More movie minutiae

Amanda Lewanski editor at texas.net
Mon Oct 23 02:06:06 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 4424

Hi, I got this off an Alan Rickman guestbook, and since it's a direct
quote I thought I'd pass it along. Let me know if you guys are tired of
my little snippets.

--Amanda (can everyone tell I'm a Rickman fan?)

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON)
October 22, 2000, Sunday
"Wizard wheeze"
By Adam Helliker

THE Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have good reason to be grateful
to Harry Potter: the couple have made a
small fortune from renting out their stately home, Alnwick Castle, as
the setting in the forthcoming film for the
Hogwart's school of wizardry.

As the last few flakes of fake snow were being swept away this weekend,
(the aftermath of the Christmas sequence),
such stars as Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman and Zoe Wanamaker have
packed their bags, expressing reluctance
about leaving the magical beauty spot set in 600 acres of woodland.

"We were delighted to have had them there," declared a spokesman for the
duke, who has made a tidy sum in
location fees from film companies - the castle has featured in Becket,
Mary Queen of Scots, Robin Hood Prince of
Thieves and the television series Blackadder, and his London home Syon
House, in Middlesex, has just starred in the
film of the Henry James novel The Golden Bowl.[italics added]





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