BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / NYT Style magazine, March 2014

**Posted by tobeornot221b** March 8, 2014 7:12 am

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/

"The case of the accidental superstar"

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/the-case-of-the-accidental-superstar/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-share&utm_content=buffer74683&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&_r=0

My favourite sentence:
"There are people out there these days who so love to hear Cumberbatch talk — who so love to watch Cumberbatch exist — that they do not care what he does, as long as they get to observe him doing it."
:-)

And - there are some nice b/w photos in it as well.

**Posted by stoertebeker** March 8, 2014 8:30 am

Nice article and the photos are beautiful indeed but also too much photoshoped for my taste. I mean, he looked so young on them, like in his early twentys. He is a beautiful man as he is now, I think the photographer overdid it a bit with smoothing out the pictures.

**Posted by tonnaree** March 8, 2014 12:27 pm

stoertebeker wrote:
Nice article and the photos are beautiful indeed but also too much photoshoped for my taste. I mean, he looked so young on them, like in his early twentys. He is a beautiful man as he is now, I think the photographer overdid it a bit with smoothing out the pictures.

Agreed. They're not bad photos, but they look like they were taken around the time of "40 Something."

**Posted by Russell** March 10, 2014 1:42 am

*Thud* Oo, thank you.

**Posted by CuteCumber** March 10, 2014 8:42 am

Nice article- but there was a hint of questioning of 'why' Ben's so popular, as if his recent roles have not been enough to convince the world of his talent.

**Posted by SpiralStaircase** March 11, 2014 1:08 pm

Must confess, I'm not too keen on the photographs. As other people have said, they've airbrushed him to death. I prefer him looking his lovely natural self, with all his lovely lines and maturity.