The Great Lost Sherlock Holmes Movie

<div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <h4 style="text-align: center;"> "this is treasure-trove indeed!" [BLUE]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzeFwxSq9nCUMlCEeQCLvOcK2-4yZPXXvvPfcrF4gunvW4C-ltMiWELIiPSo66mmptpnaiTzQWJ6x2UgBRqXgOxbg2yZ1IRgJfUyPvk8K3C-ytURHcxMgZymLL3pcpP-FJygE_xSxOEnnw/s1600/james_bragington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="James Bragington was not an actor, and played only one role in his life: Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (1914)" border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzeFwxSq9nCUMlCEeQCLvOcK2-4yZPXXvvPfcrF4gunvW4C-ltMiWELIiPSo66mmptpnaiTzQWJ6x2UgBRqXgOxbg2yZ1IRgJfUyPvk8K3C-ytURHcxMgZymLL3pcpP-FJygE_xSxOEnnw/s1600/james_bragington.jpg" title="James Bragington as Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> It sounds like a great contemporary, unwritten Sherlock Holmes tale - the <a href="http://bfi.org.uk/">British Film Institute</a> and the <a href="http://museumoflondon.org.uk/">Museum of London</a> putting out a call for help in finding a Sherlock Holmes lost for almost a century.<br /> <br /> But the effort is really happening, and Sherlockians have a role to play in solving this case.<br /> <br /> Originally made in 1914, <b><a href="http://old.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/study-in-scarlet.html"><i>A Study in Scarlet</i></a></b>, was directed by George Pearson for the Samuelson Company. As the first British film adaptation of a Holmes novel, the film was shot in a variety of locations reflecting the novel, including Worton Hall studios (for interiors), <a href="http://www.cheddargorge.co.uk/" target="_blank">Cheddar Gorge</a> in Somerset, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southport" target="_blank">Southport Sands</a> in Merseyside (which provided an excellent stand-in for the opening sequences of Mormons crossing Utah). Even though James Bragington was not an actor (but worked for the Samuelson Company), he managed to portray Holmes "excellently", according to Pearson's autobiography.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvImad8r-40MacmgTw4K06HFKgoybjSirce1TABHlXenfcCyo6U8j1pQHa9ndJ-iQ29j7bLsFUxB1d-b-H9pk1OkSkh0CU0RXufzlsBCwFrPrTMyXwrCdd2hoKgtA3IyY2xpW4BUo37Ks/s1600/Sherlock+Holmes+exhibition+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The first Sherlock Holmes exhibition in England in more than 60 years." border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvImad8r-40MacmgTw4K06HFKgoybjSirce1TABHlXenfcCyo6U8j1pQHa9ndJ-iQ29j7bLsFUxB1d-b-H9pk1OkSkh0CU0RXufzlsBCwFrPrTMyXwrCdd2hoKgtA3IyY2xpW4BUo37Ks/s1600/Sherlock+Holmes+exhibition+poster.jpg" title="The Museum of London's Sherlock Holmex Exhibition" width="226" /></a></div> As the Museum of London prepares for <a href="http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/london-wall/whats-on/exhibitions-displays/sherlock-holmes/" target="_blank">the largest temporary exhibition on Holmes</a> in over 60 years, locating a copy of Pearson's film (<a href="http://blog.museumoflondon.org.uk/case-missing-sherlock-holmes-film/" target="_blank">presumed lost due to war efforts</a>) is not just a feather in a Sherlockian's cap, but represents a great victory for Holmesian scholars. The 1914 <b><i>A Study in Scarlet</i> </b>is a capstone and a reminder about the flexibility and endurability of the Great Detective. Even with Holmes' predominance in popular culture, there is something uniquely thrilling about watching a cinematic narrative about Holmes and Watson. As the <b><i>Kinematograph Monthly Film Record</i></b> said in their November 1914 review of <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> It is a truism to say that Sherlock Holmes is always welcome on the screen. The few film adaptations to be seen of Conan Doyle’s great series are, we believe, immensely popular with all classes of people, and there are certainly a great number yet of those famous detective adventures which might be turned into pictures with advantage. Personally we do not think that either the “legitimate” drama or the picture drama can recapture for us the first fine careless rapture we felt when we came upon these stories in their original version. But we are firmly of opinion that in visualising what is, at its finest, a purely literary pleasure, viz., a high-class detective yarn, the screen has hitherto proved itself a superior medium to the stage."</blockquote> Bryony Dixon, curator, Silent Film, at the BFI National Archive said:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Every archivist dreams of finding lost films. But this is a film of great importance. Sherlock Holmes is internationally renowned as a great detective. It would be wonderfully appropriate if a super-sleuth could help us celebrate the centenary of this film with a chance to see it."</blockquote> <br /> If you have any knowledge about where a copy might be located, or can provide some insight into where to look, please e-mail <a href="https://www.blogger.com/Sherlock.holmes@bfi.org.uk">Sherlock.holmes@bfi.org.uk</a> or spread the word via Twitter and Facebook by using the hashtag <i>#FindSherlock.  </i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>--</i><br /> <i><br /></i>

The Great Lost Sherlock Holmes Movie

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by Gordon D

Sherlockian ALS #IceBucketChallenge

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "the ice-cold reasoning of Holmes" [WIST]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJiC966qc22wCPiJ19D-ZLJjFPjZaf7koY-6GVcRnGUmTYCkKLlsXddpIuy38C8tScDz87vpoE-BSR8uNNGLtduY4bwJVhfpIePZsXfYh0AEhov_2sF3kE6M6E_UJOhaCE6yU-Q-CUOh3E/s1600/Sherlockian+ALS+Ice+Bucket+Challenge.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tim Greer with a unique approach to the #IceBucketChallege" border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJiC966qc22wCPiJ19D-ZLJjFPjZaf7koY-6GVcRnGUmTYCkKLlsXddpIuy38C8tScDz87vpoE-BSR8uNNGLtduY4bwJVhfpIePZsXfYh0AEhov_2sF3kE6M6E_UJOhaCE6yU-Q-CUOh3E/s1600/Sherlockian+ALS+Ice+Bucket+Challenge.PNG" title="A Sherlockian's take on the ALS #IceBucketChallenge" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> By now you should be familiar with the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. If not, please come out from under your rock so someone can douse you with a bucket of ice water.<br /> <br /> We (that is our executive editor, Scott) were challenged and produced <a href="http://youtu.be/BhrA3PBVf9c" target="_blank">a rather unusual response</a> a couple of weeks ago. So unusual that it prompted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty6-Ug1wk-0" target="_blank">a me-too video from none other than Sir Patrick Stewart</a>.<br /> <br /> In the meantime we've seen other Sherlockians such as Baker Street Babes <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lyndsay.faye/posts/10152414598553073" target="_blank">Lyndsay</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6w0S332mCw&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Kristina</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ashley.polasek.1?fref=ts" target="_blank">Ashley</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10101653795767151" target="_blank">Heather</a> (among others) have stepped up to take the challenge.<br /> <br /> Now here's where it gets interesting. Heather nominated one of our correspondents, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/Tim%20Greer#.U_zyxfldWAU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tim Greer</a>. And here's Tim's cool response as he channels Sherlock Holmes:<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="338" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/piAnM0owxv8" width="600"></iframe></center> <br /> So there you have it! We hope we'll be lucky enough to see 13 participants at <a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/g2b4main.html" target="_blank">From Gillette to Brett IV</a> (click for more information) band together for a group dousing. Perhaps the hotel pool can accommodate the Baker's (Street) dozen that's required. Pack your swimsuits!<br /> <br /> --<br /> <br />

Sherlockian ALS #IceBucketChallenge

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Sherlock Takes Home 7 Emmys

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "It is to him that this trophy belongs." [BLUE]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMpRlgtZNXiP945MvHseWxW5LzjZI2p3ss6VKtusm5gyHPkKmLZTU8y2O0_70f1sjLLlOVnj1D5qaTHwLmbirZDXQawSO8Cbw-KzrtQgKPSrlQnNWmX9EaTS2SeNwSsAyCEovXcH4Y-4X/s1600/Emmy+Cumberbatch+Moffat+Freeman.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Emmy winners all: Cumberbatch, Moffat and Freeman for Sherlock" border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMpRlgtZNXiP945MvHseWxW5LzjZI2p3ss6VKtusm5gyHPkKmLZTU8y2O0_70f1sjLLlOVnj1D5qaTHwLmbirZDXQawSO8Cbw-KzrtQgKPSrlQnNWmX9EaTS2SeNwSsAyCEovXcH4Y-4X/s1600/Emmy+Cumberbatch+Moffat+Freeman.png" title="Benedict Cumberbatch, Steven Moffat and Martin Freeman from Sherlock" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> In its third series, the BBC / PBS drama <i>Sherlock</i> has won seven Emmy Awards. Actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as well as writer and co-creator Steven Moffat each picked up an award during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/66th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards" target="_blank">the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards</a> that aired on NBC on August 25.<br /> <br /> Each of the two seasons had received Emmy nominations: Series 1 netted four nominations in 2011 and Series 2 brought in 13 nominations in 2012. This year Series 3 was nominated in 12 categories. But this was the year that nominations turned into wins for the show.<br /> <br /> Benedict Cumberbatch won for Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and Martin Freeman won for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie. Freeman had been nominated in the same category in 2012 and received a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor in 2011. Cumberbatch won a Critics Choice Award in 2012 for Best Movie/Miniseries Actor and had been nominated for an Emmy in 2012. Interestingly, he was up against Freeman in this category this year.<br /> <br /> This also marked Steven Moffat's first Emmy win for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special, an award he received for the <i>Sherlock</i> episode "His Last Vow." In his speech, he called out Mark Gatiss, whom he said deserved to be up there with him, as Sherlock was just as much a product of his work as it was Moffat's.<br /> <br /> Here is a playlist of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6m8pknf2xi_w_S3N7Zq2sr-vglTU_Hzv" target="_blank">the three nominations and/or speeches</a>.<br /> <br /> The awards not televised last night were part of a separate ceremony, the <b>66th Annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards</b>, held last weekend. That event brought home an additional four Emmy Awards for <i>Sherlock</i>: Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie, Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special, Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Movie, and Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score). <br /> <br /> The full array of nominations and wins can be seen below:<br /> <table class="wikitable" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; margin: 1em 0px;"><tbody> <tr><td rowspan="5" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">2014</td><td rowspan="5" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/66th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="66th Primetime Emmy Awards">66th Primetime Emmy Awards</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Television_Movie" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie">Outstanding Television Movie</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">"His Last Vow"</td><td class="no table-no2" style="background: rgb(255, 221, 221); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Nominated</td></tr> <tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Lead_Actor_in_a_Miniseries_or_a_Movie" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie">Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Cumberbatch" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Benedict Cumberbatch">Benedict Cumberbatch</a></td><td class="yes table-yes2" style="background: rgb(153, 255, 153); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Won</td></tr> <tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Supporting_Actor_in_a_Miniseries_or_a_Movie" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie">Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Freeman" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Martin Freeman">Martin Freeman</a></td><td class="yes table-yes2" style="background: rgb(153, 255, 153); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Won</td></tr> <tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Directing_for_a_Miniseries,_Movie_or_a_Dramatic_Special" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special">Outstanding Directing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special</a></td><td rowspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">"His Last Vow"</td><td class="no table-no2" style="background: rgb(255, 221, 221); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Nominated</td></tr> <tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Writing_for_a_Miniseries,_Movie_or_a_Dramatic_Special" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special">Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special</a></td><td class="yes table-yes2" style="background: rgb(153, 255, 153); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Won</td></tr> <tr><td rowspan="7" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">2014</td><td rowspan="7" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">66th Creative Arts Emmy Awards</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie</td><td rowspan="7" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">"His Last Vow"</td><td class="yes table-yes2" style="background: rgb(153, 255, 153); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Won</td></tr> <tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special</td><td class="yes table-yes2" style="background: rgb(153, 255, 153); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Won</td></tr> <tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie</td><td class="no table-no2" style="background: rgb(255, 221, 221); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Nominated</td></tr> <tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special</td><td class="no table-no2" style="background: rgb(255, 221, 221); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Nominated</td></tr> <tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special</td><td class="no table-no2" style="background: rgb(255, 221, 221); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Nominated</td></tr> <tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Movie</td><td class="yes table-yes2" style="background: rgb(153, 255, 153); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Won</td></tr> <tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;">Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score)</td><td class="yes table-yes2" style="background: rgb(153, 255, 153); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;">Won</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <br /> <i>Image credit: Wikimedia and <a href="https://flic.kr/p/fgmgVp" target="_blank">Gage Skidmore (Flickr)</a></i><br /> --<br /> <br />

