Oh, Sir John Smythe, from Elizabeth Peter's Vickie Bliss mysteries HAS to be played by Cary Elwes.

Clive Owen as James Bond! Daniel Craig was servicable, but Bond as decribed by Ian Fleming is much more in the Sean Connery/Timothy Dalton mode. Good-looking but dark-haired with "cruel eyes and mouth." Hugh Laurie as Sherlock Holmes! Basil Rathbone is still the standard by which all others are judged! But, he's gone...

Thanks Barb--good call on the movie characters portraying the book people! Thanks for your blog--it makes my day!

Yes, I know Bruce Alexander's "Blind Beak" series shows Sir John Fielding as older, overweight, and not attractive, but whenever I read those books, it's Johnny Depp wearing the blindfold.

I am about half-way through the Holmesian cannon, and I could not agree more with the idea of Hugh Laurie as Sherlock Holmes! Who should we talk to about getting that done? But now for the hard part: Who will play Dr. Watson?

Why Stephen Fry, of course!

anne commented: Why Stephen Fry (as Watson to Hugh Laurie's Sherlock Holmes), of course! Brian sez...Great, a Watson who's smarter than Holmes! ;-)

Sorry -- but as much as I have been a fan of Hugh Laurie, long before he had an American accent, I just don't believe that a House is a Holmes.

I think a better question is who will play Lula? And Grama Murzer? I just love those characters...

Isla Fisher is actually Australian. (She's an ex-soap star--Aussie soap stars all run off to live in England eventually. She's engaged to Sacha Baron Cohen.) As I understand it, Hugh Laurie's character in House is in fact based on Sherlock Holmes, with his sidekick James Wilson (the oncologist played by Robert Sean Leonard) filling the Watson role. So House-Holmes, Wilson-Watson.

There has been lots of speculation on JD Robb's series (I think the options sold). Some of the names I heard dropped for Eve and Roarke don't fit my image of them at all. *grin* and I don't think I will watch. Last year they made 3 of Nora's book into movies and I passed. Didn't like who they picked for the characters and nothing replaces the book. It's fun to chat about who you think would play your favorites characters, but in the end a script just can't replace the book. Have a great day....

Lula is definitely a pre-weight-loss Latifah. I always think of Fran Fine's Grandma Yetta as Grandma Mazur.

I'm late to the party but I think Estelle Getty of the Golden Girls would have been perfect for Grandma Mazur. And Olympia Dukakis should play Stephanie's mom. Latifah could do Lula, or if Jackie Harry was younger she would have been just the one. Now the REALLY important question is who will play Joe and Ranger???

Definitely Clive Owen as James Bond. But how about ANthony Hopkins as "The Blind Beak" in the Alexander series? And Giancarlo Giannini as Detective Brunetti in the Donna Leon series? - Clea
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OH this is fun. I do this alot when I read a book. Butr sometimes it takes awhile to match my imagination to the real life movie stars!