Comments | madrobins: Five Curtain Calls. Five.

madrobins

Five Curtain Calls. Five.

Jan 14, 2016 07:56

It shoulda been a million. Shoulda been enough to keep him here.

Alan Rickman is gone. I saw him on stage in Dangerous Liaisons back in the 80s (before Die Hard) from a seat so cheap I was practically bumping my head on the ceiling. It didn't matter--his physicality, and his voice, created Valmont indelibly (and sexily). And then there was Die ( Read more... )

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mme_hardy January 14 2016, 16:05:53 UTC

Fuck cancer. So much. I'm glad somebody I know saw the Liaisons performance, and I was so angry that Malkovich got the role onscreen.

Daniel Radcliffe did a lovely remembrance.
https://plus.google.com/+DanielRadcliffe/posts/SG1NZZvTKRt

sartorias January 14 2016, 19:48:41 UTC

Oh, what you said, in spades.

nineweaving January 14 2016, 19:19:33 UTC

Oh no! That is perfectly said: "a miracle of gravity and love and generosity and quiet anguish." He could that, and mischief; he could burn like banked fire.

Nine

mme_hardy January 14 2016, 19:23:44 UTC

Except that I found him a profoundly handsome man.

desperance January 15 2016, 07:04:59 UTC

Aye that. He was gorgeous.

madrobins January 15 2016, 07:12:19 UTC

I misspoke. He was utterly gorgeous, but not a traditionally leading-man handsome (in the same raw-boned way that young Ian McKellan was the stuff of my dreams, but not Hugh Grant pretty). A pretty young man may not age well unless he's really, really lucky (yes, Paul Newman, I'm looking at your shade), but Rickman just got more himself as he got older.