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Good acting by Ann Bancroft in Deep in My Heart ( Sunday , 9 p.m.), which traces the odyssey of the mulatto daughter of a white rape victim, but who cares?
A piece predicts that the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones, may oust CEO Peter Kann because of the miserable performance of the company's stock.
Bancroft is so spectacularly abrasive that it's scandalous that she doesn't get the incendiary comeuppance of Dickens' novel--that objective-correlative finale in which the seething, dried-out harridan spontaneously combusts.
What happens then is an enchanting blend of old and new, as Finn is summoned to the manse of Nora Dinsmoor (Anne Bancroft), a filthy-rich ex-socialite driven mad by her abandonment, decades earlier, by a wayward fiance.
Finn tells us that Dinsmoor's room "smelled like dead flowers and cat piss," and I mean no disrespect when I say that Bancroft's performance evokes those same aromas.