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Article: A&E Flies `The Cormorant' Sunday
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- The Washington Post
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- June 25, 1995
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Ralph Fiennes stars in "The Cormorant," which makes its North
American television premiere on the A&E Network, Sunday at 8 p.m.
The BBC film scored a hit in the British Isles and made only a
limited run in April at New York's Joseph Papp Public Theater, where
it won critical acclaim for its originality. Fiennes recently won a
Tony Award for his performance in "Hamlet."
"Cormorant's" haunting tale of eerie foreboding is set in North
Wales where a man inherits his uncle's dream house in Snowdonia.
Fiennes, who starred in "Quiz Show" and "Schindler's List," also
inherits Archie, an exotic cormorant.
Fiennes can bring his family to live in the house, as long as no
harm comes to Archie, the wild ...