26 - Wednesday. August 21, 1991 - North Shore News

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Pedestrian performances in tired comedy

Michael J. Fox strikes
out in dull Doc Hollywood

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HERE'S DOC Brown when you need him? It
looks like Michael J. Fox has stolen Doc's time-
travelling Dolorean and gone ‘Back to

Mayberry.”

Trouble is we have to go with
him.

Dr. Benjamin Stone (Michael J.
Fox) is so unlikeab!e, his fellow in-
terns can’t wait to see the back of
his greens. The doc is headed for
Beverly Hills where sagging bodies
promise Ben a vigorous bank ac-
count and enough starlets to lavish
it on.

As played by Michael J., this
medical mercenary is about as
greedy and sexist as Marcus
Welby, M.D. That's the first strike
against this comedy.

Anyway, on the way to

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Tinseltown, Ben crashes into the

Grady, North Carolina. They need

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nard Hughes) and Ben needs ta
work off a week of Community
service, In between healing same
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is slowly smitien by he ambulance
driver, Lou Qulie Warnen, a single
mother and law student,

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way, with gentle folksiness, easy
humor and alot of characters that
are familia to Andy Griffith
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torced ta Coal his heels and learn
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nvith a gratuitous skinny-dip scene
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paradise.

You guessed it — strike three.
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Now fora “real doctor
sketch, Nei Simon's comedy is
about pering two vaudevillians
(Walter Matthau, George Burns) to
perform their classic doctor sketch
tor the 11,001st time. The only
snag — they hate cach other,

Matthau and Burns get some of
Simean’s funniest dialogue. But
keep an eye on Richard Ben-
jamin’s manic performance as
Matthau’s long suffering nenhew/
agent.

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