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Sherlock Holmes – Finally Gets a Makeover!

Sherlock Holmes – Finally Gets a Makeover!

Brainy, but stuffy. Edwardian. Never appearing in public without his Inverness overcoat. Debonair, but sexlessly so. Oh yes, occasionally he would shield a gun and leap out of carriages to grab the bad guy. This is how we liked our leading Hollywood man in the 1930s and 1940s. But not anymore. The image of the time-less character gets a complete makeover [...]