I heard about it this morning and I was so sad. :(
Yeah...one minute of silence for the guy who turned Severus Snape into a sex symbol, helped to redefine the action genre, and made me see spoons in a totally new light. It will be odd to see him wrecking his family next Christmas....
Hopefully Alice Through the Looking Glass is not totally terrible.
belongs to the hurricane
i was so sad when i heard it from my brother today. he was such a great talent and always seemed like such a kind guy on interviews and such, i'm going to miss him.
"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domains he wept, for he had no more worlds to conquer."
edited 14th Jan '16 2:40:32 PM by gallium
A miserable end to 2015, and now a miserable start to 2016.
Mysterious Stranger
R.I.P. 
edited 14th Jan '16 4:31:25 PM by DreamCord
Hey.
Never thought he'd be the first Harry Potter alum to go. Apart from Richard Harris of course.
No longer a forum herald
Hate to correct you, but the guy who played Fenrir Greyback died a year and a half ago.
So, while he may have played a more important role, Rickman was not the first.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Really? Damn.
Among major characters then.
Gonna take this time to rewatch Die Hard.
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
Didn't he appear in the original version of Dangerous Liasons or something?
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
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The original 1985 Royal Shakespeare version and the 1987 Broadway show? Yes. But not the movie (his role was played in said movie by John Malkovich).
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
Oh I know he wasn't in the movie, I remember reading he was in some version of it and he was replaced in the movie by Malkovich.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
By Grabthar's hammer..... by the suns of Warvan..... you shall be avenged.....
With all the memes about women choosing a bear over a man, Hollywood might wanna get on an 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' adaptation
Also, Richard Griffiths
, but that's beside the point.
Yeah, I hadn't even known that he'd been ill. I think the last movie I saw him in was Gambit. I suppose that now, my last memory of him will always be wrinkled buttocks.
Couple of nice tributes I found on squeewentthefangirl -
http://squeewentthefangirl.tumblr.com/post/137320848784/glassclosetcastiel-raise-your-wand-for-alan
http://squeewentthefangirl.tumblr.com/post/137314644819/playgroundlovestory-a-worker-at-universal
That single lily...
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
yeah. I just learned of this myself.
I had no idea he was 69. I guess I never really took a good look at him, cause he looked pretty young.
I mean, we lose David Bowie, and now Alan Rickman. Things are just getting crazy huh?
One Strip! One Strip!
Overlording the Underworld
Long as it doesn't go the full '09 and have celebs dropping like flies all month, we're good.
At first I retreated into the fact that the beginning to the obit on the radio was exactly the same as the one for Bowie. "69, died of cancer, surrounded by family and friends." I figured maybe it was a misreporting, but after looking it up, it just bums me out.
The two roles I actually knew him for best were the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, and as the Doctor on Galaxy Quest.
Actually, two French celebrities (though known only in France) also died a few days earlier. One of them at 69. Of cancer. Yeah.
Overlording the Underworld
And so the year begins.
I hope this isn't the tone of the whole year, though given the Powerball jackpot getting up over a billion dollars, it seems to be a "Walk the lucky minefield and hope you win rather than lose" type of year so far.
A German celebrity died too, also very young...didn't really pay attention to the cause, though.
Cape Malleum Majorem
Most people don't remember his role as Marsten, the bad guy in Quigley Down Under, where he played opposite Tom Selleck.
Marsten: "Some men are born in the wrong century. I was born on the wrong continent."
Quigley: "This ain't Dodge City, and you ain't Bill Hickock."
edited 15th Jan '16 6:36:04 PM by pwiegle
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Well, the most memorable thing about the movie was the way they messed up the title in Germany....they turned Quigley Down under into Quigley the Australian, even though he is the only one in this movie who is NOT Australian.
And the final showdown was just stupidly predictable.
edited 15th Jan '16 7:08:53 PM by Swanpride
(Noted in the Harry Potter thread but felt it deserved its own notice.)
Alan Rickman, veteran of ''Harry Potter'', ''Die Hard'', and many others, had died today at the age of 69.
He was a master of acting even in the smallest seconds.
edited 14th Jan '16 10:41:38 AM by Tuckerscreator