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Adaptation of Persuasion
Persuasion was produced in 2006 by ITV for part of their 2007 Jane Austen season. Three new adaptations of Austen novels were created: Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. The goal of the "Jane Austen season" was to create up to date presentations of three of Austen's works, all filmed beautifully and presented together as a package. ITV committed to building a reputation for quality drama that would rival the BBC. To achieve these ends the network commissioned the best writers, directors and young actors available.

Though Austen's works had been brought to the screen many times before, the producers believed the public was ready for a new set of works. Nick Elliott, ITV's controller of drama, stated the adaptations would be geared toward a new generation of viewers. He explained "About every 10 years, all the great stories need retelling. These films will be very much 2007 films." The adaptations were designed to appeal to a younger audience.

Persuasion was the first of the three adaptations to begin development. The drama was co-produced by Clerkenwell Films and American studio WGBH Boston. To generate a contemporary take on Persuasion, producer David Snodin asked Adrian Shergold to direct. Well known for his gritty and often violent crime dramas, Shergold was an unusual choice. Said Snodin: ’Bringing Adrian Shergold and his use of the camera results in a more contemporary film than you'd expect. Simon Burke was tasked with writing the screen play.

In the novel the character of Anne deals with a great deal of loss and sadness, but her reserved nature leaves these feelings unspoken. To convey Anne's heartbreak to the audience a couple of novel measures were taken. Screenwriter Simon Burke created the convention of a diary, filling the pages of Anne's diary with Austen's narration.


 * to aide the audience in understanding the intense feelings of loss the outwardly reserved Anne Elliot was going through.


 * Shergold: I felt Simon Burke, who wrote the script, had really captured Anne's intense emotional journey, and once I knew I had Sally Hawkins I knew I could make something very different.


 * I'd been wanting to work with her for five years'.
 * 'The thing for me [with] Sally,' Shergold responds, 'is that you can read her face even in the moments when she is not saying anything.'


 * Anne's costumes are simple and basic: 'She doesn't join in the Bath society,' Andrea Galer, the costume designer, explains. 'I wanted her to look in tune with nature. Because we were shooting in winter, I could go for faded autumnal colours for her. She gets Wentworth back just by her stillness and I wanted to reflect that in her wardrobe.'

The film is beautiful, much more like an independent European film than the pretty, sundrenched versions we have come to associate with British costume dramas.
 * Like Bath, the Cobb has a key role in the novel.
 * several different endings were filmed. 'I have three or four endings at the moment,' he says, 'and that's the joy of it for me. This is nothing to do with Jane Austen. If I can shoot anything that tells the story, then I will.' The one chosen was different from both the script and the book, and showed Anne's hopes surpassed, with an ending with no foundation in Austen's novel.
 * The film is beautiful, much more like an independent European film than the pretty, sundrenched versions we have come to associate with British costume dramas.
 * Shergold: 'The joy of making this for me is the beauty of it... Bath is such a beautiful city.'


 * filmed in Lyme and Bath. "Being in Bath making the telemovie you are in the streets where she lived and walked." "It's like walking around a living museum."
 * original adaptations

After much reading and research, Hawkins came to view the character of Anne Elliot as a view of Jane Austin herself. With Hawkins over-voicing the diary entries the person of Jane Austin is brought to life. This, coupled with Director Adrian Shergold having Anne occasionally break the Fourth wall lent a sense of intimacy between the audience and the lead character, and with Jane Austin.

Elliott revealed that he had deliberately shied away from ordering adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility to focus on Austen's lesser known works. Each of the three productions created during the Jane Austen Season were made by a different company, cast and director, so they each had "a distinct look".
 * The story is set in Somersetshire.

In 2007, she played Anne Elliot in the television film of Jane Austen's Persuasion. Her performance was well received by critics and was awarded a Golden Nymph.

Claire Bloom
Source: Boston Symphony Orchestra url=https://www.bso.org/a-f/claire-bloom,-narrator.aspx

Claire Bloom was born in London and made her first appearance on the stage with the Oxford Repertory Company at the age of 16. Her first major role came a year later, when she played Ophelia at Stratford-Upon-Avon opposite the alternating Hamlets of Paul Scofield and Robert Helpmann. Her first London appearance was as Alizon Eliot in John Gielgud's production of Christopher Fry's "The Lady's Not for Burning," opposite Richard Burton. Her performance in Peter Brook's production of Jean Anouilh's "Ring Round the Moon," also starring Paul Scofield, led to the role of Teresa in Charles Chaplin's 1952 film "Limelight."

