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These things do happen in threes: Natalie Cole, David Bowie, and now Alan Rickman. All within, what... two weeks? He found young fans in Harry Potter, but I loved him as Hans Gruber in Die Hard. I sort of wish he somehow survived the end of that movie to plague Bruce Willis in a later film. He was the best villain in all of the Die Hard movies.
http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/Hans_Gruber
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Ha! Professor Snape died.
in reality : :'(
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Alan Rickman, giant of British film and theatre, dies at 69
by Catherine Shoard
Alan Rickman, one of the best-loved and most warmly admired British actors of the past 30 years, has died in London aged 69. His death was confirmed on Thursday by his family. Rickman had been suffering from cancer.
A star whose arch features and languid diction were recognisable across the generations, Rickman found a fresh legion of fans with his role as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films. But the actor had been a big-screen staple since first shooting to global acclaim in 1988, when he starred as Hans Gruber, Bruce Willis’s sardonic, dastardly adversary in Die Hard – a part he was offered two days after arriving in Los Angeles, aged 41.
Gruber was the first of three memorable baddies played by Rickman: he was an outrageous sheriff of Nottingham in 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, as well as a terrifying Rasputin in an acclaimed 1995 HBO film.
But Rickman was also a singular leading man: in 1991, he starred as a cellist opposite Juliet Stevenson in Anthony Minghella’s affecting supernatural romance Truly, Madly, Deeply; four years later he was the honourable and modest Col Brandon in Sense and Sensibility, starring and scripted by Emma Thompson. He was to reunite with Thompson many times: they played husband and wife in 2003’s Love, Actually and former lovers in 2010 BBC drama The Song of Lunch.
In 1995, he directed Thompson and her mother, Phyllida Law, in his directorial debut, the acclaimed Scottish drama The Winter Guest. Last year, he reunited with Kate Winslet, another Sense and Sensibility co-star, for his second film as director, A Little Chaos – a period romance set in the gardens of Versailles.
Yet it was Rickman’s work on stage that established him as such a compelling talent, and to which he returned throughout his career. After graduating from Rada, the actor supported himself as a dresser for the likes of Nigel Hawthorne and Ralph Richardson before finding work with the Royal Shakespeare Company (as well as on TV as the slithery Reverend Slope in The Barchester Chronicles).
His sensational breakthrough came in 1986 as Valmont, the mordant seducer in Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses. He was nominated for a Tony for the part; Lindsay Duncan memorably said of her co-star’s sonorous performance that audiences would leave the theatre wanting to have sex “and preferably with Alan Rickman”.
He and Duncan – as well as their director, Howard Davies – reunited in 2002 for Noel Coward’s Private Lives, which transferred to Broadway after a successful run in London.
Other key stage performances included Mark Antony opposite Helen Mirren’s Cleopatra at the Olivier Theatre in London, and the title role in Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2010 – again with Duncan, and again transferring to New York. The following year he starred as a creative writing professor in Seminar on Broadway.
In 2005, Rickman directed the award-winning play My Name is Rachel Corrie, which he and Katharine Viner – now Guardian editor-in-chief – compiled from the emails of the student who was killed by a bulldozer while protesting against the actions of the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip.
Rickman remained politically active throughout his life: he was born, he said, “a card-carrying member of the Labour party”, and was highly involved with charities including Saving Faces and the International Performers’ Aid Trust, which seeks to help artists in developing and poverty-stricken countries.
Rickman publicly spoke of his unhappiness about the “Hollywood ending” of 1996 film Michael Collins, a historical biopic of the Irish civil war, in which he portrayed Éamon de Valera, and expressed his belief that art ought to help educate as well as entertain. “Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility,” he once said.
He and his wife, Rima Horton, met when they were still teenagers; she became an economics lecturer as well as a Labour party councillor. In 2012, the pair married, having been together since 1965.
Rickman was an actor unafraid of the unexpected. He voiced a monarch in an episode of cult carton King of the Hill and a megalomaniac pilot fish called Joe in the Danish animator Help! I’m A Fish. In 2000, Rickman appeared as Sharleen Spiteri’s love interest in the music video for Texas’s 2000 hit ‘In Demand’, which involves them tangoing at a petrol station. In 2015, Rickman again featured in the video for one of their singles, this time with vocals.
He spoofed his own persona in comedy Galaxy Quest (2000), in which he plays a Shakespearian-trained actor who has found fame as a Spock-style alien in a long-running sci-fi series and in Victoria Wood’s Christmas special of the same year, as an upright colonel at the Battle of Waterloo.
Rickman was sanguine about his legions of admirers, who declared their love on countless websites, video tributes and at stage doors. Even scientists were not immune: in 2008, linguistics professors concluded that the most appealing male voice mixes elements of Rickman, Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon.
Recent film roles included an art-loving lord in the Coen brothers’ scripted farce Gambit (2012), as Ronald Reagan in Lee Daniels’s The Butler – and a humorous, imperious King Louis XIV in A Little Chaos.
Rickman is still to be seen in Eye in the Sky, a thriller about drone warfare that won rave reviews at the Toronto film festival last year, and repeating his voiceover as Absolem the Caterpillar in Alice Through the Looking Glass, also due for release later this year.
That Rickman never won an Oscar (he did receive a Golden Globe, an Emmy, a Bafta and many more) became a perennial topic in interviews but did not seem to trouble the actor himself. “Parts win prizes, not actors,” he said in 2008. It was the wider worth of his art to which Rickman remained committed, saying that he found it easier to treat the work seriously if he could look upon himself with levity.
“Actors are agents of change,” he said. “A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.”
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An excellent character actor with a superb voice. You are correct in that he was Willis' best villain. He was also the only reason to endure Costner's "Robin Hood'.
