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Alan Rickman: Private Lives
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For four adventurous years, "Commander Peter Quincy Taggart" (Tim Allen), "Doctor Lazarus" (Alan Rickman), and "Gwen DeMarco" (Sigourney Weaver) risked their lives on dangerous missions in space aboard the NSEA Protector -- until their series was cancelled. Twenty years later, the stars of Galaxy Quest are still on a mission, appearing at science fiction conventions for far-out fans. But when a group of aliens intercept the show's television transmissions and mistake them for "historical documents" they beam the crew into space to help them in their all-too-real war against a deadly adversary.
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Rickman is a high-profile supporter of the Labour Party - the kind of poster boy that the urban middle classes adore. Cherie Blair is a fan - and insisted that Tony take her to Private Lives on a rare night out. Mo Mowlam is a friend, and in 1999 there were rumours that Rickman would stand against Michael Portillo at the elections.
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Rickman denounced the move as "censorship". "I had to say that, didn't I?" he said some months later. "The real irony for me was that we had a situation where two independent theatres were in some kind of conflict which, given the world we are living in, was a great pity."
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