Since then she has divided her career between England and the United States. Her films include "Limelight," "The Man Between," "Richard III," "Look Back in Anger," "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," "Charley," "The Haunting," "A Doll's House," "Islands in the Stream," "Clash of the Titans," "Sammy and Rosie" and Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors;" and also "Imagining Argentina" directed by Christopher Hampton.

Her most notable stage roles included Juliet, Ophelia, Viola, Miranda and Cordelia at the Old Vic, and in London's West End she has appeared as Sasha in "Ivanov," Nora in "A Doll's House," Rebecca West in "Romersholm" and Mme. Ranyeskvya in "The Cherry Orchard," and, at the Almeida in 1990, as Irena in "When We Dead Awaken." In 1974, for her London portrayal of Blanche du Bois in "A Streetcar Named Desire," she won the three major English theatrical awards. In 1994 Ms. Bloom appeared with the ART as Mme. Ranyevskaya, returning in May 1996 to perform in Eugene O'Neill's "A Long Day's Journey Into Night."

In New York, Ms. Bloom has been seen in leading roles in "A Doll's House," "Hedda Gabler," "Rashomon," "Vivat! Vivat! Regina!," the stage version of Henry James' "Turn of the Screw" and, most recently, "Electra" (as Clytemnestra), a performance that earned her an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony nomination. Ms. Bloom also appeared as Katherine of Aragon in "Henry VIII," as Queen Gertrude in "Hamlet," as Lady Constance in "King John," and as the Queen in "Cymbeline" for the BBC Shakespeare television series. Her many other television appearances include "Brideshead Revisited," in which she and Laurence Olivier played Lord and Lady Marchmain, Philip Roth's "The Ghost Writer," and "Shadowlands," for which she won Britain's BAFTA Award for the best television actress of the year. Recent television appearances include "The Lady in Question," "The Camomile Lawn," "The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side," "Village Affairs," "Family Money," and "What the Deaf Man Heard."

Claire Bloom appears with the flutist Eugenia Zukerman and the pianist Brian Zeger in a recital of "Words and Music"; with her daughter, the soprano Anna Steiger, in a recital entitled "Women in Poetry and Song"; and in another recital with Brian Zeger of texts spoken to music by composers Lee Hoibe, Ned Rorem and Robin Holloway, specially commissioned by the Lila Wallace Foundation.

Ms. Bloom has appeared as narrator with many leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the New Haven Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra (on an extensive American tour), the Jerusalem Symphony (for a performance of Mendelssohn's incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream"), the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Boston's Handel & Haydn Society and Musica Viva, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic, for whom she narrated the first U.S. performance of Georg Anton Benda's "Medea." Music festival appearances have taken her to Australia's Melbourne Festival, Bard College, Jacob's Pillow, Ojai, Ravinia, Vail, Aldeburgh, the Berkshire Choral Festival and Tanglewood, where she performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa. In May 1999 she appeared with the Boston Pops in a Shakespeare program, and in 2000 she joined soprano Renee Fleming for a recital at the Barbican in London.

Ms. Bloom was seen on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theater as Clytemnestra in "Electra," for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, and in London at the Prestigious Almeida Theater in a new play entitled "Conversations After A Burial." Ms Bloom also appeared in her first singing role at the Fifth Ave Theatre in Seattle, performing in Sondheim's "A Little Night Music," a role she repeated with New York City Opera.

She is a recipient of the Shakespeare Medal from the Shakespeare Society, and was honored by The American Academy of Arts and Sciences in an evening devoted to her film career in the fall of 2001. In January 2002 she completed filming "The Book of Eve," playing the title role.

Her bestselling memoir, "Leaving A Doll's House," was published by Little, Brown and Company in the fall of 1996.


