![]() Rackham has a neurasthenic wife (Amanda Hale) whose treatments from Richard E. Sugar, who is writing a book into which she pours the hate her life has bred in her, meets William Rackham (Chris O’Dowd, whom you are statistically more likely to have seen in a comedy, which is statistically likely to be “Bridesmaids”), a soap-and-scent heir who also fancies himself a writer, and senses a way out. Castaway (Gillian Anderson, who has let herself be made to look something like a well-dressed pterodactyl). Garai plays Sugar, a brainy prostitute and local legend in Victorian London, working in the house of the pinched Mrs. Romola Garai, who starred in the period newsroom thriller “The Hour” - a hit British import that on BBC America was also one of the highlight’s of last year’s American television - is the star as well of the four-hour BBC miniseries “The Crimson Petal and the White.” Playing here Monday and Tuesday on Encore, it is not “The Hour,” but it is full of Romola Garai, an actress in whom strength and sensuality are inextricably mixed. ![]()
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