Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
SHIN or should it be BCIN -The War Magician
Benedict Cumberbatch has Leading Role in New World War Two Drama “The War Magician”
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch has been made famous by his role in Sherlock, the BBC’s modern-day dramatization of Sherlock Holmes. He’s now starring in a new World War Two movie drama called The War Magician.
Cumberbatch is expected to take the lead role and star as a stage magician who, during the war, helped to make things vanish in support of the Allied war effort. The first time the idea for the drama came about was back in 2003. Tom Cruise and producer Paul Wagner got rights to the book by David Fisher and had backed Peter Weir to direct the film.
Plans and progress stalled over many years, but in 2012 the producers engaged a different director, Marc Foster, to direct the movie. Unfortunately, he dropped out, and a new director has not yet been connected to the project.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015
My score was sadly lower than I had hoped.
British Cuisine, how many have you tried?
I did have Bangers and Mash on Sunday.
We have Yorkshire pudding a lot, but I did not see it on the quiz.
Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old; Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old
We have Yorkshire pudding a lot, but I did not see it on the quiz.
SHIN -It is really the holiday season now! BRAD in the news with pictures!
For Sherlock Holmes fans, appeal is elementary
Posted Dec. 19, 2015 at 7:09 PM
Updated Dec 19, 2015 at 7:12 PM
PEORIA — For a fictional detective who lived in the 1800s, Sherlock Holmes still is very much alive. To his fans, anyway.
“Every generation has their Sherlock Holmes,” said Bradley Keefauver, creator of the blog Sherlock Peoria.
A small, adult crowd gathered Saturday afternoon for the Peoria Public Library’s Baker Street Bash to listen to Keefauver talk and answer questions on Sherlock Holmes lore, answer trivia questions and go on a scavenger hunt, among other activities.
“He is someone you can almost see existing,” said Keefauver, who wore a T-shirt advertising “Sure-lock and Watts-on Security and Electrical Consulting,” which depicted Holmes as a lock and his sidekick, John Watson, as a light bulb.
He said with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters in the public domain, a new novel starring the detective is released nearly every week. With multiple television shows, movies, novels and fanfictions, everyone has a different entry point into the Holmes universe.
“Each remake inspires new interest,” said Jamie Jones, branch manager of the McClure Branch.
“It keeps being brought back.”
The event was planned to tie in to the upcoming Christmas special of the BBC’s “Sherlock,” a contemporary interpretation.
Standing on a low stage, Jones asked the crowd for the address of Holmes and Watson. A quiet chorus of “221B Baker St.,” answered her, followed by a whispered, “that’s easy.” But her questions got harder until the crowd was partially stumped when she asked what Irene Adler’s measurements were from an episode of “Sherlock.” Finally, she awarded a newly released book on Mycroft Holmes to Curt Bier of East Peoria, who won the trivia contest.
Bier remembers becoming a fan after reading “The Hound of the Baskervilles” in junior high school.
“I’m glad they had an event like this,” he said, his new book, which he had previously planned to check out from the library, on his lap.
Jones said another Baker Street Bash, which could include a murder mystery, might be held when the new season of “Sherlock” is released.
Braley Dodson can be reached at 686-3196 and bdodson@pjstar.com. Follow her on Twitter @BraleyDodson.
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