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Mar 12 #3 Michael Saler's AS IF: MODERN ENCHANTMENT AND THE LITERARY PRE- HISTORY OF VIRTUAL REALITY (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012; 283 pp., $27.95) is an interesting examination of the fantasy worlds created by authors ranging from Verne to Tolkien, with a delightful chap- ter ("Clap if You Believe in Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle and Ani- mistic Reason") that discusses naive believers, ironic believers, and the strange behavior that's found in the world of Sherlockians. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed (Feb. 27) that the CBS-TV pilot "Element- ary" will feature Lucy Liu as Watson; she is currently starring as Officer Jessica Tang in the TNT television series "Southland"; Deadline Hollywood (Feb. 27) had details on the premise: Jonny Lee Miller stars as eccentric Brit Sherlock Holmes, a former consultant to Scotland Yard whose addiction problems led him to a rehab center in New York City; just out of rehab, he now lives in Brooklyn with "sober companion" Joan Watson, a former surgeon who lost her license after a patient died, while consulting for the NYPD. Some reports have suggested that Lucy Liu will be the first female Watson. Well, not quite: there have been at least three (in films and on television). Care to identify them? A later report has Aidan Quinn joining the cast of "Elementary" as Gregson, a captain in the NYPD who worked with Holmes previously at Scotland Yard. Quinn recently starred in the NBC-TV series "Prime Suspect". E. W. Barton-Wright's THE SHERLOCK HOLMES SCHOOL OF SELF-DEFENCE: THE MANLY ART OF BARTITSU AS USED AGAINST PROFESSOR MORIARTY (Lewes: Ivy Press, 2011; 127 pp., £6.99) is an amusing compilation of his articles in Pearson's Mag- azine, with enhancements that include Marcus Tindal's "Self-Protection on a Cycle"; Bartitsu is mentioned in the Canon (misspelled as baritsu), and it probably is just as well that Violet Smith had not read Tindal's article. THE MORIARTY PAPERS, compiled by Colonel Sebastian Moran (London: New Holl- and, 2011; 160 pp., £7.99), is collection of Moriarty's surviving papers in the form of a full color scrapbook, with entertaining marginal comments by Moran; it would appear that Moriarty was involved in most of Holmes' cases. Don Hobbs reports that the total number of languages known to have at least one Canonical translation has reached 92, the latest being Breton, in which there's a translation KI AR VASKERVILLED (272 pp., €9.00 from Coop Breizh at . Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany, and Vaskervilled is Baskerville in English. "The book is a rather silly story about a governess and two haunted children. I am afraid that in it Mr. James exposes the extent of his ignorance. He knows little about children and nothing at all about governesses." Gov- erness Hester Barrow, in Diane Setterfield's THE THIRTEEN TALE (2006). There was a discussion of the phrase "jumping the shark" on the Letters of Mary e-mailing list (for fans of the Mary Russell books), and Kathy Elliott recommended ; it's a wiki "catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction," and of course a search for [sherlock] brings up a long list of interesting commentary.
Mar 12 #4 Greg Darak has noted a Russian CD "Vladimir Dashkevich: Sher- lock Holmes and Doctor Watson" issued by Bomba Music in Moscow in 2002 with tracks from the Russian television series (Dashkevich was the composer of the scores); copies of the CD turn up at eBay, and some of his music is available on the Internet for listening or download. Jan Berenstain died on Feb. 24. With her husband Stan she created the Ber- enstein Bears in 1962, launching a series of children's books that became one of the most successful in children's literature; the series, with more than 300 books, has sold more than 260 million copies, and the Berenstain Bears have been seen in stage musicals, television series, videocassettes and DVDs, and as toys. THE BEAR DETECTIVES: THE CASE OF THE MISSING PUMP- KIN was published in 1975, with Detective Brother and Detective Sister ap- pearing in Sherlockian costume; they've been seen in many later books, and in a set of figurines issued in 1985. Gayle Harris recommends the web-site Old Maps Online as an excellent portal for inspecting digital historical maps in libraries around the world. The URL is , and one can explore Baker Street as well as a world of other locations. According to a story in the Sussex Courier (Feb. 17), Crowborough historian Michael Tuffley has begun a campaign to erect a statue of Sherlock Holmes in the town, and hopes to raise £50,000 to cover the costs. But town coun- cillor George Moss, noting that Crowborough already has a statue of Conan Doyle, felt there was no need for another statue, and that the money might be best spent elsewhere. Philip K. Jones has compiled (and continues to compile) an excellent data base for Sherlockian pastiches, parodies, and related fiction; he had en- tries for 5,520 different items some years ago (Apr 06 #6), and his count now stands at more than 9,000. The data base is interesting and informa- tive, and available on-line . And who are the women who have played Watson? Joanne Woodward (Dr. Mildred Watson) in "They Might Be Giants" (1971), Jenny O'Hara (Doctor Watson) in "The Return of the World's Greatest Detective" (1976), and Margaret Colin (Jane Watson) in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (1987). There's a fourth, (though likely seen by fewer people): Gina Ryder (Dr. Emma Watson) in the pornographic film "The Secret of Harlot Hill" (2001). The earlier question (Feb 12 #4) was about films and television shows (other than CBS-TV's "Elementary") that have had Holmes living in (rather than traveling to) cities other than London? Larry Hagman's "The Return of the World's Greatest Detective" (1976) is one, and Judith Freeman adds Anthony Higgins' "1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns" (1993) to the list. Something else for fans of the Benedict Cumberbatch series: a four-minute montage of a scene from the first program, dubbed into four different languages
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