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...PARAPHRASE SIR ARTHUR CONAN Doyle, it was with a heavy heart that I read of the sudden death of British actor Jeremy Brett [CHRONICLES, Sept. 25]. He was the best Sherlock Holmes ever. He will be sadly missed by Sherlockians everywhere in the world. JUNE M. WORTH Philadelphia...
...watch and marvel. Watch any of the wonderful stunts: balancing on a three-man pyramid in Neighbors, say, or careering over collapsing bridges on the handlebars of a driverless motorcycle in Sherlock Jr. Watch, and see how beautifully the impossible can be made both visible and risible. The wonder is that the same person had the sharp mind to conceive these amazements and the supple body to perform them. When Buster Keaton got them all to work together--his mind, his body, his intelligent love for film--anything was possible...
DIED. JEREMY BRETT, 59, British actor who brought a sepulchral presence, sardonic line readings and a sly sense of the eccentric to his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes for the BBC--easily the most memorable interpretation of the role since Basil Rathbone's; of heart failure; in London...
...never understand. Shortly after the Kobe quake, Tomoji Ohta, a college student whose parents' home had collapsed, approached TIME reporters on the rubble-strewn streets with an urgent request: ``Please get on the Internet and notify the Baker Street Irregulars that all our members in Kobe are all right.'' Sherlock Holmes fans around the world were reassured. Indeed, some enthusiasts compare the Internet with the kurofune, the 19th century ``black ships'' of U.S. Commodore Oliver Perry that forced Japan to open up to the world...
...Shakespeare artfully conveyed the drama of the paradigm, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought it to life in the character of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes's paradigms were broad, deep, convincing. They forged fiction into reality for thousands of believers who will tell you that the great sleuth lives on at 223B Baker Street, puffing on his paradigms. Why not? It only goes to show that one person's paradigm is another's world...