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...year after year, I'd put on my dad's white coat and stethoscope, take my grandfather's battered black doctor's bag in hand and metamorphose into a pre-teen physician for the evening. Sure, it wasn't that original, but I was so cute I put Doogie Howser to shame...
...also editing my film Life with Mikey, starring Michael J. Fox and populated with a lot of theater actors, and working on a play at La Jolla based on Cool Million starring Doogie Howser. It's a Horatio Alger story...but he gets dismembered...
...more heavily on the headlines this fall. The recession will be Topic A on Roseanne, as Dan Conner loses his job and the family must scramble to pay its bills. The Los Angeles riots will be the backdrop for episodes of several series, including A Different World and Doogie Howser, M.D. In Doogie's season opener, for example, the hospital staff spends a frantic shift caring for riot victims. Though the show takes no political stand on the riot or its causes, Doogie expresses his sympathetic sentiments at the end by paraphrasing Martin Luther King Jr. in his computer diary...
...embraced such perceived threats to traditional family values as teenage sex and homosexuality. Doogie Howser lost his virginity last fall, but only after so much sensitive deliberating that it seemed virtually a religious act. Brenda slept with her boyfriend Dylan on Beverly Hills, 90210 but regretted it almost immediately. Roseanne's boss at the restaurant is gay, and C.J. (Amanda Donohoe) on L.A. Law is bisexual. But homosexual couples are kept almost entirely out of sight on series...
Bill Clinton has the unlined, open face of a man who has had it too easy. True, his father died before he was born, and he grew up poor in the southwest Arkansas town of Hope (pop. 10,000). But Clinton was Hope's Doogie Howser, succeeding at everything he tried, the darling of his teachers and one of the first from the area to go to college. He got his bachelor's degree at Georgetown University, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, then went on to Yale Law School, where he met his wife Hillary. By 1979, 32 years...