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	Rupert Holmes
		Rupert Holmes (born February 24, 1947 in Cheshire) is a composer and writer who is best known for the 1979 novelty hit "Escape" (later subtitled "The Piña Colada Song") but has had a varied and distinguished career in several media.
		Holmes previously had been in the band The Buoys, which produced the song Timothy about cannibalism.
		Holmes later became the first and so far only person singlehandedly to receive Tony Awards for book, music and lyrics, for the 1986 Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
	www.ftppro.com /library/Rupert_Holmes (393 words)

	Rupert Holmes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rupert Holmes (born February 24, 1947 in Northwich, Cheshire, England) is a composer and writer who grew up in the northern New York City suburb of Nanuet, New York, and attended nearby Nyack High School.
		Holmes wrote a song for the band The Buoys called "Timothy," possibly the only top-40 song about cannibalism.
		Holmes was not in the band, but did play piano on the track.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rupert_Holmes (425 words)

	Rupert Holmes - Film
		Holmes also composed the show's theme, its songs and its poignant underscore over the course of its four seasons.
		Holmes' "REMEMBER WENN" classic "You Make It Christmas" is the title song of Gloria Loring's new CD.
		An episode guide with interesting summaries of many of the episodes can also be found within the "TV Tome" website (we looked it up and "tome" means "a large and scholarly book").
	www.rupertholmes.com /film/wenn.html (239 words)

	Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) - Starring Rupert Everett and Ian Hart
		The illustrious detective Sherlock Holmes, played by Rupert Everett, is drawn out of retirement by his estranged partner in crime, Dr John Watson (Ian Hart), when a case that threatens to overwhelm the privilege and tranquillity of aristocratic society comes to their attention.
		As he is leaving Holmes indicates that he assumes the girl is already dead, which is proven to be correct as the scene cuts to a fog-bound street where a girl is found hanging dead from a streetlamp.
		Holmes immediately wants to question the girl but both Lestrade and Watson indicate that she is in shock and tha Holmes brusque manner would do the girl no good.
	www.bakerstreetdozen.com /silkstock.html (2677 words)

	Amazon.com: Partners in Crime: Music: Rupert Holmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rupert Holmes' "Partners In Crime" was originally released in/ around September of 1979, and it's where you'll find the huge/ notorious #1 hit "Escape" aka "The Pina Colada Song".
		Rupert, the man who could never say "No" to a payday and a work experience, helped write is own Pop career Eulogy with Sho-Bizz (Which he has somehow snuck past the mass media and most of the general public), and ultimately buried with Escape (the Pina Colada Song).
		Rupert Holmes is definitely the hero for the average working fellow who just wants to make enough sense out of the hectic pace of modern life to find and keep love.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002OOJ?v=glance (2923 words)

	USATODAY.com - Lyrical books, literate songs define these two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rupert Holmes and Wesley Stace, who performs as John Wesley Harding, are not the first singer/songwriters to write novels (think, for example, of Jimmy Buffett's A Salty Piece of Land).
		Rupert Holmes was nearly finished with Swing, his second novel, when Random House editor Jonathan Karp asked the songwriter/author if he could write, arrange and perform the music mentioned in his novel, set in 1940 during San Francisco's Golden Gate Exposition.
		Holmes, the son of a former Big Band musician, says the music on the book's CD — recorded without synthesized instruments, as if it's 1940 — isn't essential to solve the mystery and is aimed at putting readers "in the mood to spend a long weekend in the Big Band era."
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-04-14-songwriter-books_x.htm (1126 words)

	USATODAY.com - Rupert Holmes dons yet another hat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		SCARSDALE, N.Y. — In his 20s, Rupert Holmes became a singer/songwriter "because it was the only way to guarantee that someone would sing the songs I was writing." That wasn't such a problem after Barbra Streisand asked if he'd like to work with her, which he did on six albums and several movies.
		Holmes' work is better known than he is. Karp suggests that's because he rarely does the same thing twice.
		Holmes set his novel in the '70s because "it was a terrible, luscious, sordid, exhilarating, unforgivable era...
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2003-07-02-rupert-holmes-book_x.htm (944 words)

	TalkingComedy.com Books Profile: RUPERT HOLMES
		Holmes can recall overhearing a record producer, back in the days when Holmes was first starting out, talking with someone over the phone and saying about Holmes… “I've got this kid and he does all the arrangements for me. He does all the vocals on the recording sessions.
		Although Holmes was having success in the industry he found he was not creating the style of music that was his true passion and soon became frustrated with being a session musician.
		Holmes says when filming Remember WENN he would often be asked to replace one of the main characters in a scene with someone else from the cast because of scheduling conflicts.
	www.talkingcomedy.com /fall2003/books-fa03/RH-BK-fa03.html (1729 words)

