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Tales by Dostoevsky, Shakespeare; Plus, Lunden Destroys a Hotel and Checks Out the 'Skins

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19981011
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Fire up the VCR Sunday and add a couple of classics to your library. At 9, NBC offers Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment," starring Ben Kingsley, Patrick Dempsey and Julie Delpy. At the same time, Mobil Masterpiece Theatre opens its 28th-season opener on PBS with "King Lear."

A story about "Crime and Punishment" appears on Page 6, using the spelling that NBC has chosen for the Russian novelist's name.

"King Lear" is a play that some consider William Shakespeare's finest work. Richard Eyre directed the Royal National Theatre production starring Ian Holm as the aging monarch ...

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