Alan Rickman Gone

[+ quoththeraven]

Actor Alan Rickman, probably best known for his role as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter movies, but better known to me for starring in Sense and Sensibility and Dogma, has died at age 69 of cancer. Yes, same age and same cause of death as David Bowie.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35313604

[marylander1940]

Actor Alan Rickman, probably best known for his role as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter movies, but better known to me for starring in Sense and Sensibility and Dogma, has died at age 69 of cancer. Yes, same age and same cause of death as David Bowie.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35313604

 

[tyro]

Noooooooooooooo.........

Rest in peace.

T

[+ sync]

The Professor Snape character was my favorite.

[+ poolboy48220]

Thanks for reminding me of Dogma. Not that Kevin Smith movies are ever lacking for quotable lines, but Alan Rickman (the Metatron angel) had some stellar ones in that movie. "Mention you're the Metatron and you get a blank look. Mention something in a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everyone's a biblical scholar". And wiping off his robes on God's dress..."It never ends!"

[Rod Hagen]

So sad. Saw him on stage twice. Fantastic. And loved the very very stupid Galaxy Quest.

[borgerback]

Dr. Lazarus (Alexander Dane) in Galaxy Quest was pitch perfect, as the saying goes. Watch the deleted scene off the DVD where Dane goes through the method-acting motivation of a rock, to save Tim Allen's character's life . . . absolutely hysterical.

[BtmBearDad]

Damn! RIP

 

Well, they do come in 3's...one more to go I guess.

[Riley Wynters]

Damn! RIP

 

Well, they do come in 3's...one more to go I guess.

 

I vote for Bieber....

[+ quoththeraven]

So sad. Saw him on stage twice. Fantastic. And loved the very very stupid Galaxy Quest.

 

One I saw and forgot he was in. Thanks for reminding me.

[+ Keith30309]

Thanks for reminding me of Dogma. Not that Kevin Smith movies are ever lacking for quotable lines, but Alan Rickman (the Metatron angel) had some stellar ones in that movie. "Mention you're the Metatron and you get a blank look. Mention something in a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everyone's a biblical scholar". And wiping off his robes on God's dress..."It never ends!"

 

Agree PB - Dogma was terrific and Rickman had some of the best lines, delivered to deadpan perfection:

 

"God? Lonely. But funny. He's got a great sense of humor. Take sex for example. There's nothing funnier than the ridiculous faces you people make mid-coitus."

 

"Metatron acts as the voice of God. Any documented occasion when some yahoo claims God has spoken to them, they're speaking to me. Or they're talking to themselves."

 

"Human beings have neither the aural nor the psychological capacity to withstand the awesome power of God's true voice. Were you to hear it, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode within your chest. We went through five Adams before we figured that one out."

(Courtesy IMDB)

[+ Oliver]

Actor Alan Rickman, .... but better known to me for starring in Sense and Sensibility ....

Ah yes - opposite Kate Winslet.

[Zman]

Dr. Lazarus (Alexander Dane) in Galaxy Quest was pitch perfect, as the saying goes.

 

+1 Great movie.

[MrMiniver]

I last saw him in SEMINAR on Broadway 3 or so years ago. He was brilliant.

 

What other actor could have made such a meal out of a line like "turn to page three hundred ... and ... ninety ... four."

 

As he said in the last Harry Potter film .... " ... always."

[+ Funguy]

Damn! RIP

 

Well, they do come in 3's...one more to go I guess.

 

Rene Angelil - husband of Celine Dion - passed away yesterday of throat cancer. (one more reason to get the HPV vaccine and not smoke!)

[+ quoththeraven]

Rene Angelil - husband of Celine Dion - passed away yesterday of throat cancer. (one more reason to get the HPV vaccine and not smoke!)

 

Sorry to hear that. I knew he was ill. Yes to the PSAs!

[MrMiniver]

Rene Angelil - husband of Celine Dion - passed away yesterday of throat cancer. (one more reason to get the HPV vaccine and not smoke!)

 

Oh, I don't think the husband of a celebrity actually counts.

[Moondance]

I thought Emma Thompson's tribute to Alan Rickman was especially lovely...

 

 

Alan was my friend and so this is hard to write because I have just kissed him goodbye.

 

What I remember most in this moment of painful leave-taking is his humour, intelligence, wisdom, and kindness. His capacity to fell you with a look or lift you with a word.

 

That intransigence which made him the great artist that he was — his ineffable and cynical wit, the clarity with which he saw most things, including me, and the fact that he never spared me the view. I learned a lot from him.

 

He was the finest of actors and directors. I couldn’t wait to see what he was going to do with his face next. I consider myself hugely privileged to have worked with him so many times and to have been directed by him.

 

He was the ultimate ally. In life, art and politics. I trusted him absolutely.

 

He was, above all things, a rare and unique human being and we shall not see his like again.

[TruthBTold]

Ah yes - opposite Kate Winslet.

 

I very recently saw "A Little Chaos" on HBO. Rickman directed the movie and also starred in it as Louis XIV. It also starred Kate Winslet. His passing is a great loss.

[+ Keith30309]

Sorry - I couldn't help myself... this made me spit diet coke out my nose.

 

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