Advantages: Entertainment, fun, pictures loads of information Disadvantages: Price and advertisements
the greatest embarrassment of my life was my answer to a question about Vanity fair. One of my young buddies asked me ?How do you like the Vanity fair?? I smugly said ?Why? I go there on regular basis and if you feel like you can come along with me and check out, it is the most updated variety store in town, dear! Have you been there only recently?? ?I didn?t know you can shop in a magazine live, dear!? bang came the answer. When I came to know the Vanity Fair he was referring to my surprise had no end. At this point I delved deep into it and the more I discovered about it, more enchanted I got.
If you look into the evolution of Vanity Fair it goes way back to the 1800s the magazine had three incarnations in the 1800s itself. Between 1859 to 1863 it was a Manhattan weekly meant for mostly humour, then came the Vanity Fair, U.K., periodical dubbed ...
roktimdutta 28.05.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Vanity Fair
Advantages: Lot's of great stories, interesting and varied, many pages Disadvantages: Might be too expensive for some
Background:
Vanity Fair is published by Conde Naste and costs £3.40. In 1913 Conde Nast bought a men's fashion magazine named "Dress" he then renamed the magazine "Dress and Vanity Fair" publishing four issues in 1913. It is said that Conde Naste paid $3,000 so that he could have the right to use the name "Vanity Fair" in America, but it is not known if the right was given by an earlier English publication or some other source. Although there was a brief period of inactivity the magazine was relaunched in 1914 as "Vanity Fair".
Editor, Frank Crowninshield helped the magazine grow in popularity. In 1919 Robert Benchley joined Dorothy Parker to become managing editor of "Vanity Fair".
Crowninshield hired the most notorious writers of the era. Aldous Huxlley, T.S Eliot, Ferenc Monhar, Getrude Stein, and Djuna Barnes all appeared ...
Mickie26 26.05.2009
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Advantages: Educational Disadvantages: Not exciting, hard to follow
I rented this DVD whilst signed up to one of those free trials. I had seen a few advertisements of the film but did not really know what to expect.
Story
From Thackeray's novel, Vanity Fair.
Set in the beginning of the 19th Century, this film is about the friendship of two young ladies, who learnt French at a boarding school together and moved on to live very different lives. Both are married and pregnant with their first children when the country goes to war and changes their lives forever.
This could be categorised as a historical / period film with a taste of India. It's a shame we didn't get to see more of India in the film, and it would have been nice to have more of the cultural influence, but there's the music, spicy food, Indian staff and even some rather nice Indian clothes, particularly those worn by Reese ...
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