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[Hikari]

On ‎2‎/‎28‎/‎2018 at 9:55 AM, HerlockSholmes said:

Here’s the latest:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5441681/amp/Benedict-Cumberbatch-arrives-Laureus-Sports-Awards.html

Ah, our Benedict is such a glorious Nerd. 

I think it's safe to say that he's still the Internet's Boyfriend even a year after his flagship show went into deep freeze.  (I will not say "Cancelled" until Mofftiss says it first . .but I think, yeah, Sherlock has entered the Long Sleep of Syndication) . . Ben is a multifaceted guy, though I'm wondering just *who* exactly thought that Ben exemplified 'the Laureus Sports Awards'.  I think he played rugby in school and he's certainly coordinated enough to dance, even when seriously drunk (cf. Bendi Busts a Thriller move at a Wedding Night 'Do on YouTube) . . but seeing as he is not professionally affiliated with sport, I find his selection head-scratching.

[Hikari]

On ‎2‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 3:50 PM, HerlockSholmes said:

He’s everywhere!

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/film/2018-02-22/heres-benedict-cumberbatch-doing-a-dramatic-reading-of-im-a-little-teapot/amp/

I finally got around to watching this.  Some of that 'warm-up' sounds very Rickman-y.

"Go, Actor."  rofl

I think I would have liked a funny, perky version of the song better.  My other impression is that our boy is a bit of a spazz.  Just when cameras roll/spotlights are on, or do you suppose that he's like that around the house?  That might get a bit . . intensive on a daily basis.

I kid you not, a day after your post, my friend MG sent me the very same link on my Facebook page.  She and I are still sharing a brain where Bendi-news is concerned. 

[Arcadia]

5 hours ago, HerlockSholmes said:

Anyone got £1000,000 spare?

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/welsh-homes/house-featured-bbcs-sherlock-up-14350598.amp

Is this place anywhere near you Pseudonym?

"drugs specialist" Bill Wiggins  

[Carol the Dabbler]

On 3/1/2018 at 11:42 AM, HerlockSholmes said:

Anyone got £1000,000 spare?

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/welsh-homes/house-featured-bbcs-sherlock-up-14350598.amp

Anything under a million (it's only what, 950K?) actually sounds pretty reasonable to me.  Lovely house with six bedrooms on well over an acre of land -- plus a two-story carriage house!  Sounds like they're throwing in the Sherlock connection for free. 

So when are you moving in, Pseud?

[HerlockSholmes]

It looks like a nice place Carol. I’m sure that the Sherlock connection helped the price.

I wonder how much Speedy’s Cafe would sell for? I should have asked when I was in there.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Bite your tongue!  I like Mr. Speedy's cooking too much to want to see the place sold.  Besides, a new owner would presumably either turn it into a shoe store or, even worse, turn it into a parody of itself.  It's perfect just the way it is.

[HerlockSholmes]

Look who’s here

http://amp.timeinc.net/nme/news/film/the-grinch-trailer-benedict-cumberbatch-first-look-illumination-entertainment-2257924?source=dam

[HerlockSholmes]

I realise that this isn’t Sherlock but I couldn’t think where else to post it?

 

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a851877/robert-downey-jr-movies-sherlock-holmes-3/

 

[HerlockSholmes]

A bit of Dr Who/Sherlock news. I didn’t know this but I’ll take a guess that everyone on here did.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/doctor-who/feature/a852165/doctor-who-actors-cast-hugh-grant-kate-winslet/

[HerlockSholmes]

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/sherlock-martin-freeman-bbc-series-season-5-not-fun-john-watson-black-panther-a8259501.html?amp

[Carol the Dabbler]

On 3/14/2018 at 12:23 PM, HerlockSholmes said:

A bit of Dr Who/Sherlock news. I didn’t know this but I’ll take a guess that everyone on here did.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/doctor-who/feature/a852165/doctor-who-actors-cast-hugh-grant-kate-winslet/

Nope, not me. Thanks!

[Arcadia]

No, me neither. One of my big regrets is that I wasn't able to keep up with Dr. Who, but the station here that aired it showed it 1) late at night and 2) out of sequence, and I finally just gave up. I liked what I saw, but ..... and now I'm so far behind, it would take a fortune and more time than I have to catch up. Urgh.

Can't quite imagine Dennis Hopper in a sci fi show, though.

[HerlockSholmes]

Not exactly the correct thread for this but...

To quote Han Solo: “ I have a bad feeling about this.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/25/stars-new-sherlock-holmes-film-talks-wear-conan-doyle-tartan/amp/

[Carol the Dabbler]

D'you think they might be willing to say the same thing one more time?    I didn't quite catch it on the first three rounds.

This strikes me as just one more thing for the Estate to profit from.  From the point of view of the Holmes universe, why would he or Watson wear a tartan -- because Watson's literary agent was Scottish?  OK, I just looked up the name Holmes, and it can be either English or Scottish.  Do we have any idea where this particular Holmes family originated?

