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...DOC HOLLYWOOD. An impatient young doctor (Michael J. Fox) stumbles into a serenely integrated community in South Carolina -- "Hee Haw hell," he calls it -- and acquires a pig, a girlfriend and some scruples. It's a feature- length attack of the aw-shucks, but Fox, world's nicest star, makes it painless...
...market-by- wire. Why spend hours traveling to the doctor's office, leafing through out-of-date magazines, waiting for the healer to spare a moment of precious, not to mention expensive time, when one can now get instant medical gratification over the phone? Why not simply dial a doc...
...monologue about the topics of the day," the hydrofoil-jawed host-in-waiting says. "I enjoy doing the political stuff" -- though his old stance of ironically outraged liberalism has been tempered as he segued from guest to host. Leno will also retain that charming anachronism, the studio orchestra. Bandleader Doc Severinsen will retire, though, as will Carson's faithful retainer, Ed McMahon...
...script can release the story from its period setting. No matter how dark and violent Van Kipnis and Eggar choose to make the story, stylized fight choreography will always evoke memories of Robin kapowing the Riddler in the old Batman series. And the war council in Doc's drug store seems quaint when compared with the drive-by shootings and crack dens of today...
Doubters generally mention money in a disparaging way when the comeback phenomenon is discussed. Certainly there was a Dead Whale on a Flatcar quality when lardy ex-champ Larry Holmes, 41, TKOed unranked opponent Tim ("Doc") Anderson a couple of weeks ago in Florida. Later that night, perhaps to demonstrate unchainable ferocity, Holmes scuffled with fighter Trevor Berbick in a hotel driveway. Cameras running, of course. He got a scrawny $150,000 for the evening and bellyached about...