Grey's Anatomy is another TV show Crabbie's never watched. Doctors having sex with each other - why does that not interest me in the least? Maybe it's just shows about doctors in general. I never watched ER either, despite George Clooney. All that medical stuff - people with boils and lesions and tumors and wooden stakes protruding from their necks. Life is filled with enough grossness as it is; why the hell would I want to watch it on television? I'm sorry, but thinking about George examining my infected toenail just doesn't do it for me. Now, if George were to play a proctologist...
What was I talking about again? Oh yeah. Grey's Anatomy. I have no interest in that show. I do, however, have an interest in the on-going soap opera surrounding the show. Because backstage squabbles are highly entertaining. Actually, the Grey's Anatomy unpleasantness has evolved beyond mere squabbling, and it certainly isn't backstage anymore. It's gone public. And it's getting uglier.
The antagonist in this little drama is the actor Isaiah Washington, who frankly strikes Crabbie as one of these nose-in-the-air types, the sort of guy who thinks being an actor on a dumb TV show somehow qualifies him as an artist to rival Da Vinci. Apparently, Mr. Washington doesn't have a whole lot of friends on the set of Grey's Anatomy. First there was news that he had gotten into some kind of physical altercation with co-star Patrick Dempsey, and then came the bombshell concerning his use of the word "faggot" in reference to another co-star, T.R. Knight, who is in fact homosexual. The trouble came because Knight, who hadn't revealed his gayness publicly at the time, overheard Washington. This set off a chain-reaction which saw Knight come out of the closet in an interview to People magazine (after being hectored for months by that pimple Perez Hilton), and Washington flatly deny ever using the word. That seemed to be it - until the Golden Globes the other night, when Washington reiterated his denial, pissing off co-star Katherine Heigl, who happens to be tight with Knight (in a strictly platonic sense of course because Katherine has a vagina and T.R. ain't down with that sort of thing).
"No, I did not call T.R. a faggot," Washington is reported to have said. "Never happened, never happened." To which Heigl replied: "I'm going to be really honest right now, he needs to just not speak in public. Period ... I'm sorry, that did not need to be said, I'm not okay with it."
Wow. Katherine's got some fire in her guts. Basically telling big bad Isaiah Washington to stuff it. I'm really starting to like this broad. And as for Isaiah - you like throwing words around, don't you pal? Mr. Prudent with your, "No, I did not call T.R. a faggot." Making sure you said the word again in front of every one. Someone should wash your mouth out with soap (And no, I'm not going to sink to Mr. Washington's level by bringing up a certain word that starts with 'N.' I don't believe in using slurs to attack slurs. Besides, as far as I know, Mr. Washington is not and never has been a necrophiliac.).
And of course there's poor old T.R. Knight, sort of caught in the middle of the whole thing. In a new interview with Ellen Degeneres, Knight says being called a "faggot" by Washington was the impetus for him coming out of the closet (not Perez's goading). "It's an awesome word, isn't it?" Knight tells Ellen. "I've never been called that to my face. So I think when that happened, something shifted, and it became bigger than myself."
Yeah. It's an awesome word T.R. Way bigger than "ass-eater" or "cock-licker." Though not nearly as amusing.