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November
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The November Christmas is a heartwarming and award-winning short story about a small-town Rhode Island family dealing with an illness that threatens to take the life of a young daughter. Fearing the worst of outcomes the parents decide to celebrate the holidays early. A perceptive and quirky old farmer suddenly realizes why the little girl’s dad is asking him about picking pumpkins in August and tagging a Christmas tree in July. Having experienced the loss of his own daughter, Jesse Sanford enlists the help of friends to make Christmas in November a reality.

Premieres on CBS, Sunday Nov. 28, 9 p.m.

Production: Filmed in Halifax by Hallmark Hall of Fame Prods. Executive producer, Brent Shields; producer, David A. Rosemont; director, Robert Harmon; writer, P'Nenah Goldstein; based on the short story by Greg Coppa. Crew: Camera, Attila Szalay; production designer, David Chapman; editor, Steven Cohen; music, Ernest Troost; casting, Molly Lopata. RUNNING TIME: 120 MIN. Cast: Jess - Sam Elliott Tom - John Corbett Beth - Sarah Paulson Claire - Karen Allen Tammy Miller - Elizabeth McLaughlin Vanessa - Emily Alyn Lind Variety.

Misty May-Treanor
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Misty May-Treanor is a beach volleyball player that played professionally on both the AVP and FIVB tour. May-Treanor was born July 30, 1977 and grew up in Santa Monica, California. She attended California State University, Long Beach, where she was a First Team All American for three years. Her 1998 College team won the national title and was one of just three college teams to ever go undefeated in a season. She received the Athlete of the Year Award in 1998.

In 2003, May-Treanor teamed with Kerri Walsh to make a beach doubles team. They went 39-0 in match play, wining eight tournaments, and were named the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) Team of the Year. At the 2004 Summer Olympics games, the team of May-Treanor and Walsh won the gold medal, going through their seven matches without losing a set.

During the off-season, May-Treanor trains and acts as assistant volleyball coach at Irvine Valley Junior College.

Personal life
May-Treanor grew up in Costa Mesa, California, attending Newport Harbor High School from 1991 through 1995. She helped her team win the state championship in volleyball in both 1992 and 1994. During her junior year in 1993 she was named the Division I All-CIF team Player of the Year, and the following year was named the best high school girls' volleyball player in the nation by USA Today. While at Newport Harbor High she also competed in track and field, excelling in the high jump. At the CIF California State Meet in 1993 she finished second in the high jump to future heptathlete Tracye Lawyer.

In 2004, Misty married Florida Marlins catcher Matt Treanor.

Huntington Beach in 2006, May-Treanor surpassed $1 million in career earnings, just the second American woman to accomplish that feat.

Nickname: Turtle

Career Highlights
2007 AVP - Best Offensive Player, Best Defensive Player, Most Valuable Player and Best Team of the Year

2006 AVP Best Offensive Player and Best Defensive Player of the Year

2005 AVP Most Outstanding Player, Best Offensive Player, Most Valuable Player and Best Team of the Year

2005 FIVB Most Outstanding Player of the Year, Best Offensive Player, and Best Setter

2004 Gold Medalist Summer Olympics, Athens

2004 AVP Best Offensive Player and Best Team of the Year

Winning on the Beach
2003 AVP Best Team of the Year

2003 Won Beach World Championship with partner Kerri Walsh, Brazil

2003-04, Misty May teams with Kerri Walsh for a 90-match winning streak

2002 FIVB Tour Champion

2000 5th Place Summer Olympics, Sydney

2000 BVA Best Rookie of the Year Greatest Female Beach Player of All Time?

The #1 Ranked Player in the World

Leads the #1 Beach Volleyball Team in the World

31 Pro Beach Titles (Winningest Female in Her Sport)

Misty May-Treanor

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David Booth
David Gilbert Booth (born c. 1946) is an American businessman and the Executive Chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors, which he co-founded with Rex Sinquefield.

Education
Booth graduated from Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas and then received a B.A. in economics in 1968 and an M.S. in business in 1969 from the University of Kansas, also located in Lawrence. He then enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Chicago GSB. He felt challenged at the University of Chicago while working as a research assistant to Eugene Fama. Working under Fama, he co-authored several academic articles on economics, including "Diversification Returns and Asset Management". The article won the 1992 Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence from the Financial Analysts Journal.

Booth later recalled that comparing himself to Dr. Fama, he did not see how he could make an impact or offer anything innovative in academics, and he decided to leave the program and academic life. He left in 1971 after having earned his Master of Business Administration.

