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`Vanity Fair'.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Byline: Joe Williams
British costume dramas rarely survive the journey to Middle America, where the locals aren't beholden to an aristocracy. But "Vanity Fair" is unusually accessible, because Indian-born director Mira Nair ("Monsoon Wedding") strips away the fancy-pants pretensions of the ruling class with a deftly comic touch. Yet, in doing so, she's also stripped the massive William Makepeace Thackeray novel of its complexity, reducing a caravan of social climbers to a Reese Witherspoon vehicle and forcing a famously cunning character to impersonate a heroine.
In a game approximation of an English accent, Witherspoon plays Becky Sharp, the orphaned ...
- `Vanity Fair'.
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- Magazine article from: WWD Monget, Karyn November 28, 1995 700+ words
...million restructuring at VF Corp., Vanity Fair Mills, its intimate apparel subsidiary...facility March 22. The newest casualty at Vanity Fair will be Monroe Mills, its second largest...in Monroeville, Ala. In October, Vanity Fair, as noted, announced the closings...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 22, 1993 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: WWD Monget, Karyn January 31, 1991 700+ words
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