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Wilder in `Wonderland'

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19990228
Author:Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

In Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," Alice falls down a rabbit hole and encounters a gaggle of surreal and improbable characters. In director Nick Willing's made-for-television version, to be aired Sunday night at 8 on Channels 7 and 10, those characters are played by a first-rate cast (Whoopi Goldberg as the Cheshire Cat and Martin Short as the Mad Hatter), and a handful of creatures made by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. They all help Alice (Tina Majorino) along on her journey toward adulthood.

Gene Wilder lends his peculiar mix of melancholy and whimsy to the role of Mock Turtle, who ...

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