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A&E's 'Lorna Doone': One Sweet Cookie

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010310
Author:Megan Rosenfeld

The Doones are coming! The Doones are coming! Forget about the Sopranos tomorrow night -- this family of bloodthirsty, rampaging Scots make those two-bit mobsters look like stumblebums at a tea party. "Lorna Doone," the epic romance novel you had to read in high school, is landing for three fabulous hours on A&E tomorrow (8-11 p.m.), and it has something for everyone.

Screenwriter Adrian Hodges has managed to straighten out the soporifically complex story by R.D. Blackmore, starting by making it very, very clear who the bad guys are. For one thing, they are all dressed in black, which is a ...

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