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`Vanity Fair'.

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From: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
Date: 20040831
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Byline: Bruce Newman

When Margaret Mitchell wrote "Gone With the Wind," her classic tale of the American Civil War, she modeled both the story and its social-climbing heroine on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel about British society, "Vanity Fair." Thackeray's unstoppable striver Becky Sharp was reborn as Scarlett O'Hara, her grit now Southern-fried.

Director Mira Nair has located some of that "fiddle-dee-dee" spirit in Reese Witherspoon _ a daughter of the American South _ who plays Becky Sharp in the luminous new version of "Vanity Fair" that comes to the screen ...

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