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Vanity Fair is a 2004 British-American costume drama film directed by Mira Nair and adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of the same name.
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Caricature by Leslie Ward | Spy published in Vanity Fair ( British magazine 1868-1914 ) | Vanity Fair in 1904.
In 1992, Vanity Fair published an article by journalist Lynn Hirschberg which alluded that Love was addicted to heroin during her pregnancy.
In addition to his body of music, Satie also left a remarkable set of writings, having contributed work for a range of publications, from the dadaist 391 to the American culture chronicle Vanity Fair.
A 2004 article in Vanity Fair described how Hackman, Hoffman and Robert Duvall were all struggling actors and close friends while living in New York City in the 1960s.
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A pictorial parody in which the the slaves are white and the protagonists are black appeared in a 1995 issue of Vanity Fair titled, " Scarlett ' n the Hood ".
In 2008, Dunst starred alongside Simon Pegg in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, an adaptation of the memoir of the same name by former Vanity Fair contributing editor Toby Young.
*: She'll always have Paris, article Vanity Fair Issue 607, from David Kamp, photography from Bruce Weber
" In 1998, while her husband was afflicted with Alzheimer's disease, Nancy told Vanity Fair, " Our relationship is very special.
Nancy revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair that Michelle Obama had telephoned her for advice on living and entertaining in the White House.
Going freelance in 1981, O ' Rourke began publishing in magazines such as Playboy, Vanity Fair, Car and Driver, and Rolling Stone.
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Otherwise a later writer may have taken up a comment on life that had been made by Solomon, ‘ Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ,’ and used this as a text to show why even a wise and wealthy king should say such a thing.
A classic example is The Golden Vanity, which contains the line " As she sailed upon the lowland sea.
This Book's emphasis on the ephemeralness of life (" Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ...") echoes the theme of the sukkah, while its emphasis on death reflects the time of year in which Sukkot occurs ( the " autumn " of life ).
He is best known now for Vanity Fair, with its deft skewerings of human foibles and its roguishly attractive heroine.
During the Victorian era, Thackeray was ranked second only to Charles Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair.
It is perhaps for this reason that they have not survived as well as Vanity Fair, which satirises those values.
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847 – 48, satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain.
Vanity Fair refers to a stop along the pilgrim's progress: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity, which is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things.
According to Byzantine chronicles, on his abdication he achieved some degree of anecdotal fame by crying out the verse from Ecclesiastes, ' Vanity of vanities, all is vanity ' during Justinian's triumph in Contstantinople .< ref > Edward Gibbon,
Pfeiffer received positive reviews for her supporting turn ; Richard Corliss of Time Magazine wrote, " most of the large cast is fine: Michelle Pfeiffer is better ..." while Dominick Dunne, in an article for Vanity Fair titled " Blonde Ambition ", wrote, " he is on the verge of stardom.
There is some disagreement as to who tailored the suit ; according to Vanity Fair magazine, it was Norton & Sons of London, although according to The Independent it was Quintino of Beverly Hills.
Often we find an inscription on a scroll that reads Omnia Vanitas (" All is Vanity "), a quote from the Latin translation of the Book of Ecclesiastes.
A painting attributed to Nicolas Tournier, which hangs in the Ashmolean Museum, is An Allegory of Justice and Vanity.
" When the editor of Vanity Fair asked Joyce if the sketches in Work in Progress were consecutive and interrelated, Joyce replied " It is all consecutive and interrelated.
* Highbury is mentioned in Vanity Fair, the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray ; in chapter 4, the Sedleys are said to be going " to dine with Alderman Balls, at Highbury Barn.
The main part of The Newcomes is set a decade or two after the action of Vanity Fair, and some of the characters in Vanity Fair are mentioned peripherally in The Newcomes.
* Sejanus's rise and fall is described in Juvenal's Satire X, named either " Wrong Desire is the Source of Suffering " or " The Vanity of Human Wishes.
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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.
In 2004, Witherspoon starred in Vanity Fair, adapted from the 19th-century classic novel Vanity Fair and directed by Mira Nair.
He has been honored by organizations representing the spectrum of issues to which he has devoted his career, including the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award from LCCR ; the Benjamin Hooks " Keeper of the Flame " Award from the national NAACP ; the Public Service Achievement Award from Common Cause ; the Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award from the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund ; the " National Good Guy Award " from the National Women's Political Caucus ; the Isaiah Award for the Pursuit of Justice from the American Jewish Committee ; the Flag Bearer Award from Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays ( P-FLAG ); the Edison Uno Memorial Civil Rights Award from the Japanese American Citizens League ; the University of Chicago Alumni Public Service Citation ; " Citizen of the Year " from the Guillian-Barr Syndrome Foundation International ; and named in 2004 one of Vanity Fair's " Best Stewards of the Environment.
She is in the films Vanity Fair ( 2004 ) and The Freediver, which have yet to be released in the UK.
* When maverick cyber-pioneer Hank Asher invented MATRIX, Vanity Fair, December 2004, loaded 14 March 2007
Her other films include I Don't Want to Be Born ( 1975 ), Equus ( 1977 ), The Dresser ( 1983 ), Wolf ( 1994 ), Jack and Sarah ( 1995 ), Gosford Park ( 2001 ), Cold Mountain ( 2003 ), Vanity Fair ( 2004 ) and Ask the Dust ( 2006 ).
In the 2004 film Vanity Fair, LaRue's singing was used to voice-over Reese Witherspoon's three songs: " Over The Mountains / The Great Adventurer ," " Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal ," and " The Mermaids Song ".
In the November 2004 issue of Vanity Fair magazine author John Brodie contested that gentrification would fail as "... the gunplay of the Shoreline Crips and the V-13 is as much a part of life in Venice as pit bulls playing with blond Labs at the local dog park.
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