‘Each Age Gets the Sherlock Holmes It Deserves’
Nicholas Meyer in the L.A. Review of Books. Benedict Cumberbatch is the definitive Holmes, though. That’s just a fact.
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Jeremy Brett. Case closed, my dear Watson.
RC
May 22, 2012 at 4:24 pm
That’s an interesting sentiment. I suppose it’s true of all classic literature; when it gets remade, it gets remade for the times.
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May 24, 2012 at 4:37 pm