The Village Voice, September 1st, 2004
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 ...
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