Walt Whitman cures Dr. Quinn

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19970405
Author:LON GRAHNKE

Jane Seymour's frontier physician character deals with homophobia when aging poet Walt Whitman visits Colorado Springs in tonight's (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) episode of "Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman," airing from 7 to 8 on Channel 2.

Guest star Donald Moffat brings patience and candor to the Whitman role, and Seymour's Dr. Mike exposes a rare flaw when she lets prejudice and ignorance cloud her judgment.

She worries when adopted son Brian Cooper (Shawn Toovey), an aspiring journalist, attaches himself to the friendly writer. Rumors spread when Whitman arrives for a scheduled poetry reading. The ...

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