At 08:34 AM 5/2/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>thanks jess,
>
>you know, all this talk about holmes is making
me
>wanna read him again. as a child i read
several
>of the stories. that was a LONG time ago. i
don't
>remember much of them, but i remember they were
fun.
>
>in the mystery category, i read a bunch of the
hardy
>boys. and although my grandmother had perry
mason
>on the tv, it was not my cup of tea. i did
watch
>a bunch of the old charlie chan movies. i
watched
>them with my aunt. they were great. kind of a
chinese
>spin on holmes.
I recently rewatched a Charlie Chan movie (CC and the Scarlet
Clue, or something like that), and it was full of demeaning
ethnic stereotypes of both orientals and blacks. It
definitely had passed it's time. But I did love these movies
as a child. And I'd still like to get a copy of "Charlie Chan
in Egypt", to see how it holds up--it was my favorite as a
kid.
Last year I reread the original Biggers novels and they did
not strike me as offensive; for the time they came out they
were positively enlightened. Charlie isn't hardboiled, he's
more in the intuitive genius school of detective.
As regards Holmes, didn't one of the stories end with the
line: "And I have my cocaine."?
Ray
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