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Article: EXCEEDING 'GREAT EXPECTATIONS' CHARLES DICKENS' VARIED WORKS EMBRACE THE SEASON.(L.A. Life)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- December 10, 2000
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Byline: Evan Henerson Staff Writer
What is it about that young rascal David Copperfield that is making him appear more frequently than his illusion-creating namesake?
It's been a positively Copper-full year with a ``Masterpiece Theatre'' adaptation for PBS in April followed by the two-part Hallmark Entertainment ``David Copperfield'' beginning tonight on TNT. And if you're hearing echoes from 1999, you may remember the rather heavy Copperfield metaphor John Irving slathered across his adaptation of ``The Cider House Rules.'' Young Homer Wells reads ``Copperfield'' aloud to his fellow orphans at St. Cloud's
The TNT ``Copperfield'' encroaches on ...