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Ali-Pat 
Today at 02:38 PM

What is your location? biting my fingers over the snow, Snow, SNOW

Comments:
  It is BIRTHDAY TIME again!  There is a new Just Giving page up  here:  http://www.justgiving.com/AlanRickman2009-10

For those who are not familiar with the tradition, every year for Alan's birthday we ask fans to donate to a fund that will be given to students at Alan's alma mater, RADA.  Every year the money from the fund helps one or two students--more in years when donations are higher. 

There is more information over at Suzanne's.  Please spread the word--you can be sure Alan appreciates this gesture in his honor.  In fact, when you contribute you will get a thank-you email from him.  Yeah, well, okay, it's programmed, but it's worth it to see the name Alan Rickman as a sender in your inbox. 

Just think of it as helping to create future Alans and Alanas.

(BTW I have contacted Claudia about updating the link to the fund here on the GB).


Lori 
Today at 09:31 AM

What is your location? rainy Carolina

Comments:
Darn!  The release date for "The Wildest Dream" has been pushed back to August, 2010 according to the film's official Facebook  page.  (I had previously heard April.)  There is a good review of the film at the link below, although it doesn't mention AR or the other voices.


Hikity 
Today at 05:31 AM

Comments:
IshakPasha, you are right! OOps, I've always assumed it was (understandably) in SA...Thanks for the "time-line", lol.



Vera 
02/07/10 at 11:58 AM

Comments:
It's not obvious to me, Shiki. He always had small eyes with eyelids that tended to droop, and at least as far as I can tell that's still the case. I don't see any difference at all.


rickmanfan96 
02/06/10 at 08:12 PM

What is your location? BC,Canada/Alanland

Comments:

Yeah I know Shiki, just being curious.  Did anybody go to the Haiti Concert?


Shiki 
02/06/10 at 07:49 PM

Comments:

Not trying to start anything here but am just having a hard time understanding why some people are unwilling to accept that AR had a probably medically-necessary cosmetic procedure on his eyelid. I mean, we know that he had his teeth fixed, and he has colored his hair in the past (sometimes not even connected to a movie role), so what's the big deal about the eye surgery?  It's obvious he did it, so just chill.


rickmanfan96 
02/06/10 at 07:14 PM

What is your location? BC, Canada/Alanland

Comments:
Hmm, in regards to the droopy eyelid thing I'm thinking it may just be the way he smiles.  But in this pic http://www.yuddy.com/articleimages/alan_rickmanMTIxNw==.jpg you can kinda tell his eyelid is droopy. I dont' know whether the operation is true or not.


IshakPasha 
02/06/10 at 04:00 PM

Comments:
This Tumblr audio post, "Alan Rickman reading Shakespeare's Sonnet 130" (not new to most of us), has collected an amazing 200 notes (i.e., "likes" and reblogs) in less than two days, as you can see HERE (be warned that some Tumblr users make what you might consider inappropriate comments).  It's rare for a post on Tumblr to gather these many 'notes' in such a short time, and this post could become, I hope, one of the few to collect more than 1,000 'notes'. Mr. Rickman's popularity is as strong as ever... or is it Shakespeare's?


Charlotte 
02/06/10 at 02:04 PM

Comments:

I'm positive he had his left eyelid fixed at some point. The skin was sagging pretty severely, so that it almost hung into his eye. It was quite obvious that something was done, I'm not sure the name of the procedure. I think that it might have "relaxed" a bit over the past year, but it is not sagging to the extent it was in pictures from around 2003-05, say. I dont think the right eyelid was lifted, just the left. My father had to have his eyelid lifted, not for cosmetic reasons, but because it was drooping into his line of vision. Just natural ageing process, not a stroke or anything. So I find it completely believable that a man of AR's years had this simple process done.


Vera 
02/06/10 at 01:12 PM

Comments:
Thanks a lot for the reminder, Ali-Pat.

I'm no expert on cosmetic surgery, but I think he really doesn't look as if he had anything done to his eyes.


Cassell Email
02/06/10 at 12:13 PM

What is your location? St. Paris, Ohio

Comments:
Okay...I give. What eye op are we talking about? Fill me in ladies, please


sue 
02/06/10 at 10:28 AM

Comments:

The Valentine Poetry thing is available on Wednesday 10th according to HERE


deeindiana 
02/06/10 at 10:24 AM

Comments:
Ali Pat - That was wonderful! The impression is great. And how lovely to hear him spoken of in such fun, friendly terms too.


Ali-Pat 
02/06/10 at 09:17 AM

What is your location? wondering when the snow will stop

Comments:
Folks, this was posted over on Suzanne's Alan Rickman Guestbook and I had to share it.  May be old stuff but it was new to me and I laughed until tears came!

John Sessions impersonating Alan Rickman

BTW, I have seen the Stella Street episode with the Hans character, but this is WAY BETTER. 


