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INSPIRATION MISSING FROM LATEST VERSION OF "LOLITA".(LIFE)
From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
Date: 19980726
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Byline: KENNETH TURAN
Los Angeles Times MOVIE
REVIEW HOLLYWOOD - When towering Abraham Lincoln met tiny Harriet Beecher Stowe, or so the story goes, he peered down at the woman whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had inflamed the North against slavery and said, "So this is the little lady who started the big war." And so it is on finally seeing "Lolita."
Shown to and refused by studio executives early in 1997, debuting in Europe in September and finally opening in Los Angeles 10 months later for a one-week Academy Award-qualifying run before going nationwide Aug. 2 on ...
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