Sherlock Takes Home 7 Emmys

"It is to him that this trophy belongs." [BLUE] In its third series, the BBC / PBS drama Sherlock has won seven Emmy Awards...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 67: The Sherlock Holmes Collections

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO-3D3-QMMJkpMb3JbA9U-xelP3i3ked-jn7p_eep2l9n6HUQSLyRB89lWMJr8euGPVYQgN1pK4W_xq2JGExsXQuUIc1L_kPkNfJYpqAHVx6o1PPMqOiYOBfR_OvJVRBZEEq2wex8cshls/s1600/Episode+67-Tim+Johnson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Raggedy Sherlock & Watson with Tim Johnson of the Sherlock Holmes Collections" border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO-3D3-QMMJkpMb3JbA9U-xelP3i3ked-jn7p_eep2l9n6HUQSLyRB89lWMJr8euGPVYQgN1pK4W_xq2JGExsXQuUIc1L_kPkNfJYpqAHVx6o1PPMqOiYOBfR_OvJVRBZEEq2wex8cshls/s1600/Episode+67-Tim+Johnson.jpg" title="Tim Johnson, Curator of Special Collections and Rare Books & E. W. McDiarmid Curator of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries" width="640" /></a></div> <center> </center> <center> </center> <center> </center> <center> <br /></center> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3030802/height/90/width/600/theme/custom/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/no-cache/true/render-playlist/no/custom-color/fab82f/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="600"></iframe> </center> <center> </center> <br /> Well, we've done it. We've finally produced a mega-episode. And what better topic to go all epic on you than the outsized <a href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/holmes" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Collections</a> at the University of Minnesota Libraries? Our guest this episode is Tim Johnson, Curator of Special Collections and Rare Books and E. W. McDiarmid Curator of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries.<br /> <br /> Tim gives us a nice history of the <a href="http://www.norwegianexplorers.org/" target="_blank">Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota</a> and the beginnings of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the university, which was made possible through a number of personal relationships. It includes the additions from the collections of James Iraldi, Philip Hench, Edith Meiser, John Bennett Shaw and Allen Mackler that have contributed to the basis of the vast and varied items that number more than 60,000.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh08rPtJDH0DytPsdB_GzE8LVc9Q7OGLXgfqU0_1Tw4KnthqixCzNTd7LUVlkS_8Jr4dd5tuEgMwgZcHIbJ8Sja1eZuxI5gUsZs-BamZYarO5D4tLmHHuM5lu_0DIOLisWOBEvSDWlswcxH/s1600/John+Bennett+Shaw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The giant Sherlockian, John Bennett Shaw" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh08rPtJDH0DytPsdB_GzE8LVc9Q7OGLXgfqU0_1Tw4KnthqixCzNTd7LUVlkS_8Jr4dd5tuEgMwgZcHIbJ8Sja1eZuxI5gUsZs-BamZYarO5D4tLmHHuM5lu_0DIOLisWOBEvSDWlswcxH/s1600/John+Bennett+Shaw.jpg" title="John Bennett Shaw" width="220" /></a>We discuss much about the collections, including the challenge for a curator of books / librarian when it comes to looking after objects that go far beyond the printed page, as well as the changing nature of donor relations with respect to special collections.<br /> <br /> But we would have been remiss if we didn't spend time on John Bennett Shaw, BSI ("The Hans Sloane of My Age"), who was affectionately known as The Grand Acquisitor and who had all of the collecting discernment of a vacuum cleaner.<br /> <br /> Tim opines on what's next for collectors and the Collections alike, and gives us a hint as to what to expect as far out as 2016. If you're a researcher or just a curious Sherlockian, there is much available to you, either on a visit to the library or to their site online.<br /> <br /> Scott shares a tale of collecting woe - a long sought-after treasure disappears in the blink of an eye. What's a collector to do?<br /> <br /> We head way back to an early edition of the <i>Baker Street Journal</i> - 1946, to be exact - to find our inspiration in "<i>De Jure Inter Gentes</i>" (Vol. 1, No. 3).<br /> <br /> <h4> Links:</h4> <ul> <li><u><a href="http://youtu.be/BhrA3PBVf9c" target="_blank">Scott's ice bucket challenge</a></u></li> <li>The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/08/7th-circuit-orders-conan-doyle-estate.html" target="_blank">orders legal fees paid in #FreeSherlock case</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.museumoflondon.org.uk/case-missing-sherlock-holmes-film/" target="_blank">The case of the missing Sherlock Holmes film</a></li> <li>Christies and the Museum of London team up to produce <a href="http://www.licensing.biz/news/read/museum-of-london-to-launch-sherlock-holmes-inspired-tweed/040600" target="_blank">a Sherlock Holmes tweed</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-a-hoey-dead-producer-726417" target="_blank">Michael Hoey has passed away</a> at 79. Hear our interview with him on <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2011/10/episode-36-michael-hoey-and-fabulous.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 36</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/holmes" target="_blank">The Sherlock Holmes Collections</a> at the University of Minnesota Libraries</li> <li><a href="http://umedia.lib.umn.edu/dasearch/%2522john%2520bennett%2520shaw%2522%2520talks?mode=basic" target="_blank">The John Bennett Shaw Talks</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/pdf/holmes/Shaw100.pdf" target="_blank">The Shaw 100 - the Basic Holmesian Library</a></li> <li>Tim's blog: <a href="http://umbookworm.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Special and Rare on a Stick</a></li> <li>On Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/UMBookworm" target="_blank">@UMBookworm</a> (Tim), <a href="https://twitter.com/NEofMN" target="_blank">@NEofMN</a> (Norwegian Explorers)</li> <li>On Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/572794092812100/" target="_blank">The Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota</a></li> </ul> <br /> More links available on <a href="https://plus.google.com/communities/114565123495685504221">The Sherlock Holmes Community</a> on Google+, as well as through our accounts on <a href="http://facebook.com/ihearofsherlock">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/ihearofsherlock">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://ihearofsherlock.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>. 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Episode 67: The Sherlock Holmes Collections

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Langham Hotel Incorrectly Claims to Be Sherlock Holmes' Birthplace

