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...these TV doctors are miracle workers nonetheless. ER, created by best- selling author Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Disclosure), made its debut on NBC in mid-September with a cloudy prognosis. Hour-long TV drama had been in a long-term slump, pushed aside by the proliferating prime-time magazines. ER was scheduled, moreover, opposite the season's one other new medical drama -- CBS's Chicago Hope, which boasted bigger stars (E.G. Marshall, Mandy Patinkin) and the kind of high-pitched melodramatics that viewers seem more comfortable with. Yet ER was instantly a huge hit. In its first five weeks...
...MICHAEL CRICHTON...
Chicago Hope loses even more credibility when compared with NBC's ER -- which, in an inexplicable scheduling ploy, will air opposite Chicago Hope on Thursdays. ER was written and co-produced by Michael Crichton, the one-time medical student and author of Jurassic Park and other best sellers, and it's . clear no one told Crichton rules of television drama. Like don't cram too many story lines into one episode, especially if you're planning to leave some of them hanging. And don't introduce more characters than viewers can comfortably get to know in one sitting...
Most narrators are well chosen, easy on the ear and fully engaged in their work. Sometimes too engaged. The problem with moonlighting actors is that they can't help, well, acting. In reading Disclosure, Michael Crichton's best seller about a man who sues his female boss for sex harassment, John Lithgow hams it up with overripe accents -- the protagonist's Hispanic lawyer seems to come from somewhere outside Transylvania. But on the other hand, Brad Pitt delivers Cormac McCarthy's hardscrabble prose in The Crossing with a twangy stoicism that perfectly reflects the novel's tone...
...Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton...