will try to capture it again and redo it. Add Claudia, please do make a Windows Media version, also (the more options the better, I say!). Anyway, here's the Videograms. Oh, how I love to hear him laugh! Turner Classic Movies Videogram (TCM.exe, 2 MB, 1 min, 16 secs) Hmmm...I'm no actor...but Fastfilm is correct on her point about the art world...=) Anglophile...hehe Snippet in today's Mirror newspaper: Alan Rickman spotted eating on his own at J.Sheekey's. Aahhhh! Sweet! (That's me, not the Mirror journo writing!) Apparently Juliet Stephenson was spotted there, too, also eating at a seperate table. Rickfan888: A*P*P*L*A*U*S*E That's fantastic! Congratulations on a job well-done! And I don't mind a bit that it's OT. Shine on! Top o' the mornin/afternoon/evenin' to you all! O/T: Guess what? I got a 100% on my Advanced Placement Biology exam! Hooray! The class average was a 57%...pretty sad, but at least I did well! I really don't know why I'm telling you all this, I'm so elated I don't know what I'm doing. Oh, Suz, I sent my AR b-day card, so I really hope you get it in time. Cheers everyone! Carolyn, that's an interesting choice for AR! Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of my favorite poets and I'd love to hear AR do an audiobook of some of his poems. The wonderful lilt and rhythm of the words with AR's great voice...! Oh, I saw one of those light on glass promos, it was Ving Rhames. But now I know what to look for! It's pretty random though. He did Humphrey Bogart and there wasn't a Humphrey Bogart movie in sight. Dear Cynic, I read that the U.S. will get the book at the same time as the U.K. so don't fret. Regarding AR's critical self-assesment of his acting, I think part of it is self-criticism, and part of it is "I'll criticize my work before someone else does." In the Charlie Rose interview, when Alan says "wrong, wrong, wrong", I didn't really believe him. I felt like he was uncomfortable with a clip of his performance being aired one on one with Charlie for evaluation on TV. And Charlie put him on the spot by not saying, "That was a luminous performance", or some other suck-up statement that talk show hosts usually make to actors. So what was AR going to say, "wow, I'm amazing!" or something? Actors are insecure people. I have known some, and they are just quivering bundles of human jell-o at the core. Sometimes when people come from critical families, they learn to criticize themselves before someone beats them to it. Alan has said he has a wounding tongue. Where did he learn to hurt with words? It's usually from your family. I wonder if Alan hasn't just learned to be critical of himself in social situations. Who knows if inside he really feels that down on his performance? Interviews show that he knows he has a gift for acting. Remember how he said on Conan that he feels himself getting shorter when he steps off the plane in the U.K.? Another example of him being affected, at least superficially, by the social climate. He feels a little less positive about himself because of the general negative vibe in England. Imagine if an English reporter asked him as he got off the plane how he felt about his performance in Harry Potter? He might answer more negatively than he truly felt. His answer might be more positive if asked by an American journalist as he arrives in L.A. He has said he feels better about himself in the U.S., he describes it metaphorically as feeling "taller". Kim and Sue, doing any art, particularly professionally, is all about making choices and accepting mutually conflicting ideas like discipline/instinct: knowing the rules enough to break them; choosing an entire life that may not necessarily bring recognition; and choosing a course of life that is beyond your control, insofar as one surrenders to one's art while subjecting oneself to the collaborative processes of other people in order to find employment in it. Even artists seemingly devoid of specific discipline, like in music Iggy Pop, have made the choice to make sensual abandon live onstage to people their own art. The choice to be artist is, after all, not something one can help. More AR-specific- art that requires years of honing/training serves the "natural" even better when they let loose with their own interpretation of same. My art comparison with AR ends here, as my art is very much a behind the scenes one (and yes, I remember every photo's aspect I've ever shot even if I can't remember the particulars of the event)(and the end result is what I go on, since there do exist technical glitches.) Therefore I do not need to see my own re-runs, I know what I did. AR knows exactly what he's done too, I'd gather, no re-runs needed either. An actor's art is a bigtime, extroverted projection of self, more like a dancer's. What we have in common, I think, might have been best put in a Joe Pesci movie, of all things, called "The Public Eye," about the photographer Weegee. Someone asks the character why he goes through all these difficult things in life to be a photographer. Pesci looks quizzically at the person and says, "It's what I do..." On the other hand, Kim, if you are a perfectionist and feel you have put your *all* into something, maybe, on viewing your own work you might naturally (being a pefectionist) find fault with it and that might lead to negative feelings. Those feelings then,(with some people)might lead you to a kind of depression. Just an idea - not being a perfectionist I don't have these worries!! I've seen Tony Randall do this--and he was pretty good--but I would give my eyeteeth to see and hear AR do it. http://ion.le.ac.uk/~ets/madeira.html And I've figured out what my penname would be if I wrote fanfic... N. Estrus FastFilm, thank you, while I do understand that the theater makes up a large part of his work and you can take ques from the audience on whether "they are getting It". You don't usually have the ability to view your performance to see what you did or how you did it that invoked a reaction. When you take a picture you may not hang it in your home, but do you not view it after it is developed to see if what appears on paper is indeed what you saw through the lens? As I said I may just not get it. I would not think it vain, to learn from viewing one's self. I am not criticizing AR, just did not think it was logical. If viewing a performance makes an artist cringe to see what they view as flaws how do they ever learn? It is fascinating to think that one can remember every sublet move, facial expression, tilt of the head, eye movement and vocal variations when delivering a performance. I guess that is why they are professionals. As I said I did not intend it as criticism, just found it illogical. I do not know why or how my curiosity about this man came about but found that point interesting. He is an attractive package, package being he operative word. Meaning all the things we know, think we know, don’t know or understand make the entity what it is and it works together to elicit a reaction on all of us. I think that is good. I do not have to have all the answers to enjoy his talents. Thanks again. Oh Claire! Thanks for the OK pic. ah, the scarf's back. thank you, Claire.
PG = Parental Guidance, Maybe some scenes small children might not like but it is up to the parent and children can go in on their own.
12 = Have to be 12 or over to see
18 = 18 or over.
here endeth the lesson on British film ratings!
Sue
- Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at 01:59:17 (PST)
Nicole
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Carolyn, dear Carolyn
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UK - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 10:38:28 (PST)
mortianna
does a jump to the left , and drives home through the poring rain - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 09:14:27 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 09:03:29 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 08:32:03 (PST)
Lee
- Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 08:18:22 (PST)
Lee
- Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 08:09:06 (PST)
VH
Ohio USA - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 07:40:09 (PST)
Kimberly
- Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 06:46:36 (PST)
Nathalie
Paris, - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 06:14:24 (PST)
mortianna
can't ignore a challenge, mortianna est à madagascar - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 05:54:32 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 05:18:28 (PST)
Juliana
- Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 05:10:28 (PST)
mortianna
having way too much fun here, - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 05:08:53 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 04:56:09 (PST)
Marialis
France - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 04:44:29 (PST)
lelefua
- Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 04:18:36 (PST)
mortianna
- Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 03:14:07 (PST)
lelefua
- Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 02:23:13 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 01:26:14 (PST)
mortianna
that was a really nice idea, for a bland and bleak day - Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 01:04:43 (PST)
lelefua
- Monday, January 27, 2003 at 23:49:55 (PST)
Kimberly
- Monday, January 27, 2003 at 23:29:56 (PST)
Kimberly
Michigan USA - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 23:24:55 (PST)
JC
Loveliest lil village on the plains, AL - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 20:55:37 (PST)
Claudia (who is envisioning the hairdresser chair as she types!)
GA US - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 19:24:09 (PST)
Tami <tchapman@nd.edufoo>
Notre Dame, - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 18:43:21 (PST)
OLIVIA
Sydney, NSW Australia - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 18:11:37 (PST)
Terra
London/ New York, - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 17:11:43 (PST)
Aussiegirl
Australia - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 16:21:30 (PST)
Terra
London/ New York, - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 16:13:13 (PST)
Personally, I think he'd have been the kind of boy who'd have a kind of sheepish grin on his face after getting in trouble.
Katie C
USA - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 16:09:02 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 16:06:46 (PST)
Claudia <flipper828@aol.comfoo>
GA US - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 16:03:48 (PST)
Julia
Calgary, Canada - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 14:58:58 (PST)
On the questin of guarding my 'special place,' I do believe I'd go with Ed. Artists have always been my fancy, being one myself.(Funny how Alan really is an artist, isn't it???)
Terra
London- New York, - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 14:24:05 (PST)
lelefua
Stuttgart, - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 14:21:18 (PST)
Katie C
USA - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 14:17:28 (PST)
JC
War Eagle Country, AL - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 14:03:55 (PST)
Nathalie
Paris, - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 13:53:33 (PST)
JC
AL - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 13:53:25 (PST)
cynic
USA - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 13:49:49 (PST)
sonoma
usa - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 13:39:55 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 13:38:45 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 13:37:03 (PST)
JC
AL - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 13:30:39 (PST)
Nathalie
Paris, - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 13:24:53 (PST)
Yarr Cynic
USA - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 12:48:37 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 11:29:43 (PST)
sonoma
usa - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 11:26:48 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 11:16:51 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 11:00:43 (PST)
I would put Sinclair Bryant on any duty NOT involving machines requiring water and suds!!
Catherine
England - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 11:00:02 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 10:30:34 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 10:07:23 (PST)
verena
Bremen, Germany - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 09:41:02 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 09:27:30 (PST)
Kimberly
- Monday, January 27, 2003 at 09:23:42 (PST)
HRH Eleanor
- Monday, January 27, 2003 at 09:12:33 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 06:37:56 (PST)
Ulrike
Rosenheim, Germany - Monday, January 27, 2003 at 00:30:19 (PST)
Vanessa <vmac101@aol.comfoo>
Ft. Hood, TX USA - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 20:14:02 (PST)
Cathy <Snapefan2@aol.comfoo>
FL USA - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 16:51:54 (PST)
Kimberly
- Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 15:46:56 (PST)
Avril
- Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 15:41:12 (PST)
Kimberly
USA - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 15:25:34 (PST)
As regards the idea of the Birthday Donation to RADA, do not worry, it is still being worked on and has not been forgotten!! As soon as all the details are ironed out we will get it up and running...!!
Catherine
England - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 15:14:09 (PST)
Terra
- Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 14:30:03 (PST)
Back to an earlier post, yes it was a second hand bookshop. I bought the biography today, and it was the first version. I was looking at it, and to be totally honest, the person who owned before me never read it all the way through.
Terra
USA - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 14:28:23 (PST)
kit <tlmvs52@aol.comfoo>
PA USA - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 13:33:05 (PST)
Julie March <Jodiewiz@aol.comfoo>
conyers, GA us - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 13:21:36 (PST)
- Authored by Heather Phares
Barbara the Wallpaperer
- Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 12:57:18 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 12:55:36 (PST)
kit
pa usa - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 12:48:54 (PST)
GML
UK - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 12:10:02 (PST)
Helen
Cheshire, UK - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 06:45:38 (PST)
Janine
Melb, Vic Australia - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 06:15:12 (PST)
Ali-Pat <sa.pe@earthlink.netfoo>
Dayton, OH USA - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 04:43:39 (PST)
Barbara the Wallpaperer
- Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 03:11:21 (PST)
Barbara the Wallpaperer
- Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 03:10:56 (PST)
Nathalie
Pairs, - Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 00:47:26 (PST)
Tami
- Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 21:02:12 (PST)
Nighty-night and all my love.
Katie C
USA - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 20:42:43 (PST)
Rickfan888
- Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 20:12:39 (PST)
Susan
- Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 20:04:00 (PST)
JC
Auburn, AL - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 20:03:13 (PST)
Rickfan888
Boise, ID USA - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 20:02:50 (PST)
Katie C
USA - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 19:58:21 (PST)
Christine
USA - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 19:56:03 (PST)
I had a cup of coffee, my handbag, and a half dozen books in my hands at the time. I managed not to spill the coffee, but I did drop my purse, LOL!
Terra
London, - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 19:54:19 (PST)
sonoma
usa - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 19:49:36 (PST)
I find it a horrible waste of paper, with all the errors and misquotes and such.
But I do think it terribly funny that he can laugh at her (and I'm assuming) at himself. To come so far and be so much... to find a photograph of yourself staring back at you on the cover of a badly written book in a shop in London? ;o)
Terra
London, - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 19:38:34 (PST)
lynn
ottawa, canada - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 19:12:47 (PST)
Claudia (who stupidly has her third copy on pre-order)
GA US - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 17:15:10 (PST)
Terra
London, - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 16:55:09 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 16:35:33 (PST)
Margaret
- Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 15:42:08 (PST)
Emily <don't have foo>
- Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 15:26:12 (PST)
Troy08 <KBilier@AOL.comfoo>
Lewiston, Me - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 15:00:57 (PST)
CYNIC`
- Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 14:56:55 (PST)
Suzanne <Suz@mail.usa.comfoo>
Watching BBC American, trying to catch the TMD commercial! :-), TX USA - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 14:50:35 (PST)
I was browsing a bookstore a few streets away from my apartment, and I saw HIM in the next aisle over!!! He had a book in his hand, and he was chuckling to himself and flipping through the pages, as if it were some big joke. After that, he browsed a little while more and left. I picked up the book he'd been looking at, and ironically enough, it was HIS UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY! I still can't believe I saw him!
I just thought that would be a cute tidbit, and once again, this guestbook is wonderful for a new Rickmaniac!
Terra
London, - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 14:21:17 (PST)
Georgiana (well, okay, 'Friday' was January 24, but who's counting?)
Seattle - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 14:17:53 (PST)
But, knowing me, I'd probably bump into him at a coffee shop and be speechless for a year!
Katie C
USA - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 14:12:16 (PST)
Claudia (crossing her fingers that the head haucho at BBC is reading)
GA US - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 13:21:59 (PST)
kit
pa usa - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 13:13:10 (PST)
Linda
NJ USA - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 11:45:45 (PST)
sonoma
usa - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 11:31:27 (PST)
Linda
NJ USA - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 11:17:51 (PST)
Linda
NJ USA - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 11:16:36 (PST)
I remember him in Dragonheart. He played a real meanie...
It would be really interesting to see him as Lupin, as I hear that he's a wonderful actor, but I've never seen him in anything else.
Perhaps I really have led a sheltered life...
Katie C
USA - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 11:01:44 (PST)
Sarah
London, UK - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 11:00:54 (PST)
lelefua
- Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 10:42:19 (PST)
Eleanor
- Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 09:54:44 (PST)
Georgiana
Seattle - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 09:05:41 (PST)
GML
UK - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 08:32:45 (PST)
GML
UK - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 08:26:10 (PST)
Nathalie
Paris, - Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 06:00:34 (PST)
lelefua
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 23:20:06 (PST)
lelefua
germany - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 23:14:56 (PST)
Also, does anyone know who they are considering to replace Richard Harris?
All my love to all you other Rickmaniacs!
Katie C
USA - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 21:09:02 (PST)
Janine (the big vegemite)
Bentleigh, Vic Australia - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 19:19:42 (PST)
Troy08
Lewiston, Me - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 15:05:44 (PST)
Rickfan888
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 14:38:43 (PST)
Rickfan888
Boise, ID - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 14:37:27 (PST)
Cynic
USA (oy) - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 14:21:20 (PST)
Bea
SC USA - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 13:56:33 (PST)
Who are they going to get to play Sirius Black?
Katie C
USA - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 13:00:23 (PST)
Laurie
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 12:36:33 (PST)
visitor
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 12:34:05 (PST)
Nathalie
Paris, - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 12:24:52 (PST)
Sue
England - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 10:21:49 (PST)
Tami
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 10:12:31 (PST)
Tami <tchapman@nd.edufoo>
Notre Dame, IN USA - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 10:10:55 (PST)
Barbara the Wallpaperer <Has anyone heard from Suzanne? She missed Chat yesterdayfoo>
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 10:01:17 (PST)
Sue
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 09:59:26 (PST)
Sue
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 09:55:34 (PST)
Lucida
UK - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 09:40:33 (PST)
Lucida
UK - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 09:32:46 (PST)
Claire
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 09:26:03 (PST)
Nix <darudegril2000@yahoo.comfoo>
Alicante, Spain - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 09:21:16 (PST)
Tami <tchapman@nd.edufoo>
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 09:16:37 (PST)
Constance( crawling back under the rock...)
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 08:24:55 (PST)
Constance(who can't believe she wrote all that and will be expecting hate-mail from AR, no less! LOL) <madaboutron4@yahoo.comfoo>
Cary, NC 27513 - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 08:20:11 (PST)
A Very Dampened Claudia (hope she doesn't turn to ice in this gosh awful weather!)
GA US - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 07:53:56 (PST)
mortianna
screaming and hiccupping, - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 07:35:20 (PST)
Georgiana
Seattle - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 07:11:22 (PST)
Kim <kimtauchen@hotmail.comfoo>
USA - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 07:10:23 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 06:29:52 (PST)
Ulrike
Rosenheim, Germany - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 06:28:12 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 06:12:51 (PST)
Troy08
Lewston, Me - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 05:30:43 (PST)
Ann Williams <awilliams@sjc.edufoo>
Simsbury, CT 06070 - Friday, January 24, 2003 at 05:28:30 (PST)
Aussiegirl
- Friday, January 24, 2003 at 04:05:00 (PST)
lelefua
stuttgart, Germany - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 23:55:25 (PST)
Kim <kimtauchen@hotmail.comfoo>
USA - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 21:40:37 (PST)
Anne
OR - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 21:10:45 (PST)
Tami
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 19:56:10 (PST)
Tami
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 19:34:03 (PST)
a concerned citizen
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 19:18:57 (PST)
Aussiegirl
Brisbane, Australia - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 19:02:04 (PST)
Dori
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 18:05:17 (PST)
Katie C
USA - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 18:03:55 (PST)
gisele
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 16:39:37 (PST)
Aussiegirl
Brisbane, Australia - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 16:37:17 (PST)
Alan's protest on the way Matthew Kelley is being treated may or may not be a good thing.
I personally think that first and foremost, support of one's friends and family should come first. Whether they are guilty or innocent is up to the courts to decide, and EVERYONE has the right to a fair trial.
On the other hand, if Kelly is found guilty, or if there is truly strong evidence to support the accusations, the media will paint every person who signed that piece of paper as someone who supports child abuse. WHETHER THEY DO OR NOT!
The media can sometimes be a worse monster than a child abuser(if that's possible). It can destroy the lives of the innocent, and I can guarantee that Kelly won't receive a fair trial.
Being a friend of someone who was abused as a child, I can feel the outrage along with everyone else. But I know that even if he's innocent, there will always be someone who thinks he was guilty and deserves punishment.
Love to all
Katie C
USA - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 16:04:27 (PST)
sonoma
usa - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 14:59:03 (PST)
Annie
USA - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 14:58:32 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 14:56:08 (PST)
sue
I promise I do not have shares in Marmite and I won't mention the stuff again!!!!!, - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 14:49:05 (PST)
Nathalie
Paris, - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 14:29:47 (PST)
Aussiegirl
Brisbane , Australia - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 14:21:19 (PST)
Sue
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 14:06:51 (PST)
Sue
England - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 14:06:03 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 13:17:50 (PST)
Renie (who kind of likes the hat)
CA, - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 12:49:55 (PST)
Nathalie
Paris, - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 12:43:22 (PST)
Tami <tchapman@nd.edufoo>
Notre Dame, IN USA - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 11:12:49 (PST)
Georgiana
Seattle - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 10:01:51 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 09:36:18 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 09:28:48 (PST)
Elysia
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 09:22:12 (PST)
AND its great on Spotted Dick!!!!!(joke!!!!)
Sue
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 09:18:03 (PST)
Eleanor
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 09:16:01 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 08:57:25 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 08:40:39 (PST)
mortianna
i'm going, i'm going, - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 08:06:01 (PST)
Claudia (who is tying a string around her finger--but doubts it will work!)
GA US - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 08:00:01 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 07:49:36 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 07:28:25 (PST)
Mesmer's Patient
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 07:25:28 (PST)
Nathalie
Paris, France - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 07:10:16 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 06:43:12 (PST)
Emily <don't have foo>
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 06:21:36 (PST)
mortianna
really, no one else says a word, and that - hat can be called a project, now can it? - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 06:18:32 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 04:56:17 (PST)
Aussiegirl
Brisbane, Australia - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 03:51:20 (PST)
mortianna
back to the dungeons, hiding - Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 01:22:06 (PST)
Josianne <hossalamma@yahoo.defoo>
- Thursday, January 23, 2003 at 01:16:02 (PST)
Elinor
USA - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 21:50:23 (PST)
Lily
Chgo, - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 21:41:03 (PST)
JC
AL - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 20:51:19 (PST)
Annette
Mansfield, Tx - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 19:54:52 (PST)
Elinor
USA - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 19:46:21 (PST)
JC
AL - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 18:52:48 (PST)
Oxford Dictionary of Slang
sue
- Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 13:26:55 (PST)
Suz (D.o.C.)
Katie C
USA - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 12:55:36 (PST)
Caught the pic of Alan with a ruler, but got kind of confused. (What was that about???) It was kind of cute though. I love that look...
Appearances by Christian while at Cambridge:
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertold Brecht as Arturo Ui
Cabaret by Kander & Ebb (part unknown)
The Maids by Jean Genet as Claire
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (part unknown)
Equus by Peter Schaffer (part unknown)
Antigone by Sophocles (part unknown)
Love in a Cold Climate as Matt Radlett (PBS)
The Forsyte Saga as Young Jolly Forsyte (PBS)
Horatio Hornblower as Midshipman Hammond, airing on A&E sometime late this year or 2003.
Weirdsister College as Ben Stemson (BBC, CBC)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Tom Riddle, out in theaters November 2002
The Hours as Ralph Partridge, starring Nicole Kidman. Release dates vary. Premiered in December 2002
Four Feathers as the Drummer Boy, starring Heath Ledger. Released September 2002
Romeo and Juliet as Romeo Montague, currently in production at the Liverpool Playhouse.
Katie C
USA - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 12:54:40 (PST)
Nathalie
Paris, France - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 11:47:34 (PST)
Carol
Aichi, Japan - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 05:38:43 (PST)
Kirsty Day <centralline@hotmail.comfoo>
London, United Kingdom - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 04:37:57 (PST)
Carol Day
Harlow, England - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 04:37:56 (PST)
natalie <rickmamlover'hotmail.comfoo>
hammersmith, - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 04:37:03 (PST)
sue smith
chicago, usa - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 03:22:40 (PST)
vanessa
england - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 03:21:29 (PST)
Kimberly
- Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 02:54:39 (PST)
vanessa
england, - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 02:50:13 (PST)
Kimberly
- Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 02:09:09 (PST)
Q. How the Dickens are you?
A. Tolerably well, thank you.
Q. The best thing about being British?
A. The language.
Q. How do you cope with the weather?
A. See above.
Q. That childhood seaside holiday in full...
A. There's a photo somewhere of some kids, buckets and spades poised, sitting on the Clacton daytrip sand with their raincoats firmly belted, that rings a distant bell.
Q. A favourite British pastime?
A. Crumpet tossing.
Q. What do you always buy that's British?
A. Marmite.
Q. The one person that defines Britishness?
A. Spike Milligan.
Q. What could we teach the rest of the world about sex?
A. Take a large dose of repression, mix it with guilt and add smut to taste.
Q. What song should be the new National Anthem?
A. The Hokey Cokey. think of the Queen and 100,000 people singing "Knees bend, arms stretch, Rah! Rah! Rah!
Kimberly
Michigan USA - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 02:02:12 (PST)
Aussiegirl
Brisbane, Australia - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 21:56:17 (PST)
Eleanor
- Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 20:07:20 (PST)
Eleanor
- Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 20:05:56 (PST)
Nathalie
Paris, - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 18:20:42 (PST)
Just watched Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone for the billionth time. I swear, I'm going to eventually burn a hole throught that DVD...
People will begin to think I'm "Up to something..."
Katie C
USA - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 16:54:18 (PST)
Megan Clark <tmclark5@earthlink.netfoo>
Columbia City, Indiana USA - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 16:42:16 (PST)
Rickfan37
Cheshire, UK - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 15:57:50 (PST)
Hey I really like your site. I have found some of the information here helpfull. Thanks :)
Joe <j_dirt@hotmail.comfoo>
Memphis, TN US - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 15:42:21 (PST)
Janine
Melb, Vic Australia - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 15:37:14 (PST)
Christine
USA - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 15:21:21 (PST)
dee dee <dawnlouise@btopenworld.comfoo>
uk - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 14:56:12 (PST)
We too have not-so-secret obsessions with THE MAN... LOL. It's hilarious, but you're not alone. I find him terribly sexy as well! (He's "MESMER-izing", hee hee hee...)
Katie C <dragonkeeper@bealenet.comfoo>
USA - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 14:00:39 (PST)
Aussiegirl
Brisbane , Australia - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 13:56:07 (PST)
Troy08
Lewiston, Me - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 13:00:10 (PST)
Renie
CA, - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 11:28:56 (PST)
Sue
England - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 11:25:36 (PST)
GML
UK - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 11:17:25 (PST)
A host of celebrities have given their backing to Matthew Kelly following his questioning over child sex abuse allegations.
Julie Walters, Alan Rickman and Pete Postlethwaite are among the actors who have signed an open letter declaring their support for the Stars In Their Eyes host.
They describe the 52-year-old presenter, who was arrested and questioned by detectives last week, as a "gentle and caring man".
Other celebrities who have put their name to the letter include Amanda Holden and Les Dennis, playwright Willy Russell and Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh.
The letter, printed in the Daily Mail, was written by actor George Costigan, who starred in the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too.
It reads: "As friends and colleagues of Matthew Kelly (some whose association with him goes back to the late 60s and early 70s) we wish to record our pride and pleasure in knowing and working with this gentle and caring man.
"The picture of him being painted in some quarters of the national press is one we deplore and do not recognise."
sue
- Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 09:20:45 (PST)
Eleanor
- Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 08:57:44 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 06:38:49 (PST)
Sue
England - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 06:32:41 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 05:01:37 (PST)
Kimberly
- Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 04:23:52 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 04:08:24 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 03:57:52 (PST)
Kimberly
Michigan USA - Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 00:17:45 (PST)
Anne
OR - Monday, January 20, 2003 at 22:14:03 (PST)
Janine
Melb, Vic Australia - Monday, January 20, 2003 at 20:43:52 (PST)
Cynthia
- Monday, January 20, 2003 at 19:55:06 (PST)
Katie C
USA - Monday, January 20, 2003 at 18:13:59 (PST)
MS VENUS D.LUNA <magicstars33@aol.comfoo>
SOUTH GATE, CA UNITED STATES - Monday, January 20, 2003 at 16:44:09 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Monday, January 20, 2003 at 16:43:54 (PST)
Happy Anniversary
Happy Anniversary
Haaapppy Annnniversary!
Cindie, AGAIN
- Monday, January 20, 2003 at 16:14:31 (PST)
Cindie
- Monday, January 20, 2003 at 16:04:57 (PST)
Katie C
USA - Monday, January 20, 2003 at 15:24:22 (PST)
Claire
- Monday, January 20, 2003 at 13:53:42 (PST)
sue
- Monday, January 20, 2003 at 11:20:10 (PST)
kit
pa usa - Monday, January 20, 2003 at 11:04:49 (PST)
Jizel
- Monday, January 20, 2003 at 10:43:20 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 20, 2003 at 07:24:11 (PST)
Annie_Cruickshank <Annie_Cruickshank@yahoo.comfoo>
Clarklake, MI USA - Monday, January 20, 2003 at 07:17:00 (PST)
Kimberly
Michigan USA - Monday, January 20, 2003 at 01:05:42 (PST)
GML
UK - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 23:46:46 (PST)
a concerned citizen
- Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 21:12:27 (PST)
Eleanor
- Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 20:13:15 (PST)
Nikki <off_my_rocker57@hotmail.comfoo>
Pearly Gates, US..WHY?? - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 18:38:57 (PST)
Silvia
- Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 15:31:14 (PST)
Nicole <Buttermilksimplicity@yahoo.comfoo>
West Palm Beach, FL U.S.A - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 14:42:26 (PST)
Maria
Germany - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 11:45:10 (PST)
Kimberly
USA - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 11:05:14 (PST)
Sky Premiere 2 Movie channel shows Judas Kiss tomorrow morning (Monday) at 3.45am. It is under the Sunday listings!
Eleanor - Sheekeys restaurant is down a back alley behind the Albery Theatre in the West End of London. Not having a second mortgage I have never eaten there!!
Sue
England - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 09:14:29 (PST)
Eleanor
- Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 09:00:23 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 08:46:31 (PST)
VH
Ohio USA - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 07:55:45 (PST)
Kim <kimtauchen@hotmail.comfoo>
USA - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 07:48:25 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 07:42:33 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 07:18:04 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 05:33:57 (PST)
Nathalie
Paris, - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 05:21:11 (PST)
Juliana
- Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 03:34:44 (PST)
Suz (D.o.C.)
Kimberly
- Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 02:43:45 (PST)
JSheekey
Kimberly
Michigan USA - Sunday, January 19, 2003 at 02:39:11 (PST)
Nikki
Australia - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 20:34:40 (PST)
JC
AL but currently freezing up in WV (psst! It's snowing! Something we don't see in AL!) - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 20:08:18 (PST)
Linda
NJ USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 19:57:19 (PST)
Katie C <dragonkeeper@bealenet.comfoo>
USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 19:40:39 (PST)
sonoma
usa - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 19:29:59 (PST)
Troy08
Lewiston, Me - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 19:19:56 (PST)
Mindy
CT USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 19:19:27 (PST)
Katie C <dragonkeeper@bealenet.comfoo>
USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 19:12:21 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 17:36:17 (PST)
lynn
Ottawa , Canada - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 17:18:27 (PST)
Suzanne <Suz@mail.usa.comfoo>
I was always fond of giraffes..., TX USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 16:58:13 (PST)
Rickfan888
Boise (Did someone else say they were from Boise?), ID USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 16:08:50 (PST)
Eleanor
- Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 14:38:30 (PST)
Jokes <johnnysjokes@yahoo.comfoo>
New York, New York USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 14:19:18 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 14:14:12 (PST)
Cathy <Snapefan2@aol.comfoo>
USA, FL - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 13:51:27 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn <dontgetyerknickersinatwist.comfoofoo>
CO USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 13:50:29 (PST)
Mikaela Allard <Enadera_mickis@hotmail.comfoo>
Sweden - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 12:24:48 (PST)
sonoma
usa - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 10:52:08 (PST)
Christine
- Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 10:45:32 (PST)
Christine
USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 10:30:27 (PST)
kit
PA USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 09:03:01 (PST)
kit
PA USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 08:28:44 (PST)
Sue
England - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 07:59:30 (PST)
Lyn
USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 07:32:53 (PST)
Kimberly
- Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 07:13:18 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 05:48:08 (PST)
Annie <insley@thewind.fsnet.co.ukfoo>
Northampton, UK - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 04:28:01 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 03:50:32 (PST)
Barbara the Australian.
Gold Coast, Qld Australia. - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 22:43:01 (PST)
sonoma
usa - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 21:55:49 (PST)
Lyn
Maine USA - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 21:36:33 (PST)
Suzanne <Suz@mail.usa.comfoo>
TX USA - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 21:26:52 (PST)
sonoma
usa - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 21:01:06 (PST)
Aimee
- Friday, January 17, 2003 at 19:35:54 (PST)
Thanks!
- Friday, January 17, 2003 at 19:28:01 (PST)
Cynthia
- Friday, January 17, 2003 at 19:20:35 (PST)
Eleanor
- Friday, January 17, 2003 at 19:13:03 (PST)
Cathy <Snapefan2foo>
USA, FL - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 18:53:48 (PST)
Kimberly
- Friday, January 17, 2003 at 18:34:11 (PST)
kim <kimtauchen@hotmail.comfoo>
USA - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 18:12:21 (PST)
Suzanne <Suz@mail.usa.comfoo>
TX USA - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 17:50:28 (PST)
Cynic
USA - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 13:59:38 (PST)
Sarah
London, - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 13:59:22 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 12:50:57 (PST)
Rickfan 888
- Friday, January 17, 2003 at 12:45:06 (PST)
sonoma
usa - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 12:00:39 (PST)
Cynthia
- Friday, January 17, 2003 at 10:49:25 (PST)
FastFilm
Tinseltown, - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 08:49:48 (PST)
Sue
- Friday, January 17, 2003 at 05:56:02 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 05:54:16 (PST)
Kim <kimtauchen@hotmail.comfoo>
USA - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 05:25:40 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Friday, January 17, 2003 at 01:21:16 (PST)
Kim, the AR-specific conjecture here is that the man has a proclivity for live theatre, hence the audience interaction of which you speak, subjectively measuring the give and take in their art. (Many predominantly film actors, in contrast, do live theatre mainly to prove to themselves that they can.)I also can't imagine, even with the "hurry up and wait" process of making a film to begin with, that he wouldn't have felt a certain joy in portraying, say, the Sheriff of Nottingham at the time. 'Doesn't mean you want to relive it. You do your art. Then you want to do some new art. I, as a professional photographer, have very few of my own pix displayed in my house. Been there, felt that, time for something new. I don't need to see my own "re-runs."
FastFilm
L.A., - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 21:54:38 (PST)
Troy, when I've pre-ordered from Amazon, they usually ship to arrive at your home on the release date.
Georgiana
Seattle - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 19:33:56 (PST)
Kim- In response to your earlier post about AR's self criticism, I would like to say a few things. There are a lot of performers (myself included) who feel this way... and I'm only 15! I have looked at past performances and winced in retrospect. I see a lot of my flaws and where I could do better. Everyone has room for improvement or change (including Alan Rickman). It's just that some respond to themselved more harshly than others. All me love, Katie
Katie C <dragonkeeper@bealenet.comfoo>
VA USA - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 19:11:26 (PST)
Thank you FastFilm. I like the way you write. With many things in life one may view things to see what you would have liked to have done over, but few of us have the luxury of viewing it in a manner other than our own minds eye - a flawed memory at best. Knowing what you would have liked to have done rather than what was placed on film, I would think would be a learning process in itself. If an actor is an instrument of communication, (a story teller) should he not be interested in what the audience viewed and how they interpreted this communication. This would mean not just a man sitting and viewing himself on film, but interaction with your audience. Would you not want to see what they saw’ hear what they heard; knowing what made them laugh, cry, or what other emotions were felt? How did these things convey your character and the direction of the story to that audience? I realize one can not sit and exchange views with all of the audience members, and that interpretation is infinite to the individuals viewing. Meaning not everyone sees and hears the same things. You look to the masses and general direction. If one never viewed one’s self how can he interact on any feed back? What means do you use for viewer feedback? Would you use a vehicle such as this? I am sure I just don’t get it as I am not a performer. Are all actors that way?
Kim <kimtauchen@hotmail.comfoo>
- Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 18:55:23 (PST)
Wow, I'm dying to see that TCM promo for James Stewart. I've seen them for other actors and actresses and I don't think they're necessarily right before or after a movie of theirs. If anyone in an earlier time zone sees it please post for us in the later time zones. And whoever finds it first, send it immediately to Claudia! And Claire, thanks for posting the wonderful photos. I love checking your site for new surprises.
sonoma
usa - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 18:46:10 (PST)
Kim the new to chats person, stay awhile. I would add, that as an artist myself who always wants to be moving forward to new projects, I do not dwell on past ones, unless I'm preparing a retrospective, something actors don't do. Doesn't mean you're not proud of your own body of work, it means you're professional enough to see what you would have liked to have done over when you view your own stuff.
FastFilm
Los Angeles, - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 17:48:56 (PST)
Cynic--Is this the term you search for?
If this is you...you are not alone. We feel your pain. ;-)
Claudia
GA US - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 17:39:35 (PST)
Hello, - - I am not much of a joiner and have never been in a chat room or added anything to a Guestbook. Please forgive me if I say something stupid, wrong or out of bounds. I am now a fan of AR; how it happened I do not know or understand. I’ve seen Die Hard, HP I and HP II and yes thought he was a good actor, did a good job and when they cast that role they knew what they were doing. I never thought anymore about him or his life. Approximately 3 months ago I woke with this image of this man (not one of his characters but this man) and this desire and lots of questions about him. What was that about and where did that come from? I don’t suppose I will ever know. Went to the web and did a search and could not believe all the information and web sites connected with him. Most of these sites are excellent and show that a great deal of time and effort went into making them. Thank you for giving of your talents. I reluctantly clicked on your Guestbook as I have never been in one before and did not know what to expect and started reading. I went on and read a few of your archives also. I have 2 comments and then I will go away. Just felt I had to say them. First - I read your disclaimer (my term) that AR does not read this Guestbook and wanted to express my opinion that this may not be correct. You may not know if he does or does not. You can make no guarantee that he does or inference that he does. My personal opinion is that he does and that he even makes additions to it. Second - AR has said that he does not view his work or when he does finds it painful, seeing only his mistakes (I am paraphrasing). Do you believe that an actor who believes that his talents are a gift and he has a responsibility for using this talent does not try to watch and learn from his performances? If you are dedicated to the “craft” should you not see what your audience views and what they apparently like? I just wanted someone else’s opinion on the above. Sorry I took up so much room.
Kim <kimtauchen@hotmail.comfoo>
USA - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 17:05:02 (PST)
I would like to know about pre-ordering Order of the Phoenix from either Barnes and Noble.com or Amazon.com. I understand the book will cost about 17 dollars and change. Now my question, if you pre-order, do you actually recieve the book on June 21st? Unless you live quite far from a bookstore(I don't) is there any advantage to pre-ordering on line instead of just showing up at the bookstore when they open on the 21st? I dd notice that both services are listing it ar no.1 already.
Troy08
Lewiston, Me - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 15:43:36 (PST)
"Play" will be on SBS on Saturday 1st February, 2003 at 2.15 pm
Judy
Australia - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 15:18:02 (PST)
I'm not so sure...we tend to get short-changed in the arts quite often here in the US, talent-wise. HP are creations of the Brits and AR is from there too =)...Sometimes I wish they had a word for "embracing every thing British" Like the Japanese say "otaku"...for embracing everything Japanese.
As for the circus...When we got it here (Maryland) it was fabulous...I even spend the ridiculous amount to buy the soundtrack after the show...=)
Who's webmaster here?? Good Luck and Good night
Cynic <Spicyham90@yahoo.comfoo>
Chestertown, MD USA - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 14:57:11 (PST)
For Australians - SBS will be showing the series of Beckett films over the next 2 weeks starting Sunday. Play has been advertised as being one of these. No details as to schedules that I'm aware of yet.
Judy
Australia - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 14:53:44 (PST)
AR looks pleased...Varekai is a good show, the combination of theatre with acrobatic skills is what's different about Cirque du Soleil. Also only two words of English are spoken: "I'm sorry." One of the best bits deals with the changing of a lightbulb (no kidding).
Renie
Tickets were a family Christmas surprise..., - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 14:30:32 (PST)
OK picture AR at Cirque Soleil on CPP NOW!
Claire
- Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 14:20:34 (PST)
He said that at the Variety Club Awards. He had a bad *code in de nose*.
Sue
- Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 14:02:53 (PST)
Claudia, you are my hero! Just our of curiosity, when I was on your website and I went back to the main page there was a little sound clip of Alan accepting an award or something, and he said at the end "See me later, Potter", where did that come from? I really hope you haven't already answered that question, or that it is somewhere obvious on your site...I'd feel like a real twit. Thanks again for giving us all or daily fix of AR.
Rickfan888
- Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 13:37:17 (PST)
Hello everyone! WOW! This site is absotlutely astounding! I've never seen a more complete site dedicated to an actor before. Thanks to whoever runs it, and another thanks to the people who posted those picture links on the GB. That was sweet of you :) I am with Ella ~ I fell in love with Alan as Snape (Ever been in a movie and an actor walked on screen and you choked on your popcorn? I have...dungeon scene, HP I.) I have been addicted since, but all I've seen is Truly Madly Deeply and Sense and Sensibility (And HP II of course) And I must say, he plays a great "bad guy", but I prefer him in the more endearing roles ;) Well anyway, hope you all have a great day. Lovins ~Eden~
Eden
Boise, ID USA - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 12:32:47 (PST)
And I made a spelling oopsie! JS film is spelled "Shenandoah".
Claudia
GA US - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 10:52:38 (PST)
Ooops! Thanks, Zoe, you're right it WAS OK magazine..I picked up both in the shop! Sorry, but I don't have a scanner, maybe someone else in the UK does?
Sarah
London, - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 10:28:23 (PST)
Somewhere further down the page someone (Sarah I think) mentioned that AR had a picture in this weeks Hello magazine. I just wanted to let you all know thats it's this weeks OK! magazine, not Hello. I dont want you all going out and buying the wrong one :D
Zoe <samzp_sg1@yahoo.co.ukfoo>
UK - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 10:21:02 (PST)
Cynic, don't be so cynical. The book will be released in the U.S. at the same time as the U.K. We're a well-known country and we're not going to get short-shrifted. Drusilla Smales, Alan Rickman should marry you just for your name.
Eleanor
- Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 09:19:59 (PST)
OK...here is what I have found so far on the TMC front as far as Jimmy Stewart films go: The person in the group must have seen "Two Rode Together" last Saturday afternoon. Here is a list of JS films on TCM for what's left of the month of January:
The Far Country--1/30/2003--8:00PM EST
Sheanadoah--1/25/2003--4:00PM EST
The Shop Around the Corner--1/27/2003--8:15AM EST and again on 1/30/2003--4:00PM EST.