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "the Langham called for news" [LADY]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpxe57KxuQqId4nyrYbV8l1iHuTfMiSvzDijJ4tA_S3Tzr99bJOd80ZIUxZod165wwcUfiRQ3NkkjyHH0nl9r2RueEfOV0780es_xaokAuLF58Vh5i4ml4b9iSRRUxeqdvtWofLk7hVbVt/s1600/Langham+Hotel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The "birthplace" of Sherlock Holmes?" border="0" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpxe57KxuQqId4nyrYbV8l1iHuTfMiSvzDijJ4tA_S3Tzr99bJOd80ZIUxZod165wwcUfiRQ3NkkjyHH0nl9r2RueEfOV0780es_xaokAuLF58Vh5i4ml4b9iSRRUxeqdvtWofLk7hVbVt/s1600/Langham+Hotel.jpg" title="The Langham Hotel, London (courtesy of Langham Hotels)" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> The <a href="http://london.langhamhotels.co.uk/" target="_blank">Langham Hotel</a> in London is a legendary establishment - one that has been part of the London scene since 1865. The grand hotel was constantly the part of the literary, royal and celebrity scene since the day that the Prince of Wales performed the opening ceremony.<br /> <br /> But there's some controversy swirling around the hotel at present.<br /> <br /> Before we get to that, let's make sure we're all up to speed with the facts. Sherlockians are well aware of the famed hotel for at least two reasons:<br /> <ol> <li>It was mentioned in no less than three Sherlock Holmes stories (Captain Morstan - Mary's father - was staying there in <i>The Sign of Four</i>; the King of Bohemia holed up there whilst in London in "A Scandal in Bohemia"; and the Hon. Philip Green gave the Langham as his London address in "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax").</li> <li>The Lippincott Dinner was held by J.M. Stoddart, editor of <i>Lippincott's Monthly</i>, on August 30, 1889 and it marked the first meeting between Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. The dinner eventually resulted in <i>The Sign of Four</i> and <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i>, both published in <i>Lippincott's</i>.</li> </ol> <div> It is the latter point on which we wish to dwell.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> In <a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/event_info.php?id=210" target="_blank">March 2010, in a joint event</a> between the management of the Langham, the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, the Oscar Wilde Society and the City of Westminster, the occasion was marked by the presentation of a Green Plaque:</div> <div> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTCQsY-aEvrL-KH2u6KojR387YylqcxZVP7XRHPeQ3G5b0RsqAk_g9x3u-mVLFnHgTDkqZqDeWPGq9U29FR7aOqWu6uZlkmyqfb_qF04oj9yOMzC9YbsjdxK3gA4xQy37kk93lALV_SLTm/s1600/Langham+Green+Plaque.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=""You have been to the Lippincott's dinner, I perceive."" border="0" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTCQsY-aEvrL-KH2u6KojR387YylqcxZVP7XRHPeQ3G5b0RsqAk_g9x3u-mVLFnHgTDkqZqDeWPGq9U29FR7aOqWu6uZlkmyqfb_qF04oj9yOMzC9YbsjdxK3gA4xQy37kk93lALV_SLTm/s1600/Langham+Green+Plaque.jpg" title="Arthur Conan Doyle met Oscar Wilde at the Langham Hotel - Green Plaque" width="400" /></a></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> As we know, <i>The Sign of Four</i> was the second installment in what would become the canon of some 60 Sherlock Holmes stories - four novels and 56 short stories. It was written, as indicated above, after the commission from Lippincott's, and eventually made its complete appearance by October 1890.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> And now that we've reached 2014, the Langham Hotel announced via its media centre an <a href="http://london.langhamhotels.co.uk/media/exclusive_sherlock_holmes_package.htm" target="_blank">Exclusive Sherlock Holmes Package</a> for Sherlock Holmes aficionados to mark the 125th anniversary of that fateful dinner between the editor and the two literary greats - a package that will be available in conjunction with the Museum of London's special exhibition <a href="http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/london-wall/whats-on/exhibitions-displays/sherlock-holmes/" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes, The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die</a>. But in doing so, the hotel overstated its role:</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> This summer, The Langham celebrates its claim to be <b><i>the authentic birthplace of Sherlock Holmes</i></b> by marking a milestone 125th anniversary with a special package. [<i>Emphasis ours - ed.</i>]</blockquote> <div> "Now just a moment," we hear you saying, "that can't be. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, published in <i>Beeton's Christmas Annual</i> in 1887." And you would be correct.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Arthur Conan Doyle, a young and struggling doctor practicing in Southsea, Portsmouth and it was in 1886 on "March 8 that he started work on <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>" (Lycett, Andrew. <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2HAGruP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, pp. 126) and took his inspiration from Dr. Joseph Bell for the character. The original observation and deduction by Holmes of Watson when they were introduced in that story was "an early display of the 'science of deduction' [that] set a pattern for every subsequent Sherlock Holmes story." (Stashower, Daniel. <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2MMyYx3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle</a></i>, pp. 77)</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> It should be clear that if any locale has the honor of claiming to be birthplace of Sherlock Holmes it is No. 1 Bush Villas, Southsea - not the Langham Hotel. It is there that Doyle conceived of and created the character, as he waited for patients in his sitting room.</div> <div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMnLYE21roRj8mtweO_CP84cofwcfgiv3-arBQuG8XRSm0W27a-sTeHKhUcTZ5DG51nUPpvJZhfSn6QV8CP-u54X4Zc_nfOBqW3924-wkD70I9_VjnrKHCmAKCNWprU7_ddIiu5xRPLRa7/s1600/Doyle+-+Southsea+plaque.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Southsea brown plaque commemorating Conan Doyle." border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMnLYE21roRj8mtweO_CP84cofwcfgiv3-arBQuG8XRSm0W27a-sTeHKhUcTZ5DG51nUPpvJZhfSn6QV8CP-u54X4Zc_nfOBqW3924-wkD70I9_VjnrKHCmAKCNWprU7_ddIiu5xRPLRa7/s1600/Doyle+-+Southsea+plaque.jpg" title="Plaque commemorating Arthur Conan Doyle's relationship with Portsmouth" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /></div> <div> Perhaps you think we're being a little harsh in our judgment; after all, Lippincott's helped to serialize the stories. While that may be true, the <i>Strand Magazine</i> had far more to do with that beginning in 1891. Plus, we're a little taken aback at just how much credit Team Langham wants to claim with regard to the origins of Sherlock Holmes. Lest you be in any doubt, here's the second paragraph of their press announcement:</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> The Langham played an important part <b><i>in the creation of</i></b> Conan Doyle’s most famous character. A regular visitor to The Langham in the 1880’s, Conan Doyle selected The Langham as the venue for a meeting that was pivotal in the development of Sherlock Holmes 125 years ago. On 30 August 1889, a dinner was held at The Langham between Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and Joseph Marshall Stoddart, Managing Editor of <i>Lippincott’s Magazine</i>, a monthly title publishing original fiction. Conan Doyle described this meeting as ‘a golden evening for me’, adding that ‘The result of the evening was that both Wilde and I promised to write books for “Lippincott’s Magazine” – Wilde’s contribution was “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, while I wrote “The Sign of Four”, in which Holmes made his second appearance.’ And so the famous series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries <b><i>was born</i></b>. [<i>Emphasis ours</i>]</blockquote> <div> <br /></div> <br /> <div> In fact, we even took to Twitter to tell <a href="http://twitter.com/Langham_Hotel" target="_blank">@Langham_Hotel</a> that they had the facts wrong:</div> <div> <center> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> <a href="https://twitter.com/Langham_London">@Langham_London</a> We're aware of the meeting that led to SIGN, but to call it the birthplace of Holmes is completely incorrect.<br /> — I Hear of Sherlock (@IHearofSherlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/IHearofSherlock/statuses/502456497771913216">August 21, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></center> <br /> While the <a href="http://london.langhamhotels.co.uk/rooms/sherlock_holmes_package.htm" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Package</a> at the Langham looks delightful - a Grand Room, English breakfast and two tickets to the Exhibition; avid fans can upgrade to the Arthur Conan Doyle suite in the hotel's famed cupola tower with "a separate sitting room, a writer’s corner and features books, DVDs and eclectic memorabilia from the legendary sleuth" - we have yet to hear back from the hotel's press team or to see a correction on their media centre. </div> <br /> <br /> If you would like to learn more <u>facts</u> about the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a great place to start is <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/11/episode-13-arthur-conan-doyle-life-in.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 13 of our podcast</a>, in which we interviewed Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower, editors of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters.<br /> <div> <br /></div> --<br /> <script type="text/javascript"> amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "scottmonty-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_design = "enhanced_links"; amzn_assoc_asins = "0805066845"; amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "1680971611927ca31fc6131fc04e9c65"; </script><br /> <script src="//z-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/onejs?MarketPlace=US"></script><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "scottmonty-20"; amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; amzn_assoc_region = "US"; amzn_assoc_design = "enhanced_links"; amzn_assoc_asins = "0143114336"; amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit"; amzn_assoc_linkid = "42f1f1a5c791c01dc7576b98e4390f51"; </script><br /> <script src="//z-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/onejs?MarketPlace=US"></script>

