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...People section, with its glimpses of the famous and infamous, has offered readers escape from news of assassinations, wars and economic woes. Today, though recession is crimping the style of many of their subjects, Staff Writer Gina Mallet and Reporter-Researcher Amanda Macintosh, our People section's Sherlock Holmes and Watson, carry on the department's tradition...
...That's a fine woman!" exclaimed an admiring Sherlock Holmes onstage at Broadway's Broadhurst Theater as the redheaded villainess was led from the mayhem. Then he added quietly, "Yet her crime is commonplace." In the audience, another redhead was creating her own kind of fuss. In a reclusive mood, Katharine Hepburn, 65, hid her face from autograph seekers at intermission. When an amateur photographer tried to snap her, she shooed him away so fiercely that he fell. "I really thought she was going to belt him," said one impressed observer, who earned a growl from Kate: "Beat...
...Leachman, who does a terrific job of frowning and mugging through an unrewarding part, may have pilfered from Dame Judith Anderson's role in Rebecca as the forbidding keeper of the Baron's castle. Young Frankenstein stalks about with the mad intensity and even the cap and cloak of Sherlock Holmes (whose film image dates from the 1930s). "Chattanooga Choo-choo," a popular song of the '30s, resurfaces when Wilder leans out of the train window on arrival and asks, "Is this Transylvania Station?" and is answered by other lines from the same song, "Yes, this is Track 29. Would...
...Cocaine, which could be obtained legally, was widely used at the time. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, who injects a "seven-per-cent solution" at the opening of The Sign of the Four, was supposedly a cocaine freak. A new book appropriately titled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution even has Holmes lured to Vienna, where Freud helps him kick the habit...
...plot? Does one tattle on Sherlock Holmes? No. But yes, there is a beauteous lady in distress, purloined papers, low, seedy minicriminals, velvety London fogs, the claustrophobic peril of a sealed gas chamber and Holmes' agile Houdini-like escape from it. Over everything lurks the brooding presence of Moriarty, played by Philip Locke like a Mephistophelean raven of evil...