I sit here in the thunder, the green on the grey

[sovay]

Me: I should rewatch Sense and Sensibility (1995). It might pair illuminatingly with Persuasion (1995); I haven't seen it in nine years and I've never written about it; I saw it for the first time in 1996 with someone who didn't like it. That was a point in my life when I saw very few movies and did not think critically about them if I did. Those can be interesting to revisit.

*half an hour of movie later*

My critical faculties: FUCK, Alan Rickman is BEAUTIFUL.

Ladies and gentlepeople, that may be the review.

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[sovay]

He spoke about writing and his respect for writers--and he was so inspiring he made something break inside me. The very next day I started writing again, and that was the beginning of a new phase for me. He made a difference, for me, personally, right then.

Thank you for telling me. That's lovely. I am glad he did that for you.

I never heard him extempore. I saw him in Private Lives on Broadway in 2002. It's one of the stage productions I am happiest to have seen.

[lauradi7dw]

I’d be happy to read a review from you of Private Lives, which I also saw because of Rickman. I thought the sets were wonderful, some of the costuming choices ill-thought-out, and while some of the individual lines were funny, i generally disliked it. A lot. I gather I’m an outlier in this regard. One of the things I remember positively was that Rickman was barefooted briefly, so I ws able to check to see whether the tattoo on the sole of his foot in “Blow dry” (2001) was real. Apparently not.