{"id":143959,"date":"2026-02-21T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=143959"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:40:46","slug":"happy-birthday-alan-rickman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=143959","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.&#8221; &#8212; Alan Rickman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"595\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pl.jpg 597w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pl-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pl-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pl-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s his birthday today. <\/p>\n<p>When Alan Rickman died, I paid tribute to him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/balder-and-dash\/alan-rickman-1946-2016\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">for Rogerebert.com<\/a>, including my memory of seeing him in the unforgettable Broadway production of Noel Coward&#8217;s <i>Private Lives<\/i>, opposite Lindsay Duncan. I still have the poster. <\/p>\n<p>I cherish it, and cherish the memory. <\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<small><em>Thank you so much for stopping by. If you like what I do, and if you feel inclined to support my work, here&#8217;s a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.venmo.com\/u\/Sheila-OMalley-3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">my Venmo account<\/a>. And I&#8217;ve launched a Substack, <a href=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Variations 2.0<\/a>, if you&#8217;d like to subscribe.<\/em> <\/small><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border:1px solid #EEE; background:white;\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s his birthday today. When Alan Rickman died, I paid tribute to him for Rogerebert.com, including my memory of seeing him in the unforgettable Broadway production of Noel Coward&#8217;s Private Lives, opposite Lindsay Duncan. I still have the poster. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=143959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4,39,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143959"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185450,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143959\/revisions\/185450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}