TODAY IS: Biographer's Day, observed on the anniversary of the day in 1763 when Samuel Johnson met James Boswell, whose writings on Johnson have made him history's most famous biographer. The most famous fictional biographer must be Dr. John Watson, who chronicled the life and times of the Victorian consulting detective Sherlock Holmes -- discover how they met in 1985's YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES, about the first adventure of the teenaged Holmes and Watson. [today's movie at IMDb]

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