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DANGEROUS LIAISONS. What deadly games people play in this excellent gloss on Christopher Hampton's play. John Malkovich and Glenn Close are the decadent puppeteers of lust who realize, too late, that the job comes with fatal strings attached...
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton...
Onstage, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton's adaptation of the Choderlos de Laclos novel, was elegant and epicene. Les Lay caught the novel's central conceit -- that sex is a wicked game, the rankest form of show business -- in a witty talkathon on Topic A. The movie goes one crucial step further, allowing the characters to shrug off their finery and display some redeeming prurient interest. The actresses are all wanly handsome: ornaments of an era close to exhaustion. Pfeiffer and Thurman make for luscious bookends in the library of lust. Close sits back and plays the puppeteer...
...Judge Hampton said it himself: 'No one will remember this in 1990,'" William Waybourn, president of the Dallas Gay Alliance, has said. "But we will remember...
...Hampton is now a symbol of a judiciary infected with biases. Hopefully, when we have purged our society of hatred against gays and lesbians, Hampton will be looked back on as a dinosaur, a conspicuous reminder of a troubled and intolerant time...