4/30/05 at 10:37 PM
What is your location? Massachusetts
Comments: just a head ups for everyone--tonight on ABC on TV they were
showing HP and the sorcerers stone. Next Saturday night at 8 along with the
showing of HP and the chamber of secrets (with 10 minutes of added scenes they
said) there will be a sneek peak of HP and the Goblet of Fire..
wanted to let you all know before I went to bed. I have been suffering all day
with a nasty cold/cough/stomach bug thingy-yuck-hope a good sleep helps get rid
of some of it..Pam
4/30/05 at 07:04 PM
What is your location? just off to bed
Comments:
Just watched "Finding Neverland". Lovely film, with
plenty of tissues required! I've
been inspired to search the net to find out how accurate a portrayal it was.
There are also a couple of links in it to AABA - and you'll get them as soon as
you see, or hear them. Johnny Depp is nowhere near to AR in my estimation but I
do have a soft spot for him and he can really do accents. I enjoyed his
performance in this and I can also see why that lad Freddie won that award (was
it Emmy or Empire?) Ah well, off to bed - have to be up early!
4/30/05 at 07:03 PM
Comments:
Dee, that is (and you are) lovely
Martha stonewalls are beautiful but have a habit of throwing themselves in front
of cars!!
4/30/05 at 03:53 PM
What is your location? north of here
Comments:
Oooh, I bet soupdupcosmogrl was beside herself about
that! AFNH - I think we missed you. From York,
we went to Scarborough, up to Whitby, down to Pickering, over to Thrisk, then
through the Dales Park to Kendal, up through Bowness to Cockermouth, over to
Carlisle then up to Edinburgh. Not exactly the direct route - or the
widest, but well worth the time and tension. I really loved the Yorkshire
Dales, but being New England born and raised, I have a thing for stone walls.
4/30/05 at 03:46 PM
What is your location? Indiana
Comments:
Vicki -- I wouldn't mind seeing AR in another of my favorite Renoir's,
Moulin de Gallette. Maybe AR could be the man on the left dancing (feel free
to insert a picture of yourself as his dance partner, Dee!)
Here's your wallpaper, Vicki! Hope you like it! Everyone is
welcome to use and enjoy. It's in Claudia's Photobucket. BTW -- I took your
invitation to "insert" myself seriously. That's me clinging happily to my
gorgeous dance partner! Swooooooon... I am such
a graphic arts geek - I love playing with these "famous painting" wallpaper
challenges! It tickles my artist gene while letting me indulge in my wild AR
fantasies! If anyone has one, please just ask!
4/30/05 at 03:01 PM
What is your location? GA
Comments:
Yes, Sue! A new piccie! Thanks for posting!
MacDonald's???? I wonder if he had a Big Mac for lunch. 
4/30/05 at 03:00 PM
What is your location? UK
Comments:
That must have been a shock! Fancy opening your local rag to find the object of
your fantasy and obsession strolling across the page! Must say, he looks rather
svelte there, or is teh pudge somewhat disguised!
Just met up with Laurie in Glastonbury. I took her to Wells because she had been
up and down G'bry highstreet but not been out of the town. She goes back home
tomorrow but packed an awful lot in, especially to her few days in London. We
want to see more of you over here! And we want to go over there! When do you
think that "apparating" will be available to Muggles?
Kathy, my son's favourite "reading to" book was one about a JCB digger! And
Fireman Sam!
4/30/05 at 01:20 PM
Comments:
Just found this posted on lj by "soupdupcosmogrl"
(such catchy names we have From
her local paper apparently and she had no idea he was there!! 
4/30/05 at 11:10 AM
What is your location? Actually,finally out of bed...............
Comments:
Elaine,the
"hippo-bird-dog" brought back fond memories. That's by Sandra Boynton who
writes children's books. You know the thick cardboard books that you read
to toddlers? They are very funny, I think the kids miss the real humor,
but I used to read them to my boys and they loved them. We spent many
hours in the "rock-rock" chair reading her books.
4/30/05 at 10:46 AM
What is your location? GA
Comments:
Elaine, DeForest Kelley came from Atlanta back before the place became large or
international. And yup, that's his accent all right! "D****t, Jim,
I'm a Georgian, not a-" Oh, never mind.
So now Mr. Rickman is in Toronto? I love that city!
4/30/05 at 10:33 AM
Comments: Ooohhh - would love a job as an Ass. Director myself! Thanks
for posting, that Martha. BTW, if you travelled up from York to Edinburgh (via
the A1?), you would have passed very close to my neck of the woods (16 miles
north of Newcastle) - wish I'd known, I would have had the kettle on!
Julie - tell you daughter to count me in as a fan of David Thewlis too.
4/30/05 at 08:25 AM
What is your location? England
Comments:
Sabine- Simultaneous blonde moment thousands of miles apart! I just love the
thought that a vision of ARs lovely ass drifted before so many eyes for a few
seconds before realisation dawned.! Oh well, back to dreaming.
4/30/05 at 07:57 AM
What is your location? UK
Comments:
I'm relieved. I missed that post and I went back to check and mine was the only
one I thought that you might take offence at. But never mind, we got to share a
"military" moment *sigh* (I have to say, military men like him are no longer
around. I know, I've searched! )
Lucy. love the Southern drawl - I can hear it as you write. Something about
that. Must be the crush I had on Dr McCoy in Star Trek MANY moons ago. (And
Deforest Kelley died some time ago too. Am I that old?)
Nice report from Wawa but I don't think I could take my kids out of school to
travel 10 hours just to try and catch a glimpse of the man. He's got that kind
of "pull" though. I agree with Claudia, Dee. Save your trip for the premiere. At
least you know you will see him then.
4/30/05 at 07:21 AM
What is your location? GA
Comments:
'Course, down here in th' 'merican South we wouldn't need no bird on th' "Hippo
Bird Dawg" card, jus' th' hippo an' a huntin' dawg, 'cuz huntin' dawgs 'r called
"bird dawgs." Ain't tha' righ', Claudia?
At any rate,
4/30/05 at 06:45 AM
What is your location? GA
Comments:
No No No Elaine! The unfriendly post was removed.
I'm afraid one would be very hard pressed to find an unfriendly iota about you,
my dear!
4/30/05 at 06:07 AM
What is your location? And yes you can have him back in August(what's
left of him
Comments:
Elaine! It was nothing to do with
you!! I've seen that hippo bird dog card lots of time
and got the joke
Comments were aimed at a more "ambiguous" greeting that Claudia removed and you
may not have seen. Mind you I am always happy to take
the Colonel under my wing at any time as you well know form other places!!!
4/30/05 at 05:56 AM
What is your location? GA
Comments:
Elaine: I thought your "hippo-bird-dog" wish was quite funny. 
Thanks for the fan report, martha!
Claudia: when I read "The Ass. Director", I didn't get past "The Ass.", so at
first I thought the person who wrote the report was talking about AR's behind... 
4/30/05 at 05:56 AM
Comments: martha:
Thank you for posting that story about close encounter with AR. It is great!
4/30/05 at 04:54 AM
What is your location? UK
Comments:
Sue, I'm just a little worried that people think I was being horrible when I
wished you "hippo-bird-dog" for your birthday. I'm afraid it's my twisted sense
of humour. It comes from a birthday card I once saw in a shop (you know, you
stand there browsing and laughing like an idiot at some of them!) There was a
picture of a hippo, then a bird, then a - you guessed it - dog. Meant to
represent "Happy Birthday". Well it probably looked funnier on the card! So
sorry if I caused you, or anyone else here, any grief! Have a Colonel as a
belated pressie: 
4/30/05 at 04:47 AM
What is your location? Slighlymuzzyheadedafteronetoomanywhitebdaywines
Comments:
to Miem. Hope you have a good one
4/30/05 at 04:26 AM
What is your location? London
Comments:
Miem,
I hope you have a brilliant day!
4/30/05 at 01:11 AM
What is your location? GA
Comments:
I wonder if they had an A-one of those directors in DH? *snerk*
(sorry, no emoticon for snickering)
4/30/05 at 12:11 AM
What is your location? GA
Comments:
I know that it is still early evening on the west coast but it is after midnight
here which means we have another birthday in the house. I know a lot of
people have already wished Miem a very happy birthday so here's mine..... 
I hope you have a wonderful day, Miem!
Thanks to all for your reviews of Hitchhiker's..... I can't
wait to see it. I can't wait to see that opening sequence, Bill Nighy, and
of course, The Voice!
Thanks for the AR sighting, martha. Quite an amazing story. I do
have a little bit of a hard time with taking the kids out of school and driving
10 hours but to each their own, I suppose. I
had a good laugh at myself for my reaction when I read "Ass. Director". I
was quite appalled at first but then I thought surely I didn't read that right
and sure enough, I didn't.
Dee, I know you are feeling badly for not going to Wawa, but honestly, IMO, you
did the right thing in putting it off. I'm still hoping you will get to go
to the premiere (which I feel will be in Toronto). That's when you will
have a good time.
4/29/05 at 08:49 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Saw
H2G2 today! My wonderful hubby took me to the first showing at 5 PM, right
after he came home from an 8-hour drive from Flordia. What a guy! 
S P O I L E R S
Ali-Pat: I totally agree with you about Bill Nighy! I absolutely loved his
outfit! It looked so... Jedi-ish. 
Yes, Claudia will love the opening sequence, and she probably won't be able to
get that darn song out of her head after the movie. My husband and I were
humming it for hours. 
I think that if you love the books, you'll enjoy the movie. But if you
haven't read any of the books, you might have some problems with Douglas Adams'
type of humor. Unfortunately, my husband thought it was the most boring
movie he'd seen in years. He did get a kick out of Marvin though. 
4/29/05 at 08:44 PM
What is your location?
Los Angeles
Comments:
Julie - tell your daughter I think David Thewlis is pretty darn cute too! 
Sharen and Elaine -- yes, yes! Suet - that was it..sorry for the incorrect
spelling. O.K...so, basically it's fat, used to make a crust, is that
correct? I hear tales of many cooks who used to bake pie crusts with
lard....same concept, I suppose.
Not on the list for a low cholesterol diet, I'd wager.
Then vegetarian suet would be something like shortening - made with vegetable
oil? So, the suet mix I saw advertised must have been like a pre-mixed
flour/dehydrated suet to make the crust. Maybe something like a biscuit
mix that we have here. The jell-o mold shape was probably more of a bowl
shape (funny how the memory can change things around). 
That was a great story from the Mom and kids at the Chinese restaurant in Wawa.
4/29/05 at 07:48 PM
What is your location?
Michigan
Comments:
Sue and Miem: Happy Birthday! (a little late.) Sue, ignore that negative
post. We all think you're the best.
My favorite
actor is AR...of course! Why else am I here, right? My daughter's favorite
is David Thewlis. Anyone have any thoughts on him? She was curious
to hear your opinions. Thanks. 
My daughter and
I are going to see Hitchhiker's Guide...tomorrow. We were both home with
stomach aches today. So I hope we get better! The clips I've seen
were hilarious.
4/29/05 at 07:02 PM
What is your location?
north of here
Comments:
This was
posted a week ago at TPPM but nobody seems to have put it here. So... here
it is:
"Thought you guys might be interested in this AR sighting that was posted on
another list I belong to:
Flora of Lallybroch’s AR Sighting
My
kids wouldn't let me go and find "Professor Snape" without them so I
recruited my friend to be copilot, took the kids out of school for a few days
and headed to Wawa. The trip took about 10 hours (we went through Michigan).
Wawa is a town of about 3500 on the TransCanada Hwy in NW Ontario - home of the
giant Goose if anyone's travelled that way. We arrived in town about 7pm and
drove about looking for a motel. We knew the cast and crew had taken over the
"nice" motel but there was no "no vacancy" up so my friend volunteered to fake
like she'd never heard of "Snowcake the Movie" and go in to try and get us a
room and thus glean some info from the clerk. As we just pull into the parking
lot I spot AR about 100 yards away just casually walking by himself towards the
motel office. My friend scoots after him but unfortunately he is through the
lobby by the time she gets there. We get a room in another motel, go out for a
meal, and discover they are going to be filming on the main street the next
day. Next morning we get up and walk up and down the main street checking
things out. It was really neat seeing them getting the film set all ready,
gathering the fake snow (since it's supposed to be winter in the movie and
Wawa was pretty warm) etc. We pick ourselves a close-by bench and settle in
to watch. By lunchtime the kids are getting a little restless and we all have
to pee so we notice a chinese restaurant that is right next door the fake
storefront that they are going to be filming at so we decide to go there and
have some lunch. There are only two other people in the restaurant. We sit
right in the front window and open the blinds. *g* The other people ask who this
AR is...would we be able to point him out..."No Problem" I say! Sure enough,
shortly he is driven up in a van and gets out right across the street. We're
going nuts. Then he walks across the street and stands right on the other side
of the window. The Ass. Dir. comes into the restaurant and says
long-sufferingly "You're welcome to stay here but you're ruining our shot. You
have to sit and look like you're eating food not staring out the window." So
just like that - we're in the movie!! We had the terrible hardship of sitting
for an hour or two being served lunch and beer with complete access to a
bathroom while Alan Rickman walked repeatedly within a foot of us - doing the
scene over and over again. At one point he took a wee rest and stretched his
hamstrings on the bench just beside our window. The kids waved at him and he
smiled this absolutely dazzling smile and waved back. He was absolutely gorgeous
in real life....much more handsome than he appears on film. And it appears I was
right about him being the sexiest thing on two legs. *BG* I was drooling all
over the booth and that smile just about killed me! Unfortunately, we didn't get
to talk to him or get an autograph as he was being whisked in and out just long
enough to do his scenes. Sigourney Weaver, who is the other star, was hanging
out on the street and talking to everyone. We were smiling and interacting
with her but a little too focused on AR to realize we're hanging out with
this Oscar nominee. We forgot she'd been in Ghostbusters (my brain had pretty
much imploded after the hamstring stretches) otherwise we could have had a
great time peppering the air with quotes. *VBG* After that we headed for
home. After all "We came, we saw, we kicked some ASS!" hehehe - couldn't help
myself after all. *g* Anyway, that was our big adventure. Sorry it's so long
but I'm still babbling days later."
4/29/05 at 06:59 PM
What is your location?
home
Comments:
Love the pic-- looks
like he is pained, tho!!
I got the google alert also about the Rachel Corrie venue change in Oct.
What is the difference between Jerwood upstairs and downstairs? the size
maybe? I'll never
forget the time I was just out of school (the first time )
and I was making mince pies from scratch for Christmas dinner because my dad and
grandfather loved them. In my naivete I had no idea what suet was!
The butcher gave me a crash course! The pies were great--with brandied hard
sauce--even I had a piece and I am not a fan of mince pie.
Wonder if I dare think about a quick trip to London in October? (It's getting to
be my home away from home).
Seat filler--I had no idea they had to recruit people to fill seats--where do
you get that job??? Glad to know AR is getting out and enjoying Toronto,
I've heard it is a beautiful city. Elaine, I'm with you, I too hope Rima
can get over and enjoy some things with him. Must get lonesome sometimes
even if you are working to live out of a hotel and be away from home for that
long a period of time.
Can't wait for Hichhickers Sunday will probably be the day........
4/29/05 at 06:40 PM
Comments:
artytime:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! artytime:
To Sue - hope it's been a good one! And to Miem - have a great day today!
4/29/05 at 06:10 PM
What is your location?
Italy
Comments:
Do you think you'll be able to recover the Rachel Corrie's Play Text in England
School? Many
thanks. Ida
4/29/05 at 05:22 PM
What is your location?
north of here
Comments: Rachel Corrie,
downstairs! Next stop, the US!! Yesssss!!!!
4/29/05 at 05:11 PM
Comments:
Vicki and Sharon, sounds very much like Suet. You can get beef suet or
vegetarian suet (which is what we use). Makes divine steak and kidney puddings
(known throughout the Army as "baby's heads") and steamed puddings, my favourite
being "spotted dick".(With lots of custard!) I can't think of an alternative
that you might have in the US. And I don't really know what American voices mean
in ads. We have quite a few US voiced ads as well. I suppose they are often the
"film-trailer" type - deep voice that sounds like a 40 a day man. Lends a bit of
"hollywood" to it I suppose. I love the look on AR's
face in that pic. Seat filler? Can I have that job please?
And all you Canadians, get out there and see what you can see! Hope
Rima is there to share the experience with him.
And something I've been wondering about, will AR have his postal vote in? Or is
he going to be one of the rumoured many Labour supporters who are not going to
vote because of their opposition to the War in Iraq? Curious....
4/29/05 at 04:54 PM
What is your location?
UK
Comments:
Sue,
how dare you have a previously unannounced birthday! Hope it was a good one.
Metro's H2G2 review gives a brief mention "Marvin the Paranoid Android - far too
cutesy, but at least voiced by Alan Rickman."
4/29/05 at 04:35 PM
What is your location?
Dayton? Oh.
What is the URL of your HomePage?
(include "http://")
http://home.earthlink.net/~sa.pe/APLhome.html
Comments:
I have seen Hitchhiker! I don't want to spoil
anything for anybody, but I have these four things to say:
1. Claudia will be thrilled with the opening
sequence. 2.
All you knitters out there will be getting some requests.
3. Bill Nighy got all my favorite scenes (and some of the best clothes).
4. Marvin gets the last word.
Can't wait till others see it so we can discuss!
4/29/05 at 04:10 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Hmmm, looks like My Name is Rachel Corrie is going to transfer
to the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in October.
My Name is Rachel Corrie Autumn Transfer
4/29/05 at 03:28 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Sharen, I noticed the American accent in the Marmite ad and thought it a bit
strange.
Emily has been terribly busy lately so she sent me these two little tid bits to
post: I did a little AR searching
yesterday and found a snippet from a Canadian website "Jam Movies" reporting
an AR sighting at a play in Toronto --
"... Alan Rickman -- who's here co-starring
in the offbeat romance Snow Cake with Sigourney Weaver -- was in the opening
night crowd of Alice's Affair at Tarragon Theatre Tuesday ..."
YAY!!! At least we know he's getting out while in Toronto!
I hope we will get some more news......and some piccies too!
A friend of Emily's found
this pic:
It came from
famshots.com and its not certain what this woman has to do with the
Emmys but she attended both last year and the year before. Click on
"T's new Friends....." and you will see pics of her with all kinds of stars.
Anyway, Em and friend speculate that maybe she's a seat filler or works for
one of the television studios. Interesting look on AR's face though.
LOL
4/29/05 at 03:07 PM
What is your location?
FL
Comments:
Vicki, could it have been suet?
http://www.motherearthnews.com/library/1973_November_December/Suet_Puddings__Subsistence_Food
4/29/05 at 02:59 PM
What is your location?
FL
Comments:
Is
it curious that the narrator of the 2nd Marmite commercial had an American
accent? Or is that typical in UK ads?
In US ads, British voices usually indicate (to me, anyway) that this info is for
our edification and it behooves us to pay attention. (I know I always pay close
attention whenever our favorite Brit speaks. )
But what does an American voice connote to a British listener?
4/29/05 at 02:57 PM
What is your location?
Los Angeles
Comments:
Dee - you're so talented! Eagerly awaiting to see where you will put AR in
your next project!
A belated Happy Birthday to Sue (I think with the time difference, your birthday
was yesterday in the UK?) and an early Happy Birthday to Miem. May all
your AR dreams come true!
Thanks for the marmite/vegemite lesson. Many, many years ago, I took a
trip to England and saw an ad on the telly for Suit Mix?!?! Could
someone please explain what that is? I hope I spelled it right. The
ad showed a mum bringing a platter of something to the table that looked like it
had been made in a jello-mold or a bundt cake pan. The family, of course,
were licking their lips in anticipation and couldn't wait to dig in. To
this day, I still scratch my head in wonder at what this could possibly be. 
martha - thanks for the travel-logue. It's always nice to hear about
someone's adventures. Glad you had a good time!
Watched Galaxy Quest on t.v. last night. I'd forgotten what a
hoot it was!
4/29/05 at 01:18 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
OK
you guys! I have been very slack in letting you all know how much I have
enjoyed the icons and other art work lately.
I do want yall to know that I have loved seeing them and I've been collecting
them as usual!
The Marmite and the Walk the Dog ones are adorable! BTW, have you any
birthday wallpaper for us, Sue???
4/29/05 at 12:49 PM
Comments:
Lucy, thanks for putting me onto Animation Shop. I've downloaded the trial
version but I see it is not expensive anyway. Lots to play with! I'm never going
to get fit locked into this computer all day! 
4/29/05 at 09:24 AM
What is your location?
Sunny Somerset
Comments:
Severina,
Violet - I am also under the impression that they are very much living together
again but RH does still have a property in the neighbouring borough. This is
probably bcause she is still involved with the Council for that ward and needs
the property to give her some creedence for doing that. I think it is rented
-(imagine her being your landlord!) - and she probably has no need to sell it
anyway. Happy birthday, mien. Enjoy H2G2!
Martha, how long did you stay in Oxford?
Lucy, thanks for the info. I've been using Image Ready and it is a bit fiddley.
4/29/05 at 08:51 AM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Happy Birthday, Miem! 
And welcome back, martha! 
4/29/05 at 07:42 AM
What is your location?
Massachusetts
Comments: Martha, Welcome
Back and glad you had a fun and safe trip. It sounds like you guys had a blast.
I really enjoy reading of your adventures. Keep posting if you remember
something else!!! (LOL) I havent been to England since the 70's!! Cant wait to
go back-Pam
4/29/05 at 07:21 AM
Comments:

4/29/05 at 06:35 AM
Comments: SUE
and MIEN:

4/29/05 at 06:15 AM
What is your location?
north of here
Comments:
Gee, thanks for the warm welcome back!
Sue - Happy Birthday!
Dee - They also used Christ Church, Oxford for some of the filming, which is
where we were. Up in Scotland, we were at Glenfinnan (aqueduct and loch -
just missed seeing the steam train!) and Glencoe.
4/29/05 at 05:44 AM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Hope
your day is going great, Sue! BTW, non-understandable, off the wall
comment has been taken care of.
kathy and Dee, which little boy in the nativity picture is AR has been a mystery
to everyone. I've always thought it was the little boy to "Mary's"
right. At the risk of pestering poor Melanie Parker again...maybe the person
that wrote and asked her about the picture of AR standing at the microphone
might try again.
Violet and SeverinaSnape. You can take this anyway you wish but I have been told
by a very reliable source that AR and RH are indeed living together once again.
My source is not his assistant. I don't feel Ms Parker would disclose any of
AR's private details to anyone--no matter how close they profess to be to her.
But I do agree that any assistant that would give out such details should be
sacked. I, like
the two of you, do not know and will not ever know for sure unless AR or RH
publicly announce the fact--which will probably never happen. But I do
trust my source as you do yours so feel free to disagree with me on this subject
all you want but this will be all I will say on the subject.
4/29/05 at 05:37 AM
What is your location?
Michigan
Comments:
Sue and Miem: Happy Birthday!! 
Sue: Ignore that one unhappy post. I, for one, love your posts. You are my
lifeline to UK news. I love the international community I've met through Alan
Rickman. Thank you all for sharing your various cultures with me.
4/29/05 at 05:26 AM
What is your location?
London
Comments:
Just to remind u, the skyscraper for AR is still on. If someone hasn't added a
brick yet, now is the chance! Just click on "add
http://www.topdogcity.com/alanrickman1.htm
4/29/05 at 04:34 AM
What is your location?
older
Comments:
Just logged on and was greeted by all your lovely wishes (At
least I think they were all lovely!! )
Happy Birthday to Miem for Saturday too And
Welcome back Martha too, glad you had a great trip.
4/29/05 at 04:12 AM
What is your location?
London
Comments:

Sue! Have a lovely day!
And welcome back,
martha!
4/29/05 at 03:43 AM
What is your location?
packing my bags for a short trip
Comments:
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY SUE & MIEM 
Welcome back Martha, nice
to know that you´ve had such a wonderful time in the UK! 
4/29/05 at 02:38 AM
Comments:
HAPPY bIRTHDAY mIEN!!!     
HOPE ITS TERRIFIC
4/29/05 at 02:07 AM
What is your location?
London
Comments:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUE & MIEM!!!!  
4/29/05 at 02:04 AM
What is your location?
London
Comments:
Hi Violet and Dee!
Violet, I have been told pretty much the same thing as yourself from someone who
knows them both who was helping me with a project I am trying to get up and
running. He definately knows them - and proved to me that he does several times
without me even asking - I am such a cynic. Of course you cant know everything
about people's private lives - but his take is the same - as far as he is still
aware they do live separately. RH still supposedly has a place in a certain Ward
in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and AR of course lives very
near Paddington Station. I'm still bad with kilometres and such -
but they are about a mile + in distance apart I think...
I've had a couple of people insist to me that his assistant apparently has let
them know that RH and AR moved back in together when they have written to her -
Right...I'd say he'd be in need of a new assistant if that is true!
Such private details I usually dont get into - but as you have pretty much the
same information that I have been given I just thought I would let you know. I
quite like the idea of separate residences; you can go off and do your own thing
as necessary and just meet up when you feel the need. For me loving someone from
a distance is definately different and probably preferable to having them under
the same roof (that's my theory going through my divorce and I am sticking with
it...) Dee: Some of
the location shots for Hogwarts are in Gloucester Cathedral - particularly
the cloisters - althought interior and exterior shots have been done all over
the country
http://www.historic-uk.com/DestinationsUK/HarryPotter.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/focus/2003/08/potter_picture.shtml
http://www.britishtours.com/harry_potterovernight.html
4/29/05 at 12:58 AM
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Comments:
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
SUE

