Article: Hail `Caesar,' TNT's 4-hour miniseries airing Sunday and Monday.

Byline: Ed Bark

A Vegas showplace, a pizza company and a salad are among the many-splendored legacies of Rome's foremost ruler.

Now TV finally takes a stab at Julius Caesar in the aptly named, splendidly rendered "Caesar." The four-hour TNT miniseries also includes a rousing although brief final performance by the late Richard Harris. He gallantly rises to the challenge of the despotic Sulla before sinking for the last time into a deluxe sunken tub.

Filmed in Malta and Bulgaria, "Caesar" harkens to the money-on-the-screen pageantry that used to be commonplace in the 1980s on the then-Big Three broadcast networks. "Shogun," "Masada," "Peter the ...

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