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...early books, like The Murder at the Vicarage, Miss Marple was a snoop as well as a sleuth, "the worst old cat in the village." Her famous garden was a smokescreen, and her fondness for observing birds through powerful glasses could be turned to other purposes. As time passed, Dr. Haydock had to tell Miss Marple gently that gardening was making her rheumatism worse. She became quieter and less flighty. But her methods of detection were always the same. Where Poirot used his "little gray cells," Jane Marple extrapolated from her knowledge of St. Mary Mead. A swindler? She remembers...
...which only goes to reinforce the fact that nobody cares more genuinely about movies than Kael. They move and compel her to weigh each nuance, to mull over each jarring image, and to track down every pop association like an amateur sociologist-sleuth. She even lifts and carries the torah for the whole creative tradition in her long, worried, and proscriptive essay on the film industry, "On the Future of the Movies." And when she's in top form, Kael merits the hackneyed testimonial, "she cares enough to be brilliant." Hopefully she will weather the hyperbolic fuss over film critics...
...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 a year...
Challenging this diabolism is Jakov Liebermann, a death-camp survivor who has devoted his postwar life to detecting and exposing unpunished Nazi war criminals. He is obviously modeled on Simon Wiesenthal, the Vienna-based sleuth who has tracked down some 800 Nazis, including Adolf Eichmann...
...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...