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...professional sobriquet is Sherlock Bones, and he operates what he believes to be the world's first dogtective agency. Actually, John Keane, 32, a former insurance salesman, will try to track down any lost pet in the San Francisco Bay Area-and to date has been retained to find an errant parakeet and a strayed horse, as well as hundreds of Fidos and felines. The strapping ex-Marine is aided by Paco, an old English sheep dog who wears a deerstalker hat and slurps champagne, and by a legion of kindly kids whom he calls, naturally the Baker Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hercule Pawret | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...funny as it was when Katherine Hepburn wrestled with her little leopard in Bringing Up Baby. The red gas stove is certainly milked for all its comic absurdity, yet Yves Montand cannot do with it half of what Buster Keaton did with a simple pair of bicycle handlebars in Sherlock Jr. Director Jean Paul Rappeneau seems to understand the basic atmospheric conditions of screwball humor, but he fails to enliven his combination of characters and incidents with any modern twists or new routines. He does not realize that this kind of fun cannot be created by haphazardly mixing together elements...

Author: By Joellen Wlodkowski, | Title: Screwballing Amidst the Mango Trees | 7/19/1977 | See Source »

Buster Keaton Film Festival, including The General, Sherlock, Jr., Steamboat Bill, Jr., and The Navigator. Call for times...

Author: By De Witt, | Title: Film | 7/8/1977 | See Source »

...perhaps not inappropriate that when it came time to write this article Fairbank was in Europe and could not be reached for an interview. The following is a profile of the China specialist seen through the eyes of his friends and colleagues. Diane Sherlock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Perceived: | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...want to go away we have to rent a place on a desert island as Mr. and Mrs. Doe." Los Angeles Author Nicholas Meyer, also 30 and a new millionaire, finds that his loot has made little difference to his life. Despite the immense success of his two Sherlock Holmesian pastiches, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (he also scripted the film) and The West End Horror, Meyer observes: "Everyone has this one fantasy about success and money, that it will solve all his problems. Money will do this in the short term: it will pay the bills. But it throws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hot New Rich | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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