Langham Hotel Incorrectly Claims to Be Sherlock Holmes' Birthplace

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by Scott Monty

About the Sherlock / Doctor Who Crossover

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "there lives a young doctor who" [RETI] </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRX23yds6pIjI4snmRKYSIPjLVJ5dfbbAgU8E99snQCIchOMBxosmQsMw9q0Q4YwdaK7Eo9oIxVsyLrlewBiWpDCH7aYmLw9-RhQvDRXHB1FcO5mTf_BHf-s6dNygKeZP1RlhuoqFvOCL/s1600/Cumberbatch+Moffatt+Smith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dr. Whodunnit?" border="0" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRX23yds6pIjI4snmRKYSIPjLVJ5dfbbAgU8E99snQCIchOMBxosmQsMw9q0Q4YwdaK7Eo9oIxVsyLrlewBiWpDCH7aYmLw9-RhQvDRXHB1FcO5mTf_BHf-s6dNygKeZP1RlhuoqFvOCL/s1600/Cumberbatch+Moffatt+Smith.jpg" title="Benedict Cumberbatch, Steven Moffat and Matt Smith at the BAFTAs" width="640" /></a></div> <div> <br /></div> Fans of the Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss produced shows <i>Sherlock </i>and <i>Doctor Who</i> have long wanted the modern-day Holmes and the Time Lord to meet. Aside from the usual fanfic, there have been some fairly brilliant fan-created videos, from the melding of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bGYljQ5Uw" target="_blank">Sherlock and eleventh Doctor Matt Smith</a> episodes into a coherent story to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoSDbku7Cio" target="_blank">Wholock—The Musical</a>. Even Moffat is not immune to the crossover siren call. At a <a href="http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2014/08/steven-moffat-wants-doctor-whosherlock-crossover-happen.html" target="_blank">question and answer session</a> after the premiere of the new season of <i>Doctor Who</i> at St. David's Hall, Cardiff, Wales in early August, the showrunner stated that if it were up to him the two would meet.<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> “Look I’m going to come clean on this: I would… Go speak to Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue, OK? They’re all in the way. I’m not the killjoy, it’s that lot. It’s probably not going to happen.”</blockquote> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Doctor-Who-Sherlock-Crossover-Show.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgqNK7sb6aJLNYqZCtqUrEVMyb2QDTR1qdCvrvGglLtoItmPp9gLxCvEJe_-O87z2bx9A55Vs-yOCoFs_jyrejkupNgNBYn2s2yiNgmb54PYAH6tp9QA0UFeYSLzpdu9gEcAOf6qmOefTQpe99YcK5DwNUdYwCkew3aGInY5QX2pLCRQqcAVDnIB4R4LUa4L2_Evsc=" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <div> Moffat went on to say,<br /> <div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> “You know in some ways, I think Mark [Gatiss] has got a point when he says that however good you imagine [the crossover], it would be almost better in your imagination than it would be if the two grand old egotists actually met. They’d just both go off in opposite corners and sulk that there was someone cleverer than them.”</blockquote> <br /> Aside from the continuity problem in which the 2012 <i>Doctor Who</i> Christmas special “The Snowmen” established that Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character created by Arthur Conan Doyle, the mixing of two such different universes presents unique difficulties.<br /> <br /> There are fan bases for <i>Sherlock</i> who enjoy it as a smart mystery series and who are uninterested in science-fiction and may even have never heard of <i>Doctor Who</i>. The same is true for <i>Doctor Who</i> fans who aren't interested in mysteries or <i>Sherlock</i>.<br /> <br /> Once establishing that Doctor Who’s reality coexists in Sherlock’s reality, does that mean when Benedict Cumberbatch comes upon a mysterious death or baffling crime, he now has to eliminate the possibility that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek" target="_blank">Daleks</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybermen" target="_blank">Cybermen</a> were somehow involved? Will he act as consultant for <a href="http://u.n.i.t./" target="_blank">U.N.I.T.</a>?<br /> <br /> In a science-fiction universe where anything could happen, The Doctor running into Sherlock Holmes, whether in Victorian times or the modern day, does not seem so odd. But to have The Doctor appear in the real-world present-day London of John and Sherlock would reduce the pair to cartoon. “<i>But are we to give serious attention to such things? This Agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply</i>,” said Holmes in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.” Nor time-traveling Doctors either, he could have added.<br /> <br /> Doyle himself resisted crossovers. Of course, Holmes never met the Doyle-created contemporary Professor Challenger, hero of the science fiction novel <a href="http://amzn.to/1vZ8ium" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Lost World</i></a> and others. But there was another crossover where Doyle could have earned big money that he turned down flat.<br /> <br /> Doyle brother-in-law and fellow author E.W. Hornung created the amateur cracksman (that is burglar and safecracker) A.J. Raffles and his friend Bunny Manders as a sort-of inverted Holmes and Watson. Raffles was a very popular short story series and there had been calls to have that amateur detective and gentleman thief meet. According to Andrew Lycett in <a href="http://amzn.to/1o3Ar9R" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes</i></a>, in 1913 American publisher of <i>Everybody’s Magazine</i>, Trumbull White <br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> “had been lobbying Arthur [Conan Doyle] and Willie Hornung to write a new series that pitched Holmes against Raffles. To this end, he canvassed the support of both William Gillette and Kyrle Bellew, the American actors synonymous with these two characters on stage. On a previous visit to Windlesham [Doyle’s home] he had found Arthur very hospitable, but unenthusiastic about the idea for a series. Returning to England…he still hoped to bring Holmes and Raffles together, claiming he could guarantee Arthur $100,000 in revenues if this went ahead. Unmoved, Arthur sought to fob off on the American with something from the bottom drawer.”</blockquote> <br /> In pastiche Holmes has worked with or against Tarzan, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll, Fu Manchu, and many other fictional characters. And fun though it might be, that’s where Sherlock Holmes meeting Doctor Who should stay, in pastiche. Let's hope that cooler heads will continue to prevail at <a href="http://www.hartswoodfilms.co.uk/">Hartswood Films</a>. It's bad enough that Jim Moriarty is able to hijack every video screen in England (or was it just the Greater London area?) like some Whovian alien baddie, we don't need Ben and Martin to come face to face with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygon">Zygons</a> as well.<br /> <br /> The twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi will premier in the new season of Doctor Who on BBC One on August 23.</div> <div> Who knows? Perhaps the argument is still open for debate. 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About the Sherlock / Doctor Who Crossover

"there lives a young doctor who" [RETI]  Fans of the Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss produced shows Sherlock and Doctor Who have ...

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by James C. O'Leary

7th Circuit Orders Conan Doyle Estate To Pay Legal Fees, Give Up "Extortion"

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "your fees will be assured and you will be given a perfectly free hand" [ILLU]  </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFx6ndmTPzu2yXhWAqxgXyOvNwvfLpWd0JjnkZ5PDKDlI01w_3v4Ym2yNCjhCG4fVN_EGPzUJDDbhOxguPAZsixJElLV__x4KJvBnUMfEcR_SmTKZ5iZbKSNOyGUfKKfPwSq3FT7vnrMw1/s1600/BERY.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img alt=""Your money or your life."" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFx6ndmTPzu2yXhWAqxgXyOvNwvfLpWd0JjnkZ5PDKDlI01w_3v4Ym2yNCjhCG4fVN_EGPzUJDDbhOxguPAZsixJElLV__x4KJvBnUMfEcR_SmTKZ5iZbKSNOyGUfKKfPwSq3FT7vnrMw1/s1600/BERY.jpg" title="A scene from The Beryl Coronet" width="442" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> For those who have been following the <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/%23FreeSherlock#.U-BFFPldWSo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#FreeSherlock saga</a> (click for our previous coverage), you'll know that the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/05/an-eyewitness-account-to-free-sherlock.html#.U-BEUPldWSo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">heard arguments in June</a> regarding the appropriate copyright of the Sherlock Holmes stories.<br /> <br /> <h3> <b>Background</b></h3> The plaintiff, <b>Leslie Klinger, BSI</b>, had sued for declaratory judgment on the Sherlock Holmes stories, looking for the first 50 to be declared clearly in the public domain, while the <b>Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd.</b>, the business entity representing the financial interests of the relatives of Conan Doyle, indicated that Sherlock Holmes as a character was not fully formed until the last story had been written.<br /> <br /> The 7th Circuit, under Judge Richard Posner, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/234319104/Klinger-v-Conan-Doyle-Estate-Ltd-7th-Circuit-Court-of-Appeals-Decision" target="_blank">issued a judgement in June</a> (well worth reading; also available <a href="http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2014/D06-16/C:14-1128:J:Posner:aut:T:fnOp:N:1363624:S:0" target="_blank">here</a>), less than a week following the oral arguments, indicating that the first 50 stories were indeed in the public domain in the United States, and that any character elements that an author might wish to use in new stories would require the permission of the CDE. But stories incorporating elements prior to those stories being written were fair game.<br /> <br /> In that June decision, Posner pulled on examples ranging from <i>Henry IV Part 1</i> and <i>Part 2</i>, <i>Henry V</i> and <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor </i>to the <i>Star Wars</i> saga to delineate the features of "flat" and "round" characters and the timing of their character development. Judge Posner said that "perpetual, or nearly perpetual copyright looms once "one realizes that the Doyle estate is seeking 135 years (1887–2022) of copyright protection for the character of Sherlock Holmes." He further indicated that later "alterations do not revive the expired copyrights on the original characters."<br /> <br /> <br /> <h3> <b>Fees Awarded</b></h3> <div> That brings us to <a href="http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2014/D08-04/C:14-1128:J:Posner:aut:T:op:N:1392405:S:0" target="_blank">the decision this week</a> (also available as an embedded document below), in which the court considered a request from Klinger to reimburse him the nearly $31,000 in legal fees that he incurred in the appeal. Not included in this request was an additional $39,000 in district court fees.<br /> <br /> The court decided unanimously in favor of Klinger, awarding him the full amount. Saying that "the defendant's only defense bordered on the frivolous," it was clear that the strength of the case was with the plaintiff and that the fees were not unreasonable.<br /> <br /> And then Posner went one further by deriding the Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd. business strategy as one that induced publishers succumb to the pressure to pay a fee or face high legal fees if they didn't. <br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> The Doyle estate’s business strategy is plain: charge a modest license fee for which there is no legal basis, in the hope that the "rational" writer or publisher asked for the fee will pay it rather than incur a greater cost, in legal expenses, in challenging the legality of the demand. The strategy had worked with Random House; Pegasus was ready to knuckle under; only Klinger (so far as we know) resisted. In effect he was a private attorney general, combating a disreputable business practice—a form of extortion—and he is seeking by the present motion not to obtain a reward but merely to avoid a loss.</blockquote> <br /></div> In case you think "extortion" is a bit of a stretch, here's an excerpt from the letter that CDE sent to Pegasus Books:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> If you proceed instead to bring out <i>Study in Sherlock II</i> [the original title of <i>In the Company of Sherlock Holmes</i>] unlicensed, do not expect to see it offered for sale by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and similar retailers. We work with those compan[ies] routinely to weed out unlicensed uses of Sherlock Holmes from their offerings, and will not hesitate to do so with your book as well.</blockquote> Beyond the extortionate element of the decision, the court also noted that the CDE, in enlisting the support of Amazon et al. in a boycott, was violating anti-trust laws.<br /> <br /> Perhaps the CDE will take the court's final recommendation to heart:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> It’s time the estate, in its own self-interest, changed its business model.</blockquote> <br /> <h3> <b>A Man for All Seasons</b></h3> But perhaps the most notable and noble accolade in the decision are about Leslie Klinger himself. The court notes that Klinger "<b>has performed a public service</b>...with substantial risk to himself" and yet has simply asked to recoup only his costs, while he "<b>deserves to be rewarded</b>" for "exposing the estate's unlawful business practices."<br /> <br /> <br /> You can read the entire decision below.<br /> <br /> <div style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto;"> <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/235846211/Klinger-v-Conan-Doyle-Estate-Ltd-7th-Circuit-Court-Awards-Damages" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. - 7th Circuit Court Awards Damages on Scribd">Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. - 7th Circuit Court Awards Damages</a> by <a href="http://www.scribd.com/ihearofsherlock" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere's profile on Scribd">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a></div> <iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="false" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_80871" scrolling="no" src="//www.scribd.com/embeds/235846211/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-8nRrqjHQBUyD2FCXXkMB&show_recommendations=true" width="100%"></iframe> <br /> --<br /> <br />

7th Circuit Orders Conan Doyle Estate To Pay Legal Fees, Give Up "Extortion"

"your fees will be assured and you will be given a perfectly free hand" [ILLU]   For those who have been following the #Free...

