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Just received a copy of the book I edited for Maureen Whittaker, JEREMY BRETT IS SHERLOCK HOLMES. Gorgeously translated into Japanese. Japanese Version. English Version. English Digital Version. This new Japanese version gives me the chance to again tell you about this splendid book. Maureen Whittaker's superbly researched history of Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes.… Continue reading Beautiful Japanese version: JEREMY BRETT IS SHERLOCK HOLMES
A light went out in many people's lives when he died, for he was one of life's true originals." Anna Massey Jeremy Brett’s possessed, capricious, volatile, dangerous but above all convincingly brilliant Holmes, wipes the memory clean of all previous portrayals. It is not easy to portray genius. Maybe he has to be one." Alan… Continue reading Remembering Jeremy Brett November 3, 1933 – September 12, 1995
“What you do as an actor, for me anyway . . . you learn and assimilate. You read and read and read about the Victorian era. Who was in government? What was the social status of the country? Why was Holmes a bohemian? Then you start to read Doyle and you sort of sniff it… Continue reading Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes AUDIO BOOK IS OUT!
Italian publisher Mondadori will be publishing an Italian language version of Sherlock Holmes These Scattered Houses in their Il Giallo Mondadori 2022-2023 Sherlock Holmes series. This is a great honor. I am excited that my Italian American Marcello family will be speaking Italian in these books! Of course so will Holmes and the unique villain… Continue reading Stupendo! Splendido! Exciting news!
Holmes appears to be this rather cold and distant figure who holds the rest of humanity at arm’s length. But deep down I believe – much deeper down – he is a man of tremendous sensitivity and feeling.” –Jeremy Brett. Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes by Maureen Whittaker is an updated version of the Granada… Continue reading Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes
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