Instead of another adaption of Dune, the producers should be going for an adaption of Doon.
I read Dune a couple of times as a teenager...and then I read Doon. The next time I tried to tackle Dune, all I could see was Doon. :)
Saffron: He's my husband. Mal: Well, who in the damn galaxy ain't?
'Trash'
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evil jimi - Mar 19, 2008 3:35:16 pm PDT #4419 of 10000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Vonnie K - Mar 19, 2008 5:45:22 pm PDT #4420 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Dana Stevens from Slate talks about Minghella (he died of a brain hemorrhage) and Truly, Madly, Deeply specifically here: [link]
I made a mistake of watching the blurry youtube clip linked from the article and am stupidly sitting in front of the computer, sniffling again. Bah.
if you're me, you've also developed a debilitating, lifelong crush on Alan Rickman
Hahaha. You and me, both, girlfriend.
Dana - Mar 19, 2008 5:57:44 pm PDT #4421 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
God, I love that movie. And that singing scene she links to. Just listening to the Bach piece they play at the beginning can make me cry.
le nubian - Mar 19, 2008 6:07:12 pm PDT #4422 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
did he die of a brain hemorrhage? I thought it was a hemorrhage in his throat.
§ ita § - Mar 19, 2008 6:14:14 pm PDT #4423 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It was a haemorrhage after throat surgery. Don't know where it was, though.
Vonnie K - Mar 19, 2008 6:17:54 pm PDT #4424 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I was just quoting from the Slate article.
From IMDb:
....from a brain hemorrhage at London's Charing Cross Hospital, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.
le nubian - Mar 19, 2008 6:32:59 pm PDT #4425 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
dang. thanks for the info.
Beverly - Mar 19, 2008 11:16:51 pm PDT #4426 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
if you're me, you've also developed a debilitating, lifelong crush on Alan Rickman
Oh yes. TMD gave me my Rickman love, my love as well for Juliet Stevenson, and my love for Neruda.
I hadn't known it was originally a tv production, though. Now I guess I can stop looking for it in widescreen.
Aims - Mar 20, 2008 3:25:20 am PDT #4427 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
a debilitating, lifelong crush on Alan Rickman
I suffer from this as well, although I don't know that I'd call it suffering, really.
Fell REALLY in love with him in Lee's S&S. It was cemented in Dogma.
brenda m - Mar 20, 2008 3:32:29 am PDT #4428 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Robin Hood, baby.