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by Scott Monty

Sherlock Holmes's Resume Looked Like This

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "my professional qualifications" [ENGR] </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ5CYNuvplE73f-Avjo0XR-l6UWzuouSYTCKxTYto3Pqh-qdOAYSKpEjFXODBEF-rziZ1gZMPP7y5h3HZ9DF69HDQppdnzZBGc92vuvgnD73reVGvV6Oys8tMtVbSYi-yVH7M0zM3UHkx_/s1600/Douglas+West.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img alt="A Douglas West watercolour of Holmes meeting an inspector at the rail station" border="0" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ5CYNuvplE73f-Avjo0XR-l6UWzuouSYTCKxTYto3Pqh-qdOAYSKpEjFXODBEF-rziZ1gZMPP7y5h3HZ9DF69HDQppdnzZBGc92vuvgnD73reVGvV6Oys8tMtVbSYi-yVH7M0zM3UHkx_/s1600/Douglas+West.jpg" title="At the station - Douglas West" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Would you hire Sherlock Holmes if you had the chance? Okay, but what if you weren't familiar with him through the 60 stories that make up the Canon? What if you had to simply look at his qualifications jotted down on a single piece of paper?<br /> <br /> Think about that for a moment.<br /> <br /> Professionals are often faced with making judgments based on having only cursory information rather than the whole picture. This applies to things that require immediate action as well as some others where, even if we're given more time, we simply don't have access to the same information as someone who might be more intimately familiar with a person or situation.<br /> <br /> For example, Watson made up a list based on his first few weeks with Holmes. It went something like this:<br /> <br /> <h4> SHERLOCK HOLMES - his limits</h4> <ol> <li>Knowledge of Literature. - Nil.</li> <li>Knowledge of Philosophy. - Nil.</li> <li>Knowledge of Astronomy. - Nil.</li> <li>Knowledge of Politics. - Feeble.</li> <li>Knowledge of Botany. - Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.</li> <li>Knowledge of Geology. - Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.</li> <li>Knowledge of Chemistry. - Profound.</li> <li>Knowledge of Anatomy. - Accurate, but unsystematic.</li> <li>Knowledge of Sensational Literature. - Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.</li> <li>Plays the violin well.</li> <li>Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.</li> <li>Has a good practical knowledge of British law.</li> </ol> <div> <br /></div> <div> So if one were to sum up these and some other time-based activities of Sherlock Holmes and made a visual representation of the same - an infographic, for example - it might look something like this:</div> <div> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDfIPQfsXmLjmrdi2tSPyoszt-BBsfx49OBvlXWB2TTgS9emGmrDV0yj3uTgX3gseQCNI7N5NYrr70j-oRXlbhU1kp-q63rkVyjPK-bdIfGeXNdLmbc_tNvh6XAhyphenhyphenvGoRHBCIpaQhg8XAL/s1600/Sherlock+Holmes-Resume-Infographic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDfIPQfsXmLjmrdi2tSPyoszt-BBsfx49OBvlXWB2TTgS9emGmrDV0yj3uTgX3gseQCNI7N5NYrr70j-oRXlbhU1kp-q63rkVyjPK-bdIfGeXNdLmbc_tNvh6XAhyphenhyphenvGoRHBCIpaQhg8XAL/s1600/Sherlock+Holmes-Resume-Infographic.jpg" /></a></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> McGraw-Hill created this to support and promote its new book <a href="http://mhprofessional.com/product.php?isbn=0071825576"><i>The Infographic Resume: How to Create a Visual Portfolio that Showcases Your Skills and Lands the Job</i></a>.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Do you spot any glaring errors? Is something missing that you would have included?</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> --</div> <div> <br /></div>

Sherlock Holmes's Resume Looked Like This

"my professional qualifications" [ENGR]  Would you hire Sherlock Holmes if you had the chance? Okay, but what if you weren...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 66: Get Your Kicks with Sherlock Holmes

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <center> </center> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgORwihV2FlkZEXVbf9NaNpPWYESkyo-lS79zLP8yYy_38bQOys1qE1HPk-NEH5_3M8_cdgsMKzPDT-zQHZa9K32bKVyoImMKZJAHBWGiIif99CpLfbh1StY2Md2Tb1YLnHdaCzJCqnh4Bu/s1600/Route+66.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A general store on Route 66 featuring "a little Ford" [LAST]" border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgORwihV2FlkZEXVbf9NaNpPWYESkyo-lS79zLP8yYy_38bQOys1qE1HPk-NEH5_3M8_cdgsMKzPDT-zQHZa9K32bKVyoImMKZJAHBWGiIif99CpLfbh1StY2Md2Tb1YLnHdaCzJCqnh4Bu/s1600/Route+66.jpg" title="Route 66 - Hackberry General Store" width="640" /></a></div> <center> </center> <center> <br /></center> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" height="90" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" scrolling="no" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2956350/height/90/width/600/theme/custom/autoplay/yes/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/no-cache/true/render-playlist/no/custom-color/243d57/" style="border: none;" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="600"></iframe> </center> <center> </center> <br /> It's summertime and the Sherlocking is easy! In our 66th episode, we travel down the road with the top down and enjoy the sites and news along the way.<br /> <br /> Our breezy conversation ranges from hockey and snow (it's Christmas in July!), which sends us down a rabbit hole of snow in the Canon, to the latest in the #FreeSherlock movement, and then on to some events.<br /> <br /> But the real fun begins when Burt and Scott investigate the various iterations of Sherlockian tchotchkes that give us kicks as Sherlockians. As it happens, our little show and site focuses on the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and popular culture, so our dueling top 10 lists should bring a smile to your face.<br /> <br /> What did we miss? What would you add to the lists that we started? Let us know with a comment tagged #IHOSE 66.<br /> <br /> Speaking of hashtags - don't forget the contest we mentioned in <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/06/episode-65-art-in-blood.html" target="_blank">Episode 65</a>. You have until August 30 to enter for a chance to win the Tom Richmond print of the 8 Sherlock Holmes portrayals.<br /> <br /> Our Gas-Lamp this time is "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_a_Long_Long_Trail_A-Winding" target="_blank">A long, long trail a-winding</a>" from the Spring issue of 2014 (Vol. 64, No. 1) of the <i>Baker Street Journal</i>.<br /> <br /> Finally, Burt shares news of his talk at a local library - perhaps serving as a model for like-minded Sherlockians in other communities to do the same.<br /> <br /> <h4> Links:</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/07/the-us-supreme-court-denies-conan-doyle.html#.U8yCFvldWSo" target="_blank">Latest updates on the Free Sherlock efforts</a></li> <li>World record for <a href="http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/s129/sherlock/news/a585235/world-record-for-most-people-dressed-as-sherlock-holmes-attempted.html#~oKCpJEEGbNJe7a" target="_blank">most people dressed as Sherlock Holmes</a> to contribute to <a href="http://mxpublishing.tumblr.com/post/91540961258/undershaw-lives-conan-doyles-former-home-saved" target="_blank">Undershaw preservation</a></li> <li><a href="http://observationdeck.io9.com/when-fandom-falls-apart-dashcon-edition-1604303148" target="_blank">Dashcon</a> - an explanation</li> <li><a href="http://www.gridlockdc.com/" target="_blank">GridLOCK DC</a></li> <li><a href="http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/sarah-jessica-parker-a-little-hyper-aware" target="_blank">Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee</a> (just for fun)</li> <li>The <a href="https://twitter.com/BakerStJournal/status/486511467219259392" target="_blank">summer issue of the <i>Baker Street Journal</i></a> (check out the cover!)</li> <li><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/07/a-new-female-sidekick-on-elementary.html#.U8yHX_ldWSo" target="_blank">Kitty Winter on <i>Elementary</i></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/07/221back-bbcone-announces-return-of.html" target="_blank"><i>Sherlock</i> Series 4 announcement</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/07/first-look-at-ian-mckellen-as-sherlock.html" target="_blank">A look at Ian McKellen in Mr. Holmes</a></li> </ul> <br /> <iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/170048061&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br /> <br /> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/ihearofsherlock/ihearofsherlock066.mp3" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.1875px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7TL5jgdrUh_nM_zlDgxql-jKOFGUVFqhoV6A2JtYklXOu4qmVDyRVbwGV6XrwXZgnG9awSwJ7td-txL1_4KGrpSf4igJLILOim4yJmX5pGTPIdMhCBYLyImSI5gs1MOMUZPAlpAgvtPdb/s1600/podcastIcon.gif" style="border-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></a> Download this episode by right-clicking the icon and selecting "Save As..." or simply click on the file to listen, or on the player above. 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Episode 66: Get Your Kicks with Sherlock Holmes

It's summertime and the Sherlocking is easy! In our 66th episode, we travel down the road with the top down and enjoy th...

