Re: Mr Gilmore as a medical intern

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:09:19 +1300, Anybody
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>Cory <my_wheel_life@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Feb 18, 1:15 am, Rob Jensen <ShutUp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:03:00 +1300, Anybody
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>> > <anyb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > >Anyone know why Mr Gilmore gave up his long career to become an
>> > >hospital intern in Grey's Anatomy?? Maybe he went a little strange
>> > >after his heart attack - a late-mid-life crisis.  ;-)
>> >
>> > Oddly enough, that's kinda what happened to Good Ol' Norman on
Grey's.
>> > Had a mid-life crisis after his wife died.
>> 
>> The "Richard Gilmore as an intern" storyline was about the most
>> bizarre thing I've seen on television in a LONG time.  It was pretty
>> obvious that it was just filler, for whatever reason... not that it
>> wasn't great to see EH, of course, and no offense to his talent,
>> either.  It was just a poorly conceived and executed plot on the part
>> of TPTB of GA.
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>They probably saw (or heard about) the older man in the batch of
>applicants for the new team on House and decided "hey, that's a good
>idea, let's clone it" - that's how Hollyweird usually works.   :-\

Grey's medical consultant quickly became one of their regular staff
writers (see interview with her in the new Grey's Anatomy magazine,
with Chyler Leigh center on the cover flanked by Chandra Wilson and
Eric Dane).  If there's any place they got the idea for Norman, it's
far more likely that it came from real life than anything.

  -- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.  
It never works.  I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work 
and what I could've done differently.  I'm analyzing all my shortcomings 
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan 
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent 
victim of my own stupid plans.  God, I need some coffee.