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[from Hot Stuff By Sloane Brown in The Maryland Sun]

Was that Professor Snape dining at Kali's Court recently? Sans the black wig and cape he dons in the Harry Potter films, Alan Rickman looked positively Brit-cool in black leather. Ladies, think an updated version of Rickman's Colonel Brandon in 1995's Sense and Sensibility. Or his evil Hans Gruber (keep the sexy, lose the sinister) from 1988's Die Hard.

Rickman is in town filming an HBO flick. But he's going neither sexy nor sinister this time around. In Something the Lord Made, Rickman plays the late Johns Hopkins cardiologist Alfred Blalock, who with his research assistant Vivien Thomas (portrayed by Mos Def) figured out a way to save oxygen-deprived newborns.

Meanwhile, Rickman is charmed by Charm City - particularly the American Visionary Art Museum. He told Kali's co-owner Karen Patten that AVAM is one of the best museums he's ever seen.

Published January 8, 2004