Article: THESE PERFORMERS ANYTHING BUT `ALIEN'-ATED.(L.A. LIFE)

Byline: Anne Valdespino Orange County Register

The elevator door opens onto a hospital in Los Angeles at the beginning of the 21st century. The technology appears the same. But the people are wildly different.

Extraterrestrials with humanoid bodies and brown, giraffelike spots on their bald heads shuttle back and forth. Alien doctors tend patients. Alien nurses read charts. Alien hospital visitors bring gifts.

This is the world of ``Alien Nation,'' a new-age, near-future melting pot in which a spaceship carrying extraterrestrials has crashed, leaving them stranded and the latest immigrants in the Pacific Rim melange of exotic cultures.

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