SHAKSPER 2001: Stewart to do TV Texas "Lear"

From: Hardy M. Cook (editor@ws.bowiestate.edu)
Date: 03/20/01 

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0661  Tuesday, 20 March 2001

From:           Don Weingust <weingust@uclink.berkeley.edu>
Date:           Saturday, 17 Mar 2001 13:26:14 -0800
Subject:        Stewart to do TV Texas "Lear"

The following appeared on CNN's Entertainment web site:

NEW YORK -- Patrick Stewart will headline a cast in a new TNT movie
based on "King Lear," Variety reports. The $11 million movie will
transport the Shakespeare play to the early days of the Wild West. It
will be re-titled "King of Texas," and shooting starts in Mexico on
April 19. . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/News/03/16/showbuzz/index.html#top_of_page


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