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CS Lewis..look him up
I try to keep Christian apologists away from my children.
Narnia's a good story despite the propaganda lurking under the surface. His other writing is awful, though.
Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
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Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
#82'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' and 'Love Actually' are my favorite AR movies.
[the Sheriff has said he'll cut out Robin Hood's heart with a spoon]
Guy of Gisborne: Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?
Sheriff of Nottingham: Because it's DULL, you twit. It'll hurt more.
Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
#83Not much to say here other than he will be missed. I see a lot of commentary here about cancer vs heart disease and why one is so much better treated than another, but that's something of a fallacy. Cancer and heart disease are pretty much matched for cause of death in baby boomers.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/844382#vp_2
We're still very far away from guaranteeing long lifespans. Bowie and Rickman pass away at 69, but Doris Day is still around at 91. Gene Wilder is 82. Mel Brooks is 89. Age Vigoda is 94. Longevity is still a crapshoot.
Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
#84Interesting fact: he got his actual career started remarkably late: http://www.cracked.com/article_19655_5-famous-late-bloomers....
He was a stage actor. His career didn't start with film. This article makes it seem like he was struggling to be a success long after he should have quit. They just have a completely wrong definition of success.
British actors jumping back and forth between TV, stage and film are far more common than in America. If they don't maintain a certain amount of stage work, they must lose some British acting creds.
Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
#85My favorite: Dogma.
Bethany: Were they sent to Hell?
Metatron: Worse. Wisconsin. For the entire span of human history.
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#87Eight movies of "so much like your father" just so he could deliver the "you have your mother's eyes" line, that one time; and undo all Harry's doubts and fears in that one moment.
Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
#88RIP
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Well, it's a stretch, but when I saw Die Hard I just barely caught the BSD reference when they log into the CEO's terminal. I found a screen shot on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/armenws/9516176127/ That's a pretty hackerish reference for a film made in 1988 that wasn't particularly about computers or tech. There was probably a BSD fan at the company that created the computer screens. FreeBSD 9.2 had a tribut…
Everyone who dies has probably used a smart phone or the internet so lets start the avalanche!
Well, everyone who has ever lived has also died.
Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69
#90I was just thinking about Die Hard the other day. He was brilliant in all his roles.
I think it would have been hard for that movie (and Bruce Willis' movie career for that matter) to have been as successful if anyone else had tried to pull off that combination of intelligence, charm and malevolence.