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`Vanity Fair'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Bruce Newman
When Margaret Mitchell wrote "Gone With the Wind," her classic tale of the American Civil War, she modeled both the story and its social-climbing heroine on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel about British society, "Vanity Fair." Thackeray's unstoppable striver Becky Sharp was reborn as Scarlett O'Hara, her grit now Southern-fried.
Director Mira Nair has located some of that "fiddle-dee-dee" spirit in Reese Witherspoon _ a daughter of the American South _ who plays Becky Sharp in the luminous new version of "Vanity Fair" that comes to the screen Wednesday. The satire is sharply observed and the performances acutely felt, most of all Witherspoon's. She does for the very British Becky Sharp what English actress Vivien Leigh once did for that pealing ...
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...play, quietly cunning and thoroughly charming. "Vanity Fair"'s Becky Sharp is the epitome of such a lady. But there is an...able. Reese Witherspoon exudes Becky Sharp in "Vanity Fair" as the most glowing and fresh of all the characters...
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...British society, "Vanity Fair." Thackeray's unstoppable striver Becky Sharp was reborn as Scarlett...South _ who plays Becky Sharp in the luminous new version of "Vanity Fair" that comes to...garments. In the "Vanity Fair" that Witherspoon and Nair ...
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...Nair's latest film, "Vanity Fair," stars Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp, social climber, gold...literature, Nair discovered "Vanity Fair" when she was 16 and fell...Broadbent and Romola Garai. "Vanity Fair" was a book Nair dipped...
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...hinder her work on Mira Nair's period drama "Vanity Fair". Nair not only agreed to write a pregnancy...Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel, "Vanity Fair" follows the adventures of Becky Sharp, a hard-nosed realist who uses her guile...
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...current version of Vanity Fair. The film tells...dramatic story of Becky Sharp, a beautiful...Filming for Vanity Fair, expected to...and Rhys Ivans. Vanity Fair has been filmed...version titled Becky Sharp, starring Miriam...
Source: HighBeam Research, `Vanity Fair'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)