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Alan Rickman can be a saint, but sometimes evil becomes him

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[4.Jan.08] :. Alan Rickman isn’t a bad guy. He just often plays one. Bad guys like Gruber in “Die Hard,” Marston in “Quigly Down Under” and the Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin...

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Dec.07] :. Sweeney Todd is delirious with blood and violence: bright red spurting from the barber's expert slashes, necks snapping and bodies crumpling.

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Tim Burton knew he was cut out to direct `Sweeney Todd’

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[18.Dec.07] :. You’d think you could get a rise out of Tim Burton by pigeon-holing the guy, telling him that the blood-spattered Stephen Sondheim musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet...

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