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Ceiling Collapses During Sherlock Holmes Play

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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25458009" target="_blank">The BBC are reporting</a> that the ceiling at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in London has collapsed on the audience below. There are currently said to be about 80 injuries, five of which are serious.</center>
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The tragedy occurred at a sold-out performance of <a href="http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time-at-the-apollo-theatre" target="_blank"><i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</i></a>, an Olivier Award-winning play that has been playing at the Apollo since March of this year and running in London since August 2012. The play is based on the novel <i><a href="http://amzn.to/1erz9H2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</a></i> by Mark Haddon, about a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome who discovers a murdered dog.<br />
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The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Theatre" target="_blank">Apollo Theatre</a> is over 100 years old, having been built in 1901, and is a Grade II listed building in London's West End. It contains 775 seats on four levels, and the first play performed there was <i>The Belle of Bohemia </i>(no mention of Irene Adler). Over the years, it has been home to such productions as <i>Journey's End</i> starring Laurence Olivier, <i>Idiot's Delight</i> with Raymond Massey, Noel Coward's, <i>Private Lives</i>, <i>Treasure Hunt</i> directed by John Gielgud, David Storey's <i>Home</i> with Ralph Richardson, <i>Separate Tables</i> with John Mills and <i>Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell </i>starring Peter O'Toole. [Did you find the Sherlock Holmes connection in all of those?]<br />
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We're hoping that the injuries are not life-threatening and that the rescue crews are able to do their jobs without interference.<br />
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<i>Image credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/6438254647" target="_blank">ell brown (Flickr)</a></i><br />
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Ceiling Collapses During Sherlock Holmes Play

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by Scott Monty

My Sherlockian Holiday Reading List

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As we start to wind down the year and get ready for the holiday, I for one am looking forward to a week off and some time to catch up on some reading. I have this habit, which drives my wife crazy, of reading more than one book at a time. I do this partly because I always have one physical book and one digital and partly because there are just too many books to read and I'm like a kid in a candy store.<br />
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Digitally I'm currently reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1597801607/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1597801607&linkCode=as2&tag=theconblo04-20" target="_blank"><i>The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i></a>, which is a great collection of stories by some very well known authors like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, BSI ("The Devil's Foot"), and others. The premise of these stories being much more fantastical and well..."improbable."<br />
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My physical pastiche is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1781165416/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1781165416&linkCode=as2&tag=theconblo04-20" target="_blank"><i>The Stuff of Nightmares</i></a> by James Lovegrove, which was published by Titan Books along with <i><b>The Will of the Dead</b></i>, which <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/12/sherlock-holmes-vs-iron-man.html" target="_blank">you can read my review here</a>.<br />
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This summer my family and I stopped by this wonderful little used bookstore in Seattle and I bought<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517203383/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0517203383&linkCode=as2&tag=theconblo04-20" target="_blank"><i>The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes</i></a>, which was co-written by Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Sir Arthur, and mystery writer John Dickson Carr. I've heard mixed reviews but I'm interested to see how the Son of Doyle fills his father's shoes (although you have to wonder how much he actually wrote and how much Carr was the driving force).<br />
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At that same used bookstore I picked up <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/051703817X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=051703817X&linkCode=as2&tag=theconblo04-20" target="_blank"><i>Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street</i></a> by William S. Baring-Gould, BSI ("The <i>Gloria Scott</i>"). I've heard really good things about this one but haven't read it yet myself. While it's not a pastiche in the traditional sense, it's a biography of Sherlock Holmes written as if he were a real person, with details of his life and character extracted from the pages of his stories.<br />
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That alone will more than keep me busy for the holiday week but I still have a stack of pastiches to read after these (I have another terrible habit of buying way more books than I can read). So to give you a peak at what I'll be reviewing next year here's what else is currently sitting unread on my bookshelf.<br />
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As soon as I heard that it had been picked up to be made into a movie staring Ian McKellen as a past-his-prime Holmes, I managed to pick up a used but near perfect first edition of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400078229/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1400078229&linkCode=as2&tag=theconblo04-20" target="_blank"><i>A Slight Trick of the Mind</i></a> by Mitch Cullin.<br />
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I had bought <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316197017/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0316197017&linkCode=as2&tag=theconblo04-20" target="_blank"><i>The House of Silk</i></a> by Anthony Horowitz new before I moved back from London and still haven't cracked the cover. This being the most recent "blessed" works by the Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd. and a best seller, I'm looking forward to reading it.<br />
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Now that my kids know I'm reviewing Sherlock Holmes books they want me to review the young adult series, The Young Sherlock Holmes by Andrew Lane. My teenage daughter really enjoyed them so at some point I may start with the first book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ8A93A/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AZ8A93A&linkCode=as2&tag=theconblo04-20" target="_blank"><i>Death Cloud</i></a>.<br />
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I'd love to hear what you'll be reading this holiday break. Do you have any pastiche recommendations that you'd like to see me review next year? Let me know in the comments.<br />
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My Sherlockian Holiday Reading List

