Hints and tips:
...The great French anatomist Baron Georges Cuvier, a contemporary of Mantell’s, was even name-checked by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in a Sherlock Holmes story....
...I am reminded of the opening monologue of Dylan Thomas’s “play for voices” Under Milk Wood, in which Richard Burton intones: “Come closer now....
...Other committed admirers have included Lindsay Anderson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Richard Attenborough, James Ivory, Akira Kurosawa, Mike Leigh, Jean Renoir and John Huston....
...He progressed from the perennially irritated Tim in The Office to Sherlock’s snappish Dr Watson; I never saw his Richard III on stage, but I bet it was testy....
...More big names have signed up, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, former HBO chairman Richard Plepler and Justin Lin, who revived the Fast & Furious franchise....
...It is the same dichotomy embodied in the works of De Quincey, Baudelaire, Rimbaud and later in Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, the flâneur as student of human nature, able to lose himself in the city and...
...In nonfiction, try what I think of as the finest account of a modern US election, Richard Ben Cramer’s What it Takes....
...You see, an actor who plays Sherlock Holmes and Alan Turing playing you it is not good for controlling anyone's ego....
...Manuel Gomez is a private eye from the South Bronx who wears a pinstripe suit, carries a watch with a hidden camera and loves Sherlock Holmes....
...Her siblings include the actress Maria Friedman and the violinist Richard Friedman. They are a remarkably successful group despite the instability of their childhood....
...(The top 3 economists: Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz and Erik Brynjolfsson; the top 3 scientists: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox, and Richard Dawkins.)...
...“And that so many young people will now have exposure to the stories of Sherlock Holmes.”...
...His towering 1991 statue of Sherlock Holmes stands outside Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthplace in Edinburgh....
...SFO: Small screen stars Screenwriter Anthony Horowitz has resurrected crime fighters including James Bond and Sherlock Holmes. Now he is trying to do the same for the Serious Fraud Office....
...Numero Zero, by Umberto Eco, translated by Richard Dixon, Harvill Secker, RRP£16.99/Houghton Mifflin, RRP$24, 208 pages Illustration by Shonagh Rae...
...At Saint Laurent, neat, thigh-length 1960s styles came in Red Riding Hood crimson, Sherlock Holmes-style check, and a rich black velvet....
...Overall, the rights are now worth more than £10m per game, five times the cost of making an episode of Sherlock....
...The UK version of the show — featuring Mr Clarkson and fellow presenters Richard Hammond and James May — has proved much more popular overseas than local remakes....
...Cliff Richard has an astronomical z score (8.13) among Ukip supporters – therefore, one could say that he is more defining than steak and kidney pies. Ah, data....
...Sherlock has a big following. They also follow Doctor Who and, like all imported series, the audience here can choose to watch with or without Japanese subtitles....
...The latest is a staging of Richard III, with the intriguing casting in the lead role of Martin Freeman (an actor more associated with meek characters, such as Watson in Sherlock)....
...For all the advances in forensic science, some aspects are still reminiscent of the tactics deployed by Sherlock Holmes and other gentleman sleuths....
...Walked through the Tower of London by my dad, I thought I caught on the riverside breeze the whimpering cry of one of Richard III’s inconvenient nephews....
...When Richard Desmond paid £103.5m for Channel 5 in 2010, he hinted at bringing Britain’s most popular shows to the broadcaster. “What about Coronation Street? Would that be good? Or X Factor?...
...Years later, when Keaton broke his neck during the filming of Sherlock Jr (1924), he just kept on moving....
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