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A&E Airs Six-Hour `Vanity Fair'

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19991024
Author:Martie Zad

The tale of one of the most seductive social climbers of all time, Becky Sharp, comes to television in the A&E original movie "Vanity Fair," airing Sunday and Monday at 8 p.m.

The six-hour film produced by BBC and A&E Network is based on William Makepeace Thackeray's classic novel of social satire. A three- hour installment airs each night and repeats at midnight.

Natasha Little stars as Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a penniless artist, resourceful, ambitious, scheming and irrepressible.

Frances Grey portrays Sharp's friend Amelia Sedley, a true opposite of Sharp, affectionate, unworldly and ...

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