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His Private "I".('The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes')(Movie review)(Brief article)

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| May 04, 2009 | Denby, David | COPYRIGHT 2009 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In his gracious and melancholy film "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970), screening April 30 at BAM, Billy Wilder spoofs the legend of the great detective without quite overthrowing it. This Holmes, as embodied by Robert Stephens, is sexually ambiguous, vain, cocaine-addicted, and a bit of a crackpot; he's astute about tiny details while missing the important things that happen to him. Yet he has an indefinable dignity--produced, perhaps, by a sense that his great days are over. After an amusing prologue in which ...

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