Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

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Rickman was an excellent actor, but it’s a diary with lots of dates, lots of mentions of famous people, lots of food and restaurants, lots of funerals, comments on acting technique, but not a lot of introspection. I will recognize that writing an unauthorized biography must be a great challenge, this book is certainly a testament to that. I feel like I could've read a wikipedia page and come out with the same information and way less irritation. It is said that you should not meet your heroes and I think perhaps the same should be said of reading their diaries (or listening to them). I also enjoyed the entries for Galaxy Quest and A Little Chaos which he directed (script first mentioned in 2001 but not screened until 2014).

The ultimate Valentine's Day countdown - here are 10 romantic gestures to help sweep your partner off their feet! Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in 1988’s Die Hard: ‘I had never seen a suaver, funnier screen villain and I still haven’t. This meant inflections in speech as he interpreted the words, trying to get across what he perceived to be what Rickman was feeling when he wrote these diary entries. After a screening of Galaxy Quest, the 1999 sci-fi spoof which was an unexpected smash, all he can think about are the scenes he was in that have been cut. Kiefer Sutherland says hello’; ‘Dan Day-Lewis jogs by, sweating’; ‘Terry Gilliam arrives with Johnny Depp’; ‘the first people I see are Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise’; ‘all of a sudden, there was Julia Roberts’.Love Island All Stars fans slam Liberty Poole for crying over Mitchel Taylor again despite pair's bitter split: 'They broke up like 10 times! The editor had more than a million words of entries to work with and condensing them to 500 pages can’t have been an easy job, but if only he had added some context and background information it would be a less maddeningly opaque read . Closely attached to Aberdeen and her native Deeside, she graduated from her home university in 1915 and for the next forty-one years worked as a lecturer in English. There was very little in the way of personal insights and if you didn't know the person to whom he was referring then it was hard to glean anything from it. I imagine he would prefer to be remembered for his theatre work, though the majority of that took place in London and far from the world's maddening crowds.

His work as a Producer to get My Name is Rachel Corrie onto the stage is fascinating, although for a long time I wasn’t sure exactly what is going on. I'm hoping that although it's 27 volumes being condensed into one book, it still gives us lots of insight into his life and career. But Tim [Allen] has this perverse need to needle, antagonise, provoke, demoralise – he just thinks he’s being funny (maybe) – which just slows everything down and leads to zero concentration. But he finds it impossible, or impossible for long, to ‘change, discard, shed, rearrange, dilute, simplify’ his existence, as there’s Kate Winslet (‘sweetness and steel’) to see, Daniel Radcliffe to act opposite (‘I still don’t think he’s really an actor’) and Ewan McGregor to be put in his place (‘self-involved to a jaw-dropping degree’). He died of pancreatic cancer, which most of his closest friends didn’t find out until about a fortnight before he passed away.Not bec Someone needs to mention to the narrator that the way to pronounce the letter L as in LA is ‘el’ and not ‘al’. In Die Hard and Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, his irresistible villains stole the movie, and a string of other films testify to his seemingly endless Truly Madly, Deeply; An Awfully Big Adventure; and the sensationally successful Sense and Sensibility. This is an edited compilation of his diary… it’s not earth shattering… it’s like a comfy easy chair… sink into it and enjoy the pleasure it gives you!

I would count myself as an average fan, however, and by the second half of his diaries was finding it hard not to love him less . Madly, Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman—one of the most magnetic, beloved performers of our time. Alan Rickman is the luvvie’s luvvie, so much so that at times the book reads like one of the satirist Craig Brown’s parodies of a celebrity diary.Having established himself as a major classical stage actor Rickman transferred to the Hollywood screen with a glint in his eye and a sly smile.

The diaries show someone not as funny or as self-deprecating as fans might expect, but that’s hardly his fault. Rickman] offers a fascinating guide to life as an actor and what it's like to be at the centre of fame.The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years. This is a fraud of a book and I would NEVER recommend it to anyone in fact, I'm more likely to tell people to AVOID it like the plague.