Hope you have a great day!!!!
Claudia, thanks
for the pic again. I like the picture, it's sweet. Someone said somewhere
AR is the boy on the right next to the manger. You can't see his face so I don't
know. Claudia do you know?
Just got to watch GQ on TV tonight with info about H2G2 during the breaks.
Night
all...........
4/29/05 at 12:29 AM
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Comments: I just now had
time for a litte browsing, but wanted to wish Sue a very Happy Birthday and also
an early Happy Birthday to Miem. Hope to see HHGTTG this weekend-cant wait-will
try to get back here when I can. We have a huge book sale coming up beginning of
the week plus I help out at a volunteer free clothing exchange project over the
weekend for anyone in need of spring/summer clothes. It always brings such
satisfication to help people find clothes that they are in need of.
Have a good one all and thanks for all the pictures and links etc. I cant wait
to browse some more..Pam
4/29/05 at 12:23 AM
Comments:
Hi, Dee! I always enjoy your postings. You are such fun.
BTW, re: your question about Rima and Alan living in separate residences, I have
a gentleman friend in London who told me that, as far as he knows, they still
live in separate residences, about two or so kilometers apart. I don't
talk with this gentleman very often (he's in his 60's and retired), so I don't
know his source, other than he lives in that area. Sigh...yes, some people
don't only live on the same planet as AR, but in the same part of town...sigh
again. Violet. 
4/29/05 at 12:14 AM
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4/28/05 at 11:54 PM
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Comments:
Sue
and I have a birthday very near eachother! Mine is Saturday! Yay!
Guess what I'm doing for it?? Guess, guess! Going to
see H2G2! **does a chair dance**.....TWICE!! tomorrow and on Saturday.
My dad was like, so you're going to see it with your friends and me...?
Me:" I can't complain about listening to Alan Rickman for 4 hours! Of course I'm
going twice!"
...I'm such a nerd.. OKay, off to study group!
~Miem
4/28/05 at 10:54 PM
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Indiana
Comments:
Lucy -- Love the
icon! I've never tried Marmite (the name sounds a little like an annoying little
vermin we have here in Indiana), but must agree that Snape is definitely an
acquired taste. But I'd willing to nibble at him until I get used to it! ( Who
said that?! Someone jumped into my post and added that naughty remark! )
Claudia -- What an adorable nativity photo! Which one is AR? Is it the little
boy standing on the left?
Martha -- I hate to sound dumb (but it's so easy to do...), but what do you
mean, you toured Hogwarts? Are you saying that the school in Harry Potter is an
actual place?
4/28/05 at 10:38 PM
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Comments:
Happy Birthday, Sue!
Hope you'll have a great day! 
4/28/05 at 10:09 PM
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GA
Comments:
I
use Animation Shop. It's really simple to make an animation with it,
especially with the Animation Wizard. Everyone has been talking about how
hard it is to make an icon. What program do you use?
Feel free to gack the icon if you want. Anything I post here is free for
gacking, of course.
4/28/05 at 10:02 PM
Comments:
Sue, Hippo-Bird-Dog to you! Hope you have many of them!
What a weird thing for the Marmite site to do, Claudia. What does it matter
where you are! Very strange. But it is a hoot, isn't it! Never been there
before. Lucy, love the icon. I've just managed to make my first ani-gif for the
LJ but it took ages. There must be a better way and a better prog to do it on.
What do you use?
Martha, I
was wondering when you would be back. Glad you had a great time and didn't get
fazed by roundabouts! And doubly glad you got to Edinburgh. Great place, isn't
it? Next time you must come "down West" and see us.
4/28/05 at 09:44 PM
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Comments:
OK
Lucia...you have the advantage of time...its only a quarter til 10 here!
LOL Anyways........
Sue!!!!!!!!  
Have a super duper AR kind of day, Birthday Girl!
And like Lucia said.....
4/28/05 at 09:37 PM
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Comments:
Here ya go, kathy!  Way
to go on the trip, martha! I'm glad you're back home safely. Sounds like
you and bunks got a lot in--in a very short period of time. Thanks for
sharing.
Elaine, the Marmite commericals are cute. I do wonder one thing though.
When I first clicked on the ad, it asked if I was in the UK. Of course I
clicked "Yes" out of sheer wishing I were! LOL But....I wondered
what would happen if I clicked "No" so I tried it. Here's what I got:
"Sorry, to view this ad you need to be resident in the UK."
Hmmm, makes me wonder why.....
I have to admit that I don't think I did try my Marmite packets as per SuzyQ's
instructions. She told me to spread it very thin and on hot butter toast.
I know I must have done something wrong. Oh well...
4/28/05 at 09:20 PM
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Happy Birthday Sue !!!     OK?
4/28/05 at 08:14 PM
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Comments:
Y'all
have inspired me to more rampant "iconography."
4/28/05 at 07:58 PM
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Comments:
Dee:
beautiful job with the painting! I love it!
I called our movie theater today, and luckily they will show H2G2 starting
tomorrow. They just hadn't updated their website yet. Phew!
Thanks for the invite to come down to Columbus though, Claudia! 
4/28/05 at 07:39 PM
Comments:
Elaine, that marmite site is quite funny--I guess I'll have to try a smidgin.
If only to say I did!
I listened to the NPR interview all the way through it is very good and they do
mention AR ---and with a sound clip.
Enough from me --my kids are standing at the door waiting for dinner! (Their
contract calls for 3 meals a day )
(BTW Po-Dunk is a slang equivilant to the more polite British expression "back
of beyond") I think the British could cuss you out and still sound polite! 
4/28/05 at 07:22 PM
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Comments:
Home at last!
And what a wonderful trip it was. Five days in London, then a week touring the
countryside. Took me almost as long to catch up with
the reading here!
It was too bad that AR wasn’t at the after play talk, (I don’t think the topic
would have digressed to other subjects – after all, people stayed on topic at
the NFT, so I’m sure they would have here. ) but it was certainly not a “wasted”
trip. The play was stunning. Megan Dodds did an awesome job, portraying Rachel’s
shifting feelings from idealism, to outrage, to doubt, to fear and back with
flawless skill. The time flew by. I even managed to forget that I was on the top
floor of an ancient building in a packed room whose only exit was down a narrow
flight of wooden stairs, the door to which was half blocked by a shoved aside
stage prop. But I digress. There isn’t much to add to the reviews that have
already been posted. I agree with Bunks that Rachel was driven by the injustice
of the situation and would have been there had the nationalities/political
parties been reversed. The feeling I got was that she, and the play, were
anti-injustice, not anti- any particular group. I would love to have heard AR’s
answer to how the material was picked for the play.
It was wonderful meeting up with Sue again, and raising a glass with her,
Elaine, Juliet, and Nicole. (And Juliet brought ALL her Bowness pics to share!)
Kate and I went to see Henry IV with Michael Gambon and David Bradley. It was my
first experience seeing Shakespeare done “right” by people who really know how,
and is something I’ll not soon forget. DB was King Henry and MG was Falstaff. I
don’t think it was my imagination that the first time MG called, “Harry!” that
there were a few quiet snorts in the crowd.
After Kate had to leave, Bunks and I picked up a car and headed north. With her
flawless navigational skills, we managed to cover a lot of territory. Not nearly
enough time to explore, but I got enough of a look to know I’d like to come
back. Elaine – I
LOVE round-abouts! If you’re not sure where to go, you just keep going ‘round
until you figure it out. And if you do go the wrong way, why before you know it,
there’s another one and you can reverse direction.
I did hear a lot of, “Mind the curb” the first few days as the hardest part was
getting used to the bulk of the car being on my left. The best(?) time was in
the Cotswolds when it was, “Mind the house!”
We saw Stonehenge, York, Edinburg, the Yorkshire Dales, the Cotswolds, standing
stones, soaring eagles, ruined abbeys and much more. We walked the halls of
Hogwarts and took pictures of the lake. (No giant squid, thank goodness.)
Everywhere we went, the people were wonderful. I hope someday to go back.
4/28/05 at 07:13 PM
Comments:
Claudia, Would you do me a favor?(or favour for John Cleese)
Would you re-post the picture of AR as a kid in a Nativity play?
Thanks 
4/28/05 at 06:41 PM
Comments:
Ooh, just found the ads on the Marmite site!
http://www.marmite.com/love/tv/
4/28/05 at 06:39 PM
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Comments:
"po-dunk". Did we not hear Blalock say that?
For those of you who would like to try something a little less salty than
Marmite, then "Vegemite" is my favourite.
http://www.vegemite.com.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=ourHeritage.welcome
It's Australian and milder in taste than Marmite. I must admit, Marmite (yes,
just a smidgen) on hot buttered toast is devine! And there are some brilliant TV
ads for Marmite at the moment. I'll have to keep an eye out and catch one.
4/28/05 at 06:39 PM
Comments:
Here is the link to the H2G2 NPR interview with the producers of the film.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4622372
4/28/05 at 06:14 PM
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West of Claudia and Sabine!
Comments:
Dee ---the picture is Fabulous
didn't know that artist, its great. well
done, you.
Sue, ---thanks for the explaination (and pic) of marmite. Hmmmmmm, doesn't
sound too inviting, very healthy tho with lots of B vitamins in it. Heck,
they make beer out of yeast maybe I WOULD like it! 
H2G2 Actually is coming to this po-dunk town tomorrow--I am shocked and amazed.
Will be first on my list Saturday or Sunday--whichever day I need a break from
studying for finals. In fact this afternoon they had
an interview with the director on NPR ---I'll have to look it up and give you
the particulars as I was only able to catch a short part of it.
emily--so sorry about the emoticon explosion, they are too much fun to
leave alone. I
4/28/05 at 06:04 PM
Comments:
HHGTTG premiere over here is on June 9th. A bit more than a month. That's not a
long time. 
And a snippet from interview with
Zooey Deschanel:
Zooey Deschanel on Marvin the Robot's Voice:
Zooey Deschanel did not hear Alan Rickman on the set. “I had no idea he was even
in the movie until I saw it,” she said. “Warwick was in the suit and who's a
really good actor and did a fantastic job of physicality of the character. You
can't forget Warwick's contribution to that character although Alan Rickman did
a fantastic voice and is a great actor. Now I can go up to Alan Rickman and say
we worked together. You don't know it, but…”
4/28/05 at 04:00 PM
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the Netherlands
Comments: Here is an
article of the Daily Star Lebanon. Slope posted this one at Suzanne´s:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=14637
Dee, fabulous! Well done!
4/28/05 at 03:54 PM
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Comments:
...We
have to wait till august 2005 for HHG2tG.........
4/28/05 at 03:51 PM
Comments:
Dee!!! What a lovely job you've made of that! It's been one of my fave paintings
for years, you've done it justice! Kokoschka had a great eye for colour, check
out some of his other work.
Sue - so you've got 2 Waterstones too? I thought Newcastle was the only place
that did - one either side of Grey's Monument, nearly facing each other (mind
you, the other used to be Dillons until W. bought them out). Must try that trick
in there, at least I'd get two shots at it- lol!
4/28/05 at 02:11 PM
Comments:
Dee:
wow! That painting is really beautiful! And to put Alan in it - great idea AFNH 
It's wonderful!

4/28/05 at 02:03 PM
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Comments:
Whoo-hoo! HHG2tG
is playing at my favorite cinema! I can't wait! I can't wait!
4/28/05 at 01:54 PM
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Comments:
Sue,
your sympathy for Emily on the emoticons (sorry Em) reminded me of something she
posted last Sunday that I've been meaning to comment on.
Aslan's voice. Why in the world aren't they considering AR?
BTW, I thought the idea of Cox's voice changing due to weight loss was a bit
over the top. LOL
4/28/05 at 01:27 PM
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GA
Comments:
Ohhh that's to cool,
Dee. That one would be easy to put one's own face on the partner. 
4/28/05 at 01:22 PM
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Comments:
AFNH -- "I'd love to see the Man's face transposed onto the figure of Oskar
Kokoschka in one of his paintings - Bride of the Wind and The Tempest."
Gorgeous painting choice, AFNH! I wasn't familiar with this work and was amazed
by the glorious color and feeling. Thanks for the challenge - I loved it! Hope
you like the results on your wallpaper! It's in Claudia's Photobucket.
Vicki -- I'm going to start on your Moulin de Gallette next! Anyone
else with a "famous painting" wallpaper request?
4/28/05 at 01:13 PM
Comments:
Kathy, Marmite is yeast extract. It is rather salty but I love it! It
is also good to stir into stews and casseroles etc.
Sadly I don't think I shall be able to go to the Art interview. I'm already
going to S.tPauls and I think my AR quota maybe used up for the month of June!
4/28/05 at 01:01 PM
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Comments:
sue, what exactly is Marmite? It's got a love it or leave it reputation,
but what is it made out of? (Apparently AR buys it) The best thing I ever tasted
in England is Sticky Toffee Pudding, and believe me while I'm there this summer
I am going to search it out!
The best one I've tasted was at a little hole in the wall, wine bar comme
restaurant on Lots Rd. in Chelsea. (can't think of the name of it right now).
Yum, yum! (Bet AR likes that, too) 
sue, are you joining us at the Art interview on the 21st?
4/28/05 at 11:38 AM
Comments:
My Mate Marmite! You either Love it or Loathe it as the ad used to say.
I LOVE it!! Whenever I have been ill Marmite on toast is the first thing I have
when my appetite returns. I think a lot of you in the States make the mistake of
plastering it on then don't like it. Just the merest smear will suffice (and
that way the jar lasts forever )
I'd like to visit King Bills place too !
I have just returned from town and a trip to Waterstones (for some reason there
are TWO branches in the same town quite close to each other!)In the window they
had a HHG2G spread with some rather nice bookmarks laid out including a Marvin
one. As I was purchasing a book I noticed a poster saying "Free Bookmark when
you buy HHG2G" "Oh" I said to the guy "Shame I wanted a Marvin, oh well never
mind" As I handed
over the cash he surreptiously opened the drawer under the till and very
sneakily snuck one into my bag!!LOL "Shh" he said
"we probably won't sell many books and will have to end up giving them away
anyway!"
Ooh lots of new snilies to play with!! Poor Emily
4/28/05 at 09:59 AM
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Comments:
Sabine, come on down south........Hollywood Connection is giving it 1 screen.
With only one screen, I'm thinking I might wait a bit to go see it--I'm a bit on
the claustrophobic side, unfortunately. I can't believe its only getting
one screen. My area can be sooooo stoopid when it comes to knowing a hit
when they see it. Love Actually was the same story. They
only screened Sideways for a very short time prior to it winning award
after award...then they bring it back for another short run.
4/28/05 at 09:11 AM
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Comments:
It seems like our local
movie theater wont' be showing H2G2 anytime soon. At least it's not on
their website.
I guess I'll keep searchinig for the closest theatre that'll show it... 
4/28/05 at 08:43 AM
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GA
Comments:
Robyn reported in
ARExp Yahoo Group that, when you see HHG2tG--do not leave before or during
the credit roll.
4/28/05 at 08:29 AM
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GA
Comments:
King
Bill with lots of Marmite and the Stones living in his basement and their only
gig would be to entertain King Bill and his friends on Friday night! How cool
would that be?
Pretty cute interview. He reaffirms why I like him so much every time I
see him. Thanks Sue!
BTW, what is it about Marmite???
SuzyQ sent me some little packets years ago and it is the most awful tasting
stuff I have put in my mouth (or even up to my nose) in years! Its the
"vitaminy" taste I can't stomach.
Elaine, I am outraged at your eBay discovery. I've mailed each
organization AND complained to eBay as well. How dare the seller and how
dare eBay to allow something like this to continue.
4/28/05 at 06:25 AM
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Comments:
Nice little
interview with Bill Nighy on
BBC
4/28/05 at 05:39 AM
Comments:
HHG2G review
HERE "Alan
Rickman is the voice of Marvin, a very depressed robot. Rickman gets more
hilarious mileage out of his voice than most actors get with everything."
4/28/05 at 05:25 AM
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Comments:
London Evening Standard Editorial Wednesday 27th
April 2005
THEATRELAND BUZZES "The acclaim that greeted the
premiere of Elmina's Kitchen last night was exhilarating. It is just the latest
success in a long run of remarkable West End productions, such as Don Carlos at
the Gielgud, which closes on Saturday, Julius Caesar at the Barbican which is
sold out, My Name is Rachel Corrie at the Royal Court - a dramatised version of
emails from a courageous young woman who died trying to defend Palestinian homes
from Israeli bulldozers - and a plethora of other impressive plays. By
comparison Broadway, witch is hosting a series of unremarkable musicals seems
lacklustre. Whatever challenges the West End faces from the congestion charge
and the rest, this is a wonderful time for London's theatregoers."
4/28/05 at 05:17 AM
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Comments:
Afraid
I have to disagree with you there Dee!! Shoe
shopping has always been for me something I would avoid at all costs. As a teen
in the 60/70s I had an awful time trying to get shoes. All I wanted was the
chunky trendy look but having a then size 8 AAA fitting if I was offered
anything at all it was some awful black pointy court shoe that I wouldn't have
been seen dead in even if my mother could have afforded it. I recall trailing
round London looking for obscure shops that sold *big* shoes.
In old age my weight seems to have widened my feet a little and
manufacturers have gradually realised that some people have feet bigger than 7!
I have actually been able to buy *cheap* shoes from M&S now but no shoe shopping
is not a pleasaant memory 
4/28/05 at 12:18 AM
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Comments:
I just can't believe
what you can get on ebay! I've just found a "trader" selling charity wristbands.
He/she is selling them in job lots of 10 and "generously" says he will donate £1
per pack!! He has Breast Cancer ones, anti rascist ones and Beat Bullying ones
so far. I've emailed the charities concerned hoping that something can be done!
Sickens me. At least he doesn't seem to have got hold of the MPH ones yet!
4/27/05 at 09:48 PM
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Comments:
Dee, although they have been together for over 30 years, there was a time that
they did live in separate residences. But they have, in the last couple of
years, moved back in together.
4/27/05 at 09:33 PM
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Comments:
It's amazing how shopping for shoes can lift your spirits! Armies around the
world should take a break and head for "Shoe Carnival". Wars would cease on a
global scale! (We all know I'm just being light-heartedly, right? No offense,
right?) I'm home with a sassy pair of black heels -- tired, but happy! 
Ali-Pat -- Oh!! Her mom's voice was the recording! I never caught that at all!
You are so smart! It took me a few viewings to catch onto TMD, so I won't give
up on AABA. Thanks for sharing!
BTW -- I've been lurking at another site (Yes, I've strayed... but
I swear it didn't mean a thing!). They said that AR and Rima are a couple but
haven't lived together in over a decade. It was a lengthy thread with several
posters agreeing it was true. Huh? I've never heard that before and can't
believe it. Does anyone here know anything about it?
4/27/05 at 08:18 PM
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Canada
Comments: I love the way
Jason says that he is an Aaactoooor, not an actor, the way he says he was tired
of all the mother land stuff, hip hip. And i absolutly peed my pants when
Alexander Dane was answering the questions so quickly and forcibly. The way he
answers so quickly and then the he looks around when asked if there was any
conflict between him and Jason. Fricken halarious, if any of you need a good
laugh, go watch it.
4/27/05 at 07:31 PM
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(include "http://")
http://www.carolegagnon.com
Comments:
There is a new article about Alan, go to this link :http://www.saultstar.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=106811&catname=Local+News&classif=News+%2D+Local
The pic is awesome too 
4/27/05 at 07:19 PM
Comments:
Alfan, that GQ Extras clip just shows you how good he is at comedy and I wish we
could see more of him in that genre. I love the "clipped" answers to the
questions about "Jason Nesbitt". It's a scream!
4/27/05 at 07:17 PM
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Comments:
Yes, Kathy, the "new"
Chelsea college is the "old" Army Medical Services college which the
government sold off because it was worth a lot more to them in real estate. We
now have to go to a faceless college in Birmingham for our courses and seminars!
It used to be a lovely building inside and the Officer's Mess Bar had some
fantastic views over the Thames. I hope they have not mucked it about too much.
(Not that I spent much time in the bar.... 
And who said we have to behave ourselves?
I'm really looking forward to it!
4/27/05 at 06:45 PM
Comments:
I
promise this is the last post-----
just
wanted to say that when I talked to the gentleman on the phone today to order my
interview tickets (I hate to see my phone bill) he said the interviews would be
at the "new" Chelsea on Millbank next to the Tate.
4/27/05 at 06:38 PM
Comments:
P.S. I promised Elaine I would behave myself, too! 
4/27/05 at 05:50 PM
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Comments:
Hello everyone---- Back home for
just a short spell and then back to school for a review in my Women in Art Class
Next to the last day of school. It has gone by so fast. Finals will
not be too bad the papers were the worst.
I DID get a ticket for the AR interview and was able to rearrange my B & B
booking to earlier, so I am all set for MY big adventure. I also booked a
ticket for the 2nd interview with a sculptor who went to Chelsea also.
What better combination than AR and art. I will definitely report back!
I am also looking forward to some fun with the wild women on this GB!!
AABA is one of my favorites and as I have found with a number of his films it
gets better and more meaningful with further watchings--DH is another one like
that. I liked AR's playfulness in AABA I've had a hard time getting
into MC but maybe it's because I've been preoccupied with school and not able to
give it my full attention.
4/27/05 at 05:43 PM
Comments:
Alfan, that is a hoot isn't it? I love the way "Alexander" ennunciates, he is so
like a certain *type* of aging Brit actors. I've only
watched it once, must see it again.
4/27/05 at 05:36 PM
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Canada
Comments: Ok, i am so going
off topic. But for the past little while i have been trying to dowload the
Galaxy Quest 20th Anniversary clip on the Television page, finally it worked.
And all i can say is, what a hoot. I literally pissed myself laughing ( ok, not
literally, but you know what i mean), if you have not seen it, go watch it. Its
halarious, specially the way Alexander Dane asnwers questions.
4/27/05 at 05:28 PM
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UK
Comments:
It will be an
interesting interview and I'm sure we will be there to listen and not make it a
"fan" event. I am really keen to find out what AR has to say about Art (for
that, I presume, is what the theme will be about!) as it's a part of his life we
really know very little about as none (or hardly any) of his work ever surfaces.
I'm wondering if the Cochrane Theatre is the old Lecture Theatre from the AMS
college. If so, it's a purpose built lecture theatre with tiers of seats rising
above the small podium. (Bitter sweet memories of one weekend spent there -
listening to a lecture by the brilliant Richard Homes and then being told by our
CO that we were to be amalgamated with another unit - the product of that year's
Defence Review!) The guy in the box office implied that it was the old college,
so I think it will be quite "intimate". Yum! I
wish I had got the 20gig Ipod now but maybe next year.... It will be a definite
buy if I get mobilised again. And the Ipod Photo would be even better! But
the mini is pretty cool (mine's green.)
I change my opinion of AABA quite frequently. It's a bit of an odd film in a
way, but likeable. As much as I don't like Hugh Grant, I think he turned in one
of his better performances, too, merely because it was out of character for him.
And AR is just top notch as usual. I've just read a review which describes him
as an "ageing Lothario". Not really what I would have called him....
4/27/05 at 03:18 PM
Comments:
Congratulations kathy & RickiNicki!!!
...I'm preparing for "JUDAS KISS" this evening on Dutch television...
AABA--> never
seen it before & it still not released here in "Dutchy-Land"...(Moeoehooee )...... 
4/27/05 at 03:18 PM
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Spain
Comments:
Hiya Ladies!
How do you do? I have
arrived home after university and I'm deaaaaaad... Gosh, getting up at 5:30 am
and and get back around 21 hrs is killing me!! I don't have energy even to read
your posts... I've read that something is going to happen in autum and seeing
your reaction has to be good. Of course I don't think that I could be in London
by this time (damn university...) so... good luck to everyone is going to go to
whatever happens then. My envy and me would be here waiting for your reports .
Lots of love from the warm Spain!! (the summer is already here, yay!!)
4/27/05 at 02:13 PM
Comments:
I'm sure it's meant as a joke Susan. And as for AR don't forget this is
the man who told Kate Winslet "Curtsey and I'll kill you!"!!
4/27/05 at 01:44 PM
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CA
Comments: I have never known slapping
or any other form of personal violence to accomplish anything good in the long
run. And I wonder what AR, who works so sincerely for peace and tolerance, would
think of this desire/wish/metaphor if he had the misfortune to know about it...
4/27/05 at 11:43 AM
Comments:
Wow 23 pages of posts in this guestbook! Go
you all!
4/27/05 at 11:05 AM
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Indiana
Comments:
Poor AR...with all
these crazed fans on their way, he's not going to know what hit him! I'm green
with envy! Please get pictures...from the front (those beautiful tea green
eyes), from the side (that gorgeous nose), and from the back (his kissable
little tush)
Susan -- I've read that "slap" expression too. I always took it to mean
slap some sense into someone -- like when they are being stupid or hysterical.
Frankly, I don't think it would help to slap Stella. If she didn't recognise the
perfect man when he was literally between her thighs, she was never going to!
Whew! I'm getting myself a bit worked up for so early in the morning! Oh well,
I'm off shoe shopping! Looking for a cute pair of black heels! Have fun everyone
4/27/05 at 10:28 AM
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Dayton, OH
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(include "http://") home.earthlink.net/~sa.pe/APLhome.html
Comments:
Congrats to everyone who got tickets!
Sounds like another great event in AR fandom and I am looking forward to photos
and reports. Vicarious enjoyment, it's the life for me! BELOW
BE AABA SPOILERS
Dee, I am glad you prompted discussion on AABA. It has always been my
favorite AR performance, and the film is full of subtleties that only multiple
watchings bring out. It is true that the characters keep being drawn to
the harbor--first "Stella Maris", then PL, and finally Stella (all her phone
calls are made near the train tracks, except for that last one). BTW, it
took me a while to figure this out, but Stella really is calling her mother.
It comes out at the end of the film that her mom won the "talking clock"
competition--when Stella makes phone calls, it is to the talking clock and the
voice you hear is her mother's voice.
I could go on for days on this film. It is so complex! Weird, but
complex. I mean, the Peter Pan symbolism alone could fill a book!
4/27/05 at 10:01 AM
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GA
Comments:
Brilliant news, Ricki Nicki!!!! I really think this will be a nice and
informative event. I can't wait to hear all the reports.
RedTango, the Fashion Police segment is a hoot! LOL And since we
were just talking about iPods yesterday, I had to re-visit iSnape! Thanks
for the update.
4/27/05 at 08:56 AM
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UK
Comments: Haven't got an iPod, but
have named all my PC solitaire characters after AR ones! Who wants to play
against Michelle et al anyway.LOL.
4/27/05 at 06:18 AM
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MI
Comments: Yeah! RickiNicki!!!
You Go Girl!! HOWEVER,
along with that ticket comes great responsibility--to provide a report and
photos to those less fortunate souls in the AR fandom. 
4/27/05 at 06:06 AM
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London
Comments:
Congratulations Kathy!! 
I've also bought a ticket!!
4/27/05 at 04:41 AM
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the Netherlands
Comments: RedTango,
hilarious, as usual. 
Kathy, way to go!!! I´m so happy for you. Wish I could go, sounds like a huge
GBmeetup. Well done!
4/27/05 at 04:41 AM
Comments:
Excellent News Kathy!!
4/27/05 at 02:58 AM
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Burbank, Ca
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(include "http://")
http://alanrickmangallery.com
Comments:
MORE UPDATES!
Swingin' new updates in the "fashion section" of
the website...take a look as we highlight some of the panda's favorite
looks off screen.
4/26/05 at 11:58 PM
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México
Comments:
I'm so thrill that you could change your travel
date!... by the way... I didn't know that your
Birthday it's 21st June... mine it's 22nd June!!
Hugs to everybody
4/26/05 at 11:54 PM
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MI- Nothing Happenin' Here!
Comments:
Since we are on the subject of iPods (among other things), I got a pink iPod
mini (6GB) for Christmas. It has my name Kimberly inscribed on that back, though
I like your inscription better, Elaine!
I have a couple of AR radio plays on it, etc. I mainly use it when walking. I
now covet the iPod photo. Then I could take all my AR photos with me wherever I
go!
The Andrew Marr interview is shaping up well for the AR fans who can't
attend!
Good on you, Kathy, for making the change! Look forward to reports, photos, etc.
Natasxxx: Glad I could be of help.
4/26/05 at 08:41 PM
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UK
Comments:
Go
Kathy!!!!! I am over the moon!! See, good things happen to those who wait - (and
wheedle things a bit) Off to check my mail!
4/26/05 at 08:24 PM
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GA
Comments:
Oops, I forgot.
For kathy, the mugs in my emoticons are filled with root beer! *grin*
4/26/05 at 08:22 PM
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GA
Comments:
  
