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When a House Is a Holmes

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I write about pastiches here on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, and while pastiches normally refer to written works, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastiche" target="_blank">pastiche</a> is actually any work of art that imitates the style or character of another. That makes one of my all time favorite shows, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008P9M614?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393185&creativeASIN=B008P9M614&linkCode=shr&tag=theconblo04-20&creativeASIN=B008P9M614" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">House M.D.</a></i> a pastiche. <br />
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Long before Robert Downey Jr., sporting a respectable British accent, took up the role as Sherlock Holmes in 2009, or Benedict Cumberbatch brought the great detective into the 21st century in 2010, or Johnny Lee Miller brought a modern Sherlock to America in 2012 with <i>Elementary</i>, Hugh Laurie, with a spot on American accent in 2004, starred in probably the most subtly-blatant Sherlock Holmes characters of all times, the award winning and internationally successful TV series, <i>House M.D.</i> <br />
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Something that amazed me about the show and its success was how few people knew it was based on Sherlock Holmes (or how many people didn't know Hugh Laurie was British, with a very proper, almost posh accent). <br />
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Ever since the show ended in 2012 many of it's fans (myself included) have been lamenting the passing of the show. And it took a long time for the shows to be released on DVD (I was told this was because of rights disagreements between Fox and NBC Studios), and it took even longer for the show to be made available for streaming online (legally at least). But as of the first of this month, I was thrilled to learn that both <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WCT7M8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000WCT7M8&linkCode=as2&tag=theconblo04-20">Amazon</a> and <a href="http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/House_M.D./70136117?trkid=13462100">Netflix </a>have picked up the show for streaming online. <br />
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For those who were familiar with Doyle's work, the fact that House was a retelling of Sherlock Holmes was probably obvious, but let's look at the evidence:<br />
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<li>House is a synonym for the Holmes homophone, "homes." </li>
<li>House's best friend, a doctor, is Wilson and Holmes best friend, a doctor is Watson - only two letters different. </li>
<li>In the TV series House uses a cane, while in the books, it's Watson that has a cane. </li>
<li>Both House and Holmes share the love of a musical instrument. For House it's the piano, not the violin. (Side note, Hugh Laurie is also an excellent pianist, which I'm sure is why they chose it.) </li>
<li>Both use narcotics, although Holmes use is limited to when he's not working as a way to fight off boredom, while House uses his pain killers to enable him to work. </li>
<li>They both have little to no interest in the person involved in their investigation, just in solving the case. </li>
<li>While Holmes loved going to the opera, House loved going to monster truck shows. </li>
<li>The original inspiration for Holmes was a doctor. </li>
<li>And like Holmes, House fakes his own death. </li>
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There are of course many other references and Easter eggs scattered throughout the series but without giving too much away, here are a few of the more obvious ones: women with the last name Adler appear twice, Moriarty is referenced in the end of season two, and in one scene the address on House's drivers license might seem familiar to readers of this blog.<br />
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Many of the pastiche elements are intentionally contradictory to the source of the inspiration. But, to me, that's part of what makes the show so great. It is inspired by the best of Sherlock Holmes, gives a cheeky wink and a nod to other elements, and sticks to the spirit of the consulting directive, but House is its own show and doesn't rely on the connection to Sherlock Holmes to drive the story, just to inspire it.<br />
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Related: read about the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture by <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2012/01/technical-character-spec_13.html" target="_blank">Lisa Sanders, the technical/medical adviser for <i>House, M.D.</i></a></div>
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When a House Is a Holmes

