Dr. McDreamy

As always, I got my overdose of cable and DVD viewing whilst visiting the fam for my niece's birthday this weekend and watched a few episodes of the first season of "Grey's Anatomy." (BTW, I've decided that the only way to watch prime time television is after all the hype and on DVD's that have no commercials. Period.) I'm not really all into the main character--Ellen Pompeo (who played Luke Wilson's love interest in "Old School")--but maybe it's because I'm madly green with envy that she plays opposite Patrick Dempsey who has nicely aged all these years from the one movie I love and remember him from, "Can't Buy Me Love." In this 80's teen flick, he played a geek who "rents" the school's most popular cheerleader to pretend to go out with him so that he can get in with the in crowd. His popularity skyrockets but he gets a little too into himself and rapidly goes from "totally chic to totally geek" as one of the cheerleaders puts it. It all ends well (as teen flicks always do) and he and the cheerleader ride off into the sunset together on a riding lawnmower (literally). I for one am ecstatic that he's resurfaced and can't wait to see more of the modest, quick-witted, and ultra heart-throbby Dr. Derek Shepherd he plays on the show.

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