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ON HALLMARK CHANNEL: "MARK TWAIN'S ROUGHING IT'; TV BEST BET.(Weekend)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20020315
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The life of writer and humorist Mark Twain (above) is all the rage. Ken Burns offered his own homage to Twain in a PBS documentary that aired in January. Now, a two-part drama, "Mark Twain's Roughing It," pops up at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday on cable's Hallmark Channel. James Garner stars as an older Twain on stage, enchanting an audience with the "somewhat truish" story of his youthful adventures as Samuel Clemens in the American West. Robin Dunne plays the young Clemens as an awestruck tenderfoot who confronts robbers and killers before striking it rich. The outstanding cast ...

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