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Director Nair rides `Monsoon' to Thackeray's `Vanity Fair'

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20040903
Author:DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer
AP Worldstream
09-03-2004
Dateline: BEVERLY HILLS, California
Mira Nair found success as a marriage planner with her last film, "Monsoon Wedding." Now she's out to play matchmaker for one of 19th century England's most notorious husband hunters.

Nair's latest film, "Vanity Fair," stars Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp, social climber, gold digger and always plucky heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's epic novel that skewers class snobbery and pretensions of the nouveau riche in Napoleonic-era Britain.

Born in India and raised on a diet of colonial British ...

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