恶人谷

PBS has started a new Miss Marple series made probably recently. And this fall they are going to show the Sherlock Holmes series starring Rupert Everett. I think he looks a bit too effeminate for Holmes with all the make-up and eyeliners.

Funny thing about the MM series is that the director seems to be a Raymond Chandler fan. Throughout the first episode, he/she littered references to RC books. In one scene, MM is reading "The Simple Art of Murder" and in another there is a copy of "Farewell, My Lovely" on the desk. I suppose the director who made this quaint arm-chair mystery episode really wants to make a noir mystery. Too bad BBC doesn't adapt Chandler's stuff.

Rupert演侦探? 哈,我脑子里还是理想丈夫里的那个泥鳅样的人呢.

今天刚刚有空上来。
搬家前看了几集新版的MM，在侦探片专业户的ITV播出。每集里都有众多英国明星，比如寓所迷案还是藏书房的那集里，牧师就是看得见风景房间里的那个牧师。但这位MM太bubbly了，满面红光精神抖擞，看去非常nosy的样子，和80-90年代那个系列含蓄低调的MM太过不同，所以我这个老古板就不太习惯了。

上边是21世纪的MM，下边是上世纪的：

嗯，周日晚上瞄了一眼。那马普小姐很机动灵活的样子，眼珠儿滴溜转。

The Sherlock Holmes TV movie is obviously NOT based on an original Conan Doyle's story. "The Case of the Silk Stocking" or something like that. Rupert Everett does look quite like Holmes -- long, narrow face, slightly hooked nose, thin and muscular. But I just cannot stand the heavy make-up (is that mascara he's wearing? Ugh!)

In the 1st episode of MM, the guest star is Derek Jacobi.