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...sturdily intact, Dickens' cry of outrage at society's injustice is heard loud and clear, and some memorable characters are brought to glorious life. Rigg, as Lady Dedlock, is a model of aristocratic propriety starting to crack as her world threatens to unravel. Suzanne Burden as the heroine, Esther Summerson, is just as sweet, sensible and faintly dull as Dickens portrayed her. Den-holm Elliott, as Esther's kindly guardian John Jarndyce, invests a quiet role with remarkable compassion and grace...
...gangsta rap (a genre he helped found) and beyond Death Row Records for a new venture: Aftermath Entertainment, a label that will explore genres like soul and pop. Dre's new CD, Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath (out Nov. 26), features performers from his label, from soul singers Kim Summerson and RC to rappers Nowl and Sharief...
...bland, slightly perplexed daughter of one of his former editors-as the traditional loyal helpmeet. She seems to have ended by boring him. The result was that in his fiction he was never able to display a fully rounded view of women. Even his most memorable females-Esther Summerson in Bleak House, or Mrs. Gamp in Martin Chuzzlewit-are little more than ingenious cutouts, painted in brilliant hues of pathos and humor...
...will consider cities dating back as far as the 15th century and from all areas of the world. Among the scholars are a Japanese-Shigeto Tsuru, professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo--and two eminent Englishmen--Dennis brogan, professor of Political Science at Cambridge, and Sir John Summerson, an Architeotural historian and curator of Sir John Soane's Museum in London...
...might just squeak through as something called Lady Dedlock's Secret, though even the book's main plot gets misted over, besides being by now almost too stagy for the stage. And though the drastic cutting at times has its points-it largely silences sweet, virtuous-Esther Summerson, that English cousin of Elsie Dinsmore-it far oftener has its penalties. All but vanished are the things that really make Bleak House notable-its satire on the Court of Chancery, its vast, varied, odd-lighted picture of London. An imposing novel and a great portrait gallery have become...