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The Bond we deserve?
Special to NewsdayMystery writer P.D. James once admitted that she had watched actor Roy Marsden play her most famous creation, Adam Dalgliesh, so many times - five different TV miniseries had featured the actor as the poetic New Scotland Yard detective - that Marsden...Tags: Culture, Roger Moore, Ian Fleming, Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton
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Sherlock Holmes Flick Lands Robert Downey Jr.
Zap2It.comDo you think of Sherlock Holmes as being more like Sacha Baron Cohen or Robert Downey Jr? Viewers may get to decide in the years to come. Just days after Cohen and Will Ferrell were linked to a Judd Apatow comedy about the Arthur Conan Doyle gumshoe,...Tags: Rupert Everett, Christopher Lee, Guy Ritchie, Jamie Foxx, Movies
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'Borat' Star Detects Sherlock Holmes Role
Zap2It.comGet ready for dueling Sherlock Holmes films, including a comic take starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell. According to Variety, the Sherlock Holmes comedy is set up at Columbia Pictures with Etan Cohen ("Tropic Thunder") scripting for producers...Tags: Rupert Everett, Christopher Lee, Guy Ritchie, Movies, Peter Cushing
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Guy Ritchie Investigates Sherlock Holmes
Zap2It.com"Swept Away" and "Revolver" director Guy Ritchie is the latest filmmaker recruited to bring Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes up to speed for the new millennium. According to the industry trade papers, Warner Bros. is hoping to have Ritchie's take...Tags: Rupert Everett, Christopher Lee, Guy Ritchie, Movies, Peter Cushing
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Review: 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'
Times Movie CriticIt's the summer's most anticipated film, the latest in a beloved series that's earned $1.2 billion in worldwide ticket sales. Add in a premiere at the most prestigious of international film festivals, and the wonder of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of...Tags: Indiana Jones, Errol Flynn, Cannes Film Festival, Marlon Brando, Film Festivals
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Yo Holmes: WB Investigates 'Sherlock' Update
Zap2It.comLiterature's most deductive drug-addled detective may be making his return to the big screen. According to Variety, Warner Bros. Pictures is hoping to give Sherlock Holmes his own cinematic franchise, entrusting the character to screenwriter Michael...Tags: Rupert Everett, Christopher Lee, Michael Johnson, Batman, Peter Cushing
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Second banana ripens in this 'Sherlock'
Tribune arts criticIf you go looking for the prototype of Ed McMahon, you end up with Dr. John Watson, the loyal man on the couch to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's egotistical sleuth Sherlock Holmes, Esquire, of 221B Baker Street. Enter a Baker Street irregular: the post-...Tags: Ed McMahon
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"Gatsby" Glory in Great Neck
Staff Writer"I want to write something new -- something extraordinary and beautiful and simple & intricately patterned." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, July, 1922 Soon after writing these words, the 25-year-old novelist and his...Tags: Music Industry, Great Neck, Florenz Ziegfeld, Eddie Cantor, History
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Playhouse keeps venerable tradition alive
Hartford Courant staff writerNot long into Act I of the Cape Playhouse story, a determined young woman in a summer dress and heels strides down a rutted, sandy drive toward a churchlike building. It is early summer 1928, and sea gull caws meld with distant hammering. The playhouse's...Tags: Theater, Shirley Booth, Loretta Swit, Jo Mielziner, Elaine May
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An interview with Jedi Jackson
Orlando SentinelSAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- Here are a few things you pick up from Samuel L. Jackson by interviewing him a few times throughout the years. He's serious. He's tall, 6 feet 3. He's 53, was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Chattanooga, Tenn. The "L"...Tags: Bruce Willis, Culture, Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Robin Hood
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Top winners from 1936
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds in MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN Columbia Walter Huston as Sam Dodsworth in DODSWORTH Samuel Goldwyn Productions; UA Paul Muni as Louis Pasteur in THE STORY OF LOUIS...Tags: Carole Lombard, Walter Huston, Norma Shearer, Luise Rainer, Gary Cooper
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Top winners from 1938
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Charles Boyer as Pepe Le Moko in ALGIERS Walter Wanger; UA James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan in ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES Warner Bros.-First National Robert Donat as Andrew Mason in THE CITADEL MGM...Tags: Norma Shearer, Fay Bainter, Wendy Hiller, Charles Boyer, Robin Hood
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