“Having recently worked with Lindsay on the Complex magazine cover shoot, she may have been a little late on arrival (it was Mother’s Day, they were out to dinner), but she was a consummate professional,” PR pro Abe Gurko of ABE NYC INC and the blog I Mean…What?!? told Crushable. “I think she has been in the business long enough to know how to be, and is just young, hence she thinks she is invincible. Sadly for her, she is wrong and played a bad hand. A really bad hand.”

Abe said he’s certain Lindsay can bounce back. “Say what you want about her, she is mega talented and will be given every opportunity again,” he told us. As for her post-prison plans, Abe advised her to keep a low profile, attend theater classes or maybe go to college like Jodie Foster. “I would love to see her do theater and strip away that facade,” Abe advised.

At the very least, Lindsay should avoid going out for at least six months after jail and rehab, Abe said.

“I absolutely think Lindsay can bounce back from this,” agreed Dayna Ghiraldi, president of New York-based Big Picture Media. “Think Robert Downey Jr. or Mickey Rourke or Britney Spears or Hugh Grant or any of these other celebs who have hit rock bottom. We love to judge our celebs, but we love nothing more than a strong comeback story! She has been through a lot and I wish her my best.”

And Dayna, who was eager to rep Lindsay back in May, said she would still be up for working with the embattled actress. “Underneath what is going on right now is actually a talented woman,” Dayna told Crushable. “She just needs guidance and honesty.”

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One of my favorite actors, Alan Rickman, finally is giving us a little bit more of a look into what he thinks of Severus Snape. Here’s an excerpt:

It just seems like you’re so well known here for the bad parts — for Snape or the Sheriff of Nottingham.
ALAN RICKMAN: Is Snape bad?

Well, ultimately obviously not.
ALAN RICKMAN: I didn’t say anything.

But you don’t know that until the last book.
ALAN RICKMAN: So therefore you just said ‘bad’ like—

Well, he does not appear to be tremendously likable, at least through Harry’s eyes, for most of the time.
ALAN RICKMAN: So your point is? (giggles) No. Look, I don’t judge characters anyway for anything. I just get on and play them. And if you were sitting inside my skin, and I can’t sit inside yours or deny what you’re saying because that’s your perception. But if you were sitting in my skin, you’d look at the work you’ve done and go, ‘Well, wait a minute…. Look at all of those against those.’ And it’s just that some of them get a lot of publicity. That’s all.

The one thing they all have in common though is they’re all complex characters.
ALAN RICKMAN: I hope so. I hope they live through three dimensions. I resist the labeling, that’s all, because I think it’s too easy to do that to characters and stories. Wrap them up. I like it when stories are left open. That’s what I like about Jo Rowling as a storyteller, it’s full of possibilities.

– source

Honestly (and I know I’m going to get flack for this), even though Snape was ultimately validated as a “good” guy at the end of Deathly Hallows, I didn’t buy it. It seemed very forced to me.

>>ducks and hides<<

What do you think?

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Alan Rickman was nominated for his directing of The Creditors, which I can’t find ANY information on, Kenneth Branagh was nominated for his role in Ivanov:

And Helen McCrory was nominated for her role in Rosmersholm, a play about social and political change. The winners will be announced November 24.

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Alan Rickman, Helen McCrory, and Kenneth Branagh nominated for 2008 Evening Standard Theater Awards