When Kirstie Alley Used To Be Hot
By Beth in Entertainment, ABC, Hollywood, film, pop culture, celebrity, season finale, gossip, the 80s on June 9 2007
It’s Saturday night and I’m watching the 80s teen flick “Loverboy” on TBS with Patrick Dempsey. I’m also arguing with my husband that the scrawny dweeb that once wooed current Weight Watchers spokesgal (before she was on WW of course) Kirstie Alley in the movie is in fact the one and only Dr. McDreamy. He doesn’t buy it and keeps trying to convince me Dempsey is Sean Penn. This got me thinking that Dempsey and Penn might have started out on similar 80s film role paths, but their careers definitely diverged. Somehow Dempsey became McDreamy and Penn opted for more er, um socially conscious work?
Moving right along, I heard today Isaiah Washington’s character Dr. Burke will not be returning to “Grey’s Anatomy” next season. I guess one botched up season of slurs was one too many. No doubt the cast is pleased, especially T.R. Wright. But from where I stand it was a lame character/plot development write-in for the producers to dispose of Burke the way they did on the show’s season finale. Just cause Washington may or may not be a jerk in real life doesn’t give the writers license to downgrade a formerly upstanding character and have him suffer the same fate as his portrayer.