Career
After leaving the University of Chicago Booth entered the finance industry, working for xyz. He was keen to try the investment ideas that he had learned of while working with Dr. Fama. In 19xyz he opened his own private investment firm.

While at University of Chicago GSB Booth met future business partner Rex Sinquefield.

"The University of Chicago basically plucked me out of Kansas and put me on this trajectory. Sometimes I wonder 'Why me?', but it happened."

- David Booth

David Booth has served on many institutional boards, including as a Governor of the Kravis Leadership Institute and the UCLA Foundation; as a Trustee of the American Academy in Rome and the Paintings Conservation Council of the J. Paul Getty Trust; as a Trustee of the University of Chicago; as a member of the Board of Directors of Georgetown University; and as a Trustee of the University of Kansas Endowment Association.

David G. Booth Bachelor of Arts / Science, University of Kansas; Master of Science, University of Kansas
 * Master of Business Administration, Booth School of Business; University of Chicago

Dimensional Fund Advisors

 * Made use of ideas taught be professor Eugene F. Fama
 * Primary idea was to invest funds in ??
 * Firm was new and small, and unlikely to garner interest.
 * Booth taped in to University of Chicago


 * When David Booth cofounded Dimensional Fund Advisors in 1981 he began a decades-long experiment in applying academic theory to real world investing. It worked, and today the firm is one of the largest fund companies in the world, managing over $400 billion in assets. Underlying DFA's investment decisions are ideas Booth learned while studying under Professor Eugene F. Fama at the University of Chicago. Chief among them was Fama's Nobel Prize winning efficient market theory, which says it's impossible to predict how markets will act in the short term. So DFA offers low cost, passive funds that focus on small companies, offering solid value. Today Fama is a board member of the Austin-based firm. To give back to the place that kickstarted his billion-dollar career, Booth donated $300 million to the University of Chicago in 2008, still the largest contribution in the university's history.


 * The University of Kansas plans to build an $18 million facility that connects to Allen Fieldhouse and will house the original two-page document on which, in 1891, Naismith outlined the 13 basic rules for what would become the game of basketball.
 * In 2010, Kansas alumnus David Booth purchased Naismith's original rules at an auction for $4.3 million, at the time the highest price ever paid for sports memorabilia.
 * The story of Booth's purchase was detailed in an ESPN "30 for 30" documentary, "There's No Place Like Home."


 * Booth, who graduated from the University in 1968 with a bachelor's degree and in 1969 with a master's degree, is currently the co-CEO and co-founder of an investment firm called Dimensional Fund Advisors. He grew up in Lawrence, graduated from Lawrence High School, and grew up just down the street from Allen Fieldhouse. His address: 1931 Naismith Drive


 * An entrepreneur and visionary marketer who built his successful investment firm on finance principles he learned at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business has returned the favor by making the largest donation in the University's history and the largest gift to any business school in the world.
 * Dimensional Fund Advisors now manages $120 billion (now 400 billion) for institutional investors and clients of registered financial advisors. The firm has U.S. offices in Austin, Chicago and Santa Monica, Calif., and international offices in London, Sydney and Vancouver.
 * "By using the efficient markets hypothesis developed at the University of Chicago business school, we have been able to document clearly that you don't have to try to outguess the market in order to have a good investment experience," Booth said.
 * "It would be hard to find anyone who benefited more from a University of Chicago education and from the faculty at Chicago than I have," said Booth
 * While a student in the business school, Booth decided that rather than return to his native Kansas for an academic career, he would apply his training to the real world.

After founding Dimensional Fund Advisors in 1981 with University of Chicago classmate Rex Sinquefield (M.B.A.,'72), Booth leveraged his Chicago education and the ongoing flow of ideas from its business school to develop strategies for his firm that were grounded in the efficient markets hypothesis, which states stock prices reflect all available information.
 * Dimensional Fund Advisors relies on Eugene Fama as well as other faculty members from the University of Chicago business school to provide thought leadership to the firm. George Constantinides, the Leo Melamed Professor of Finance; John Gould, the Steven G. Rothmeier Professor and Distinguished Service Professor of Economics; and Abbie Smith, the Boris and Irene Stern Professor of Accounting are members of a DFA advisory board.