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...agent John Doggett on the X-Files, Robert Patrick has to hunt alien shape shifters who steal people's faces. On some level, he probably knows how they feel. No sooner did series creator Chris Carter announce Patrick as the new lead, after star David Duchovny scaled back his role, than some outraged fans tagged Patrick as a usurping alien himself. The steely-eyed character actor (Terminator 2) knows he lucked out in getting the role, but he has a healthy respect for the X populi. "They're great, enthusiastic fans," he says diplomatically. "I'd like to tell them...
...Carter took the change as an opportunity to shake up the show a bit. After Mulder was abducted by aliens at the end of last season, he decided to write not a pseudo Mulder but a skeptical foil for Scully. And when the hard-boiled Doggett joins the search for Mulder in the premiere (Fox, Nov. 5, 9 p.m. E.T.), Scully receives him as harshly as many X-philes have. "We let the returning characters speak to our own discomfort with the idea of a new guy," says executive producer Frank Spotnitz...
...Patrick, Carter maintains, is not a "replacement" for Duchovny, who will be in 11 of 20 episodes this season--though nobody knows whether the star will re-sign next year. The producer says Doggett will darken the tone of the show, which often played to Duchovny's wry side. "It takes us back to our roots, telling good, scary stories," he says...
...television show. And, with apologies to Gloria Steinem, I think Charlie's Angels, along with The Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman, made me a feminist. Ms. Bionic (Lindsay Wagner), the original Sporty Spice, called her fan club an "action club," and one Halloween I went as Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) because she was a little girl's dress-up dream: she wore jewelry, but her magical bracelets could maim...
...federal law, could be difficult to clone nationwide: average per pupil spending for Head Start is slightly more than $5,000, vs. more than $7,000 at the corporate-backed Cone Center. Even if Congress okays the move from HHS to the Education Department (President Jimmy Carter tried--and failed--to do the same), the change of responsibility will do nothing to ease Head Start's funding crisis. Space is at such a premium that currently only 54% of eligible poor students can enroll. "First we want to put the program in the right direction educationally," says Bush education adviser...