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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

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My favorite: Dogma. Bethany: Were they sent to Hell? Metatron: Worse. Wisconsin. For the entire span of human history.

Ditto, there's something very funny about the voice of god being so jaded and deadpan. My Fav: Tell a person you're the Metatron and they stare at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody's a theology scholar! May I continue uninterrupted?

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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post #61
post #15

Interesting 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.

Also, his first TV role was in 1978. And even his age during Die Hard was wrong. Born in 1946, Die Hard came out in 1988 so ~42

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favourite bit of that movie (Rickman plays Sir Alexander Dane, a proud thespian whose once illustrious career has been destroyed by Galaxy Quest typecasting him into this humiliating role): Jason Nesmith: You WILL go out there. Sir Alexander Dane: I won't and nothing you say will make me. Jason Nesmith: The Show Must Go On. Sir Alexander Dane: ...Damn you.

My favorite part is when they're in front of the supermarket. "... By Grabthar's hammer... what a savings." It's like he's contemplating his entire acting career and questioning how he got to this point in his life.

Because I love that scene, and youtube hasn't DCMA'ed it yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgv7U3GYlDY

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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post #63

Another great dies at 69 of cancer, days apart. Imagine all of the unknowns who die too early. I really hope we figure this out.

Then there was Lemmy (70) at the weekend, also cancer. I also heard a few days ago that a friend lost his father to cancer. It's been a bad week.

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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I am very sad for this (I am a huge Harry Potter fan), but I can not let pass a curiosity of which this event is part of. Aaron Ramsey (Footballer player for Arsenal, UK) has a reputation for apparently killing off famous people when he scores. Whenever he scores someone famous tends to pass away, of course it is a big coincidence, but he did score yesterday too. Also scored last week, and David Bowie passed away. If…

http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

I didn't imply correlation, just curiosity.

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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post #63

Another great dies at 69 of cancer, days apart. Imagine all of the unknowns who die too early. I really hope we figure this out.

Well, apparently Joe Biden is going to jump-start our Apollo Program equivalent for cancer research.

But as I know from my work on electronic medical records 2005-2007, most medical software is a godawful clusterfoo if you so much as scratch the gilding on the GUI with your fingernail. So if you have a bit of runway in front of you, there's a lot of money to be made in medical software that even does as little as keeping a unique, secure identity record for 300 million patients.

I obviously don't, or I'd be doing it already.

Re: Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69

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post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

He didn't get his first stage role until 42. I think the point still stands.

He had roles on stage at least as early as 1978, so 32 or younger.
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