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by Scott Monty

The U.S. Supreme Court Denies Conan Doyle Estate Petition

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "last and highest court of appeal" [STUD] </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfLQPT1goX48YK-mNcZjcrowG0i1Omj7FkIEUFi0eVMe_EN3M6PD2zUPD15M44XQnZiSkljStUXSstTAFbdsmVl9MlC9Yyjqd2XkRfsO4JZVszZun_kqVlZn01jYxdndI26TIzY9dRKulE/s1600/Supreme_Court_US_2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfLQPT1goX48YK-mNcZjcrowG0i1Omj7FkIEUFi0eVMe_EN3M6PD2zUPD15M44XQnZiSkljStUXSstTAFbdsmVl9MlC9Yyjqd2XkRfsO4JZVszZun_kqVlZn01jYxdndI26TIzY9dRKulE/s1600/Supreme_Court_US_2010.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> The last month in the <b>#FreeSherlock</b> legal battle has been full of quick - if not expected - decisions. And in reviewing the final version of this article, it almost reads like a soap opera.<br /> <br /> First, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/234319104/Klinger-v-Conan-Doyle-Estate-Ltd-7th-Circuit-Court-of-Appeals-Decision" target="_blank">with an opinion written by Judge Richard Posner</a> on June 16, rebuked the "quixotic" attempt by the Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd. to seek "perpetual, or nearly perpetual copyright protection" of the Sherlock Holmes character. The full opinion - and it is entirely worth reading - is <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/234319104/Klinger-v-Conan-Doyle-Estate-Ltd-7th-Circuit-Court-of-Appeals-Decision" target="_blank">available via this link</a> and embedded below.<br /> <br /> We thought that Techdirt was spot on when they noted<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> The court seems completely unpersuaded by the Conan Doyle Estate's ridiculous fear that (*gasp*) if Holmes goes into the public domain, some people might <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130915/00291924523/conan-doyle-estate-doesnt-understand-public-domain-freaks-out-harms-it-might-cause-to-sherlock-holmes.shtml">create different versions</a> of him. That's actually kind of the point of the public domain. That's what's <i>supposed </i>to happen. </blockquote> <br /> Then, Les Klinger, BSI ("The Abbey Grange") <a href="http://free-sherlock.com/2014/07/04/july-2014-petition-for-legal-fees/" target="_blank">filed a petition for legal fees</a> in the whole fiasco, to the tune of $70,000. [As an aside, the aptness of the above entry being posted on the <a href="http://free-sherlock.com/">Free-Sherlock.com</a> site on July 4 (Independence Day) was not lost on us.]  In the same blog post, he noted that the CDE, Ltd. had, on July 3, <a href="https://freesherlock.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/cde-motion-for-stay.pdf" target="_blank">filed a motion to stay the mandate</a> of the Court's decision. The 12-page motion included this telling reasoning:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> Allowing the Court’s opinion to have immediate effect will have a chilling effect on the Estate’s ability to manage the fully developed character’s further promotion and development through licensing agreements.</blockquote> In other words, the Court's opinion as it stood would severely restrict the fuel behind the financial engine that is the Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd.. The subsequent motion to stay was an uncanny paraphrase of a scene from the 1997 Jim Carrey movie <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119528/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Liar Liar</a></i>:<br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000120/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Fletcher</a>: Your honor, I object!<br /> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0076251/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Judge</a>: Why?<br /> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000120/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Fletcher</a>: Because it's devastating to my case!<br /> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0076251/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Judge</a>: Overruled!</blockquote> It turns out that the CDE, Ltd.'s motion was similarly <a href="http://freesherlock.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/denial-of-stay.pdf" target="_blank">denied - less than a week after it was filed</a>.<br /> <br /> Undeterred - and as mentioned in their motion - the Estate, Ltd. <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140716/17211527902/conan-doyle-estate-asks-supreme-court-to-step-block-sherlock-holmes-being-public-domaind.shtml" target="_blank">filed an emergency petition with the United States Supreme Court</a> on July 11 to stay the ruling. Wasting absolutely no time whatsoever, <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/07/sherlock-holmes-plea-denied/" target="_blank">Justice Elena Kagan denied the petition</a> (link to the SCOTUS blog post), without even asking for a response from Klinger.<br /> <br /> And there we have it. Do you think we've seen and heard the last of this issue?<br /> <br /> If you haven't done so, you can look through some of <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/%23FreeSherlock#.U8iQUfldWSo" target="_blank">our past posts on the #FreeSherlock topic</a>. Highlights include:<br /> <br /> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/12/special-episode-free-sherlock.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IHOSE Special Episode: Free Sherlock</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/05/an-eyewitness-account-to-free-sherlock.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">An Eyewitness Account of the Free Sherlock Appeal</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/02/imagine-that-you-can-bully-me-chas_14.html#.U8itSvldWSo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Don't Imagine That You Can Bully Me" [CHAS]</a></li> </ul> <br /> <br /> <div style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto;"> <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/234319104/Klinger-v-Conan-Doyle-Estate-Ltd-7th-Circuit-Court-of-Appeals-Decision" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. - 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision on Scribd">Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. - 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision</a></div> <br /> --<br /> <br /> <br />

The U.S. Supreme Court Denies Conan Doyle Estate Petition

"last and highest court of appeal" [STUD]  The last month in the #FreeSherlock legal battle has been full of quick - if not ...

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Design Decoded and Sherlock Holmes

<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .75in 1.0in;"> <h4 style="text-align: center;"> "If you use the code which I have explained" [DANC] </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0AhQi2y1uRzv-FFciIRTfW7ws7jB2Tj7j9Q7a9Ty1102xDfuP_6SlgiBkLbbWzgfrnz-zLFZyzx-9Y1wMtMN89g9H1wtXT1ff6u-Bp027fUWp5rF_808CFqhJNLEoXIlrPZilcRdNxM/s1600/decoder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Decode this, Dan Brown" border="0" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0AhQi2y1uRzv-FFciIRTfW7ws7jB2Tj7j9Q7a9Ty1102xDfuP_6SlgiBkLbbWzgfrnz-zLFZyzx-9Y1wMtMN89g9H1wtXT1ff6u-Bp027fUWp5rF_808CFqhJNLEoXIlrPZilcRdNxM/s1600/decoder.jpg" title="Codex" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> In 2012 the <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/">Smithsonian</a> Web site featured an outstanding six-part Sherlockian series written by Jimmy Stamp. Stamp's <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/category/design-decoded/">Design Decoded</a> blog has addressed topics of Sherlockian interest ranging from the beehive to the telegraph, but the entries in this series are among its finest. Here are a few highlights:<br /> <br /> In <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-mystery-of-221b-baker-street-3608784/">"The Mystery of 221B Baker Street"</a> Stamp investigates the location of literature's most famous address and showcases reconstructions of the sitting room at 221B. He recapitulates a few historical realities, namely that (in the 1890's) today's Baker Street bore the names Baker Street, York Place, and Upper Baker Street, and there was no number 221. When the entire stretch of road was renamed and eventually renumbered, a battle ensued as to whether the Abbey National Building Society or the Sherlock Holmes Museum should bear the famous address. But this fracas was parenthetical to the real question, as Stamp notes: <br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> "The fact that there is no real 221 Baker Street has not stopped literary historians from speculating about which Baker Street building Doyle used as his proxy for the home of Holmes and Watson. By closely reading the texts, scholars have proposed multiple Baker Street addresses as a possible inspiration for the literary 221, yet there is no definitive answer." </blockquote> </div> <br /> The remainder of the article salutes many a faithful realization of the famous habitation. Among the featured reconstructions of the sitting room are familiar London landmarks the <a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/">Sherlock Holmes Museum</a> and the <a href="http://www.sherlockholmespub.com/">Sherlock Holmes Pub</a>; Switzerland's pair of 221Bs at the Holmes museums in <a href="http://www.sherlockholmes.ch/">Meiringen</a> and in <a href="http://www.221b.ch/Lucens_e.html">Lucens</a>; and the 221B Room in the Wilson Library at the <a href="https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/holmes">University of Minnesota</a>. Additional manifestations are mentioned in the comments, including those in <a href="http://www.221bbakerstreetla.com/">Los Angeles</a>, California; <a href="http://www.holmesroom.com/">Orlando</a>, Florida; and <a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.fr/murder-party/2-a-visit.htm">Saint-Sauvier</a>, France.<br /> <div class="MsoNormal"> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7S0Fb9w6hyphenhyphendyflhqFciy9-kJq7HnRblXtM_B6AV5HImpxPuOcUQ-tPybzoz4maMrAYstHiz_9l-7Bw-c3h3nyjhRUe86VWQq_57bFUqdj2heP7Rz4nMv0ADaqQWEFVfQQ5dlmHJ7QdI/s1600/BakerStNumbers.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="A look at the layout around Baker Street via a Grub Street project" border="0" height="555" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7S0Fb9w6hyphenhyphendyflhqFciy9-kJq7HnRblXtM_B6AV5HImpxPuOcUQ-tPybzoz4maMrAYstHiz_9l-7Bw-c3h3nyjhRUe86VWQq_57bFUqdj2heP7Rz4nMv0ADaqQWEFVfQQ5dlmHJ7QdI/s1600/BakerStNumbers.jpg" title="Baker Street, via Grub Street" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Baker Street, with its original numbering, via Grub Street Project.</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> In <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-scene-of-deduction-drawing-221b-baker-street-23049988/">"The Scene of Deduction: Drawing 221B Baker Street,"</a> Stamp examines various attempts to produce a definitive sketch of the flat, beginning with the two best-known: <a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/graphics/floorplan.jpg">Ernest H. Short's 1948 drawing</a> for the <i>Strand Magazine</i> (published in 1950) and <a href="http://www.stutler.cc/other/misc/baker_street.html">Russell Stutler's 1995 rendering</a> for the <i>Financial Times</i>. <br /> <br /> <br /> Each is impressive in its own right, and no Sherlockian collection would be complete without them, but computer-aided design has created even more possibilities. Stamp shares a lovely three-dimensional digital model of the flat from the BBC series <i>Sherlock</i>, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, and an equally impressive version of the same space rendered in Minecraft, no less. Free drafting software enables the fledgling artist in each of us to construct a 221B of his own, one that might become the blueprint for a fully-realized room one day. <br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt5qDfnMAAZp2QZHx0bLrZyfbj9LmYrGJJ7wk1TInxwbS06CstnTBdfd9G1IXAcVQgD5_ykEwGTAm-u1QzHQQzsPdviODQv0Y04XmELyc9LTqH5n48bafzo4Y01-dr4XUrhXdjEE8UeBE/s1600/TSG221Bvw2.tiff" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Mock-up of what 221B Baker Street looked like, according to Sidney Paget's drawings" border="0" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt5qDfnMAAZp2QZHx0bLrZyfbj9LmYrGJJ7wk1TInxwbS06CstnTBdfd9G1IXAcVQgD5_ykEwGTAm-u1QzHQQzsPdviODQv0Y04XmELyc9LTqH5n48bafzo4Y01-dr4XUrhXdjEE8UeBE/s1600/TSG221Bvw2.tiff" title="A Paget-inspired SketchUp model of 221B" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A Paget-inspired SketchUp model of 221B, by your humble reviewer. © 2012 Timothy S. Greer</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <br /> In <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sherlock-holmes-and-the-tools-of-deduction-10556242/">"Sherlock Holmes and the Tools of Deduction,"</a> Stamp explores the optical technologies that enable the master to perform many of his greatest feats of analysis: the magnifying glass and the microscope, identifying Holmes's employment of his "all-seeing eye" in A Study in Scarlet as the first literary example of a detective's using a convex lens to examine a crime scene. Drawing on the research of Dr. Robert Ing in "The Art of Forensic Detection and Sherlock Holmes," Stamp theorizes that the microscope Holmes preferred was likely the <a href="http://www.antique-microscopes.com/plocular.html">Powell & Lealand No. 1</a>, a beautiful and versatile instrument handsomely depicted via photographs and wood engravings, and sporting enough brass protuberances and precision gears to make any fan of steampunk go weak in the knees. <br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIfJf4KFKsA_0A-6DM3O2IO5eanXjZk-tbbi4oV1rvORdpUB8II3iaz-qmk1ped-LC5UOGZrG8aTcISI6wEHk2YzHshOTES-4Kq5-TWTysZQ1AAJPsxZjEZUlifkzfPvk_7cFAab8hYv4/s1600/IMG_0427.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="The microscope used by Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes" border="0" height="455" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIfJf4KFKsA_0A-6DM3O2IO5eanXjZk-tbbi4oV1rvORdpUB8II3iaz-qmk1ped-LC5UOGZrG8aTcISI6wEHk2YzHshOTES-4Kq5-TWTysZQ1AAJPsxZjEZUlifkzfPvk_7cFAab8hYv4/s1600/IMG_0427.jpg" title="Granada Sherlock Holmes's microscope" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Smith, Beck & Beck microscope number 4216 in the Granada Sherlock Holmes exhibit, formerly at the London Film Museum, South Bank.</span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <div> Additional entries in the series are <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-deerstalker-where-sherlock-holmes-popular-image-came-from-7325976/">"The Deerstalker: Where Sherlock Holmes' Popular Image Came From,"</a> all about the famous cap; <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-modern-sherlock-holmes-and-the-technology-of-deduction-12375649/">"A Modern Sherlock Holmes and the Technology of Deduction,"</a> on the importance of the mobile phone in the BBC's <i>Sherlock</i>; and <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-architecture-of-memory-14396375/">"The Architecture of Memory,"</a> a look at the science behind Sherlock's mind palace. All are highly recommended reading. <br /> <br /> If you enjoy this series and crave more Design Decoded-style detection, permit me to suggest the following from the annals of the Smithsonian site: <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/murder-miniature-nutshell-studies-unexplained-death-180949943/">How a Chicago Heiress Trained Homicide Detectives</a></div> <div> <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-secret-to-the-modern-beehive-is-a-one-centimeter-air-gap-4427011/">The Secret to the Modern Beehive</a><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/decoding-the-city-the-road-graffiti-placed-by-utility-workers-42822014/">Decoding the City</a><br /> <br /> --<br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .75in 1.0in;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: .75in 1.0in;"> </div> </div> <!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-6fKz_yNCTI8%2FU79Uo5FJR5I%2FAAAAAAAAAL0%2F6MOmg76o3Lo%2Fs1600%2FTSG221Bvw2.tiff&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt5qDfnMAAZp2QZHx0bLrZyfbj9LmYrGJJ7wk1TInxwbS06CstnTBdfd9G1IXAcVQgD5_ykEwGTAm-u1QzHQQzsPdviODQv0Y04XmELyc9LTqH5n48bafzo4Y01-dr4XUrhXdjEE8UeBE/s1600/TSG221Bvw2.tiff" --><!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-NEDNc_jvEys%2FU8RVWn2xJ_I%2FAAAAAAAAAMY%2F5orF5Qbk-u0%2Fs1600%2Fdecoder.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN0AhQi2y1uRzv-FFciIRTfW7ws7jB2Tj7j9Q7a9Ty1102xDfuP_6SlgiBkLbbWzgfrnz-zLFZyzx-9Y1wMtMN89g9H1wtXT1ff6u-Bp027fUWp5rF_808CFqhJNLEoXIlrPZilcRdNxM/s1600/decoder.jpg" --><!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-ElUDDR3fAAk%2FU79T6n5AzKI%2FAAAAAAAAALs%2F4nUSxZ2VRzw%2Fs1600%2FBakerStNumbers.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7S0Fb9w6hyphenhyphendyflhqFciy9-kJq7HnRblXtM_B6AV5HImpxPuOcUQ-tPybzoz4maMrAYstHiz_9l-7Bw-c3h3nyjhRUe86VWQq_57bFUqdj2heP7Rz4nMv0ADaqQWEFVfQQ5dlmHJ7QdI/s1600/BakerStNumbers.jpg" --><!-- Blogger automated replacement: "https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F--EgqcWvJsBM%2FU79VTKw3FtI%2FAAAAAAAAAMA%2FFhNpe4HkFAY%2Fs1600%2FIMG_0427.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" with "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIfJf4KFKsA_0A-6DM3O2IO5eanXjZk-tbbi4oV1rvORdpUB8II3iaz-qmk1ped-LC5UOGZrG8aTcISI6wEHk2YzHshOTES-4Kq5-TWTysZQ1AAJPsxZjEZUlifkzfPvk_7cFAab8hYv4/s1600/IMG_0427.jpg" -->