IshakPasha 
02/06/10 at 05:46 AM

Comments:
rickmanfan96: The S.A. photos I know of came from HERE, but of the three pics I remember, only this one remains, taken on January 1, 2008. The other two pics of Mr. Rickman and/or Ms. Horton were apparently removed.

Hikity, here's a photo taken on October 2007... so your assumption about 'eye op and S.A.' appears to be incorrect, if you know what I mean. 


Hikity 
02/06/10 at 02:49 AM

Comments:

Yes, I am sure I've got a couple of pics from SA, however, I have no time today to check my vast external drive - and if you compare pics from before and afterwards, rickmanfan96, you'll know what I mean. Imho, it was a very good decision :-)


rickmanfan96 
02/06/10 at 12:02 AM

What is your location? BC, Canada/Alanland

Comments:

Oh, Hikity, you said that pictures exist of Alan in South Africa. Do you know where those pictures would be? I would greatly appreciate it if someone would post a link.


rickmanfan96 
02/05/10 at 11:59 PM

What is your location? BC,Canada/Alanland

Comments:

Hikity, in south africa he had an eye op? 'Op'... i'm assuming that means operation. Hmm i never knew that. There's a video of Alan at the Haiti Concert.


Hikity 
02/05/10 at 06:59 PM

Comments:
Ali-Pat, yes, I remember there is a date for Wildest Dreams, but I have to dig deep into my PC (it's very late I rather hit the sack :-))
Re: South Africa: not too long ago (hmm, 2 to 2 1/2 years or so) he was there (where he mos prob had his little eye op, too) with Rima and met friends. Pics also exist


Ali-Pat 
02/05/10 at 05:22 PM

Comments:
Here is something else about AR and African theatre I just found on this site:

"Theatre in Africa has a vocal supporter in British Actor and Director Alan Rickman, himself a BAFTA & EMMY Award Winner and Tony Award Nominee, who sings its praises wherever he can. Rickman wrote the foreword for a book profiling  the South African theatre company Dimpho Di Kopane (A Short History of Dimpho Di Kopane a South African Theatre Company, edited by Camilla Driver: Spier and Nandos (Capetown), 2004). In it, he notes that he first saw Dimpho Di Kopane perform in Yiimimangaliso: The Mysteries in 2001 and was struck immediately not only by the actors’ skills and the complete unawareness they had of themselves, but also by the obvious love of their craft on the part of all in the Company."


Ali-Pat 
02/05/10 at 05:11 PM

What is your location? at my desk puttin' on my snow boots

Comments:

Vera, I think it is because a while back he was involved with a South African theatre company called Dimpho Di Kopane.  He wrote the forward to a book about it, anyway.  A bit more info here (scroll down to the "S" titles for A Short History of Dimpho Di Kopane). 


Vera 
02/05/10 at 04:06 PM

Comments:
Does anyone know what the connection between Alan Rickman and Athol Fugard / South Africa / Cape Town is? I mean apart from the obvious one that AR is an actor.


sue 
02/05/10 at 12:49 PM

Comments:
Rickman in South Africa next week:
Quote:
The Fugard Theatre opens on Friday 12 February with a performance of Isango Portobello's The Magic Flute - Impempe Yomlingo.

The gala evening will be attended by South African and international theatre personalities, some travelling from overseas especially to show their support for Cape Town's exciting new theatre addition.

Minister Trevor Manuel, patron of Isango Portobello, and founding producer, Eric Abraham, will host the evening while Athol Fugard himself will officially open the theatre. Actor Alan Rickman has been granted special permission by the producers of the latest Harry Potter film to fly to Cape Town to attend the opening night. 


Details HERE


sue 
02/05/10 at 12:41 PM

Comments:
The trailer can also be viewed on The wildest Dream's website along with a short piece on Mallory for those who don't know the story.
Is there a date for this yet? I


Ali-Pat 
02/05/10 at 10:18 AM

Comments:

Thank you, Hikity and Always!


Always 
02/05/10 at 09:10 AM

What is your location? Alanland

Comments:
The trailer for "The Wildest Dream" has been uploaded to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ8tTh0kuDw


Hikity 
02/05/10 at 08:39 AM

Comments:
sorry, I've got the "piece" from here
http://www.haroldpinter.org/poetry/poetry_inart.shtml


Hikity 
02/05/10 at 08:30 AM

Comments:
Ali-Pat: DEATH

Death (Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953)

Where was the body found?
Who found the dead body?
Was the dead body dead when found?
How was the dead body found?

Who was the dead body?

Who was the father or daughter or brother
Or uncle or sister or mother or son
Of the dead and abandoned body?

  
 

Was the body dead when abandoned?
Was the body abandoned?
By whom had it been abandoned?

Was the dead body naked or dressed for a journey?

What made you declare the dead body dead?
Did you declare the dead body dead?
How well did you know the dead body?
How did you know the body was dead?

