[HPFGU-OTChatter] Amanda's pics

[Amanda Geist]

Iggy:

> Cool pics Amanda.  I like the one with your family.

Yeah, we got all of us to look good for one 500th of a second. I was very
impressed. But I *am* restraining my youngest.

> I also have to ask how you ever managed to get a pic of you and Sheryll
with
> Alan Rickman.... (Where?  And how was he?)

We were in New York. We arranged to meet there specifically to see Alan
Rickman on Broadway in "Private Lives." We figured he was meeting us halfway
and that was as close as he'd get to either San Antonio or Ottawa.

And he was truly wonderful, especially with some little kids who had come to
the matinee with their mom and were all big eyes and shy voices. Got right
down so they could talk in his ear. The stage door guy said he could only
remember two other actors who regularly made time for their fans like Alan
Rickman did. Every night--20-40 minutes. Lovely man.

Plug--go see "Love, Actually, " newest film out--has him, *and* a slew of
other tremendous actors.

> Personally, the most famous person I ever met was David Ogden Stiers.
(Maj.
> Winchester from M*A*S*H was his most famous role, as well as Jumba Jukiba
in
> "Lilo and Stitch").

(whispers) I had a crush on Major Winchester....was *so* disappointed to
find out David Ogden Stiers' actual voice did not bear that accent.

Oh, and no, my son isn't wearing a Gryffindor tie--it is yellow with a
little red lion on it, but that was sheerest accident, it was part of an
outfit (the rest long outgrown) that had been a gift from someone. I should
say it *is,* though.

My youngest son loves green and so likes Slytherin. Pray for me, two Houses
in one house.

~Amanda