and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. Actress Emma
Thompson (pictured) wrote the script and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while
Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne; actors Hugh Grant
and Alan Rickman appear as their respective suitors. The story follows
two English sisters from a wealthy family (wealthier in the film than
the book) who become destitute and seek financial security through
marriage. The film was released in December 1995 in the US and two
months later in Britain. A commercial success, it garnered
overwhelmingly positive reviews upon release and received many
accolades, including three awards and eleven nominations at the 1995
British Academy Film Awards. It earned seven Academy Awards nominations,
including for Best Picture and Best Actress (for Thompson). The actress
won for Best Adapted Screenplay, becoming the only person to have
received Academy Awards for both acting and screenwriting. Sense and
Sensibility contributed to a resurgence in popularity for Austen's
works, and has led to many more productions in similar genres. It
persists in being recognised as one of the best Austen adaptations of
all time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_Sensibility_(film)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1475:
Moldavian–Ottoman Wars: Moldavian forces under Stephen the
Great defeated an Ottoman attack led by Hadân Suleiman Pasha, the
Beylerbeyi of Rumelia, near Vaslui in present-day Romania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vaslui>
1776:
Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine denouncing British
rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet)>
1929:
The Adventures of Tintin, a series of popular comic books
created by Belgian artist Hergé, first appeared in a children's
supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin>
1985:
Sir Clive Sinclair launched the Sinclair C5 personal electric
vehicle, "one of the great marketing bombs of postwar British industry",
which later became a cult collector's item.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5>
2004:
Helge Fossmo, the village priest of Knutby, Sweden,
orchestrated the murders of his wife and his neighbor, a crime that
shocked the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knutby_murder>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
apotropaic:
Intended to ward off evil.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apotropaic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is
your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more
impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.
--Robinson Jeffers
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers>
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