#sherlock holmes 1981

[finalproblem]

Sherlockian Wednesday Watchalongs: Maybe, Maybe Not

This month, it's time for more Holmes we haven't watchalonged before. Will these become new favorites or future Awful April candidates? Maybe!

Wednesday, May 1 Tales of the Rodent Sherlock Holmes: Wilson the Notorious Canary Trainer (1990) No, not that rodent Holmes. Or even that other one. This one's a puppet, 'cause I know how much y'all love your puppet versions of Holmes. 😘

Wednesday, May 8 Sherlock Holmes: Das Beryll-Diadem (aka The Beryl Coronet, 1967) Another episode of Schellow!Holmes, with more brand-new English subs.

Wednesday, May 15 The Interior Motive (1975) Remember that time Spock played Holmes for a lesson on earth science for Kentucky Educational Television? No? Well, you will now.

Wednesday, May 22 Standing Room Only: Sherlock Holmes (1981 TV movie) Frank Langella starred as Holmes in a version of William Gillette's play that was filmed for HBO. Back when that was the sort of thing HBO would do.

Wednesday, May 29 The Hound of the Baskervilles double feature (1982) Doctor Who's Tom Baker took on the role of Holmes in this miniseries. We'll watch the first two episodes.

Here’s the deal: Like Sherlock Holmes? You’re welcome to join us in The Giant Chat of Sumatra’s #giantchat text channel to watch and discuss with us. Just find a copy of the episode or movie we’re watching, and come make some goofy internet friends.

Keep an eye on my #the giant chat of sumatra tag and the calendar for updates on future chat events.

[niti-who]

Next up is the 1981 Soviet version. With Vasily Livanov as Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Dr Watson

The implementation is great. And this Holmes/Watson duo is awesome. ^^ And this hug really sweet ^^

I'll check out the other stories when I'm through with Granada Holmes :)

And I love the soundtrack <3

[alightinthelantern]

Movies on Youtube:

Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)

Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes)

Close Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)

Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)

The Song of Sparrows (2008,  Majid Majidi)

Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov)

Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)

Dersu Uzala (1975, Akira Kurosawa)

The Idiot (1951, Akira Kurosawa)

Drunken Angel (1948, Akira Kurosawa)

Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirō Ozu)

Early Summer (1951, Yasujirō Ozu)

Late Spring (1949, Yasujirō Ozu)

The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952, Yasujirō Ozu)

Good Morning (1959, Yasujirō Ozu)

An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujirō Ozu)

Sword for Hire (1952, Inagaki Hiroshi)

Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)

Thunderbolt (1929, Josef von Sternberg)

Larceny (1948, George Sherman)

Among the Living (1941, Stuart Heisler)

Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Ivan’s Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)

Medea (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Medea (filmed stageplay)

Is It Easy To Be Young? (1986, Juris Podnieks)

We'll Live Till Monday (1968, Stanislav Rostotsky)

Ordinary Fascism (aka Triumph Over Violence) (1965, Mikhail Romm)

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)

The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)

Johnny Come Lately (1943, William K. Howard)

Mister 880 (1950, Edmund Goulding)

Beethoven’s Eroica (2003, Simon Cellan Jones)

Katyn (2007, Andrzej Wajda)

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004, Brad Silberling)

Mean Girls (2004, Mark Waters)

The Neverending Story (1984, Wolfgang Petersen)

The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990, George T. Miller)

The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams)

Osmosis Jones (2001, myriad directors)

Megamind (2010, Tom McGrath)

Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Oshii)

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004, Mamoru Oshii)

Steamboy (2004, Katsuhiro Otomo)

Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick

Wargames (1983, John Badham)

By the White Sea (2022, Aleksandr Zachinyayev)

White Moss (2014, Vladimir Tumayev)

The Theme (1979, Gleb Panfilov)

The Duchess (2008, Saul Dibb)

Bed and Sofa (1927, Abram Room)

Fate of a Man (1959, Sergei Bondarchuk)

Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigory Chukhray)

Uncle Vanya (1970, Andrey Konchalovskiy)

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977, Nikita Mikhalkov)

Family Relations (1981, Nikita Mikhalkov)

The Seagull (1970, Yuli Karasik)

My Tender and Affectionate Beast (1978, Emil Loteanu)

Dreams (1993, Karen Shakhnazarov & Alexander Borodyansky)

