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1 PERSUASION and SENSE AND SENSIBILITY The first of these Jane Austen adaptations is reserved, the second more bustling. But both have heroines (played impeccably by Amanda Root and Emma Thompson) who tend to others' emotional needs while submerging their own, yet find a romantic reward. The enchanted viewer is...
The new film version of Persuasion, directed by Roger Michell, seizes on this desperation, making it the film's emotional keynote. When Anne (Amanda Root) first appears, she seems almost panicked, with her pale face, thin-lipped grimace and wide, staring eyes. She is still stunned over the rupture with...
Unfortunately, it is this moral dimension of the story which Michell's film is least able to convey. In Amanda Root's Anne, for example, the sense of an active critical mind is often missing. Anne seems so afflicted, so desperate, that we rarely feel that she is her family...
Michell Nadeem, a spokesperson for Project Bread, which sponsors the walk, said an estimated 500,000 sponsors pledged $3 million.
2. Marc Mani and Beth Michell circulated a flyer urging people to vote against Proposition 1-2-3 and for the candidates opposed to Proposition 1-2-3. At the bottom of the flyer, next to their names, they mentioned the PBH Legal Committee and PBH "for identification purposes only...