After the success of Monsoon Wedding, Nair collaborated with writer Julian Fellowes on her 2004 adaptation of Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon.

Reese Witherspoon was born at the former Southern Baptist Hospital ( now the Ochsner Baptist Medical Center ) in New Orleans, Louisiana, while her father was a student at Tulane University medical school.

USA Today considered the movie " plodding, unfunny and almost cringe-worthy ", but also noted that " Reese Witherspoon still does a fine job portraying the fair-haired lovable brainiac, but her top-notch comic timing is wasted on the humorless dialogue.

" At the same time, The Charlotte Observer called her work " an excellent performance that's soft around the edges " and the Los Angeles Times concluded that Becky is " a part Reese Witherspoon was born to play ".

Witherspoon's performance was also criticized: " Reese Witherspoon is surprisingly lifeless ", USA Today wrote, " She customarily injects energy and spirit into her parts, but here, her performance feels tamped down.

In 2004, Mirkin was attached to direct Sports Widow, a comedy starring Reese Witherspoon as a disregarded housewife who seeks to become an expert in American football in order to regain her husband's attention ; the project has never been completed.

The area of what is Reese today was first settled in 1865 when Mrs. Louisa Woodruff and her son built the first home ( near the current intersection of Reese Rd and Saginaw Rd.

Tomlin made her dramatic debut in Robert Altman's Nashville, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, she played Linnea Reese, a straitlaced, gospel-singing, mother of two deaf children who has an affair with a womanizing country singer ( played by Keith Carradine ).

Inspired by Laila Ali's participation in the sport and eager to avenge the losses her father suffered at the hands of Ali's father, Muhammad Ali in two of their three fights, Frazier-Lyde began her career on February 6 of that year, knocking out Teela Reese in one round.

Reese Witherspoon, who portrayed June Carter Cash in the film and won a Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, stated during an interview that when they first performed in-character before a live audience, she was so impressed with his impersonation that she knew she " had to step it up a notch ".

Melanie ( Reese Witherspoon ) has changed her last name to Carmichael to hide her Southern roots.

She became known as " the most dangerous woman in America ," a phrase coined by a West Virginia district attorney, Reese Blizzard, in 1902, at her trial for ignoring an injunction banning meetings by striking miners.

* Hayden Panettiere as Jessica, a girl hired to babysit Reese, Malcolm, and Dewey who later ends up living on their couch after her dad is arrested.

Reeves ' changing of the group's name was due to her living on Detroit's Van Dyke Street as a child and for honoring Detroit R & B vocalist Della Reese, who was Reeves ' idol.

" But as her father later said, " Politics was her life ," and in December 1968 she used her experience to gain a job with Matt Reese Associates, a Washington, D. C., firm that helped establish campaign headquarters and field offices for politicians and was one of the first political consulting companies.

Although there was a rumor that an act billed as " Reese Roper and his 5 Iron Friends " was scheduled to play at Soulfest 2007 in Gilford, New Hampshire, this rumor was later dispelled by Leanor ( the saxophonist ) in a blog on her Myspace page, but Reese Roper did play an acoustic set at Soulfest 2008 as well as some hosting of the ' Inside Out ' stage.

This stereotype has become so ingrained it has spawned counter-narratives, such as in the 2001 film Legally Blonde in which Reese Witherspoon succeeds at Harvard despite biases against her beauty and blonde hair, and terms developed such as cookie cutter blond ( CCB ), implying standardized blond looks and standard perceived social and intelligence characteristics of a blond.

After sitting on the bench for the Pirates ' first three games, Clemente played on April 17, 1955, in the first game of a double header against the Dodgers and made his first major league hit, a ground ball that hit off the glove of shortstop Pee Wee Reese, as well as a catch-dubbed " heart-stopping " by a Pirates beat writer-to rob his Santurce teammate, Junior Gilliam.

Occasionally ragtime was scored for ensembles, ( particularly dance bands and brass bands ) similar to those of James Reese Europe, or as songs like those written by Irving Berlin.

Fiedel created music for when Reese and Connor escape from the police station that would be appropriate for a " heroic moment ".

* 1945 – 1959 Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA-Master planned site and led the design for at least 8 of the approx.

Linnea's husband Del Reese ( Ned Beatty ) is working with political organizer John Triplette ( Michael Murphy ) to plan a small fundraiser and a large outdoor concert gala for the Walker campaign.

Known also for his cowboy roles, he appeared twice on the long running TV western The Virginian, he then went on to star as Reese Bennet in the television series, Laredo, with William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey.

Harry Burnett Reese worked at Hershey, beginning in 1917, as a dairyman for the Hershey Farms.

The City is governed by five council members ( Mayor Brad Reese, Mayor pro tem W. BillMacAloney, Councilwoman Deborah Pauly, Councilman W. Richard Ulmer and Councilman Rick Barnett ), each elected for four-year terms, who serve without pay and meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7 p. m.