Claudia
GA US - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 09:00:38 (PST)
*OT* (well, slightly TMD) Sorry, just read "Losing your soulmate cuts like a knife whether you are married to him/her or not." in Claudia's post. I have just lost mine and I'm here to tell you that I totally relate to Nina's desolation and general overdoing of the snot levels. Just how do people cope in these situations? I sure as hell would give anything to have my lover's presence back, real or imagined, wouldn't matter either way to me. Hev
Hev
- Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 07:39:45 (PST)
I shall keep an eye out for the TCM spot, too. :-)
By the way, in case you didn't notice, the Birthday Page is up (link above) and I have written AR's assistant, so everything (or almost everything) is set.
Suzanne <Suz@mail.usa.comfoo>
TX USA - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 07:28:37 (PST)
Just a quick clarification of my previous theoretical post about TMD. I should have said, "what if Minghella wanted us to think all along that Nina is creating the ghosts in her mind?" I don't think that was his intent--I have never heard him say anything to that effect--but what if he had?
Ali-Pat
- Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 06:06:21 (PST)
"Kimberly and Claudia two women on an AR mission!" I see nothing getting in our way, Kimberly! LOL I'll keep you posted if I can find anything. This would be a perfect addition to our site, gals!
Claudia
GA US - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 05:36:55 (PST)
Claudia: My first thought when I read that post on Yahoo! was "What a great addition to Claudia's site! Now, if we can only manage to get a copy."
I'm thinking it may precede a James Stewart film, as his drawing is of JS. So, that's something to check out at the TCM website-all the JS movies for the month of January! We may end up Stewartmaniacs when this is all said and done. LOL
Kimberly
Michigan USA - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 05:18:55 (PST)
Omigosh, Kim, the Turner promo really exists!!! I can't wait to see it. Future video clip for Claudia, I'll warrant!
As for the ghosts in TMD--I have often wondered about that line, too. Perhaps it is just something that occured to Minghella as he was writing the screenplay and he left it in as a joke? Anyway, it is a funny line, especially as Nina kind of tosses it out in the middle of her tirade.
POSSIBLE TMD SPOILERS BELOW
...Actually it fits in with my alternate theory on the movie overall. Sometimes I think that Jamie and all of the ghosts are entirely products of Nina's imagination, something she creates to help her make sense of Jamie's death and to get over her grief. If this is true, then it would be natural for Nina to suddenly ask herself a question like that. Since it happens near the end of the movie, it could also signal the beginning of her ascent back to reality. Think about it--does anybody but Nina see or hear Jamie? And all that furniture moving could have been done by Nina in a fugue during that week she took off sick. She could have retrieved the roses from the trash and set them in a vase, also. (But I don't think she would have scared herself in the bathtub..).
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 05:18:47 (PST)
Nope...I haven't seen it yet, Kimberly. But thanks for the heads up. I can see I will be planted on TCM for a while! Will let yall know immediately if I see it. Oh and if I can get it recorded that would be even better!
Claudia
GA US - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 05:13:31 (PST)
On January 3, 2003, Georgiana mentioned that Alan Rickman would be featured in a promo spot on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel. (See News, Info, and Schedule on this website for futher details.)
Well, on one of the Yahoo! Group sites, a member had this to share:
While channel-surfing, I skimmed past the Turner Classic Movies channel when a VERY familiar voice stopped my hand on the remote. His voice is even sexier when you don't expect it! It was a promo for TCM, and Alan was drawing with light on a pane of glass in front of him. I know it sounds weird. He was talking about Jimmy Stewart. It ended with him signing his name with the light, and saying: "I'm Alan Rickman. I drew Jimmy Stewart (they showed his drawing of JS), a giraffe (showed sketch of giraffe), and some words ("simple" and "true", which he used to describe Stewart). It was funny, so keep an eye out for it on TCM."
Has anyone here seen this?
Kimberly
Michigan USA - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 04:29:12 (PST)
Gene, I will check out Minghella's commentary on the DVD again-I can't remember if he comments on the fact as to why all the ghosts are male or not. As far as whether Nina and Jamie are married...it really never makes that clear. But IMO, I've never let it bother me for I don't think it matters. Losing your soulmate cuts like a knife whether you are married to him/her or not. I shall never be married to my soulmate...the M word makes him quake in his boots! LOL But if I lost him, I don't think I would ever recover
Lynnette--I am so happy you (and everyone) are enjoying the videos! Talk about those eyes...did you catch that unmistakable twinkle in his eye as he was telling LD's character about his plan? *THUD*
Claudia (who is trying so hard to refrain from using her cute little "Thud" animated emoticon!)
GA US - Thursday, January 16, 2003 at 04:15:14 (PST)
It's me again: This time I watched Claudia's Les Liaisons Dangereuses (around the hole in my screen made by Rasputin's eyes).
The LLD scene reminded me very much of AR & LD when I saw them in Private Lives in NY.
I am very happy to have seen these LLD scenes because I did not think we would ever see scenes from that play. But I could not help but think that I wish it was.....
One of the passionate love scenes from that play
I heard it discussed many times on this Guestbook that we do not get to see AR in loves scenes often enough and those love scenes from that play appear to be legendary.
Remember that L. Duncan line about everyone left the theater wanting to have sex with AR
Do any clips from any of the LLD love scenes exist anywhere?
Maybe if we ALL chip in we can ransom the LLD film from the person who stole it from the NYC library. I guess that person never learned to SHARE when they were younger
Thanks again for SHARING Claudia!
Lynnette
- Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 19:39:19 (PST)
Sorry, Lynette, had to laugh at your last post. But they ARE intense, aren't they, LOL? There's no other way to say this, but THE MAN IS SMOKIN!!!!!!!!! *Sighs and wishes she was Rima...* Geez, this is beginning to border on mania... All me love, Katie
Katie C <dragonkeeper@bealenet.comfoo>
Ruther Glen , VA USA - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 19:12:31 (PST)
Thanks CLAUDIA
I just watched Rasputin / Missionary Man --there's just one big problem
I have to buy a new computer monitor now
The Man's intense EYES burnt a hole right thru my screen!!
Lynnette
- Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 18:51:59 (PST)
Alan Rickman is my fave actor and I love him to bits! Even though he's like 56, i think he's really good looking and heaps of people say he's really hot for his age, i agree with them! Alright, anyone who wants to talk to me about him, ill be happy to talk so add me to msn, mk?
Holly Draven <freak_in_cage1375@hotmail.comfoo>
Adeliade, S.A Australia - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 18:10:11 (PST)
TMD spoilers and questions:
Sorry if these questions have already been asked and answered
1) Why are all the ghosts in the house male? Nina asks that question in the film , but it is ever explained?
2) Just out of curiosity: Many movie reviewers refer to Jamie as Nina's husband // and many other reviewers refer to him as her live-in boyfriend(lover)
Were Jamie & Nina married or not? I am not sure if that was made entirely clear in the film.
I don't recall hearing any of these words: husband or wife or married or spouse etc in the film.
I heard it mentioned in several places that Jamie's character was written to be very similiar to Alan Rickman -including the remarks about attending political meetings etc. So just as Alan and Rima are not married would Jamie and Nina not be married?
Gene
- Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 18:01:43 (PST)
Is this old news? Amazon.co.uk is listing a June 21, 2003 publication date for HP5, Order of the Phoenix.
Georgiana
Seattle - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 18:01:32 (PST)
O/T Suzanne, great Idea about the Birthday Card Wishes. Will send card asap! It is so GOOD of you to do this for us!!! It is Good news about HP5. Cannot wait to read this one. The longer the BETTER. I expect there is going to be some changes between Snape/Harry. The last mention of Snape in HP4 was rather strange -never explained well as Harry watches Snape at the farewell Dinner. Snape looks at Harry, still sour, however Harry finds Snape's expression "Difficult to Read"? I hope this is explained in HP5.
Barbara the Australian
Gold Coast, Qld Australia. - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 17:16:52 (PST)
p.s. I recently enjoyed watching the Cat’s Meow and wondered who was the Rickman/Slope look alike that played Hearst assistant?
Janine
Melbourne, Vic Australia - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 16:23:02 (PST)
Well the 21st of June that is gives us plenty of time to train ourselves. Practise reading long books all night. Not forgetting to put an order in for the book, so we can get it a.s.a.p. As at least four people I know will be in the cue to loan it (and that is private not a Monash Uni Library thing). Just when my sleep apnoea treatment was working fine, I guess I will have a relapse. lol.
Janine
Melbourne, Vic Australia - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 15:35:47 (PST)
Robin B - cute kid! My 12-month old son screamed "DADDY" when he saw I was buying the Snape action figure, much to the amusement of my fellow shoppers.
Strega
- Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 14:56:22 (PST)
I Love how you play your role in the harry potter movies/books you are so cool! You're my fav in the series and of corse the movies
Keryn Meldrum <kezzas_lair@hotmail.comfoo>
Old Bar, N.S.W Australia - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 14:06:41 (PST)
ever since my son saw galaxy quest with al rickman he's preoccupied with running at people and knocking them down. he's big for his age. thanx al. :) :)
robin b.
slim city, fla usa - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 14:04:36 (PST)
Any chance of a scan, Sarah?
Claudia
GA US - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 13:39:09 (PST)
Sonoma, it appears that AR has had much the same effect on you as on me--making us delve into new types of literature. Lots of it. As I have said here before, in many ways AR is the best teacher I have ever had.
And Barbara TW, your post made me laugh out loud! I had a similar experience last night while watching Star Trek Nemesis. Every time they referred to the inhabitants of the Romulan rival world, the Remans, I cracked a smile!
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 13:30:29 (PST)
Silly aside for the day:
I drive by a group housing building on my way to work every morning. Finally looked at the name:
Horton Plaza
So I started off the day thinking of Rima!
Barbara the Wallpaperer
- Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 13:09:11 (PST)
Nice little piccie of Alan in this week's Hello magazine (UK). He's clutching his programme after the opening night performance of the Cirque du Soleil at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Think Heat magazine has a mention of him at some after-show party in the 'Spotted' section?
Sarah
London, - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 12:54:40 (PST)
I don't think it's even remotely possible to get tired of Alan... Thanks a bunch for the info on HP Order of the Phoenix. Heard a lot about it lately, but not enough to give a clear picture. *Thinks about Snape and tries not to drool...* Anyway, I have yet to see Dark Harbors, but I rented Dogma last night, and my mother couldn't stop laughing at me after he dropped trou... she said I looked like a fish ... rather intriguing, isn't it? :o) All me love, Katie
Katie C <dragonkeeper@bealenet.comfoo>
Ruther Glen, VA USA - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 12:45:34 (PST)
Carolyn, I still highly doubt I'll ever see AR in the flesh, but thanks to Charlie Rose and Claudia, I've at least seen bits of Private Lives and Les Liasons Dangereuses! And Ali-Pat, I've got AR to thank for jump starting my brain. I was a big reader when young, but fell out of it for years. One of the great things about Alan Rickman isn't just his marvelous performances, but his interesting choice of material (I've just finished reading Tango At The End of Winter). I'm learning a lot from Professor Rickman! Order of the Phoenix will be a piece of cake, all 786 pages...
sonoma
usa - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 12:33:47 (PST)
Cynic, HP Order of the Phoenix will indeed be released in the US on Saturday June 21st. If you live in a large city, perhaps a book store will have a 12:01 on-sale so you can essentially buy it late Friday night. We'll probably all be exhausted from a frantic read-through in the car on the way home to learn the fate of our Potions Master! On the subject of Dark Harbor - I found the film mediocre upon first viewing, but actually liked it a lot
Strega
- Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 11:50:33 (PST)
Sorry for trudging on old ground...I thought I would have been one of the few to see it(DH). I paid $3.49 to rent it too. I had better keep an eye on the bargain bin more often… Oh well. =) Lovely place...here. When can I move in. ;)
Does anyone here have an idea when HP and the order of the phoenix are coming to America? I'm sure that it will be released in UK first...Luck people you are over there...
Cynic <Spicyham90@yahoo.comfoo>
Chestertown , MD USA - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 11:32:40 (PST)
I love alan so much!!! I've liked him since i was like 14,so thats 3 years does anyone know where i can get an autographed photo from??? Is he married? If not i'm in there i swear!!! How fine is he!!!???
Drusilla Smales
England - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 10:51:09 (PST)
kit, the outcome was not predictable, or you've led a more interesting life than most. I couldn't tell that the actors were uncomfortable during the kissing scene, though I certainly was. To the person who wanted to know if she could talk about Dark Harbor here, of course. We have talked about it multiple times, but there are always new people and there aren't that many movies to talk about. Everything old is new again. If we couldn't rehash here there wouldn't be much to say.
Cynthia
- Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 10:39:16 (PST)
Oh dear, dear, dear, dear. Spelling Bee, you tried to sting me. Your sentence caused me to reach frantically for a vial of smelling salts. It is only because I wear two sets of petticoats, crinolines,(fifty cents to whoever knows what they are, I don't), a sequined ball gown and my royal robes that you didn't pierce my tush. And now someone has kindly sent me a porpoise, though what I said was "give me purpose". Oh dear, dear. I must lie down. Lay down? Oh my, my, Alan darling, help me.
Her Weakened Royal Highness, Eleanor
- Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 10:33:47 (PST)
I bought Dark Harbor in a sale bin for $5.00 last year, figuring it was worth at least that much. IMHO, the AR scenes are but the rest of the movie...dumb. She's boring and whinny, the weird guy is just plain creepy and the whole plot is stupid. I was happy when AR's jarring American accent eventaully went back to its normal lovely tone. Why id they bother with trying anyway? She had a Bristish accent that was not really explained, and so did her mother. I don't see why they bothered to set it in New England. I could just have easily been set on some rich man's island in England and then the accents would have been fine. I don't think anything except AR deserved any stars for this one and the outcome was tottaly predictable. However, I do watch it for some...ahem....interesting views of AR!
kit
pa usa - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 10:21:28 (PST)
Hello again! I just heard tell that Rowling's finished the fifth book. Anyone know if this is true? I would also like to express my dissapointment that it will be so long until the third movie is released. Grrrrrrrrr... But, Love, Actually will lift my spirits. :o) Love to all, Katie
Katie C <dragonkeeper@bealenet.comfoo>
Ruther Glen, VA USA - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 09:59:16 (PST)
Woohoo! I must book the week of the 21 June off work for this! Here are the details, courtesy of the Leaky Cauldron site; Official Press Release Info Here it is, folks: The book to be released on June 21, 2003, in U.S., Britain, Canada and Australia,, the book is 38 chapters long, and over one-third longer than Goblet of Fire - with quick math that's close to 1,000 pages. That's all of Lord of the Rings. Anyway, here you go: J.K. ROWLING'S HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF PHOENIX TO BE PUBLISHED ON JUNE 21, 2003 IN THE UNITED STATES, BRITAIN, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA The World's Most Anticipated Book Is Over One Third Longer Than Previous Book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire NEW YORK, NEW YORK: LONDON, ENGLAND: January 15, 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling, the fifth in the bestselling series has been scheduled for release on Saturday, June 21, 2003 in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, it was announced today by Scholastic and Bloomsbury publishers. The companies also announced that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is over a third longer than J.K. Rowling's extraordinary previous book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In making the joint announcement, Barbara Marcus, President of Scholastic Children's Books in the United States, and Nigel Newton, Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing in Britain said: "We are thrilled to announce the publication date. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is absolutely superb and will delight all J.K. Rowling's fans. She has written a brilliant and utterly compelling new adventure, which begins with the words:" The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.....The only person left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flowerbed outside number four. "Later in the novel, J.K.Rowling writes:" Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses.'It is time,' he said 'for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is over 255,000 words compared to over l9l,000 words in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The new book is 38 chapters long, one more than Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Rickfan37
Cheshire, UK - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 09:53:22 (PST)
YES I agree the actors did looked very uncomfortable when they kissed.I still believe however that the movie Dark Harbor was interesting.MR Alan Rickman was Superb as usual but I can't say I wasn't shocked at the very end of the movie.My sister and I did rewind and pause near the last part of the movie over and over again with all do respect... especially Alan Rickmans little skinny dipping my sister was laughing at me but I was enjoying myself. OH GOD!!!! What a work of art he is!
MS VENUS D LUNA <magicstars33@aol.comfoo>
SOUTH GATE, CA UNITED STATES - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 07:45:47 (PST)
Anne/OR, everything Julia says is correct--very well written, Julia! And you aren't the first person to express disappointment/confusion overDark Harbor, not by a long shot! It is an endlessly rehashable film! As for that scene that concerns you,
If you can get a copy of the DVD of Dark Harbor, the director's commentary will clear up some of the confusion (as will many re-viewings). But, more to the point, the director says that the kissing scene was uncomfortable for both of the actors.
Now, how did the Meetup Day go yesterday? Anybody have a report?
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 07:14:29 (PST)
More on The Order of the Phoenix-255,000 words,38 chapters,786 pages. Apx. 1/3 longer then Goblet of Fire. Hopefully, lots of Professor Snape in there!!Considering how long books 4 and now book 5 are, and the impossible task of turning them into feature length films-what do people think if they were to make them a multi-part t.v. minseries like the great minis of the 80's, The Thorn Birds, Shogun, Winds of War etc? I know that t.v. doesn't have the cachet of feature films but it might be easier to film and be truer to all the characters and plots. I think that if they stay true to the books and film all they need to, these movies would be over 4 hours long.
Troy08
Lewiston, Me USA - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 06:56:32 (PST)
Just announced that the new Harry Potter book,The Order of the Phoenix, will be published on Saturday, June 21st. Let the speculation run wild!
Troy08
Lewiston, Me - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 05:57:28 (PST)
Carolyn dear carolyn--thanks for your libraries plug! Libraries do offer much in the way of hidden treasures and are a great way to "road test" material and decide if you want to purchase it or not.
Cynic--nearly dropped the frying pan, hmmm? I guess that's the next step up from spatula dropping! 8-)
MA
The Barbarian Librarian, USA - Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 04:47:48 (PST)
Anne/OR: Insofar as I know, visitors are always welcome to discuss AR's work (with spoiler warnings for the benefit of those who haven't seen the work in question, of course). Other, more personal subjects, such as AR's sex life (with or without you in it) tend to irritate many GB denizens. But we are a friendly bunch, with the exception of some occasional mood swings, and we generally don't mind the intrusion of personal details about you, your life/family, and whatever else you might want to post in relation to AR. For example, many people post encounters from their everyday lives that include mention or remind them of AR. This is OK. What is not OK is if you start describing in lurid details the sexy dream featuring AR you had last night. Especially after the HP phenomenon, we have had an influx of younger readers/posters. Thank you for stopping to consider your audience before posting--that was very thoughtful. Check out the FAQ at the top of the page, or email Suzanne (the mistress of this site) if you have any more questions. Other than that, Welcome!
Julia
Calgary, Canada - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 17:40:46 (PST)
So... on Sunday I did go to the office, where I watched my two new videos (Mesmer and Dark Harbor). I had hoped I might discuss them in this forum, but I figured that first I ought to look at the postings for the last month or so, as I didn't want to be rehashing anything that had been recently covered. After reading the December GB I am not sure what the correct protocol is: do we discuss old AR films here, or not? I see that someone else has just seen Dark Harbor, so maybe I should email privately? Please advise. Also (I perceive that here I risk some unpleasant reactions) if a person DID want to speculate on AR's private life, is there another site where I wouldn't be committing a major faux pas by bringing it up?
Anne
OR - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 16:46:11 (PST)
Wow this is a really interesting guest book...lot more than signatures I dare say...
Since there seems to be a buzz about movies I give my two-cents in a review, I recently saw Dark Harbor. I guess AR really needed paying work because that was the worst movie, (as in the screen play) I have ever seen him in. I certainly got a laugh it was cute seeing him with an American accent...but I was thinking why didn’t they just switch it around the audience would never know the difference. I was particularly disturbed by the sound quality, small wonder why Artisan is the only company that would take it. Its defiantly one of the movies you want to keep the ff button handy.
Was that kiss real? My virgin eyes.=p Also I want to mention don’t operate any heavy machinery or be doing any cooking while viewing the last part of this film...I nearly dropped the frying pan…lol =0
Oh well…there are much better selections…If I was a critic I would maybe give it two stars for effort at a broaching a difficult subject. Good Luck good night
Cynic <Spicyham90@yahoo.comfoo>
Chestertown, MD USA - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 15:09:36 (PST)
Ooooooooo, I love it when people say nice things about libraries!
Sonoma, I have also found a great appreciation for contemporary playwrights (like Peter Barnes) by tracking down and reading the plays AR has appeared in. It has been quite an education! It is also fun to try to imagine how he would play certain parts. Reading is good.
