Hunk-a-Like
Friday, February 22, 2008

I was watching Grey's Anatomy - Seasons 1 and 2. I watch the DVDs back to back. All throughout the show, I thought Denny Duquette was being played by Javier Bardem. I was impressed by this character's sexy drawling accent, because in No Country for Old Men, he couldn't drop his Spanish accent.

Then I find out, after a Google search, that Denny Duquette is actually played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. An honest mistake.

Look at the pictures of these gorgeous guys, the likeliness is uncanny. I don't quibble about the nose, because when some people smile the shape changes.

These guys could play brothers.

Javier Bardem	Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Labels: Denny Duquette, Grey's Anatomy, Javier Bardem, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, No Country For Old Men

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Grey's Anatomy Season 1
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

I finally got around to seeing this show. I hesitate getting into a television show early. The networks put out 13 episodes. You get hooked. Next thing you know, poof, it's gone.

I don't like Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey. She's the star, with an irritating voice as narrator, and is the least interesting or attractive character. Alas, most, if not all of the men on this show are bedazzled (in love/lust) with her. The men ignore Katherine Heigl's character Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens.

Right there, the required suspension of disbelief is too high.

Damn. I've forgotten how tall, deliciously dark, and truly handsome Isaiah Washington is. He plays Dr. Preston Burke, brilliant heart surgeon, and head of this department.

My favorite character right off the start is Dr. Cristina Yang as portrayed by Sandra Oh. She's one of the few real characters on the show. This woman is a fantastic actress. She's pretty, spunky, and has lovely hair.

I don't know what to make of Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey. She's not exactly in the same mix (like the show Friends circle of sex-escapades) as Burke, Yang, and the others. I really like it when she tells Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey aka Dr. McDreamy): "You don't scare me."

Yet, I'm dismayed and annoyed by the chunky, asexual, sassy black female portrayals on television, or in the movies. This image hasn't changed since Gone With the Wind.

However, it is a fun and funny show. I've laughed at some scenes that were quite entertaining. Justine Chambers's Dr. Alex Karev is a mischievous ne'er-do-well (bad boy). T. R. Knight as Dr. George O'Malley plays the naive foil. I think he gets hammered a bit too much as the butt of the joke. Hopefully, that changes.

I can't wait to watch the rest of this series.

Labels: Chandra Wilson, Ellen Pompeo, Grey's Anatomy, Isiah Washington, Justine Chambers, Katherine Hiegl, Patrick Dempsey, Sandra Oh, T. R. Knight

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Knocked Up
Saturday, June 30, 2007

I am a lazy reviewer. I saw this film a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to say something about it right away, but I never do because I hate looking up the names of the participants.

The same writer / director of "The 40 Year Old Virgin" (and some other films) created this film. I think one can tell the writing style of Judd Apatow by now. He reminds me of Larry David. One of these days I may even review the TV show "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

It stars the guy who looked like a big blond teddy bear in "The 40 Year Old Virgin" (maybe everyone else was short?), Seth Rogen, and that chic from "Grey's Anatomy", Katherine "Isaiah Washington needs to be fired" Heigl. I really don't have any issues with her, but if she's not careful she may end up like the gazillions of other starlets of Hollywood: hot today, gone tomorrow.

I find Rogen rather attractive (I like big blond guys), so casting him as a dweeb, loser-jerk didn't work for me. Well, his friends were weird, that casting call was accurate.

Ms. Heigl has talent, and oddly enough she has the same doe-eyes of that hot-for-a-second actress of the 1990's Jeanne Tripplehorn. Remember her? No? How about "Waterworld" with Kevin Costner? No? Then google her, I don't have time to school you.

Plot summary: celebrating a raise - to be onscreen, out from behind the cameras - Ms. Hiegl (Alison) goes out to a club with her onscreen sister, Debbie. The sister is played by Mr. Apatow's wife Leslie Mann, who plays an excellent and very convincing bitch-fish-wife role.

Alison meets Rogen (Ben Stone(d)*) at the bar and he gets brave. Cut to them humping the night away. He's funny, sweet and adorable, because he's so clueless.

It's a nice, profanity laced film, yet the sentiments are in the right place. A romance film from the guy's point of view - the guy who wants to do right.

A Time's Magazine reviewer suggested a better story would be murdering the baby (abortion), and the two of them following up with a relationship. I can't see how that would work; I can't even see it being a hit. Perhaps that would work as an independent film (you know how fun those sick, twisted flicks are).

Can't wait to see "Knocked Up" again on DVD, I know I missed quite a few jokes!

*Ben is stoned - got it?

Labels: Grey's Anatomy, Judd Apatow, Katherine Hiegl, romance, Seth Rogen

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Grey's Anatomy: When Victim Groups Collide
Sunday, June 10, 2007

I don't own a television.

I don't watch "Grey's Anatomy." I could if I wanted to, but I don't.

I've read a basic outline of the show's plot. It is a mixed-cast soap opera, based in a hospital, where a number of men (black and white) have the hots for a very plain looking, squinty eyed, boney brunette. I think a number of them are interns.

So this is "ER", with a different slant. You know, where everybody is f***ing each other like "Friends." Since I don't like shows like that, I figure I'm not missing much.

Alrighty then, onto the drama amongst the fighting cast members. Isaiah Washington (IW) said a naughty (okay derogatory) word about another cast member, T.R. Knight (TKK). Then, in a moment of sheer utter stupidity, at an awards show IW said he never called TKK that word.

Wow. Can you say clueless?

Well, to make matters worse, as if they weren't bad enough, one cast member in particular, Katherine Heigl (KH), decided she had it in for IW. Because according to her, TKK was her friend and needed her support. (Smart move girl: great way to put yourself in the middle of the drama.)

IW was sent to rehab, maybe he apologized for being dysfunctional and it seemed that he was coming back. His boss, a black woman named Shonda Rhimes (SR) who created this show along with a half dozen other people, claimed he was staying.

The identity of the show's creator had me asking myself: Did IW act up, because he thought SR would back him? Was the bully behavior of calling another man a nasty name something he thought defensible?

I don't know what IW was on, did he do a bizarre calculation where because your boss is a black female and the target of your slur is a gay man, you would win that struggle? Is that because if you see yourself atop the victim hierarchy others would fall into line?

I saw this in terms (among other things) as who gets to be the most vulnerable victim of all victims. Now, I know IW wasn't the injured party, but I think he saw himself as one. Hence, the strange denials along the way.

He should have known to keep his mouth shut when KH started in on his case. I wasn't surprised he was canned. I am sure at KH's inital insistance, everyone was like, "Who is this chick?"

However, based on the tally from her recent hit flick "Knocked Up" the powers-that-be-said, "He's gotta go!" Since she's now a bona fide star - with power - she got her wish.

So, let this be a lesson, don't call others bad names when you're working with them - always curse them off work site and privately. Otherwise, you will be fired and being part of a politically protected victim group doesn't ensure immunity.

Labels: black men, black women, gays, Grey's Anatomy, Knocked Up, television, victims

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