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There’s this podcast you might want to listen to. It’s a matter of death and life.
Famous & Gravy helps you look at the lives of celebrities from Muhammad Ali to Margaret Thatcher, from George Michael to Alex Trebek to Maya Angelou. All have one thing in common: They died in the last 10 years. But the show is far more insightful than morbid, and might help you sort out your own life in the process.
Take the episode featuring Alan Rickman, who played the villainous Hans Gruber in “Die Hard” and the villainously heroic Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films. Those were highlighted, of course, but the podcast also lets us see a child with a speech impediment, a late-blooming actor whose first real movie role was as Gruber, a beloved mentor who might have regretted not having children.
Hosts Michael Osborne and Amit Kapoor get into things like net worth, longevity, family and self-image, but mostly they focus on what made the person admirable. Take this comment
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By Andrew Blumetti
“Vigy, Vigy, Vigy, you have been a bad monkey!”
–Dr. Peter Venkman
Amen brotha Billy… in fact you don’t even know the half of it.
Vigo the Carpathian, main antagonist in 1989’s summer-comedy spooktacular sequel, Ghostbusters II, was a 17th Century Moldavian genocidal tyrant, so horridly sadistic and blood-curdlingly malevolent, he earned a shopping list of not-so jolly nicknames, including but not limited to: “Vigo the Cruel”, “Vigo the Torturer”, Vigo the Despised” and “Vigo the Butch Unholy”.
That concentrated evil is all just Hollywood magic of course. When director Ivan Reitman yelled “Cut!”, the loathsome, murderous former-painting Vigo took off his mustard-y armor plated threads and was nothing more than an ordinary 20th Century human– German-born actor, Wilhelm von Homburg.
Wilhelm von Homburg?
True, a name that certainly doesn’t organically ring that familiar bell the way Tom H
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Alan Rickman has one of the most powerful screen presences in the history of modern cinema. From his tall, looming stature to his deep, gravely voice, no-one encapsulates a character quite like Rickman.
Born in 1946 in London, England, the actor went on to master television, film and stage acting, portraying some of the most memorable characters the screen has ever seen. From the surprisingly nuanced, complex Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series to the vicious, psychotic Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Rickman’s contributions to cinema are enormous.
But there’s so much more to Rickman than merely acting. The man was a deeply generous, deeply loyal and deeply talented individual, someone with a surprisingly wacky sense of humour and a love for art in all its many forms.
From performing in a music film to showing the world how to make the world’s most epic cup of tea,...