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All's `Fair' in ambition Miniseries probes Victorian society

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19991024
Author:SUSAN KING

HOLLYWOOD The centerpiece of the A & E and BBC miniseries "Vanity Fair" is the extraordinary Becky Sharp (Natasha Little), the most manipulative social climber in literary history. During the Napoleonic wars, Becky, a penniless orphan, makes her way by hook or by crook into London's high society.

"Vanity Fair," which is based on William Makepeace Thackeray's classic satire about Victorian England society, is a "very sort of masculine, unbuttoned view of the world," offers Andrew Davies, who wrote the screenplay of the miniseries, which begins at 7 p.m. Sunday on cable's A & E. During the ...

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