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 14:18:09 (PST)
Oh Sonoma! Don't give up so easily! You may think you'll never get to see him live on stage, but the most marvelous surprises happen all through our lives. "Because of change, all things are possible," to coin a zen-type phrase.
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 14:02:28 (PST)
I am 12 years old and I think that Mr.Rickman is the best actor that I have ever seen.
Jessica Dawn Johnson
Olive Hill, Ky United States - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 13:54:35 (PST)
I'm another Snape lover who said "who is that guy?" then remembered him in other things that I liked. Can he act or what? I don't post much, but have a couple of things to add to the general comments. 1. The gay question...having had the good luck to see Private Lives and meet him in living person: No way. I'm in music and theatre and know lots of gay people. He's not. 2. Stella Maris: that's the name of the ACTRESS in TMD (which I weep through every time)Renie and PL used Stella Maris as a nickname in AABA (which makes me cry only at the end)after a ship they liked to see in the harbor. 3. Just a sort of sighting: his picture was at the top of an ad in the New York Times last Sunday and made my heart stop. He wasn't mentioned, but it was a ad for acting classes in Oxford which RADA grads help teach in the summer. Also pictured were Derek Jacobi, Ben Kingsley, and Fiona Shaw. No promises AR would be there, so don't apply on those grounds!
kit
PA USA - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 10:52:35 (PST)
Carolyn, yes, the libraries are great! I borrowed the BBC's Romeo and Juliet and am currently pillaging the library system for the various plays AR's done. I'll never have the opportunity to see his stage performances, but it's very interesting for me to at least read plays he's chosen to do. As a result, I've become a big fan of Peter Barnes.
sonoma
usa - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 10:43:12 (PST)
Just a helpful hint for those who want to see the movies or hear the tapes but don't have the cash to buy them: try your local library. If they don't have what you want, ask them to help you with an interlibrary loan. Mine is getting Closet Land for me, and I just checked out Die Hard and Return of the Native. I LOVE LIBRARIES!
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 10:25:57 (PST)
Lily, don’t forget we have a mere five-month wait until HP CoS is released on DVD. Just think, we can watch the dueling scene over and over again, ahhhh. I’m holding out hope there will be more AR in the “deleted scenes”. Does anyone have a copy of the shooting script? That would tell us if that wonderful arrival scene with Snape, Potter and Weasley was actually shot and then edited out. A girl can dream . . .
Strega
- Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 09:21:40 (PST)
Lily--I'd just call that a "Snape" drought. Isn't "Love Actually" due out in November 2003?
Claudia (who doesn't care what role...I just need an AR big screen fix!)
GA US - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 08:44:07 (PST)
Perhaps you all know this, the AR drought is scheduled to last a very long time. "The third film in the series, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,' is due in theaters in June 2004." "Entertainment Weekly," January 17, 2003, p.14. Sunday's "Parade" also included reference to the 2 years it would take to make the next installment in the Harry Potter series.
Lily
Chicago, IL - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 07:18:36 (PST)
Have just discovered this marvelous man and his wonderful voice. He has much talent and is also attractive in a rugged way. I much enjoyed him in "Sense and Sensibility" and hope to be able to see him in more things. Having just discovered this website, I have marked it and plan to visit many more times. Thanks for your work on it.
Mary Edmonds <meedmo42@wmconnect.comfoo>
Goshen, IN USA - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 06:08:15 (PST)
*inquiries*
Don't wish to raise the stinger of either the Spelling Bee or HRH of Spelling Errata!
Kimberly
- Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 02:58:05 (PST)
RE: "This is Your Life"
I received this message from the BBC regarding a request for a comprehensive list of guests who have appeared on this show:
Thank you for your further e-mail regarding ‘This Is Your Life’.
I regret to have to say that the we are not able to supply a full list of people featured in the programme as this belongs to Pearson Television.
However, you may be interested to know that there is a book written by Roy Bottomley called 'This Is Your Life - The story of Television's Famous Big Red Book'. At the back of this publication, there is a comprehensive list of most featured artists. The book is published by Methuen London.
I hope this is of interest to you and thank you again for taking the time to contact the BBC with your enquiry.
Regards
Peter Brewer BBC Information
(Who I'm sure harbors hope that I've permanently finished with my inquires regarding this show! LOL) __________________________________________________
Kimberly
Michigan USA - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at 02:55:27 (PST)
alot similiar alot similiar alot similiar alot similiar...
What I meant to say is that the actor David Wenham (LoTR) has alot similiar with Alan Rickman. O/T again, I appologize! Dearest HRH, Please forgive my typo. Tsk, shame on me, and I'm usually so good with grammar! I'm so terribly sorry. I won't do it again, promise. And if anyone says anything about that being "what they teach you at AU" I'll...do nothing but shout "War Eagle!" at yall. :-) Yall have a lovely evenin! ...me purpose, that is. JC from Auburn Alabama, this is Eleanor, Queen of A Lot Similar. Just wanted to let you know that a lot is two words. It's the only point of my reign here on the Guestbook. Thank you for giving my purpose. And as far as I know, his agent's address listed in the FAQ is correct. But I'll check to make sure it hasn't changed, and if it's different, I'll let you know. Sonoma, my e-mail should be working fine (many others have gotten through, at any rate). Did you remember to remove the "foo" on the end? If you (or anyone) can't get through to Suz@mail.usa.com, you can also reach me at webmistress@alan-rickman.com. Alas! I have fallen under the spell of the great Alan Rickman! *Wink.* Honestly, I've never been this obsessed about anything before... well, except maybe chocolate, but I'd gladly give chocolate up if he asked me to. I swear, it's an addiction. I find myself coming home every day just to surf AR sites for glimpses into his life... It was his voice that got me years ago, and hooked me again a few weeks ago when I rented Blow Dry... *Shakes head.* He's just so damnably sexy!!! All my love, Ar obsessors! Hi Claudia, Great job on the video clips, I'm confused though..where is the clip of the Bruce Willis Tribute? Hel--I can tell you nothing more about Melanie except that she is AR's PA. I have heard good reports from friends that have sent things to his agent's office such as receiving an acknowledgement in record time and then others that say they have never heard a thing. I suppose it is a case of hit or miss as to whether he will personally see anything you might send. Sorry not to be more positive about it but I have no personal experience in sending a celebrity anything by mail be it card, letter, or package. Suzanne, I tried to email you twice but both times got a notice that delivery failed. I used the address on your post. Is it the address or me? The birthday plans sound good, hope I can take part. O/T a bit (Sheesh, I'm always O/T) Claudia, you and I seem to be in the same region. Are you having any luck (if you've tried at all) with the AR Day sites? None around here, Alabama, that I know of. Just curious, sorry, couldn't find your e-mail address. Thanks Claudia. Does it mean that the agent works for several actors and passes on the letters etc to the personal assistant? In other words, will anything sent to the agent's address reach AR eventually or am I wasting my time and should I look for the personal assistant's address? Hel...Melanie is AR's personal assistant. The question has been asked a few times but not answered yet so I'm asking too: is the agent listed at the top of this site the right and current one? I would be very grateful for the information because another name has been mentioned here (Melanie ?) and I am little confused. I would like to send birthday wishes to the right place but I do not wish to send them as part of a group waiting for a thank you note or an acknowledgement. Thank you in advance. Claudia, I have been posting this thank you all over, I cant thank you enough for the wonderful clips you made for us. They are fantastic. I had been wanting to see the Bruce Willis Tribute clip ever since I heard about it. (So funny) The Rasputin montage was great also. Great song. Thanks again. Can someone verify Alan's agents postal zip code? Is it London WID 1BS? I saw a different one on another site. Thanks again for everyone coordinating the birthday card collection. Sounds great! :o) @Mesmer´s admirer: I know how frustrated you must be, but we have the same Alan Rickman-film-situation like you in Great Britain. I bought my Mesmer video by Amazon.com (America) and this is a serious internet-shop, so you can use your credit card. Perhaps you find some people to order more and share the shipping and toll costs... What a shame, that european productions aren´t available in Europe! Love reading all your comments.Does anyone know if mesmer will EVER be available on dvd/video in the uk.I think he looks his most attractive in this film. Do any web sites give telephone numbers one can order it from, as i don't wish to use a card over the net. I taped the late show in 94 which shows the making of mesmer, but unfortunately my video has gone mouldy. @Ali-Pat: Thank you for your reply. You know which child I mean? The boy plays Bruce Willis AS a boy in "The Kid", not the son. But the kids in "The Kid" and "Frasier" really look similar, don´t they? ;-)) *************** @Mr. Buttinski: I think the women who are infected with the Rickmaniac-Virus (and I am one of the deseased ones *lol*) just want to let him know, that they think of him and don´t expect a individual reply. Poor Mr. Rickman, if he would do so, he would answer the cards untill his next birthday and then he had to start again... *rofl* Just so no one misconstrue's my previous comment, I do want to make clear that sending a group package to Mr. Rickman is something I think is "A Good Thing." In fact, I think it is highly considerate. With his good manners, I'm sure he will want to acknowledge the well-wishes, but individually sent gifts would prevent that option for him. Happily, with one gift box, he will be able to send one thank you note to all. O/T Suzanne, I would like to help also re AR's Birthday. I think it is a good Idea and I did read Buttinsky's entry. I must say an ORIGINAL name. Will email soon. Unfortunatly no news from ENCORE yet re AR Day. I will keeep trying. Barbara. Just a brief comment on the Alan Rickman Birthday Wishes Project: The advantage of sending the cards in a group from a group is 1)IMPACT and 2)it will be easier for Mr. Rickman to send a note of thanks (and, more likely that he will do so). NOT that this group is looking for any response from the man. ;) It's a group thing. *grin* And I really don't mind the responsibility, etc.. And anyone wishing to send a card to him individually instead, may do so, of course. Anyway, still working out the birthday details. I've been corresponding with JC and Catherine, among others, and here's how it is so far. I will be collecting and forwarding the cards and will post a birthday statement with links above soon. But until I do, you can e-mail me for my address. But I would like to say thank you again, JC, for initially offering your time and expense for this project! And thanks to everyone for all your suggestions! Catherine, from England, has kindly volunteered to take donations for RADA, but she is still working out the details for that also. And as soon as she gets it worked out, I will post her e-mail address above so that those of you who'd like to contribute know where to send it. Will post more again later... Forgive me, but I don't understand the advantage of sending cards to Suzanne and her having the responsibility of sending them on to Alan. Wouldn't it work just as well for everyone to mail their own wishes privately? That's what I did last year and I intend to do the same again. No offense to anyone, I just want to do my own thing. Thanks Silvia. Yes, would be wonderful for The Man to be another play in the City. But I bet he will be paying the theatre a visit at some point to show good friend JS some moral support. Just lurking; while not directly related to Mr. Rickman, just thought folks might like to know that his long-time acting colleague Juliet Stevenson is scheduled to appear in the role of Desiree in "A Little Night Music" at NY City Opera in March (a not too shabby cast including Jeremy Irons, Claire Bloom and Kate Burton - hmmm, wouldn't it have been interesting if Mr. Rickman had been cast as Fredrik, the role Irons is playing). So, if you're so inclined to hear 'Nina' sing 'Send in the Clowns' -- get thee to the NY State Theatre in March. Claudia--Your page is great. I've been lurking on this guestbook since about a month after it started (years and years ago). I only write something once in a blue moon because I don't usually have any new information. Thanks for making the Missionary Man/Rasputin video a reality. I've thought that would make a fun combination ever since I saw AR in the Texas video. Good job and quick work too :) Rickfan--I missed my bedtime by a couple of hours, and it's all your fault. Really fun reading though ;) Thanks. I know I like when people sign my guestbook so I figured I'd sign yours! Have a happy New Year! Sorry, last post today yall, I promise. This thanks goes out to RickFan73. Your story is amazing! I started at 11pm last night which ran until 4:30am and resumed when I woke up at 11am. Your story is so emotional and wonderful! You really have a gift. Claudia, words cannot express my appreciation for your wonderful page!! Thank you so much for sharing those videos with us!! Claudia, your site is indeed RICKMAN HEAVEN. Thank you, thank you, thank you. CLAUDIA, on Sunday, at 11 pm, you saved my weekend! Thank you for your wonderful site! Ulrike Anne/OR--dear girl, you MUST get a TV! And prepare for at least a year of tracking down videos, recordings, screenplays, photos--whatever recorded form of Rickman you take a fancy to. My personal Rickmania has led me on the wildest scavenger hunt of my life, and I am enjoying it completely. I haven't been this emotionally and intellectually engaged by a public figure since John Lennon walked the earth (rest his soul). Until now, I had forgotten how much fun fascination can be. Welcome to the club! Oh--I almost forgot. Start saving NOW, Anne, for that future stage performance in London or New York. And (everybody) cross your fingers that there will be one! Anne-OR Welcome to our club! Girl...get a TV! Go into the office to watch your videos? Only Rickman could make me do that! Ohhhh and there "ain't" a cure, sorry. Rickman is my first absolute crush (on a celeb) since David Cassidy but I have to say...Redford and Ford did catch my eye at one time. Anyway, welcome again and hope you will stay for a while. Claudia, Someone has really graced us with you! I am so greatful for the Bruce Willis Tribute footage! Hoping I didn't shake the GA boarder with my rolling laughter, I want to send a sincere thank you for that! LoL Anyone know anyone who taped that? or anywhere you can buy it? Will it be coming on again? I'm dying to see it on my television screen with four speakers rolling that voice. Ok, I'm done, sorry. That's what I get for going to bed at 4am after reading someone's FANFIC (part of it at least) and being woken up at 11am, only to resume reading then finding that video clip. :sniffle: I love you guys! Hello everyone. What a relief to have found you all. I honestly thought I was going over the edge when I fell for Professor Snape - then when I looked up the cast on the internet I was amazed to find that it was the actor who'd had that same effect on me years before, when I'd seen Sense and Sensibility. I don't go to the movies much (maybe twice a year) and don't own a TV, and have been immune to the charms of media stars my whole adult life. I admit to smirking condescendingly in the past at women who drooled over the likes of Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Robert Redford (yes, I am that old...)and I truly thought it couldn't happen to me. Ha! Now I've got it BAD. In the past two weeks I've bought Dark Harbor, Mesmer, and am working on a deal to purchase the Texas CD with the video. No TV, alas, so I have to go to the office today and watch them there. Anyway, that's me, and I hope to get to know you all better - I think I'll be around for while (unless someone can find a cure!!) Oh Claudia, you are truly the goddess of all Alan Rickman fans! I will forever bow at your altar! The clips are heaven sent... Can you see the huge smile you've put on my face? Lisa--according to the Internet Movie Database, the same child actor does not play Bruce Willis's son and Frasier Crane's son. And Claudia, AR Heaven is whatever makes you happiest, babe! Hi guys! I've updated my Alan Rickman Page with pics of Smiley's People. Enjoy Alan! @Claudia: Oh, your clips are soooooo good! I like the Bruce Willis-Tribute Show so much! Isn´t our man awesome? *hyperventilate* ----- I have an Off-Topic-question: The boy who plays Bruce Willis as child in "The kid", is this the same boy, who plays Dr. Frasier Crane´s son in the sitcom "Frasier"? Or does he just look like the Frasier son? This is totaly OT but Maurice Gibb (of The Bee Gees fame) passed away in Miami Beach from cardiac arrest this morning. A little like a piece of my youth has gone away. Rest in peace and with Andy, Maurice Hey Sue...thank kgb...that's who suggested it. I like Eurythmics and especially the voice of Annie Lennox. But I had never heard that song and I have to tell you...I really got into it as I was putting the vid together LOL Also--Since the Barchester Chronicles vids are somewhat hidden, I might need to let yall know that Segment 2 is there ready and waiting. Claudia!! Thanks a Zillion for the Missionary Man - one of my fave Eurrythmic songs complete with my favourite Monk!!!!! LOL...will AR heaven be full of AR...kind of like Suzy's "Train Full of Alans"? Can't wait! I'm just catching up on the Birthday project and was thinking for this year we should stick with cards. Next year we should look into charity collection. Give us more time to plan things. Maybe even start a small fundraiser. Anybody willing to see about getting bumperstickers made? Proceeds of sales to go to charity next year? Omigosh Claudia! Your site just keeps getting better and better! The quality of the clips is superb and I am enjoying them thoroughly. Thanks for sharing these hard to find films with everybody--there is a special place in AR heaven for you. Hi again - another cutting from the press for you! Richard Curtis and Hugh Grant, take 2,190, in this ensemble comedy, also starring Colin Firth, Liam Neeson and Laura Linney. Bigger than Bridget? Release Date: December. Estimated Box Office US$205 million Nice that they've flagged it; fingers crossed they run a big feature on AR to advertise it nearer the time!! Good morning/afternoon/evening All. Wanted to let you know that there is some new clips and a couple surprises at Enjoy! Still working on the birthday details. Will post more tomorrow. Sorry for the 2nd post, but I just wanted to add my heartfelt assent to rickfan37's suggestion to read her Snape In Love fan fic. Wow, what a writer! Getting my new chapter fix once a week keeps me going with a grin through all seven days! Welcome to the sisterhood, Ella! Your entry is virtually a mirror of my first. I fell in love with Snape and then became obsessed with watching AR in everything I could get my hands on. TMD is a great place to start. Watch AR's timing. The pause between when Jamie's wife asks if she can kiss him and when he raises his chin to nod and then says, "Yeah", is just perfect for me to hear my heart go thump THUMP! VCR Alert to the folks in the US. If you've got Encore, Die Hard is on once again right now. Not very far into it yet. Just thought I'd let you know. Ella, at the risk of getting people's backs up, I'd like to recommend a Snapefic link to you, since the heroine shares your name! It's mine, and it's here; http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=981820 @Ella: Start to rent EVERY Movie with Alan Rickman, which you can get!!! And I see you are from USA, so you are lucky that you can rent or buy ALL his films! You should watch Galaxy Quest and Dogma and Rasputin! For Rasputin Mr. Rickman got an EMMY! And in Closet Land Alan Rickman is the Interrogator who tortures the Victim (Madeline Stowe) and that is really hard to watch. I needed a double dosis Metatron (Dogma) afterwards! You will see, he plays so many different characters (the villain, the funny, the lover, the angel...), but he is always excellent... *hyperventilate* The Birthday Thing: I would prefer just sending a card to his agent or personal assistant or whoever and make a donation to AI with a brief reference to Rickman and this guestbook. It is the easiest way of handling the whole thing, in my view. Imagine Suzanne receiving those tons of cards which she must then ship to UK. Does one of you have the actual address of his agent or assistant? Flizz I suggest that part of the donations make to WAR CHILD or WWF.
