Kelly Hutchinson is sweetly in thrall as Solness' hapless young mistress, while Max Gordon Moore is effective as her humble, oblivious fiance.

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It's about a 19th-century Italian love triangle between a handsome young soldier, his passionate, married mistress back home, and an obsessed, demanding invalid at his remote regimental posting who tries to turn his distaste for her into love.

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Yet he brings his own illumination to the role of Thomas Fowler, an aging English journalist who suddenly finds that his exquisite Vietnamese mistress, Phuong, is being courted by a handsome young American named Alden Pyle.

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But he said the jurors didn't trust the testimony of the government's star witness, former Edwards aide Andrew Young, who accepted the money and hid Mr. Edwards's pregnant mistress from his ailing wife, the late Elizabeth Edwards, and from the press while he ran for president.

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