Word: sherlocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother...
...willing captive of an ex-Nazi. Actually, says Charlotte, she is a homebody whose heart belongs to her husband, Writer Bryan Southcombe, 38, and Son Barnaby, 3. From the looks of it, her present image is Hollywood wholesome in every respect. In Charlotte's latest TV movie-titled Sherlock Holmes in New York-she portrays sleuth's mysterious lady friend. Offscreen, Rampling is negotiating to adopt a young French orphan. "I'll want to spend more time with my children, especially as they need me more," says Mom. "My ideal now is to make about one film...
...finishes. In that time a simple story-line emerges, sustained by the most elementary event-to-event, casual thinking. Ironically this dearth of complexity is the peculiar strength of his roman policier: the name Maigret itself connotes a kind of thinness, a stylistic baldness. Unlike the elegant Sherlock Holmes, Commissaire Maigret is a bourgeois hero, a symbol of the unpretentious common man; he uses no complicated forensics, no tricks of reason, his habits are ordinary--his only asset is a persistent, though mediocre intellect. Judging from the 300 million copies Simenon's works have sold in 43 languages (excepting Lenin...
...Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson...
...dare from her sister. The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced the 5-ft. 4-in. dandy and retired Belgian police officer Hercule Poirot. His egoism, eccentricities and the fact that for a time he had a Watsonian colleague called Hastings suggest that Christie was strongly influenced by Sherlock Holmes...