War Child is a network of independent organisations working across the world to help children affected by war.
www.wwf.org Ah, ya beat me, Claudia. :-) Hi and welcome, Ella. Yes, we are well acquainted with the symptoms of which you speak. May I be the first to recommend Truly, Madly, Deeply... for some strange reason it is usually found in the comedy section of video stores, but there are those who can't watch it without crying. Not me, but I do love it. And then you'll be singing, "The sun ain't gonna shine any more...". Wait and see. Ella....Try Truly Madly Deeply. You can probably channel surf and find it on television. But it really is best with abolutely noooo commercials! On the b'day thing...if a donation and a single card is sent...count me in. Just let me know where to send $$$ and when. **Newbie Rickman Fan Would Like Recommendations** Hi everyone :-) Just stumbled across your GB and was wondering if you could help out a poor, newly enslaved fan. I seem to have come down with something, as I can't stop devouring news and photos of Mr. Rickman (I'm hearing a refrain in my head: "that old black magic..."). I admit that my interest began with the Harry Potter movie (is that blasphemy to died-in-the-wool fans?) and has slowly wormed its way into my psyche. I've seen Sense and Sensibility and Robin Hood, but want more. Lots more. Only, I don't know where to begin. Which movie(s) should I rent first? Thank you, in advance, for any and all recommendations! Ella (who is now singing "that voodo that you do so well...") One and all, note a major display of the Hollywood arithmatic with which I deal daily (as it's illegal to be over 50 and still considered viable for working in the entertainment business); i.e., "Minghella, 49...born in 1954..." Add my vote to sending all our cards to Suzanne (what a gal!). I agree that a big package of cards from all over the place would make a real impression. Are we also donating to appropriate charities individually? Notation to that effect in your card would make a real impression, too. And sorry, Suzanne, but if you do your HB singing at midnight, that means everybody does! You can just hum if you are embarrassed, or sing in your head. Either way, it will contribute to the whole. It is not that he will actually hear the musical birthday wishes tripping from time zone to time zone, but the concept is still cool (from my ever-cosmic Aquarian viewpoint, anyway). Thank you Suzanne for coordinating the birthday cards. That sounds wonderful. I also think it would be a wonderful idea to make a group donation to RADA. Please let us know where to send the money. I think everyone sending birthday cards to Suzanne is the best idea. She can forward one box to Alan's assistant. Personally, I think he/she/they will get a big kick out of receiving so many cards from so many different parts of the globe. That has got to give a person a warm, fuzzy glow...don't you think? Hello everyone! Quick heads-up to all the UK GBers to get their VCR's ready for 10 o'clock this evening on Channel 4, as they are showing Truly Madly Deeply!! Good, eh! I'm afraid the willing English GBer does not have Paypal or an equivalent and we'll just have to mail cheques and money orders. She's been very kind to agree to this and I don't think getting Paypal for one time only is feasible. I like Magda's RADA idea. A single substantial donation by a group, whether to RADA or some other organization, makes more sense than a lot of little ones by individuals. A group donation also provides a contribution opportunity for persons who might hesitate to send an individual check because they can't afford to make it a big one. Ideally the person doing the collecting would be able to accept contributions by PayPal - checks and money orders can be a nuisance internationally. Observer: You're not the first and won't be the last newcomer to feel that this is "some sort of exclusive club." It's just that some of us have been here for ages (me for just under a year), and every time The Man releases another movie or an old one turns up on TV he acquires a few more fans who find their way here and ask the same questions that have been asked and answered here a hundred times before. While I think it's a bit much to expect a newcomer to search the Archives before opening her mouth, many of the answers to Frequently Asked Questions are available in (surprise!) FAQ or on the Resume page, and I do wish people would check there first. Someone made this point more eloquently and probably more diplomatically a few weeks ago but I don't remember who or when. And Eleanor's right, the Gay Question gets asked quite a lot - as does the Marriage/Significant Other Question - and for some reason that really puts some people's backs up. Heather: Are you lurking? Have tried twice to email and got back "Unable to deliver to recipient on remote mail host: 550 relaying mail to cs.com is not allowed." Suzanne: Wow. Wow. Wow. I love you! IOU an email. My views on the birthday-thing: 1. Sending one card around the world in such a short time frame indicates an amazing level of optimism in the quality of our respective postal services that I for one do not share with regard to Canada Post. If there's a way to lose it or slow it down, they'll find it. 2. I think we would do well to heed Suzanne's comment that the plan is getting a little complicated and that a simple single card or donations to his favourite charities in his name would be both easier to arrange and more likely to be appreciated by AR, who does not have a history of encouraging contact from his fans. 3. On Chat the other night, a few of us kicked around the idea of co-ordinating one donation to RADA, his acting alma mater and the recipient of proceeds from that CD he took part in last year. A donation to support scholarship funds would probably resonate with him; he went to RADA himself on one. A GBer in England is willing to collect the cheques and money orders and co-ordinate the gift to RADA. Some info about someone important in AR's career; in today's NewIndPress: LONDON: Oscar-winning film director and writer Anthony Minghella was named on Friday to head the British Film Institute, created 70 years ago to make film more accessible to the public. "I am delighted and honored to be joining the BFI as Chair," Minghella, 49, said in a statement. "Most of all I want to promote a BFI whose work is better understood by the public." Minghella, a former drama teacher who moved to writing for Muppeteer Jim Henson and then into filmmaking, is best known for his 1996 Oscar-winning The English Patient for which he wrote the screenplay and directed. He started feature filmmaking five years earlier with the popular romance Truly, Madly, Deeply starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson. He also directed The Talented Mr. Ripley with Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon and Jude Law, and has completed principal photography on his latest epic Cold Mountain with Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger. Minghella, born in January 1954 in the Isle of Wight, will head the 15-seat board of governors of the BFI, a charity which was set up in 1933 to spread the word about British cinema. Among its assets it has the world's most extensive film and television archive including 275,000 feature films dating back to 1894, 210,000 television programs and seven million film stills. It runs the renowned National Film Theater and hosts the annual Regus London Film Festival which attracts audiences and directors from around the world. Gaye: I don't think AR will open each and every card with a warm smile, necessarily, but I think receiving a package of cards from his fans will make him feel appreciated. Recently, I was at a meeting with the new governor of our state, and though she isn't an international film star, she is quite well known. She mentioned receiving hundreds of cards congratulating her on her political win and how warm it made her feel. Moreover, she intends to have a note sent to each and every well-wisher. She made this comment off-the-cuff in a small group of us. I think receiving a box of good wishes from around the world has to make a person feel good, no matter how jaded we might think they are to such gestures. At any rate, everyone is free to acknowledge (or not acknowledge) AR's birthday in their own unique way. A donation to one of his favorite charities sounds wonderful, too. If we had more time, I'm certain one his pet causes would work with us to ensure AR received a special acknowledgement of our gift. Maybe something for the group to consider for the next special AR occasion. Sorry to be a wet blanket again :o) but I wonder if it might not be a good idea (for those who want to, of course) to just send the donation to the charity of choice, specifically mentioning that the money is sent in Mr Rickman's name, as a birthday memento. The charities concerned usually send an acknowledgement to the person mentioned in such cases. I know it's a nice thought to imagine Alan getting all these b/day cards, but with the cost of international postage plus card I'm sure I'd rather all my money went to Amenesty International or whatever. And even if he never finds out I sent the money, I'd still know myself that I'd sent it! Do you really think he opens each card with a warm smile thinking "How NICE of ...... to send this"? Or is that me being cynical? Just a thought. Suzanne: I think collection of our various cards by one person is the most workable idea, considering the time frame. And, JC, can I e-mail you to find out where to send my card? Thanks for offering to do this! Suzanne, I'll volunteer to collect the cards if you'd like. Believe it or not, I have "credit" (so to speak) at the post office for a faulty machine back home so I'm sure that'll cover quite a bit of the expense. (it was alot of money the durn machine took!) I'd be most willing to spend that "credit" (if that's what you want to call it) on sending the cards. What else is a college kid like me going to spend that on, postal wise? I don't get that many bills...anyway, if you'd like to e-mail me about it, it's gillejcATauburnDOTedu. This birthday thing is getting more complicated all the time! LOL So okay, let's try to keep it simple. First of all, the "one card" does sound like a nice idea, but I have my misgivings about it. For example, what if, after traveling half way around the world and two dozen signatures, it suddenly goes missing? It would be too late to start over. So there's a huge potential for disaster there. Plus, we only have one + month to achieve this and so it probably wouldn't get very far. If we're going to do this on behalf of the web-site/Guestbook, then I think one person collecting individual cards from everyone who wishes to participate is probably the best idea. The package of cards could then be forwarded to AR, in care of his assistant, Melanie Parker, and I could e-mail her to let her know about all of this so she'll know what to expect. And we could post on the GB (or re-post, rather) the contact info for the charities AR supports, so that those wishing to make a donation could do so individually, and then write in their card that a donation to such-and-such was made on his behalf (so we'll be using the honor system here!). I know I asked for volunteers earlier, but if we do it this way, I'll volunteer myself for the card collecting and forwarding. What do ya think? And the "Rolling Rendition" of Happy Birthday sounds fun! But can I have the midnight hour so nobody will be awake to hear me singing? :-) Where is Shetland? What does AR is Brill mean? Dear Observer, I think that reaction-Go read the archives-was not due to exclusivity but reactions from various people regarding the question of Alan's sexuality. Some people get very defensive and insulted on his behalf, and I think they wanted to deflect another discussion on the subject. Other people just get tired of it coming up again. I've really enjoyed seeing Alan Rickman in the In Demand video on the internet and learned that it's available on various editions of CDs from the band Texas. Can someone tell me if you need any special equipment to watch a video that comes on a CD like that? I'm pretty clueless when it comes to that stuff. Oh, and Cynthia, you're welcome! And there's no grapes--I just like Jack London. I have been reading this for a few weeks (since I saw HP2)and am fascinated by this actor's work. Had absolutely no idea that there were others who felt the same. I would happily throw some cash in for his b'day to be donated to Amnesty Int'l. Gaye from OZ! What a wonderful idea! If we could organize ourselves to set up a little fund for Amnesty Int. that would be fine. But who could be our key person? Will Suzanne do it? Suz!!!!!! (echos....)????? We could send the money to the key person and she in turn would send the card and the money to the agent. Perhaps a good cover letter might be good, to alert the agent as to our motives.Individual sigs are impossible but he does know, has met Suz and knows about the GB, so we will not be lost in anonynity, right? We will just have to be part of the great collective unconscious that fules this great fellows career! I will throw in a "fiver", how about the rest of you? Observer: This is an exclusive club! How did you get past the Guest Book gatekeeper???? Must have a word with that chap! Hey fellow AR fans! I stumbled upon this website and am most impressed with all of the wonderful things. I was reading the guestbook and ended up going into the archives because it was interesting and amusing ;) All you other ladies that have websites have done a marvelous job as well. I just have one comment to make...someone said back in the December guestbook that y'all scare off newcomers...when someone asked about Alan being gay, it was responded that perhaps "the newcomers should read the archives." It kind of made me feel that this is some sort of established club and if you haven't been here for awhile, forget it. Made me feel a bit bad! Just an observation. But who am I to judge others, especially when they provide me with Alan photos! Thanks guys! Have a great weekend. What about sending one card, along with a little note saying everyone who signed had contributed a little money to his favourite charity in his name? THAT IS A GREAT IDEA! I am sure he would like it, it is lovely, it is the best gift you can make! Can someone help out with: the actual address of his agent? the account of Amnesty International in Britain? And we should lurk it to the UK media, they will be delighted. Love from Liz-Flizz iwant to say your page is really helpful and amazing Hiya all AR is Brill we are going to write to him and ask him to come to Shetland and give our drama group a talk or summat! Our drama group is called Splinters by the way! Cheery bye About the birthday card - it sounds like a good idea, then I think of the huge pile of cards arriving at Alan's agent, and wonder what on earth Alan would do with them all? I don't really think he's going to stick 'em all in a big book or anything LOL What about sending one card, along with a little note saying everyone who signed had contributed a little money to his favourite charity in his name? Has this idea been thought of before? Or if it's too hard to get everyone to sign (us little non-Americans may miss out here), the card could say that readers of Suz's GB had contributed. I am all for this Happy Birthday Rolling rendition thing-but I would still like to send a birthday card. Where would the best place be to send it(or to who,manager, agent?). If someone would collect them all, I would be happy to enclose some money for postage. Does any one know about how much it would cost to send a box full of cards overseas? Sue, thanks for the info about Wallpaper, inc. I couldn't get on for a while, so guess other people who read this GB were inspired to check it out,too! New fun AR stuff there, as well as Snape. Sorry it takes me a while to reply; I share this account with a teenager, so my access is limited. By the way, I just oreded Rasputin on VHS from Amazon for $6.95, if anyone else is interested. This is probably AR's best film overall. My hand goes up on this "rolling rendition" thing. I can adjust to whatever time is agreed upon. Hi sonoma, thank you for telling me that, it's fun to get positive feedback from a post. I had the flu for two weeks recently--two freakin' weeks! So I sympathize and hope you're better soon. How are the grapes? Ali-Pat - I love the idea of the Rolling Rendition! Can just imagine the hour chiming in on my watch and I break down singing in class. Er...maybe not. Mesmer- the birthday card was just an idea. My best guess (again) would be (no offense to outsider the USers, I promise) to send it around the US and who ever has it on a said date (few WEEKS prior to AR's b-day) mails it back to me and I be sure and get it in express mail. I just thought it'd be a cute idear. And another point on it, it's not really a "Guestbook" thing, just sending it around to fans. Suzanne, if you have any objection, oh please let me know. I really don't want to offend anyone here. (if I am, again let me know, my e-mail is somewhere on this page) Thanks for yall's input on it. Let me know if this is what we want, if so, the card is going out to Colorado this afternoon. "Rolling Rendition" of Happy Birthday--very easy and of no cost to anybody! We simply agree on an hour of the day to sing out the Happy Birthday song (or your regional equivalent) to Alan. For example, if we set the time at 1:00 P.M. on February 21, then whenever it is 1:00 P.M. in your time zone, sing out! Conceivably, every hour of the day on AR's birthday, someone somewhere could be wishing him "happy birthday" in song. What do you all think? I am open to any time--1:00 P.M. was just an arbitrary choice. If we agree to do this, we could put a note about it in whatever birthday card(s) we decide to send him so he knows it is going on. Ali-Pat, please explain how we do the rolling edition of "Happy Birthday." I'm willing to help in any way possible. Thank you. Troy08--Yes, Alan is listed in Who's Who and has been annually since 1994. He is also listed in Who's Who in America (since 1995), International Who's Who (since 1993/94) and Who's Who in Entertainment (since 1998/99). Can't remember about Who's Who, but I know that people do disappear from Who's Who in America after a time if they are inactive or fail to reply to the questionnaire, but reappear in a sister publication called Who Was Who. Ah, the life of the bibliophile. Well, the Dayton AR-Meetup has been cancelled because not enough people signed up. Boo-hoo. Oh well, there are other ways to spend a Tuesday evening. I like the idea of everybody sending their birthday cards to one person and letting them forward everything in one package. But we need to get moving on this, mail service being what it is! Also--any takers on the rolling rendition of Happy Birthday? Hello. I haven't been here in some time and just read the comments about sending Mr. Rickman a birthday card. It seems to me that ONE card sent 'round the world would arrive at the birthday boy's doorstep rather battered and bruised. LOL Wouldn't it be better to send individual cards to one centrally located person and then have that person forward them all together to Mr. Rickman's agent? Also, if the cards are sent under the auspices of this GB, wouldn't such an endeavor require the approval of the owner of this site, namely Suzanne? As for shipping costs, the individual could be reimbursed through a venue such as Paypal. Just my 2 cents..... Bit O/T, sorry yall. Constance- my best guess would be to do like other forms of mail to him and...send it to his agent in the UK. Sound reasonable? If so I'll hit Hallmark (however you spell that) after class tomorrow. I'll sign it first then get it in the mail tomorrow afternoon to the next well-wisher. I guess we'd have to send it around geographically to make it a bit quicker. I'm in Alabama, so who's close to me? If yall'd like to e-mail me about it, my addy is gillejcATauburnDOTedu Cynthia, thank you for making me laugh through the haze of this awful flu with your post about the Alan Rickman meet up day. I had to laugh because I think the same way. The B'Day card is a nice thought.... but where would we send it? We no longer have the luxury of knowing his whereabouts as we did last year. If we send it to his agent, will he even recieve it? Has anyone here connections? I was just reading that Hugh Grant is a new entrant in the British Who's Who Book-published for 155 straight years. Does anyone know if Alan Rickman is in the book? Apparently you stay in until you die-and then they place you in the Who Was Book? I'm not sure if that's true or the writer was trying to be funny? Do any Brit GBer's know? better hurry up then. JC A communal b'day card? What a lovely idea! Let's do it! i was just checking out your latest pic, nice croch al. Hello all. Yes, I'm back from a long Christmas holiday (or so it seemed). I didn't get a chance to keep up with the Guestbook and I'm scared that if I tried to catch up from December 13th, I'd miss class tomorrow as well as next week. I really get caught up in reading this stuff. Yall have no idea what a sunshine yall are in my clear skies. So, Suz, I read about the idea of a birthday card. Have yall ever thought of one person buying a card, signing it, mailing it to another GBer, and so on, and so on and finally sending it to AR's agent or who ever handles the mail? Just a thought. I'd be willing to start this one. I understand it'd have to start fairly soon though. Feb is right around the corner. Ok, this National AR Day, is that serious?! I went to the web site and found four locations here in town. Does that mean others have already sent in those sites for an idear? WOW! This is such a wonderful world. Ok, sorry for a lengthy post. I'm going, I promise. Hope yall'll have a wonderful day! Hi, Will try to catch up with other posts when I get a chance, but I thought I'd post this. Apologies if it has already been posted, and no, I don't know how reliable the source is... Wednesday 8th January 2003: Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban Update: The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed our news from earlier on in the week that Gary Oldman is in talks to star in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Oldman is up for the role of wizard Sirius Black, the escaped prisoner of Azkaban. Kimberly, the best I can do is meet up here. I am a person of the paranoid variety, and I am sure that if I went to a bar for an Alan Rickman Meet-Up Day it would be just me meeting up with a serial killer. I have a worst-case scenario imagination. I'd like to hear about it from those of you who go, if there are any survivors. We can only speculate. OT_ Barbara the Wallpaperer: I've been to the Met about 5 or 6 times now. I haven't even covered a fifth of their permanent collection. But thanks for the tip; I'll be sure to visit those galleries next time! Now that you mention it, mentally on retreat in Virginia planning the "etc."! Cynthia, "etc."