Kathy!!!!!! I am sooooooooo happy for you!!!! The group is shaping up to
look like a lot of fun! This is going to be cool!
Remember ladies....pictures pictures pictures, pulllleezzzeee!!
Alfan, I'm right there with you! I seem to hear Marston say those words
quite a bit lately. Well, our time will come........eventually.
Elaine, my order is for the 20GB. I don't know if I'll get that but I
think I might, if I'm a good girl. 
AFNH, your a wealth of information! Thank you for the schedules! I don't
believe I've ever looked at Radio 7 but if Nighy is gonna be there...I'll have
to check it out! Thanks.
Susan, CA. I believe in the online AR realm, the the expression "I want to
slap...." is just that. An expression. I know I have said that
relating to other things but don't literally mean it....well, not all the time.
4/26/05 at 08:02 PM
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arkansas
Comments:
Just got his google, nice article on SnowCake--hope it isn't a duplicate.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050426/MOSS26/TPEntertainment/Film
4/26/05 at 07:56 PM
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Canada
Comments: If you all dont mind a
little quote from Elliot Marston
"some say they were born in the wrong century, think i was born on the wrong
continent.."
4/26/05 at 07:41 PM
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Heaven
Comments:
I did it!!!! I was able to change my reservation to the 19th of
June and will arrive the 20th, now all I have to do is make sure the B&B can
take me earlier. And see if I can still get a ticket for the AR interview 
NOW I am excited!!!!!
Elaine, look for a private email from me!!!
4/26/05 at 07:36 PM
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arkansas
Comments:
I DID IT, I DID
IT!!!
4/26/05 at 06:48 PM
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Los Angeles
Comments:
Dee - thanks for asking the "Stella Maris" question...I've wondered about that
myself. I assumed it was the name she used when she was in the theater or
as a "working" girl.
Elaine - I think you're right that he thought she may have emigrated with the
"son"....but he also spent a lot of time traveling around on that motorcycle in
the hopes of somehow finding "him". I guess the bottom line is, he just
didn't know for sure and would visit the docks and wonder if she may have left
the area for good.
4/26/05 at 06:22 PM
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CA
Comments: AABA is set in 1947.
Stella, Uncle Vernon says, is below the age of consent, so she's fifteen at the
oldest. Fifteen in 1947 was about as sophisticated as eight or nine is today,
maybe even less. The arrival of television, for example, did a lot to speed up
growing up.
I don't like Stella very much, but I admire her courage in struggling to find a
way to survive in theater when she knows nothing and has no experience. I also
find her fantasies, delusions and misjudgments pretty typical of early
adolescence.
And I feel a lot of compassion for her: no father, no mother, brought up by an
aunt and uncle who were working all the time trying to keep their heads above
water in that boarding house, no money, no education to speak of, the war, the
blitz, rationing, and really no prospects of a better life. Her complete lack of
anything like sex ed. alone is enough to sink a frailer boat than Stella's. And,
as she says, everyone one she knows left bits of themselves somewhere in the
war.
One slightly related thing I don't understand: In the years I've been reading in
the AR Internet world, I've read many people saying they would like to slap
Stella (or Natalie). Is this a metaphor I'm not familiar with, something like
"Oh, I could have just killed him!"? It sounds like assault and battery, walking
up and smacking a stranger, and sometimes from the nicest people...
4/26/05 at 05:58 PM
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the Netherlands, past midnight now actually
Comments: That isn´t sad Elaine, I think it´s kinda cute. I wish I had
one who told me that every now and then. That voice could make my skin scroll,
if you know what I mean....!
4/26/05 at 05:46 PM
Comments:
Oooh, and Ipods. We've just joined that brigade. I've only got a Mini (which
holds about 1000 songs - but not enough for me!) Jamie (no 1 son) has the 20gb
and I covet it! We even had them engraved which you can do if you buy them
direct from Apple (at no extra cost either). Mine says "Bewitch the mind....
Ensnare the senses...." Is that sad or what?
4/26/05 at 05:43 PM
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UK
Comments:
Spoilers::
Dee, "Stella Maris" was what PL's lover called herself ("Star of the Sea") which
is why the young Stella did not recognise her as being her mother when he talked
about her. As for the docks thing, I have wondered about that too. IMHO, he
thought that she had either a) emigrated abroad with their "son" or b) drowned
herself! I move towards the former.
Ricky Nicky, I shall be looking out for you!
Sir Ian in Corrie - when will it end? Fair dos to him for doing it though. Can't
see AR looking for a part alongside Mr Boredom, Ken though!
4/26/05 at 04:59 PM
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Indiana
Comments:
All your comments about AABA were fascinating! Thanks for sharing with me.
Alfan -- I agree about Hugh Grants hair. It was such a grease slick, it actually
made Snape's long locks look fluffy!
Palabra -- You're right, there were several really great actors in the
background of AABA. I enjoyed watching their interactions. They came across like
old pros who had worked together on the boards for decades -- and in reality,
they probably had!
Vicki -- Thanks for sharing the story of how Stella got the role. You have to
admire her gumption! I still think she came across as dumb (not cute,
innocent, inexperienced dumb...just plain dumb), but the
directors must have been happy, so... who am I to complain! But you're right --
how could she possibly have not loved him "at least a little bit"! 
POSSIBLE SPOILER* Two questions: #1: Could someone
explain the whole "Stella Maris" thing? I presume that was his lover's name. Was
she an actress (it was her stage name)? A prostitue? Is there a background
to their story that I missed? #2: Why did he always
go to the dock? Because he'd been a sailor with the Navy and loved the sea? Did
he know she'd sailed away? 
4/26/05 at 04:58 PM
Comments:
Just been looking at the Radio Times listings for next week, and I see that
Galaxy Quest is scheduled for UKTV Gold at 9pm on May Day Bank Holiday. There
was a nice little review of the film on the Today's Choice section, so I've
scanned it and you'll find it
here.
On the radio on Sunday at 7pm on Radio 3, Derek Jacobi stars in Don Carlos,
set during the reign of Philip II of Spain. It has the original cast from the
stage production.
On Thursday May 2nd at 2.15pm, Adam Godley stars in The Murder of My Aunt.
Finally on BBC Radio 7 (internet & digital), Bill Nighy reads Talk of Love
and War.
The big event of the week, though, is Sir Ian McKellen making his debut in
Coronation Street. Now if only we could get AR to prop up the bar of The Rovers
for a few weeks.......
4/26/05 at 04:02 PM
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...shuttle between her alter-ego and herself
Comments:
She's in a Marvin mood.... 
But don't panic...She will get over it!!
4/26/05 at 02:37 PM
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GA
Comments:
I
thought about you and your iPod when I read that Sue!
My Sweetie has just recently introduced me to what an iPod can do and I have to
say....I can't wait for Christmas! I've already put in my order. And I
told him it was his own fault for I had not even entertained the idea until he
showed me his! LOL
I have a ton of radio plays that I've been recording from BBC Radio 4 that will
be perfect for an iPod.
4/26/05 at 02:36 PM
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London
Comments:
I will try to get a
ticket, too. I'll try it tomorrow. Elaine, how about another meet-up? 
4/26/05 at 02:13 PM
Comments:
Hah! Like the bit about whether BG would get one of the Special Edition ipods!!!
Well I won't part with mine not
even to Bill gates! (Especially not to BG he can afford his own)
4/26/05 at 01:43 PM
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GA
Comments:
Almost NON AR related:
CNN crawl just a few minutes ago about two of my favorites!
Bono and Bill Gates hung out together after a U2 concert in Seattle over the
weekend. Bono and Gates share a passion for Third World Devolopment.
Here's the story on
CNN.com *grin*
What does one do when you hang out with the likes of Bono or Gates?
4/26/05 at 01:32 PM
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UK
Comments:
Kathy, you HAVE to try and get here in time. It will be a HOOT!
4/26/05 at 11:48 AM
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GA
Comments:
YAY!!!! Looks like we will have yet another great showing from our group at the
Chelsea event! Can't wait to hear about it. It ought to be a good
talk! Are
you still working on a day or two earlier, kathy??? Still wishing you luck
that something will come up!
4/26/05 at 11:29 AM
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UK
Comments:
Hey Severina, just
booked this afternoon. I, too, have no idea how I'm going to fit it in, but I'll
do my best!
4/26/05 at 11:20 AM
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the Netherlands
Comments: Slope posted
an article at Suzanne´s GB about Carrie Anne Moss. You can find it here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20050426.MOSS26/BNPrint/theglobeandmail/Film
Sev you lucky girl, well done and keep us informed! I wanna live in London......
*sigh*
4/26/05 at 10:55 AM
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London
Comments:
Woo hoo -
registered for the fall at Chelsea and booked myself a ticket to the Andrew Marr
talk. Now will
either have to book the day off or put my foot down about not working late...
Anyone else going?
Sev
4/26/05 at 10:38 AM
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GA
Comments:

Welcome Palabra! I'm glad you found us and hope you will post with us
often.
4/26/05 at 10:02 AM
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GA
Comments:
Thanks, Juliet! I've just skimmed over the article and will pour over it
more thoroughly a little later. I realize ET highlights other
organizations but Wise is the only one I had time to read about this
morning. The purpose of Wise rings right in with what Kim and Michelle were
talking about yesterday. Don't just give......you have to give AND educate if
you really want to make a dent in eliminating such suffering.
I think Emma Thompson is such a good writer especially when its something she is
passionate about.
4/26/05 at 09:46 AM
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UK
Comments:
The
real name of the girl who played Stella in AABA is Claire Woodgate - and I'm
pretty sure she was actually 20 when she did AABA. She's done a few things
since then, but nothing earthshattering. I remember reading that
she wanted the part so badly that she arrived more or less in character for the
audition, so that they'd never see her as anyone other than Stella.
Personally I like AABA. It has a few comedic moments but for the most part
it's a tragedy of the sort Shakespeare might have written about. I was
interested to see the number of well-known people acting in it - Prunella
Scales, Edward Petherbridge, Nicola Pagett, Alan Jones, Rita Tushingham, Carol
Drinkwater and Peter Firth.
4/26/05 at 09:45 AM
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UK
Comments:
Not
entirely OT, Emma Thompson wrote an article in Saturday's Telegraph mag about
her trip to Africa on behalf of ActionAid, a charity also supported by AR, as
part of the MPH campaign. You can see it here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;sessionid=JPEW5FVGOZJR3QFIQMGSM5OAVCBQWJVC?xml=/arts/2005/04/26/ftemma23.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=55033
(I hope!!)
4/26/05 at 09:43 AM
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GA
Comments:
I
thought the quote from the Barry Norman interview rang a little bell, AFNH so I
went digging. Here is what I found from the infamous "That Book".
Unfortunately since it is from "That Book", we can't be to sure of the
authenticity.
And Alan himself admitted in a location interview on Barry Norman's Film 95:
'It's a strange film to be doing in a way, a bit like being a vulture on your
own flesh ... we have actors playing actors, using a stage for a film set and
using our own lives as raw material. Georgina is remarkable . . . she claims to
be seventeen but I'm going to put it out that she's forty-three.'
4/26/05 at 09:29 AM
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GA
Comments:
My
turn to get tomatoes..... LOL
I think on most film sets (with the exception of the obvious, I'm sure lol),
that most nudity/sex scenes are done with only essential crew members present on
set. I forget who I heard say this and where...sorry.
I've never thought what Georgina Cates did was all that bad. In fact,
I've often admired her spunk. Now, if the situation had been reversed and
she lied about being older and she was in fact a minor, then that could have
been a serious problem.
I find it hard to understand why AR, Mike Newell, and Hugh Grant would be "hurt"
about what GC did in order to get the part. Surely, they know that sometimes it
takes something out of the ordinary to win a part and understand.
I've only read reports that AR was upset about the deception. One being a
Times interview that you can read on
Claire's site. And in the interview, it is Mike Newell that says that
AR was a bit miffed, not AR himself.
Clare Woodgate/Georgina Cates has done only a small handful of crappy films
since AABA so obviously her deception got her no where. But I still feel
like no one could have played Stella better than GC.
BTW, its my understanding that GC did actually legally change her name and she
is married to a wealthy man and lives in Virginia. Anyone have any more
current information on her?
I'm also still puzzled by "Claire Woodgate" being both GC's AND Kim Cattrall's
real name.
Speaking of KC, there has been no more mention of KC in relation to Snow
Cake. That's sort of a bummer for me because I really would like
to see KC and AR paired up on screen! I think there could be definite
chemistry between the two. But I suppose not all is lost though, there is
still filming going on in Toronto till mid May and KC's play ends this Saturday
so there is still hope!
4/26/05 at 09:08 AM
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UK and supposed to be marking student assignments at work!
Comments:
Has the girl who played Stella ever done anything else?
Did the deception get her anywhere in the long run?
4/26/05 at 07:32 AM
Comments: I
remember seeing the interview Alan gave on Barry Norman's film show, when he
said "I'm going to put it about that she's older than 16" as the issue of GC's
age came up.That was probably before the truth came out. No wonder so many felt
deceived.
4/26/05 at 04:53 AM
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Austria
Comments:
Well, I can fully understand, that AR was personally hurt when he had to learn,
that this girl Stella war much older than 16 - who wouldn't be, fooled like
this, playin such sensitive scenes.
BTW - Kate Winslet made herself older to geht her part in S&S ;o)
Ricky
4/26/05 at 02:44 AM
Comments:
ThankU Kimberly!
And you're right! Googled around and read that she was 41 year "old" when she
died! That's sad to read!
I thought she looked familiar but didn't know her name...
4/26/05 at 02:20 AM
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Los Angeles
Comments:
Oh, and one more thing I forgot to mention. ABBA does improve
with repeated viewings. I also had to rely on the subtitles the first
couple of times. Here we all supposedly speak English, yet I found many of
the accents difficult to understand. Once you've seen it once or twice
with the closed captions, you will say, "D'oh! I get it now" and will be
able to enjoy it without subtitles.
Watch it again in a few days or weeks. You will notice subtleties in the
story that make it very enjoyable to watch. 
4/26/05 at 02:11 AM
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MI
Comments:
Natasxxx: I believe AR
is pictured with the British stage actress, Katrin Cartlidge. She died suddenly
in 2002 of pneumonia, if I recall correctly.
4/26/05 at 02:05 AM
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Los Angeles
Comments:
Dee - First of all, you are correct. ABBA is the farthest thing from a
comedy there could be. Yes, there are comedic moments. There are the
classic dysfunctional theater types whose foibles and phobias are amusing, but
it is, in essence, a tragedy. Makes you wonder if the marketing people
ever actually watch the film.
I like your comment on how AR lends an element of the heroic to his
character. In another actor's hands, this character could easily come off
as a heartless cad, a prima donna (or perhaps I should say Il Divo), or
a clueless, idiotic jerk. But AR plays it with enough humanism and skill
that, despite his seduction of this young girl, you see that he does still have
a heart and a conscience.
The character of Stella comes off as dumb because she is dumb.
(You would have to be to not realize that you're in bed with such a sexy man!! ).
I don't know if you've read the back story on how she got this part? First
of all, the actress' real name is not Georgiana Cates. Apparently, she
first auditioned as herself, under her real name and was turned away....they
wanted a younger actress...near the age of sixteen, like the character. So
she went back again, under a different name, little or no make-up, a juvenile
hair-do, and lied about her age.....and she got the part! No one
recognized her as the same actress who had auditioned earlier. Apparently,
she had everyone fooled. But later, and I can't remember if it was near
the end of the shoot or after the film wrapped, but the truth came out and not
everyone was pleased...especially AR.
The story goes that because he and this young actress were filming some very
adult scenes together, he went out of his way to try and be sensitive and make
her feel as comfortable as possible (such a gentleman )
even as far as seeing that there were as few crew members as possible hanging
around on the days they were shooting these scenes. It was reported that
he was not happy about finding out that all this time, she was an adult actress
in her 20's and not an inexperienced teenager as he was led to believe. He
probably felt that he had been made a fool of...and he wasn't the only one.
I guess Mike Newell (the director) wasn't real pleased upon hearing the news
either. In her
defense however, it is really tough out there to get good roles. As a
struggling unknown, you would do almost anything to get a part in a film like
this. A well-known, successful director and fabulous cast. Who could
say we wouldn't do the same thing? I can see both sides of the issue.
She knew she could play the clueless teenager role, and by-God, she
proved it. I'm sure now that 10 years have passed, those bitter feelings
have disappeared.
4/26/05 at 01:16 AM
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...GoodMoining.....
Comments:
Question: can someone tell me who the lady next to Al?
TnX!!! 
4/25/05 at 11:26 PM
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Canada
Comments:
I too wondered about
the fact that AABA was considered a comody,,,,,the only thing really funny about
that movie is Hugh Grants hair.
4/25/05 at 11:21 PM
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UK
Comments:
Right, so now I want to
go even more! Just been to the website and I realise it is in the new Art
College site on Millbank. This used to be the Army Medical Services College and
I have spent many a fond-remembered time in the lecture theatre and at
Regimental Dinners in the huge Dining Hall. I really hope they have not done too
much to it as it was beautiful inside. We were all very sorry when they decided
to sell it. We lost our very well liked Adjutant too as he went on to oversee
the closure and transfer of the building. It will be really interesting to go
back! Now all I need is a day off!
4/25/05 at 11:10 PM
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UK
Comments:
Kathy, what a dilemma you have left me with! So few days off, so much to do! I'd
love to go to that Chelsea thing, but can I swing it somehow? There must be a
way! How sad about those toddlers. It's a worry that
lives with mothers every day of their lives. You just have to take all the
precautions that you possibly can. Dee, I cannot
abide the Stella character in AABA. I really want to slap her! But AR looks
great in this film, so I excuse her - a bit.
4/25/05 at 10:53 PM
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Indiana
Comments:
Kathy - We all feel your pain! Any way you can change the date that you'll be in
London? POSSIBLE
SPOILERS* I just watched AABA for the first time. Can anyone explain why the DVD
jacket called it a "warm hearted comedy" and "hilarious"? In my humble
opinion, there was nothing funny about it at all. Did I miss something? It was
more of a character study of a group of emotionally challenged people --with
a tragic ending.
AR looked gorgeous (I thought I'd start panting and groaning along with him at
one point )
and comes across very dashing. Loved the leather coat! He brought an element of
the heroic to his character that was wonderful. I also thought Hugh Grant did a
good job with his despicable character.
But the actress who played Stella was horribly disappointing (once again, just
my opinion). I couldn't understand half of what she said and had to turn on the
subtitles to follow conversation (her teeth also needed a good brushing, but
that's my own personal hangup ).
I think she was trying to portray Stella as deep, introspective,
intelligent and eager for grownup experiences...but with all of her mumblings
and open-mouth stares, she just came across as dumb.
Sorry to drone on. If AABA is one of your favorite movies, I apologize
profusely! I'm going to watch it a few more times -- maybe it improves with
repeated viewings? At least I can pause/slow motion AR's sex scenes! I just feel
like such a traitor for not liking it better!
4/25/05 at 06:39 PM
Comments:
Don't think I shall be able to make that one, I have al ot of stuff booked for
June (AR, U2 etc etc) and am rapidly running out of money!! I might be
sidetracked looking at Andrew Marrs ears if I went! But never say never eh!
4/25/05 at 06:34 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Good
eBay browsing, Sue!!!
Those pics from MNiRC don't look as good as the ones Nit and Gloria took.
I hope people will steer clear of them.
kathy! We have got to figure out a way to get you to London a couple days
earlier! Dang it! If you can't get there then, at least it sounds
like he will be there and apt to show up for some more stuff! Maybe
something will come up. Elaine, RickiNicki, Sue, anyone??? Do you think you
will get to go? You know we have to live through you!
The missing toddlers is terribly terribly sad, Sue. The recent cases of
missing/lost/dead children have just about been to hard to take.
4/25/05 at 05:40 PM
Comments:
Hang on ! Someone further down wants £9.99!!!! Also
someone is selling 4 Great Unique photos from the MNiRC 1st night
HERE. Hope they aren't the ones off TARF.
4/25/05 at 05:34 PM
Comments:
Aww Kathy!! You aren't having much luck are YOU? No Kevin Spacey and now No
Alan!!!
Just saw
THISon Ebay. In the immortal words of Victor Meldrew "I don't believe It!!"
This dvd was free in yesterday's Sunday Times. There is an interesting 30 minute
piece on HHG2TG but No, repeat No Alan Rickman apart from a couple of clips from
the movie with Marvin (Marvin, Not Melvin ).
These clips are on other trailers except for one where he says "Freeze?I'm a
robot not a refridgerator" and the jerk is asking £8.99!! Don't
touch it!!
4/25/05 at 05:24 PM
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p**** off is what I am........... to quote metatron.
Comments:
Ladies, the below is info about the
interview with alan Rickman at his alma mater Chelsea Art School. Now, I
want you to notice it is the 21st of June. That is my birthday. Will
I be in London then? NO!!! I will be in London the 23rd. Can my
timing be possibly any worse?????
Andrew Marr talks with Alan Rickman Lecture Theatre 21 June 6.30pm Andrew
Marr, broadcaster (BBC Political Editor) talks with Chelsea graduate Alan
Rickman, one of the UK’s leading actors. Tickets £7 (£4 concessions) by
telephoning 020 7269 1606 Andrew Marr talks
with Richard Deacon. Lecture Theatre 28 June 6.30pm Andrew Marr, broadcaster
(BBC Political Editor) talks with Visiting Professor and Chelsea graduate
Richard Deacon, award-winning British sculptor (Turner Prize 1989). Tickets
£7 (£4 concessions) by telephoning 020 7269 1606 Sniff, sniff,
somebody please go and tell me what I've missed!!!
4/25/05 at 05:23 PM
What is your location?
england
Comments:
Just read that
tragic story about the missing Georgia toddlers, so sad.
4/25/05 at 04:40 PM
Comments: Er
- make that rhubarb tarts......
4/25/05 at 04:39 PM
Comments:
Lucy - loved your "It's Not A Good Morning" animation - ***hoot***! I can
sympathise, I have a morning like that every morning - LOL!
Sue - thanks for the BN interview. It made me laugh reading about his lack of
pulling power, when the exact opposite was stated in the Kevin Lloyd
autobiography. Mind you, it was the 70's, he probably couldn't remember anyway!
Peekabooh - nice to see that pic again - Alan amongst the delphiniums with his
little pot plant - so sweet.
Claudia - many thanks for the link to that interview - and what a lovely pic. It
does seem to be the longest he's given in ages. I can see next time he makes a
public appearance, he'll be inundated with rhubarb crumble, tarts and custard by
well-meaning fans trying to feed him up!
4/25/05 at 04:38 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Never mind what's he got
in his bag...what's with the woman in the background with the pink hair?
She's to tall to be Mrs. Slocomb! LOL
4/25/05 at 12:20 PM
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HomePage? (include "http://")
http://www.livejournal.com/community/gbhunks/
Comments:
Yes Peekabooh, looks like a pot wrapped in pink tissue
paper. When the pic came out a couple of years back there was much fun to be had
wondering why he was carrying a couple of loorolls round with him!!
I was amazed to learn of the American recruiting methods too Elaine. I can't
imagine many Brit teens taking kindly to that! (Mother of two teen boys myself!)
4/25/05 at 11:35 AM
What is your location?
UK
Comments:
Thanks for that article, Kimberley. As in most conflicts, there are stories to
be told on both sides, equally tragic, equally worthy. But I agree with Sue,
although there was an underlying current of political bias, the play itself was
about Rachel, and no one else. As for Rachel's parents launching them selves
into protests, perhaps the mothers of the "other Rachels" should protest
at the injustices and waste of their own daughter's deaths. It all comes down to
how you handle grief and loss. As a member of the UK
military (albeit a reservist, and a volunteer) I am always surprised at the
vigour of the US Military Machine and it's recruiting tactics. We binned the old
"recruiting sergeant" method of going round pubs, schools, etc offering "The
King's Shilling" half a century ago. We get the odd advert on the TV, very small
newspaper ads, and stands at Shows and exhibitions that draw in mostly kids
wanting the chance to play with "Army things" rather than consider joining uo
when they get old enough. But we don't have to register either. I can't believe
you still have to do that as I thought "the draft" was no longer. I think if you
don't go OTT for recruits, then at least you get young people who actually want
to be in the military, and not someone who thinks it might be a good idea after
a night boozing down the pub! And although our armed forces are known not to
have the best equipment or the best facilities, at least we don't have to serve
on tours longer than 6 months, unlike the US. That must be awful. I served 3
months in Iraq and that was plenty, thank you. I've read that your reservists
are often just about to go home when they get told they have to stay for another
6 months or year. That must be awful! We volunteer, and although they can keep
us for 2 years, it has never been done because they know that we would go
straight home and resign, or never volunteer again! You have to have good will
on both sides. And I'm still against the war! We should be out of Iraq now as we
haven't done them any favours! OOPS! BIG OT post! 
Oh and Hi to Kate! Nice to see you post here! Come back again. And to Ricky
Nicky, back.
Red Tango, we knew you would not disappoint us!
And lastly, my son actually bought a Make Poverty History wristband before me!
Now Ive got to go down to Oxfam and get one too! (And the ad was on last night -
but not the one with AR. I find that really odd.)
Peekaboo, that pic was taken at the Chelsea Flower Show a couple of years ago. I
think it's a pot plant!
4/25/05 at 11:24 AM
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the Netherlands
Comments:

I forgot to post this one.... what the heck is in that bag???
4/25/05 at 11:10 AM
What is your location?
the Netherlands
Comments: Don´t know if
it has been posted yet, but here is the story that goes with the Walking Dog
pics:
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/story.shtml?id=26825
and if it has been posted... sorry, but one can never see/read about AR enough!
LOL 
4/25/05 at 11:02 AM
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arkansas
Comments:
Kimberley--Thanks for the other view point. I actually take no sides on
the Israeli Palestinian issue other than they both should be ashamed.
Equal guilt, equal tragedy. Such waste of human life is appalling. No
Rachel should die. No Jewish family or British family, or American or
Palestinian family should have to grieve the loss of their child from the
conflict over this issue. I do however imagine that AR tried to be
balanced. He's smart enough to know how explosive this issue is. Anyway
off my soap box.
Claudia, thanks also for OK to discuss these topics. I am so glad to hear
people from all over express their opinions--somehow I think that lively thought
and discussion is what AR has in mind when he gets involved some of these
projects. and as usual everyone here is wonderful, articulate and accepting of
others views, even if different from their own--agree to disagree and still be
friends! Good on everyone! 
4/25/05 at 09:23 AM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Good
morning, everyone! Sorry for being a little late on posting but its been a
slow (cool) morning! Mondays can be that way sometimes. LOL
Thanks for the report from the 19th Kate in the Midwest. I'm looking
forward to everyone else's reports when they return from the UK.
Kimberly, I just have to say that your posts are certainly AR related. I
mean, after all, the man does devote a great deal of his life to helping the
less fortunate so our talking about it (and most especially
doing something) certainly falls into "on topic"!
Oh and BTW, I think I've told you this before in private but, Lila Lipscomb is
one of my heros. Bless her heart, she has really become a shining example
to follow. Hmmmm,
I didn't realize that Michael Moore (another of my heros) knew AR!!!!
There has to be a way for MM to work AR into one of his films! LOL
I hope everyone will continue to post your thoughts and feelings on this board.
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading so far and hope it will continue.
4/25/05 at 07:58 AM
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MI-The Snow is Melting! Yea!!
Comments:
Michelle: I have always loved the starfish story, too. However, I do like to
take it to a higher level. Rather than stand at the seashore throwing the
starfish back, why not find out what is causing the starfish to beach in such
large numbers? Once that problem is solved,(through systemic change), all the
starfish will be saved, and we can move on to other problems that plague the
starfish. (I'm using the starfish metaphorically here as representative of
human beings/societal ills.) I hope you get what I mean and I haven't been
too convoluted!
4/25/05 at 07:34 AM
What is your location?
England
Comments:
Kimberley and
Kathy- Your posts are not O/T at all. If everyone in the wealthier nations tried
to make a difference in what ever way they could then it benefits us all That
star fish story is spot on to describe ARs philosophy on life, con't you think?
Just do what you can and don;t make a fuss about it.
4/25/05 at 06:01 AM
What is your location?
...5 minutes and then I'm offfff!!!
Comments:
Girls, thnx for all the new articles...!! 
I'm off for now!
4/25/05 at 05:33 AM
What is your location?
Flint, MI- Birthplace of Generous Motors
Comments:
Kathy: A wonderful book which tells the stories of a few of the young men who
have died in Afghanistan and Iraq, as told by their mothers, is "A Mother's
Tears." The website is here:
http://www.motherstears.com/index.html Lila Lipscomb's story is
included in this collection. What is sad is how many of the young men died
doing tasks which they were not trained for, but superiors insisted they
perform, or died due to faulty equipment.
Btw, Kathy, my late mother was from Arkansas. My cousin, Martha Shoffner, was a
state representative from Jackson County for a few years. She decided to run for
State Auditor in the last election and lost to Jim Wood, I believe. I have
visited the state many times and understand your frustation with the lack of
cultural resources and booze! BUT,
there is also a lot I love about the state, too. (Arkansas Trivia: Hemingway
wrote "The Sun Also Rises" in Arkansas, as his last wife was from AR=not alan
rickman, btw. )
My last comment here, I hope, on volunteerism: I just want to point out that as
a volunteer I try to create systemic change, not just random acts of
kindness, however nice those may be. I really take to heart the
saying: You can give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day, OR
you can teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Geez, Kate, look what you started! I
never post this much. And, none of it is Rickman-related either......
4/25/05 at 04:47 AM
What is your location?
London
Comments:
Oh, Claudia,
for the lovely interview! I like his hair!
And thank you, Kimberly, for the review! back
to Elaine and to Kate! Kate, did you have a nice trip back to the U.S.?
4/25/05 at 04:22 AM
Comments:
Thanks for that Kimberley. It is always good to see the other point of view. I
am certainly not going down the "Right or wrong" debate road. All of those
deaths were pointless. I would however just take one quote :
"But ultimately, this play isn't really about Corrie, but about fomenting hatred
of Israel." I have seen the play and that is one
thing I do think the play did so well, it was about her and not
about making people hate Israel. IMHO!
Lucy - love the icon!
4/25/05 at 03:23 AM
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MI
Comments:
Another view of Rachel Corrie:
The forgotten Rachels |
Tom Gross, THE JERUSALEM POST |
Apr. 25, 2005 |
My Name Is Rachel Thaler is not the title of a play likely to be produced
anytime soon in London. Thaler, aged 16, was blown up at a pizzeria in an
Israeli shopping mall. She died after an 11-day struggle for life following the
February 16, 2002 attack when a suicide bomber approached a crowd of teenagers
and blew himself up. She was a British citizen, born in London, where her
grandparents still live. Yet I doubt that anyone at London's Royal Court
Theatre, or most people in the British media, have heard of her. "Not a single
British journalist has ever interviewed me or mentioned her death," her mother,
Ginette, told me last week. Thaler's parents donated her organs for
transplant (helping to save the life of a young Russian man), and grieved
quietly. After the accidental killing of Rachel Corrie, by contrast, her parents
embarked on a major publicity campaign. They traveled to Ramallah to accept a
plaque from Yasser Arafat on behalf of their daughter. They circulated her
emails and diary entries to a world media eager to publicize them. Among
those who published extracts from them in 2003 was the influential British
leftist daily The Guardian. This in turn inspired a new play, My Name Is
Rachel Corrie, which opened this month at the Royal Court Theatre, one of
London most prestigious venues. (The New York Times recently described it as
"the most important theatre in Europe.") The play is co-edited and directed
by Katharine Viner, editor of The Guardian's weekend magazine, and by
film star Alan Rickman (of Die Hard and Harry Potter fame). Their script weaves
together extracts from Corrie's journals and e-mails. For those who don't
recall the story, Rachel Corrie was a young American radical who burned
mock-American flags at pro-Hamas rallies in Gaza in February 2003. A short while
later she died after jumping in front of an Israeli army bulldozer that was
attempting to demolish a structure suspected of concealing tunnels used for
smuggling weapons. Partly because of the efforts of Corrie and her fellow
activists in the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), the IDF was unable to
stop the flow of weapons through these tunnels. Those weapons were later used to
kill Israeli children in the town of Sderot in southern Israel, and elsewhere.
However, in many hundreds of articles written on Corrie and published worldwide
in the last two years, most papers have been careful to omit such details. So
have Rickman and Viner, leaving almost all the critics who have reviewed the
play completely clueless about the background of the events with which it deals.
"Corrie was always a progressive with a conscience she went to work with the
International Solidarity Movement in Gaza," wrote Michael Billington in The
Guardian last week, without a shred of explanation as to what the ISM
actually is. ISM is routinely described as a "peace group" in the Western
media. Few make any mention of ISM's meeting with British suicide bombers Omar
Khan Sharif and Assif Muhammad Hanif, who a few days later blew up Mike's Place,
a Tel Aviv pub, killing three and injuring dozens – including British citizens.
Or of the ISM's sheltering in its office Shadi Sukia, a leading member of
Islamic Jihad. Or of the fact that in its mission statement the ISM says "armed
struggle" is a Palestinian "right." "'Israel' is an illegal entity that
should not exist," wrote ISM media coordinator Flo Rosovski, clarifying the
ISM's idea of peace. Unfortunately for those who have sought to portray
Corrie as a peaceful protester, photos of her burning a mock American flag and
stirring up crowds in Gaza were published by the Associated Press and on Yahoo
News on February 15, 2003, before she died. But the play doesn't mention this.
So British reviewers are left to tell the British public that the play is a
"true-life tragedy" in which Corrie's "unselfish goodness shines through" (Evening
Standard). "Corrie was murdered after joining a non-violent Palestinian
resistance organization," writes Emma Gosnell in the Sunday Telegraph
("murdered" is a term even Corrie's staunchest defenders have hesitated to use
up to now). Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph talks of "Corrie's
concern for suffering humanity one leaves the theatre mourning not only Rachel
Corrie but also one's own loss of the idealism and reckless courage of youth."
In one of the most astonishing comments, Michael Billington, the Guardian's
critic, writes of the play: "The danger of right-on propaganda is avoided."
It is ironic to reflect that there have been several real victims of the
intifada called Rachel – and hard to believe that these critics have ever heard
of them. All these other Rachels died within a few months of Corrie but – unlike
her – in circumstances that weren't disputed. They were deliberately murdered:
Rachel Levy (17, blown up in a grocery store); Rachel Levi (19, shot while
waiting for the bus); Rachel Gavish (killed with her husband, son and father
while at home celebrating a Pessah meal); Rachel Charhi (blown up while sitting
in a Tel Aviv cafe, leaving three young children); Rachel Shabo (murdered with
her three sons aged 16, 13 and five, while at home). Only one critic (Clive
Davis in London's The Times) dismisses parts of the play as "unvarnished
propaganda." At one point Corrie declares: "The vast majority of Palestinians
right now, as far as I can tell, are engaging in Gandhian non-violent
resistance." As Davis notes, "Even the late Yasser Arafat might have blushed at
that one." Rachel Corrie's death was undoubtedly tragic. But ultimately,
this play isn't really about Corrie, but about fomenting hatred of Israel. The
production is now sold out and there is talk of it being staged in America. The
Royal Court is also rushing out a printed edition of the play to give to
schools. The writer is the former Jerusalem correspondent of The Sunday
Telegraph.
4/25/05 at 01:57 AM
What is your location?
New Zealand
Comments:
Nice starfish
story, Kathy. Just trying to do one small helpful thing can make a difference.
Pebble in a pond sort of thing.
4/25/05 at 01:49 AM
Comments:
Kimberley-It has been a very weird experience since both my boys are now 18 and
have "registered" as they have to do in case the military wants them. We
get phone calls constantly from military recruiters who want to do all kinds of
"wonderful" educational things for my boys. And the mail is incredible.
I am definitely NOT anti-military, but it got so crazy I finally told the last
one that my son has a chronic illness and would not be eligible, and besides I
didn't want him to be cannon fodder anyway. No more phone calls.
Michael Morre is great. I think I mentioned this before, but before the
election MM came to UCA where I go to school and talked for 2 hours and answered
questions for even more--also had places to register to vote. Very
gracious and giving to the overflowing crowd that went to see him. Somehow I
wasn't surprised to hear MM knows AR. If everyone gives a little extra in
his/her own special way it will add up to alot. AR is a great example of quietly
helping where he can without fanfare. Reminds me of a story I heard somewhere
--a little girl is walking along a beach throwing in star fish that got washed
up on shore. There were hundreds of them. A man walking along said, little girl
it's not going to make any difference there are too many to throw back in.
She thought a minute and said, but it makes a difference to this one. 
Ooh my time is up, too--how'd I get so long winded tonight? sorry! 
4/25/05 at 01:21 AM
What is your location?
Burbank, Ca
What is the URL of your HomePage?
(include "http://")
http://alanrickmangallery.com
Comments:
Greetings, denizens.
The recent developments certainly did not miss the reporters out in the field
keeping tabs on the panda as he continues his journey thru the frosty, wind
whipped Wawa. Fond memories of pie, tarts and firelogs are etched into his mind.
Hot tubs, too. Heh.
New post on
http://www.livejournal.com/community/alanrickman
Entry will be added to my site on the "nanner" page for future reference.
Enjoy!
4/25/05 at 01:13 AM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Kimberly, wow! You've done so many wonderful things. I agree with
you about the military, btw. I, too, have issues with rich, oil-glutted
politicians using penniless kids as cannon fodder for their own personal gain.
I really want AR to bring this play over here, and you're right: there would be
a lot of interest.
4/25/05 at 12:43 AM
What is your location?
Michigan==Where We Have Snow!!!!
Comments:
Kate: Thank you for the review. How lucky you are to have seen the play in
London! Getting
out of your front and doing something to better the world isn't
hard--especially if you live in Flint, Michigan! I
have worked in Economic/Job Training for the past 20 years and am now working on
my master's in social work. (Some trivia: My former co-worker and good
friend, Lila Lipscomb, was in Michael Moore's film, "Farenheit 911." Michael
Moore dedicated his book, "Dude, Where's My Country?," to Rachel Corrie. Michael
hails from Flint and still lives in the area.)
As for being of service, I currently volunteer at my local resource center,
connecting people to the services they require to live a quality life: food,
shelter, ..... well, you name it, we can usually find it. I have donated my time
as a tutor to kids who parents were both imprisoned, helped illiterate
adults learn to read, and threw a hard-boiled egg ( )
at an Army Recruiter trying to recruit young, impoverished high school drop-outs
at our local youth center. (He didn't see me do it and when he turned
around, he asked me--the professional looking lady in the blue suit--if I saw
anything; I just looked bewildered.) The egg was part of my lunch, btw. (I also
don't hate the military, btw, but I do question some of their tactics,
nonetheless.) Okay, I don't recommend the egg-throwing as a community
service venture!
So, get ye out into your communities. Together we can make a
difference, one deed at a time!
My Personal Creed: [Years ago I
recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was
not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that
while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element
I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. Eugene V.
Debs] Also,
yesterday I had a very "Arab" kind of day. I went to get my hair and nails
done. My hairdresser, Hani, is a Palestinian Christian from Israel. My nail
tech, Kira, is from Lebanon. When Kira was a small child, she and her family
came back from visiting an aunt and found their house was no more--it had been
reduced to a pile of rubble by a bomb. Hani lost three Palestinian friends
when a suicide bomber hit a disco in Israel. I mentioned Rachel Corrie to
both of them. They hadn't heard of her, but they thought she made a bad decision
going to Rafah. Hani said he wouldn't go to Rafah, it's so bad there and he's
Palestinian. After
this, I met a friend for lunch at a restaurant called "The Jerusalem Inn."
Saw a friend of my cousin's, Yusef, who is a Muslim Palestinian from Nazareth.
He is much more "political" than Hani and Kira. We talked a bit about
Rachel Corrie and the situation in Gaza. He hadn't heard of her, either,
but thought it just a great tragedy, among other things.
At any rate, I couldn't stop thinking what a weird day yesterday was, and I just
could not keep Rachel Corrie or the Palestinian situation off my mind. I think I
should contact Michael Moore and since he knows Alan Rickman, have him convince
Alan to bring the play to Flint. We have one of the largest Arab populations in
the country, so I think interest in the play would be quite high.
Ah.....I think I've used up my alloted GB space for the month, havent' I.
I just had to share and hope I didn't bore y'all.
4/24/05 at 10:46 PM
What is your location?
in the Midwest
Comments:
I was in
the audience at the April 19th My Name is Rachel Corrie performance and
I’m still trying to sort out my thoughts and feelings. I’m definitely ashamed
that I hadn’t heard of this young woman’s story before the play, but I’m also
trying to figure out how best to get involved in issues beyond my family and my
front door. I do hope that The Royal Court & Co. are able to share this
moving work with more than just the 85 people a night who’ve seen it since it
opened. Regardless of your politics, Rachel’s words are moving. Her sister told
us that she transcribed Rachel’s journals and that – except in a very few cases
– Rachel hadn’t scratched out or edited anything. A humbling thought for someone
who has to re-re-re-re-write as much as I do. One
thing that is absolutely clear to me is that I loved meeting so many of my
fellow GBers and Rickmaniacs. We are a diverse lot, but we have a point of
common interest. I, for one, applaud Mr. Rickman for uniting us, even if he’s
unaware of that aspect of his humanitarian work.
4/24/05 at 10:09 PM
Comments:
Saw this on an HP site. Brian Cox is being replaced as the voice of Aslan in the
"Chronicles of Narnia" movie. Here's what the item says:
The big news of the Biola Media Conference is that Brian Cox is no longer doing
the voice of Aslan! Apparently he has lost some weight and his voice has
changed.
Reportedly, Jason Isaacs, Timothy Dalton, Sean Bean, Gerard
Butler, Ian McKellen, and Ralph Fiennes have all auditioned for the part. No
choice has yet been made.
I can think of a voice that would be perfect.
4/24/05 at 09:41 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:

Here's a little animation I made.
4/24/05 at 08:29 PM
Comments:
So sorry, Daydreamer! 
I really need to open another window so that I know who I'm thanking! Memory
loss comes with age unfortunately.
For Fan Fic 'ficianados, Azazello has finally finished her HP epic, "But You
Alone". I have been following this fic since she started it eons ago. It is a
Sev/HG ship, but at least HG is an adult, and it is so well written, I have
found it completely absorbing and addictive. You can find it over at "Ashwinder"
(ashwinder.sycophanthex.com) I really recommend this for a good "online" read!
4/24/05 at 07:27 PM
What is your location?
spring has deserted Indiana
Comments:
Kimberly -- Those buttertarts look fabulous (and they were even named after
me!). No wonder AR loves them - but I'll bet they are wicked pudge-makers!
Also: and thanks for the headsup on the eBay "fake" photos. Man...to think of
all the years I've wasted actually working for a living when I could get rich
with my own STUPID photo manipulation business! Disgusting! 
Claudia - Rhubarb is a staple in spring cooking around here. Pie, crisps,
cobblers, sauces...you name it, we put rhubarb in it! Ya want some recipes!?
Juliet -- No way! Indiana should host the Rhubarb Fest for AR! I've
already started planning the pie eating contest and have declared myself the
first Rhubarb Queen!
BTW - the lineless photos weren't my work. Daydreamer did the magic on those
beautiful pictures!
4/24/05 at 04:24 PM
Comments:
Made a new paper from B&W pix: 
4/24/05 at 03:19 PM
What is your location?
UK
Comments:
Rhubarb? OK, get
onto Wakefield Council first thing tomorrow morning and get them to invite AR to
the next annual rhubarb festival. I kid you not.
Yorkshire rhubarb is acknowledged as the finest there is, and Wakefield is the
UK capital of rhubarb, and it's only 5 miles from my house!! LOL!
4/24/05 at 02:22 PM
What is the URL of your
HomePage? (include "http://")
http://alanholic.boo.pl
Comments:
Claudia! We want to make a little InternetShop. We want to give fans something
connected to AR - in Poland it's impossible to buy even movies!!! If we get some
money selling gadgets, of course we won't keep them for ourselves!!! I work as a
volunteer in an orphanage and I've made an agreement with them - if this works
out we will sign an official document that I will put on our site saying that
all the money goes to the kids. We don't want to benefit from that! Everything
will be legal and official so no need to worry. BUT WE NEED SUPPORT.
If someone really wants to help us, some details you can find on the site.
4/24/05 at 01:01 PM
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upstairs
Comments: Suzanne has posted 3
caps that Slope made of AR's character dogwalking on the
GB. Doesn't look like one of Natures natural dogwalkers, does he??? 
4/24/05 at 11:41 AM
Comments:
Kathy, nice to see that you are back in the land of the living. I'm sure it will
all be worth it in the end! Just been on Itunes to
see what was new for downloading. They have a Marvin Playlist and exclusive
"Marvin Mixes" by Stephen Fry. (I've got "Reasons to be Miserable" but there's
no sound bite of AR.) I can't leave a link as there isn't really one to go to.
Just go on the site and follow the links.
4/24/05 at 11:31 AM
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ashamed to say finally awake........
Comments:
This is a busy place today.
Hi Elaine and Barbara the H. 
Thanks for the article on BN he is great, I enjoyed it very much.
Claudia, I have to thank you for cluing me in to ICtC with BN It was a very
touching movie.
What is the deal with John Malcovitch??? Not only is he not sexy, he is
not good looking nor is he a good actor. Every movie I have seen him in he
plays john Malcovitch! --I
have the same opinion of Clint Eastwood (I'm sure my husband is rolling in his
grave at that bit of blasphemy!!!)
Elaine, thanks for the TV clips, not only are you talented, you're very
generous. You go girl!!! 
Love the pics and without lines--good job everyone!    This
will be me today, shoveling out my house after having my head in the books and
nothing else for weeks, God-forbid my boys should recognize much less cleanup
the mess! two more
weeks of school, then I am going to make a trip across the boarder and buy me
some booze and celebrate!!! 
4/24/05 at 11:17 AM
Comments:
Hi.. I read this post :
Today at 02:02 AM
What is your location?
England
Comments:
Oh, what a lovely surprise to wake up to that interview. He's
so sweet. He really thinks that people only like him because of Snape. He has no
idea what effect he has on us.
Which Interview do you mean? Can I read it somewhere on this side?
4/24/05 at 10:44 AM
Comments:
I like rhubab crumble better than pie - with lots of evaporated milk over the
top! Lovely Laurie brought me a big jar of Vermont Maple Syrup and I am looking
forward to plonking that all over something delish - when I've finished my diet.
(But does it ever finish? No, only goes on "hold") Now I shall have to look at
buttertarts. Dee, good job on the pics. I had a quick
go at work last night thinking they would be easy - but they are not because
they are so didgitised so well done. I have a sneaky
feeling that MNiRC has a lot to thank the AR fandom world for it's sell out, but
that is not a bad thing. We are all from such varied backgrounds and usually
bring along non AR obsessives with us. I think it will help when they start
looking for other theatres to show it. I keep seing
that ebay thing. What a cheek the guy has! And as said, most people could do
better than that if they really wanted to - it's so naff!
Now I keep thinking of pies and sweet desserts! Must go and eat a banana or
something.
4/24/05 at 10:32 AM
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sunny Netherlands
Comments: Wow, I
haven´t been here for a couple of hours and look where I have to scroll down to!
You´ve been all so busy providing us with pictures, articles and links. I just
wanna tell you all how much I appreciate you and this GB.
So THANKS EVERYONE and have a wonderful weekend!
4/24/05 at 10:07 AM
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GA
Comments:
YAY!
Dee for the lineless photos! I really am amazed at the new photos! I
like black and white photography very much.
Tess, will the gadgets be up for charity purposes?
Buttertarts! I had no idea what they were either. Thanks for the link Kim.
How delicious do they look? And they come in mine and Sweetie's favorite
flavors too. Southern Pecan (his) and Maple Walnut (mine). Gosh, my eyes
are rolling back at just the thought of how rich those things must be! LOL
I've always heard of Rhubarb pie before but I've never had a hankering to seek
it out for sampling. I think it has something to do with the name, maybe?
LOL Can't wait to
see your website, Elaine! Saying "Watch this space" is very appropriate!
Kim, I thought that Snape chair was the stupidest and ugliest thing on eBay but
now I suppose its just the ugliest! LOL Heck, our artists here can
do a better manip than that guy!
Can't wait for the "AR Hands video"! You've got my curiousity up!
Thanks Barbara and Emily for the Sunday Observer. Wow! "The fastest
sellout" in The Royal Court's 30 year history!
Sue the Times Online inteview is just fine. Except for that little bit
that clumps John Malkovich in as part of the "thinking woman's crumpet fest".
Excuse me while I go hug the toilet for a few minutes.
4/24/05 at 10:00 AM
Comments:
Another 4* review of MNiRC in The Sunday Times: 
4/24/05 at 09:06 AM
What is your location?
.....
Comments:
DayDreamer very very
niccceeeeee!!!!!
4/24/05 at 08:43 AM
What is your location?
gloomily watching the snow fall
What is the URL of
your HomePage? (include "http://")
http://home.earthlink.net/~sa.pe/APLhome.html
Comments:
Sue,thanks for the article.
Kaat, thanks for the rare photos,
Daydreamer--thanks for removing the lines.
You are all helping to make this SNOWY April Sunday more bearable.
4/24/05 at 08:22 AM
What is the URL of your
HomePage? (include "http://")
http://alanholic.boo.pl
Comments: I
just want to say You are totally amazing!
I mean all those graphic stuff...
And I just wonder... Alanholic's site is 6 moths online now and we want to make
some gadgets - T-shirts, mugs, etc. What we need is good graphic designs. And
maybe someone would like to help us? If You have a good idea or want to design
something, we'll be delighted...
And I want to add that we don't do it for any financial purposes... 
4/24/05 at 07:41 AM
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Michigan
Comments:
Just a small
irony, especially as we've all read how AR did not complain about the weather in
Wawa... ...but now that production in Wawa has
apparently wrapped, they are going to get snow both today and tomorrow, at least
if the forecast in Sault Ste. Marie is any indication! (Looking out my
window right now, I'd say there's a good 3 to 4 inches on the ground where I'm
at.)
4/24/05 at 07:35 AM
Comments: And
the rest:


ENJOY! 
4/24/05 at 06:24 AM
Comments:
Good morning! (o.k. it's noon here, but, well, it's sunday...
)
Here is the first "without blue stripe" picture:

The rest will follow. 
Natasxxx:
wow! nice! they really look similar to these pictures. 
4/24/05 at 04:36 AM
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..refreshed....
Comments:
KIMBERLY--> found it "accidentally" by ....serving
around the world, looking 4 pictures! (With a view risks....ones I received a
virus for free..... )....
And thank u for your kind words
about my icon!!!!
4/24/05 at 04:17 AM
Comments:
|
I found this on Times On-line from yesterday. An interview with Bill Nighy
so is O/T even if AR is briefly mentioned. I copied it but am at a loss at
how to share without taking up loads of this page as it is rather Long. So I
have pasted here anyway and Claudia please remove if it is taking up too
much space.
On paper, the long-awaited film of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
is an unlikely thinking-woman’s crumpet-fest. John Malkovich, Alan Rickman
and Bill Nighy, all in one movie.
Except it turns out that Malkovich, in bottle-bottom specs, plays a
repulsive baddie called Humma Kavula who is nothing but a torso on weird
robot legs, and Rickman doesn’t actually appear at all, since he is just the
voice of Marvin, the paranoid android. Thank goodness Bill Nighy is rather
dashing as Slartibartfast, the planet designer who – as every nerd knows –
wins an award for creating the twiddly bits around the Norwegian fjords.   |  |
He has the air of having partied to the very edge of self-destruction,
pulled back and acquired a little wisdom without forfeiting any cool  | | |  | |  | 
|
In a long, greased-back wig and majestic hooded fur robe, Nighy could be the
bass player in a pomp rock band. Even as an intergalactic architect there’s
something of the old rocker about Nighy. “Billy Connolly said I had
rock’n’roll legs,” he says, stretching them out long and languidly, hands in
the pockets of his beautiful Dunhill suit. “In the Seventies, you needed
legs you could tie a message to. And I have them, apparently.”
Nighy is often asked which band he used to be in. The
confusion lies in his having twice played raddled rock stars: the
Bowie-esque, platform-heeled lead singer in Still Crazy and his
movie-stealing performance as Billy Mack in Love Actually. But the
real reason is something more fundamental: like Marianne Faithfull, Iggy Pop
or Keith Richards, Nighy, 55, has the air of having partied to the very edge
of self-destruction, pulled back and acquired a
little wisdom without forfeiting any cool.
In person, he looks, oddly, somewhat like Michael Heseltine, the same mane
and colouring; but Nighy is more pinched, less lustrous – an old lion, but a
moth-eaten one. Yet there is elegance in his languid 6ft 2in frame: he moves
gorgeously and wears clothes very, very well. A suit at all times. Once a
mod, always a mod, he says. “I aspired to what they call ‘top mod-ness’,
which basically meant a suit and Ravel loafers and
Madras jackets and
Fred Perry shirts. There was a period of my life where I couldn’t leave the
house because
I didn’t have the right jeans. It was a quest and I was devout.”
Did this get him girls? “That was the intention, but nothing I did was good
for getting girls.” Self-deprecation is his default mode. He charges at a
topic with enthusiasm, builds the tale, then stops abruptly with
a comic-rueful look, a self-deprecating “what-do-I-know” shrug.
He has just starred in a TV film written by Richard Curtis, as part of the
Make Poverty History campaign, called The Girl in the Café, a
romantic comedy with the unlikely setting of a G8 summit, in which Nighy
plays a civil servant besotted with a mysterious woman.
“He is completely delightful and wonderfully self-effacing,” says Curtis.
“The words that come up most in his work are ‘that was crap’ and ‘f*****
up’. When I texted him the other day to say that Girl in the Café
had gone down well in a screening, instead of replying ‘bravo’, he simply
texted that he was glad he hadn’t f***** up totally.”
Curtis categorises his own house-style as “heightened truthfulness”: a
performance that seems natural, but is underpinned by precision comic
timing. “Bill is a perfect example of this in Love Actually,” he
says. “One hundred per cent true and then 100 per cent funny when necessary.
And in Girl in the Café he really showed his full range. Funny,
immensely moving and immensely serious. But
I also like the fact that his performances are slightly larger than life –
while not appearing to be so. He has a certain magnificence.”
Nighy’s range runs from seedy chancers through jaded heroes (there is no
hack alive who wouldn’t work for his wry editor in State of
Play) and men
tussling with their limitations (the farmer struggling with monogamy in The
Lawless Heart or the blocked writer, Mortmain, in I Capture the Castle). He
is, by his own reckoning, the most temperamentally unsuited person ever to
act. His nickname at school was “Nerve” (short for nervous) and he was, he
says, “a very windy boy”.
The son of a garage owner from Caterham,
Surrey, he scraped
by a fluke into grammar school. “My friends all got a different bus in the
opposite direction,” he says. “And you had to wear a hat, a blue cap. My dad
didn’t want me to go. He felt I’d be uncomfortable and he wasn’t wrong.”
This explains his accent: proper actor posh but sliding effortlessly into
geezer.
But, by his telling, growing up was a period of permanent
discomfort. Besides fretting about not having the requisite clothes, there
was the grave matter of his hair: “I went very curly when I
reached puberty, which in those days meant you might as well have killed
yourself.
"Shall I leave the house? Are you insane? Look at my hair! It was the sort
of hair that made your mother’s friends say ‘What beautiful hair!’ I used to
put stuff on it to flatten it. Once, my English teacher pulled me by the
hair and when he let go he said, ‘Nighy, you have horrible hair’, because he
had this stuff over his hand. And the class just roared.”
A “dreamy boy, full of nonsense”, his first plan was to be a great writer,
the next Fitzgerald or Hemingway. But when he ran away to
Paris – just before
his O levels, which he subsequently failed – he sat staring at blank paper
and nothing came. He drifted into acting because it seemed to offer the same
irregular life, “But you don’t have to write. Someone else does that and you
just have to fanny about. It sounded like you don’t have to get up in the
morning. Which is a laugh, because if anyone has to get up in the morning,
it’s actors on film sets.”
But now he keeps true to original notions of an actor’s life by loafing
around at home as much as possible. “I sleep in late and stay up late
watching football [he supports
Crystal
Palace].” He lives
in North London
with the actress Diana Quick, his partner of 23 years, and their daughter
Mary, 20, who played alongside her father in Stephen Poliakoff’s The
Lost Prince – but his family is firmly out of interviewing bounds.
For all his self-inflicted torture, Nighy is no method actor. He thinks it’s
“groovy and radical” – along with “dreamy”, his most overused words – that
directors tell him what to do. “I used to worry and smoke – that was my
process. I once joked that my method was to invent a hostile parallel
universe and live in it for a while.” But it wasn’t quite a joke: he always
beat himself up about his performances
– even when, as almost always, he was critically well-received. First nights
were – are – almost unbearable. “It’s like being ill, having flu or
something.
You’re on the edge of your breath, slightly nauseous, you can’t concentrate
on anything. People who don’t act think actors have a different response to
standing in front of 500 people. But they have the same response. They just
learn that you can act while feeling like that.” And movies are no better:
“If you want to get paranoid, a film set is specifically designed for that.”
On and on, he goes, until you feel compelled to ask, “Do you actually enjoy
any of it?” He laughs and demurs: “No... Look... Hey, I’ve had a gas.” And
anyway, he adds, what else could he do at his age? It was not stage nerves
that led him into booze and drugs. He would, he says, have ended up there
whatever his career. And that is all he will say about those years. All he
will add is: “I used to drink and it was
terrible. Now I don’t drink and it is fabulous.”
He’s been sober for 12 years, but rather than having beaten addiction, it
seems merely to have cascaded down to ever weaker substances. He was once a
magnificent smoker: “I would rather have smoked than breathed. You couldn’t
smoke more than I smoked.” And he is possibly the only person to have quit
because of vampirism.
Filming Underworld, in which he plays Viktor, king of the
immortals, he had to do a fight scene – “and I am not famous for fighting or
indeed any kind of physical work” – and he must have thrown his shoulder
out, but what he felt was a shooting pain in his chest. “It goes a bit quiet
at my age when you say you have chest pains. I had scary chest X-rays, and
you go into the room for your results and everything slows down. You think,
‘It’s a little early for all this.’ And I got scared.”
He hasn’t smoked since, but transferred his passion to coffee, downed tanks
of the stuff. He quit coffee on January 23 this year: “But, by God, have I
drunk some tea. Although if you abuse tea it doesn’t make you feel as bad as
if you abuse coffee.”
His abiding addiction, though, is a crazy schoolboy passion for music. It
began in his mod days, when he loved blues and soul. “I am a rhythm and
blues fool,” he says. The chief pleasure of filming Hitchhiker’s
was finding a kindred spirit in Martin Freeman, best known as Tim from
The Office, who is aptly-cast as Arthur Dent. “Martin is incredibly
good company. He made me laugh all day. He is also a devout mod: the
Small Faces are to him the greatest rock’n’roll band. And he went
straight in at Number One as the world’s foremost expert on popular music.
It’s almost impossible to accept that he has as much information as he has.”
Nighy has never properly met Mick Jagger – just shook hands with him at a
party – but you wonder if he’d be capable of speech if confronted by his
idol, the old rocker’s old rocker. Nighy is in love with the Stones, plays
Goat’s Head Soup on a loop. “Few things move me to patriotism,” he says.
“Harold Pinter, David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Eric Clapton and the Rolling
Stones. These things make me obscurely proud to come from the same place.”
He recently saw the Stones at Twickenham. “They are a staggering, staggering
achievement,” he says. “I actually danced! Like a catatonic nutter.
I was surrounded by people who’d brought their sandwiches, but from the
moment Charlie [Watts] went to work, I didn’t stop moving.
Every now and then, people would tap me on the shoulder, going, ‘Excuse me,
but are you going to be Dr Who?’”
Beneath the glumness and self-doubt, and despite having
forsaken life’s most enjoyable substances, Nighy still has that Dionysian
vibe going on. “He retains a lot of pleasure in
things,” says Richard Curtis. “He’s not jaded, though he plays jaded very
well. The thing I loved most about him in Love Actually was that in
the publicity he never failed to air guitar for the photographers. He’s
still having fun, after all these years.” | | | | | |
4/24/05 at 02:39 AM
Comments:
The Sunday Observer article about MNIRC.
4/24/05 at 02:20 AM
What is your location?
Meechigun, USA
Comments:
Natasxxx: Thanks for posting those pics. Where did you find them?
(And little baby Simon is one of the cutest babies I've seen in a long time!
Love that icon.)
4/24/05 at 02:12 AM
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Los Angeles
Comments:
Mmmmm....Kimberly! That buttertart site looks scrumptious! Looks
high in calories too.....another goodie for Red Tango's list! Good night,
ladies.....sweet AR dreams to you all! 
4/24/05 at 02:09 AM
What is your location?
Los Angeles
Comments:
4/24/05 at 02:03 AM
What is your location?
Twente
Comments:
Those pictures Kaat found on Ebay look simular on the pictures I've found and
posted@ GBH-journal!
http://www.livejournal.com/community/gbhunks/18245.html
By the way thnx Elaine & Claudia for the 2 new clips!!!
4/24/05 at 02:02 AM
What is your location?
England
Comments:
Oh, what a lovely
surprise to wake up to that interview. He's
so sweet. He really thinks that people only like him because of Snape. He has no
idea what effect he has on us.
4/24/05 at 01:57 AM
What is your location?
MI
Comments:
Now, this has to be one
of the stupidest Rickman items I've ever seen on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5575800432&rd=1
4/24/05 at 12:37 AM
What is your location?
New Zealand
Comments:
London's Sunday
"Observer" has an article about the RC play. I'm sure Sue or Elaine can do their
magic and share it. I've just been reading it via the Guardian Unlimited
web-site.
4/23/05 at 10:54 PM
What is your location?
MI==Where it's been snowing all day!
Comments:
Dee: For you
http://www.buttertartstodiefor.ca/
Also, to quote Elaine, Watch this space! I have a special "AR Hands
video" I will be sending to Claudia for inclusion on this site. (Soon, I
promise, Claudia, soon!!)
4/23/05 at 09:52 PM
What is your location?
Indiana
Comments:
Alan Rickman...rubarb pie...hot tub...
Do you think the man has any idea how sexy he is, or is he amazed by all the
drooling? BTW -
what are buttertarts?
AFNH and Vicki -- I'll see what I can do creating a famous painting of your
favorites! Thanks for the inspiring ideas! Sounds like a fun challenge.
4/23/05 at 08:14 PM
What is your location?
UK
Comments:
A world convention of
ARDLHGB users! Where do you think would be the best place to meet? Somewhere
neutral? US? UK? It would be just great!
4/23/05 at 07:34 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
I
agree kathy. I think we could give a nightclub's management a run for
their money! LOL 
New to the television page are the two clips that Elaine sent me this afternoon.
Thank you, Elaine!!!!
1-The clip that was mentioned last month of just a flash of AR in the Film 2005
airing. (if I have that wrong, Elaine, let me know)
2-A snippet of Marvin (or Melvin to you, Sue *grin*) from the preview of HHG2tG
on Itv2
Elaine, we bow to you, my dear! 
4/23/05 at 07:16 PM
What is your location?
arkansas
Comments:
So sorry to hear about Sir John Mills. I do remember him but I think as a
US kid growing up in the 50's and 60's I remeber Haley Mills better. I had
a crush on her when I was little. I always got taken to her
movies--Pollyana and The Parent Trap were my favorites. It is sad he was a
lovely person.
Claudia, thanks for the interview info--hot tub, oh my! 
I don't usually like rhubarb, it was one of my husband's favorites, might have
to look at it in a new light. What are buttertarts, sounds delish!!
Those pictures are all very lovely drool-drool
Too bad we all live at the 4 corners of the earth we could have an awfully fun
ladies night out!!!!
4/23/05 at 07:16 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Ohh
love those eBay pics, Kaat! Thanks for posting! Daydreamer, we'll look
forward to the lineless versions when you get that foot out of bed. LOL
4/23/05 at 07:02 PM
Comments:
Thanks Sue! We call them longjohns, round these parts. And he does look
like he forgot to put his trousers on (but maybe compensated by wearing that
long coat.)
4/23/05 at 06:38 PM
Comments:
Combs=combinations, the all in one underwear they always used to wear in the
Westerns!! My dad used to wear those long white pants and when we were kids if
they had been on the line overnight in the winter they froze and we used to
waltz round the kitchen with them!LOL
4/23/05 at 06:34 PM
What is your location?
Belgium
Comments:
OMG Sue you are right. The combination of the white pants and the raincoat
is a bit strange... but we already know about his 'interesting' fashion sense
Daydreamer: Thanks!
4/23/05 at 06:32 PM
What is your location?
UK
Comments:
Yes, I saw those too.
Never seen them anywhere else. VERY expensive though! (And no, I'm not tempted
this time!)
4/23/05 at 06:25 PM
Comments:
Emily:
I think B. Moss 
Sabine:
I think, he would look
HOT! LMAO! 
Kaat:
Gogreous!
I will try to remove those blue stripes from them but tomorrow, cause I'm
already with one foot in the bed.
4/23/05 at 06:24 PM
Comments:
Sue: Translation please?
Man, those are some white pants.
4/23/05 at 06:23 PM
Comments:
Thanks Kaat! That first one looks like he has been caught in his combs!!!
4/23/05 at 06:00 PM
What is your location?
Belgium
Comments:
I found these new black and white pictures on eBay. I don't know if they
have been discussed here, 'caus I haven't had the time to read the guestbook
lately. So I'll just take the risk and post them.    
I think I'll post them on the rickman communities too.
4/23/05 at 05:53 PM
What is your location?
UK
Comments:
Hot.....tub....... {head back and drool a la Homer!]
That was the thing I picked up on too - Do all us girls think alike! That and
the Rhubarb Pie! Isn't that a lovely pic of the man
from that article? Lucy, I would love the Sherriff to
be my St Geroge any day! The history of St G is a little fuzzy. If I remember,
he isn't actually English at all and came to be our Patron Saint in some strange
way in the Dark Ages. Not such a romantic saintly person as those of the other 3
UK countries. I am sorry that Sir John Mills has died
too. You're right, he was always the stalwart in the Sunday Matinees on TV. I
love him in all the old War films. And of course, a Rada graduate so will be
known to AR in some way. Well that article has
certainly brightened my day, - or night anyway!
4/23/05 at 05:51 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Daydreamer: I wonder
what AR would look like in a hot TUBE? 
4/23/05 at 05:48 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Emily, I do respect and tolerate your opinions very much (and everybody else's
for that matter). I don't expect everybody to agree with me on everything,
that would be boring. 
Claudia, that article is great! Thanks for posting it. It's funny
that we all seem to be on the same wavelength on the hot tub scene.... LOL
4/23/05 at 05:47 PM
Comments:
Emily, maybe he is in the hot tub with a big luscious slice of rhubarb pie?
4/23/05 at 05:45 PM
What is your location?
Dayton, anticipating SNOW
What is the URL of your
HomePage? (include "http://")
http://home.earthlink.net/~sa.pe/APLhome.html
Comments:
Oh, I love that interview photo!
And you can bet I will be harvesting my rhubarb with renewed enthusiasm this
summer.
4/23/05 at 05:40 PM
Comments:
Don't worry Daydreamer, you picture him where you like!!LOL
(Where have the emoties gone??)
4/23/05 at 05:39 PM
Comments:
Let's take a quick poll.
Who do you think Alan is in the hot tub scene with? A. Sigourney Weaver,
B. Carrie-Anne Moss, C. Himself
One vote here for himself.
4/23/05 at 05:26 PM
Comments:
LOL! I just noticed my typing error! Not "hot tube" but "hot tub"! LOL!
4/23/05 at 05:17 PM
Comments:
Claudia for that wonderful article with AR interview! wow! Alan in hot tube! I
only pictured it and almost fainted. 
4/23/05 at 05:10 PM
What is your location?
New Zealand
Comments:
Thanks again
Sue, this time for The Independent article. I can't get in to the Melbourne Age
either. Those Aussies can be real mean sometimes! The Wawa interview was great,
so relaxed.
4/23/05 at 05:08 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
Yes
Yes Yes, Emily....I did read "HOT TUB scene"!!! I CAN NOT wait for this
film!!!! Try this
link, Susan.
Potter Spell Broken
Elaine has been a busy little bee! She sent me a couple of videos for the
site. I hope to have them up in a few hours! Thanks Elaine!
Sue, I am sorry to hear about John Mills. I am familiar with his name and
knew he was one of the best (right up there with Sir John Gielgud) and I knew he
was Haley's and Juliet's father. The business will surely miss him.
AFNH, I can understand your not remembering. Maybe one day it will come to you.
But whatever you said sure got a brilliant smile out of him. You should
feel quite proud of yourself!
Ohh Lucy...Saint George and Sinner George! Love it!
4/23/05 at 04:56 PM
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Comments:
Nice
article, Claudia! Hmmm, I wonder how buttertarts would taste with
butterbeer...
4/23/05 at 04:35 PM
Comments:
Wow I go do supper and *hubby time* LOL and look what I miss!!
Great articles and pic. Wonder if they have done a local tv interview before
they leave? hHve to check out next weeks LTV
4/23/05 at 04:32 PM
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Comments:
Well, we don't have a "Saint" George in Rickmania, but we do have a "Sinner"
George!
I know it's quite a stretch, but it gives me another excuse to post piccies of
my favorite sheriff.
4/23/05 at 04:20 PM
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Comments:
I'm eagerly awaiting to see what Red Tango does with that Rhubarb Pie
remark. I'm chuckling to myself just thinking about it.
Alan in a Hot Tub.... Now
that's a mental picture I can spend a lot of time on!
4/23/05 at 04:13 PM
Comments:
Claudia! This article from Soo Today is the longest interview AR has given
in years! And his favorite memory of Wawa is food-related ... what a
shock! Did
everyone read the article?? He filmed a HOT TUB scene. In the snow. HOT
TUB SCENE. Just wanted to make sure everyone saw that part of the article. HOT
TUB. Vicki, I was
too sensitive, I guess. Yes, I am a Potter fan, within reason.
4/23/05 at 04:07 PM
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Comments:
Oh, no Emily....I didn't mean to imply anything like that nor was I pointing any
fingers in your direction. I agree, it's a little "geeky", but I suppose
the same could be said about spending so much time on this GB. We all have
our little obsessions and some take them farther than others. It's one of
the reasons I like the film Galaxy Quest so much because it pokes fun
at just how obsessed fans can get.
It's all in the spirit of fun, however. Everyone has their own idea of
what is entertaining and I will not throw tomatoes at
anyone who is truly enjoying themselves (ha! I knew I'd find a use for
that emoticon!) I'm not saying you had any telltale marinara stains under
your fingernails either. I just wasn't sure if you were into HP or
understood it's particular appeal. I'm happy to hear you're a fellow
Potter-head. July 16th can not get here soon enough. I will probably
be one of the nerds at some bookstore party at midnight dressed in costume
waiting for my copy of the new book. Sometimes I just have to act silly. 
It relieves the stress.
4/23/05 at 03:55 PM
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Comments:
GREAT
FIND, CLAUDIA!!!!!!! Love the article...and because you've mentioned his eyes, I
"blew-up" the picture especially 4 you!!!!
(hope you don't mind!) 
4/23/05 at 03:50 PM
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Comments:
Emily, almost tolerated? You're one of the best posters here!
I have tried to go to the story about the girl who is playing DR's love interest
in GOF, but I'm not able to. Is anyone else having the same problem?
4/23/05 at 03:04 PM
Comments:
LOL! Vicki, I hope you were not referring to me when you said "you just dont
understand".
I am under JKR's spell, so I do understand. I have read and
re-read those books and seen the movies. And I like to ponder what Snape is up
to. But I guess I can't understand the whole excessive "lost in a dream
world" fangeek thing. It's all too "Trekkie" for me, if you know what I mean.
Imagine if all the time, effort and committment some fans put into thinking
about what Snape is up to could be transferred to solving a real problem
... So that's why I said the whole thing was silly. I'm glad I can voice a
dissenting opinion here and (almost) be tolerated.
4/23/05 at 03:03 PM
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Comments:
Great article,
Claudia! Yummm! I love rhubarb pie! 
4/23/05 at 02:53 PM
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Comments:
Happy St. George's Day to all our UK friends! 
Could someone explain a little of the history behind it for us "foreigners"?
Awwwww! I love that latest article from Wawa. How cute that he
noticed the little girl's picture on the refrigerator. 
The mock trial of Snape is hilarious. Yes, it may sound silly but it's all
in fun. It's also a testament to how good the books are and what a well
written saga J.K. Rowling has created. She has left her fans eager to know
more information about these wonderful characters. To pass the time
between books, we potter-heads speculate, ponder, theorize,
and even write huge exposes on how we think the story will conclude or
how a character will develop. I know it leaves non-fans scratching their
heads in wonder.....what can I say? You just don't understand unless
you've been placed under her spell.
I wouldn't mind seeing AR in another of my favorite Renoir's...Moulin de
Gallette I believe is the name (or something like that)...pretty famous
painting. Maybe AR could be the man on the right, raising his glass...or
the man on the left dancing (feel free to insert a picture of yourself as his
dance partner, Dee!) 
4/23/05 at 02:51 PM
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Comments:
Professor Snape Wows Wawa
Wowzers, look at that pic!!!!!
4/23/05 at 02:21 PM
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Comments:
@CLAUDIA: I hope
everyone has well recovered! 
And a HAPPY
ST.GEORGE'S DAY!

(Well it isn't a "Geroge" but I think an "Alan"will do also )
4/23/05 at 02:08 PM
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yet again!
Comments: Dee - I have a
request! - I'd love to see the Man's face transposed onto the figure of Oskar
Kokoschka in one of his paintings. It has two titles that I know of - Bride of
the Wind and The Tempest. It symbolises OK's relationship with Alma Mahler, wife
of composer Gustav Mahler. (Loved the Manet, BTW!).
4/23/05 at 02:00 PM
Comments:
It's awful that certain elements of DR's fans feel they need to do that, pack
mentality, and it seems to be growing.
Claudia - yes you must see PotC. JD is wonderful in that, and GR is a
wonderfully salty Barbosa!
BTW, the Kevin Lloyd autobiography is called The Man Who Loved Too Much.
4/23/05 at 01:47 PM
Comments: Sue
- so sad to hear of the death of Sir John Mills. One of my faves is Hobson's
Choice, also starring Charles Laughton and a very young Prunella Scales. I
loved him in Quatermass, the version from the early 80's, too.
Honestly, I wish I could remember what I said to him, but my "time" was up and I
needed to move along, and my brain went into a strange gear and something came
out of my mouth. Whatever it was it amused him (it wasn't rude though - I
wouldn't dare!). We'd previously been talking about Cymbeline, and he was urging
me to see it, and I had told him to bring his next production to the Theatre
Royal. It might have been something to do with that.
Ali-Pat - I'll resend the email - it has the publishers, ISBN etc, hope that
helps.
4/23/05 at 01:24 PM
Comments:
poor girl in HP being bullied by DR fans. That's so sad. 
I saw Pirates of the Caribbean and I have to agree, that J.Depp is fantastic in
it. 
And here are more news about Snow Cake (AR is mentioned in it too!):
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/story.shtml?id=26825

4/23/05 at 01:03 PM
Comments:
Sad news on
BBC reporting the death of Sir John Mills. I
don't know how well-known he was outside Britain but to me as a child he
epitomised the stiff upper-lip quiet hero. Being brought up in the Fifties and
Sixties with just 2 TV stations and about one movie a week he seemed to be in
every other Sunday afternoon movie my father made us watch (but I secretly loved
them all!). He may be known to you as the unrecognisable *village idiot* in
David Lean's Ryan's Daughter
4/23/05 at 12:58 PM
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Comments:
Welcome back Claudia, hope you are feeling better now. 
And I agree with Dee, you have to see "Pirates". Johnny Depp is hilarious! It's
a great film - and so faithful to the Disney Ride! I think that's the one we all
get in the queue for first!
I did that wallpaper in about 10 mins so it's not as I'd really like it. I need
to find time to work on something better but I'm still learning how to put up a
web site. Watch this space! (I hate that saying but seems appropriate.)
4/23/05 at 12:02 PM
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Comments:
Lucy - You don't like Al Bundy?! He's my husband's HERO! 
I'm working on some new AR "famous painting" wallpapers. If you folks
have requests -- AR slipped into YOUR favorite painting -- let me know. It
would be fun to try!
Claudia - You haven't seen Pirates of the Caribbean yet? Run - don't
walk - out to get it, girl! Johnny Depp isn't exactly my type (too short and not
enough of teh pudge), but he's positively fabulous as Captain Jack!
BTW - My Bundy-loving husband and I saw the new movie Sahara last
night. It's not rocket science, but lots of fun! And I never realized how cute
Matthew McConnahey is! A drop dead smile and a rippling 6-pack to boot! Another
handsome guy, but still lacking teh adorable pudge. Poor guy...
4/23/05 at 12:01 PM
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Comments:
Isn't PrintKey2000 a brilliant tool, Sue?
Thanks for the review. 5 stars!!!! YAY
4/23/05 at 11:47 AM
Comments:
The Independent have a 5* review of MNiRC
HERE. Those evil people at The Independent will
probably put a pay to view on it in a day to view, so I thought I would cut and
paste BUT "OH NO" they had thought of that too and you can't .
However they were no match for Sue and Print Screen so I
bring you the review: 
4/23/05 at 11:43 AM
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Ohh
Emily! Thank you so much for that article! That racks up there with the
most dreadful things I've read.
That girl is cute as a button! What is wrong with these people? And
it seems that Daniel Radcliffe agrees with me. I hope that first kiss is
the hottest on screen snog available on celluloid....just to gripe those nasty
little twerps!!!
4/23/05 at 11:36 AM
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Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George!
William Shakespeare (Henry V)
I love and agree with your sentiment,
Elaine. And love the wallpaper! Perfect for the holiday! Its been a while
since we got a wallpaper out of you!
Sorry for the absence everyone but the whole household has been down with a
stomach flu. We're better today but taking it easy. Please forgive
the long winded post as I get caught up.
Emily, thanks for the new UPPA photo from the Empire awards. I'm still
torn on the fish/safety pin debate! LOL
Aurora, don't worry! I took no offense whatsoever. Dolphins have
been a passion of mine since I was a little girl of 7 or 8 years old. I
saw Flipper (the television series) one time and have been "flipped" for them
ever since! But there was no offense taken.
Thanks for the update from your email pal, Dee. The people of Wawa have
been absolutely fantastic in keeping the AR world so informed. I'm like
Sue and while looking for updates, I've been following their local news too.
I hope to get up that way some day. Maybe have my pic made with the goose!
LOL Seriously though, I don't believe I have ever seen a city so helpful
with information during a film shoot before. We can only imagine how
accommodating they have been to AR and the rest of the cast and crew.
Speaking of Wawa. Over at
Suzanne's , Slope has reported seeing a bit of AR walking a dog on eTalk
Daily. She will be sending the photo to Suzanne to post soon. I can't wait
to see it!
The Hamlet pic is gorgeous, Natasxxx!!! Sooo handsome!
RE: It only taking AR two hours to so the voice over for Marvin. Was it
here or somewhere else that I read or heard that voice overs were really the
easiest and most cost efficient for actors to do? They take very little time to
complete plus they can come to work looking like heck and not worry about it.
Thanks for the Bowness pics Juliet and AFNH! I really do enjoy looking at
the Bowness photos. He looks so happy to be there and like he is really
enjoying his fans. If I'm not mistaken, I think everyone was pondering
what AR was smiling so big about in that pic...including me? So give it up,
AFNH! *grin*
I suppose I will need to rent Pirates of the Caribbean now that BN
might be pegged for the sequel. I've often thought about trying to catch
the first because of the irrepressible Geoffrey Rush but now its a given!
LOL
Emily, did you find out what caused your browser settings to revert back to
default? It seems like I had the problem long ago but of the life of me,
I can't remember what caused it. If it comes to me, I'll let you know.
V-crotch articulation....you bad girls! 
Enjoy the smilies, Ali-Pat! That's what they're here for!
The trial of Snape is to hilarious! OK, I can see it on CourtTV (my fav
channel next to BBC-A and CNN). Snape would definitely need a member of
the Dream Team as council. Since Cochran just recently passed (God rest
his soul), maybe F. Lee Bailey????
AFNH, thanks for the snippet from the Kevin Lloyd autobiography. What's
the title of the book? Another addition for Ali-Pat's fabulous
AR Fan's Lifetime Reading Plan I couldn't help but giggle about your
friend calling your attention to the book, AFNH! Isn't funny how we AR
fans have trained our friends and family???
Thanks for the head's up on the MNiRC book on eBay, Elaine! Those creeps
will sell anything!!!! Hopefully there will be no bids on it.
*crossing fingers*
Again, I'm sorry for the long winded post.
4/23/05 at 11:24 AM
Comments:
This story is very disturbing -- the Asian actress who plays Harry's
girlfriend in GOF is under attack from girls who love Daniel Radcliffe, but it's
got an ugly racist turn. Very sad.
HGTTG toys: I read a while ago when the toys were first announced that
they were going to be in stores in the US in May. Perhaps when the film's
release was pushed back to April 29 from mid-May, it was too late to change the
release date of the toys. I haven't seen them anywhere either. Though I did see
Jay and Silent Bob bobbleheads the other day ...
4/23/05 at 10:59 AM
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rainy AND snow-threatened midwest
What is the URL
of your HomePage? (include "http://")
http://home.earthlink.net/~sa.pe/APLhome.html
Comments:
Thanks for the info about the Kevin
Lloyd bio! Someone (was it you AFNH?) sent me an email about it which I
accidentaly deleted--could you send it again?
No sign of Hitchhiker toys at Wal-Mart. Everything is Star Wars there. 
4/23/05 at 10:18 AM
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Comments:
Elaine, that's pretty much how I feel about being an American.
Hope you British folks have a happy St. George's Day too.
4/23/05 at 04:38 AM
Comments:

Yes Happy St.Georges Day, time to reclaim the flag from the hooligans, lager
louts and fascists I think!!
4/23/05 at 04:12 AM
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Comments:
Wishing all us English people a Remarkable St George's
Day.