Design Decoded and Sherlock Holmes

"If you use the code which I have explained" [DANC] In 2012 the Smithsonian Web site featured an outstanding six-part Sher...

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by Tim Greer

Sherlock Holmes and Everyday Life: the Barber Shop

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "the scissors of the barber" [BLUE]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga6Pn0uNZdls7r9kM7Zen0P0750y7ZNFGV0rggi_23XmKqjM7jmstzTdvBuU5XMx-e3uE6LRMAdz2aH-VPIuufwtsQ08mEIjJe-pj1Rc6FxhXhHihAwewu8wAqp_2DAOT7PdgtrnZAEWlv/s1600/Holmes+barber.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga6Pn0uNZdls7r9kM7Zen0P0750y7ZNFGV0rggi_23XmKqjM7jmstzTdvBuU5XMx-e3uE6LRMAdz2aH-VPIuufwtsQ08mEIjJe-pj1Rc6FxhXhHihAwewu8wAqp_2DAOT7PdgtrnZAEWlv/s1600/Holmes+barber.PNG" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Some of the great Canonical omissions are those of the everyday life of the good doctor and the detective. While we're fortunate to know Dr. Watson's tobacconist (Bradley's, Oxford Street [HOUN]) and that Holmes was under the care of a Harley Street physician (Dr. Moore Agar [DEVI]), we seldom read of the mundane ins and outs of living on Baker Street.<br /> <br /> One such example is that of the local barber. There are precisely three instances of hair being cut in the Sherlock Holmes stories:<br /> <br /> <ol> <li>The recent trimmings of Henry Baker's barber that appear in his battered old hat in "The Blue Carbuncle" </li> <li>The beautiful chestnut hair that Violet Hunter, which Jephro Rucastle required to be cut quite short as a condition of Miss Hunter's employment in "The Copper Beeches."</li> <li>Holmes himself mentioned that his follicles would be groomed in "His Last Bow" as he intoned, "With my hair cut and a few other superficial changes I shall no doubt reappear at Claridge's tomorrow as I was before this American stunt."</li> </ol> <br /> We know that Holmes and Watson must have had their hair cut regularly and perhaps they even enjoyed an occasional shave at the barber shop. The Granada series, in its first round of stories dramatized with Jeremy Brett in the title role (<i>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i> - <a href="http://amzn.to/1qX1BV9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="http://amzn.to/1sRziqy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a>), gave us a marvelous glimpse into this area of Baker Street living in the opening scenes of "<a href="http://youtu.be/pgHO4Op6zc8?t=3m47s" target="_blank">The Resident Patient</a>":<br /> <br /> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="450" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/pgHO4Op6zc8?rel=0&start=227" width="600"></iframe></center> <br /> That it also includes Beethoven's Violin Concerto - our favorite piece of music - is, as Holmes put it, "an extra."<br /> <br /> Of course, the Granada series is not alone in referencing barbers. If you're a fan of the 1940s radio series with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, you may recall "<a href="https://archive.org/details/SherlockHolmes-CaseOfTheDemonBarber" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes and the Demon Barber</a>" which first aired on January 28, 1946.<br /> <br /> So imagine our amusement when our Facebook fan David Somen shared this with us, remarking, "I saw this barbers shop in Thame, Oxford, UK last week and it just tickled me."<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaZSSYhZpIkgRSbiSTNRfSggVCwXXBXB8GC0W2rEiER2KVbMBuZpRjDAn1TZxgGkRh1Ek5tcN0iKr3sAXLs9COcC5W1CV5yqZSfpQXCRyr19AMZ21dOiatMuhdVuQyNXam6HSZNHrgvtjt/s1600/Sherlock+Combs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaZSSYhZpIkgRSbiSTNRfSggVCwXXBXB8GC0W2rEiER2KVbMBuZpRjDAn1TZxgGkRh1Ek5tcN0iKr3sAXLs9COcC5W1CV5yqZSfpQXCRyr19AMZ21dOiatMuhdVuQyNXam6HSZNHrgvtjt/s1600/Sherlock+Combs.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Us too, David.<br /> <br /> What's an example of Sherlock Holmes in everyday life - or an example of everyday life in the Sherlock Holmes stories - that captures your attention?<br /> <br /> --<br /> <br /> <br />

Sherlock Holmes and Everyday Life: the Barber Shop

"the scissors of the barber" [BLUE] Some of the great Canonical omissions are those of the everyday life of the good doctor a...

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by Scott Monty

Celebrity Deathmatch Pits Sherlock Holmes Against Jack the Ripper

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "Might I trouble you for a match?" [FINA]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUCCfCoORSaU3Cty5OTqCpoCtJS9qpphr4HI7YtFY76QzUHUdW4hy3QU5-88go8Eoc8WyJsN6oTfRqmMFTeNHENchL7i1TFCLh27qHZF5LChm1EoQR53IZHVNsm6phdMuqYTjXSnVTEq44/s1600/Celebrity+Deathmatch.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="A claymation Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper - you won't believe what happens next" border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUCCfCoORSaU3Cty5OTqCpoCtJS9qpphr4HI7YtFY76QzUHUdW4hy3QU5-88go8Eoc8WyJsN6oTfRqmMFTeNHENchL7i1TFCLh27qHZF5LChm1EoQR53IZHVNsm6phdMuqYTjXSnVTEq44/s1600/Celebrity+Deathmatch.PNG" title="Celebrity Deathmatch: Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> From 1998-2002, MTV ran a claymation program called <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Deathmatch" target="_blank">Celebrity Deathmatch</a></i>. It featured two celebrities facing off in a wrestling ring and typically involved exaggerated and gruesome injuries. Examples include Marilyn Manson vs. Charles Manson, The Three Tenors vs. the Three Stooges, etc.<br /> <br /> After <a href="https://twitter.com/NickMartorelli/status/486929144379609088" target="_blank">a late-night Twitter exchange</a> with a couple of New York-area Sherlockians, we were reminded of the Celebrity Deathmatch that involved Sherlock Holmes.<br /> <br /> In this episode, we find the ringside commentators Johnny and Nick stepping out of a time machine and into the streets of Victorian London, only to find Debbie Matenopoulos being assaulted by Jack the Ripper. Then, who should appear out of the fog but Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.<br /> <br /> The crowd begins to gather around as one announcer observes, "Every walk of London's pub crawl life is here: ruffians, scalliwags, and I think I just spotted a hooligan."<br /> <br /> And with that, "It's brainiac vs. maniac!"<br /> <br /> <h3> <b>WARNING</b>: graphic claymation content</h3> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/349969244" width="640"></iframe><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://vimeo.com/349969244">Celebrity Deathmatch</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user101140908">IHearOf Sherlock</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div> <br /> --<br /> <br />

Celebrity Deathmatch Pits Sherlock Holmes Against Jack the Ripper

"Might I trouble you for a match?" [FINA] From 1998-2002, MTV ran a claymation program called Celebrity Deathmatch . It feat...

