It must have bitten an oncoming tire its mouth is spread open like a flower, the tiny yellow points of its teeth splayed. The last one we cross is pasted to the frontage road. They’re draped everywhere, as in my dreams. “Snake,” I breathe, as we ease past yet another languid viper looped beside the trail. Exhaustion renders my terror quiet and viscous. We hear no rattles, receive no death threats. We camp among the mating snakes for three nights. The whole park is rattlesnake color, and it’s breeding season. I hear them chattering, always around the next bend, while blood bangs through my head like a Taiko drum. My husband, Kevin, and our two friends are sympathetic, but my pace is agonizingly slow, and they drift ahead. After that, I search out a long, heavy stick to thump on the ground and jostle the creosote scrub before passing. It takes me twenty minutes to inch past the viper, while his tongue whips the air. I’m an adult, so I want to act like one, but I’m crying so hard I can’t inhale and snot is dribbling into my mouth. ![]() He is stretched across the path, dozing in the shade of a juniper bush. We meet a fat diamondback five minutes down the trail. Adam Phillips, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored He was 69 years old.“The phobia, which hoards the past, can be the one place in a person’s life where meaning apparently never changes but this depends upon one never knowing what the meaning is.” Alan Rickman died of pancreatic cancer on 14 January 2016. In 2001, Rickman introduced himself to a whole new, younger generation of fans by taking on the role of Severus Snape in the film versions of J.K. Rickman even conquered the daunting task of singing a role in a Stephen Sondheim musical as he took on the role of Judge Turpin in the movie adaptation of Суінні Тодд: демон-перукар із Фліт-стріт (2007). Alfred Blalock in Something the Lord Made (2004), and as Alex Hughes in Сніговий пиріг (2006), showcased his ability to play ordinary men in extraordinary situations. Although often cited as being a master of playing villains, Rickman actually played a wide variety of characters, such as the romantic cello-playing ghost Jamie in Anthony Minghella's Truly Madly Deeply (1990) and the noble Colonel Brandon of Розум і почуття (1995). His take on the urbane villain set the standard for screen villains for decades to come. Denied the role in the film version of the show, Rickman instead made his first film appearance opposite Bruce Willis in Міцний горішок (1988) as the villainous Hans Gruber. In 1987, he first came to the attention of American audiences as the Vicomte de Valmont in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" on Broadway (he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the role). At the relatively late age of 26, Rickman received a scholarship to RADA, which started a professional acting career that has lasted nearly 40 years, a career which has spanned stage, screen and television, and overlapped into directing, as well. He opened a successful graphic design business, Graphiti, with friends and managed it for several years before his love of theatre led him to seek an audition with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). ![]() After three years at Chelsea College, Rickman did graduate studies at the Royal College of Art. He studied Graphic Design at Chelsea College of Art and Design, where he met Rima Horton, who would later become his longtime partner. ![]() He attended Latymer Upper School on a scholarship. When Alan was 8 years old, his father died. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory.
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