PAGE b8 THE STATE JOURNAL MAY 1, 2012 Tuesday ALMANAC 50 YEARS AGO Arthur J. Killion filed suit Actress sheds inhibitions in Franklin Circuit Court seeking damages total- ing $22,000 from the city of Frankfort. Killion’s suit says British star Lara Pulver finds her confidence for ‘Sherlock’ he “was thrown off or caused to fall off” a city truck while the truck was on the city By Luaine Lee “If you take away calls. workhouse property. The suit “And it felt very much McT clA chy-TriBune news service the fact that I’m an was filed by Charles Hobson. PASADENA, Calif. – At last like I was putting every- thing in my work basket. I Sherlock Holmes has met his actress, if you take 25 YEARS AGO was coming here primar- nemesis. And it’s not Profes- Seven residents in the away hair, makeup ily for work, and then had sor Moriarty. It’s a sexy dom- Westgate subdivision filed to find my life around it – inatrix whose intelligence and clothes, is what suit in Franklin Circuit make new friends and I had matches her beauty – a steely Court claiming the city had you have left enough? to do mundane things like foil for the famous detective. been negligent in the instal- sort out car insurance.” Actress Lara Pulver dons lation and maintenance of Would you be attrac- Adjusting required more that mantle when “Sherlock” the drainage system that than driving on the oppo- returns Sunday to “Master- tive, or would you not served the subdivision and site side of the road. “We piece Mystery!” on PBS in a surrounding area. Plaintiffs be wanted, or would speak the same language, modern version of “A Scan- claimed the city had not re- but we sort of don’t. Cultur- dal in Belgravia.” you be successful?” moved accumulated debris ally we are very different. The role was an actor’s from the drainage system l ArA PulvEr And I think people will do dream, says the British Pul- and had negligently permit- that when they are 16, they ver, settling into a leather set- ted the area surrounding the will go to drama school in tee in a hotel room here. “It vorce from actor Josh Dallas, subdivision to be developed London or in another coun- who plays Prince Charming without sufficient provisions was a gift of a role, surround- try or something like that. on “Once Upon a Time.” for drainage. The subdivision ed by everyone at the top of But to do it when I was 27- While that was a trying flooded in July of the prior their game creatively – from 28, was big.” time, Pulver says she’d be year as a result of the city’s writing to directing to fellow Still, it proved a wise willing to marry again. In negligence, according to the actors, to cast and crew ... It’s move. “It made me more fact, lately she has gathered suit, depreciating the value really exciting,” she says. fearless,” she thinks. “That the courage to indicate that. of their property. “When I was reading the was the moment where I “I just recently said to some- script for ‘Sherlock,’ I was ac- said to myself. ‘Lara, you one quite courageously, that HAPPY BIRTHDAY tually flying back from the have the freedom to live – a friend of mine – and I said, Allyson Smith U.K. to L.A., and I remem- anywhere you want to in ‘If you ever wanted to, like, go May 1, 1998 ber thinking ... we needed to the world. It’s OK. You stay turn the plane back around on a date or something, I’m Allyson “Boogie” Smith is a week and if you don’t like the daughter of M. Brandon because it was just the best up for it.’ I was brave enough it, you move on.’ The sec- piece of writing that I’d read to go, ‘I like you. You are a and Anita Smith and Chris- ond I gave myself that free- tine Chadwell. She loves her in a long time.” nice person. We could go on dom, it was a joy, and I end- Occasionally great writ- a date and go, “What the hell brothers and sister, music ed up staying for two and a and her family and friends. ing is not enough, she says. are we doing, we are good half years.” “Sometimes you put it togeth- friends?” Or we could go on a er on paper and it’s some- date and find there is some- today In history In other Tv nEwS: By The AssociATed Press thing exciting, but you put it thing there.’ But I just said it. Even though Kyra Sedg- courtesy pbs together and it just doesn’t And I was really floored by wick and the producers are Today is Tuesday, May 1, Lara pulver stars on “sherlock” on pbs’ “Masterpiece Mystery.” quite work. On this occasion myself.” ending TNT’s “The Closer” the 122nd day of 2012. There the ingredients were so right Like her fellow Brits, she after seven years, most of its are 244 days left in the year. one, for me, for what I’m can’t be your identity, it’s to make this lovely cake.” ports a certain reserve. “I actors won’t be out of work. On May 1, 1982, the meant to be on this planet?’ unhealthy if it is. People will The frosting on that cake would love to ask for what I “Major Crimes” is taking World’s Fair in Knoxville, I guess then that is the fear of come up to you thinking is Pulver herself, whose two- want,” she smiles. “’This is up where “The Closer” left Tenn., was opened by Presi- minute nude scene in the failure.” they know you because they what Lara needs, and this off, with Mary McDonnell dent Ronald Reagan. The show caused a sensation The actress, who start- have seen you on their tele- is what Lara wants.’ And If reprising her role as Capt. fair’s theme: “Energy Turns when it aired in Britain. She ed in theater and costarred vision screen or their movie I don’t get it, that’s OK, but I Sharon Raydor, along with the World.” (The exposition’s plays the seductive mystery in “True Blood,” “MI-5” and screen or stage or whatever. (would have) managed to ar- “Closer” vets G.W. Bailey, last day was October 31.) woman as though she were “Robin Hood,” says, “If you I think it is about surround- ticulate it.” Tony Denison, Michael In 1707, the Kingdom of born to it. take away the fact that I’m an ing yourself, about being Pulver first came to the Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz Great Britain was created as a But Pulver admits she’s actress, if you take away hair, grounded by really healthy States when she was star- and Phillip P. Keene, and treaty merging England and not so confident in life. “I’m makeup and clothes, is what people of integrity and good ring in the hit play, “Parade,” guest stars Robert Gos- Scotland took effect. sure there are many things you have left enough? Would hearts, and I pride myself in in London and it was trans- sett and Jon Tenney. Corey In 1786, Mozart’s opera (that frighten me) but some- you be attractive, or would that.” ferred to a theater in Los An- Reynolds and J.K. Simmons “The Marriage of Figaro” pre- how I’m sure they all are, ‘Am you not be wanted, or would Pulver, who grew up in geles. “So I got this gift to have not signed on. Filming miered in Vienna. I enough?’ As in, ‘Am I good you be successful?” Kent, recalls her parent’s come here for four months has begun in Los Angeles In 1898, Commodore enough? Am I enough, just A career can become your separating as a difficult time and be a part of that and I felt and the show will premiere George Dewey gave the com- as a person? Am I enough for persona, and Pulver thinks in her life. And last year she that I would come and see Aug. 13 following the final mand, “You may fire when anyone, for myself for any- that’s a mistake. “For me it went through her own di- what happened here,” she re- curtain on “The Closer.” you are ready, Gridley,” as an American naval force de- stroyed a Spanish squadron in Manila Bay during the www.fpb.cc 352-4372 Spanish-American War. 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