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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2002
ENTERTAINMENT
Cyrus show starting third season
The Associated Press
RENO, Nev. — Billy Ray Cyrus, who's not a doctor in real life, is surprised he's still playing a doctor on television.
"I thought we might do a few episodes. To think, that I would be getting ready to start filming the third season," he said before a recent concert.
"No, I wouldn't have ever thought it would have come this far."
Doc—which airs Sundays at 7 p.m. CDT on PAX —normally is the network's top-rated show.
It's a feel-good show about a folksy Montanan thrust into a bustling Manhattan hospital, dealing with his young ward Raul (Tyler Garcia Posey), tolerating his cranky superior (Ron Lea) and taking time with patients no HMO would allow.
"When the pilot script for Doc ended up on the coffee table, I said, 'Yeah. Now this is a show that could maybe be a little bit of Mayberry, a little bit of Touched
By An Angel, a little bit of ER. A really well-rounded show."
"When I read Doc,it was like now here's my chance to give back to God for all the many blessings that he's given me."
Not that it comes easy for the 41-year-old Cyrus, who lives on a 500-acre Tennessee farm with his wife and six kids.
"I study really, really hard," said the singer.
"It is a full-time job for me to stay on top of all my lines, to be prepared, because my worst nightmare is they're going to have that camera in my face and me surrounded with people staring at me and me not knowing what to say."
Cyrus says Doc provides an inspiration for his songs.
"Stand Still" from his upcoming eighth album, "Time Flies," is the new theme for the show.
He's also working on scripts for the show. During an interview on his tour bus, he shows the sketch of an upcoming episode written in pencil on a yellow legal
pad.
"I'd like to make the show, at least for the episodes that I write, maybe with a little more grit in them. I'd like to find out about Clint's past. You know, his dad died when he was 12, his mom died a little later. I think Clint had a little dark period in his life that I'd like to expose a little more."
His first co-writing venture comes in the Oct. 13 episode, "Nobody," about a homeless teenage mother.
"I really enjoy writing and being creative, but as far as stepping on the set and actually making the show, it's just hard work. Ain't nothin' fun about it."
The long-distance relationship between the set in Toronto and his family in Tennessee also is a strain.
"One of the harder episodes that we did was the one about 'Busy Man,' and I'm going, 'Wow. I'm sittin' here doing exactly what this show's about. I'm a slave to my work."
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9 Bluenose
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15 Reveal the inner man?
16 Extend a subscription
17 Soprano Giuck
18 Rain cats and dogs
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35 Writer Hunter
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38 Experimental room
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42 Arctic or Antarctic
44 Transmit
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56 Gold nugget examiner
59 Cincinnati pros
60 Highways and byways
61 Terrible ruler?
63 Aparicio or Tiant
64 Archipelago member
65 Easter forerunner
66 Summit
67 Windblown soil
68 Dregs
69 Comprehends
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