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HENRY JAMES STORY OF SEX AND SCHEMING TURNS MUSTY AND MANNERED IN IVORY'S HANDS.(What's Happening)(Review)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 20010518
Author:Axmaker, Sean

Byline: SEAN AXMAKER Special to the P-I

The Merchant/Ivory brand name has long stood for classy, handsome adaptations of English literature classics, but in "The Golden Bowl," the team succumbs to the musty reverence and stale mannerism its once-delicate work defied.

Henry James' story of Americans abroad seems a natural for James Ivory, Hollywood's favorite American abroad, with rich guileless innocents and impoverished aristocrats angling for moneyed marriages in a culture of idle rich and empty opulence.

The terminally miscast Uma Thurman is the scheming Charlotte ...

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