	Holmes promises more of 'WENN'
		Series creator Rupert Holmes hasn't forgotten about his show either, and he thinks there's still a future for this 1940s-era comedy-drama set in a fictitious Pittsburgh radio station.
		Holmes said he's been approached by publishers to write "WENN" novels, and he's considering a Broadway musical featuring the "WENN" characters (Holmes said AMC owns the series, but the characters are his).
		Holmes is at work on a musical version of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray," which may premiere in London as early as the fall.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/19990404holmes5.asp (463 words)

	Timothy by The Buoys Songfacts
		This was written by Rupert Holmes, who in addition to his hit "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)," has written a novel called Where The Truth Lies, an Emmy-winning TV series called Remember WENN, and several plays, including The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, which won 5 Tony awards.
		Rupert was 20 years old and had been in the record business for about a year.
		Holmes: "At the time, I was working on an arrangement of '16 Tons,' the Tennessee Ernie Ford hit from the '50s, for an artist named Andy Kim.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=2005 (1777 words)

	VH1.com : Rupert Holmes : Biography
		Holmes was born in England because of his father's involvement in the U.S. Air Force.
		Holmes later turned his attention to Broadway, and became a playwright.
		Holmes also began work on another musical, The Picture of Dorian Gray, based on the Oscar Wilde book of the same name.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/holmes_rupert/bio.jhtml (386 words)

	Review \| Where the Truth Lies by Rupert Holmes
		Yet all the trappings aside, one must evaluate this work by the same set of criteria as any other, and although Rupert Holmes certainly shows promise as a writer, the results here are somewhat mixed.
		That author Holmes can keep all the double-crosses, betrayals, half-truths and mostly lies straight is a marvelous feat, and it speaks well for his ability to plot a suspenseful story.
		Although Holmes may have been trying to stretch himself by choosing a young female protagonist, except for the sexual aspect, O'Connor could just as easily have been male.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/wherethetruth.html (1960 words)

	Cast Of Characters: The Rupert Holmes Songbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Loudon Wainwright III and Rupert Holmes all share the distinction of having a song grow to such epic proportions that it casts a career-wide shadow.
		But even before liking piña coladas and getting caught in the rain became a national pastime, Rupert Holmes had a successful career as producer, performer and songwriter.
		Holmes is the only Edgar award winner ever to appear on American Bandstand.
	www.hip-oselect.com /catalogue_rupert.asp (422 words)

	a fool in the forest: Rupert Holmes
		That Holmes should be known to the larger world only as the creator of a Song Everyone Loves to Hate struck me then, and strikes me now, as a wicked jape of the Muse.
		Holmes for the talented fellow he is, and to recommend to you tracking down his work before his paean to umbrella drinks.
		Holmes' next three albums -- Rupert Holmes, Singles, and The Pursuit of Happiness, none of which seem to enjoy a current domestic release -- grew progressively more serious (although the jokes never disappeared altogether) while maintaining high standards of songcraft.
	declarationsandexclusions.typepad.com /foolblog/2004/12/rupert_holmes.html (757 words)

	Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes Songfacts
		Rupert thought a song called "Him" should be the first single from the album, but the record label liked this and convinced Rupert that they should release it first.
		Holmes, considering that before "Escape," the song he was probably most associated with was the infamous "Timothy".
		Holmes was the lead singer in a studio group in the late 1960's called "The Street People".
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=2896 (1857 words)

	Does 'Truth' lie with author or director?
		Holmes wrote his first novel — a mystery called "Where the Truth Lies" — in 2003 Before it was set in type, Egoyan ("The Sweet Hereafter") bought the rights to turn the novel into a film.
		Holmes, born in Nyack and now living in Scarsdale, will forever be known as the man who sang "The PiNa Colada Song." He won Tony Awards for writing the score and the book for "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" in 1986.
		Holmes says the context of those scenes may have given the rating agency pause.
	www.thejournalnews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051009/LIFESTYLE01/510090317/1031 (1413 words)

	BBC - Drama - Sherlock Holmes
		Rupert Everett stars as the illustrious Sherlock Holmes, with Ian Hart as his sidekick Dr Watson.
		The original screenplay by Allan Cubitt re-unites an estranged Holmes and his friend Doctor John Watson in a desperate bid to solve a case which threatens to overwhelm the privilege and tranquillity of Edwardian aristocratic society.
		Rupert's CV is littered with memorable roles, but a few choice ones (and co-stars) include The Madness of King George (Nigel Hawthorne), An Ideal Husband (Cate Blanchett), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Michelle Pfeiffer), My Best Friend's Wedding (Julia Roberts), The Importance of Being Ernest (Reese Witherspoon), Shrek 2 (Eddie Murphy)...
	www.bbc.co.uk /drama/sherlockholmes.shtml (414 words)