Whatever we say about our government and all the horrible people in this country
who ruin lives and make us miserable, I am still proud to live here! We are not
all "lager louts" thank goodness! I think we should celebrate with a pic. Rough
and ready but I'm ready for sleep!:
4/23/05 at 02:16 AM
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Comments:
Dee,
I meant to tell you I loved your latest "doctored" painting too!
-But please don't show me any more Al Bundy pictures. *cries: My eyes! my
eyes! and runs for the Visine* LOL!
4/22/05 at 11:38 PM
Comments:
Dee--I meant to tell you also I loved the wallpaper/painting!
4/22/05 at 11:25 PM
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Comments:
The Wawa News had an short article today about a "magical phone booth" appearing
beside the giant goose. Here's the link:
http://www.wawa-news.com/Newspages/04-22/042205-snowcake1.html
Here's the article. There are some photos at the site.
Snow Cake finally filmed their scenes out at the Wawa Tourist Information
Centre. Early yesterday afternoon, construction could be seen as a brand new
telephone booth was installed on the grass beside the Wawa Goose. Shortly a bus
stop sign appeared. Later, the magical snow appeared, in huge drifts and even in
spots on the highway. This was the second last day of shooting, reports have
everyone pulling out and heading back to Toronto for indoors shooting.
Gee...I'm going to miss these folks!
4/22/05 at 11:13 PM
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Comments:
Juliet
and AFNH -- Thanks for sharing the photos (and yummy descriptions) of ARs hands.
That sure gives a girl something to dream about at night! Where I'm from, the
men have strong hands too -- but most of the time they are thrust into their
waistbands and you can't see them for the belly overhang. Something like this... 
Claudia and Vicki - Glad you like my latest "famous painting" wallpaper. That's
AR from CME in the boat. I started creating them when
everyone at work made fun of the rather obvious AR wallpapers on my desk
computer. Now, people "ooh" & "ahh" over the gorgous paintings on screen -- and
don't even notice the gorgous man I've slipped into them!
4/22/05 at 09:31 PM
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Comments:
E Bay rip-off merchants
are at it again! A copy of MNiRC play book is for sale at £14.50! At the play
they were being sold for £2 but the cover cost is still only £8.99. Luckily, no
one has fallen for it and bid anything!
4/22/05 at 08:51 PM
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relaxing.......................
Comments:
Forgive me if this is old news but I was just googled that Bill Nighey will be
in the new Pirates of the Carribean Part II. He plays Davey Jones (as in
locker )
Sounds great. He'll be in part III as well.
sue you crack me up--I agree with you.I think I like
my crotches articulated as well!
Love the hand pics
Thanks everyone for the reviews, pics, stories--you're great.
I am amazed at how often I find 6 degrees of AR. I had to go to the
Theatre Dept. today to talk to one of the profs about helping us with a play the
art dept. is doing about Vincent Van gough. We were trying to work around
their performance dates to find a date for our own. Guess what play they
are doing in Oct.?? Les Liasons Dangereuses!! Haven't found anyone that
looks like AR yet but I think I'll look around, of course they are all young
enough to by my sons. (I'm old, not dead ).
I'll be looking forward to that one.
Really just wanted to check in and say "Hi" to everyone. My papers are
done and I am going to veg out tonight. Just got MC so will be a couch
potato for awhile.
4/22/05 at 08:45 PM
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Comments:
Kimberly: would be interesting to see who the attorney is...
Several years ago, the Atlanta Shakespeare Company staged a mock trial of
Othello as a fundraiser. They had actual lawyers and a jury. I
thought it was a great idea!
4/22/05 at 08:38 PM
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Comments:
The
miners are too busy with the rock monster these days. No more birillium spheres
needed..... (I'm going to see if there's a pub!)
4/22/05 at 08:03 PM
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Comments:
Hi, guys. Actually, I
was referring to the virtual Marvin bobblehead on
The Official HHG2tG Site. Putting Snape on trial
is just too funny. I wonder what fanfic they're going to quote? 
AR as King Rat, I love it!
My phone line went kablooey last night ,
so I wound up falling asleep in front of Die Hard. Still, no dreams.
Rats.
4/22/05 at 07:48 PM
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Comments:
AFNH: thank you so much for those snippets! I wish I could see some
bloopers where AR cracks up... (besides the Victoria Wood one). And thanks
for posting that wonderful picture. I'm assuming that this is you in the
pic? If you don't mind me asking: what on earth did you say to AR to make
him grin like that? 
Daydreamer: I wish I could attend, too. It sounds like a hoot!
4/22/05 at 07:44 PM
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MI-Where the forecast is for snow tonight?!?
Comments:
And I for one enjoy being silly
every now and then.
Me, too, Sabine, me too!! I think they should air that trial on Court TV!
Wonder who his attorney is?
4/22/05 at 07:13 PM
Comments:
Sabine:
thank you for the information! It looks like they will have a lot of fun (well,
on Snapes account, but I think this it will be very amusing conference). I wish
I could attend! 
AFNH:
wonderful snippets! I like the part about Alan giggling behind the mask on
stage. 
4/22/05 at 06:57 PM
Comments:
BTW, Dee, I agree with all that has been said about his hands - soft, but a
lovely firm grip. You can see the evidence
here. I know - I shook that hand three times, and didn't want to wash mine
afterwards -lol!
4/22/05 at 06:43 PM
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Comments:
For online radio listeners,
new H2G2 radio series begins May 3. How many times can one have seen the
film by then?
4/22/05 at 06:35 PM
Comments:
Ooh, back at last, not been a good week all round. Thanks to all who reported on
MNiRC - let's hope it does tour, sounds like it deserves a bigger audience.
A friend of mine borrowed a book from our local library, and said "You should
read this, it talks about Alan Rickman and Bill Nighy". It is the autobiography
of Kevin Lloyd, who used to star as "Tosh" Lines in UK police drama The Bill.
Sadly he died a few years ago (and his brother, Terry Lloyd, a tv news reporter,
was killed in the early days of the Iraq war). I've taken some relevant extracts
from the book, and it talks about his and AR's early days -
...Although I was starring at the Bristol Old Vic, I remember my pay was
£56.50 and I was the lead. They made me a pair of boots to play Blunchly, the
lead in Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw, and they cost £65, more than my
week's wages. It's just a good job that I didn't have to pay for them. I was
working away from home a lot at the time. I was doing my apprenticeship, as I
called it, with the Old Vic, swapping lead parts with Alan Rickman. We were
chosen to star in Ubu Roi, directed by Adrian Noble, one of the first plays the
future head of the Royal Shakespeare Company ever professionally directed. Then
we did a very famous Brecht play together called Man Is Man. Even then I could
see I was in exceptional company. Rickman and Noble were both, in very different
ways, very talented young men and I had to stretch myself to keep up, which was
very, very good for me at the time...
... The first play Alan Rickman and I were in together was Hamlet, and we both
had to double up. I played Marcellus and the Player Queen, and Alan played
Laertes and the Player King. We had huge masks and wigs on and on one very
memorable night, unfortunately with Alan Bates in the audience, Rickman's
expansive arm gestures just caught me and knocked my wig and mask off. Rickman
is a giggler like me and he certainly saw the funny side. He was chortling away
behind his mask. Neither of us could carry on, so we drew that scene to a
close...
...I was playing Idle Jack in Dick Whittington at the time, and Alan Rickman was
Playing King Rat. I'm sure that is where he first got his ideas for the Sheriff
of Nottingham in Robin Hood...
He was alsd part of a group of friends who included Jonathan Pryce, Pete
Postlethwaite and Julie Walters. This is one of the things he had to say about
Bill Nighy -
...But Bill Nighy used to have them (girls) swooning over him. They all
thought he looked like James Dean. He really would have preferred to be a pop
singer and he loved dancing. We used to take the mickey because he preferred to
sing rather than act. But most of the time he was on the phone trying to sort
out his deeply complicated love-life. He was always talking to girls he had left
behind. There just weren't enough hours in the day to fit them all in...
Incidentally, he also worked a lot at the Royal Court, but I don't think at the
same time as AR.
Miners? - They've all gone now. Coals to Newcastle doesn't ring true anymore.
4/22/05 at 06:34 PM
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Comments:
I'm sure nobody is
taking this seriously. It's meant to be fun. And I for one enjoy
being silly every now and then. 
4/22/05 at 06:21 PM
Comments:
You've lost me!
4/22/05 at 05:07 PM
Comments:
Would that be minors or miners???
4/22/05 at 04:37 PM
Comments:
Wow. This is one of the silliest things I've ever heard. He's fictional!
Get a life, people! 
4/22/05 at 04:31 PM
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Comments:
This just in from The Leaky Cauldron:
Snape on Trial!
Accio 2005, the UK Harry Potter Conference, sent us a press release
today that included some news of interest for all you Snape fans out there.
The conference will be holding a "Trial
of Professor Severus Snape" which convenes as part of their Potter
convention to be held in July. Those charges which the err distinguished
Hogwarts Potions Master faces are: 1. That the accused did,
feloniously, treasonously and with malice aforethought, combine with
others to support the most bloody, abominable and beastly cause of the
notorious, prescribed and avowed traitor Thomas Marvolo Riddle, sometime
called Lord Voldemort. 2. That the accused did, feloniously,
treasonously and with malice aforethought, voluntarily accept membership
within a prescribed and illegal organization, vulgarly termed "the Death
Eaters"; 3. That the accused, feloniously, treasonously and
with malice aforethought, continues as a member in the said illegal
organization. 4. That the accused has on divers occasions
and under the guise of lawful chastisement committed assault and battery
on minors in respect of whom he was in loco parentis, such assault and
battery being occasioned by divers magical and physical means, and
resulting in perceptible physical and psychological harm to the said
minors.
So, who would like to defend Snape? 
4/22/05 at 03:06 PM
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Comments:
Just wanna wish u all a great weekend & TNX Vicki!!!
@t the moment I'm just a reader....not
much news from me to tell you...
4/22/05 at 02:29 PM
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Comments:
Thanks, Emily - it
worked! One of the many rounded aspects of this GB - PC Answers!
4/22/05 at 01:23 PM
Comments:
Elaine - the sudden change to Bitmap only is something I actually know how to
fix! Sometimes, if you save or copy a Bitmap, it causes the delicate
(poorly designed) Explorer inner workings to get stuck, and you can only save
pics in Bitmap after that -- it doesnt allow the drop-down menu to come down and
give you the JPG option, right? The easy fix is to go to your Internet Options
and delete your Temporary Files. That should do it.
If not, there is a much more painful way, that I need to root around in my notes
to find. But try the delete temporary files thing, it has worked for me many
times.
4/22/05 at 01:18 PM
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still couching
What is the URL of your HomePage?
(include "http://")
http://home.earthlink.net/~sa.pe/APLhome.html
Comments:
"V crotch articulation" !
Goodness gracious me! Wonder if family friendly stores like Wal-Mart will
have any in stock?
BTW--Happy Earth Day!
(Claudia, what kind of monster have you created by giving me access to smileys? )
4/22/05 at 01:07 PM
Comments:
Oh, and about Explorer gremlins, my copy has suddenly started to save pics only
in Bitmap form and not jpeg and I can't find out why. Is this one of those
invisible updates that MS do?
4/22/05 at 01:06 PM
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UK
Comments:
Where has spring gone? It's freezing again.
AR's hands - I always think they are a typical artist's hands. His fingers taper
very delicately!
Ali-Pat, I love that quote! I wonder if he has had such an experience. E bayers
would if they could, I suspect! Glad he recognises them now showing us that he's
not so ignorant of the Internet as some people think.
Sue, you are so right - more radio plays! I have almost worn out my copy of A
Little Like Drowning! And deer can write cars off bigger than minis. I go to
work along the edge of the Quantocks and there is one particular stretch that is
notorious for deer- strikes. I've seen vans with mangled bonnets and the deer
did not come off too well either! Makes me cross when I see morons speeding
through there at OTT speeds. There are huge warning signs. But enough of the mad
Brit motoring habits (wonder if Martha is experiencing the same "phenomenon"?)
Did you enjoy AWT? I saw it at Stratford when I was at school EONS ago. And
would MNiRC fit in well?
4/22/05 at 12:54 PM
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the Netherlands
Comments:
Emily, the opposite thing happened to me. Ten days of complaining, no it wasn´t
Marvin.... (I almost threw my pc out of the window) and then suddenly, the next
evening everything was normal, like nothing had happened! I will never
understand the complex "life" of a computer.
Have a good weekend, all of you!!!
4/22/05 at 11:32 AM
Comments:
Shame my typing can't be a bit more articulate though
4/22/05 at 11:31 AM
Comments:
Here's a Marvin toy, AND he has "v-crotch articulation"
Frankn ly I always look for my crotches to be articualte but maybe that's just
me?.........
4/22/05 at 11:25 AM
Comments:
Ah, forget that link.
4/22/05 at 11:22 AM
Comments:
Darn! Hit post before I pasted this.
Information on the
Marvin doll. Not really a bobblehead per se, but his neck is articulated so
I bet it bobs.
4/22/05 at 11:18 AM
Comments:
Do any of the computer wizzes here know what could cause all of one's personal
Internet Explorer settings to have gone back to default overnight? Turned off
computer last night and everything was OK, turned it on this morning and
everything is flooey.
Ali-Pat, I keep my Sheriff doll hidden away hoping that the next time I take it
out, he'll actually look like the Sheriff. I think his doll was made out of a
leftover from a different movie. I'm thinking "The Beastmaster," but I'm not
sure.
4/22/05 at 10:23 AM
What is your location?
couching at present
What is the URL of your
HomePage? (include "http://")
http://home.earthlink.net/~sa.pe/APLhome.html
Comments:
I would like to know where to get a Marvin bobble head doll also! I think
it would look nice standing next to my Sheriff doll and all those Snape dolls.
I have had nothing better to do
lately than to clean out my filing cabinet (home sick )
and I found a quote I would like to share. It immediately brought to mind
those two over-active fans who kept "bumping into" Alan in Wawa (Three times,
wasn't it?):
"Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph
seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door."
Marlo Thomas
Now, I'm not saying Alan's fan base would be likely to do such a thing (although
one never knows...), but it expresses clearly why I feel public figures have a
right to some boundaries!
4/22/05 at 09:37 AM
Comments:
Ooh
LOOK! Bill Nighy is going to be in the new Pirates of the Caribbean He
plays Davy Jones (of Locker fame not the Mancunian of restricted growth who used
to squawk in the Monkees! )
Well that will certainly be something to look forward to won't it?
No Juliet, i didn't. i think my Mini would have come off worse
4/22/05 at 09:31 AM
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UK
Comments:
No,
Peekaboo, that's it, a whole pic dedicated to AR's hands!
Sue, did you have your wits about you and get the deer, so we can all have a BBQ
at your house tomorrow, LOL!
4/22/05 at 09:11 AM
Comments:
The
Wawa Goose is being featured in the last couple of days of filming Snowcake.
Fancy going all that way and no snow .Mind
you according to the NewsWeather man there may be some at the weekend. I have
become quite attached to the Saulte and Wawa news over these past weeks, and
will miss them. Hell, I can even recognise the Mayor now .
And those lakeside houses that work out about £110,000 are making me seriously
consider moving! As
I drove home from the thatre last last night a large (for these parts) deer with
antlers ran across the road in front of me However,
we have nothing compared to
THIS!
4/22/05 at 08:32 AM
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the Netherlands
Comments:
Oooohhhh,
Juliet I soooooo desperately wanna see the rest of that picture now!!! Ehhhh, is
there a rest .........????
4/22/05 at 08:25 AM
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UK
Comments:
Sue,
thank you for posting the "hands" pic, only now have I seen Claudia's
guestbucket instructions (Doh!!)
I have also realised why Kim Catrall hasn't been mentioned in connection with
SC, 'cos she's appearing on-stage in Who's Life Is It Anyway in London until the
end of the month.
Thanks to all for the RC reports, excellent Eve Std article, thanks again, Sue.
Have to say RC's sister Sarah is the image of her mother.
4/22/05 at 08:13 AM
Comments:
Claudia, I hope I didn't sound snippy about the dolphins. I was thinking about
that this a.m. during my morning walk. Your e-mail name clicked, so you have an
attachment to dolphins. I'm just anxious to see/hear Marvin. And to think the
film will be in cinemas in a week!
4/22/05 at 06:47 AM
Comments:
AR's hands are what Barbara Cartland would have called strong and manly! They're
not especially large in relation to the rest of him. Judge for yourself from
this pic I took in Bowness in Oct 2003.

4/22/05 at 05:48 AM
Comments:
No no Sue it's ok - I was affraid that my Danish brain had got something wrong
so I was just checking
I didn't mean to embarrass you or anything!
4/22/05 at 05:45 AM
Comments:
Sniv,
had a senior moment then! Melvin, Marvin at least it began with an M!! Not
having the best of mornings so that will be my excuse
4/22/05 at 04:59 AM
Comments:
Sue - you mean Marvin right? sorry
maybe it's just me being Danish and all...
Anyways thanks for all the pics and articles...
I just wanted to pop by and say that I met Judy yesterdayyyyy! 
4/22/05 at 04:02 AM
What is the URL of your
HomePage? (include "http://")
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasteeek/
Comments:
Thanks Elaine for the MNiRC details.
Fascinating to learn about the play being put on "sideways". I must admit I
thought it a bit odd that the control room was to the side and not at the back
as it would normally be in a theatre. It will wonderful if the play does tour
the UK and States. I spent some time in the Yvonne Arnaud theatre in Guildford
last night watching A Winters Tale and working out how the set would fit
in there! So Melvin
only took 2 hours! See he could fit in lots of radio stuff if he tried then!LOL
4/22/05 at 03:08 AM
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Los Angeles
Comments:
I love coming to this GB! You are all so nice and it's such a great
escape. Would you believe I've had my ABBA DVD two days and still have not
gotten a chance to watch it yet? Unfortunately, real life has gotten in
the way -- big time. I won't bore you with the details...let's just say
that this has been one hell of a week and I hope there isn't another like it
anytime soon.
That being said, I just want to say, to
RickiNicki and her fantastic pictures from the premiere. They look like
they were taken by a professional! You had such a good location...how'd
you do it? Lucy -
where did you get a Marvin bobblehead?
To all those ladies who've actually gotten to shake Mr. Rickman's lovely hands,
I am incredibly envious! 
Natasxxx - congratulations on become an aunt!
Elaine - thanks for the report from MNiRC and the after talk. Sounds like
a wonderful experience. Than to top it off, you got to see French and
Saunders. I'll have to tell my daughter. She's a big Ab-Fab
fan. Dee - love the
new wallpaper! Would that be Vidal or Ed in the boat?
Off to bed, ladies....I'm exhausted. 
4/22/05 at 03:08 AM
Comments:
Thank you for all those wonderful pictures, RC reviews and articles about AR. 
Here is a snippet from interview, where Alan is mentioned:
CS!: What about the inspiring casting of Marvin as an amalgam of Warwick Davis
(the Ewok from "Return of the Jedi") with the voice of Alan Rickman (from the
Harry Potter movies)?
Jennings: Warwick just came down to the creature shop to see the suit and help
us find someone to fit it and he looked at the suit, said that he might able to
fit it, and just took over. For the whole four months and all through editing, I
was working with Warwick. The character in the radio and TV series has this
wonderful low depressed pitch; Alan Rickman just popped in to test and it was
done. His test was pretty much what we used in the end. It was just very easy.
In two hours, he'd done the whole movie.
http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=9271

4/22/05 at 01:31 AM
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...Twente
Comments:
Found this beauty while I was "Googling".... Never saw this one before.... 
4/22/05 at 01:00 AM
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Indiana
Comments:
My email pal in Wawa just wrote that a crew member told her (unofficially) they
are pulling out on Saturday. She said things were going to be awfully quiet when
they are gone. It was mentioned before that their next stop is a studio on
Toronto. Is anyone from that city? Is there a chance we might hear of some
sightings there?
Lucy -- Don't feel bad. You're not the only one up late tonight! Maybe it's time
for a late-night AR movie!
4/22/05 at 12:31 AM
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GA
Comments:
Another side-by-side by your friendly neighborhood insomniac:
4/21/05 at 10:18 PM
Comments:
Oof! So much catching up to do. This is really behind the times, but that was a
wonderful article, Sue.
Claudia, I'm glad you enjoyed the dolphin clip. It's funny. I stopped myself
from writing earlier that it was the longest 3 min 22 I had ever sat through. To
each her own. lol Thanks for reviews, photos, and Marvin links. I must look
into having my favorite depressed android droning from my computer.
4/21/05 at 10:03 PM
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FL
Comments:
Nice photo, Emily. I still think those should be fish as in Pisces, but they
look so much like safety pins! Belated thanks to
SeverinaSnape for excellent paraphrasing of Karen Moline’s AR snippet on BBC3
Saturday April 16. The audio is at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/artsdrama_promo.shtml (scroll down to "A Map
of Manhattan"); the AR bit is at 19:17:29 for about 25 seconds, and here are
Moline’s words: "Years after my first articles appeared in the East Village Eye,
I was interviewing Alan Rickman, and he told me about the time he spent doing
repertory theater when he got out of drama school. He said something I
knew was true: that he'd been allowed to fail. Working out of the limelight
helped him become a better actor. He could do his work and learn far from public
scrutiny and sniping critics. I moved to the East Village to do my work too...."
I saw two ARticles by Moline, from Suzanne's site
http://www.alan-rickman.com/articles/quick.html and Claire's
http://www.btinternet.com/~sc.i/suave.htm. Anyone know others?
4/21/05 at 08:05 PM
Comments:
Lucy, if you go to the Guestbook on Marvin's blog, you'll see that someone asked
him a question about AR!
UPPA photo site added this straggler from the Empire Awards. It's a nice one
with a discreet watermark and a good view of the fish pattern. I don't think
this exact shot has been published before. 
4/21/05 at 07:34 PM
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GA
Comments:
Hey, guys, Marvin the
Paranoid Android has his own
blog! Sorry, no sound clips are on the page, though.
4/21/05 at 07:31 PM
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GA
Comments:
Oh
Dee! I never knew "The Floating Studio" could be so alluring! *grin*
Nice choice too.
4/21/05 at 07:28 PM
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GA
Comments:
Rachael!
I believe that picture is a photo manipulation.
4/21/05 at 06:52 PM
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Indiana
Comments:
I've finished a new
"famous painting" AR wallpaper. This is Manet's "The Floating Studio" --
although this one features a very handsome artist we all know and love! Hope you
like! 
4/21/05 at 06:33 PM
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Comments:
I found a picture I have never seen before. He is very good looking in it. 
4/21/05 at 03:03 PM
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GA
Comments:
 
