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...doctors on ER, however, are somewhat different. They don't look very glamorous, for one thing. Rushing with their gurneys through the busy Chicago emergency room where they work, they wear frazzled expressions and five- o'clock shadows. Patients come and go so quickly -- a gunshot victim here, a drug overdose there -- that the doctors have little time to accept congratulations, grieve over failure or make speeches about the wonderful work they...
...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...
...Green might be very tough to come by, as Dartmouth, looking like a particularly messy episode of ER: it has been plagued with myriad injuries this season...
...ER is an NBC hit; his Jurassic Park a home-video behemoth...
...editions than Boris Godunov, therefore, is nearly impossible. Wisely, this production restores one of the early casualties, the chorus Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun', a plaintive lament that acts as a kind of fate motive throughout the show (it is heard in the orchestra, for example, when the ne'er-do-well gambler Gaylord Ravenal first catches sight of the sweet, ingenuous Magnolia). Another addition is the charmingly coy duet, I Have the Room Above Her, first heard in the 1936 film version and much the best of Kern's second thoughts...