Originally posted by Tapiola
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Alan Rickman RIP
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Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostI would concur completely, Tapiola. My daughter texted me with exactly the same words - distraught she was.
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Originally posted by Tapiola View PostYes, john, The last few days have been a steep learning curve for my two (combined age 17): David Bowie (of whom they had heard), "Snape" and the cat has gone missing...
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Originally posted by Stillhomewardbound View PostWasn't he also the Sheriff of Nottingham opposite Kevin Costner's Robin Hood with the best give of a line any villainous actor could hope to get ... ' and CANCEL Christmas!!!!' ?
(I only know because it was just featured on the News at 10!)
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Wonderful words from Ian McKellan:
"He and Rima Horton (50 years together) were always top of my dream-list dinner guests. Alan would by turns be hilarious and indignant and gossipy and generous - all this delivered sotto, in that convoluted voice, as distinctive as Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Alec Guinness, Alastair Sim or Bowie, company beyond compare.
"On [the set of the film Rasputin], he discovered that the local Russian crew was getting an even worse lunch than the rest of us. So he successfully protested. Behind his starry insouciance and careless elegance, behind that mournful face, which was just as beautiful when wracked with mirth, there was a super-active spirit, questing and achieving, a super-hero, unassuming but deadly effective.
"I so wish he'd played King Lear and a few other classical challenges but that's to be greedy. He leaves a multitude of fans and friends, grateful and bereft.""...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostIndeed.... but (and shb, please don't think I'm stalking you with my small-print-reading magnifying glass! ) the quote was "...and CALL OFF Christmas!!"
(I only know because it was just featured on the News at 10!)
Btw, as one of life's born pedants, I'll never balk at being corrected. Far better that than to be the club bore who always remembers it wrong.
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