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...those events we'll still be arguing about over soft food in the nursing home. They were the first hearings for high stakes played with no rules. The proceedings felt to Thomas like "a high-tech lynching," to Anita Hill like character assassination. (Republicans dredged up the infamous John Doggett 3d, a lawyer who testified that Hill was an erotomaniac for thinking he would ever condescend to date her.) To the rest of us, the hearings felt like must-see TV. Hill said Thomas was a frequent consumer of pornography whose conversations with the female staff were laced with sexually...
...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...
Patrick's debut is stronger--he's a commanding figure, and the premiere gets back to the meat of the show's mythology--but the real test will come when Doggett and Scully work side by side. Of course, neither man can be expected to outdo his precursor, but we're not expecting Olivier. We'll settle for no more Olivers. --With reporting by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles