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Gulliver's Travels.

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From: Newsweek
Date: 19960205
Author:Marin, Rick

SAY JONATHAN SWIFT WERE ALIVE today and had creative control remakes of Gulliver's Travels. The great Irish satirist probably wouldn't have said, "Get Ted Danson or it's no deal!" Then again, Swift was a canny judge of human nature. He would have grasped that in the Land of Nielsen, the words "literary classic" are usually accompanied by "bland big-name star." So Danson it is, although the real stars of this extravagant four-hour production (Feb. 4 and 5 on NBC) are the special effects, the tony British actors and the fantastic voyage Swift dreamed up two centuries ago.

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