Review: Hasty, hectic and harried, Robert Downey Jr.-starring `Dolittle´ is cursed
(WorldNews Entertainment)

In 1967, 20th Century Fox undertook an expensive and complicated production of `Doctor Dolittle,` based on a series of children´s books by Hugh Lofting, about a doctor in Victorian England who talks to animals. Starring Rex Harrison, `Doctor Dolittle` was a notoriously doomed production, troubled by quarantined animals, Harrison´s behavior and a budget that ballooned three times its size. `Doctor Dolittle` received terrible reviews and tanked at the box office, though Fox was able to snag a few Oscar trophies for special effects and song. Refusing to learn from the past some five...