![]() There is a hilarious mismatch between praise in the introduction by the book’s editor, Alan Taylor, for Rickman’s generosity in paying everyone’s restaurant bill, and beady mentions by the actor in the diary of people who expected this kind of treatment from him, and didn’t thank him. He knew and worked with everyone, and his starry friends may be taken aback to find in here that they talked too much and were self-obsessed (as opposed to whom, you sometimes feel like saying). The film About a Boy is “a depressing English film”, while he hates “ The Full Monty/ Billy Elliot/ Bend it like Beckham version of Britain”. The diaries are all that he left behind – and they’ve already created headlines because of their sometimes caustic comments, on everything from Liam Gallagher (“great singer….absolute tosser”) to a Tom Stoppard play (“bores me rigid”). These much-anticipated diaries cover 1993 to 2015: the era of the Harry Potter films, Galaxy Quest and Love Actually, and stage performances in plays such as Antony and Cleopatra and Private Lives. It was shocking when he died of cancer in 2016 at the age of 69. ![]() Everyone loved the actor Alan Rickman – he was elegant, charismatic, could style out villainy, had the best voice. ![]()
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