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"This is 1978, and what's a little blood between friends..."
Jeremy Brett (1933-1995) was a marvellous and versatile actor with a distinguished forty-year career in film, television, radio, and stage. He is most internationally famed for his masterful and enriching portraiture of the world's greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. He has touched the hearts of millions, including my own. Mr. Brett is the "quintessential" Holmes! He is, and shall be, always dearly missed. This is portrait is from my "Professionally Jeremy" Series, in which I compose an artwork of Mr. Brett about every year in dedication to him. Here, between 1978 and 1979, Mr. Brett toured the United States in the title role of the Tony award-winning stage production of Dracula — and a supremely handsome vampyre to boot! He luxuriates in every layer — crepe blouse with "bat-wing" collar, black velvet waistcoat, with watch-chain of teeth, black velvet trousers with patch covering hole incurred during a split second, onstage vanishing act, voluminous cape with ingenious collar. He "roared" on stage and, unfortunately, developed "Dracula elbow" in his left arm from flinging the 30-pound cape around. I would have loved to see Jeremy Brett in this role, but alas, I was not even born yet... Therefore, I dedicate this picture to Jeremy and the role-I-never-saw — with some hundreds of bats! If you look carefully, each bat is drawn in. Pity scanners cannot show the texture of the work with any sort of justice. (For more "Brettish" information, please visit my tribute websites: A Dedication to Jeremy Brett, Internationally Brettish, The Brettian Exchange, and DeviantArt Jeremy Brett Club.) Medium - 2H mechanical pencil, 2B mechanical pencil. Dracula (theatrical play) © Bram Stoker/Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. Comments
 That is gorgeous. I love the bats. And the cheekbones!
Thank you so much! I love those cheekbones as well! :gropes them:
-- "P-p-please, Eddie, you know there's no justice for toons anymore? If the weasels get their hands on me, I'm as good as dipped" (Roger Rabbit).  I was born in 1978. Wow... this is a wicked picture, I love how you used the bats. V. good.
 -- Maybe it makes sense now. Maybe somewhere in all of this there's a reason. .... But nothing, not getting angry, not prayers, and not tears, nothing can make something that happened, unhappen. -Scion Just breathe. Thank you so much! Those bats took TWO WEEKS!
 -- "P-p-please, Eddie, you know there's no justice for toons anymore? If the weasels get their hands on me, I'm as good as dipped" (Roger Rabbit).  Ha! Draculas elbow... I wish I had been born so much earlier... or that people I would like to meet wouldn't get old until I let them.
Pity. Jeremy Brett forever! -- The USA has tanks and Switzerland has banks They can keep them thanks, they just don't amount Cuz when you get down to it, you find out what the truth is It isn't what you do with it its the size that counts. Or there was a recording of the play, ggrr! There's a funny story that comes with Jeremy's "Dracula's elbow". The first time he fling that cape was at rehearsal, but when he flipped it the 30-pound cape smashed against the set, the scenery wall went back, and crashed on the floor (along with a table and a vase). The director screamed out, "BRREEETTTT!!!!", at the top of his lungs.
JB FOREVER! So, you love Nigel Bruce and David Burke, eh?  -- "P-p-please, Eddie, you know there's no justice for toons anymore? If the weasels get their hands on me, I'm as good as dipped" (Roger Rabbit).  "BRETTT!!!"  That's the best! *can't stop imagining Brett in that scenario*I generally love Watson actually, but David Burke was absolutely the sexiest Watson there ever will be. Everytime I watch him on Sherlock Holmes Granada Series I squeel like a school girl. -- The USA has tanks and Switzerland has banks They can keep them thanks, they just don't amount Cuz when you get down to it, you find out what the truth is It isn't what you do with it its the size that counts. Isn't it just priceless? I've love to see his expression - fear, shock, uncontrollable laughter, who knows?
David Burke is certainly one of the sexiest of Watsons. He has great legs, rawr. But one of my all time favourites is Ian Fleming's Watson (NOT to he mistaken for the author of James Bond) from the Arthur Wontner-Holmes film series. Very dashing, extremely handsome Watson, white haired but, hey, he was spry! With the cutest voice! **squeezes him** Such an adorable little Watson. I'll have to scan a picture of him for you. -- "P-p-please, Eddie, you know there's no justice for toons anymore? If the weasels get their hands on me, I'm as good as dipped" (Roger Rabbit). Oh please do! I would very much appreciate it.
Lmao, "great legs"  too true, too true.-- The USA has tanks and Switzerland has banks They can keep them thanks, they just don't amount Cuz when you get down to it, you find out what the truth is It isn't what you do with it its the size that counts. Send you a note with the piccies.
 -- "P-p-please, Eddie, you know there's no justice for toons anymore? If the weasels get their hands on me, I'm as good as dipped" (Roger Rabbit). |
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