TELEVISION: MAKEOVER MANIA

NETWORK SERIES OLD AND NEW ARE GETTING RADICAL--AND OFTEN LAST-MINUTE--REVAMPS

When the NBC sitcom suddenly Susan debuts along with most other new network series next week, it will be clear that the show's star Brooke Shields has been kept exceedingly busy. During the course of the 22-min. premiere episode, Shields' straitlaced Susan Keane leaves her wealthy fiance at the altar, makes the improbable leap from copy editor to columnist at a hip San Francisco magazine (we know it's hip because editor in chief Judd Nelson has installed a rock-climbing wall behind his desk), gets drunk on Jell-O shots, sings It's Raining Men and further embraces her nascent singlehood with earnestly delivered...

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