?!! Are you sure?!! Yes, we would be sorted between charmers and captivators, fools and heathen. Darn not enough Rickmanics in Melb, to meet up. I don't beleive it! We think alan rickman has a really cool voice and his hair in harry potter is.... Beasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We loved him in Robin hood as well!! We love that dude! Lily: Are you implying that Alan and Dougray had some kind of facial contact?? LOL And, which pub/bar are you and Cynthia at because I'd like to join you!!! LOL Or, do I have to wait for Alan Rickman Meet-up Day??? I read about this soap opera star who met with his fans for a weekend at a resort in Virginia or something. They had meals with him etc. Can you imagine if we had that with Alan? Who would make the biggest fool of themself? I believe I would be rather reserved, but charming. I would captivate him I'm sure. Sorry to the rest of you heathens. The red splotches must be contagious because the other fellow appears to have a light case of it as well. (I don't think anyone saw or photographed red splotches, not a whole lot of pancake either, after performances of PL.) And about that coat, I think there's something very like it in Jil Sander. Does it excuse the coat to know the designer? Or, how about all the rain for an excuse? Just on my own I've logged in some 50 million birthdays since this all began. More power to him...56-Forever, I say! Some guys have all the luck, some guys get all the breaks! (Some guys have all the pain, some guys do nothing but complain.) RE For anybody who missed my original post (it was on December 23--I can understand if y'all were too busy to read the Guestbook!) find out more about it here. p.s. thanks for the congratulatory words on the Buckeyes. I'm an IU grad myself (HOOSIERS!) but I'm happy for the Bucks, nonetheless. The Bruce Willis tribute show sounded great! Are there any videograms or clips available online? Clearing things up a bit more: Stella Maris was the name of the actress who played the pregnant Chilean friend in TMD. Her character's name was Maura. Whether it is her real or stage name, I don't know, but there are 7 listings under "actresses" at Imdb.com. She is No. 3 -- Stella Maris (I). Italics fixed. As for AR's birthday, I don't know about a collection for a gift (after 3 opening nights, I'm all collected-out!), but a card sounds like a nice idea. However, either way, I'm afraid I can't lead this project this time, so if anyone wants to volunteer... I see that I italicized the GB. HELP! D.o.C! Kit - I think the site you require for Snape Postcards is Wallpapers Inc. Hi! I received an e-mail from the BBC Archives today giving mostly details of not being able to obtain individual footage of This is your life. So it seems that my friend saw Alan as a guest and was confused? She says it was him on though!? I'd sent an e-mail some time ago to the bbc, as yet have not got a reply, so at least we know from your e-mail from them, we don't have to be frustrated at not seeing him on the programme. Long time lurker de-lurking for a question. A few months ago someone on some webpage made Snape postcards which were really amusing. I've lost the address and would like to see them again. Who can help me? I recently sent an e-mail to BBC1 regarding the "This is Your Life" program and Alan's appearance on it. This is the response I received: Dear Kimberly Thank you for your e-mail regarding 'This Is Your Life'. I hope this helps and thank you for taking the time to contact the BBC. Regards Nathan Johnston Clearing up things which appear on the guestbook from time to time.... As far as we know, The Man is not gay. He lives with Rima Horton and they've got a pretty good scam going if he is. Anyway, who cares? Stella Maris I was given to understand that Stella Maris was a title that Venus used to bear, back in the Roman days, because of her reputed birth in the seas off of Cytherea.... Nah - he's just fond of the sauce... Thanks to Ali-Pat, Lisa, Juliana et al.--I feel better already! There's one photo in Rexfeatures where his face is red. It's either the photography, or he usually uses foundation and was caught without. Some people just have a lot of broken capillaries on their cheeks, nose, and chin; fair-skinned people, and he's pretty fair. I can't believe he's still 56. Ali Pat-International Alan Rickman Meet Up day????Hope everyone is signed up by now????What is it and how did I miss knowing about it??? Was it posted here? I read this site every day and am Cluelss??? Could you please give details for those of us still in the dark -On another note, I know you live in Ohio-Go Bucks!!!!For those who are not football fans, the Ohio State University Buckeyes just won(against a highly favored team)the national college football championship. VH--I just noticed where your info on "Stella Maris" comes from. If the Marian Library at the University of Dayton doesn't know about Marian nomenclature, nobody does! :D By the way, the International Alan Rickman Meetup Day is less than a week away--hope everybody is signed up by now. I still think it would be a great way to plan a birthday celebration. Anybody else like the idea of a "rolling rendition" of Happy Birthday? VH--very interesting info on Stella Maris. Thanks for the link. Ali-Pat--I did find the quip on Jeremy Irons funny but still...The Man's entrance is my favorite. SPOILER The way he throws off those crutches and neck brace just do it for me! LOL Oops! Left out a word "...particular title...". Hmmm. I see I have managed to stump everyone again with my miscellaneous questions. Ah well, the unrelenting pursuit of information continues... Ann W--I am glad you were able to enjoy the Charlie Rose interview. Charlie has gotten a lot of flack for being underprepared and for talking over Alan's responses, but I still feel that they eventually became comfortable with each other and engaged in the type of conversation that makes CR's interviews so interesting. And there's that bashful, "Wrong, wrong..." from Alan that always invokes a feeling of helpless affection in me. Having finally seen The Two Towers (and loving it, I might add!) I can only agree that David Wenham definitely belongs in that same Alan-esque club as Ronan Vibert and Ciaran Hinds. It isn't so much this or that facial feature that reminds me of AR--it is more the way DW expresses himself. Very subtle, but it is there if you are open to it. And one last thing, I was lucky enough to see a tape of the AR-hosted Bruce Willis tribute last night. Although I agree that Alan's entrance is...stunning...I nearly did damage to my internal organs laughing at the way he cracked on Jeremy Irons. It was all very good-humored, but I'm still not sure if Alan was speaking as a colleague, or as brother Hans! Either way it was a hoot. The recent questions about the name Stella Maris prompted me to do a little poking around on the internet to see if she was a famous historical figure or something. Or something, indeed! Stella Maris is just a translation (latin, I'm guessing) of Mary, Star of the Sea a.k.a. the Virgin Mary. There is an interesting tidbit about the origins of this particular which you can read here. That's "N in 'the state of Insanity'" :-o Don't know why I thought the word "state" would be in the address line... Just wanted to toss my hat into the AR ring and wish my fellow Alan fanciers a good day/night/whatever-it-may-be. Oh, Claudia! Right, right, she's very pregnant before Titus! Hmmm, Anthony M. possibly read Beryl B. Okay, I can live with that, for a while. Sorry, sorry. Apologies all around. I thought I had my hormones in check, but I guess not. I'm so-o-o bad...I need detention! Oops, sorry, sorry. Hey Cindie, I've got a better idea. Wrap me up in a rug a la Cleopatra and have me shipped to HIM. I'd be happy to do you a favor and suggest that he do some more theatre work. I promise you I can be very persuasive. I won't even drool too much on the rug if you'd like it back! Whaddaya say? Be a pal! Not sure about the Stella Maris "coinky dinky" but it is interesting isn't it? Maybe Minghella is a fan of Beryl Bainbridge and borrowed the name. BTW, Stella Maris in TMD was not pregnant by Titus. She never named the baby's father when Nina asked her. Titus, after being spurned by Nina, met Stella at Nina's office and a romance got started and Stella was already quite pregnant at that time. hi. ive never posted before so i hope it works. i love your site. everyone thinks the same way i do! love Ar. Cynthia, might it be the Stella Maris "coincidence" you were going to ask about? Actually, has anyone here ever figured out what's going on? If you read the credits in TMD, I believe you'll find that Nina's Chilean friend, who ends up in a relationship and pregnant with Nina's building contractor, is named "Stella Maris" but there's also Stella in AABA and her mother who would go by the name "Stella Maris"...a little inside joke or what?! Hello!!I'm here again!!Well, i was reading the gustbook, and i saw that a person asked a long time ago if Alan Rickman was gay.I hope that he's not.he isn't is he? When Kimberly posted the picture, she noted that the redness is from the scan and that his picture does not look that way in the magazine. :) So Suzanne is a ship now, o.k.... But I'm in if we decide to do something birthday-wise. If we send a card would a plea for him to do more stage work be too pushy? Not that it should stop us. An article about a dream that my friend found for me in YM (yes, YM) magazine: PROFESSOR!! I am on a couch lying in the arms of Professor Snape from Harry Potter. He's stroking my hair, and it feels a little freaky, but I enjoy it (who wouldn't??). - Erin, 13, Linwood, PA Welcome to the wretched and wonderful world of crushes from afar. I remember having the most bizarre, warped dreams about Albert, the boy on the TV show Little House on the Praire. For some reason I used to dream about kissing him on both cheeks as we rode in a horse drawn carriage through a field of wheat. Whatever. Anyway, it sounds like you either find the professor or Harry pretty hot, which I totally understnad. You're not entirely sure how you'd feel about hooking up with him, but he does give you that special tingly sensation. My advice is enjoy the dreams while they last! Just thought that it was funny and wanted to share it with you all : ) Theatregoer picture: Jesus! The man is breathtaking, but why does he have those bloody red cheeks and that red nose? You lucky folks who met him in person: Does he have that irritated skin? Or is he a wine drinker? Or how does it come that he looks so ... dunno ... ? Warum sieht der Mann auf den Fotos oft so hyperallergisch aus? Ist das echt, oder einfach schlechte Fotos? Kind regards, Herb "Unattractable"???? Meant that to say "unattractive". Oops! Cynthia Mr. Rickman was born in 1946. He is currently 56 and turns 57 on Feb 21st. Hey, Yer Empress-ship! Are we gonna send His Gracefulness a collective present? Insouciantly, Keep up this great resource. I bookmark your site, best greetings ... I just received my copy of Alan Rickman's interview on the Charlie Rose show and I have to say it was well worth the money and arrived speedily. While he seemed reserved, he definitely didn't come across as hostile or haughty as he sometimes does in the print interviews. He must have liked Charlie Rose (who didn't ask about his personal life and seems to have half a brain). I was wondering, if we all write to Charlie Rose and say how great the interview was, would it compel him to have Alan on again. Just a thought! Ann Williams Hey :D I just wanted to pop up and say hi since Ive been a lurker on this board for quite a while, but never really had anything to say. I brought myself Sense and Sensibility: The Diaries written by Emma Thompson for Christmas, and I highly recommend it to everyone here. Emma writes so well, and she is very funny throughout, plus there are lovely little anecdotes about Our Man and two large-ish b/w pictures too. I got mine from Amazon UK, so I guess it may be on the US Amazon too, if not, hunt for it, because its well worth the money :D Happy New Year to you all ~ Zoe xx Now Jules, he just needs a little face powder to take the shine off. No, we should be glad he's not in front of the mirror before every party putting on foundation and dusting himself with powder. Would we really like that? As far as the coat, he's slouchy cool. Do you want him to look like you're 57 year old Uncle Hank? With a bolero and a pot belly and food in his beard? How many 57 year old, (Alan has got to have turned 57 by now. I've been on this guestbook for eight years and he's been 56 the whole time), men look as cool as Alan? Lily, I was going to ask you something but I forget what it was. I'll have to go back and read your post. On Mr Rickman's birthday shopping list for this year: Cynthia, yes it is with Gwyneth Paltrow. But this time the love story isn’t between her and Jeremy Northam. Yesterday, absolutely by chance, I’ve watched An Ideal Husband with… Jeremy Northam again. Few remarks: Jamie is definitely the only man on earth and in paradise to have moustaches and still be handsome ! Rupert Everett would be a wonderful Sirius ! Cate Blanchett is incredibly graceful , and Julianne Moore is certainly one of the best actresses of her generation ! There is Lindsay Duncan in this movie too. I didn’t know her at all and I understand now why you’re all fond of her. Kimberly, thank you so much for the scan. What a delight to behold early in the morning! The grey in his hair is very becoming. It looks like he has a few days growth of beard as well. Yum! Thanks Kimberly for the scan. Extreme red, blue, green, or purple..."nuttin" can make That Man unattractable! Sue, the videos are downloadable now so once you get them on your PC there should be no buffering problem. Hi I am back from Tassie. Glad to see you can all keep a grin on my face. Claudia - Many thanks for all your videos etc. Some of them take too long for me to download, but at least now with my new pc I can see them without the constant buffering my old one did. Particular thanks for the "Refuse To Dance" audio. I cannot stop playing it!!!A great song with great *background* vocals!!!:))) Thank you, Claire! I agree about the blue/cold. It's 15 degrees Farenheit in Michigan right now ~ with snow!!! All fixed Kimberly. It's cold enough here without that amount of blue on the GB! 911 DoC!!! I really made a mess of the GB this time. Please help! Hopefully, the attached photo will make up for the error of my html ways. : ) This is the photo of Alan Rickman with Dougray Scott from the January 2003 "Theatregoer" magazine. (Please note the extreme redness of AR's face is from the scan and is not so prominent in the magazine photo.) The caption with the photo reads: Alan Rickman - who wowed Broadway audiences in Noel Coward's Private Lives last summer - hangs out with Enigma and Mission Impossible II actor Dougray Scott at the This is Our Youth after-show party. This is the photo of Alan Rickman with Dougray Scott from the January 2003 "Theatregoer" magazine. (Please note the extreme redness of AR's face is from the scan and is not so prominent in the magazine photo.) The caption with the photo reads: Alan Rickman - who wowed Broadway audiences in Noel Coward's Private Lives last summer - hangs out with Enigma and Mission Impossible II actor Dougray Scott at the This is Our Youth after-show party. I should of said; Que es tu pelicula favorita de Alan Rickman?--I think. Thank you Marialis for the recommendation. I really appreciate hearing about a good romance. Is Possesion the movie with Gywneth Paltrow? *Possible Spoiler on TMD* Hey girls! You can't rent Truly Madly Deeply anywhere where I live, so my best friend and I ordered it off the Internet....I just saw it for the first time and oh my gosh, that movie is so awesome! I fell in love with his acting all over again. The voice, the charisma, the part where he got all weepy at the end...And the part where he and Nina are singing "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" was soooooo good, I could hardly contain myself. Does he really play the cello? I don't think so, but they certainly made it look like he did. Cheers!!! Ohhh yes, Sonoma...a video clip is in the making (along with a BC segment). Will be a little while and the video is really bad but well worth it. Claudia, I would be fine not having a life (don't really know that I have one anyway!) if I could watch Busted even once! When on earth did you get it?? Maybe a video clip in the future...? I watched "Busted" for the umpteenth time last night and finally realized something that has been bugging me since the first time. Ya'll might find this trivial as h-e-double toothpicks but the woman that plays Angela (the secretary for the firm that Simon works for) is played by Deborah Findley whom also plays Claire, Nina's cello-napper wannbe sister, in TMD. Gawd, I MUST get a life! Hi all! Hope you all had a great holiday season. I noticed the talk about the extras on the TMD DVD. The director also states that the pictures on the wall of Nina's apartment are actually real personal pictures of her and Alan since they had been friends for quite a while. I keep trying to catch those pictures on the wall and get a better look at them! You probably knew this already,but I thought I would bring it up just in case. Laurie and others, if it is any consolation, AR did state in the Charlie Rose interview that sometime between then and February he was to be filming the HP # 3 . Maybe this time he will get more that 4 minutes of screen time. They really rip off Severus Snape in the movies. There is so much more of him in the book. :( @Laurie & Ali-Pat: Simply "too less Rickman" :-((( Laurie, I can offer few words of comfort over HPCOS, but I can offer sympathy. I was also underwhelmed on my first viewing, and was disappointed at the director's "cheap shots" as you point out. But I was urged to see the film again (free tix), and by the third time (free tix again) I had warmed a bit to it. The AR scenes were not as thrilling to me as they were in the first movie, but I did get chills when I saw Snape walking his hands along the table in his office, and of course the dueling scene was worth the admission price to me. There are also a couple of amusing reacion shots from Snape--especially at the end when Dumbledore makes his proclamation about final exams. My advice--wait for the video/DVD and watch it a few more times. And hold out for that third HP film! New director and lots of Snape! Claudia : you're so lucky ! I would love to hear this commentary ! Jeremy Northam : "Possession" of Neil LaBute is very romantic and romantism suits him so well. Am I the only one to adore love stories ? I'm sure I'm not :)) Lily--Minghella's wife is the co-worker that says bye to Nina as she is picking up her purse and leaving the office. She has a long ponytail. Claudia, who is Minghella's wife in TMD? Stella Maris, by chance? (Still trying to figure out that coincidence! LOL!) The new TV Week, which arrives in every Sunday Chicago Trib, lists S&S for this Wednesday at 1 pm only; so surprise, when tuning in to watch "Bridget Jones's Diary" at 7 last night, I find S&S playing on a nearby channel! The listings did the same thing to S&S a couple of months ago. Frustrating, especially in this time of Rickman drought. (I've given my copy of S&S to my mother...nothing like the devotion of a daughter! She loves it and bought S&S for her friend at Christmas. Closet Rickmaniacs?) Jeremy Northam: Also take a look at "The Golden Bowl" with Uma Thurman and Nick Nolte. Does anyone have any comments on the 2nd HP film? POSSIBLE SPOILERS******PROBABLE, IN FACT****I finally had enough money to spend $6 of it yesterday to see the movie and I wish I'd saved it for something else! The only worthwhile bits were AR's eyebrow and the rather interesting shot of St Pancras (and now I suppose 3/4 of the American moviegoing public are going to think that was King's Cross). AR got--what? A total of 5 minutes screen time? Do any of you have any thoughts on why the wizarding men don't wear robes? I'm remembering the bits in GoF where they had no idea how to wear Muggle clothes (remember the poncho-and-kilt outfit?) and didn't like them anyway (remember the elderly wizard who liked a good breeze?) Why in the films do they tend to be coiffed and costumed more like a cartoon version of Tom Brown's Schooldays than Harry Potter's? Only Dumbledore and Flitwick wear what I would call wizarding robes; at least Snape's hair looks wizardish. At this rate I don't think I want to pay to see PoA (but do any of us really think there's gonna be a 3rd film or a 5th book?). I couldn't believe the cheap shots the moviemakers foisted off on the moviegoers. The basilisk's death throes probably cost more to shoot than that non-Quidditch race. If any of you GBers have any comfort to offer, I sure wish you would! (And if you want to jump all over me for what I've just said, well, can't say I'd blame you:) Thank you Claudia! :-)) Well, this is with all films! RC1 has a lot of extras and RC2 not. But as long we have nice fans as you, we are lucky to get informed about it. ;-)) And that Mr. Rickman brought his ideas in his part: The same as usual, he always does this. ;-))) Sorry for posting again...as far as what Minghella has to say about The Man--I can't recite ver batim but he says at one point the only emotion he could get out of AR was at the end (with the tear in the eye) because AR had specific thoughts on how Jamie would act and that the dark clothes were all AR's idea. There may be a couple of ther references but I can't think of them at the moment. Lisa--the differences between the region extras is a huge pet peeve with me. I understand and can appreciate the need for the region concept, but I have not a clue as to why one region contains a gold mine of extras and the other region has none. I was in shock when my London bud informed me that her TMD had no extras. This topic really gets my dander up. @Claudia: And what does Minghella say about OUR man? And WHY does the RC1-Version have these commentarys and the RC2 not? It is a british film, with british actors in a Londoner appartement... and I got my TMD-DVD from Amazon as a UK-import... No commentarys! What a shame! :-((( Marialis, the Region 1 TMD does have a commentary by Anthony Minghella. In fact, in my biased opinion, it is the best commentary I've seen in terms of how the film was made and secret little tidbits like when Minghella's wife appears and etc. The only bad point about the commentary is that he doesn't talk about The Man enough. Ohhh, but he talks "a plenty" about Juliet Stevenson. Thank you all. I will buy Emma… Yes Cynthia you’re right. Jeremy Northam is to die for ! I’m getting a crush (is that good ? I didn’t know that expression) for him since I’ve watched The Winslow Boy. He steals all the scenes. The movie is very very good and all the actors are excellent. I was under the charm of Nigel Hawthorne too who played a father very touching. Dialogues are brilliant (I know that it was a play before) and the last lines, in the last scene are absolutely witty. I’ve watched this movie on a DVD. And if you want, you can watch it again with the commentary of David Mamet, Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon and Jeremy Northam. It was the first time I used a dvd player and I was amazed. Do you imagine ? TMD with the commentary of the three actors and Anthony Minghella ? Il would be wonderful Bienvenidos a Maria de Argentina! Que es tu cinema favorita de Alan Rickman? I'd like any corrections to my spanish, I won't learn otherwise. Ali-Pat, thank you for recommending Winslow Boy. I often wander around my video store drawing a complete blank as to the good movies so I hope I remember your recommendation. I've seen the Alan Rickman ones so many times, I need something new. When you gave the AR links to the movie I was reminded of the Kevin Bacon game. I recently read an entry in a contest to come up with an obituary of a living celebrity. One was; Kevin Bacon mourned by sister's neighbor's cousin's friend's brother-in-law. Or something like that. Julia (from Calgary) While at the Met, did you have a chance to take a look at the Cyprian statuary? The marblework is lovely. There's also a fantastic collection of Minoan seal-stones (most Minoan artifacts are at the Ashmolean in the UK, so they're hard to find). I visited the Metropolitan in June when I went to see PLives and spent most of my time in the Ancient Middle East room, looking at Sumerian jewelry for my latest costuming project..... Hola!! tu página es muy buena, me encanta!! Soy fanatica de Alan Rickman, y generalmente no hay muchas en español ¬¬..asi que me dedico a ver la de inglés. muchos besos! la página esta genial!! Mari It's funny the review for PL should mention Mainbocher. I'm in NYC right now, and visited the Metropolitan today. The Costume Institute there had an exhibit up aboutt he group of people who were friends of The Duke and Duchess of Windsor (ex-Edward VII, Wallis Simpson). They seem to have preferred Mainbocher and Schiaparelli as designers. But was was more interesting was that as you entered the exhibit they had formal portraits of many of these society ladies, and one, I could have sworn--were it not for the time--was Lindsay Duncan. Funny how these things work. (on another note, what is this ne site Claudia has? have I missed something?) Just wanted to add my appreciation for jobs well done. I was just browsing on the net and found a nice photo from An Awfully Big Adventure (I didn't like the movie that much because I never developed much of an interest in the girl, but AR was wonderful as always). It's so pleasantly startling to have Alan Rickman's face nearly fill my computer screen but no one at my house cares, so I thought I'd mention it here. I don't know about links but the address is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1998/gallery/1024/bigadventure.html To AOL Members who are also SLYTHERIN Fans:
The new AOL version 8 has a choice of Desktop Themes under AOL Themes and one of the choices is Harry Potter and under Harry you can choose a SLYTHERIN Desktop theme.
Don't get too excited SNAPE fans because it does not have any photo of Snape nor any of the other cast members--it just has the Slytherin Crest with the Snake. So you can see that everytime you sign on to AOL. Dear Alan,
we are two german girls so we can not speak English very well. Sorry...
You are a great actor and we like to watch films with you! Especially Harry Potter.
Bye, or as we say in Germany
Tschüss!
