Self-Styled Siren

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Self-Styled Siren
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)

Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)

Alan Rickman and loss

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Jan 14, 2016
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The Siren starts by admitting that she rented Truly, Madly, Deeply some twenty-odd years ago only because she had a raging crush on the late Alan Rickman. (How the Siren hates having to put “the late” in front of that name.) She’d flipped for him, like most of the women and a good many men in the film-watching world, in Die Hard. That lean face, that lu…

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