Word: krige
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race." It's cool to be a bum, Bukowski tells us. In fact, it's the only artistically valid way to live. We are meant to appreciate this when Bukowski's alter ego Henry abruptly leaves the bed of the wealthy and beautiful young editor Tully Sorenson (Alice Krige). He tells her that she "lives in a cage with golden bars," and shambles back down the hill to the sordid. but politically correct furnished flat that he shares with Wanda...
...attempt to deport him) vows to get an education and make lots of money. "I'm gonna have it all, Jake," he announces, celebrating what is surely that line's 100th anniversary in show business. The soap opera continues with Bridget and Georgie O'Donnell (Alice Krige and Judi Bowker), a pair of sisters who flee Ireland when Bridget is implicated in a political kidnaping. She marries a doctor who works on Ellis Island, while her sightless sister forges a career, improbably, as a writer of silent-movie westerns...
...stark a title, they would have bothered to conjure up a genuinely spooky spook. Not a bit of it. Every once in a while there is a brief frisson when the specter is revealed to be wearing several pounds of yucky decayed-corpse makeup instead of Actress Alice Krige's pretty face. But since these moments arise out of a script that appears to have been mailed in from another planet and directed by the spirit of the living dead, they are with out any emotional charge. And since Krige has proved herself a performer of range and spirit...
Such grand figures as Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman and the late Melvyn Douglas were recruited to play the aged versions of the young men who did the Krige character deadly wrong a half-century before. Nobody has provided a decent line for any of them to say, let alone a scene that would allow them a memorable moment of fright or, for that matter, a shadow of the wit and style that had been bred into all their bones. The whole enterprise is as thin as an unoccupied shroud, less menacing than a Mickey Mouse cartoon...