{"id":1105,"date":"2009-05-31T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/05\/sherlock-holmes-vs-hollywood.html"},"modified":"2009-05-31T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T17:41:00","slug":"sherlock-holmes-vs-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/05\/sherlock-holmes-vs-hollywood.html","title":{"rendered":"Sherlock Holmes Vs. Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SiLR632XNkI\/AAAAAAAAATo\/0DBOEs7t7DE\/s1600-h\/monkey-holmes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SiLR632XNkI\/AAAAAAAAATo\/0DBOEs7t7DE\/s320\/monkey-holmes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>OFTEN, i wonder aloud how it is that certain authors &#8212; john updike and donald westlake are two recently deceased masters who come to mind &#8212; have been either overlooked or royally screwed up onscreen.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>with the sherlock holmes novels and stories of arthur conan doyle, the phenomenon is the opposite: holmes is not only thought to be the most adapted character in history (200-some films with 70-or-so actors), some of these films have been quite good.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>but it&#8217;s been a long time since there&#8217;s been a major holmes movie &#8212; my generation has only musty memories of the great rationalist\/sleuth\/wit\/morphine addict.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>so it&#8217;s intriguing and possibly exciting that TWO new holmes adapts seem to be coming down the pike, with guy ritchie&#8217;s film starring robert downey jr. (!) and jude law coming in christmas, and a comedy starring sacha &#8220;borat&#8221; baron cohen and will ferrell coming next year, though the studio seems to be in confusion on this one.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-ca-sherlock-holmes31-2009may31,0,1100492.story\">HERE<\/a> is my story in today&#8217;s LATimes, for which i spoke to ritchie, producer joel silver, a very serious conan doyle fan, and champ literary critic michael dirda.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i must admit: i grew up in a house with calvino and chandler on the shelf, but no conan doyle, at least i dont think so: unlike a lot of kids, i NEVER read this stuff. in the last few months, knowing this story was coming up, i have delved into the holmes stories and novels and it&#8217;s been a real pleasure.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluebottleart.com\/\">Blue Bottle Art Gallery<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OFTEN, i wonder aloud how it is that certain authors &#8212; john updike and donald westlake are two recently deceased masters who come to mind &#8212; have been either overlooked or royally screwed up onscreen. with the sherlock holmes novels and stories of arthur conan doyle, the phenomenon is the opposite: holmes is not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,88,76,498,497,496],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-brit-culture","8":"category-film","9":"category-robert-downey-jr","10":"category-sherlock-holmes","11":"category-victoriana","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}