PAGE b8 THE STATE JOURNAL MAY 14, 2012 Monday ALMANAC 50 YEARS AGO Getting familiar with ‘Sherlock’ Members of the Frankfort Lions Club elected C.A. (Bud) McClain president for the coming year. McClain suc- Show widens viewer exposure to British actor Cumberbatch ceeded Bruce Dungan, gen- eral manager of radio station WFKY. Other officers named By Geoff Boucher so puts Holmes in the here “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” were Vincent Barr, first vice- Los AngeLes Times and now. Except the “here” which featured the deepest president; Billy Ray Holt, sec- ond vice-president; William LOS ANGELES – If the ti- is Manhattan, not West- British cast this side of Hog- Gray, third vice-president; tle character of television’s minster. warts, and it added to a film Drex Davis, secretary; John “Sherlock” ever went looking Word of that new show resume that already includ- C. Scott, treasurer; Robert for Hollywood’s Holmes, it sent Moffat into a tizzy (he ed “Amazing Grace” and Comley, tail twister; James would be the quickest case in had met CBS about an offi- “Atonement.” Cumberbatch Hanrahan, lion tamer. the history of scenery-chew- cial stateside adaptation), turned heads with the 2004 ing sleuths. but Cumberbatch projects BBC drama “Hawking” too, That’s because Benedict only mild interest in the finding the cosmic but also 25 YEARS AGO The Franklin County unit Cumberbatch – who plays a topic and has nothing but the connectible in the role of the American Cancer So- modern-day version of fic- warm wishes for star Jon- of Stephen Hawking. ciety planned a fundraising tion’s greatest detective on ny Lee Miller (who costars Moffatt says that Cum- event: Bid A Bachelor. “It’s the British import now air- in Tim Burton’s new “Dark berbatch – whose moth- better than just boy-meets- ing Sundays on PBS’ “Mas- Shadows”) as he looks for er and father put together girl. It’s girl-buys-boy, the terpiece Mystery!” – lives in clues on American televi- long careers in television dating version of the Wheel a vintage L.A. wood-frame sion. and onstage – was a star just of Fortune,” said Linda house that sits less than two In a way, Cumberbatch is waiting for a spotlight when Burchell, chairperson of the blocks from the sleek offic- accustomed to seeing Miller he arrived at his “Sherlock” event. es of Robert Downey Jr., the as sort of his British-lit dop- audition. pelganger: The two actors American movie star who “He was already one of tYOdA in hiStORY keeps it Victorian on the big starred in Danny Boyle’s the most admired actors of By The AssociATed Press screen. stage adaptation of Mary his generation and, with- “It’s just right over there,” Shelley’s “Frankenstein” at in the industry, univer- Today is Monday, May 14, Cumberbatch said with a the National Theatre and sally tipped for stardom,” the 135th day of 2012. There nod of his chin as he sat at his alternated roles each night, Moffat said. “We were the are 231 days left in the year. dining-room table. “I should taking turns as the heretical lucky ones who gave him On May 14, 1912, the first scientist and the patchwork go throw eggs or do some- the breakthrough part. The movie inspired by the Titan- monster. thing. I’ve never met him. challenge of Sherlock Hol- ic disaster was released just a “I view it like any of the I think he got a few (press) mes is to play a show-off, month after the British liner classical characters in the questions and then after a self-obsessed egotist and sank. “Saved From the Ti- canon of Shakespeare or few more he was like ‘Who is yet still be loved, and actu- tanic,” a one-reel drama pro- Chekhov, there will always duced by the Eclair Film Co. this kid Cumberbatch?’” ally very few people have be new interpretations,” of Fort Lee, N.J., starred Dor- You won’t hear that ques- pulled it off. I may be preju- Cumberbatch said. “I think othy Gibson, an actress who tion in the United Kingdom, diced, but I don’t think any- Holmes is the fictional had been an actual passen- where “Sherlock” is a full-tilt one has pulled it off as well courtesy BBc character who has been ger on the doomed ship; she prime-time sensation and, as Benedict.” with its brilliant but quirky Benedict cumberbatch returns as sherlock Holmes, with Martin (in screen incarnations) wore for the movie the same Looking ahead, he said misanthrope, can be thought Freeman as his deadpan sidekick, Watson, and Andrew scott as the most. I’m 76th or some- outfit she was wearing when his goal is to steer away of as the metric conversion of the mousy mastermind of evil, Jim Moriarty in “sherlock.” thing? People compare you rescued. (“Saved From the from typecasting and re- “House,” although the detec- to others and that’s fine, I Titanic” is considered lost, peating himself (“I want tive’s caseload concerns the as proudly daft as “Doctor acter who is easier to relate can deal with that.” the only known copies hav- to be able to play trailer- newly dead of England in- Who.” Holmes also doesn’t to and care about,” the 35- Yes, but how long will this ing been destroyed in a fire stead of the recently sick in spend as much time smiling year-old actor said. “But it’s Sherlock stay at the scene of bound fatties in a Judd Ap- in 1914.) New Jersey. at people. a slow learning curve. He’s the crime? More and more, atow comedy”) and keep a In 1643, Louis XIV be- The show, created by “If he’s charismatic, it’s an still staggeringly smart, vio- the actor is hearing the si- balance in his own life and came King of France at age “Doctor Who” veterans Ste- accident of who he is,” Cum- lent, physically capable, ir- ren call of larger screens clear recollections of his four upon the death of his fa- ven Moffat and Mark Gatiss berbatch said. “He’s an odd reverent, comically rude – to and a wider world. path and past. He flipped ther, Louis XIII. (and, working separately, Ar- entity. He’s sociopathic and idiots or anyone vaguely in There was, for instance, up the locks of hair on his In 1804, the Lewis and thur Conan Doyle), costars there is a vicarious thrill you his way _ and dangerous.” the call Cumberbatch re- forehead where the skin is Clark expedition to explore Martin Freeman as Dr. John get watching someone who Americans are getting ceived out of the blue from mottled in patches – a rem- the Louisiana Territory as Watson, an army doctor who carves his way through bu- clued into “Sherlock” – more Steven Spielberg, who had nant of his days as a labora- well as the Pacific Northwest was injured in Afghanistan reaucracy and mediocrity than 3 million viewers tuned seen the actor’s television tory creation in “Franken- left camp near present-day and finds himself as the on- like a hot knife through but- in to the second season pre- work and wanted him for stein” and the makeup pro- Hartford, Ill. ly true friend to the eccentric ter.” miere that aired on PBS last “War Horse.” That job led cess that burned and ripped In 1811, Paraguay achieved “consulting detective.” The second season finds weekend – but the import’s to a surreal moment on an at his skin. independence from Spain The show is playful Holmes himself under the strongest domestic endorse- awards red carpet when “I have actual acting with the bloodless overthrow (there’s much humor, for in- magnifying glass, Cumber- ment has come from CBS Spielberg introduced the scars,” he said. “That’s what of the country’s royal gover- stance, about the percep- batch says. executives with their an- actor to Clint Eastwood. they are ... and the sunshine nor. tion that Holmes and Watson “He’s a deconstructed nounced plans to film a pilot Cumberbatch got strong here just makes it worse if In 1900, the Olympic are a gay couple) but it’s not and more vulnerable char- called “Elementary” that al- reviews for his work in I’m not careful.” games opened in Paris, held as part of the 1900 World’s Fair. 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