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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spielberg went to outer space. Spielberg went to Egypt. Spielberg went to suburbia. Now, drunk with success and hubris, Spielberg has imposed his high-tech humanity on the myths of another age. The Sherlock Holmes stories, the embodiment of understated, subtle Victorian British refinement, come at us with all the...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: An Elementary Holmes | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

There is no mistaking this movie as a Speilberg creation, even if the mass-market messiah is only one of three executive producers listed in the seemingly endless movie credits. Holmes is almost a Spielberg parody. Outrageously expensive special effects trot across the screen screaming aloud, "We cost millions to...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: An Elementary Holmes | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

Spielberg and flunky Chris Columbus--who also wrote Gremlins and Goonies (see accompanying story)--have not expanded the modest vision of past Holmes films and the original Doyle stories to fill the epic scope required for Spielberg mega-effects. They have stomped all over the original, creating not a Holmes...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: An Elementary Holmes | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

Four wrestlers finished in the top four in their respective weight classes: Scott Beck at 118lbs., Pete Holmes at 158 lbs., Co-Captain Steve Farrell at 167 lbs., and Kevin McGinty at 177 lbs.

Author: By C.j. Georges, | Title: Five of Eight Crimson Grapplers Place, But Harvard Finishes Ninth at Tourney | 12/9/1985 | See Source »

David Kopp: pianist, Holmes Hall, North House, 56 Linnaean St., Cambridge, 4.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: November 14-20 | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

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