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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20040901
Author:Camhi, Leslie

VANITY FAIR

Directed by Mira Nair

Focus

Opens September 1

BLONDE AMBITION

Portrait of a lady: Reese takes on Thackeray 's social-climber heroine while playing herself

Our culture of celebrity is such that, during the opening scenes of Vanity Fair, Mira Nair's exuberant screen adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's darkly satirical novel, I found myself thinking of Vanity Fair the magazine-specifically, the September issue's cover story on the movie's star, Reese Witherspoon. There we learn that, though she brings home a $15 million paycheck, she still looks great and makes time for the ...

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