Freckles & Doubt

Oh, god, the ones from the younger HP actors got me - Dan Radcliff and Sean Biggerstaff in particular. Alan Rickman seems to have quietly mentored bunches of young actors, and prodded them into agents and roles. All of the responses from people who knew him have shaped a thoroughly generous and decent man. Bowie was, I think, more complicated, enough of an iconoclast and a maverick that memories of him are not always about warmth, but there are still enough positive testimonials that the knee-jerk and thoroughly uneducated Tumblr bullshit - "he was a racist!" "he was a Nazi sympathiser!" - are getting my goat more than somewhat.