Rickman=Snape?! TOO perfect!

[lake4fam at earthlink.net]

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Pardon my ignorance - I only just found out about the VanityFair and 
EW magazines - but, is Alan Rickman REALLY going to play Snape?  This 
is inspired casting.  I must agree with the concensus:  Dame Maggie 
will be the definitive Minerva.
  By the way, those of you who like me spend a lot of time with the 
booktapes - can't run a sewing maching and read a book at the same 
time - will have to brace yourselves for the difference in the voices 
and dialects that Jim Dale uses for the characters.  The key thing to 
remember is that different does not equal worse.