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RIP. Was a great villian. :'(
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PIP
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Got that right! Had no idea he was ill either, bloody cancer again, sick of hearing that word.
An excellent character actor with a superb voice. You are correct in that he was Willis' best villain. He was also the only reason to endure Costner's "Robin Hood'.
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RIP great actor.
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I don't know what's worse....
the fact that a great actor has died or the fact that the person who broke the news to me is gonna suck a cock sometime this week
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Excellent actor RIP.
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Damn, cancer.
Always seems like it's cancer when people die these days :-/
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Great actor, he will be missed.
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The grim reaper is hitting the ground running in 2016.
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One of my favorite actors. Could do it all, drama, comedy, action, theatre....and yet Shia LaBeouf lives on.... >:(
By GrabThar's Hammer...you shall be avenged!
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One of my favorite actors. Could do it all, drama, comedy, action, theatre....and yet Shia LaBeouf lives on.... Angry
By GrabThar's Hammer...you shall be avenged!
:D :D :D :D
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Bay likey Rickman ??? ???
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In before Falcon posts that he ate too little carbs
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3 British legends, Bowie,Lemmy and Rickman ..... None that old, ban music and acting..
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Loved him in Man Vs Food.
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damn! Celebs are dying like flies these days.. maybe they went to the "center of the earth" where the Aryan(Nazi) race supposedly build a civilization from all the hooga-booga peoples??
Nonetheless R.I.P
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damn! Celebs are dying like flies these days.. maybe they went to the "center of the earth" where the Caucasian(Nazi) race supposedly build a civilization from all the hooga-booga peoples??
Nonetheless R.I.P
thought it was the lizard people
were lizard people/Nazi the same?
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BOTH MAIN VILLIANS ARE DEAD FROM DIE HARD..
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BOTH MAIN VILLIANS ARE DEAD FROM DIE HARD..
LOL.....you quoted me on other thread using my caps lock on....copy right infringement...
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forehead of peace...
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forehead of peace...
BOTH MAIN VILLIANS ARE DEAD FROM DIE HARD..
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Truly, Madly, Deeply. Very underrated movie:
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BOTH MAIN VILLIANS ARE DEAD FROM DIE HARD..
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I bought 2 HK P7M8's just because of him.
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It only took him 47 years to settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. That might be a record.
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Love his character in Die Hard.
Too bad. Oh, well.
RIP
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These things do happen in threes: Natalie Cole, David Bowie, and now Alan Rickman.
AND LEMMY !!!!!!!
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These things do happen in threes: Natalie Cole, David Bowie, and now Alan Rickman. All within, what... two weeks? He found young fans in Harry Potter, but I loved him as Hans Gruber in Die Hard. I sort of wish he somehow survived the end of that movie to plague Bruce Willis in a later film. He was the best villain in all of the Die Hard movies.
http://diehard.wikia.com/wiki/Hans_Gruber
you forgot Lemmy
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He was in what? Two fucking movies!
Why is this guy being talked about as if he were a national treasure????
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Bowie and Rickman in the space of a few days. But don't worry. One Direction fly a lot and Bieber drives too fast - this could still balance itself out.
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I was a big fan of man vs food.
PIP
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He was in what? Two fucking movies!
Why is this guy being talked about as if he were a national treasure????
Get the widow on the set... we need dirty laundry.
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and now Celine Dion's husband and long time handler Rene Angelil
that guy took her from nothing and turned her into a $650 million dollar powerhouse
2 quick stories, summer of 1990 at the high school field down the street from my house, on Canada Day had various small acts playing. Celeine Dion was one of the headliners at the free show which outside the local french canadian citizens did not mean that much Second story in beginning of 1991, my father, his then wife and their friends went to the local dinner nightclub/theatre to watch her perform, it was a venue like in the movie Goodfellas, size wise, kinda of a french version of the Copa the part where Bobby Vinton plays, who also played there in that dinner club.
Like or hate her music or her husband, the guy went bankrupt and mortgaged his house to get her carreer going and not long after that gig my Dad went to see in early 1991, she went worldwide success wise
eline Dion net worth: Celine Dion is a Canadian singer, actress, songwriter, and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $630 million dollars. Dion is known for her powerful, technically skilled vocals. As a child Celine Dion dreamed of being a performer, emerging as a teen star in the French-speaking world after Rene Angelil, her manager and future husband, mortgaged his home in order to finance her first record. In the 1990s Dion achieved worldwide fame after signing with Epic Records, becoming one of the most successful artists in pop music history. Dion's international breakthrough began in 1991 with Disney's animated film Beauty and the Beast when she duetted with Peabo Bryson on the title track of the film.
Celine Dion Net Worth Explodes:
By the mid-1990s, Dion established herself as one of the best-selling musical artists in the world. Dion's Let's Talk About Love album (1997) reached major success featuring the movie Titanic's theme My Heart Will Go On, becaming Dion's signature song. My Heart Will Go On won the 1997 Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song for Dion, as well as winning Dion two Grammy awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and the coveted Record of the Year award. Dion's music has been influenced by genres ranging from R&B to gospel to rock and classical, often receiving mixed critical reaction. According to Sony Music, Celine Dion has sold over 200 million albums, worldwide.
Celine Dion Net worth – Artist of the Decade:
Between 2000 and 2010 Celine Dion was the highest grossing entertainer in the world. When you add up ticket sales, record sales, merchandise and every other source of income, Celine's empire grossed over $720 million! Of that amount $500 million came from worldwide ticket sales. Of that $500 million, $350 million came from her Las Vegas show alone.
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Rickman, Alan - RIP.
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Alan Rickman was great in Django Unchained and Straight Outta Compton. PIP.
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STILL NUTS BOTH DEAD BICEPS PEAKS