The Vanished Empire (2008, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Winter Evening in Gagra (1985, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Day of the Full Moon (1998, Karen Shakhnazarov)

Zero Town (1989, Karen Shakhnazarov)

The Girls (1961, Boris Bednyj)

The Diamond Arm (1969, Leonid Gaidai)

Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965, Leonid Gaidai)

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (1973, Leonid Gaidai)

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974, Eldar Ryazanov & Franco Prosperi)

Office Romance (1977, Eldar Ryazanov)

Carnival Night (1956, Eldar Ryazanov)

Hussar Ballad (1962, Eldar Ryazanov)

Kin-dza-dza! (1986, Georgiy Daneliya)

The Most Charming and Attractive (1985, Gerald Bezhanov)

Autumn (1974, Andrei Smirnov)

War and Peace: Part 1 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 2 (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 3 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

War and Peace: Part 4 (1967, Sergei Bondarchuk)

The Red Tent (first half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

The Red Tent (second half) (1969, Mikhail Kalatozov)

Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, Sidney Lanfield)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939, Alfred L. Werker)

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942, John Rawlins)

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Spider Woman (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Scarlet Claw (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Pearl of Death (1944, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The House of Fear (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: The Woman in Green (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers (1945, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night (1946, Roy William Neill)

Sherlock Holmes: Dressed to Kill (1946, Roy William Neill)

If any of the links don’t work, try looking up the film in this playlist: link

[jabbage]

Ok but hear me out In 1893 Arthur Conan Doyle wants to kill off Sherlock Holmes so he invents Moriarty, his criminal intellectual match.

In 1939 poet TS Eliot writes Macavity the Mystery Cat, a poem about a cat version of Moriarty which borrows phrases from Arthur Conan Doyle's story.

In 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber sets that poem to music in his musical Cats

In 2019 we got... that.

Butterfly wings, and all that.

[glennk56]

Thick Wilson

Thick Wilson is from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His very first screen appearance was on a British TV show, The Rag Trade in 1963, going by the name he used most, Thick Wilson. He also has gone by his real name, Addison Bell. His last appearance was on a Lifetime movie made in Canada, Obituary in 2006. I don't know if he is still living, but if he is, he is 95 years old.

He only had 4 credits in the 1960s. His homebase was England.

In 1967, he appeared in The Dirty Dozen as General Wordan's (that's Ernest Borgnine's character) Aide.

In the 1970s he was able to have 9 screen appearances, still based out of England.

Here he appears in an episode of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes in 1973. He did not talk in this one.

In 1975 he appears in From Hong Kong with Love, a UK, France and Hong Kong collaboration, which also featured Clifton James.

In 1976 Thick Wilson appears in the initial episode of Second Verdict, a British TV show that second guessed the accuracy of historical events.

Most of Thick Wilson's credits appeared in the 1980s & 1990s. He also did a lot of voice-over work in animated programs.

Here he is the Mayor in 1980s The Mirror Crack'd, his second major motion picture.

And The Great Muppet Caper in 1981.

The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew in 1983. This one out of Canada.

And another British movie in 1985, Morons from Outer Space.

And back to Canada in 1986 for Bullies.

The episode, Skeleton on The Ray Bradbury Theater in 1988, featuring Eugene Levy in this one.

Also the Canadian film Buying Time in 1988.

And the sci-fi horror film The Dark in 1993. It looks like he started going as Addison Bell for good in this year.

And Tommy Boy with Chris Farley and David Spade in 1995.

Also in 1995, National Lampoon's Senior Trip.

He did an episode of Goosebumps in 1996.

A Hallmark Hall of Fame movie in 1997, Rose Hill.

Showtime movie, Jasper, Texas in 2003.

And a comedy, Phil the Alien in 2004.

And finally Obituary in 2006.

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Hello I hope you are well!!

Do you know any fics that show what happened after John saves Sherlock from Culverton Smith. Like John looking after him in the hospital ?

Thanks!!

Hey Nonny!