Elaine! Truly Mad and Deeply Dishonest is hilarious!
4/21/05 at 03:01 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
We
have missed you too, Elaine!!! I'm so glad your back safe! 
Wonderful reviews of both plays!!!! Thank you so much for bringing them to us.
And the interesting tidbits from the after show talk, WOW! It sounds like
he is into this up to his arm pits (and what loverly armpits he has too ;0)).
Its really is a shame that he didn't get to have his input at the after show
talk but it sounds like KV made sure his voice was heard.
The report on sighting DF and JS was sooooo fun to read! Its a good thing
I wasn't with you Elaine because I would have had to flash a MPH wristband and
shake DF's hand for her Vicar New Year's special. You would have had to deck me
to shut me up!!! LOL
Thanks again, Elaine. And what an amazing time you had!
4/21/05 at 02:58 PM
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....on a pink cloud.....
Comments:
TnX Peek, Sue and Marlina!!!!
@Dany nice to meet you!!!
Elaine, great review (and RickyNicky of
course!...sorry for the late reaction!!)....
I'm still in a rush....
| Elaine
(last time for a bit) | |
4/21/05 at 02:07 PM
Comments:
And just to add this. From "Private Eye", my favourite train journey reading
material. I laughed a lot at this.
4/21/05 at 01:19 PM
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UK
Comments:
Short break for refreshment!
BTW, Ricky- Nicky, I didn't have time to get to the H2G2 prem. Glad you did
though. Great pics.
I'd just like to add an "anecdote" which goes to show how we Brits are
usually restrained when celebs are trying to be "normal". We've talked about
this before, I know. I went to see "Acorn Antiques - The Musical" last night. It
was the funniest show I have ever seen and I had a thoroughly spiffing time!
Julie Walters was excellent in her role of Mrs Overall. All the regulars were
there too - Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston - and also Josie Laurence, Neil
Morrisey. So funny, I really laughed until I cried! But before it started, I was
sitting in my row in the stalls, 2 seats from the end. There were a couple of
seats still unoccupied in the middle and soon, we all stood up to let the
occupants pass. A blond came past, then a very large woman who had some
difficulty in getting through. "Gawd," she said, "This is a tight squeeze". I
looked up as she somehow manoevred her bum past me only to see it was Dawn
French, preceeded by Jennifer Saunders. They took their seat eventually and
seemed to enjoy the show as much as we did. There were a few "gawps" at the
interval from audience members (they stayed where they were - easier I guess)
but all through the show, and from the time they got up to leave with the rest
of us until they disappeared over Haymarket, no one bothered them or asked them
for an autograph. Cool!
Martha and bunks - if you get to read this soon, it was great meeting you all.
Hope the driving is going okay and you haven't got lost! I forgot to mention
that the lady behind us who was asking a lot of questions at MNiRC is an actress
that I have seen on tv and in films but don't know her name. I will keep an eye
out for her. See, his theatre friends do attend!
And a smiley for the funof it (although I'm back at work in a few hours so where
is the fun???) Mind
those roundabouts, martha!
4/21/05 at 01:13 PM
Comments:
Thank you for the report, Elaine! Taking it to the US ... ah, that's the
best news I've heard in a long time.
4/21/05 at 12:50 PM
What is your location?
UK
Comments:
Hi - I'm back!(Sorry for shouting but I've missed you all!)
Well, I'm whacked out with 2 days of non stop stuff. Firstly - belated congrats
to Sue and "Austin". Yes, 30 years is a long time! And I do agree about AR
seeming to "glide" everywhere!
Well, a few things to add about MNiRC. Ricky-Nicky did a great job. [waves to
R-N!] Yes, it was really good to meet everyone from around the world. I hope we
can ALL do it one day.
The excellent article that Sue scanned more or less says what Mr & Mrs Corrie
had to say, although I thought her sister should also be mentioned. I felt
deeply moved by what they had to say. Megan Dodds was superb. To be able to
sustain that excitement and emotion for an hour and a half was just amazing.
Just a few things I can remember about the first part of the talk. Katherine
Viner made it plain that AR was the instigator of the whole thing. He read
Rachel's published letters in the Guardian and rang her her to say that they
should make a piece of theatre out of it. She also said that they had lots of
rows! And the associate director (Tiffany double-barrelled) said that it was
AR's idea to put the stage along the room and have the set as it was. (They
don't normally do it that way). The set was his idea, too - artistic training
kicking in! And to give you hope, Elyse Dodgson from the RC said that they were
hoping to take the play to the US, and also around the UK. They were looking at
ways to do that.
One thing that did not hit me until the talk, was that all the dialogue is in
Rachel's own words. They did not add anything at all. I think she WAS gifted,
despite what that other reviewer said. You only had to watch the video they had
at the end of Rachel when she was just 10 years old, speaking out at a school
thing for peace and giving help to those less fortunate in the world.
Anyway, I should take a breather for now!
4/21/05 at 09:32 AM
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england
Comments:
Great News Peekabooh and
Welcome Back Dany and
Congrats to Aunti Natasxxx
I think that covers it for now
4/21/05 at 09:28 AM
What is your location?
FL
Comments:
New sound clip from
Marvin? "I Think You Ought to Know I'm Feeling Very Depressed" is downloadable
at
http://comingsoon.net/news/hitchhikersguidenews.php?id=9255
4/21/05 at 09:23 AM
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Indonesia and still,still, still wanna be in WAWA!!!!
Comments:
Natasxxx that's so funny! Moose.. 
Hello all, just drop in to say hello 
4/21/05 at 09:09 AM
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GA
Comments:
Its so wonderful to see
you back, Dany! We've missed you. Also, its been way to long since
we've heard from Miriam and Laura, Italy too! Glad to have yall back.
Kimberly, here's the link to the event SARF posted about a while back.
We're hoping it will be open to the public especially since that will be the
time kathy is in London on her experience of a lifetime!
University of the Arts
Anyone subscribe to the Starlog and Movie Magic magazines that Susan, CO posted
about? Maybe their will be some AR tidbits. *crossing fingers*
Good luck on your book Sue J! Hopefully, one day we can all say "We knew
her when"!
Congrats on the John Donne event arrangements, Peekabooh!
Lucy, as far as I know there is no way to capture video from a DVD ROM to the
computer--unless there is something out there I'm unaware of and that is highly
possible. You will need a capture device, capture software, and a stand
alone DVD player to capture the video from DVD.
I use
KWorld's Xpert DVD Maker and then either
MS's Movie Maker (free) or Leadtek's VideoStudio software.
I was never aware of the power of MS's Movie Maker until Elaine steered me in
its direction. It came with my XP upgrade and since it was a freebie, I
never thought it would do the things I needed it to do. But boy was I
ever wrong! It is a very powerful little program and free.
4/21/05 at 08:43 AM
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Wuppertal
Comments:
Hello out there, after a long time I'm back .
It has been a long time,a lot of things changed but now I have more time o have
a look in here and to post. It was a hard time the
last weeks(Claudia knows what has happend)but friends helped me through the
time. Especially with AR-DVDs ......Michael
Collins and January Man . And I met a new friend in a
Harry Potter forum.She's a very big AR-fan and I know that she has a look at
this page from time to time so hello
Lisa and a big hug . Thats for now....
see ya lots of love Dany
@ Claudia...the new guestbook is great!!!!
4/21/05 at 08:36 AM
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the Netherlands
Comments:

Wow Auntie Natasxxx, that´s so exciting,
CONGRATULATIONS.
4/21/05 at 08:10 AM
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GA
Comments:
Sue,
I'm sitting here bawling over that article. Thank you for posting it.
4/21/05 at 08:03 AM
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MI
Comments:
Great
to hear, Peekabooh!! I'm sure you will have a wonderful time.
Wasn't it mentioned sometime ago that Alan would be doing an interview in June
at Chelsea College? Anyone have any details on that?
4/21/05 at 08:03 AM
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Comments:
First: thank u all for the pictures
and scans!!! Just
wanna say: I'm gonna be an aunt again!!!!!
I'm so happy about this
news.....I could screem it out.....so laud that they will hear me in
WaWa...But maybe they think that it is a Moose....
4/21/05 at 07:10 AM
Comments:
Nice to be with you sisters, this "download heaven" is a bloody great emergency
rescue for rickmania!
Love from Italy, ciao!
4/21/05 at 05:50 AM
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the Netherlands
Comments:

Squuueeeeee, I just purchased my John Donne ticket and made my
flight-reservation!!!!

4/21/05 at 04:25 AM
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the Netherlands
Comments:
Dee, I absolutely agree with Miriam and Sue. It didn´t strike me that his hands
were big, they are very well manicured that´s for sure. Though he is tall, he
moves very gracefully. He also is very friendly and calm, an impressive guy! 
Sue, thank you so much for the
newspaper article about Rachel Corrie´s parents. It must have been such a
contradiction (if that´s the correct word) to hear Rachel´s words been spoken.
They are indeed very brave.
4/21/05 at 04:09 AM
What is your location?
england
Comments:
RickiNicki, thanks for the great pix, you must have got there early to snag such
a good position!
Dee, hands? Hmm where do I begin? Large, soft, warm but firm is my opinionLOL!
One thing I loathe in a man is a limp handshake and am delighted to report that
his is not I
think those of us who are lucky enough to have met him would agree is that he
appears a big man but does seem to glide around in a very graceful manner!
4/21/05 at 03:23 AM
What is your location? the Netherlands
Comments:
Hi Dee,
Nice question about Alan's hands. I met him in London in December last year. He
was so kind to sign my book. I could clearly see his hands but they did not
appear to be very huge. I have seen pictures of him though and I thought... wow,
he has beautiful hands to play the piano. What I personally liked of Alan was
his friendliness, ofcourse (he has a warm and sweet smile), his modesty and the
beautiful way of moving. When he came... well, you knew he was there in a
positive way. My meeting with him was very brief (he seemed to be in a hurry,
poor man), but unforgettable. I am very glad for those who also met him in Wawa.
I hope my answer makes sense to you.
4/21/05 at 01:09 AM
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New Zealand
Comments:
Thanks, Sue,
very much for posting the Evening Standard article.
4/20/05 at 11:26 PM
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Indiana
Comments:
Wow! Lots of posts today! Thanks RickiNicki for the MNRC review. Sounds like
such a moving experience. I hope it comes to the US! And thanks everyone for the
Hitchikers updates. Can't wait to see the film!
No on has answered my rather odd question yet. Those of you who have seen AR in
person: Does he have big hands? They look huge in his photos, but that
could just be camera angles.
4/20/05
at 10:19 PM
What is your location?
Texas, United States
Comments:

I go by Sue but seeings how we have two Sues, I'll go by Sue J.
I am writing a SciFi book and hope to have it finished by next month.
I am in a very small town and want to start working with the kids here on
acting. I hope to put on some cute plays for the parents. I guess this will be a
big challenge for myself to see how my patients will be.
I wonder if Alan could ever have that much patients with kids. I guess he must
have a lot due to having to work so many in HP. I would give anything to go see
him in person. WOW, what a hottie.
4/20/05 at 09:54 PM
Comments:
Great pics, RickiNicki! Thanks for posting them. Looks like you were
standing right up front!
4/20/05 at 08:49 PM
What is your location?
GA
Comments:
I am watching the "Too
Lost in You" video, and my Marvin bobblehead is moving his head in time with the
music!
4/20/05 at 08:42 PM
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GA
Comments:
Can any of you wonderful
video makers tell me how/if I can save a clip from a DVD to my computer with
MovieMaker? If not, then what software will work?
4/20/05 at 07:52 PM
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CO
Comments: An AR group has posted that
two magazines have articles on GOF and THHGTTG this month. One is "Starlog," and
the other is "Movie Magic: Enchanted Collector's Edition." Both are the May
issues. I'm not certain if there are pictures, but they might be worth checking
out.
4/20/05 at 07:29 PM
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GA
Comments:
Thanks for the reports
and the pics, RickiNicki! I especially like the Stephen Fry pic! 
4/20/05 at 06:56 PM
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Michigan-So Close Yet So Far From WaWa!
Comments:
Sue: Thank you a million times over for sharing the scans of the "Rachel Corrie"
reviews. Your generosity is greatly appreciated by this Rickman fan!
4/20/05 at 06:56 PM
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GA
Comments:

Well we are just so happy to have you aboard, Sue TX (or do you prefer Sue J?)!
Please come back as often as you can. We have a really friendly group
here.
You are so right about AR's generousity towards others less fortunate than he,
Sue TX. He is involved in A LOT of organizations. Sometimes it boggles the
mind to keep them straight! LOL
RickiNicki for all the wonderful premiere pics! I'm so glad you were able
to make it! I can just see Bill Nighy was his usual playful self!
LOL
Thanks for the head's up on the Getty photos, Sue. 
4/20/05 at 05:58 PM
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Texas, United States
Comments:
Alan seems to always think of others and not so much on himself, which makes me
look up to him even more. He is a great actor and I think the world of him. He
is one of a kind! Good looking, great sexy voice, great actor and a kind
gentleman. What else could you ask for ladies?
I am glad to be aboard this sight!
4/20/05 at 05:40 PM
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Comments: As promised, here are
some pics from the H2G2 premiere!
the rest can be viewed at
http://photobucket.com/albums/v639/RickiNicki/H2G2%20Premiere



4/20/05 at 04:39 PM
Comments:
Lots of nice Hitchhikers Premiere pix on
GettyImages
4/20/05 at 03:28 PM
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Comments:
I've just came back from the H2G2 premiere. I also took some pics, but I'm going
to upload these in 2 hours. No sight of Alan though! I think he's still in
Canada. Mos Def and Warwick Davis haven't been there either. I took pics from
almost everyone except Sam Rockwell, he didn't sign any pictures. Steven Fry
made funny faces into the cameras, he seems to be kind to his fans and seems to
be sympathic. As I
said I'm posting the pictures a bit later, when I'm at home.
4/20/05 at 02:30 PM
Comments:
Emily thanks for the link...
I feel so old all of a sudden ...being able to watched the premiere
online!...lol
4/20/05 at 02:30 PM
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Comments:
Yes! Thanks Sue.
Maybe it will have some snippets of AR for the site!
4/20/05 at 02:29 PM
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Comments:
Sue--Thank you so very much for the article with Rachel corrie's parents.
How brave, how sad. I ache for them, the death of a child is the absolute
worst. I don't cry easily, but that brought tears to this tough old bird's
eyes. Bravo to AR, KV, MD and all else who brought this to life for them
with such sensitivity. Hope against hope it comes to the US.
Can't believe I found a free computer to kill a few minutes before my next
class. 
My oldest son just told me he's changed his major from creative writing to
screen writing--he took an introduction class this semester--loves it and has
gotten kudos for his writing from the prof. (We already knew he had a gift )
So maybe someday HE will meet AR and I can be the proud Mama!!!
Looking forward to H2G2, then end of the school year AND my trip to England.
Can't get excited yet I'm too stressed out with the end of school papers but
come May-------Whoopee!
4/20/05 at 02:24 PM
Comments:
Yes she was Emily.
4/20/05 at 02:21 PM
Comments:
Thank you Sue!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, Caroline Bingley! That's it!
Was she also in "Four Weddings and a Funeral"??
4/20/05 at 02:21 PM
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Comments:
Ohhhh thanks, Sue! She was also Colin Firth's finacee in What a Girl
Wants too. Amazing how letting one's hair down can change someone's
look.
4/20/05 at 02:18 PM
Comments:
Anna Chancellor was Miss Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice and lots of
other stuff as well.
4/20/05 at 02:15 PM
Comments:
Yes Claudia I'll
put one aside for you!
4/20/05 at 02:13 PM
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Comments:
I
have the same question about Anna Chancellor. I've seen her in something
but can't place her.
4/20/05 at 02:12 PM
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Comments:
I
can't help but laugh as we are sitting here watching this when I think of one of
the first trailers we saw when in the end, The Guide says (paraphrasing again),
"This is where the date of release appears so that the world can plan out the
next few months of thier lives". LOL
Did I miss something??? I didn't realize there is going to be a freebie DVD.
Is this something like the Love Actually freebie?
4/20/05 at 02:12 PM
Comments:
No Mos Def there either. Who is Anna Chancellor? She
looks familiar but I can't place her.
4/20/05 at 02:05 PM
Comments:
Oh I can see it too! I see some of the clips are from the free dvd that is in
next Sunday's Times. I better buy a couple of copies of that then
4/20/05 at 01:49 PM
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Comments:
Thanks, Emily! I'm watching now.
4/20/05 at 01:30 PM
Comments:
HGTTG premiere live now
HERE. No sight
of Alan. Bill Nighy being interviewed now.
4/20/05 at 12:48 PM
Comments:
You just did Claudia!!
4/20/05 at 12:23 PM
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Comments:
How
can I ever thank you enough for posting that interview, Sue?
4/20/05 at 11:52 AM
Comments:
Here is the full ES article:
Header 
1st part 
2nd part 
3rd part 
4/20/05 at 11:18 AM
Comments:
There is a full page and a half interview with Rachel Corrie's parents in
tonights Evening Standard. It is on-line but you have to sell you soul to Satan
(Pay a subscription) to access it so I shall scan and put it on photobucket. It
will be in parts as it won't all scan at once.
4/20/05 at 11:03 AM
Comments:
Wish I could have been there seeing MNIRC too! This play sounds brilliant
(what I've read makes me think of "Diary of Anne Frank").
Lucky girls, to be in London right at this moment -- martha, Elaine, RickiNicki
etc. !
4/20/05 at 09:14 AM
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Comments:
Aurora, thank you so much for the link to the Hitchhiker clips! Vogshere
Slaps is great because poor ole depressed Marvin speaks up a bit in it.
But.....by far, "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish" has to be my favorite!
As a dolphin fanatic, I have watched it over and over and over!
Emily, you are right. I've never seen that pic so large before! I
love it. Sinclair is soooo gorgeous!
kathy, I did see the MNiRC mention on the CNN crawl this morning. All it
says is (paraphrasing) "A new play in London about political activist Rachel
Corrie who died in 2003" or something like that.
4/20/05 at 06:48 AM
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Comments:
Thank you sooo much RickiNicki! Your review sounds like you and your group
had a very good time. It sounds like the after play talk was very
interesting. I still can't even imagine how RC's parents are taking all of
this. *phew*
Please share with us, when you can, anything you might remember. If you're
like me, things will come to you when you least expect it. *grin*
Can't wait to hear from more from your group plus Judy too!
Thanks for all the reviews, Sue. How was the romantic dinner last
night???
4/20/05 at 06:37 AM
Comments:
Sue, yes, it's really a great play! And Megan Dodds is a great actress! Thank
you for the reviews!
4/20/05 at 06:26 AM
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Comments:
BBC has Hitchhikers review.
"As the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android, Alan Rickman perfectly conveys the
character's world-weary disdain, despite being woefully underused."
Now where have we heard that before??? 
4/20/05 at 06:20 AM
Comments:
O/T News for DaVinci Code fans on
empireonline. Cast looks great though I share the doubts on Tom Hanks and
Audrey Tatou.
4/20/05 at 06:12 AM
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Comments:
Thanks for all the great reviews Good old Socialist
Worker OK
admits to being a pinko yoghurt knitting liberal and proud of it 
4/20/05 at 06:02 AM
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Comments:
Thanks RickiNicki. It was an amazing
performance wasn't it? Glad you had a good meet-up too.
My John Donne tix arrived today!! They
just say transept, unreserved (the £25 ones) so I guess we shall have to get
there in good time to nab good seats. (Rushes off to see where the transept is,
it's the cross bit isn't it?)
4/20/05 at 05:21 AM
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Comments:
Oh and I forgot, it
was really lovely to meet everyone and talk to other Rickmaniacs. Thanks for the
nice evening and the nice chat after the play in the bar!! I hope there will be
more meet-ups in London! 
4/20/05 at 05:17 AM
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Comments:
OK, this is only a short review, I hope there is more to come from the others.
The play yesterday was really magnificent! Megan Dodds did a wonderful job!
When Annette and me arrived we met Elaine in the staircase of the theater. It
was really nice to meet everyone. Elaine, Kate, Martha, Karen, Annette and me
set all together. It was really nice.
When the play began everyone was so magnitised by Megan's brilliant performance.
You really thought it was the real Rachel in her room. Even the stage looked
brilliant, especially this huge wall in the background!
After the play Katherine Vine, Megan Dodds and 2 other producers (forgot their
name) came to the stage and it was nice discussion with them. The audience asked
how long the preparations took (since September) and other things about the
production. Megan was asked what the most challenging part was. She said that it
was the performance, to be everyday on the stage and perform this without just
words coming out of her mouth. Maybe someone could remember some more questions?
Then after the questions about the production, the parents of Rachel and her
sister came on the stage and were asked about the feelings about the performance
of Megan. And what had happen to the bulldozer drive (they don't know). There
were some parts which I didn't get.
All in all it was very impressive! Everyone did a great job!
Sorry for the short review. Unfortunately I couldn't get everything.
4/20/05 at 04:32 AM
Comments:
More pix of cameras and pick-ups on
wawa-news.com!
4/20/05 at 04:20 AM
Comments:
Reuters has a review of My Name is Rachel Corrie as does
Socialist Worker. There are a few more reviews on Google but they are all
Reuters based.
Thanks for all the good wishes!
4/20/05 at 02:54 AM
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Comments:
My gosh, this is a group who is up late tonight.
Love all the links, pics, info---as usual you're a great group.
Lucy--make that two orders!!
Elaine, I'm with you I do like the cardie, looks cozy.
the glasses look like prescription, or at least magnified, if you look at the
image thru them it looks distorted. He couldn't possibly be able to go
without glasses at 59, altho he does have long arms!!--Mine aren't long enough
even with glasses sometimes.
I really like the picture with him and the kids. Think of the thrill they
got to see Prof. Snape, and I'll bet he enjoys the kids.
Did anyone catch CNN tonight? On the scroll that goes across the bottom of
the screen they had something about Rachel Corrie--I missed the whole blurb and
didn't see it repeated. Anyone catch it??
One and a half weeks of school then finals then I am done until Aug.
Nighty-night all---
4/20/05 at 01:58 AM
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Comments: Sue - Happy
Anniversary.. a little late, but just as sincere!
What's with AR's hair in that pic? It looks very two-toned.
4/20/05 at 01:20 AM
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Comments:
Dee...I'm
6'2"....Very tall with very big feet....
4/20/05 at 01:17 AM
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Comments:
Claudia- I seem to
remember someone saying they were sitting next to Richard Wilson on the first
night of MNIRC. Maybe because AR isn't there we just haven't heard reports back
about any more sightings. Also it is sold out so perhaps trying to go on the
spur of the moment hasn't been possible.
4/20/05 at 01:15 AM
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Comments:
While we are waiting for news from last night's performance and after show talk,
Gloria has been kind enough to share more piccies from the April 7th performance
over at
TARF. These were some of Nit's pics who gave Gloria permission to share.
Thanks again Gloria and Nit!!!!!
4/20/05 at 01:08 AM
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Comments:
Alfan -- I know what you mean. I'm very tall for a woman (5'10") and don't have
to look up very far at many men (my husband's an inch shorter). So, in every
movie, I'm always checking out how AR compares in height to the others. He seems
taller than 6'1".
But it's the size of his hands that really amaze me. In photos, his hands look
huge! (NO, this is NOT a pickle joke, so please don't anyone go there!)
They look very strong, yet...what's a good word? Gentle? Soft? Sensitive?
Out of curiousity (for those who have seen AR in person) -- are his hands big?
4/20/05 at 12:38 AM
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Comments:
Unfortunatly or
unfortunatly i have a bad habit of picking up movie lines ( yes, thats John
Lovits from LOTO) and i could apply them at any time so watch out. Although its
rare for me not to use a line from an Alan movie (wich i could quote ) but
pickle tickle just fit into the conversation. You know, i went over some of
those pictures of Alan with his fans and although i know he is a tall man ( i
think only 6-1), i never realized how tall.On the Tarf site there are a couple
pictures of him on April 7th from My Name is Racheal Cory and i tell ya, he is
large lookin. ( keep your minds out of the gutters girls).
4/20/05 at 12:19 AM
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Comments:
Pickle
tickle!! Alfan...shame on you! Now I can't stop thinking about AR and pickles!
At another board I visit, I just saw an animated icon from Rasputin (the table
dancing scene) that is erotically hypnotic. How
will I ever get to sleep now?! Before I do go to bed,
I was hoping to read a report from our friends who went to the Rachel Corrine
talk. Hmmm... It's getting pretty late. Shouldn't those young ladies be home by
now?
They are either still out having fun or by the time they got home they were too
pooped to post. Hope they had a good time!
I also hope Sue had a wonderful anniversary celebration with her husband!
4/20/05 at 12:10 AM
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Comments:
Tonight's order at the Dream Cafe:
I'd like pheasant with a side order of pickle, please.
4/19/05 at 11:48 PM
Comments:
And that would be Wednesday. Grrrrrrr.....
4/19/05 at 11:47 PM
Comments:
If you can't be there at the HGTTG premiere Tuesday, you can watch it
here.
4/19/05 at 11:21 PM
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Comments:
"Give Rima a pickle tickle..." Someone else who knows
A League of Their Own! (yes, am I right that you know it?)
John Lovitz's character says that in that movie. "Give the wife the ole pickle
tickle and go to bed." Or something very similar to that.
He's talking about having sex. OMG!! HAHA! That's
freaking hilarious!
4/19/05 at 10:29 PM
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Comments:
Okay
- I actually had a LOT that I wanted to say, but then I read Alfan's posted, and
everything flew out of my mind as soon as I read this sentence:"...give
Rima an ole pickle ticke and fly right back to Toronto..."! So,
Alfan, what's a "pickle tickle"???
Sorry if I offended anyone!
Anyway...a while back, SeverinaSnape posted a link to a BBC3 interview that had
an AR anecdote, and I just wanted to say thanks for that. Oh, and did you manage
to make write a transcript?
Also thanks to everyone that posted photos, news articles and everything -
they've been great to read/see. I especially love AR's gorgeous
cardigan! I
agree with Emily's theory that it's a costume, BUT, if he did buy it, then ten
bucks says that Rima makes him leave it behind.
Happy anniversary Sue! Whoa, 30 years! Gosh, I can't even fathom that amount of
time. And he got you pearls! What a sweet, lovely man - he's definitely a
keeper! Dee - so
sorry about your son. Hope he gets better soon!
Oh, and welcome to all the new people that have started posting since the last
time I was here - hope you all have fun!
4/19/05 at 09:17 PM
Comments:
While I'm here, might as well post this
feature about MNIRC, from Reuters -- contains a few quotes from her parents
and Katherine Viner.
4/19/05 at 08:56 PM
Comments:
Wait! I have seen it! It's Sinclair, from the spine of the "Close My
Eyes" video box. Never mind. I've just never seen it so big. And so pouty.
4/19/05 at 08:50 PM
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Comments:
Oh, yeah, and Happy
Anniversary, Sue!
4/19/05 at 08:47 PM
Comments:
Has anybody ever seen this photo before? I've never seen it and can't place it.
Sinclair? (Thanks Rickman_Daily) 
4/19/05 at 08:38 PM
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Comments:
Still eagerly waiting on any news about the after-show talk that took place
tonight. Anyone who
was there, please post, whether you're a regular here, or instead prefer to
remain anonymous...!
4/19/05 at 08:28 PM
Comments:
While we're waiting for other news, Yahoo has several "exclusive
" H2G2 clips in its
Movies. section. There's a little bit of Marvin in the Vogonsphere slaps
clip. Thanks for all the fish is a ...3-min dolphin show. Vicki, the DVD is
worlds better than my old TV tape. I love mine. And Happy Anniversary, Sue.
If Yahoo has exclusive clips, maybe other sites have different clips.
4/19/05 at 07:53 PM
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Comments:
Happy Anniversary, Sue! 
Vicki, have fun watching AABA!
Sorry this post is so short, don't have much time.
4/19/05 at 07:35 PM
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Comments:
I just received my DVD of An Awfully big Adventure from Amazon!!
Damn...I have a meeting tonight....maybe when I get home I'll watch part of it.
From the looks of the case, I don't think there are any extras
other than English and Spanish subtitles. I have to admit that the second
time I watched my taped-from-television version, I turned on the closed
captioning because I had a little trouble with the accents. That's when I
realized what she had said that made PL scratch the needle across the record he
was trying to play. They bleeped out the audio, but it showed up on the
closed captions. 
I hope everyone had a wonderful time at the play tonight. Please give us
the full details! We can't wait!
4/19/05 at 05:54 PM
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Comments:
"The exact details of
her final moments were hotly disputed, a point not acknowledged in this
production." I wonder what the reviewer's point was
in saying this statement? This play was all about immortalizing this young
woman, her thoughts, her iideals, and from all the reviews I've read, her
basic belief in humanity especially. To have made any kind of statement
about the way she died would have been rather ghoulish, in my opinion,
especially since her parents are part of the audience.
It's my opinion that the article makes it sound like this reviewer went to see
this production with preconceived notions set firmly in place.
4/19/05 at 03:52 PM
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Comments:
I look forward to
thier report. I cant see Alan flying home in the middle of shooting a
movie to attend a question and answer on his play and to attend the priemere of
HGTTG. But hey, he has done something like that before so maybe they are taking
a break from his scenes and concentrating on other scenes, so he can fly home
for a couple days, i mean fly home in one day, attend the Q & A one night,
attend the HGTTG priemer, give Rima an ole pickle ticke and fly right back to
Toronto or Wawa to continue thrilling the people.Its possible you
know,,,,,,,,hee hee
4/19/05 at 03:22 PM
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Comments:
You know, its just occured to me that so far, none of AR's friends or any other
celebs have been pictured at his play. Does this strike any of you as
strange as it does to me?
4/19/05 at 03:15 PM
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Comments:
If my internal London time is converted to GMT properly, all our friends should
be about in the middle of The Talk right about now.
4/19/05 at 01:55 PM
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Comments:
Thanks Susan. I always thought that he was on some sort of catwalk during that
picture but why on earth would someone make someone else wear glasses when they
dont. Dont get me wrong, i love him in glasses. ok, not the ones he wore in STLM
even though they were period glasses but i loved the ones he wore in LA.
I absolutly love the way the kids are gathering around him,i can honestly say i
dont think they would be there if not for his Snape character. I think Harry
Potter has enlightened a whole new generation of Alan Rickman fans. Im so glad
to of read that he seems to be the main attraction, good, about time our man
gets a little more recognition. Even if he is wearing a god awful sweater.
4/19/05 at 01:54 PM
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Comments:
Poor Sue.....
But important thing is that you're happy!!!!
4/19/05 at 01:47 PM
Comments:
Thanks Natasxxx I don't think we know his name here. Let's just think of him as
an International Man of Mystery!!(Well it's worked for me for 30 years!! )
4/19/05 at 01:42 PM
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Comments:
First:
Happy 30thAnniversary
Sue and Husband (sorry forgot his name )
And TnX for the new WAWA
piccie!!!!!
4/19/05 at 01:14 PM
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Comments: Alfan, the pic. you posted
is from a fashion show (1993--Commes des Garcons), and I think the glasses were
part of what the designer had him wear.
4/19/05 at 12:17 PM
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Comments:
Ok, i give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on posting pictures. 
I remember reading the headline that he was signing autographs during a break in
shooting. So he probably is in costume. All i can say is wait till we get some
more pictures from another day of him and see if he is wearing it and i guess
once we see the movie we will know, if he is wearing it in the movie--its a
costume. If he doesnt wear it in the movie-then we must take him shopping.
4/19/05 at 12:12 PM
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Indiana
Comments:
Thanks for sharing the new Wawa photos! Now we know that AR even looks great in
profile wearing that sweater. I was trying to see if there was any pudge, but my
eye kept getting distracted a little lower... SHAME ON ME!
Happy anniversary, Sue!
4/19/05 at 12:12 PM
Comments: Wow
Ltv news page scooped MSN and says there is a new Pope!! Way to go Wawa!!
4/19/05 at 12:10 PM
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Comments:
Ok, i think i might have to agree with the sweater thing. I dont think he would
own that, he has always dressed ( IMO ) for the most part great. I mean we have
seen casual pictures of Alan and i still never saw anything even remotly close
to that. Now, about the glasses, yes i think they are part of the role but i do
think he does really wear them,and i will tell you why. In the movie Love
Actually, when he is talking to Sarah in his office and asks how long she is
been in love with the chief ingeneer Carl (yum yum ). Well at one point the
camera is behind Alan and if you actually look though his glasses from behind
the view is magnified. I think he is like most people and needs reading glasses
and wears contacts if he has to but i do have a casual picture of him not on set
wearing glasses. 
at least i think this is a casual picture. And whats with the jacket, almost as
bad as the sweater.
4/19/05 at 11:54 AM
Comments:

