Acting Revelation When Up Personal With Close

DAMAGES, 9.30pm, Nine: Few people doubt Glenn Close is a great actress. As the scheming Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons she tore psychological strips off John Malkovich's Vicomte de Valmont with barely a crease in her kilograms of face powder. That famous bunny-boiler role in Fatal Attraction didn't do much for the feminist cause, or, indeed, any woman fancying a social drink with a near stranger, but it was memorable and mighty. Close's character, Patty Hewes, the revered and disliked ...