Did you wash the dead body
Did you close both its eyes
Did you bury the body
Did you leave it abandoned
Did you kiss the dead body


Ali-Pat 
02/05/10 at 07:38 AM

What is your location? awaiting the snow...again

Comments:
I add my thanks for the photos, Shiki!

What exactly did Alan read at the concert?  Was it the Harold Pinter poem or the one by the Haitian poet Lenelle Moise?  I would like to track down the text if I can and the news reports are not specific.


IshakPasha 
02/04/10 at 09:57 PM

Comments:
Thanks again, Shiki!


Shiki 
02/04/10 at 12:14 PM

Comments:
More AR, Haiti benefit

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubasolidaritycampaign/4329937839/in/set-72157623225881635/


IshakPasha 
02/04/10 at 02:46 AM

Comments:
Thanks Shiki


Shiki 
02/03/10 at 10:38 PM

Comments:
AR alert, Haiti concert pic here --

http://pictures.metro.co.uk/London/109389/Concert-For-Haiti


bibi  
02/03/10 at 09:09 AM

What is your location? Austria

Comments:
Hello

Thank you for this page ! best regards  bibi


Ali-Pat 
02/03/10 at 07:14 AM

Comments:
It will just miss AR's birthday!  That's probably a good thing--he can have the day to himself. 


sue 
02/02/10 at 01:25 PM

Comments:

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland will have a Royal World Premiere in London on 25th February. Story HERE


Queen 
02/01/10 at 10:35 PM

What is your location? Baltimore, Maryland

Comments:

Love your web site, just love it, keep it up, keep it up.


Ali-Pat 
02/01/10 at 02:37 PM

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Hikity 
02/01/10 at 01:03 PM

Comments:

Thanks for your help concerning the Haiti Concert!


sue 
02/01/10 at 10:32 AM

Comments:
Ali-Pat I don't think they're online yet, it's just an "early warning"!  
THIS page says:

Quote:

Valentine's Day readings

Browse this list of readers and poems and bookmark the page for next week, when you can sign up to send a poem by mobile





Ali-Pat 
02/01/10 at 09:05 AM

Comments:
Am I just not seeing the magic "play" button?  The poetry readings don't work for me.  Is this something that only works in the UK or only for Times subscribers? 


Vera 
01/31/10 at 06:10 PM

Comments:
How lovely. Thanks a lot, Sue.

He reads another one, by the way, also by Robert Herrick: Delight in disorder.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article7008210.ece

Quote:
A sweet disorder in the dress

Kindles in clothes a wantonness.

A lawn about the shoulders thrown

Into a fair distraction;

       

An erring lace which here and there

Enthralls the crimson stomacher;

A cuff neglectful, and thereby

Ribbons to flow confusedly;

A winning wave, deserving note,

In the tempestuous petticoat;

A careless shoestring, in whose tie

I see a wild civility;

Do more bewitch me than when art

Is too precise in every part.




sue 
01/31/10 at 03:58 PM

Comments:
Just spotted this online: Rickman reads Upon Julia's Clothes by Robert Herrick
Quote:
Whenas in silks my Julia goes,

Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows

The liquefaction of her clothes!

Next, when I cast mine eyes and see

That brave vibration each way free,

—O how that glittering taketh me!
  

Details HERE


deeindiana 
01/28/10 at 04:09 PM

Comments:
Little side note. Alan posed for the American Library Association READ poster a couple years ago holding the book, The Catcher in the Rye. The author J.D. Salinger died today at age 91.


Hikity Email
01/28/10 at 10:03 AM

Comments:
Hiya, luv, nice to see you here again :-))) Thanks for the link. And it is possible that we can watch For love of liberty on NPT's youtube streaming

WE ARE IN NEED OF ONE MORE TICKET FOR THE HAITI CONCERT on 3 February!!! Is someone here who has more tickets than she needs, :-))). Please let me know, thaaaanks (e-mail see above)


rickimam 
01/28/10 at 08:37 AM

Comments:
Thanks dear Strad, for the effort you made for me!
I had it already. Lazy little me!


Ali-Pat 
01/28/10 at 08:32 AM

What is your location? home but soon away

Comments:
You know, I am thrilled that Alan is voicing a character in Alice in Wonderland, but every time I see a still of the caterpillar I can't help thinking, "If I ever saw you on my tomato plants I would hurl you across the field, no matter how cute your monocle is!"


Peekabooh 
01/28/10 at 06:03 AM

What is your location? Netherlands

Comments:
Hiya all,

Forgive me if this is 'old news' but I haven't seen it before:
http://www.nashvillescene.com/events/international-lens-for-love-of-liberty-the-story-of-americas-black-patriots-380206/

Hugs Peek


Strad 
01/27/10 at 11:16 PM

What is your location? MA

Comments:
rickimam - Here at 3:39 - it's just "thank you"


sue 
01/27/10 at 05:14 PM

Comments:

New Alice in Wonderland stills and character profiles HERE

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