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Stephen Fry to Play Mycroft Holmes

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Reader Al Gregory, BSI ("The Grimpen Postmaster") has shared an image of Stephen Fry from the set of <i><a href="https://amzn.to/34cv0D5" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows</a></i>. <br />
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Fry is playing Mycroft Holmes (<a href="http://www.ihearfosherlock.com/2010/09/mycroft-one-of-queerest-men-gree.html" target="_blank">reported on these pages last September</a>), who as you know was Sherlock Holmes's older (and larger) brother. Here we bring you the exchange between Holmes and Watson in "The Greek Interpreter" on the way to see Mycroft:<br />
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"I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He would not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right. Again and again I have taken a problem to him, and have received an explanation which has afterwards proved to be the correct one. And yet he was absolutely incapable of working out the practical points which must be gone into before a case could be laid before a judge or jury."</blockquote>
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"It is not his profession, then?"</blockquote>
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"By no means. What is to me a means of livelihood is to him the merest hobby of a dilettante. He has an extraordinary faculty for figures, and audits the books in some of the Government departments. Mycroft lodges in Pall Mall, and he walks round the corner into Whitehall every morning and back every evening. From year's end to year's end he takes no other exercise, and is seen nowhere else, except only in the Diogenes Club, which is just opposite his rooms."</blockquote>
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And the image of Fry as Mycroft:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: <a href="http://www.splashnewsonline.com/2010-11-25/robert-downey-jr-stephen-fry-jude-law-film-sherlock-holmes-in-london/">Splash News Online</a></td></tr>
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There have been a handful of other Mycroft impersonators on the screen, from the stately via <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZyPkuY" target="_blank">Christopher Lee</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00005JKHF" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> and <a href="https://amzn.to/34crsB2" target="_blank">Charles Gray</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00005YTR8" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, to the relatively lean <a href="https://amzn.to/2L4j3YC" target="_blank">Mark Gatiss</a> (with the exception of "The Abominable Bride)<img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B004132HZS" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> and <a href="https://amzn.to/2L38Go1" target="_blank">Richard E. Grant</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0000CERP3" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />, and probably the most visually correct <a href="https://amzn.to/2UjA1FI" target="_blank">Robert Morley</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0048NRQH0" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />. We wonder how Mr. Fry, who in his Mycroftian Jeeves from the celebrated <a href="https://amzn.to/2L6aCw4" target="_blank">Jeeves and Wooster</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001V7UXG2" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> series, will stack up.<br />
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Stephen Fry to Play Mycroft Holmes

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"Long Shadows Trailed Down" [HOUN]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT1199SCRx9J-0aebDo1UQSLQQn4edAIXww0gFIR5nCVtUr6dPgGh-HVPg6JY97aMRjQNYVfehHCfpd_G0PSwbtbRAdGg3bxq_1rbf5rbE3QCSXKt7MQpN8bBEI-YXsH5e0DBxOY9rnf7m/s1600/GAME-Poster1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT1199SCRx9J-0aebDo1UQSLQQn4edAIXww0gFIR5nCVtUr6dPgGh-HVPg6JY97aMRjQNYVfehHCfpd_G0PSwbtbRAdGg3bxq_1rbf5rbE3QCSXKt7MQpN8bBEI-YXsH5e0DBxOY9rnf7m/s320/GAME-Poster1.jpg" width="199" /></a></div>It's here.<br /><br />The first full trailer for <a href="http://sherlockholmes2.warnerbros.com/">Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows</a>, the long-awaited sequel to the original <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Blu-ray-Robert-Downey/dp/B001OQCV6K?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001OQCV6K" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /></b> starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, has arrived.<br /><br />Some key points from the plot description on <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/sherlockholmesagameofshadows/">iTunes Trailers</a> (click for various sizes), edited for our audience:<br /><blockquote>The duo return as the intrepid sleuth and his faithful friend and colleague, but this time face a more menacing villain: none other than the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris). When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), suggests suicide. But Holmes knows better, deducing that the prince has been  murdered.  Holmes tracks the clues to the Diogenes Club, where - you guessed it - he and his brother, Mycroft (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr. Watson on the night before his marriage. Enter the non-Canonical Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller, who becomes another target in a the larger puzzle that Moriarty has crafted.  </blockquote><blockquote>The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland (!). But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction--all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history. </blockquote>We're pleased to be able to bring you <a href="http://youtu.be/lNxhpNpnAkk">the first trailer of the sequel</a> - a trailer, incidentally, where we're able to see Moriarty for the first time - with a beard. If you thought there were an overabundance of explosions in the first film, then hang onto your mouse.<br /><br /><br /><br /><center><object height="349" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lNxhpNpnAkk?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lNxhpNpnAkk?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="349" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></center><br /><br /><br />And if you'd like a look at the posters, here are the current ones, courtesy of <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/movie-stills/gallery/3086/sherlock-holmes-ii-stills#photo0">Yahoo! Movies</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><center><iframe align="center" frameborder="0" height="500" scrolling="no" src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?group_id=&user_id=39297597@N00&set_id=72157627058381653&text=" width="500"></iframe><br /><small>Created with <a href="http://www.admarket.se/" title="Admarket.se">Admarket's</a> <a href="http://flickrslidr.com/" title="flickrSLiDR">flickrSLiDR</a>.</small></center><br /><br /><i>Please consider visiting our sponsors (in the right column and footer of the site) from time to time. It helps defray the costs associated with running this site.</i> <br />--