Hi, Marialis, yes Emma is good, at least I liked it, but not as much as Sense and Sensibility somehow... And not just for the obvious reason in red and white uniform ;) but also possibly because I find it a little hard to warm up to Gnyneth Paltrow. I thought Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet brought a lot of freshness (in the good sense) to S&S and that is what is a little lacking in Emma, except for Sophie Thompson's performance (she's a laugh), but the film is very good nonetheless and there are many excellent actors/actresses in it that you will recognize, if only because some of them have played with Alan. Magda, I am most impressed with your knowledge of French accents ;) I have lived here for so long, I have to look them up sometimes! ôùàéèè! Glad Michael Gambon has been confirmed as Dumbledore, as for Ian McKellen's Dance of Death, I got excited when whatsonstage.com mailed their customers about an exclusive offer over a month ago, but it turned out to be an 'advance' ticket offer only, and the *cheapest* is something like £30 ($45). Gee, I'm prepared to pay that for the odd stall seat now and again, but in this case, I think my only chances to see Dance of Death is if I find myself in London at the right time and fancy queuing up with my fellow Great Unwashed ;) On a brighter note, it's pub time! (I need a drink to forget I have to go back to work tomorrow;) - and I'll have one to your good healths too! (hic!) Barbara~Australia: The "London Daily Mirror" blurb about Rickman wandering through Selfridges didn't contain an actual photo of the event. LOL There was, so I've heard, a very small file photo of him on stage next to said blurb. Not sure I want a photo of Rickman looking dazed and confused. LOL Claudia--thanks so much for putting "Refuse to Dance" up on your site. AR only says a few words, but they are well integrated with the song and his resonant voice really adds a lot. It is a shame that there is no lost video for that, but it's fun to imagine one. Another fun non-existent video would combine images from _Rasputin_ with the Eurythmics song, "Missionary Man" . . . RASPUTIN: Did one of you ever notice, that in the church-scene when the Tsarina enters and passes the sitting Rasputin and he tells her, the Virgin Maria turned off of him... there shines a fraction of a second something on his left hand... and that looks like a wedding ring to me... Yahoo! Movies confirms Michael Gambon as Dumbledore, so it looks official to me. Also Rik Mayall as Peeves (we've not seem him before, have we?) which is just perfect. No clues yet on the others, though... are Channel 4 having an unannounced Alan Rickman season? First the Winter Guest and now TMD is on next weekend...!? Would there be any chance of seeing that Photo from Selfridges? I had a look at Encore and will email them, tonight. If they get enough interest maybe they will put on an AR day! SOON! Not much happening here in Australia but it is good to read all your news! Here's to another great year, Suzanne!!!! P.S. It is irritating to read all these conflicting stories re HP3.... especially as this one is going to be so good for AR. Lesley - do let us know if you find any info; I suspect the guest idea is the best one and it would be good to know who he was supporting. He seems to know so many people! I have already answered one of my own questions! Nikki featured that unintentional imposter, American actor ALLEN Rickman (Shock! Shock!). Those silly folks who publish the International Motion Picture Almanac just got it all wrong. The other odd cites remain unexplained, however... Cynthia--If you liked Jeremy Northam in Emma, then your next film should be The Winslow Boy with (and here are the AR links) Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Gemma Jones. Sue--thanks for at least giving it a think! I have to say that I an intensely curious about what this project might have been. And since I am on the topic of fugitive AR films, how about some more? In the course of my constant pursuit of written material on AR, I have run across a couple of real odd citations to films. Does anybody know anything about a TV film or series called Nikki and a TV special called Bonnie Prince Charley(sic)? Two normally reputable reference sources have given AR credit for appearing in these but have offered no further details. These could be out and out mistakes, or they could be check entries (to guard against plagerism), but I thought I'd follow them up anyway. And one last thing. In her book, Maureen Paton goes on at length about AR's performance in a radio drama called Actors, or Playing for Real (adapted by Peter Barnes from Lope De Vega's La Fingido Verdadero). I have never seen this listed or discussed anywhere else but in the book--did this really take place or is this another one of Paton's errors? Sue! Thank you. Never would have guessed. Thought it was a part of town. Maybe he was a guest for someone like Ruby Wax, or Richard Wilson!? Hi, Sue, Kimberly and everyone. It was mid last year, 2002. A friend asked if I had seen This is your life, as Alan Rickman was on, at the time they were watching they had not thought of recording it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Every-so-often I think about it and try the bbc net. I e-mailed them this evening. Link fixed! I have never heard of AR doing a This is Your Life programme, has anyone else? I could be wrong but I thought the film The Actors with Michael Caine was filmed sometime in 2002. Alan did not do the film because of scheduling conflicts with Love Actually?. Plus I think he was pooped fom his year in Private Lives. Other then Pris. of Azkaban, does Alan have any other projects in the works for 2003?? Okay I have no idea what happened but could someone please fix my posting and delete the duplicate? Sorry and thanks. BTW, the URL was for the IMDB site. The producer is Neil Jordan who directed "Michael Collins" so it's entirely possible. According to the IMDB page, there are only a few actors mentioned so far. I was looking at a web page (Movie Stocks?) and it mentioned Alan would be in a film with Michael Caine. The info. below is what the site describe: "The Actors is a feature much like Waking Ned Devine. The film centers around a struggling actor who lives out his fantasies by impersonating people. The actor soon finds himself in trouble with the Dublin mob after assuming the identity of a wanted man. Michael Caine stars in the Irish film directed by playwright and screenwriter Conor McPherson. The comedy-drama, currently in pre-production at DreamWorks SKG, will be directed by Conor McPherson." Ann Williams Lesley - I don't know for sure at all, but AR is noted for being quite 'shy' in public and I would imagine the thought of appearing on This Is Your Life would fill him with dread. His nearest and dearest would know that and I suspect wouldn't allow his name to be put forward. Only a thought - I don't know any of this for definite at all, but I have read of other famous people telling their families to turn down any requests from TIYL. Lesley: When was Alan on this show? Are certain he appeared on it? Where did you hear this information? These extra details might help some of us locate information for you, if indeed he was on the show. Try again. Did any of the british AR fans see him on This is your life. Did anyone vidio it? Or know how I might see it. I toured bbc sites so I know them like the back of my hand, but no luck. Please help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ali-Pat - Had a think about the Dirk Bogarde thing, but can't help. DB and Glenda Jackson did star in The Patricia Neal Story, but that was 1981. Colonist!- Selfridges is London's second(to Harrods of Knightsbridge)most famous department store. Situated in Oxford street. It has had a major make-over in the past years and is now very swanky. I know it belongs to London, but other than that, what's a Selfridge? Marialis, I liked Emma very much. I think you will too. I got a temporary crush, (aren't they all?), on Jeremy Northam by the second viewing. Nina is conflicted, ambivalent. She's on the cusp between wanting to go on with life and not wanting to let go of Jamie. She probably feels guilt about going on with life. Anybody up for solving a puzzle this weekend? In a book called Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Character Actors (David Quinlan: Batsford, c1995) the entry about Alan Rickman ends with this intriguing statement, "...Rickman should have made his film debut five years earlier than he did, but a 1983 project with Dirk Bogarde and Glenda Jackson was aborted at the last minute." Can anybody shed any light on that? As for TMD--cry every time. Buckets. That last tear of Jamie's just opens a whole big floodgate. @Jane: You are so right about TMD! But Jamie wanted Nina to go on with her life! This was his reason for coming back. But I can´t understand Nina. He asks, if he shall leave and she says "No!" And then straight away she calls the other man to pick her up! @Marialis: Yes, to watch TMD the whole time crying is really the only way to watch it properly. And *freu* means, that I was pleased to read you again. ;-) So your "thank you" was right. ;-)))) Marialis, Emma est un film très bon et très drôle. Go for it! Oh no. First they say Gambon's going to be the big D in HP, now Gary Oldman's in it too? Please someone tell me this isn't true. I'm sorry to those who rate his acting, I'm not denying he can act, but there's something about that man that makes me absolutely gag. I'm very depressed. Won't someone please release a complete casting list soon and put us out of our misery!! Oh and GML, it's OT but a friend of mine recommend me to see "Emma" with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeremy Northam. She said it was from a novel of Jane Austen. My video club hasn't got it. So I've got to buy it. Have you seen it ? Is it good ? I like Jeremy Northam (I've seen him in the excellent "Winslow Boy") but not much Gwyneth Paltrow (je ne suis même pas sure d'orthographier correctement son nom !). I'm waiting for your advice... Merci par avance. Crying while watching TMD is the only way to watch it correctly ! TMD. Cry like a baby. Every time. Oops...and Jane. TMD is my favorite film. I have watched it dozens of times and cry every time. I start weeping when Jamie first comes back and pick up speed from there. By the end of the movie, I am a total crybaby. Never fails...every single time. Thanks Kim, I am sure lots will appreciate you as much as I do. OK GML...I suppose I have kept you in the lurch long enough. The word is g**d***...and that my dear is as close as you will ever get me to saying or typing it. LOL Even though it has been a couple of months ago since I saw it "The Preacher" video which was kindly put on this Guestbook keeps popping back into my head. I was so moved by AR, especially when he was talking about his wife (soulmate) and his young son and even his dog. It has stayed with me. I agree with all the folks who think that is AR at his very best. As for Closet Land -- even though it is such a disturbing movie--in my opinion AR has never acted so well or looked so good in anything else. That fitted shirt and suit and his hair and even the glasses suit him so well. His acting had so much depth and so many layers. There seemed to be such a connection between those two acting partners. I think AR should have gotten an Oscar nomination for that role. TMD Spoiler: Is it hard for anyone else to watch the end of TMD? The last time I was crying my eyes out when AR was waving out the window at the end. It is very hard for me to watch that movie lately. No matter how nice and kind that other man was -- I would have stayed in the house! A long time ago someone on this Guestbook said they had seen "From Sleep and Shadow"(Spirit of Man). Does anyone have a video of it (or a clip) they can put on this board for us to see? Thanks so much. Thie site is FANTASTIC!!! This is the BEST place for any AR fan!!! Thank you. No prob, italics fixed. Well, I've always wanted to italicize the entire GB. Okay, not really. DOC HELP!!! This always irks me to no end when others do it and now I've done it! Wah!!! I sooo sorry! Please forgive me. LOL Claudia: I'll try to produce a scan of the photo in the next couple of days. The photo is 4x7inches. There's also a great article on the 2002 invasion of American actors to the British stage, and vice-versa with the Brits coming to Broadway. To quote: "Another fine import to Broadway from the UK was the Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman Private Lives, directed by Howard Davies. They became the darlings of New York, much as Noel Coward and his Gertrude Lawrence did when they played in its first Broadway outing in 1930. NY theatregoers, always hospitable as the British often are not to a foreign-born hit, adopted it immediately and one of my best memories of the year is Duncan sweeping on to that Private Lives balcony wearing not the 'white Molyneux dress' that Coward specifies but a black velvet plunging-neck number that made me gasp while a New York audience cheered. "that was 02" On another note: Theatregoer reports Sir Ian McKellen will return in February to the British Stage (Lyric Theatre) in his revival of "Dance of Death." That may be a big reason why he wont' be playing Dumbledore. Okay, I'm lazy and don't feel like doing a search. Anybody here know the exact time Mr. Rickman was born. My best friend, the astrologer, wants to do a chart on him. gd? Giddy? Garden? Gender? Grudging? Graduate? Geodesic? (Nah, I don't know what it means either.) Gondwana? Grenadine? Godsent? Gastropod? AArgh. Put me out of my misery! *pant pant!* - As for the Oscar Wilde quote... Hey, who can disagree with somebody who had the good taste to get himself buried in Paris? :D Thought I would sign! "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written." Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Ohhh you are so funny, GML! But you are absolutely right--those words are becoming more and more everyday language. The KS DVD is as full of foul language as Dogma and any other of his films. Personally, the only bad word I REALLY have a problem with and cringe with offense when it is used is the gd word. So how credible are the rumours about Gambon as Dumbledore and Oldman as Black or Lupin? (too laz... uh, busy to remember or check the sources, sorry) Not sure about the idea of Oldman (true or not, why not weigh it anyway) as Black or Lupin, but Gambon as the headmaster would make a lot of sense, he's got the right face and eyes... It's just that the excellent and suddenly very topical play A Number in which he is starring and which I was lucky enough to see at the Royal Court (one of the few affordable theatres in London) is rumoured to move to Broadway in 2003... Won't that take him away from the Harry Potter shooting ground in the UK? To come back to Oldman, I don't deny he can act (and I don't think that of many 'actors') but... dunno... Surely not Lupin? Lupin has got something Oldman hasn't. Maybe Black. Black is lacking something too... *ducks from the many Black admirers out there* ;) - I know I sound mean, but as I don't like gossip and like to make sure I weigh people from their own lips as a rule, and I can't help remembering an interview in which Mr Oldman dismissed Sense and Sensibility (not sure what version it was, not necessarily the one Alan played in, there are several, it doesn't matter) as one of these films from a "f*cking novel" about people in nice frocks with lots of money having a good time. Uh. Apart from the fact Jane Austen is one of my favourite novelists (she's gone out of fashion, I know, but I'm not into fashion - she was amazingly lucid in her time and I admire that above most else), I worry about the man who can't read nearly as much as about the man "who hath no music in himself" ... or whatever it was. (Sense and Sensibility about people with money? Gee, and here I was, thinking it was precisely the contrary.) Oh, well, mabye he hasn't actually read the book. That's OK. Let's be generous. We all say silly things at times. On sort of another subject, I went to see HP II (second time) with my young nephews over Christmas (their mum didn't fancy it, so I sacrificed myself) and had to tell them that 'the man who plays Dumbledore' had just died and so ol' D. would have to be played by somebody else in future HP films. They were most upset and were clearly of the opinion that it was very rude of Mr Harris to die now. You gotta love kids. Tee da... it's Friday, isn't that wonderful? Claudia, thanks for the Kevin Smith DVD audio bit. Very, very funny. An' y'know, and to all the people who let one little word get between themselves and Dogma, the 'f*ck' word has pretty well passed into everyday language in GB English, nothing to worry about. I find myself struggling not to use it every five minutes. And that only because my overpaid phillistine of a boss would take a liking to me if I did and I can't allow that. :) Did AR get the Big Red Book some time ago? Any ideas on how to see it, as I do remember some one telling me after This is your life had been on. Me again--I just noticed the article on the News page from Televisual. Something about actors introducing their favorite movies and drawing scenes from them with light pens. If AR really is involved in this project--talking and making art--how cool will that be?!?!?!!! Sonoma--isn't watching the BBC R&J fun? I'll never forget my reaction the first time I saw the video and heard that great booming voice coming out of that skinny body! Wow, I hope it's true that Oldman will be in Harry Potter. I was thinking of him for Lupin--didn't he turn into a wolf in Dracula? There's something feral about him and he's another of my favorite actors. He's pretty good at exploding into violence, too. More on topic, I've just rented the BBC Romeo and Juliet video from the library and it's amazing to see Rickman looking soooo young. Despite looking about 17, the voice is there in all its mellow glory as are so many of the little things he does so well. But that man has just gotten better and better with each passing year... Lisa... I don't speak a word of German... and I'm so sorry... not even this little word. What can I answer... uh... thank you ?,-) Gary OLDMAN ! Oh no ! Please... I don't imagine Sirius Black with OLDMAN 's face... and even less my dear Remus (sorry, still in love with Remus. Rickman would have been a wonderful Lupin too... full of humanity and care...) Sue and "I-don't-remember-who-was-telling-about-it-sorry", I saw the Lion in Winter during my Christmas vacations... And loved it. Alan would be geat in it. And I felt very interested because Alienor d'Aquitaine (which is her french name) was born at few kilometres from my home, in an Abbaye called Abbaye Saint Vincent in Nieul sur l'Autise and she is really a fascinating character of french (and english of course) history. Still... Besides "monsters of the screen" like Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins had already got a huge presence ! Don't you think ? Sorry - I thought that would link right to the news. Click on news & updates at the left when you get to the Gary Oldman site to read the piece. Hi All! Somewhat O/T - Just read that Gary Oldman is going to be in the next 2 Harry Potter movies. Read for yourself here. Perhaps we have our new Sirius Black... Kimberly..any chance of the pic being posted? FYI: This month's issue (January 2003) of "Theatregoer" magazine has a nice sized photo of Alan Rickman with Dougray Scott at the "This is Our Youth" after-show party. The pic is on page 15. The magazine is based out of the United Kingdom, for those in other countries. Marialis! *freu* "Alan Rickman wandering around London's Selfridges looking lost in his own world" ... good heavens, what a phrase... When I run through my town without a smile on my face, people think I´m angry... I am not! ;-))) BONNE ANNEE 2003 A VOUS TOUS ! And I hope that this year will be great for our friend Alan, with lots of movies and lots of plays... it would mean more and more discussions for us ! Happy new year to everyone here ! How many people have seen Dogma? Can I just say that in my opinion, Dogma is one of the best movies he's ever been in! The plot just thickens every time she turns a corner. Rickman really outdid himself in that role. I mean all his emotions really jump out at you. His face also expresses lots of feelings too. And the way he interacts with other people, you'd think he was actually his character. Rickman is my favorite actor by far in everything I've seen, and I've seen alot, tv and movies. I just want to say thanks, Rickman, for giving us all a good laugh about our religion. Kimberly, he was probably thinking deeply rather than looking lost, i think, but you can never trust british tabloids phrasing the looks on The Man's gorgeous face, lol. Has anyone heard anything about "Standing Room Only," the short film Alan supposedly appeared in? The film was directed by Deborah Lee-Furness, wife of Hugh Jackman. Thought it might be scheduled for some upcoming film festivals. Any information any has about this film would helpful. Thanks! From today's (Thursday, January 2, 2003) London Daily Mirror: Alan Rickman wandering around London's Selfridges looking lost in his own world... Girls Aloud's Kimberley Walsh buying a bumper box of tissues in Bradford... Coupling's Gina McKee walking arm in arm with James Purefoy down Upper Saint Martin's Lane... @Claudia and Ali-Pat: Amazon.de (Germany) has a new version of The Book, too. But Gaby wrote a stage door report on Tami´s site and she wanted him to sign it and he said: "I don´t sign this horrible book. It´s full of lies!" Never dare to ask him to sign it. *ggg* He wont do that. And if it is full of lies, why should I read it and waste time? - The underwear... I will have a look! ;-)))) Does anyone know where to find the complete cast of Harry Potter 3? Thanks! Ali-Pat: A Hans Gruber look-alike at the opera, and white clouds too? What fun! I love opera, and Don Giovanni is one of my favourites. I'll certainly never think of it the same way again! 8-D Autography the biography? Actually he refuses to autograph the biography. Sheesh. Lisa Again, to expand on what Claudia said, we refer to the Paton biography as That Book because it is unauthorized (i.e. written without the consent or blessing of the subject), contains many inaccuracies, and is considered by some to be a hatchet job of speculation and interviews culled from other sources. AR reportedly dislikes the book so much that he has refused to autography copies. Even so, the extreme lack of personal information on The Man makes this the best source of information about him to be found in one place, especially about his early career. The reprint now being offered at AmazonUK says that it will contain new material about the projects AR has been involved in since the book was first published in 1996. You can read all about ithere. My sympathies to everyone who must return to work as usual today after many blessed holidays off. (including me!) Hey Lisa "again"--That Book is "The Unauthorized Biography of Alan Rickman" written by Maureen Paton. Also--you can see the Sev underwear at cafeshops site...Kimberly so graciously gave us the link a little further down this page. June--great eye--as many times as I have watched the extra, I have never even noticed someone in the background (hmmm, wonder why??? LOL). But I don't think that is Rima Horton. It is very hard to tell for sure on the little screen of the video. Tonight I will get the DVD out and play on my large screen and see if I can tell for sure. Encore's AR Day..Ladies (and Gents), I must apologize for jumping the gun by announcing before I saw with my own eyes. I have watched every "in between" movie on Encore for almost a week now and have not been able to catch what my daughter saw (she feels soooo badly). Please forgive me...I let my enthusiasm get the best of me. @Claudia, Tami, Ali-Pat: THE BOOK? Which Book? And: There is Snape-Underwear to buy? Could you make a picture and show it on a site? Please? ;-))) @Robin, San Diego: Hi, PAL is the colour-system in Europe. There are 6 DVD-systems around the world. USA has RC1, Europe has RC2. It can be, that this DVD is from UK and doesn´t work at your player. You must make sure, that your player is able to show it. And: You´ve got a nice Zoo in San Diego, I´ve been there a few years ago. ;-) Claudia, thanks for the new audio clip of Kevin Smith. It's hilarious! I think we're all a little afraid of pissing off that Rickman guy, especially when accompanied by someone with THAT BOOK at the stage door... Yikes! I don't know it for sure, but it definitely looks like Rima to me. And when Alan is smiling and laughing, she is watching him and smiling too. How sweet! Hi, I need to ask some questions for our 'friends across the water' I went on Ebay and they had a few DVDs of "Help, I'm A Fish" on sale but it said DVD that can play Pal. Could someone explain Pal to me? Ty Robin Thanks to ES for all those lovely (& sexy) photos of AR over the past month. Thanks to CLAUDIA for all the video clips. They are tempting me to get a faster internet connection (cable etc) because they take FOREVER to download using my regular modem and regular phone connection. It is nice of you to share them with everyone. I was watching your new We Know Where You Live (WKWYL Extra) on the Television page and I was wondering if anyone knows if that woman who is on the couch in the dressing room at the VERY END of the clip is Rima Horton? It goes by so quickly it was difficult to tell but she does have the exact same hair color and hair style as Rima. Thanks again Thanks, ES and Ali-Pat but you guys know what I mean. To have the patience and eye to manipulate those pics...just awesome in my book. Thanks Ali-Pat for the info on That Book and your concent story...must have felt like you were in the twilight zone or something! LOL Claudia--if I had half of your talent with technology, I'd be in another line of work (and having a better time, no doubt)! As for the version of That Book coming out in February, the AmazonUK blurb from the publisher calls it "fully revised and updated to include all his most recent projects". I have been requested to share the following bit of frivolity. I went to a concert last night that featured a tall, bearded, hook-nosed baritone who resembled Hans Gruber a great deal! He used very Sheriff-like eyes while singing the "La ci Darem la Mano" aria from Don Giovanni and flirting with the soprano singing Zerlina's part, and the stage people used gels to project white clouds on a blue background behind them. It was almost too much! Who needs champagne to feel giddy, anyway? You are the best actor. J've never seen you on the stage. My dream about you- to see you with Glen Close as Valmont. To quote Claudia:I wish I had some talent. Oh well, I'll just be satisfied to sit back and gawk are everyone else's masterpieces! LOL - this is from the lady that has her own web page FULL of great things, supplying us all with amazing video and audio clips, the likes of which most of don't have a hope of learning how to create. Claudia, behave!! Happy New Year to you, and keep up the good work. jaut want to wish everyone here a very HAPPY NEW YEAR. Hope everyone had a good time. All the best to all.... Cute pic, Lisa. We are graced with soooo many artists! D*** it, I wish I had some talent. Oh well, I'll just be satisfied to sit back and gawk are everyone else's masterpieces! Ali-Pat...I'm with ya girl on TSFJG! Dying to see that one. I really need a Rickman generated laugh! BTW, I must have missed something...what is this about another revision of "That Book"? I knew it was going into reprint but had no idea there would be revisions. Thanks loads for all those new audio and video clips, Claudia!!!!!!! 