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by Tac Anderson

221B Con - Fandom In Its Infinite Variety

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I will admit to being a neophile – I look forward to hearing about anything new. But, alas, there is not time enough even to begin to keep up with it all. I knew that many different types of fan conventions have been held over the years – back in 1979 I was in San Francisco and accidentally walked into a Star Trek convention. As a reader of science fiction I was aware of <a href="http://www.bouchercon.info/" target="_blank">BoucherCon</a>.  I also vaguely knew that the genre ‘fan fiction’ existed – after all what Sherlockian doesn’t enjoy a good pastiche.<br />
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But I really didn’t know much about the fanatics who follow the BBC's <i>Sherlock</i> and have become devotees of the Master – and in ways surprising to this old campaigner.  The city of Atlanta hosted <a href="http://www.221bcon.com/" target="_blank">221B Con</a> on the weekend of April  4-6, 2014 with over 1,000 in attendance. Not surprising, you may say. After all, Sherlock Holmes is beloved by millions, and the BBC series as well as <i>Elementary</i> and the Robert Downey, Jr. movies have generated a fair amount of commentary even amongst curmudgeonly old Sherlockians who may prefer to light up a fine cigar, sip a snifter of brandy and discuss the original stories in the comfort of an over-stuffed leather chair in their club’s private library – not that there is anything wrong with that, as they say on <i>Seinfeld</i>.<br />
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221B Con is in its second year.  In 2013 the organizers, I was informed, expected about 70 attendees – 700 showed up! The 2014 version was, to use my 1960’s parlance, mind-blowing, a real trip, and even psychedelic! Or to use the analogy of a fellow Sherlockian who is also a Lewis Carroll fan, it was a journey “down the rabbit hole” to follow a new trail that has suddenly appeared, solely for the excitement of a surprising adventure and discovery of the unusual. A fan convention, or at least <i>this</i> fan convention, was a combination of presentations, panel discussions, showings of old and new SH media portrayals, book signings, an actual tea party where Mrs. Hudson (Marilynne McKay, BSI, ASH in Victorian costume) helped serve the attendees, performances by the <a href="http://www.artc.org/" target="_blank">Atlanta Radio Theater Company</a> (shades of Friends of Bogey’s on Baker Street!) and the steam-punk band, <a href="http://www.theextraordinarycontraptions.com/" target="_blank">The Extraordinary Contraptions</a>, vendor tables and a costume contest!<br />
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Even at that 1979 Star Trek fancon there were Klingons, Spocks, Kirks, Uhurus, and McCoys in abundance. But imagine my surprise when I walked into the Marriott to be greeted by Hugh Hefner and five Baker Street Bunnies (AKA Cumber-bunnies?) and an <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2012/04/episode-41-woman.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Irene Adler straight out of BBC <i>Sherlock</i></a>, with riding crop and sheer see-through dominatrix outfit. There were plenty of Sherlocks and Johns, Marys (in their black-op spy outfits), Mrs. Hudsons and even Moose-croft and Deer-lock (don’t make me explain).  Cosplay at 221B Con goes far beyond the wearing of a deerstalker or Inverness cape seen at t<a href="http://bsiweekend.com/" target="_blank">he annual birthday weekend in New York City</a>.  <br />
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Programs included, but not limited to: The Napoleon of Crime, Minorities in Elementary, Canon 101, Brett vs. Rathbone, Holmes Through the Years, Art in the Blood, ACD’s Other Works, From Baker Street to the Holodeck, Teaching Sherlock Holmes, History of Fingerprinting, Burke vs, Hardwicke, Russian Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Occult (at which I presented a recording of a conversation with ACD from the ‘beyond’!). But most of the panels I attended were more like discussions led by the panelists with the audience than they were formal presentations.  And there was SherlockImprov, a live-action combination of cosplay and improv where the audience participated in mini-dramas created on the spot. This was not a sedate discussion of finer points in the Canon. This was 1,000 people showing their love for Holmes and Watson – not to mention a substantial sub-group showing and approving of Sherlock’s love <i>for</i> Watson (shades of Rex Stout who wrote Watson was a woman!). At Fandom Stats – a quantitative look at Sherlock’s fandom – I learned that approximately 35% of fan-written fiction is X-rated!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hot Off the Presses Panel (L to R): Jacqueline Morris, ASH, BSI, Scintillation of Scions;  Mark Alberstat, BSI, Editor of Canadian Holmes Journal,Toronto Bootmakers;  Marilynne McKay, ASH, BSI, Confederates of Wisteria Lodge</td></tr>
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Kudos to the organizers for making <a href="http://beaconsociety.com/" target="_blank">The Beacon Society</a> the official charity of 221B Con. People made donations to their favorite ‘ships’ – and we are not talking about the barque <i>Lone Star</i> or the <i>Matilda Briggs</i>. They were voting for their favorite romantic relation<i>ships</i> – such as JohnLock, gay John and Sherlock, or Mollylock or even the time traveling crossover WhoLock! The fandom at 221B Con is all about diversity.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baker Street Babe Lyndsay Faye, BSI, ASH: From Baker Street to Holodeck</td></tr>
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Every generation is free to keep green the memory of the Master as they see fit. Older generations may chafe at what they consider outlandish interpretations of Holmes and Watson. But in speaking with many of the younger, and mostly female, Sherlockians in attendance I found that as a group they were very aware of the original stories and enjoyed them immensely, that many knew of the ‘traditional’ scion societies and did participate, and were keen researchers of Doyle and all things Sherlockian.<br />
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I was very envious of a young woman who had not yet finished reading all of the original stories – she could pit her deductive skills against Holmes without being aware of the solution to a story’s conundrum. I have often wished that I could have my memory of the stories selectively erased so I could read them anew again and again. Also, as a group, many were <a href="http://ihearofsherlock.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr</a> users - a platform where they can read and post fanfic, pictures, drawings, links, video or audio clips of their favorite actors or authors.  And while I personally will never wear a hand-knitted camouflage deerstalker, I will always defend another fan’s right to do so!<br />
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Episode 63: Irregular Stain