wow! more Alan in cardigan pictures! lovely! 
Thank you Sue!
And I wish you also happy anniversary! 
And
to all who are going today to Rachel Corrie. I hope you will have great time and
that Alan will attend too. But most of all I hope, you will like the play. 
4/19/05 at 11:34 AM
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Comments:
THat new Wawa Picture! *Melt*
4/19/05 at 11:28 AM
Comments:
Ok I'm in a bit of a hurry so sorry if I don't get everything in my post...
Happy anniversary Sue 
Thanks for the reviews...And the photo...Look at his hair lol Looks like it's
grey in the front and the 'other colour' in the back lol
Ok gtg
4/19/05 at 11:22 AM
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Comments:
Vicki wrote: Do you think the HP films have introduced AR to a much
wider audience?
OM goodness YES! I was a fan long before the first Harry Potter film came
out and the difference in AR online activity alone was an amazing sight to see.
4/19/05 at 11:22 AM
Comments:
I never thought for a moment that AR's sweater and glasses were anything but his
character's costume. Come on!!!!!!! Be sensible, ladies! He has
never worn glasses in public when he's out and about, and that sweater is
horrendous, not remotely his style. He's in costume. Period.
Sue, you are entitled to use every emotie you can find -- 30 years of marriage
is something to be proud of! 
See, two thumbs up for you and hubby.
I can't believe I used an emotie.
Hey, AABA comes out today on DVD, region 1, if anyone needed a reminder.
4/19/05 at 11:19 AM
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Comments:
Awwwww, how adorable! Thanks, Sue. So patient and kind to the kiddies.
Those kids seem thrilled to be meeting Snape AND Trinity!
I think the Wawa coverage is the most thorough and informative coverage I have
ever seen for a film set. Amazing! And many many thanks to all those
in Wawa that make the special effort to put the information out for the rest of
us souls that "wanna know"!
4/19/05 at 11:15 AM
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Comments:
Happy Anniversary wishes to Sue and her honey
Hope you two have a wonderful evening!
The majority of the reviews for MNiRC seem quite positive. I'm so happy
that it's a success. Interesting that the lady from Wawa commented that
Alan is the one that everyone has come to see. With names like Sigourney
Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kim Cattrall (are we even sure she's still a part of
the film?) you'd think that they would be as much of a draw as AR.
Do you think the HP films have introduced AR to a much wider audience?
He's done some pretty high profile films before (Die Hard, Quigley Down
Under, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Galaxy Quest, Sense and Sensibility, Love
Actually) but I don't think he got a lot of attention from them. I
think his popularity is at an all-time peak right now. (I know everyone in
this group have been long time admirers). I guess putting on that black
wig and standing back and smirking made everyone sit up and take notice.
4/19/05 at 10:55 AM
Comments:
Found this on
Sootoday 
4/19/05 at 10:01 AM
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Comments:
Ohh
Myyyy...I am sure those pearls will go well with your dressy dress and your MPH
wristband, right Sue??? *grin*
4/19/05 at 09:33 AM
Comments:
I got back from the shops earlier and heard someone talking upstairs but knew
the house was empty then
I realised it was Marvin moaning away to himself!!
Thanks for the Anniversary wishes Claudia. Over here you serve less than 30
years for murder We
are off to a posh Chinese tonight to celebrate. He asked me the other night if I
wanted to do anything for the anniversary. I told him we better bl***y well as I
had turned down the chance of an evening with Rickman for him (I didn't mention
that he probably wouldn't be there!) Anyway I have had flowers delivered
and a string of pearls (real ones at that!! )
so must go and make myself beautiful for later I
may be sometime
(sorry about the emoties Emily!! )
4/19/05 at 09:16 AM
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GA
Comments:
Juliet!
That one is more like it!
4/19/05 at 08:48 AM
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UK
Comments:
What’s with the Times review, which of Murdoch’s interests are they trying to
protect now?
Try this:
Daily Telegraph 18th April 2005.
Review by Charles Spencer, theatre critic.
VIGOUR AND COURAGE OF YOUTHFUL IDEALISM.
I
have said some harsh things about the Royal Court recently, so it’s good to
report that My Name is Rachel Corrie
is a powerful, though-provoking and deeply moving piece of theatre.
The
latest in the stream of verbatim drama that has so enriched our political
theatre is based on the journals and e-mails home of Rachel Corrie, who grew up
among a loving, liberal family in Olympia, capital of the Pacific state of
Washington.
Even at the age of 10, Corrie was concerned with the state of the world, and her
idealistic spirit took her to Gaza in 2003. She joined the International
Solidarity movement of “non-violent resistance to Israeli military occupation”
and was killed by an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to defend a Palestinian home
from demolition. She was 23 and had been in Gaza for less than 2 months.
Alan Rickman and Katherine Viner, who have edited Corrie’s writings, offer a
fully rounded picture of this passionate, idealistic and at times, infuriating
young woman, vividly brought to life in an astonishing solo performance by Megan
Dodds. Corrie’s concern for suffering humanity is coupled with the
self-obsession and exasperating certainty of youth, and she isn’t above giving
her understandably anxious parents priggish and self-righteous lectures on
politics and morality.
As
she describes the suffering of the Palestinians and their “Ghandian resistance”,
she ducks the question of suicide bombers and the carnage they have wreaked on
entirely innocent Israelis. At times in this performance, one longs for calmer
and more informed viewpoints than can be provided by a 23-year-old who has only
been in Gaza for a few weeks.
But
quarrelling with Corrie’s occasionally glib convictions, even as you admire her
courage, lends the show dramatic tension, and forces you to try to tidy up your
own muddled thinking on this vexed subject. And there is no doubt that Corrie
was a natural writer, who described life in Gaza with rare power and precision.
Her
descriptions of the doctor who spent 30 years raising the money for a house that
Israeli bulldozers could destroy in three hours, of retrieving a dead body under
gunfire or guarding a vitally needed well are blessed with remarkable vigour and
freshness. She also displays a real empathy with those she is trying to help,
amazed that “they defend such a large degree of their humanity against the
horror occurring in their lives”.
Rickman directs a gripping production, on a fine design by Hildegard Bechtler,
which moves from Corrie’s chaotic student bedsit to the devastation of Gaza. And
Dodds is superb as Corrie, candid, passionate, self-mocking and original, her
eyes brimming with tears as she describes the dreadful things she has witnessed
and her fading belief in “the goodness of human nature”.
One
leaves the theatre mourning not only Rachel Corrie’s death, but also one’s own
loss of the idealism and reckless courage of youth.
4/19/05 at 08:12 AM
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Comments:
to
Clive Davis!!! Just kidding.
I know everyone has a right to
their own opinion and I wasn't silly enough to believe there wouldn't be a
review claiming political imbalance. I am pleased that most reviews have
been good so one little negative isn't to bad, is it?
I think if Davis had been able
to put the politicals outside the theatre out of his mind, maybe he would have
seen the play a bit different. After all, does the Royal Court have any control
over who stands outside their theatre and distributes political materials?
for
posting it, Sue!

Happy Anniversary to Sue and Hubby!!!!!!
30 years!!!
Now to all the girls that will be attending tonight. I wish you all the
luck in the world and I hope you all will report to us through this board and
Suzanne's as soon as you can.
We are living precariously through you...but don't let that make you nervous!
LOL
Peekabooh! I'm glad to hear you have your wristband and know you will wear
it proudly!
Speaking of the cardie! Over at Suzanne's, K. posted a link to an eBay
auction of an almost look alike! I tease K when I ask if there is
anything she can't find on eBay! LOL Take a peek for
yourself.
Famous Pheasant Cardigan
martha, I'm inclined to think
the outfit in the pictures is costume too. But we'll not know for sure
until the film hits the screen....and I can't wait!!!!!
Oh my, Emily is going to love me
today...look at all the emoticons I used! *grin* (only kidding you,
Em!)
4/19/05 at 08:09 AM
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Comments:
Not a totally bad review but as I saw what happened to Rachel on a documentary I
would have to disagree about this My
Name is Rachel Corrie is an unabashedly one-sided tribute — directed by the
actor Alan Rickman — to the left-wing American activist who was killed in Gaza
two years ago while trying to prevent an Israeli army bulldozer from demolishing
a Palestinian house. (The exact details of her final moments were hotly
disputed, a point not acknowledged in this production.)
4/19/05 at 06:25 AM
Comments:
I have pasted this from The Times review of MNiRC as it may become pay
to view after a few days!
My Name is Rachel Corrie Clive Davis at Royal
Court, SW1
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THE inevitable problem with political theatre is how to avoid preaching to
the converted. Being outraged about Guantanamo Bay is not enough in itself
to make an interesting piece of drama, and I suspect that the acclaim
lavished on David Hare’s sloganising Iraq play Stuff Happens had more
to do with the audience’s visceral contempt for the Bushies and Blairites
than the script’s intrinsic qualities. My Name is Rachel Corrie
is an unabashedly one-sided tribute — directed by the actor Alan Rickman —
to the left-wing American activist who was killed in Gaza two years ago
while trying to prevent an Israeli army bulldozer from demolishing a
Palestinian house. (The exact details of her final moments were hotly
disputed, a point not acknowledged in this production.) A member of the
controversial International Solidarity Movement, Corrie has since been
turned into a martyr of the Palestinian cause. A website honours her memory,
and on press night campaigners were handing out literature promoting the
campaign launched against the American manufacturer of the bulldozer.
Rickman and the Guardian journalist Katharine Viner have skilfully
woven together extracts from Corrie’s journals and e-mails. Megan Dodds
delivers a compelling performance as a Washington State romantic who
despises consumerism and keeps a copy of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl lying
by her bed. The evening is suffused with a sense of a tragic waste of life.
But does it convince us that we are in the company of an individual of
exceptional gifts and perceptions? Not really. Rachel Corrie was 23 years
old when she died, and — I feel heartless saying this — most of her writings
are exactly what you would expect from a bright, young, progressive woman
from a bright, young, progressive background. As for the scenes set in
Israel — brilliantly evoked by Hildegard Bechtler’s bullet-pocked concrete
set — an element of unvarnished propaganda comes to the fore. With no
attempt made to set the violence in context, we are left with the impression
of unarmed civilians being crushed by faceless militarists. Early on, Corrie
makes a point of informing us that more Israelis have been killed in road
accidents than in all the country ’s wars put together. As she jots down
thoughts in her notebook and fires off e-mails to her parents, she declares
that “the vast majority of Palestinians right now, as far as I can tell, are
engaging in Gandhian non-violent resistance”. Even the late Yassir Arafat
might have blushed at that one. | |
4/19/05 at 05:18 AM
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the Netherlands
Comments:
Thanks Elaine for answering my question. The low-budget fly compagnies arrive
everywhere in London, except on Heathrow, so that´s why I asked about Luton. I
assume there is a train or bus going from Luton to London, right? And yes, Tanya
is in London right now as she is about to attend MNiRC today.
I got my MakePovertyHistory wrist-band
yesterday! I haven´t seen anyone wearing it here yet. The video-clip was on
Dutch television last Sunday, no sign of AR unfortunately.
Dee, cheer up. You´ve been so close, I
just know you get another opportunity. Thanks for sharing the info from the lady
of Wawa. And it´s nice to hear that your son is ok.
Tropical, welcome to this lovely GB.
It has brought me so much joy and warmth, I´m sure it will
do the same for you.
Suzanne, welcome back! I was a little worried, hope everything is ok now.
4/19/05 at 02:47 AM
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northeast of here
Comments: Ya know,
I've seen sweaters (cardigans) like AR's in catalogs before. Wonder if that, and
the glasses, are part of the costume. Never got the impression from his wardrobe
that it would be his personal style. But I could be wrong...
4/19/05 at 12:10 AM
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Indiana
Comments:
sonoma, Pam, Claudia, Lucy -- Thanks everyone for your concern! My son
is fine. He stumbled and pulled/twisted a tendon in his calf. It swelled and
bruised, but wasn't too serious.
And thanks for the cheering words. My adventure just wasn't meant to be this
time. There will be other opportunities. I won't give up on that cheap hotel!
sonoma - It is wonderful to see AR looking so fit and happy in the
photos! Perhaps due to a great script, good people around him, and the fresh air
(and don't forget the apple pie!). What more could we hope for him!
Here's some comments by the kind woman from Wawa. When I mentioned AR she wrote,
"Ah, the handsome Mr. Rickman! He's the talk of the town. He's the one everyone
wants to see." She reported that the hotel where the cast and crew are
staying wouldn't take in other guests for security reasons - but the dining
room was open and getting lots of extra business from the curious. She also said
that Wawa doesn't have a theater, but the locals hope there will be a
premiere in Sew St. Marie (sp).
4/18/05 at 11:05 PM
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GA
Comments:
Dee: I hope your son
gets better soon. Like other folks are saying, don't feel bad about not
going to Wawa. There's always the premiere.
4/18/05 at 10:47 PM
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Massachusetts
Comments: Dee,
I was just reading the posts again after getting my son to bed a while ago. (We
are on vacation this week) I M so sorry for your sons leg ingury. I hate it when
things happen to the kids. Mine just got over sinusitis. The headache was
unbelievable for him. What a relief that is over with! Also, dont feel bad about
not being able to go and see him in person. At least we can see him on the big
screen when Snow Cake is released..Take care Dee and I hope your son is feeling
better. Pam
4/18/05 at 10:08 PM
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GA
Comments:
Oh
Dee, I'm so sorry about your son. This is just for him and
be sure to tell him we hope his leg gets better soon.
Also, don't be so quick to be depressed! How far from Toronto are you?
I really feel that since this is a Canadian/British joint venture that there
will be a premiere in Toronto...if not even in Wawa (possibly maybe???).
And since AR has a leading role, I feel sure he will do everything in his power
to be at the major premieres. So maybe this is a trip you and hubby can
plan some romantic sex in a cheap hotel! sonoma!
4/18/05 at 09:59 PM
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Massachusetts
Comments: Hi all,
I just read your posts and realized I havent been here since the 14th!!! Thanks
for the great information you guys have been posting. I have been busy chasing
ants!! yuck-after the wet winter everyone is inundated with them this year!! I
think I got them all but you never know! (Perhaps I raked up their nest outdoors
by the side of the house and they somehow got in) I have also been working
outdoors raking the yard, putting up the spring type yard decorations, getting
the garden ready too. I also bought today one of those Trellis Archway type of
things, and will buy some sort of a clinging/trailing vine to travel over it.It
should really look nice. After getting my son to bed tonight, I plan on watching
an AR movie, maybe blowdy?? Not sure yet-(They are all so good!!!) Today was a
holiday here in Massachusetts for Patriots day (marathon day) where runners from
all around the world meet on the town green in Hopkinton MA and run/walk to
Boston (26 miles) I believe a Kenyan woman won for the women this year. Not sure
for the mens division yet. Ill have to watch later on the news..
Anyway, just wanted to check in and say hi since I havent been here since last
Thursday..Have a good one
and take care--will try to get back again soon-Pam
4/18/05 at 07:59 PM
Comments:
Dee, don't be depressed! Isn't it great we have so many AR projects to
look forward to? I think he looks beautiful in those photos and my
excitement about Snow Cake grows with every new tidbit of information.
I'm just happy he's healthy and doing what he loves and even if I can't go
to London to see his play or see him in person as he traipses around the world,
I can come here and read all about it (I admit I was uncomfortable about that
recent Wawa fan encounter though). Anyway, he keeps so busy and is
always out and about so I'm sure you'll have your opportunity to see him in
person someday--especially with such an understanding husband! (hope your boy is
okay!)
4/18/05 at 07:02 PM
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US
Comments:
Oh, no need for 'sorry',
Claudia. I never expected it, let alone think it 'rude' if none came.
Rude? Heavens, no! It was rude of me not to thank you for all the movie
clips and videos you've spent so many hours, days, months... well, years, to put
on the site for all of us to enjoy. I 'bumped' into it very recently,
while doing a google on a movie, looking for a copy of a script from all things.
Wow, what a treasure I found. Thank you.
4/18/05 at 06:39 PM
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Indiana
Comments:
Pam - Thanks for asking. You're sweet to remember my dilemma.
After many folks here suggested taking my husband and turning a trip to Wawa
into a romantic get-away, he agreed to come! (it's amazing what you can talk
your husband into by offering good sex in cheap hotels...which - now that I
think about it - is better than cheap sex in good hotels ). Anyway,
we were going to go last week. I even shared emails with a very nice lady from
Wawa who gave us advice on places to stay, etc. But, life got in the
way. My son hurt his leg at track practice, then hubby had a job interview, then
I couldn't get off work... He says we can try again, but the last
newspaper article I read said filming was wrapping up in Wawa.
So...I think I missed my chance. I hate to sound like mARvin, but I'm soooo
depressed!
4/18/05 at 06:15 PM
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GA
Comments:

I'm sorry for the late welcome, Tropical. I think I am losing track of new
posters. Please forgive my rudeness and please come back as much as you
can. We're a great group.
Suzanne's is BAAAAACK!!!! YAY!!!
4/18/05 at 06:08 PM
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US
Comments:
Thank you for the
welcome, Natasxxx. So very kind of you. Tropical.
4/18/05 at 05:19 PM
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Insomnia....
Comments:
O I've forgot....
welcome Tropical! me!!!!!
4/18/05 at 04:49 PM
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UK
Comments:
Poor
Suzanne! Hope she can sort it out soon.
Peekabooh, there is no tube anywhere near Luton. It's quite a way out from
London. Have you spoken to Tanya as she has flown over from the Netherlands,
although I think she is here at the moment.
I still love the cardie. Is it me, or does he look rather "buff" in those
pics?
4/18/05 at 04:01 PM
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US
Comments:
Thank you Claudia for
your info on the possible hacker. I ran the full Norton (full Monty?) on
it and nothing showed up. When I clicked OK by mistake, it did go into
'thinking' mode--you know, the hour glass thingy--but I quickly did a AltCtrDlt
and flew out of there. Thank you again. And BTW, the download haven
is incredible. Thank you so much for it. It is a work of love indeed
for talent and art.
4/18/05 at 04:01 PM
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.....Enschede
Comments:
...Maybe a very late reaction--> but a very good anti-spyware protector is
"SPYWAREBLASTER"...It will protect you against ad-and spyware...!
www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
And to the girls who's gonna
watch the play: good luck and I hope Alan will be there...!
4/18/05 at 03:59 PM
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Austria
Comments:
Thanks a lot for the articles, links, pics and news, ladies!
RIcky
4/18/05 at 03:46 PM
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GA
Comments:
That's a great attitude,
RickiNicki. But judging from all the reviews, I think it would be very difficult
to walk away from this play in disappointment.
4/18/05 at 03:44 PM
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Los Angeles
Comments:
Daydreamer - thanks for the help on that site. I would have never thought
to look under scraps.
Oh, happy day! Amazon
tells me they've shipped An Awfully Big Adventure to me as of
yesterday. I'll finally get to watch an unedited-for-television version.
I wonder if they've included any extras? Can't wait!
To all the ladies going to the poetry reading or the MNiRC play, I wish you a
great time. Think of us while you're there!
With all this talk of hackers - just remember to UPDATE your virus definitions
in case this is a new virus that the anti-virus software hasn't encountered yet.
4/18/05 at 03:31 PM
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the Netherlands
Comments:
Blimey, is
that what caused all the problems to my pc? Nothing was found on my virusscan
but I cannot see any photobucket pics and internet is running a bit slow.....
strange! For all you girls who attend MniRC, good luck *crosses
everything* and let us know! Rickinicki, I do think he will
attend.
4/18/05 at 03:06 PM
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London
Comments:
Although it was mentioned on this particular page, I don't think AR would attend
the premier. And I don't think he would attend the play tomorrow. I still think
he is in Canada. Sorry, if I'm a bit pessimistic, but I don't want to get
disappointed. It's better to get surprised rather than disappointed 
4/18/05 at 03:02 PM
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GA
Comments:
  The
"Pleasant Pheasant Plucker" went totally over my head until now!!!!
Everyone here keeps me in stitches all the time! You guys ought to be
against the law!
4/18/05 at 03:00 PM
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GA
Comments:
I
hope you will get to make it to the premiere too, RickiNicki.
Sue, is the group you were partying with planning on going to the premiere
too? The more reports we can get the better!
In the meantime, I'm crossing all that's crossable and real
hard that he will be there tomorrow night for you and all the others that are
there, RickiNicki. But whether he is there or not, I know the after show
talk is going to be very enlightening.
4/18/05 at 02:59 PM
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GA
Comments:
"Plucking" that particular pheasant would be pleasant indeed!
4/18/05 at 02:52 PM
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Loncon
Comments:
Oh Daydreamer, you're a saint! Thanks a lot for the times! And thanks for the
help, Claudia! Unfortunately, I'm not sure if I can make it because it's either
to late for me or to early. But I try to leave earlier.
I'm also looking forward to seeing the play tomorrow!
4/18/05 at 02:51 PM
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Austria
Comments:
My resently (Saturday) by my husband uploaded Antivir said, that everything is
okay on my PC. Hope for all of you that it is the
same!!!   
4/18/05 at 02:45 PM
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GA
Comments:
I
never did click OK, Tropical so I can't say for sure. But if I had to
guess, I think its more of a "denial of service" type hack instead of one that
will harm your computer.
If anyone finds anything, |