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Alan Rickman: Die Hard
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Alan Rickman (Smallville Die Hard) has been cast as Judge Turpin opposite Johnny Depp's titular barber in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd adaptation.... Per Variety, now that Steven Spielberg has prioritized Indiana Jones 4 over his Abe Lincoln biopic, Liam Neeson will while away the delay by playing a Civil War soldier whose daughter is kidnapped by slave masters in Taken. read more
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Synopsis: Pianist Nina (Juliet Stevenson) and cellist Jamie (Alan Rickman) played together and loved together. When they weren't making music with each other, they made love. It was an idyllic romantic and musical partnership, and when Jamie dies, Nina takes it very hard. The condolences of friends andRead More
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In 1988, Rickman got his first dose of big screen recognition with Die Hard. After the film's huge success, and praise for his delightfully nasty portrayal of the film's villain, he went on to make a couple of poorly received features, including 1989's The January Man and 1990's Quigley Down Under. Success greeted him again in 1991: playing Kevin Costner's nemesis, the vile and loathsome Sheriff of Nottingham, in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Rickman proved to audiences why being bad could be so much fun. The same year, he endeared himself as a markedly more sympathetic character in Truly, Madly, Deeply. As a deceased cellist who reappears to comfort his lover (Juliet Stevenson), Rickman proved himself adept at romantic comedy, and began to accrue a reputation as a thinking woman's sex symbol (something he vocally resented).
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Rickman's lugubrious, predatory Obadiah Slope in The Barchester Chronicles (David Giles, BBC, 1982) was a major success. In 1985/86 he returned to the RSC along with Juliet Stevenson to play leading parts: Jaques in As You Like It (Noble, RST, Barbican); Achilles in Troilus and Cressida (Howard Davies, RST); Valmont in Les liaisons dangereuses (Davies, TOP, Pit, Ambassadors... New York 1987); and Höfgen in Mephisto (Noble, Barbican). All showcased Rickman's talent for projecting disdain, duplicity and boredom. He missed out on the film version of Les liaisons but achieved international fame playing a classy villain in two Hollywood hits, Hans Gruber in Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988) and the Sherif of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Kevin Reynolds, 1991).
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Blow Dry stars Alan Rickman as Phil Allen, barber to the town of Keighley (N. Yorkshire, UK). Allen is a former UK Hairdressing Champion and has ... competed at World level. His championship team (Allen, his wife, and their hair model) was broken apart when, the night before the UK final 10 years previously, his wife Shelley (Natasha Richardson) left him to be with hair model Sandra (Rachel Griffiths). All three are still residents of Keighley, along with Phil and Shelley's son Brian (Josh Hartnett), who lives with his father and has inherited the family talent for hairdressing, but Phil has hardly exchanged two words with either Shelley or Sandra since that day 10 years past. Long may that have continued were it not for the arrival of the British Hairdressing Championships in their home town, which causes them all to rethink their priorities . . .
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With the success of Die Hard, came the success of Rickman (but not Bruce Willis, who tragically perished during filming), and yet his thirst for recognition was not sated. He wrote several erotic novels, competed at the 1946 Gentlemen's Olympics in Prague (winning gold in fencing, shooting and derisive laughter) and ... created his own clothing line, "Rickmania".
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