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“I’m sitting at a low wooden table in a London pub on a particularly sodden Tuesday night, waiting for Robert Downey, Jr. The pub is not any old pub, it is the Punchbowl, a Mayfair stalwart. One of its proprietors, Guy Ritchie, happens to be the director of Sherlock Holmes, in which Downey will star as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tweed-clad Victorian detective amid a formidable cast that includes Jude Law and Rachel McAdams. (The film is due out this fall.)”