Vladimir Nabokov

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From: "Suellen Stringer-Hye" <Stringers@LIBRARY.Vanderbilt.edu>
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> Interviewed on the National Public Radio program FRESH AIR, Sofia
> Coppola, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola and director of the new
> film "Virgin Suicides", said that she was deeply influenced by both
> Nabokov's book and Stanley Kubrick's film version of LOLITA. Although
> the film is based on a book of the same name, Coppola said she
> also drew the characterization for Lux Lisbon, played by Kirsten
> Dunst, from the Lolita character in both book and film.
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> For more information about the film see
> http://www.virginsuicides.com/html_2/index.html
> Suellen Stringer-Hye
> Jean and Alexander Heard Library
> Vanderbilt University
> stringers@library.vanderbilt.edu