"You have to feel a little bit like Don Quixote fighting the windmills, " he says.

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That's right, I found a hand-carved wooden statue of Don Quixote for Levin's office.

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Don Quixote would have a fit if he could see what has become of his native Spain.

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Flamenco music and dance are widely admired around the world while Cervantes' novel Don Quixote is one of the most popular ever written.

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But now that Japanese discounters such as Don Quixote, a general merchandiser, are playing the same game, the wholesale industry has begun to consolidate.

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This is Don Quixote tilting at windmills--or maybe at satellite dishes.

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Finally Jean Rochefort, the French actor cast as Don Quixote, is crippled by a double herniated disk, and, given his poor prognosis, insurance adjustors pull the plug on the whole production.

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Numerous Spanish celebrities and well known public figures are taking part in a marathon 48-hour reading session of one of the Spanish-speaking world's most famous literary works, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.

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Gilliam, who is still searching for funding for his abortive Don Quixote project which was called off in 2001 following a string of on-set catastrophes, has called The Brothers Grimm "his commercial film".

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But in his last decade he painted a magnificent series based on the adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza: Cervantes's archetypal visionary knight and his more practical sidekick, riding through barren landscapes on horse and mule.

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