[HerlockSholmes]

To be honest Carol I didn’t read the whole thing as I was on my way out and I’ve ‘swiped’ the news item away. If it reappears I’ll have a look.

Holmes certainly wasn’t Scottish so there can be no significance as far as the character is concerned.

on Doyle’s Irish background though.

http://www.doyle.com.au/tartan_doyle.htm

[Hikari]

17 hours ago, HerlockSholmes said:

Not exactly the correct thread for this but...

To quote Han Solo: “ I have a bad feeling about this.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/25/stars-new-sherlock-holmes-film-talks-wear-conan-doyle-tartan/amp/

My bad feeling doubles your bad feeling, Herl.  Quadruples it.  Why would multiple Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes associate himself with this travesty?  Will Ferrell as Sherlock Holmes about makes me want to lose the breakfast I have just eaten.  Reilly is more acceptable as Watson, but when these two are paired together, anyone who watches the result leaches IQ points like mad.

This movie is going to make 'Without a Clue' look like a Shakespearean comedy.

You know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's family history better than I . . .I am puzzling over this reference to 'step-great-grandsons' (which the article mentions, after leading with this project being spearheaded by ACD's 'great-great-granddaughter'.  Sir Arthur had 5 children by two wives, neither of whom was previously married to anyone but him, and none of the Conan Doyle children from either union had any children.  Poor Kingsley, the firstborn, didn't live to see his 25th birthday.  The two daughters never married . . is this 'step-great-great-granddaughter' from one of the sons' wives' previous marriage(s)?

Edited March 27, 2018 by Carol the Dabbler
to remove overly personal remarks

[Carol the Dabbler]

I checked the tartan's listing in the Scottish Registry, and found this under "Registration Notes":

"The Sherlock Holmes tartan has been created to show his followers that a tartan has been designed in his name." -- That was presumably in response to a question on the application form, something like "why was this tartan created?"  Not sure I'd call it anything like an answer, though. Then (skipping the description, which was already quoted in the article): "The tartan will be used to sell merchandise worldwide to all his fans and Sherlock Holmes societies." -- No shit, Sherlock!  Presumably in response to "What will this tartan be used for?"  I assume it's honest.

 

[Caya]

Hey, don't diss Without a Clue, I loved that movie.

[HerlockSholmes]

1 hour ago, Caya said:

Hey, don't diss Without a Clue, I loved that movie.

Caya, you’ve reminded me of an embarrassing oversight. I have that movie but I’ve never gotten around to watching it. I’ll have to put that right soon.

 

Caya, as you can see I’ve edited the above. I hate predictive text and I didn’t notice that your name had become ‘data’ instead of Caya. 

Were you in Star Trek:The Next Generation😀

[HerlockSholmes]

3 hours ago, Carol the Dabbler said:

I checked the tartan's listing in the Scottish Registry, and found this under "Registration Notes":

"The Sherlock Holmes tartan has been created to show his followers that a tartan has been designed in his name." -- That was presumably in response to a question on the application form, something like "why was this tartan created?"  Not sure I'd call it anything like an answer, though. Then (skipping the description, which was already quoted in the article): "The tartan will be used to sell merchandise worldwide to all his fans and Sherlock Holmes societies." -- No shit, Sherlock!  Presumably in response to "What will this tartan be used for?"  I assume it's honest.

 

Thanks for the info Carol. I’m a collector (in a small way) but I ain’t buying a kilt!

I think we can all see that the chance of making money is the reason for the tartan. I don’t suppose we can really blame a company for hitting on a selling point?

when will you be buying your tartan skirt?

[HerlockSholmes]

12 hours ago, Hikari said:

My bad feeling doubles your bad feeling, Herl.  Quadruples it.  Why would multiple Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes associate himself with this travesty?  Will Ferrell as Sherlock Holmes about makes me want to lose the breakfast I have just eaten.  Reilly is more acceptable as Watson, but when these two are paired together, anyone who watches the result leaches IQ points like mad.

This movie is going to make 'Without a Clue' look like a Shakespearean comedy.

You know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's family history better than I . . .I am puzzling over this reference to 'step-great-grandsons' (which the article mentions, after leading with this project being spearheaded by ACD's 'great-great-granddaughter'.  Sir Arthur had 5 children by two wives, neither of whom was previously married to anyone but him, and none of the Conan Doyle children from either union had any children.  Poor Kingsley, the firstborn, didn't live to see his 25th birthday.  The two daughters never married . . is this 'step-great-great-granddaughter' from one of the sons' wives' previous marriage(s)?

Hikari I’m pretty useless at family links. I’m ok with the fairly immediate Doyle family but it becomes a bit of a minefield in later generations (as in most families I suppose.) So I’ll send you this. It might help.

https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/familytree/

There is definitely for example a Doyle grandson from Jean’s marriage to Geoffrey Bromet but I don’t know how a step-great - great granddaughter appears. Maybe it’s something to do with Denis’s wife ‘Princess’ Nina Mdivani? I think that she had an eventful life and she got involved with the in-fighting over Doyle’s legacy. Denis died in 1955 and they had no children so could it be something coming from the ‘Princess’ marrying again?

