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Lithgow Brings Don Quixote to TNT

LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer
AP Online
04-07-2000
Lithgow Brings Don Quixote to TNT

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Don Quixote had Sancho Panza. John Lithgow, even luckier, had buddies like actor Bob Hoskins and megaproducer Robert Halmi Sr. join his quest to bring Cervantes' classic tale to television.

The result is ``Don Quixote,'' a beguiling, 2{-hour TNT movie (8 p.m. EDT Sunday) which Lithgow co-produced and in which he plays the fabled Spanish dreamer. Hoskins co-stars as his sidekick, and Isabella Rossellini and Vanessa Williams are featured.

``It was my idea,'' said Lithgow, whose weekly job is portraying an addled alien on NBC's ''3rd Rock From the Sun'' sitcom. ``I'd proposed it to Bob ...

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