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The Making of that Extraordinary Wholock Video

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"Omne ignotum, pro magnifico." [REDH]</h4>
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The<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/12/this-fan-created-wholock-video-is.html#.Uq-CNfSIC-0" target="_blank"> fan-created Wholock video</a> that showed Sherlock Holmes meeting The Doctor generated over one million views in just five days. Everyone from the blogs to traditional media outlets have been lauding the creativity and masterful execution of the video.<br />
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But did you find yourself wondering how it was all done? That is, what was the technical process that went into creating this remarkable video? Wonder no more, as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zrn37KzxuE" target="_blank">we have that video here</a>:<br />
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What surprised you the most about this? Have you got another instance of fan-generated content that you think is worth sharing? Let us know in the comments section below.<br />
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The Making of that Extraordinary Wholock Video

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Remembering Sherlock Holmes Actor Peter O'Toole

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Legendary stage and screen actor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000564/" target="_blank">Peter O'Toole</a> has passed away at the age of 81. His family and publicist reported today that he died peacefully on December 14 at Wellington Hospital in London after a long illness.<br />
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O'Toole's first major screen success was of course via <i>Lawrence of Arabia</i>, the 1962 David Lean masterpiece, in which he played T.E. Lawrence. Some of the other great films and roles for which he was known included <i>Man of La Mancha</i>, <i>The Lion in Winter</i>, <i>What's New Pussycat</i>, and <i>Goodbye, Mr. Chips</i>. Over the course of his career, he was nominated for eight Oscar awards, having finally received recognition from his peers with an honorary Oscar in 2003.<br />
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Irish by birth, O'Toole was lauded by Michael Higgins, the president of Ireland today who said, "He had a deep interest in literature and a love of Shakespearean sonnets in particular." His love of literature might be what attracted him to the role of Sherlock Holmes in 1983.<br />
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Over the course of four animated films, Peter O'Toole played a two-dimensional (<a href="http://betterholmesandgardens.blogspot.com/2011/09/sherlock-holmes-on-screen-sherlock.html" target="_blank">some might say a uni-dimensional</a>) Sherlock Holmes. The films were a valiant attempt at bringing all four of the longer stories to the screen and adapting them for children's viewing. They included Sherlock Holmes and: <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, <i>The Sign of Four</i>, <i>The Baskerville Curse</i>, and <i>The Valley of Fear</i>.<br />
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Here's a clip from the final film:<br />
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If you'd like to watch them on your own, Amazon has each available via its streaming service or you can buy the box set as <i><a href="http://amzn.to/1j9sHqg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: The Animated Collection</a></i> for just $26.99. If your appetite is more toward live-action films, then perhaps O'Toole's turn as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in <i><a href="http://amzn.to/18KtQLd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fairy Tale: A True Story</a></i> is more for you. That was a dramatization of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies" target="_blank">Cottingley Fairie</a>s photo sensation, which involved Doyle. Look for Harvey Keitel as Harry Houdini in the same film as well.<br />
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One thing that we've always wondered: what would the Irish Peter O'Toole have been like as an older Sherlock Holmes in his Altamont disguise in "His Last Bow"? While the headgear isn't quite right, here are a couple of images to compare the two:<br />
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R.I.P. Peter O'Toole. Your talent and <i>joie de vivre</i> will be missed. To borrow a phrase from Lawrence of Arabia,<br />
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"Ooh! It damn well 'urts!"<br />
"Certainly it hurts."<br />
"What's the trick then?"<br />
"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts."</blockquote>
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