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Women in Love. At the Central One, daily at 5:10 and 9:35. With The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes...
...contributed much to the allure of Wuthering Heights. It has also, coincidentally, prompted two writers to fill in some of the things Emily did not say. With few exceptions (notably T.H. White's revisitation of Gulliver's Travels and Nicholas Meyer's further adventures of Sherlock Holmes), sequels of books, written by someone other than the original author, have been shameless ripoffs. Oddly enough, Wuthering Heights is still sufficiently vital to sustain its parasites...
Gene Wilder should be perfectly content to be Gene Wilder, but he persists in trying to be Mel Brooks. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Wilder's first film as a director-writer-star, was a pale Brooks pastiche, and The World's Greatest Lover is more of the same. This is sad, for Wilder does have a fresh sensibility of his own to offer: here and there in his films one can find a sweet romantic streak and the beginnings of a surreal visual style. But Wilder refuses to trust his own instincts. Every time...
...movie genres to parody? In the course of a distinguished career in anarchy, Brooks himself has taken on the backstage musical, the western, the gothic creature feature and silent comedy. His sometime star Gene Wilder made steak-and-kidney pie of the Victorian detective romance in Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother year before last. Now we must somehow come to grips with another Brooks star turning director-writer in'order to send up a formerly beloved movie form in a show called The Last Remake of Beau Geste -which it probably...
...head blown off by professional criminals.) And, he notes "finding a lost bird in Oakland is like finding one particular flea on a Saint Bernard." Nonetheless, his ten-month-old business is prospering, and he has been approached to lend his nom de chien to a movie about Sherlock Bones. He is also working on a book that will not be called Sam Spayed...