Charlie Rose

ywalls99  03/12/2012 04:23 PM Report

Correction of Anna's name..... Anna Karenina....

and writer/critic Troyat in a wonderful book published in 1967 written about Tolstoy's life, says of the story of Anna Karenina and Tolstoy's work; "once again he has made good use of meetings with friends, current events, his own sensations, in brewing ing "juice of fiction"

ywalls99  03/09/2012 02:56 PM Report

Again, Jude Law gives the world of film and literature its due and value through an obvious love of language and human discourse on the subject of human story! Would love to see him in Hamlet if he should do it again.

And, hoping to see him do some future work as related to the hybrid global film world we now live in. Loved him in Cold Mountain & Breaking and Entering with Juliette Binoche.

And perhaps a miracle will happen; he and Nia Long will be united in another film. Perhaps a good adaption of the Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings's story, something written especially for them or Shakespeare ! Why? because both actors can bring something sublime to film I think-- something that will liberate audiences from some old character types in relation to inter-racial love.their chemistry is so true.

Also, looking forward to seeing Jude in Tolstoy's upcoming Anna Karina with Kira Knightly! The story is a classic that is so fine and so lasting.

Saultxyca  12/29/2011 11:23 PM Report

Charlie met his match in the mesmerizing, completely present, charming Jude Law — who owned the interview. Law is brilliant. And I almost turned the TV off.

Gelles  12/29/2011 06:47 AM Report

It's Thursday 3 am, the 29th of December. I just watched "Why Shakespeare" on CR on TV. It ended with Kenneth Branagh saying a few words I wanted to remember forever -- that I cannot now recall. I still have the line recorded in another room -- and will have another chance to memorize it.

As for Doctor Watson, he is playing at a nearby multiplex. If I do not see him there, I may forget to see him at all. Charlie Chaplin playing Sherlock Holmes is another matter.

Why Shakespeare? Why art? Why words? Why Ron Paul and Mitt Romney several hours earlier in Iowa? Shakespeare and Conan Doyle? Past. Paul and Romney news? The next big thing? The best the past can offer? Why not stay autistic all your life? Some people are said to remember everything. Others to have learned nothing. The digital no-brainer implant will remember for those who have one (that works), all they want to recall that they failed to memorize when they had the chance. It will be cheap and and available. How many would you like to order now. Each has the capacity of the library of Congress in the year they were made. And its all erasable for re-recording only the very best of what we need to know.

tabs  12/28/2011 07:34 PM Report

And lest we forget Doyle's "Brigadier Gerard." Which could lead us to George MacDonald Fraser's "Flashman" series.

But one digresses, Jude Law is quite the actor and in the new Sherlock Holmes film one hopes that the pyrotechnics don't get the better of character and plot development. Mr Richie does have "Lock Stock..." and "Snatch" under his belt. To whit one is enamoured by the line, "You should never under estimate the predictability of stupidity."

REMant  12/28/2011 11:30 AM Report

NB- I regret I can't use Lochinvar to tie Erle Stanley Gardner to Conan Doyle, because altho they share many characteristics, he was a creation of Walter Scott.

REMant  12/27/2011 05:14 PM Report

Well, they aren't books, or at least most of them aren't, only four being novels. There are 56 short stories. And the stories IMHO are extremely sketchy and poorly written. You can see how thin the Holmes stories are in the adaptations, which have always had to be padded considerably.

And Dr. Watson was an Army physician, conjured up no doubt because Conan Doyle was one himself, serving in fact during the Boer War, and also as a ship's surgeon on a voyage to Africa. Like Watson he seems to have had more free time than patients. It is generally agreed that Holmes was patterned after a well-known Edinburgh professor of Conan Doyle's, and the two appearing together in some dramatization recently. If you stop to think about it, there is a great deal of the scientist in Holmes himself; he is not all drugs and valor. Conan Doyle had a penchant, too, for spiritualism and science fiction a lot of which is found in the Holmes stories.

I have really no idea why the character became so much better known than many, many others. But I was noticing recently tho that Holmes is certainly the main influence on Perry Mason, who not only specializes in rescuing damsels in distress, but also engages in a similar crusade against plodding police and rushes to justice. In one of the novels Della Street calls Mason, Lochinvar, who figures in one Conan Doyle's rather awful poems.

The first film got fair reviews, altho it seemed to me to suffer from Hollywood's penchant for overplotting, overdecorating and overacting. Downey also appears a little too much like Charlie Chaplin at times.