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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
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Subject: Re: Tom Baker on stage as Holmes
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 14:13:53 EDT
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 > From: jdia@ur-tut.UUCP (jdia)
 > 
 > Hoorah for T.B. as Holmes!!!
 > 
 > Not surprisingly, T.B. makes a superb Sherlock Holmes.

I beg to differ!  Tom Baker walks through the part in Hound of
the Baskervilles, declaiming his lines instead of speaking them.
After seeing Jeremy Brett as Holmes, Baker's portrayal seems
entirely wooden.  Holmes is a strange man, but not that strange.

Tom Baker could probably be good as Holmes, but in this case,
he doesn't seem to have tried to get into the part.
-- 
Jon Mauney,    mcnc!ncsu!mauney         North Carolina State University

"If God had intended Man to fly, he would never have given us the railways."