Word: sherlocking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES' SMARTER BROTHER...
...going to be lovable, magnanimous, charming, witty and irresistible - not the aesthetic creep we all know and can't stand." So says Actor Nicol Williamson, talking about Sherlock Holmes, whom he plays in the forthcoming movie version of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. In the film, based on Nicholas Meyer's novel, the tweedy sleuth travels to Vienna and collaborates with - who else? - Sigmund Freud, portrayed by Alan Arkin. It's almost too good to be true, says Arkin. "I didn't know that after seven years in analysis, you get to play Freud...
...Dunster House Drama Society's production of Moonchildren never fully creates the illusion of an initial community of friends, so the dissolution of that community is less heart-rending than it should be. Nevertheless, this production is enlivened by a few very funny moments, and standout performances by Diane Sherlock as a bizarre specimen of hippiedom and David Moore as Bob, who gives rise to the only moments of real tension in the play...
...stud who steals Kathy away from Bob. He should be a visual foil to Bob--both bigger and better looking, but though O'Brien speaks and moves smoothly, he doesn't have the physical presence to do justice to the part. In contrast, Tony Horowitz as Norman and Diane Sherlock as Shelley are marvelously convincing caricatures. Ethan Dmitrovsky plays Willis the landlord Archie Bunker-style; his dream monologue is the most haunting moment of the play...
...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The Establishment again beckoned; the RSC had asked Wood four times before he agreed to join them. To his relief, "they accepted me completely." The RSC is now home. He can do what he wants: an iconoclastic Brutus in 1972, then the suave, icy Sherlock Holmes last year. The company even helped him buy a house. Now he has moved his wife Sylvia and their three children to the mellow-stoned Cotswolds town of Chipping Camden, where walking down the street is "like listening to Mozart-organic, inevitable but totally unexpected...