AHHHHH Mmm, the only one that immediately comes to mind that has a scene in it is this one:

The Lost Special: Family Matters (As Do Relationships) by ShirleyCarlton (M, 144,688 w., 40 Ch. || S4 Fix It Fic / Meta Fic, Unreliable Narrator, John’s Mind Bungalow, Friends to Lovers, Happy Ending, Demisexual Sherlock, Holmes Family, John Whump, Gay Mycroft, Misunderstandings, Drug Addiction, Parenting, TFP is a Nightmare, Virgin Sherlock, Slow Burn, Minor Character Death, Switchlock, John’s Past, Sherlock’s Past, Eurus, Love Confessions) –Sherrinford is not really the name of some high security prison. That was just a figment of John’s frantic coma dream. And Eurus is not actually Sherlock’s sister. That’s just something random she said to John before shooting him. Sherlock and John were never actually estranged. That was just their act to cover up what really happened to Mary – or Rosamund Moran, as her real name has turned out to be. Sherlock does have a secret sibling, though, and his name is Sherrinford. After finally eliminating Moran – though in a rather dramatically different way than they had envisioned – and exposing the truth about Eurus, John encourages Sherlock to delve into his past and to find out whether the reasons to keep Sherrinford away from Sherlock were the right ones, and to discover what really happened in 1981. Along the way, Sherlock and John gradually, finally, stop keeping each other at a distance, and eventually become a proper family of their own.

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But I'm sure I have more!!! If I do they'll be on these lists:

Post S4 / S4 Fix Its

Post S4 / S4 Fix Its Pt. 2

Post S4 / S4 Fix Its Pt. 3

Post S4 / S4 Fix Its Pt. 4

Post S4 / S4 Fix Its Pt. 5

S4 Rewrites

Post S4 and Mental Health

But I would LOVE if anyone has something more specific for Nonny. Please let me know, Lovelies!!!

[flammentanz]

“Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes” (“Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace”) (1962)

Christopher Lee: Sherlock Holmes Hans Söhnker: Professor James Moriarty Thorley Walters: Dr. Watson

Holmes: “Aha, our famous archaeologist.” Moriarty: “And our eminent criminologist.” Holmes: “It is already in the Times that the necklace of Cleopatra will be auctioned at Mosley's on Monday. It will be priceless.” Moriarty: “I assume so. To be honest, Mr. Holmes, I had doubts as to whether you would accept my invitation.” Holmes: “My dear Professor, I do not like to forego - how do you say - the pleasure of your company.” Moriarty: “It is mutual, Mr. Holmes. It is a real pity that you have such a bad opinion of me.” Holmes: “I have nothing against you personally, Professor. On the contrary, the inventiveness of your imagination has often impressed me deeply. Just today at Scotland Yard. A brilliant comedy. Masterful. And now, Professor?” Moriarty: “Once again you have guessed my thoughts, Mr. Holmes. I really intended to make you a proposal.” Holmes: “Really? Take a seat.” Moriarty: “Thank you. A partnership, Mr. Holmes.” Holmes: “A partnership, Professor?” Moriarty: “Let’s say 6,000 a year, and a share of the profits, of course.” Holmes: “In my experience, murder is not profitable.” Moriarty: “You underestimate me, Mr. Holmes. We are both men of logic and of considerable ability, but we have wasted our abilities fighting each other. And that, my dear Holmes, is illogical. We should combine our talents. Such a partnership would be irresistible.” Holmes: “Quite right, dear Professor.” Moriarty: “You accept my offer?” Holmes: “It all sounds very tempting indeed, but all I can say is, regrettably, I must continue to waste my energies. At the moment I have only one ambition - to see you hang.” Moriarty; “A most regrettable decision, Mr. Holmes.” Holmes: “This is yours? It looks so familiar.” Moriarty: “Pretty clumsy, isn’t it? Excuse this little toy. Just a minor defect.” Holmes: “It can happen, Professor.” Moriarty: “Your choice, Mr. Holmes?” Holmes: “Would you also like to whistle, Professor?” Watson: “Oh dear! I hope we don’t get into trouble with the police, Holmes, because of the whistles. Still a good idea, eh?” Holmes: “Stunning, dear Watson.”

Notes:

Christopher Lee is dubbed by Harry Wüstenhagen (1928 - 1999) who had a very successful career from the fifties to the early nineties. He was particularly popular through several appearances in the very popular Edgar Wallace films. Wüstenhagen worked extensively as a voice actor. Inter alia he dubbed three other Sherlock Holmes actors: Ian Richardson in “The Hound of the Baskervilles” and in “The Sign of Four”, Nicol Williamson in “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution” and John Neville in “A Study in Terror”. He even dubbed the title role in “The Great Mouse Detective”.

