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May 8, 2021 Michael Dirda THE WASHINGTON POST – In the recent Washington Post poll to choose the greatest fictional detectives of all time, the top four vote-getters, tallied in descending order, were Armand Gamache, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Bosch and Hercule Poirot. Pfui, as Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe would say. Faced with a mind-boggling murder, would anyone turn to Louise Penny’s Gamache instead of Sherlock Holmes or to Michael Connelly’s Bosch over Hercule Poirot? I certainly wouldn’t. What the poll actually reveals is the tyranny of the contemporary. The results reflect the influence...

Anthony Powell, Oscar-winning costume designer, dies at 85 For Cruella de Vil, in two live-action movies based on a 1961 animated feature, Powell conceived wild, villainy-enhancing ensembles. by Richard Sandomir (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Anthony Powell, an inventive British costume designer who won three Oscars but is perhaps best known for the outlandish clothing he conceived for Glenn Close as the fur-loving Cruella de Vil in “101 Dalmatians” and its sequel, died April 16 in London. He was 85. The Costume Designers Guild announced his death but did not cite the cause. His fellow costume desi...

Anthony Powell, Oscar-winning designer of exotic costumes for a string of films including Tess, Death on the Nile and 101 Dalmatians – obituary He worked with Glenn Close on her costumes as the fur-crazed Cruella de Vil, for which he exaggerated haute couture styles to comic effect 22 April 2021 • 2:13pm Anthony Powell in 1991 with a drawing of his costume for Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook for the movie Hook Credit: Ian Cook/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Anthony Powell, who has died aged 85, was an internationally acclaimed British costume designer who gave period authenticity to ...

“The programme did a thorough job: giving us a tour of Christie’s beloved Devon home, Greenway; sending Bettany Hughes to the British Museum to reference the author’s passion for archaeology; visiting the Isokon building in north London, where she lived for several years. The latter was a reminder that, however vintage her murder mysteries seem to us now, Christie was a very modern woman.” “I agreed that everyone has their favourite on-screen Hercule Poirot, which they consider the definitive performance. Mine is Peter Ustinov. Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun banked cosy ch...

Hercule Poirot is now 100 years old, although he never experienced a childhood or an adolescence. Instead he was born by a kind of parthenogenesis, leaping fully formed and middle-aged from the head of Agatha Christie in 1921. The shrewd little Walloon has been poking his nose into criminal set-ups ever since, in 33 novels, 59 short stories and any number of film and television adaptations. While Christie’s other great detective, Miss Marple, inhabited a world of chintz and climbing roses, uncovering the rot at the core of an innocuous English village, Poirot was by nature urban, and urbane...