![]() ![]() At the Wolseley one evening Rickman passed a table at which Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan huddled. Ewan McGregor is self-absorbed Sigourney Weaver muscled into his shots Daniel Radcliffe is not much of an actor Tim Allen (they starred in the underrated “Galaxy Quest”) is a jerk Linda Fiorentino too often blows her lines. It’s possible to go through this book, as if with a metal detector, and retrieve shreds of tabloid coin. His wrap-up reports of big nights are often, “Very good time had by all,” or something similar. ![]() Even in company, Rickman seems curiously alone. His partner, the Labour Party politician Rima Horton (they finally married in 2012), does not appear often. If any of his friends were especially close, he doesn’t say. The boldface names who appear most regularly include Emma Thompson (who contributes a foreword), Ian McKellen, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Stanley Tucci, Juliet Stevenson and Daniel Day-Lewis. He attends, and speaks at, many memorial services. (“My selfishness when working takes my breath away.”) David Hare called him “the V.S. He was difficult to work with, and he knew it. Not a lot of light shines through the windowpanes. My favorite detail here may be that he insisted on picking up even the largest checks in restaurants while uttering the words “Harry” and “Potter.”īut mostly he seems harried, put upon, booked to the teeth. ![]() Thanks to that, there are Alan Rickman coloring books. He was Severus Snape, the despairing and sarcastic master of potions, in the Harry Potter movies. His wrinkling lips were as expressive as many actors’ eyes. He was a droll player of haughty villains, men who looked as if they were constantly detecting faraway stinks in the air. Like many readers, I suspect, I miss Rickman, who died of cancer in 2016. What was Mick’s bathroom like? Can he mix a cocktail? Does he place, while at the table, entire heads of broccoli into that mouth? We’ll never know. “Mick Jagger’s dinner party” is a typical entry, from December 2002. He disliked indiscreet people and rarely betrayed a confidence, even to his diary - and thus those diaries, published now under the title “Madly, Deeply,” are fantastically dull. He met his life’s partner when both were in their teens. The English actor Alan Rickman didn’t drink, or take drugs, to excess. MADLY, DEEPLY: The Diaries of Alan Rickman | Edited by Alan Taylor ![]()
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