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TV Preview; `Heights': Bronte Elegante

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19941205
Author:Tom Shales

Remakes of movie classics usually fall somewhere between insult and sacrilege, but now and then, they get one right. Or pretty close. The new "Wuthering Heights" premiering tonight at 8 on the TNT cable network is a bleakly beautiful version of the Emily Bronte novel about extremely ill-fated lovers in 18th-century England.

One might even say that TNT, whose original movies tend to be colorlessly competent at best, has hit new "Heights."

The novel has been filmed three times before, counting a little-seen 1954 Spanish-language version by surrealist Luis Bunuel. Timothy Dalton, later ...

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