The July 1999 Monthly Rickmanista

First, an invitation:

The First Afternoon At The Theater

Join me and other Rickman fans for an afternoon at McCarter Theater, Sunday, September 19. After the play we will go to a local restaurant for dinner.
McCarter is located in Princeton, New Jersey (50 miles from both New York City and Philadelphia) and easily reached by train or automobile.
Please e-mail me if you’d like to join us!

This Month’s Features

This Month’s Letter To The Editor
The Not-so-new-clothes Quiz
TWO Links of the month, for two new Rickman sites

This Month’s Letter To The Editor

Dear Fausta,
Why haven’t you featured a trivia quiz recently? I miss them!
Signed,
Not knowing

Dear Not,
Because real life has interfered. But please, send me a quiz if you really want to help!

Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman in that awful movie I’d rather forget

The Not-so-new-clothes quiz

The Monthly Rickmanista, in its incessant obsession with trivia, brings you this month’s quiz for your enjoyment. The theme is: clothes that have seen better days, or clothes that would need replacement after the action described in the question.

1. Who went on the lam and made a fashion statement at the same time?
a. Colonel Brandon, in black
b. Dwight Billings in silk pajamas
c. Eamon DeValera, in marabou-trimmed dress, heels, and fancy hat

2. Who played (recently on Cinemax) a detective who wore brown?
a. Kevin Costner
b. Alan Rickman
c. Kevin Kline

3. Do you know the title of the film referred to on Question 2?

4. Which character played by Alan Rickman get tossed out the dining room window at the sheep station?
a. Elliot Marsden
b. Hans Gruber
c. Otto Von Birsmark

5. Who probably needed a new overcoat after spending the night in the gutter?
a. Colonel Brandon
b. Hans Gruber
c. Rasputin

6. Who wore a blazer while decorating the office at the police station in January Man?
a. Ed
b. George, Sheriff of Nottingham
c. Reverend Slope

7. Who wore an ugly, but clerical, hat in Barchester Chronicles?
a. Metatron
b. Reverend Slope
c. Jamie

8. In what TV production Mr. Rickman’s character wears dark glasses, in a battered coat, and spreads feathers over an unconscious woman?
a. Rasputin
b. From Light and Shadow
c. Barchester Chronicles

9. In what film did Mr. Rickman wear a red union suit underneath his navy coat?
a. Truly, Madly, Deeply
b. Sense and Sensibility
c. An Awfully Big Adventure

10. Who looked terrific while picnicking in his sweats in Close My Eyes?
a. Sinclair
b. Jamie
c. Dwight

Answers:

1.c: Neither Brandon nor Dwight were in jail, but they are nice to think about.
2.b: This is a Rickman page, after all.
3. Judas Kiss, but why bring it up? (Could I be mellowing in my old age?)
4.a, but the late Oliver Reed played Otto once.
5.c. 6.a 7.b
8.b: However, Slope would have never done that, but Rasputin probably did, at least once, and with gusto . . . just so he could repent!
9.c
10.a, and he certainly doesn’t belong on this quiz: his clothes certainly looked fine.

TWO links of the month:

Siadda’s Rickman page, a.k.a Alan "swoon" Rickman

Bea’s Rickman page