Word: edney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central figures in this roundelay are a bewitchingly malign marquise (Lindsay Duncan), a good woman tempted to self-betrayal by love (Suzanne Burden), a virgin eager to surrender to ecstasy (Beatie Edney) and the highborn roue who is their sequential wooer (Alan Rickman). The essence of the roue's sexual appeal is a chilly, offhand disinterest. Neither kind nor attentive nor particularly virile, he does not so much inspire devotion as command it; he does not so much arouse ardor as compel his victims to confront their suppressed sexuality. He believes all virtue is fraud, and he delights in destroying...
...love interests (you need at least two when you're talking about someone who's had 400 years to check out the dating scene) are uninspiring. MacLeod's first wife Heather (Beatie Edney) just dances around and looks pretty. Her biggest contribution to the plot is dying, which duly and predictably embitters the young MacLeod...