Word: sherlocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Admittedly, the situation resembles the old Sherlock Holmes solution of a crime because of the curious behavior of the dog in the nighttime - curious because the dog did nothing in the nighttime. The banality of this view of Hitler at ease is the message, as always with home movies. Most of Swastika consists of previously unused material from professional Nazi films, mainly propaganda and newsreel, tightly edited together so as to present the illusion that Mora had sent a documentary team 40 years back into the Reich. The home movies make it seem as though Andy Warhol tagged along...
...literary characters who have served me so loyally during my writing career." It is, perhaps, the ultimate goal of every creator to prove his creation by destroying it (thus the Great Flood). Trollope finally became fairly sick of Barsetshire. A. Conan Doyle did his best to throw Sherlock Holmes off an alpine cliff. Frankenstein's monster always ends in the swamp. Dracula is staked through the heart...
...courageous for their time in the moral questions they rained. By the middle '60's, though, the sex comedies Wilder was making were far behind the vanguard, and he showed no sign of climbing out of his rut until 1970, when he made The Private Life of Sherlock Halmes, his best film in at least a decade. Had Wilder regained his originality for good" Not a chance...
...four story, rambling structure in Arlington Heights known as "The Ranch," a completely distinctive home filled with hours of table hockey played to its limit, five dollar fines for every minute missed of a daily episode of All My Children, and debates on the relative abilities of Sherlock Holmes and Columbo. The overriding feature of 46 Westminster Avenue, however, is good music. This is the home of Special Care, a group comprised of Harvard and Williams graduates who play every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Charlies's Place on Massachusetts Avenue. The lifestyle and ambitions of this band represent...
...stage plays; after a series of strokes; in Boise, Idaho. The son of an English brick maker, Owen came to the U.S. in the mid-1920s, and by 1929 had starred in his first Hollywood movie. In addition to his usual roles as upper-crusty Englishmen, he appeared as Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1933), a film for which he did his own screenplay, as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1938); and as the scheming politician in Affairs of State...