2003 has begun with me ROTFLMAO (and speaking in some odd letter code) thanks to you! Best wishes to all in 2003, which will bring us Love Actually, a new DVD release of Girls on Top, a reprint and revision of That Book, and (please God) The Search for John Gissing in some form. Hi all! Here is something to wake up and cook coffee with a nice smile on your face *ggg* : http://members.lycos.co.uk/amyrow/images/TV%20Shows%20wallpaper/band.jpg Thanks to Claudia for your new page! I was so happy to see, that it is back... I wish for us all a peaceful and rickmanic year 2003! Nope, not nursing the headache yet. Thank goodness for Motrin Migraine! I rented the new (or at least I think its new) Kevin Smith DVD "An Evening With Kevin Smith" and I found it hilarious. If you can get over the typical potty mouth KS has, then you might find it funy too. But anyway, there was one small reference to Our Man on disc 2 and I have posted it here for download. Its is a cute little story...but beware it has some language in it Happy New Year to Alan and all Rickmaniacs. I hope there will be lots of Alan this year to come! In a review of movies in 2003 in today's New York Daily News: "Love Actually" (Nov. 7) - Hugh Grant in yet another charmer written by Richard Curtis ("Notting Hill," "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Bridget Jones's Diary"). Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson co-star in this comedy about a British prime minister who falls in love on his first day in office." So we only have 10 months and 6 days to wait! Thank you! Speak to you soon. HAPPY NEW YEAR! That's what I thought, Claire. BTW, something funky is going on with the graphic at the top of the posts too--sort of blinking little boxes. And the fireworks is now only a little black box--any and all celebratory theme to the graphic is gone. LOL...I know I should go back to bed and nurse my self-induced headache but I will brave it until the house gets going...then, I'll try to sleep! Claudia - you hit a space in the middle of a GB cleaning spree upload (those adverts mainly). Tried to switch the sound off the fireworks rather than damper the whole celebratory thing ! Lesley. The GB is an open forum with Alan Rickman as the topic. Discussions on all things Rickman are why we are here! Two way conversations not of general interest or relating outside the Rickman field are encouraged to go to email. Whoa! I posted a few minutes ago and its gone! I promise...it said nothing out of line...I don't think???? I'll try again LOL....For the record...the fireworks was NOT me! I would and will never post anonymously. Right or wrong...I'll always let you know its me! Lesley, first welcome to our little AR world. And secondly, Maureen Paton made many mistakes in "That Book" (as many of us call it). And one of them was to identify the woman in the last photograph as Rima Horton when in fact she was Sheila, his one and only sister. The second edition (the paperback) corrected the picture to the caption. That Book is full of errors and has been bashed by many including The Man himself. But Its my opinion it will be the closest we will ever have in the way of a biography. tee hee--the fireworks has taken a flying leap along with my last post...well at least part of it has..or my browser is playing tricks on me! Paperback is correct Lesley. This is my second go on the site, it is difficult to understand how it works, are we talking to each other or just talking? Any way, I'll try a question. In his biography, the paper back show him with a different women as his partner, than in the hard back. Does any one know which one is his partner? Happy New Year!! Thanks to you all, 2002 was one of the best years ever for me! It will be hard to beat. But we'll try. :-) Here's wishing you a happy and healthy 2003! *clink*
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Conde <user@nospam.comfoo>
New York, New York USA - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 16:16:55 (PST)
JC
Auburn, Sweet home AL - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 15:46:25 (PST)
Leanne
WI USA - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 15:04:10 (PST)
Juliana
- Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 14:34:43 (PST)
Ulrike <umunninger@web.defoo>
Rosenheim, Germany - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 14:06:34 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 11:30:15 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 10:48:44 (PST)
JC
Auburn, AL - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 10:47:38 (PST)
Anne
OR - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 10:34:43 (PST)
sonoma
u.s.a. - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 10:19:30 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 10:14:09 (PST)
Stezi <alan-ric@alan-rickman.nlfoo>
The Netherlands - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 09:25:43 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 08:48:34 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 07:57:07 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 07:52:54 (PST)
Sue
England - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 07:29:45 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 05:18:21 (PST)
Meryl <aanrmem@yahoo.comfoo>
Middle Of Nowhere, OH - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 05:05:07 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 04:50:51 (PST)
In the February 2003 UK issue of Empire magazine, they are running a "Big In 2003" feature, where they list films they reckon are going to be hits this year. "Love, Actually" makes it in at number 18 in their list, and this is what they say:
Catherine
- Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 04:08:04 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Sunday, January 12, 2003 at 04:06:45 (PST)
Suzanne <Suz@mail.usa.comfoo>
TX USA - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 21:52:46 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 19:23:48 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 19:19:15 (PST)
JC
Auburn, AL - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 17:33:40 (PST)
Rickfan37
Cheshire, UK - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 16:36:27 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 13:10:44 (PST)
Flizz <jalembu@gmx.netfoo>
- Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 13:08:29 (PST)
justday
- Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 12:42:04 (PST)
Christine (and that's when I fell for him, too)
- Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 11:53:18 (PST)
Christine
USA - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 11:50:03 (PST)
Claudia (who fell in lurv with The Man in TMD)
GA US - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 11:46:58 (PST)
Ella
PA USA - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 10:46:17 (PST)
FastFilm
Los Angeles, - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 08:46:09 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 08:28:45 (PST)
Linda
NJ USA - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 07:45:32 (PST)
Troy08 <KBilier@AOL.comfoo>
Lewiston, Me - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 06:15:52 (PST)
Catherine
- Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 04:46:37 (PST)
Magda
Canada - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 04:32:27 (PST)
Anne/Manhattan
- Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 04:10:38 (PST)
Magda
Canada - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 03:03:44 (PST)
Magda
Canada - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 02:54:52 (PST)
Kimberly
Michigan USA - Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 01:01:53 (PST)
Gaye
Adelaide, South Australia - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 23:54:19 (PST)
Kimberly
Michigan USA - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 21:28:13 (PST)
JC
Auburn, AL - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 21:18:39 (PST)
Suzanne <Suz@mail.usa.comfoo>
TX USA - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 20:45:16 (PST)
Eggletina
- Friday, January 10, 2003 at 19:59:05 (PST)
Eleanor
- Friday, January 10, 2003 at 19:56:39 (PST)
sonoma
usa - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 19:08:55 (PST)
Brenda Deubler <bdeubler@fast.netfoo>
Bethlehem, PA USA - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 17:05:34 (PST)
Constance <madaboutron4@yahoo.comfoo>
Cary, NC USA - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 16:10:01 (PST)
Exclusive Guest Book Member
- Friday, January 10, 2003 at 16:01:51 (PST)
Observer
- Friday, January 10, 2003 at 15:37:47 (PST)
Flizz <contact@orangefields.netfoo>
Berlin, Germany - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 14:14:37 (PST)
nicole <baecutie20022004@yahoo.cafoo>
lacome, ab canada - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 13:03:49 (PST)
Toni and Louise <toni_sidgwick@hotmail.com louise_roberts13@hotmail.comfoo>
Ollaberry, Northmaivine Shetland - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 12:58:23 (PST)
Gaye
Adelaide, South Australia - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 12:56:30 (PST)
Troy08 <KBilier@AOL.comfoo>
Lewiston, Me - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 11:35:35 (PST)
Kit
PA USA - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 10:53:06 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 09:52:28 (PST)
Cynthia
- Friday, January 10, 2003 at 09:08:54 (PST)
JC
Auburn, AL - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 08:20:08 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 08:11:22 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 07:11:24 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Friday, January 10, 2003 at 05:19:57 (PST)
Mesmer's Patient
- Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 22:52:06 (PST)
JC
Auburn, AL - Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 20:47:40 (PST)
sonoma
U.S.A. - Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 18:27:32 (PST)
Constance <madaboutron4@yahoo.comfoo>
Cary, NC USA - Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 17:24:02 (PST)
Troy08 <KBilier@AOL.comfoo>
Lewiston, Me - Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 15:47:03 (PST)
a concerned citizen
- Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 13:58:10 (PST)
Barbara the Wallpaperer
- Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 13:35:47 (PST)
robin
werurnot, - Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 13:02:18 (PST)
JC
Auburn, AL - Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 11:58:12 (PST)
GML
UK - Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 10:46:05 (PST)
Cynthia
- Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 08:59:26 (PST)
Cynthia
- Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 08:51:39 (PST)
Julia
Calgary, Canada - Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 08:51:14 (PST)
Lily
Chicago, - Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 07:30:38 (PST)
Janine
Melb -boo hoo, Vic Australia - Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 04:01:49 (PST)
kayleigh+linsey <k_toohie@hotmail.com>
- Thursday, January 09, 2003 at 02:07:03 (PST)
Kimberly
- Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 19:47:51 (PST)
Cynthia
- Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 17:58:25 (PST)
Lily <who, speaking of ships, was once on a boat called the "Stella Maris"foo>
Chicago, - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 17:54:49 (PST)
International Alan Rickman Meetup Day
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 16:23:48 (PST)
sonoma
U.S.A. - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 16:00:05 (PST)
Christine
USA - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 15:13:24 (PST)
Suz (D.o.C.)... this ship has sailed...
Barbara the Wallpaperer
- Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 14:37:32 (PST)
Sue
England - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 14:23:27 (PST)
Lesley
London, - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 13:29:57 (PST)
kit
pa usa - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 12:16:45 (PST)
I do not believe Alan Rickman has ever been on the aforementioned programme, nor am I aware of any future plans for him to be in the show. Perhaps you might be interested in the follow Alan Rickman websites, although as they are not maintained or endorsed by the BBC, we can accept no responsibility for their content:
BBC Information
__________________________________________________
Kimberly
- Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 12:02:51 (PST)
and things more recent - the redness was due to the scanner that the person used, and.... Stella Maris means Star of the Sea, (Stella = star and Mar = [like marina] sea[s])
:-D Well, i don't know about you lot, but where i live it's snowing and very cold. Also, the power cut out to wherei live for ten hours today so there was nothing much to do cept think naughty thoughts about a certain person.Am i bad?
Jizel
- Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 11:47:54 (PST)
Barbara the Wallpaperer <Rome, Rome, Glorious Rome! Where every good paganus likes to call home...foo>
- Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 11:07:14 (PST)
Jules
UK - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 10:20:56 (PST)
Laurie
- Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 10:07:16 (PST)
Eleanor
- Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 10:05:26 (PST)
Cynthia
- Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 10:02:06 (PST)
Troy08 <KBilier@AOL.comfoo>
Lewiston, Me - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 09:52:40 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 07:36:24 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 07:27:48 (PST)
VH
OH USA - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 06:45:11 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 06:41:46 (PST)
VH
OH USA - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 06:40:04 (PST)
~N
- Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 01:27:46 (PST)
I've read through the past month's archive and have discovered that--true to form, for Rickmaniacs that is--you're all very witty, ingenious, and charming.
Noticed that there are a few David Wenham fans amongst you. It's very curious; I was drawn to him immediately as well. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I suppose the AR resemblance must be the answer! Incidentally, to those of you who repeatedly post luvey/lusty messages for Alan: he doesn't own a computer and avoids internet like the plague. But wishful thinking never hurt anyone ;-)
~N
Of Insanity ;-) - Wednesday, January 08, 2003 at 01:23:53 (PST)
Lily
- Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 20:15:07 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 19:21:58 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 19:18:26 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 18:47:50 (PST)
lulu
fl usa - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 18:46:03 (PST)
Lily
Chicago, IL - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 18:03:25 (PST)
Emily <don't have foo>
- Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 17:27:39 (PST)
Juliana
- Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 15:58:11 (PST)
Cindie
- Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 15:52:55 (PST)
Steph
Plantsville, CT - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 15:22:28 (PST)
Herbert <jackwhite111@yahoo.comfoo>
- Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 14:41:57 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 13:54:51 (PST)
Barbara the Wallpaperer
- Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 13:28:16 (PST)
Kylie
- Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 12:41:25 (PST)
Ann Williams <awilliams@sjc.edufoo>
Simsbury, CT US - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 10:07:38 (PST)
Zoe <samzp_sg1@yahoo.co.ukfoo>
England - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 10:03:38 (PST)
Cynthia
CA USA - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 09:08:28 (PST)
A new coat so he can return that one to the smelly old man in the doorway
Some colour corrective foundation...
Jules
UK - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 07:01:00 (PST)
Marialis
FRANCE - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 05:00:05 (PST)
Juliana
- Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 04:49:26 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 03:53:18 (PST)
Janine
Melb, Vic Australia - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 03:47:00 (PST)
Sue
England - Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 03:17:28 (PST)
Kimberly
- Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 01:41:35 (PST)
Claire
- Tuesday, January 07, 2003 at 01:06:19 (PST)
Kimberly
- Monday, January 06, 2003 at 23:20:22 (PST)
Kimberly
- Monday, January 06, 2003 at 23:06:05 (PST)
Cynthia
- Monday, January 06, 2003 at 20:55:36 (PST)
Rickfan888
USA - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 18:44:49 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 16:54:34 (PST)
sonoma
U.S.A. - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 16:40:46 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 16:26:54 (PST)
Leanne
WI USA - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 16:09:36 (PST)
Juliana
- Monday, January 06, 2003 at 15:09:41 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 12:45:24 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 12:23:18 (PST)
Marialis
France - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 08:36:09 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 08:04:57 (PST)
Lily
Chicago, IL - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 07:28:27 (PST)
Laurie
- Monday, January 06, 2003 at 07:27:46 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 05:10:37 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 05:06:11 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 05:02:21 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 04:28:54 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 04:03:39 (PST)
Marialis
FRANCE - Monday, January 06, 2003 at 03:25:42 (PST)
Cynthia
- Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 23:10:29 (PST)
Barbara the Wallpaperer
- Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 20:44:55 (PST)
María Vivanco <marianne_s57@hotmail.comfoo>
Argentina, Buenos Aires - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 19:22:37 (PST)
Julia
Calgary, Canada - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 17:44:27 (PST)
Doreen <Doriann14@aol.comfoo>
Leominster, MA USA - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 14:50:46 (PST)
sonoma
U.S.A. - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 13:10:53 (PST)
AOL MEMBER
- Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 13:08:51 (PST)
Caro and Änte <prof_aente@web.defoo>
L.A., NRW Germany - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 13:08:05 (PST)
GML
UK - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 11:59:54 (PST)
Suzanne: Thank you for fixing my italicization of the GB earlier. : )
Kimberly
Michigan USA - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 09:59:10 (PST)
kgb
St. Louis, MO - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 09:54:18 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 07:59:49 (PST)
kroduk
UK - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 07:14:50 (PST)
flamingkitties
- Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 06:57:12 (PST)
Barbara the Australian
Gold Coast, Qld Australia - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 04:51:01 (PST)
Sue
Lincoln, UK - Sunday, January 05, 2003 at 04:48:25 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 17:15:37 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 16:58:16 (PST)
A colonist
USA - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 15:38:41 (PST)
Sue
England - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 14:41:59 (PST)
Lesley
London, - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 14:38:38 (PST)
Claire
- Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 14:20:29 (PST)
Troy08
Lewiston, Me - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 14:10:57 (PST)
Magda
Canada - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 13:05:22 (PST)
Magda
Canada - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 13:03:50 (PST)
Ann Williams <awilliams@sjc.edufoo>
West Hartford, CT US - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 12:40:55 (PST)
If he had been on, I bet it would have been a good programme!
Sue
Lincoln, UK - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 12:09:59 (PST)
Kimberly
- Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 11:46:31 (PST)
Lesley
London, - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 11:33:59 (PST)
Sue
England - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 11:09:21 (PST)
Sue
England - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 11:06:17 (PST)
A colonist
USA - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 09:34:41 (PST)
Cynthia
CA USA - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 09:28:06 (PST)
Eleanor
- Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 09:24:31 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 08:17:09 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 05:55:58 (PST)
Magda
Canada - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 04:00:01 (PST)
ES
UK, - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 02:04:40 (PST)
Marialis
FRANCE - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 01:01:00 (PST)
Marialis
FRANCE - Saturday, January 04, 2003 at 00:53:09 (PST)
Cindie
- Friday, January 03, 2003 at 18:31:18 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 17:46:43 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 17:44:30 (PST)
Jane
US - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 17:17:14 (PST)
Courtney <martic@sage.edufoo>
NY USA - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 16:32:39 (PST)
Suz (D.o.C.)
Kimberly
- Friday, January 03, 2003 at 16:03:10 (PST)
Byline: Bev Hislop
Page 28
Theatregoer Magazine
January 2003
Kimberly
- Friday, January 03, 2003 at 15:59:00 (PST)
Carolyn, dear Carolyn
CO USA - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 14:58:27 (PST)
GML
UK - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 14:34:01 (PST)
Dani
- Friday, January 03, 2003 at 13:56:04 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 13:28:42 (PST)
GML
UK - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 13:11:40 (PST)
lesley
London, - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 12:33:09 (PST)
Ali-Pat
- Friday, January 03, 2003 at 11:26:36 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 11:18:21 (PST)
sonoma
U.S.A. - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 10:18:23 (PST)
Marialis
France - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 08:50:38 (PST)
VH
OH USA - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 08:19:54 (PST)
VH
OH USA - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 08:14:30 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 05:47:43 (PST)
Kimberly
- Friday, January 03, 2003 at 05:14:04 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 04:53:41 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 04:52:39 (PST)
Marialis
France - Friday, January 03, 2003 at 00:57:44 (PST)
Anonymous <Ajaxfel14@aol.comfoo>
MI USA - Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 17:13:29 (PST)
Jizel
- Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 12:59:20 (PST)
Kimberly
- Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 12:56:07 (PST)
Kimberly
- Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 12:31:24 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 09:30:56 (PST)
Annu
Kuopio, Finland, very cold... - Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 05:24:10 (PST)
MA
He could do whatever he wanted with my mano, USA - Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 05:23:15 (PST)
Ali-Pat
- Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 05:19:16 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 05:17:32 (PST)
Claudia (who "ain't" afraid to admit when she is wrong)
GA US - Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 04:07:11 (PST)
Lisa again
still from Bavaria, - Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 02:05:37 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Thursday, January 02, 2003 at 02:01:19 (PST)
Tami <tchapman@nd.edufoo>
Notre Dame, - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 23:14:34 (PST)
Tami <tchapman@nd.edufoo>
Notre Dame, - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 23:08:49 (PST)
Robin
San Diego, - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 21:56:17 (PST)
June
- Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 17:04:09 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 15:17:23 (PST)
Ali-Pat
Dayton, OH USA - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 13:05:45 (PST)
Tomasz Rostecki <tomaszrostecki@poczta.onet.plfoo>
Poznan, Poland - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 12:35:15 (PST)
ES
UK, - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 11:50:55 (PST)
lynn
Ottawa, Canada - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 09:47:56 (PST)
Claudia (Who is getting her purse ready for yet a third "That Book" purchase...LOL--is she stupid or what?)
GA US - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 08:00:03 (PST)
Ali-Pat
...and who knows what else but I'm anxious to find out! Dayton, OH USA - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 07:17:00 (PST)
Lisa
Bavaria, - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 07:01:00 (PST)
Claudia (whose house is finally stirring and must away to make breakfast--wahhh...no more peace until bedtime!)
GA US - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 06:45:29 (PST)
Stezi <alan-ric@alan-rickman.nlfoo>
The Netherlands - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 06:34:05 (PST)
Magda
Canada - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 05:50:38 (PST)
Lesley
London, - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 04:40:58 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 04:10:04 (PST)
Claire
- Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 03:59:40 (PST)
Claudia
GA US - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 03:51:39 (PST)
Claire
- Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 03:26:57 (PST)
Lesley
London, - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 03:08:59 (PST)
N/A <also@N/A.lifoo>
unknown, unknown - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 03:04:47 (PST)
Shloka Vaidialingam <justshloka@yahoo.comfoo>
India - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 00:26:28 (PST)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Suzanne <Suz@mail.usa.comfoo>
TX USA - Wednesday, January 01, 2003 at 00:03:25 (PST)
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