Who knows?

So you’re mission Hikari, should you choose to accept it, is to........😀

Maybe the movie wont be that bad? We might be surprised?

Fiennes might have made a decent serious Holmes?

 

[Hikari]

38 minutes ago, HerlockSholmes said:

Hikari I’m pretty useless at family links. I’m ok with the fairly immediate Doyle family but it becomes a bit of a minefield in later generations (as in most families I suppose.) So I’ll send you this. It might help.

https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/familytree/

There is definitely for example a Doyle grandson from Jean’s marriage to Geoffrey Bromet but I don’t know how a step-great - great granddaughter appears. Maybe it’s something to do with Denis’s wife ‘Princess’ Nina Mdivani? I think that she had an eventful life and she got involved with the in-fighting over Doyle’s legacy. Denis died in 1955 and they had no children so could it be something coming from the ‘Princess’ marrying again?

Who knows?

So you’re mission Hikari, should you choose to accept it, is to........😀

Maybe the movie wont be that bad? We might be surprised?

Fiennes might have made a decent serious Holmes?

 

Did Jean marry Mr. Bromet before she married Arthur?  I wouldn't have thought so since she met ACD when she was only 21 and they clandestinely dated for a decade.  If it was after Arthur passed, I'd have thought she was too old to have children.  My money's on 'Princess'.

Ralph Fiennes would have been a great Holmes.  He's got the profile, the pedigree, the 100-yard steely stare, the body type, etc.  Back in the mid-80s, they read him for 007, who has some of the same qualities.  He would have been too callow then, methinks, but they were auditioning every UK actor under 35 they could get their hands on.

I'm going to have to ask David Marcum if he will condescend to go to this Ferrell - Reilly joint.  Even a Holmes completist has to have standards.  Seeing as both actors are Americans, that should be enough in itself to make it box office poison for DM.

I'm hoping you will have your present in hand real soon . . .like tomorrow?  Please let me know when it arrives, okay?

[HerlockSholmes]

10 hours ago, Hikari said:

Did Jean marry Mr. Bromet before she married Arthur?  I wouldn't have thought so since she met ACD when she was only 21 and they clandestinely dated for a decade.  If it was after Arthur passed, I'd have thought she was too old to have children.  My money's on 'Princess'.

Ralph Fiennes would have been a great Holmes.  He's got the profile, the pedigree, the 100-yard steely stare, the body type, etc.  Back in the mid-80s, they read him for 007, who has some of the same qualities.  He would have been too callow then, methinks, but they were auditioning every UK actor under 35 they could get their hands on.

I'm going to have to ask David Marcum if he will condescend to go to this Ferrell - Reilly joint.  Even a Holmes completist has to have standards.  Seeing as both actors are Americans, that should be enough in itself to make it box office poison for DM.

I'm hoping you will have your present in hand real soon . . .like tomorrow?  Please let me know when it arrives, okay?

Sorry Hikari my last post wasn’t clear. It was Sir Arthur’s daughter Jean that married Mr Bromet. She became Lady Bromet. The dodgy ‘Princess’ is a likely line.

I can imagine a more mature Fiennes as Bond but I didn’t know that he’d read for the part in the eighties? I do recall the usual speculation on who would be the next Bond after Roger Moore announced that he was quitting. I recall English actor Lewis Collins from The Professionals being mentioned. I don’t know if that show made it to The States Hikari so I’m unsure if you’re familiar with him? I remember him being in one movie at least. It was called ‘Who Dares Wins’ And was about the S.A.S.

Ill let you know when the book arrives👍

[Hikari]

3 hours ago, HerlockSholmes said:

Sorry Hikari my last post wasn’t clear. It was Sir Arthur’s daughter Jean that married Mr Bromet. She became Lady Bromet. The dodgy ‘Princess’ is a likely line.

I can imagine a more mature Fiennes as Bond but I didn’t know that he’d read for the part in the eighties? I do recall the usual speculation on who would be the next Bond after Roger Moore announced that he was quitting. I recall English actor Lewis Collins from The Professionals being mentioned. I don’t know if that show made it to The States Hikari so I’m unsure if you’re familiar with him? I remember him being in one movie at least. It was called ‘Who Dares Wins’ And was about the S.A.S.

Ill let you know when the book arrives👍

Thanks for the clarification.  I was not aware that Dame Jean Conan Doyle had ever married.

I have heard of Lewis Collins and the Professionals but only by name.

One of Ralph Fiennes' earliest film credits was in the pilot episode of Prime Suspect.  He played the boyfriend of one of the victims, and was interrogated by Jane Tennison.  This was in 1991, and he looks so incredibly young and skinny, it was hard to believe that he would have been seriously considered for Bond several years before.  I think he had a solid reputation by then for his stage work but his film career was just beginning.

[HerlockSholmes]

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/martin-freeman-denies-he-thinks-sherlock-is-not-fun-anymore/amp/