Word: williamsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Something is much amiss here, and Sherlock Holmes should be just the man to put it right. Unfortunately, Holmes may be on hand in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, but he is not fully present. He appears quite prominently-gamely played by Nicol Williamson-but the spirit of the master sleuth is nowhere to be found. Instead of pursuing his customary invigorating adventures, Holmes becomes enmeshed in a slack, sorry matter involving anti-Semites, a pasha, an abducted actress, a train race and Dr. Sigmund Freud...
...about whether to play things straight or risk a little satire. Ross made a neat if rather prissy puzzle a few years back called The Last of Sheila, but here all clues are obvious, all deductions self-evident. Ross is usually adept with actors too, but in this case, Williamson's Holmes is too wired, even for someone giving up coke, and Duvall's Watson resembles a vaudeville Englishman, all jowls and bluster. This excess is echoed in the accents of Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave (who plays the abducted actress) and Georgia Brown (Frau Freud), who sound...
Seeking Divorce. Jill Townsend, 31, American actress; from Nicol Williamson, 38, crown prince of the British stage, whom she met in 1965 when she played his daughter in Inadmissible Evidence on Broadway; after five years of marriage; one son; in London...
Although Billy Dee is robustly masculine, his touch is as light as Comedian Bill Cosby's; he has avoided the angry black-stud typecasting that has shackled Jim Brown and Fred Williamson. "I always keep Jimmy Cagney in mind," says Williams...
...When Bryant's tests were reported to the American Philosophical Society, the A.P.S. formed a committee to arrange with the "owner of a torpedo or torporific eel [to] determine the nature of the shocks which it communicates." The offered price: ? 3. Physician Hugh Williamson later discovered, among other things, that the eel can stun fish at a distance, and "it can give a small shock, a severe one or not at all, just as circumstances may require...