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The Baker Street Irregulars Manuscript Series has another entry, and once again we find ourselves chatting with co-editors Robert Katz, MD, BSI ("Dr. Ainstree") and Andrew Solberg, BSI ("Professor Coram"). Bob and Andy of course were our guests on <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/01/episode-50-golden-passage.html#.U0X8mvldWSo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 50: A Golden Passage</a>, and we're delighted to have them with us again to share the secret as to how lightning strikes twice and these two fine editors regroup to wrangle together scholarship, research and fun for our Sherlockian edification.<br />
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This time, the <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/bsimanuscriptseries.html" target="_blank">BSI Manuscript Series</a> title is <i><a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/stain.html" target="_blank">Irregular Stain</a></i>, and it treats the reader to a full-color reproduction of the manuscript of "The Adventure of the Second Stain" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. What's more, we even get some high-resolution Sidney Paget artwork that gives more detail of Sherlock Holmes than most readers have seen before.<br />
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Join us for this chat with Bob and Andy as we discover the origins of Sherlock Holmes and Haverford College, the secret meaning of the code words "apple pie," and the possible contributor whose unfamiliar handwriting is abruptly seen in the middle of the manuscript. And be the first to know what the next entry in the BSI Manuscript Series will be.<br />
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The Gas-Lamp this episode is inspired by a letter written by Vincent Starrett to Edgar Smith mentioned in the Preface of <i>Irregular Stain</i>, which appeared as "A Perspective on Scholarship" in the January 1953 Vol. 3, No. 1 (New Series) edition of <i>The Baker Street Journal</i>.<br />
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<li><i><a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/stain.html" target="_blank">Irregular Stain: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of "The Second Stain" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story</a></i></li>
<li>An excerpt from Irregular Stain: <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/pdf/irregular-stain-excerpt-vows.pdf" target="_blank">"Stained Vows: 'The Second Stain' and English Matrimonial Law"</a> by Elizabeth Rosenblatt, BSI, ASH.</li>
<li>Randall Stock's <a href="http://www.bestofsherlock.com/sherlock-manuscripts.htm" target="_blank">census of Sherlock Holmes manuscripts</a></li>
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The "Pulp-ification" of Sherlock Holmes

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Those of our readers who collect various editions of the Canon may be interested in a new imprint/series, entited <a href="http://www.pulptheclassics.com/">Pulp! the Classics!</a> and published by Oldcastle Books.<br />
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Pulp! the Classics is exactly what it sounds like: the re-publication of classic works of literature with new, pulp covers. The original text remains intact -it is only the cover and the blurb that they have "pulp-ified."  Of course, many of the titles chosen for this transformation - from Dickens to Shakespeare - were already considered to be, if not "pulp" fiction, then at the very least popular fiction in their day and age, despite their prestigious status as classics in our time. Nonetheless, it is an intriguing collection.<br />
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Thus far, the imprint has only published one Sherlock Holmes title - <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles, </i>with, it seems, no intention of touching upon other works of Sherlock Holmes.The choice is, perhaps, not original,<br />
given detective fiction's history as pulp fiction in the 20th century; nevertheless, for those who collect various editions of the Canon, this would form an interesting counterpart to the more expensive and prestigious editions, such as<a href="http://www.eastonpress.com/Books/prod/BDD/THE-HOUND-OF-THE-BASKERVILLES_2871.aspx"> this version</a> of <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles </i>from Easton Press, which has recently come to my attention as a particularly exemplary cause to make the credit card bill of yours truly weep.<br />
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Additionally, Oldcastle Books has pulp-ified a number of Victorian titles, from <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray </i>to Dickens and <i>Tess of the D'Urbervilles - </i>providing interesting possibilities for collectors not only of Sherlock Holmes, but of Victorian literature in general.<br />
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One also cannot help but notice the striking resemblance between the pulp cover of the Sherlock Holmes novel and some old posters of Basil Rathbone films, which I present for your comparison:<br />
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While not an entirely new effort - in 2009 <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/13/sherlock-holmes-pulp-drag" target="_blank">Hard Case Crime repackaged <i>The Valley of Fear</i></a> similarly, in an attempt to reach readers who avoided classic books. Is this enough to consider adding one to your collection? <br />
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