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Article: PIERCE BROSNAN 'WORLD' TRAVELER
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 16, 1989
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"Around the World in 80 Days" sounds like contemporary air travel
but it isn't.
Jules Verne's classic novel, published in 1873, was about a
19th-century aristocrat Phileas Fogg's attempt to win a bet that he
could circle the globe in 80 days.
Theatrically, "World" has been a feature movie filmed in
wide-screen Todd-AO, named after producer Michael Todd, in 1956.
Forty-four stars, including David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton
and Shirley MacLaine, made cameo appearances in the spectacle.
In its current, incarnation, it is a three-part, six-hour
NBC miniseries which will be broadcast starting tonight at 9 on
Channels 4 and 10.
The international cast of the miniseries is ...