By casting an attractive woman as Watson, CBS has neatly sidestepped one enduring source of Sherlock Holmes-based speculation: the seething homoerotic tension between the detective and his sidekick. In the BBC's hit show Sherlock, for example, Watson is frequently obliged to inform presumptuous strangers that he and Holmes are just good friends. By contrast, Guy Ritchie's macho movie adaptations seem convinced of the duo's flagrant heterosexuality.
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Tim Walker: Make us laugh, Sean, and we'll forgive you
Saturday 18 February 2012
Tales From The Water Cooler: Sean Penn has been wittering cluelessly about the Falklands like a latter-day Hanoi Jane
Tim Walker: Better a bald head than a bad review
Saturday 21 January 2012
Law is better suited to supporting roles, which tend not to require flowing locks, than he is to romantic leads
Jude Law in £130k phone-hacking payout from News Group
Thursday 19 January 2012
Actor Jude Law headed a list of 37 people from all walks of life who settled their damages cases arising from the phone-hacking scandal today.
Profile: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Saturday 31 December 2011
Doyle is enjoying something of a renaissance, is he not?
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Guy Ritchie, 129 mins (12A)
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Brad Bird, 132 mins (12A) (released 26 Dec)
Sunday 18 December 2011
Guy Ritchie's second Sherlock Holmes film improves on the first one in every respect.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (12A)
Friday 16 December 2011
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Jared Harris
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (12A)
Friday 16 December 2011
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Jared Harris
FBI to contact Jude Law as inquiries widen in US
Saturday 23 July 2011
The FBI is planning to contact Jude Law as part of its investigation into whether News of the World journalists hacked phones in the US, after the actor claimed his voicemail was accessed while he was in New York.
The Sun enters frame as Jude Law makes new hacking claims
Friday 15 July 2011
For the first time, The Sun newspaper was last night dragged into the phone-hacking scandal after it emerged that the actor Jude Law is suing Rupert Murdoch's best-selling daily title over the alleged interception of his voicemails while Rebekah Brooks was editor.
Heads Up: Anna Christie
Sunday 10 July 2011
A Jude-icious choice: Law turns to the dark side in O'Neill
Hollywood star Jude Law returns to stage
Friday 14 January 2011
Hollywood star Jude Law is returning to the West End stage to play a sailor who falls in love with a prostitute.
Film remakes: Maybe you can hire... the right actors
Wednesday 14 July 2010
The big-screen remake of The A-Team is the latest Hollywood film set to suffer the curse of disastrous casting
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