* Matthew Underwood, actor best known for his role as Logan Reese on the Nickelodeon TV show Zoey 101

Reese 44 members were the first teachers in Michigan fired for demanding a fair contract by striking.

Miners residing at the mouth of Gold Canyon noted Colonel Reese and his party passing along the Carson River as they headed for the Sierra foothills to establish Mormon Station, later called Genoa.

* Dylan Reese, defenseman for the Pittsburgh Penguins

It incorporated in 1876 by David Harshbarger a large land holder, and is named for Milton Reese, Milton's first postmaster, in the vicinity at the time the town was established.

Salatin is criticized, by poultry farmer Frank Reese, in Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals for raising industrial birds, not heritage birds.

Various other members ( now including a second guitarist in addition to Fuller ) played in the band at this time ; however, the most significant were Jim Reese ( formerly of the Embers ) on guitar, and Dalton Powell ( who had previously played piano for the Embers ) on drums, while Bobby Fuller and Randy Fuller stayed constant on guitar and bass, respectively.

A ten-time All Star, Reese contributed to seven National League championships for the Dodgers and, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984.

Reese is also famous for his support of his teammate Jackie Robinson, the first modern African American player in the major leagues, especially in Robinson's difficult first years.

Reese impressed Colonels owner Cap Neal who signed him to a contract for a $ 200 bonus.

Historian Peter Reese says that, " only one sizeable group of men — all footsoldiers — made good their escape to England.

By the end of 1964, Fuller saw branching out to a major label as their only option, thus Bobby Fuller, Randy Fuller, and Jim Reese prepared to move to California to revisit Del-Fi Records.

In high school, Reese was so small that he did not play baseball until senior year, at which time he weighed only 120 pounds and played just six games as a second baseman.

Even playing in the World Series that year was a forgettable experience for Reese, as he batted only. 200 and made three errors in the four games to one Yankees romp.

In 1949, Reese had his only league lead in a significant batting category, topping all National Leaguers with 132 runs scored.

In 1954, Reese batted. 309, the only season in which he hit over. 300.

Because of the incomplete state of the band at the time of the album's release, the only official member appearing on the CD is Reese Roper.

On February 22, 2002, the Eighth District Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the case should not have gone to the jury, as a wrongful imprisonment claim could be made only by the person actually imprisoned, and not by a family member such as Sam Reese Sheppard.

Reese was born Delloreese Patricia Early in the historic Black Bottom neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan to Nellie Mitchelle, a Native American ( Cherokee ) cook, and African American steelworker Richard Thaddeus Early Delloreese's mother also had several older children, before her birth, all of whom did not live with her, hence, she lived as an only child.

His mother, Grace Reese, was only 15 years of age when Nowlan was born, and she soon left the family, leaving Alden and her younger daughter Harriet to the care of their paternal grandmother.

Larsen needed just 97 pitches to complete the game, and only one Dodger batter, ( Pee Wee Reese in the first inning ), was able to get a 3-ball count.

After being brought back to the SGC, Reese creates more Replicators out of available materials, which overrun the base and are only stopped after Colonel Jack O ' Neill shoots her.

At the 2004 federal election, the only election contested by the party, the APA stood candidates in NSW ( lead candidate, Reese Malcolm ), Victoria ( Chris Grigsby ), Queensland ( Tony Newman ), Western Australia ( Geoff Gibson ) and the ACT ( Jeannette Jolley ) in addition to Meg Lees ( South Australia ).

Reese becomes the only thing protecting her from the Terminator, and her only companion as they flee together.

Reese was only the third Republican since the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified even to seek a U. S. Senate seat from Louisiana.

In 1954, Reese tried again, but in the low turnout off-year election, he polled only a sixth of the vote.

In 1960, Reese, then the Republican national committeeman from Louisiana, was also the Republican standard bearer in the U. S. Senate election against Allen J. Ellender but secured only a fifth of the ballots cast, as John F. Kennedy won Louisiana's then ten electoral votes.

With the assistance of her husband, Francis Minor ( a lawyer ), she brought an action in state courts against Reese Happersett, the registrar who had rejected her application to register to vote, alleging that the provisions of the Missouri state constitution which allowed only men to vote were in violation of the United States Constitution, and specifically the Fourteenth Amendment.

While Reese immediately calls him daddy, Bone only grudgingly does.

Though initially hostile towards Reese, Sarah grows to trust and love him as he becomes the only thing between her and the Terminator.

Though battle-hardened and world-weary, Reese fell deeply in love with Sarah Connor, a woman he had never met and only knew through her photo.

In the episode " The Demon Hand ", it's hinted at by Sarah to Derek Reese that Kyle's ashes were scattered " in the grass "; a later episode shows that he was in fact buried in a grave marked only by the year of his death, and in the next-to-last episode of the series, Derek's own ashes are buried next to his brother, or at least in the same cemetery where his brother rests.

As Trevor is about to accept the award on his late brother's behalf, a sniper appears in the rafters, only to be shot down by Reese.