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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

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Helen McCrory as an American Psychologist 

by Brian Lowry | Variety | October 20, 2005

Revisionist tinkering with the Sherlock Holmes mythology has provided great sport over the years, from Billy Wilder’s “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” to “The Seven-Percent Solution.” Somewhere in between falls this original story concocted for “Masterpiece Theater” — a second-rate Holmes mystery starring Rupert Everett that’s still good fun, though surely not as much as viewing one of those old Basil Rathbone editions.

This latest case has added a few touches for the “CSI” generation, involving a string of confounding and grisly murders that seem the work of a fetishistic lunatic, not one of the master criminals with which the sleuth matched wits in Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories.

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TV Review: Messiah – The Harrowing

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Helen McCrory and Maxine Peake help elevate Messiah – The Harrowing to arguably series’ devastatingly effective high point

by Ian | September 3, 2005 | thereoughttobeclowns

“See beyond the victim, see the killer”

The first series of Messiah is certainly one of the best, setting the wheels in motion for an effective crime series, but I’d argue that it is the fourth instalment Messiah – The Harrowing that is the best of them all. The arrival of a new writer – Terry Cafolla – releases the show from the baggage of its legacy which seemed to weigh the last series one and produces something that is really, well, harrowing.

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Helen McCrory at BBC Press Office: Messiah IV – The Harrowing

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Helen McCrory as Rachel Price

by BBC Press Office | August 18, 2005

When preparing for her role as Messiah’s new Chief Pathologist, Rachel Price, Helen McCrory drew a line at attending a real autopsy despite being offered the opportunity.

“I walked into make-up one day for tests and opened a pathology book, literally took one look and shut it straight away. I just couldn’t bear to look at it any more.

“It wasn’t so much that I am squeamish – although I am – it was more to do with the fact that these are people who are someone’s daughter, mother, brother and that was the main difference between the character and myself,” she says.

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As You Like It at Wyndham’s Theatre – Review

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Call off the phones : Sienna Miller as Celia and Helen McCrory as Rosalind in As You Like It

 

Michael Billington | June 22, 2005 | The Guardian

Hymen sings of “most strange events” and this is certainly one of them: a piece of star-driven, West End Shakespeare full of whimsical absurdities and coarse acting. Yet I can forgive almost everything for the sake of a Rosalind as vibrant and compelling as Helen McCrory.

But let’s start with the bad news. David Lan has chosen to set the action in France in the 1940s. This means the show starts with accordions and berets, though mercifully without an onion-seller on a bicycle. Rosalind and Celia (Sienna Miller) exchange court news while sitting in the kind of cafe supposedly frequented by Jean-Paul Sartre. And, when the action moves to the country, we discover the banished Duke has gone into exile with a four-strong musical combo as if he were on leave from the Café de Paris rather than a political refugee.

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