Hans Söhnker (1903 - 1981) had a very sucessful career on stage, film and theater that span five decades. In his early films he was often cast as charming young man - mostly very loveable but sometimes also a philanderer. In his later years Söhnker played loveable father figures and was very successful in various television series.Only after his death did it become known that he had given refuge to Jews on his property during the Third Reich. For this, he was honored as a "Righteous Among the Nations" in 2018.

[asoiaf-fancasts]

Jeyne Poole - Fancasts

Age: 10/11 - 13/14

Appearance: She’s pretty with brown eyes and dark hair. She is skinny with nice white teeth.

Character: Anne Boleyn [Younger]

Actress: Unknown

Show: Spanish Princess [2019] [Season 1 & Ep 7]

[Unknown Age, looks to be around 9 - 11 so around the right age for her at Kings Landing or Winterfell. She is pretty and skinny with brown eyes. She also has dark hair. She wears Tudor ish clothes.]

Character: Julana’la Beltraneja

Actress: Carmen Sanchez

Show: Isabella [2012] [Season 1 & 2]

[She was 10/11 - 11/12 during these seasons so the right age for Jeyne from when he first meet her till her marriage to Ramsay. She is skinny and pretty with brown eyes plus dark hair. She wears 15th century clothes.]

Character: Agatha Blackburn

Actress: Macy Drouin

Show: Reign [2013] [Season 3 & 4]

[Unknown Age, looks good be around 11 - 13 so the right age for Jeyne when we first meet her to her marriage to Ramsay. She is skinny and pretty with brown eyes plus dark hair. She wears vaguely 16th century clothes.]

Character[s]: Betsy Bell, Wendy Darling & Imogen Helhoughton

Actress: Rachel Hurd-Wood

Movie[s]: An American Haunting [2005], Peter Pan [2003] & Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking [2004]

[She was 12/13 during Peter Pan so would be good for when she was forced into sex work. She is 13/14 in the Sherlock Holmes scene so good for her during/after her marriage to Ramsay. She is a slightly too old for Jeyne currently in an American Haunting at 14/15 but I think she would be good for her in TWOW. She is pretty and skinny but does not have brown eyes plus her hair isn’t that dark. She wears early 20th century plus fantasy clothes in Peter Pan. She wears early 20th century undergarments in her scene in Sherlock. She wears 19th century clothes in An American Haunting.]

Character[s]: Jade Butterfield & Violet

Actress: Brooke Shields

Movie: Endless Love [1981] & Pretty Baby [1978]

CW/TW: Child Nudity & Violence [Would recommend just using clips off YouTube instead of watching these disgusting movies]

[She was 12/13 during Pretty Baby so the right age for when she was forced into sex work and during her marrying Ramsay. She is 15/16 during Endless Love so too old for Jeyne but I only like this movie the scenes with the flowers in her hair. She is pretty and skinny with brown eyes and dark hair. She wears early 20th century clothes in Pretty Baby & modern in Endless Love.]

Character: Diana Barry

Actress: Dalila Bela

Show: Anne with an E [2017]

[She is far too old at 16 - 18 but her character is around the same age as Jeyne. She is skinny and pretty with brown eyes plus dark hair. She wears 19th century clothes.]

[cursemewithyourkiss]

I. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange Pips, Arthur Conan Doyle

II. Episode 4: Sebastian Against the World, Brideshead Revisited (1981)

[finalproblem]

Sherlockian Wednesday Watchalongs: Maybe, Maybe Not

Standing Room Only: Sherlock Holmes (1981 TV movie)

Frank Langella stars as Holmes in a version of Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette’s play filmed for HBO. Back when that was the sort of thing HBO did.

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Anyone is welcome to join us, even if you've randomly discovered this post. See you in The Giant Chat of Sumatra’s #giantchat Discord channel!

[burningexeter]

Here's a fairly solid amount of all the different kinds of media that I think both can fit well in and could share the same universe as Ms. Incredible & InvisiGirl, which you can both read and see below for yourself:

• Shane Black's The Nice Guys (2016)

• 20th Century Fox's Die Hard Quadrilogy

• Jan De Bont's Speed (1994)

• Renny Harlin's The Long Kiss Goodnight

• Tony Scott's The Last Boy Scout

• Stephen Hopkins' Judgment Night (1993)

• James Cameron's True Lies

• John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China

• Panos Cosmatos' Mandy (2018)

• Jami O'Brien's NOS4A2 (AMC)

• Stephen Sommers' The Mummy (1999)

