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Mr. Fox, then appearing in NBC’s hit sitcom “Family Ties,” was merely a television performer, and at the time the barrier between movies and TV was seldom breached.

She exhibits a collection of quirks familiar to anyone vaguely acquainted with the sitcom genre.

Was “Boots” going to be “Private Benjamin,” some graceless sitcom about a misfit soldier?

But, his grin fading, going through boot camp in New Orleans in the “dead brutal summer,” he says, was anything but a sitcom.

The comic has previously acted in TV sitcoms such as Avoidance and Romantic Getaway, but this will mark his first time acting on stage.