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...pastiche that Writer Chris Columbus (Gremlins, Goonies) has concocted to show us the Young Sherlock Holmes in adolescence has something of the true canonical spirit. There are casually astounding displays of deductive reasoning, evil plotters recruited from the far corners of empire trying to avenge ancient wrongs. Director Barry Levinson (Diner, The Natural) has a tasteful eye for Victorian atmosphere: fog, hansom cabs, the glow of gaslight. But one does not automatically imagine these characters, this period, having much appeal for today's young audience...
...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu...
Like many of the tales in August Wilson's plays, this one reverberates across generations. Years later, Paramount was trying to make a movie out of Wilson's play Fences, and Barry Levinson was interested in directing. Wilson thought of his mother when he nixed the idea, insisting that the play--about a former Negro League baseball player struggling to support a family in 1957--must be directed by an African American: "Man, I'm thinking, 'Something is not always better than nothing.' She influenced me in ways like that...
...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at vozick@fas.harvard.edu...