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PBS airs adaptations, old and new, of all Jane Austen's novels ... and then some

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20080201
Author:BRIDGET BYRNE

Rain poured down during much of the filming of the latest TV production of "Sense and Sensibility," and that was a good thing _ soggy weather is an important plot element in Jane Austen novels.

Cheaper, too. Producers would have had to create fake downpours if they hadn't happened naturally. But it was no picnic for the actors, who had to deal with the damp and the mud during the filming of the classic.

Dominic Cooper recalled the hash he made initially of one of the novel's most romantic moments _ when his character, the "uncommonly handsome" Willoughby, ...

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