• Luc "Yikes!" Besson's Nikita (1990) & Leon The Professional

• Julius Avery's Overlord (2018)

• Michael Mann's Thief (1981)

• Ilya Naishuller's Nobody (2021)

• John Woo's Hard Target (1993)

• Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead

• Toru Hagihara's Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night

• Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man (2020)

• Robert Kirkman's Outcast (TV Series)

• Steven Spielberg's The Adventures Of Tintin (2011)

• The Spierig Brothers' Predestination

• Rowdy Herrington's Road House (1989)

• Gary Dauberman & Mark Verheiden's Swamp Thing (2019 TV Series)

• David Leitch's Atomic Blonde

• Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes Duology

[emailsfromanactor]

The Cast of Hamlet (1964) in Musicals: Part 1

This is a series of posts I've been meaning to make for a while. Despite the amusing backstage contrast with the cast of Little Me, many Gielgud-Burton Hamlet cast members either had or would go on to have experience in musicals. And I like musicals, so, here we go!

Richard Burton, of course, starred as King Arthur in Camelot. He won a Tony for the original production, and reprised his role twenty years later. There's a decent amount of video footage of him in the show:

This video, of the title song, is part of a project reconstructing Julie Andrews's scenes with video, photos, and a bootleg audio. The video starts at 2:21.

In this one, Burton dances!

This tribute to Lerner and Loewe was filmed after Burton left Camelot, but had him recreate his monologue at the end of Act 1. The Camelot segment starts at 14:59. At 33:10 Burton talks about how actors deal with nerves and does a bit of The Tempest, and at 45:25 he talk-sings the title song from Gigi and then goes right into a tiny bit of "I Could Have Danced All Night" with Julie Andrews.

And this is the final scene from the 1980 revival.

As far as I know, Camelot was the only musical Burton did in full, but he recorded one of Watson's songs from Baker Street, the Sherlock Holmes musical:

It's not even talk-singing, it's just talking over music. Burton could sing, he was no Robert Goulet but he certainly got by in Camelot, so dunno what happened there.

Speaking of not singing, John Gielgud! I don't think he was ever in a musical, but he did co-narrate an audiobook of the poems that became Cats:

It was recorded in 1983 and Cats had opened in London in 1981, so maybe it was an attempt to capitalize on the show's success? Anyway, enjoy hearing John Gielgud saying Jellicle names!

[holmesxwatson]

The Television Sherlock Holmes by Peter Haining

[The Television Sherlock Holmes by Peter Haining, hardcover 1986.] (x)

I found a used, hardcover copy of this beautiful book with special thanks to one of the previous owners who lovingly wrapped it in a dustjacket, it's in really great shape! It's coffee-table size with lots of info on the history of Sherlock Holmes adaptations on stage, screen and tv, with tons of behind the scenes stuff on the Granada production. There's a foreward by Jeremy Brett and two afterwords by David Burke and Edward Hardwicke. It also includes a 15-page interview with Jeremy Brett that took place during the filming of an episode. Here's a pdf of the table of contents, in case you have your eye on a copy, but want to know what you're getting first. It looks like there were a few subsequent editions with different covers to coincide with later seasons as well.

Excerpt from the interview with Jeremy Brett included in The Television Sherlock Holmes:

"‘But the most important thing of all I discovered was the relationship with Watson. He wasn't the doddering plodder following behind as is so often shown. He had the compassion to stay with Holmes, picking him up. It is one of the great friendships of literature.’

Jeremy's understanding of this relationship undoubtedly started when he played Watson in 1981 in The Crucifer of Blood. ‘If you look at it from Watson's side, Holmes emerges as about the loneliest man in literature,’ he said.

‘Really, Watson is much more my kind of part than Holmes – Holmes is a big stretch. I don't like working alone. I'm not a one-man band, so when I took on Holmes I came to rely on Watson as much as I could without bending the willow.’

'Holmes is a very private man, a tragic genius. But Watson has his friends and his surgery. He's not a dull man, he's an ordinary, good man of great compassion, warmth and consideration. He's a gentleman. Everybody would like a friend like Watson.’

‘The relationship between them is terribly British. Holmes has a great deal of trouble saying such simple things as "Help!", “Thank you” and "I'd be lost without you". Watson sees beyond that. He's fascinated by Holmes and his intuitive leaps. And he realizes that if he stays away from Holmes for too long the man will overdose.’