	Disco Profiles - Rupert Holmes
		Rupert Holmes was born in England because of his father's involvement in USAF.
		At the age of 24, Rupert Holmes had a hit on both the American and UK charts.
		Rupert Holmes has collected more than 3,000 of these radio programs and plans to bring audiences back to the days when radio broadcasting began.
	www.comicgenius.com /DiscoFever/disco_profiles/rupert_holmes/rupert_holmes_profile.htm (433 words)

	"Best Screenwriting Magazine" -- LA Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Novelist/composer Rupert Holmes demystifies titles, themes, and voices in his Alice in Wonderland- influenced novel, while illustrating how adaptor/director Atom Egoyan was forced by the constraints of the screenwriting process to develop new ways of characterization.
		Based in New York for most of his life, Rupert Holmes made his mark as a pop music composer ("Escape (The Piña Colada Song)") whose hit songs still appear on movie soundtracks (Shrek), as well as an award- winning playwright and musical theater composer ("The Mystery of Edwin Drood").
		Holmes stopped writing (and running) for 30 minutes so CS Weekly could do a exclusive interview centering on Where The Truth Lies and his part in Egoyan's adaptation.
	www.creativescreenwriting.com /csdaily/trenches/10_21_05_RupertHolmes.html (2595 words)

	TalkingComedy.com Theater Profile: RUPERT HOLMES
		Rupert Holmes created The Mystery of Edwin Drood for Broadway in 1986, becoming the first individual in theatrical history to win Tony Awards simultaneously for book, music, and lyrics.
		Rupert Holmes recalls his own early days starting out in the music business… “Sometimes I was writing Gospel lead sheets, sometimes I was writing the Charlie Pride song folio and arranging it, sometimes I was doing a marching band arrangement for Frosty the Snowman, or the concert band version of selections from Hair.
		Holmes felt that by including this technique in a scene of the play he could not only highlight an entertainment technique that Burns and Allan created and made famous but also insert a production number into the show.
	www.talkingcomedy.com /fall2003/theater-fa03/RH-TH-fa03.html (1774 words)

	Amazon.ca: Where the Truth Lies: a Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Holmes is an award-winning Broadway playwright and composer (The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Accomplice), so it's only appropriate that his hugely entertaining first novel should be set in the world of show business.
		At the height of their career, a dead girl was found in their hotel room, and although neither of them was accused (they had airtight alibis), the incident put an end to their act, and as the book begins, they haven't seen each other for years.
		Holmes has a wonderful feeling for period detail, and the '60s and '70s spring vividly back to horrific life through the brilliant narration of the romantically susceptible O'Connor.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812972236 (1340 words)

	reveries - cool news of the day
		A new mystery novel by singer/songwriter Rupert Holmes comes packaged "with a music CD to help solve the puzzle," reports Bob Minzesheimer in USA Today.
		Rupert is back now, with an innovative novel called Swing, "set in 1940 during San Francisco's Golden Gate Exposition," and chock-full of references to 40s-era big-band music.
		Rupert's editor, Jonathan Karp of Random House, thought it would be a cool idea if the songwriter/author would "write, arrange and perform the music mentioned in his novel."
	www.reveries.com /cool_news/2005/april/apr_15b.html (191 words)

	Amazon.com: Rupert Holmes - Greatest Hits: Music: Rupert Holmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rupert Holmes is truly one of the most impressive songwriters of all time.
		Some of the discographical information included seems to have somehow gotten a tad messed up--"Studio Musician" is said to be from his 1976 album "Singles" AND his 1975 self-titled album--it's actually from the latter album--I don't think it was ever included on "Singles" (which is NOT a 'greatest hits' album as the title suggests).
		Rupert did have a previous compilation, "The Epoch Collection", which draws from only his first 3 albums & gathers a number of excellent songs not on here--it's out of print in the US, as are the albums "Pursuit of Happiness", "Partners In Crime", & "Adventure".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004VVYQ?v=glance (1486 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
		Fresh from an opium den in London's East End, Sherlock Holmes relaxes with green tea and a book on beekeeping, paying no heed to Dr. Watson's plea for help with a baffling case.
		The original screenplay is by Allan Cubitt (Anna Karenina, Prime Suspect 2), who adapted the classic Holmes mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles for Masterpiece Theatre in 2003.
		Rupert Everett (Shrek 2, An Ideal Husband, My Best Friend's Wedding) stars as the sleuth who just can't say no to the case, with Ian Hart (Finding Neverland, Hound of the Baskervilles) as Dr. Watson.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/silkstocking (285 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Where the Truth Lies by Rupert Holmes
		Holmes began his career in the seventies as the writer and composer of songs so intricate that many have been included in mystery collections from Ellery Queen.
		The Los Angeles Times has stated that “Rupert Holmes is an American treasure.” Where the Truth Lies is his first novel; the film rights have been acquired by Atom Egoyan, director of The Sweet Hereafter.
		Holmes is currently working on a second novel for Random House, to be published in 2004.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812972238 (771 words)

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