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Acclaimed filmmakers probe Thomas Jefferson's life and loves.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19950405
Author:Bruni, Frank

CHICAGO _ You expect Ismail Merchant and James Ivory to saunter into a room with British accents and a full tea service, with bifocals teetering on slender noses and leather-bound volumes of E.M. Forster tucked primly under their arms.

You expect one body with two heads: There must, after all, be some explanation for the film industry's strange habit of identifying them by their conjoined, unhyphenated surnames, of referring to ``Howards End'' or ``The Remains of the Day'' as Merchant Ivory films in the same way that ``Raging Bull'' or ``GoodFellas'' are Martin Scorsese ones.

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