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A New Female Sidekick on Elementary

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "This is Miss Kitty Winter" [ILLU]</h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicMemjCQtaf4Er7shQloauvGxx9c4qLeMaye7y2Defa6gXnTEYUn2XNHS3qJJ44RDBYAeKKMhyphenhyphen0suh_UQ5IjlCpGZkGhkFuhzVbkOHf0fj5l7N-SFvmySstwOXjaii_wy_d8CLdRrwMYWc/s1600/Elementary+-+Kitty+Winter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicMemjCQtaf4Er7shQloauvGxx9c4qLeMaye7y2Defa6gXnTEYUn2XNHS3qJJ44RDBYAeKKMhyphenhyphen0suh_UQ5IjlCpGZkGhkFuhzVbkOHf0fj5l7N-SFvmySstwOXjaii_wy_d8CLdRrwMYWc/s1600/Elementary+-+Kitty+Winter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> As <i><a href="http://amzn.to/1lZ6Kpo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elementary</a></i> has been renewed for a third season on CBS, the team is pairing up Sherlock Holmes with another female.<br /> <br /> The climax of season 2 saw Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) moving out of the brownstone that Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) shares with her, and Holmes heading over the pond to help out MI6.<br /> <br /> Once there in season 3, he'll unite with his protegee, Kitty Winter, who will be played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1166041/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">Ophelia Lovibond</a>. The role is expected to be similar to that of Watson, although there's no news on whether she's a sober companion. This will be a recurring role for Ms. Lovibond, which means that like the overused Irene Adler, we'll get to know this character all too well.<br /> <br /> Of course, Kitty Winter originally appeared in "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client," where she was located  by Shinwell Johnson upon a request by Sherlock Holmes. She had knowledge of Baron Gruner and gave personal testimony to Violet DeMerville, to prevent her marriage to the baron. We'll leave this spoiler-free for those of you who haven't yet read the story. But we do recommend you listen to our Kitty Winter promotion in <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/06/episode-65-art-in-blood.html#.U793tPldWSo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 65</a>.<br /> <br /> Because Elementary is only loosely based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and plots, here's no telling what this Kitty Winter will do. You'll have to stay tuned throughout the season. We'll be following along as well, as our correspondent James O'Leary has a particular passion for the show.<br /> <br /> Incidentally, Ms. Lovibond played another Kitty - Kitty Carlton - in the Encore series <i><a href="http://amzn.to/1mF3YKf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Titanic: Blood and Steel</a></i>, a dramatization around the building of the <i>RMS Titanic</i>.<br /> <br /> <i>Source: <a href="http://tvline.com/2014/07/10/elementary-ophelia-lovibond-season-3-sherlocks-protege/" target="_blank">TV Line</a></i><br /> --<br /> <br /> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ac&ref=qf_sp_asin_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=thebakerstree-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B00CL151G4&asins=B00CL151G4&linkId=MM2SBKLBL7FAAQ2N&show_border=false&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"> </iframe>    <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ac&ref=qf_sp_asin_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=thebakerstree-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B00CYQXBSQ&asins=B00CYQXBSQ&linkId=SXDKDFD7MZUHZGVO&show_border=false&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"> </iframe>

A New Female Sidekick on Elementary

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First Look at Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> "Really, Mr. Holmes, this exceeds anything which I could have imagined" [HOUN]</h4> <div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAOu78nMQyTnLvqCDXJ7g1Z0HR-UukKf9SUcOSK9jvTY2WmgN4t25BoJIMF_XPVEzaAP3BoVwyeUJkzvZP30IiLLrXw_7g598fJZkc9pIRel5rGDwG2xM21TMCqtf1PM2gzezULR9lxiy/s1600/sherlock-holmes-ian-mckellen-first-look-mr-holmes-hd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sherlock Holmes at 93" border="0" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAOu78nMQyTnLvqCDXJ7g1Z0HR-UukKf9SUcOSK9jvTY2WmgN4t25BoJIMF_XPVEzaAP3BoVwyeUJkzvZP30IiLLrXw_7g598fJZkc9pIRel5rGDwG2xM21TMCqtf1PM2gzezULR9lxiy/s1600/sherlock-holmes-ian-mckellen-first-look-mr-holmes-hd.jpg" title="The new face of Sherlock Holmes" width="640" /></a></div> <br /></div> <div> This week, we were treated to a first look of the latest Sherlock Holmes.<br /> <br /> No, it wasn't Benedict Cumberbatch in Series 4 of Sherlock, nor was it Robert Downey, Jr. in the <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2011/04/episode-32-untitled-les-klinger-sequel.html#.U79pEPldWSo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Untitled Sherlock Holmes Sequel</a>.<br /> <br /> It was none other than Sir Ian McKellen, who in a flash of 21st century Hollywood promotion, tweeted:<br /> <br /> <center> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> Over 70 actors have previously played Sherlock Holmes. Now he's 93 years old and it's my turn. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MrHolmes?src=hash">#MrHolmes</a> <a href="http://t.co/B9HkUgfkCv">pic.twitter.com/B9HkUgfkCv</a><br /> — Ian McKellen (@IanMcKellen) <a href="https://twitter.com/IanMcKellen/statuses/486908310147194880">July 9, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></center> <br /> You'll recall that we initially covered the project on September 5, 2013 ("<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/09/sir-ian-mckellen-is-sherlock-holmes.html#.U79povldWSp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sir Ian McKellen *Is* Sherlock Holmes</a>"). At the time, the film was said to be based on Mitch Cullen's <i>A Slight Trick of the Mind</i> (<a href="http://amzn.to/1y1saus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="http://amzn.to/1rcYlE7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a>).<br /> <br /></div> <div> In what might be called <b><i>A Slight Trick of the Hollywood Executive</i></b>, the movie does not take its title from the Mitch Cullen book upon which it is based, but rather goes with the title <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3168230/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_2" target="_blank">Mr. Holmes</a></i>, evidently attempting to capture on <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/06/new-sherlock-holmes-boom-what-new.html#.U79q8_ldWSo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Holmes-mania that is once again gripping the public's imagination</a>.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC_7Hc-aXcR_ZiQBgveO4UDI-gbEcZcubCXc75HRqOZ9cSgxnLPlpCWc0R-a1xqhi52ssK6Vt1vXrSmSBJqkPOlSQyY2cFnL1IIvj42TWVGS5fvqkuMJ2Yj_sAsgFSGs2vxn_x-4tTLH9D/s1600/Ian+McKellen+as+Mr.+Holmes.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC_7Hc-aXcR_ZiQBgveO4UDI-gbEcZcubCXc75HRqOZ9cSgxnLPlpCWc0R-a1xqhi52ssK6Vt1vXrSmSBJqkPOlSQyY2cFnL1IIvj42TWVGS5fvqkuMJ2Yj_sAsgFSGs2vxn_x-4tTLH9D/s1600/Ian+McKellen+as+Mr.+Holmes.png" width="397" /></a></div> <br /></div> <div> The look is reminiscent of Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqEjRlV39IDbMS-6X-FutW8udqwRyrFgEPR9CcPhyqBb0I1OyZkjgboSDeEiQ5be9OLmzmF8Eb-unOfmmQyFYwHDo1UTQwAvm8luCKJYD4WJREzE6xcjEfMmABabAp-DgLvGs4bXAL7rf/s1600/Peter+Cushing+as+Sherlock+Holmes+on+the+moor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sherlock Holmes on the moor - Peter Cushing in The Hound of the Baskervilles" border="0" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqEjRlV39IDbMS-6X-FutW8udqwRyrFgEPR9CcPhyqBb0I1OyZkjgboSDeEiQ5be9OLmzmF8Eb-unOfmmQyFYwHDo1UTQwAvm8luCKJYD4WJREzE6xcjEfMmABabAp-DgLvGs4bXAL7rf/s1600/Peter+Cushing+as+Sherlock+Holmes+on+the+moor.jpg" title="Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> The story is set in 1947, where Sherlock Holmes is enjoying his retirement in Sussex, keeping bees and a journal. He recalls one of his greatest challenges - one that involved his housekeeper and her amateur detective son.</div> <div> <br /> The film's release date is set for 2015 and is currently in pre-production. .<br /> <br /> McKellen is a highly respected actor with legions of young fans from his appearances in the Lord of the Rings and X-Men movies, and dozens of awards from his acclaimed work. And he has grasped the power of social media (particularly Twitter) as he and good friend Sir Patrick Stewart have taken the platform by storm, with more than 1 million followers each.<br /> <br /> <center> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> Phoneboxes! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gogodididonyc?src=hash">#gogodididonyc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TwoPlaysInRep">@TwoPlaysInRep</a> 11 shows left! <a href="http://t.co/IyhJYByPKo">pic.twitter.com/IyhJYByPKo</a><br /> — Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) <a href="https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/statuses/447405362837483520">March 22, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <br /><br /> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"> Okay Twitterverse, Caption This! <a href="http://t.co/LTv6H5VbhG">pic.twitter.com/LTv6H5VbhG</a><br /> — Ian McKellen (@IanMcKellen) <a href="https://twitter.com/IanMcKellen/statuses/476066304911491073">June 9, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> </center> <br /> We're confident that Sir Ian's considerable skill will bring humanity and mature reflection to the character of Mr. Holmes. What do you think?<br /> <br /> --<br /> <br /></div> -- <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ac&ref=qf_sp_asin_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=thebakerstree-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=1400078229&asins=1400078229&linkId=F5T6T4KXMZ7HLINI&show_border=false&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"> </iframe>  <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/e/cm?t=thebakstrblo-21&o=2&p=8&l=as1&asins=1782113304&ref=qf_sp_asin_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=FFFFFF&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe>

First Look at Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes

"Really, Mr. Holmes, this exceeds anything which I could have imagined" [HOUN] This week, we were treated to a first look o...

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