'Yes, there is no doubt in my mind that it is Holmes who needs Watson and not the other way round. I didn't see any of that in the earlier films, nor did I see anything of the vulnerability of Holmes. So that's why I set out right from the beginning to show the insecurity and to explore the amazing friendship between those two men.'

Jeremy's evident understanding of both sides of this partnership helped me fit another piece into the jig-saw of how he has achieved his outstanding performance as Holmes. This also seemed like a suitable moment to discuss the two men who had partnered him as Watson, David Burke and Edward Hardwicke.

Jeremy's face broke into a smile at the mention of David Burke's name. 'We made a very good odd couple,' he chuckled throatily. 'Of course it was a terrific gamble that we would be able to work together, that we would see our parts in a compatible way. But in fact there was no cause to worry because we soon found we got on so well.’

‘David is debonair with an attractiveness about him that proved to be unusual and appealing in a Watson. That was a real bonus and helped to break the traditional mould,' Jeremy added.

Just as Jeremy's Holmes had thrown a whole new perspective on the detective, so David Burke's Watson had shattered the old image of the bumbling and rather comic doctor. How did he feel, though, when David decided against making The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

‘I was very sorry, naturally.' Jeremy stretched his lean frame further out from the chair and contemplated the fireplace. ‘But being an actor I quite understood. And if it had to happen, that was the right time between Holmes’ disappearance in The Final Problem and his reappearance three years later in The Empty House. Looking back, I think the change has been very useful.'

Jeremy closes his eyes for a moment as if selecting his next words carefully. ‘The thing is,’ he says after a pause, ‘if you work together with the same person it becomes almost like a marriage. However fresh you try to be on a day-to-day basis it becomes a known way. So for me the change of Watsons was like a breath of fresh air, a shot of adrenalin in the arm.’

Whether Jeremy had intended the pun or not, his face remains unchanged as he continues. ‘What happened was a chemical change – and it is a chemical change – of a new person adding a new element to the friendship. Remember that three years have passed since the two men last met, so things have happened to them both which enabled us to restart the friendship at a different angle.’

‘It was revitalizing for me, though not easy for Edward. But he is an immensely sensitive person and a brilliant actor so it really did not take us long to find our way into a new relationship.’

‘I have this feeling that The Return of Sherlock Holmes is better even than the first 13 stories. I can't quite tell you why that is – It is to do with some shift of emphasis, some confidence, some chemistry between Edward and me. But there is definitely something.'

Jeremy has clearly been re-charged not only by this change, but others that have taken place during the series. ‘You can so easily fall into a kind of complacency if things don't change,’ he went on. ‘It's something to do with the human animal. So I have enjoyed new directors, new actors in guest roles, even a new lighting cameraman or technician joining the team. On a long series you become terribly aware of new faces, but if you are trying to continue being creative then you need them, for each new face brings in new ideas. All the time the format is changing ever so slightly and that is terribly important, I think.’

I found Jeremy's examination of his art a fascinating insight into the man himself, and it seemed appropriate at that moment that he should be called to play another scene. He invited me to come and watch."

[visageofstars]

My Films

Pride and Prejudice (1995). Most ardently.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (1979). There is no one who knows the higher criminal world of London so well as I do.

Alice in Wonderland (1981). Alice Through the Looking Glass (1982). Couriouser and couriouser.

Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006). You will shine.

[scotianostra]

April 22nd 2005 saw the death of the sculptor and artist Eduardo Paolozzi

Paolozzi’s Italian parents ran a small ice cream parlour in Leith, in June 1940, when Italy declared war Eduardo was interned (along with most other Italian men in Britain).During Eduardo’s three-month internment at Saughton prison his father, grandfather and uncle, who had also been detained, were among the 446 Italians who drowned when the ship carrying them to Canada, the Arandora Star, was sunk by a German U-boat.

There is little online about his internment and you wouldn’t have condemned him if he decided to leave Scotland after his release, the words of a Proclaimer’s song always springs to mind when I read about Eduardo Paolozzi, and other Scots=Italians:

Joseph D'Angelo dreams of the days

When Italian kids in the Grassmarket played

We burned out his shop when the boys went to war

But auld Joe's a big man and he forgave all

By the time Eduardo was released it was 1943 and he began attending Edinburgh College of Art before moving to London and feigned madness to secure his release from army duties in order that he could study sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1944 to 1947.

