69, and 3 for 3. Cancer.

It's time to stop military spending and obliterate cancer now guys.

Farewell Snape, Hans Gruber, voice of God.

Alan Rickman playing Metatron in Dogma is one of my all time cinema highlights...

I liked him as Sheriff of Nottingham...

2 weeks into 2016 and we're already running short of culture defining celebrities.

By Grabthars Hammer he will be missed.

This year has so far been completely crappy with awesome people dying.

I liked him as Sheriff of Nottingham...

2 weeks into 2016 and we're already running short of culture defining celebrities.

I quote his Sherriff lines all the time.

I liked him as Sheriff of Nottingham...

2 weeks into 2016 and we're already running short of culture defining celebrities.

I quote his Sherriff lines all the time.

: "That's it then.

Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and CALL OFF CHRISTMAS...!!!"

69, and 3 for 3. Cancer.

It's time to stop military spending and obliterate cancer now guys.

They can already cure cancer; it's just more profitable to bend patients over and "treat" them. They'll never stop military spending.

RIP. I'll always remember him from GalaxyQuest.

Nimoy, Lee, Pratchet, Lemmy, Bowie, Rickman, Ok that's it! I'm calling it:

It's the rapture!

R.I.P.

I quote his Sherriff lines all the time.

: "That's it then.

Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and CALL OFF CHRISTMAS...!!!"

"Why a spoon, cousin?"

"Because it's dull, you twit. It'll hurt more."

...Pratchet... Rickman...

Alan Rickman will forever remain my mental casting choice for Crowley/Crawly in Good Omens. (ETA: Which I recommend to literally everyone I know who has any interest in reading. Seriously, just go read it now.)

...and whoever's calling the shots had better leave Neil Gaiman alone for a few more years.

I quote his Sherriff lines all the time.

: "That's it then.

Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and CALL OFF CHRISTMAS...!!!"

"Why a spoon, cousin?"

"Because it's dull, you twit. It'll hurt more."

That's the one I use. All the time. Drives my wife nuts.

...Pratchet... Rickman...

Alan Rickman will forever remain my mental casting choice for Crowley/Crawly in Good Omens. (ETA: Which I recommend to literally everyone I know who has any interest in reading. Seriously, just go read it now.)...and whoever's calling the shots had better leave Neil Gaiman alone for a few more years.

Neil has started a fundraiser to benefit cancer research.

Rickman would suit me as a Patrician I think. He strikes me as a man who would think two hours before moving the first pawn in a game of chess.

I also always saw Rickman as the perfect Patrician. Ach, what a pity...!

...Pratchet... Rickman...

Alan Rickman will forever remain my mental casting choice for Crowley/Crawly in Good Omens. (ETA: Which I recommend to literally everyone I know who has any interest in reading. Seriously, just go read it now.)

...and whoever's calling the shots had better leave Neil Gaiman alone for a few more years.

I've read it and it is awesome! If only fior their take on the 4 horsemen (Pestilence is replaced with Polution. War Is a war reporter. And they get groupies!) And the rest of the book is even better! (the drunken conversation and the bit about eternity.)

Anyone who hasn't read Daniel Radcliffe's statement on Rickman's death, should.

...Pratchet... Rickman...

Alan Rickman will forever remain my mental casting choice for Crowley/Crawly in Good Omens. (ETA: Which I recommend to literally everyone I know who has any interest in reading. Seriously, just go read it now.)...and whoever's calling the shots had better leave Neil Gaiman alone for a few more years.

Neil has started a fundraiser to benefit cancer research.

Rickman would suit me as a Patrician I think. He strikes me as a man who would think two hours before moving the first pawn in a game of chess.

There is a diskworld cookbook. In wich the Patrician explains his strategy about eating without getting poisoned wich discusses at lenght the problems with food tasters, bread and water, poisons etc, to end with ... make it so that everyone believes they are better of with you alive and eat whatever you want.

Anyone who hasn't read Daniel Radcliffe's statement on Rickman's death, should.

"Alan Rickman is undoubtedly one of the greatest actors I will ever work with. He is also, one of the loyalest and most supportive people I've ever met in the film industry. He was so encouraging of me both on set and in the years post-Potter. I'm pretty sure he came and saw everything I ever did on stage both in London and New York. He didn't have to do that. I know other people who've been friends with him for much much longer than I have and they all say "if you call Alan, it doesn't matter where in the world he is or how busy he is with what he's doing, he'll get back to you within a day".

People create perceptions of actors based on the parts they played so it might surprise some people to learn that contrary to some of the sterner(or downright scary) characters he played, Alan was extremely kind, generous, self-deprecating and funny. And certain things obviously became even funnier when delivered in his unmistakable double-bass.

As an actor he was one of the first of the adults on Potter to treat me like a peer rather than a child. Working with him at such a formative age was incredibly important and I will carry the lessons he taught me for the rest of my life and career. Film sets and theatre stages are all far poorer for the loss of this great actor and man."