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Suky
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Date Posted: 21:16:35 11/26/01 Mon
>Fencing classes used to be mandatory at the RADA.
Alas, I don't think we've ever gotten to see DW utilize his fencing skills on film, have we? Of course, even he and AR could never top the classic Errol Flynn/Basil Rathbone showdown in the original Adventures of Robin Hood. (BTW, Robin Hood: Men in Tights was on the other night. What a great spoof. And Cary Elwes was perfect in the title role!)
BTW, Alan Rickman went to RADA too ... Although he and DW are only five years apart in age, AR didn't attend until about 1971, according to the bio on that website. (He went to art college first.)
>LOTR's director, Peter Jackson, made "Heavenly
>Creatures", an excellent film with a very young Kate
>Winslet. Chris Columbus has yet to make anything of
>that caliber.
I was just reading that Jackson is a fan of the LOTR books and made an effort to be faithful to them, so the outlook for that film is pretty good.
Meanwhile, Chris Columbus made Home Alone and Mrs. Doubtfire! I heard he got the job because he's good with kids. And also he promised to be faithful to the books and hire an all-British cast (he's an Anglophile), which won Jo Rowling's approval.
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