Paolozzi is widely considered to be one of the first Pop artists and created many collages including the famous ‘I was a rich man’s plaything’ in 1947, which was the first artwork to feature the word ‘Pop’ in it.

After a spell in Paris he returned to London and moved into a studio in Chelsea and by the 1950s was establishing himself as a surrealist artist through a series of screen-prints, pioneering the technique in which each print can have a separate colourway, predating Warhol’s famous prints of the same nature by four years.

In 1968 Paolozzi taught sculpture and ceramics at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked in Berlin from 1974, and was Professor at the Fachhochschule in Cologne from 1977 to 1981. He also later taught at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich.

Paolozzi might have spent many years away from his home town of Edinburgh but didn’t forget it, he donated a great deal of work to the Scottish National Gallery, who have since displayed a reconstruction of his studio and a large body of his work in the Dean Gallery.

If you have wandered around Edinburgh and visited St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral you will have come across Eduardo Paolozzi statues, “Manuscript of Monte Cassino” which comprises a giant foot and matching hand and ankle. The work was a gift to the city by entrepreneur Tom Farmer, the work is found outside St Mary’s RC Cathedral, I like how the area there has three pieces of art, on the left at Picardy Place you can enjoy a statue of Sherlock Holmes, and on the right you have two giant Giraffes outside the Omni Centre made of scrap metal.

Eduardo Paolozzi suffered a serious stroke in 2001 and he died in a hospital in London in April 2005.

The pics I have chosn are all held by The National Gallery of Scotland, if you like his work you will find loads of it on their website, over 12 hundred are tagged in his name. https://www.nationalgalleries.org/search?search=eduardo%20paolozzi

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robin's opinions about sparks albums 1980-1988

this is part two! I posted a 70s version recently

Terminal Jive (1980) or what I call a sparks slay moment

Bops: When I'm With You (duh), Stereo, The Greatest Show on Earth (those last two are controversial apparently but I like them!!)

Flops: When I'm With You Instrumental (not interesting), Rock N' Roll People in a Disco World (my least favorite but still not bad at all)

WHOMP! THAT! SUCKER! 1981! love love love

Bops: Tips For Teens. I haven't heard anything like it ever in my whole life and I'm SO serious. Also Upstairs, and I Married A Martian, and The Willys, and underrated CLASSIC Wacky Woman. (I try to keep the bops to around 3 songs but as you can see I am failing.)

Flops, or two songs that get on my nerves for some reason: That's Not Nastassia and Don't Shoot Me. The rest of the album is soooo delicious so it's ok

Angst In My Pants (1982): this is a popular one and honestly I'm just starting to warm up to it

Bops: Sextown USA, Moustache, The Decline and Fall of Me (it gets stuck in my head while I'm at work), and oops a bonus one, Eaten By The Monster of Love

Flops: Instant Weight Loss (I just don't like it), and Sherlock Holmes if I'm not in the right mood for it. sometimes I am and sometimes I'm not

In Outer Space (1983) !! I forgot about this one when posting this initially and I’m sad about it!!

Bops: Cool Places, I Wish I Looked A Little Better, All You Ever Think About Is Sex (yes, the basic choices, but they carry the whole album and make it one of my favorites. Plus I loooooove Jane Weidlin in this <3)

Flops: Dance Goddammit? I guess? My least favorite on the album and it’s still excellent!!!

Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat (1984) ... not my favorite sparks album tbh

Bops: A Song That Sings Itself, With All My Might sometimes, and... Progress?? idk

Flops: Everybody Move (haha it's spelled as 'Everbody Move' on Spotify which is wrong!), Sparks in the Dark pts 1 and 2? but that feels like cheating

Music That You Can Dance To (1986): that’s my username tee hee

Bops: MODESTY PLAYS !!! fuck yeah dude she sure does, Rosebud, Change if you include that on this album and Music That You Can Dance To if you don't

Flops: Fingertips, Armies of the Night (🤥), Let's Get Funky

Interior Design (1988): kind of fond of this one bc everyone seems to hate it and I like to be contrary sometimes

Bops: So Important, Madonna, The Toughest Girl in Town

Flops: You Got a Hold of My Heart, The Big Brass Ring (but I'm sure everyone says they don't like that one)

I wasn’t sure where to put A Walk Down Memory Lane but I’m listening to it now and it’s actually pretty cool!! that’s an extra bop baby