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"Where All Gossip is Welcome" [VALL] - June 2011

<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDN_PS7Fjc41uB79BLQ7V_9MUcAzaUgY50Pl3zfplavu2ka1sEl6c88Nqdhop4jZRNr14Y_J2iWvPbL6e264UwY5znxdMv2ReH3xVdaNSknlKuFqhchFncT8qv6Ws4NhZSlFFWvhmP2VPI/s1600/blackpeter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDN_PS7Fjc41uB79BLQ7V_9MUcAzaUgY50Pl3zfplavu2ka1sEl6c88Nqdhop4jZRNr14Y_J2iWvPbL6e264UwY5znxdMv2ReH3xVdaNSknlKuFqhchFncT8qv6Ws4NhZSlFFWvhmP2VPI/s1600/blackpeter.jpg" /></a></div>This is the latest issue of Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, Peter Blau's ("Black Peter") monthly newsletter of Sherlockian or Doylean gossip, published in print form since 1971 and as <a href="http://members.cox.net/sherlock1/scuttle.htm">a text-only digital archive on Sherlocktron</a> since 1985. In agreement with Peter Blau, we've arranged to publish facsimiles of the print newsletter here, so online readers can see what the newsletter looks like. 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"A Horror of Destroying Documents" [MUSG]

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Television-Sherlock-Holmes-Peter-Haining/dp/0863697933?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="The Television Sherlock Holmes" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0863697933&tag=thebakerstree-20" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0863697933" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />I've always had a fascination for television pilots - it is interesting to see the original "take" of a series, or even the unseen concepts that could have potentially led to series, but failed. For me, hearing of a pilot disappearing or not being available is like Holmes' fear of destroying documents about his cases: I enjoy viewing the details of what might have been - as well as what happened. <br /><br />For Sherlockians, a very important (and more recent) example is Stephen Moffatt's initial hour long pilot for the BBC series <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Season-Blu-ray-Benedict-Cumberbatch/dp/B004132I20?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Sherlock</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B004132I20" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />. </b>Although the pilot was scrapped, despite British press to the contrary, having an initial "take" allowed the producers to create a more full-blooded version. Thankfully, the hour long pilot is a bonus feature on disc 2 of the DVD, and is well worth watching, especially knowing that there is going to be a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/05_may/16/sherlock.shtml">second season</a>. (Although there was a pilot based on <b><a href="http://www.bakerstreetblog.com/2011/06/every-modern-improvement-milv.html">Zero Effect</a></b>, sadly it is unavailable commercially or otherwise, but <a href="http://www.chronologicalsnobbery.com/2008/01/zero-effect-television-pilot-2002.html">we know something of its history</a>).<br /><br />Thankfully, however, at least one "failed" pilot exists - thanks to the <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/SherlockHolmes-TheManWhoDisappearedfailedPilot">Internet Archive</a>, there is a record of a 1951 British pilot produced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Cartier">Rudolph Cartier</a>, best known for his work on the seminal British science fiction serial <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Quatermass-Pit-Classic-Television-Starring/dp/B0038MC1FO?ie=UTF8&tag=thebakerstree-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Quartermass</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thebakerstree-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0038MC1FO" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> </b>(itself, one would argue, influenced by Holmes).<br /><br />So for your enjoyment, here is a "lost" British pilot, loosely based on<a href="http://www.artintheblood.com/twis/twisintro.htm"> "The Man With the Twisted Lip" [TWIS]</a> And please share in the comments your thoughts and impressions of this "lost" Holmes pilot.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><center><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="506" width="425"><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen"><param value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"><param value="high" name="quality"><param value="true" name="cachebusting"><param value="#000000" name="bgcolor"><param name="movie" value="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf"><param value="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':['format=Thumbnail?.jpg',{'autoPlay':false,'url':'SherlockHolmes-TheManWhoDisappeared_512kb.mp4'}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/SherlockHolmes-TheManWhoDisappearedfailedPilot/','scaling':'fit','provider':'h264streaming'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':true,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true}},'h264streaming':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.1.swf'}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}" name="flashvars"><embed src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="506" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" cachebusting="true" bgcolor="#000000" quality="high" flashvars="config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':['format=Thumbnail?.jpg',{'autoPlay':false,'url':'SherlockHolmes-TheManWhoDisappeared_512kb.mp4'}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http://www.archive.org/download/SherlockHolmes-TheManWhoDisappearedfailedPilot/','scaling':'fit','provider':'h264streaming'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':true,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true}},'h264streaming':{'url':'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.1.swf'}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}"> </object></center><br /><i><br /></i><br /><i>Editor's note: Gordon regularly covers the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the entertainment industry. 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