Actor Alan Rickman has died of cancer, the second cultural icon to have been lost to that disease this week.  His nearly forty-year career on the screen is filled with too many works to name all of them here and probably not necessary to do, anyway, given his popularity.  In recent years, he was the embodiment of Professor Severus Snape and brought life to a philandering husband in Love Actually.  But an early film of his, the one that brought him into American consciousness, is what likely came to mind among readers here: Die Hard. Like Love Actually, Die Hard … Continue reading The Chilling Die-Hard Villain