Word: climbers
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...taught animal husbandry, forestry and vegetable cultivation. She wrote a book about her work, and soon she'll hit the big screen in a documentary called Climb Higher. The film follows her, Kronenberg and six teenagers from the Lhasa school as they accompany Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind climber to summit Mount Everest, on a three-week climb of Lhakpa Ri, a 7,000-m peak north of Everest. Says producer Sybil Robson Orr: "This isn't just about mountain climbing; it's about proving to the world what blind people can do." Says Tenberken: "There should be no limits...
...With a $23 million budget and cast that includes Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne, Nair's adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair is her biggest film yet. Reese Witherspoon plays Becky Sharp, the 1820s London social climber who set the bar by which such mountaineers would forever after be measured. The buzz is all about how Nair has played up Thackeray's Indian influences?he was born in Calcutta?including a Bollywood dance number and an ending shot in the Rajasthani fort town of Jodhpur. The New York Times griped about the "outlandish" sight of Witherspoon doing...
...recognize Becky Sharp. Ever since William Makepeace Thackeray created her more than 150 years ago, she has been the universally recognized embodiment of the social climber, in her case trying to rise out of poverty to a respectable position in a society?Georgian England?more rigidly stratified than any we know. In that delicately poised world, speaking the wrong word, using the wrong fork, could mean disaster, and the suspense in Vanity Fair derives largely from our anxious observation of Becky navigating a vast sea of swells...
...elaborate, traditional rain-soaked Indian nuptial ceremony. So at first glance, her latest undertaking, a $23 million adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, may come as something of a surprise. It's an unveiling of 19th century London through the eyes of the indomitable social climber Becky Sharp, who starts life in poverty but uses her beauty and cunning to rise in status. The film, which opens this week, is being marketed mostly on the box-office clout of its star, Reese Witherspoon. But Nair's hand creates the movie's personality: she fills the film with...
...recognize Becky Sharp. Ever since William Makepeace Thackeray created her more than 150 years ago, she has been the universally recognized embodiment of the social climber, in her case trying to rise out of poverty to a respectable position in a society--Georgian England--more rigidly stratified than any we know. In that delicately poised world, speaking the wrong word, using the wrong fork, could mean disaster, and the suspense in Vanity Fair derives largely from our anxious observation of Becky navigating a vast sea of swells...