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- From: cal@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Cal Lott)
- Subject: Re: Underrated Actor: Alan Rickman
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.051458.15775@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Dec31.040557.27861@psych.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:14:58 GMT
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- anna@psych.toronto.edu (Anna Filippone) writes:
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- >Definitely Alan Rickman. I saw two films he was in this weekend. One was
- >"Close My Eyes" where he played the husband of a woman who has an affair
- >with her brother. The other was "Truly, Madly, Deeply" -- a film I heard
- >being called the film that "Ghost" should have been (and I agree). Both
- >films are highly recommended.
- >
- >And you must admit that he was the best part of Robin Hood: Prince of
- >Thieves as the Sherriff of Nottingham.
-
- Well, he certainly hammed it up. I think that he did the best
- he could, given the caliber of the script that he labored under.
-
- >Has he been in other films?
-
- He had a delicious turn as the villain in Die Hard, his first
- "big" film break in the U.S.
-
- Personally, I have yet to see his other films, so I do not
- feel comfortable labeling him as either over- or underrated.
-
- -Cal
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