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A world of public faces and private vices.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Television)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 19991022
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Fifteen years ago, playwright Andrew Davies was asked to adapt "Vanity Fair" as a musical in London. The project evaporated, but the desire to work with William Makepeace Thackeray's masterpiece did not. So when the BBC called, Mr. Davies leapt at the chance to turn the novel into a miniseries.

"It was something I wanted to do for a long time," Davies said in a recent telephone interview from London. "It is such an exciting story, and such a challenge."

It's a challenge he met in a masterly manner - this interpretation is as accomplished as his 1995 teleplay of "Pride ...

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