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...classic mystery, Sherlock Holmes or Perry Mason might have solved this paternity suit by matching eye color, or tracing social patterns. But they might have solved more cases if they only knew what students in a new class are learning...
Since Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. in 1924, Hollywood has often toyed with the looking-glass motif, though never on Hero's mammoth scale, where so many cars crash that the audience becomes rubberneckers. Schwarzenegger, a live- action cartoon in the flesh, and McTiernan, who made the brains explode on time in Die Hard, might seem just the team to send up the dizzy conventions of the action genre. At first they do so, smartly. A wounded cop mutters, "Two days to retirement," and promptly dies. And Arnold's version of Hamlet is even funnier than Mel Gibson...
Interesting names: They've got Scott Lachance. We've got Tom "Sherlock" Holmes, and Tripp "Dick" Tracy. Scott would love "la chance" to beat Harvard, but it isn't gonna happen. Holmes and Tracy will solve the mystery of BU's powerful squad, and help defeat the enemy. Nod to Harvard...
...sheer energy and curiosity, few historical sleuths can match Starrs, who even as a young boy was fascinated by Sherlock Holmes mysteries. So far, Starrs has unearthed the victims of Alfred Packer, America's most infamous cannibal, to discover whether Packer was a murderer as well. (Yes, he was.) He also exhumed Carl Weiss, the alleged assassin of Louisiana Governor Huey Long; Weiss, in turn, had been shot by Long's bodyguards. Based on discrepancies between the bodyguards' testimony and bullet marks found on Weiss's bones, among other clues, Starrs concluded that it is more likely that the bodyguards...
Harlan does an excellent job of portraying Truscott as a sort of lunatic master of ceremonies, the most thoroughly ruthless character in Orton's thoroughly ruthless world. Harlan's intense Truscott, at once menacing and ridiculous, is an appropriate blend of Sherlock Holmes, a Keystone Kop and Adolf Hitler. His quick-paced style works especially well in some of the play's wittiest exchanges, such as when members of the household find Truscott snooping through their belongings...