That is the only explanation: For some unknown reason, I have pooh-poohed Patrick Dempsey for all of my adult life.<\/p>\n
I do not understand it. And not just pooh-poohed him but actively despised him. I tried to sway others to my side. I was PASSIONATE about it. He made me MAD. Not too many actors make me mad, but he made me MAD. The only explanation for this is that I have suffered, unknowingly (because I don’t do drugs) from a prolonged crack-smoking delusion.<\/p>\n
I recently caught the last hour of Can’t Buy Me Love<\/i> on TV and … I saw it in the movie theatre when it first came out – and for whatever reason he rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe it was too close to home? I don’t know. I decided then and there that I did not like him. But a month or so ago, I saw it again, and suddenly I realized he was fantastic. There’s a REASON this guy still has a career so many years later. And he’s just getting better with age. I watched that movie wondering: What on earth made me so ANGRY about it way back then? I mean, it’s not like it was an episode of CHiPs<\/a>, or something! Lay off the Dempsey, Sheil-babe.<\/p>\n For 20 years I have rolled my eyes when his name came up. I have actually gone off into impassioned angry monologues about how much I hate that guy, monologues that my friends endured. When I heard he was playing Raskolnikov … I blew a gasket. I think Mitchell was there for that one. I started shouting about how mad that made me.<\/p>\n What?<\/p>\n I am now a die-hard Grey’s Anatomy<\/i> fan and not only do I think the guy is devastatingly handsome and sexy (like: it’s UNFAIR) … he’s also a wonderful actor. Deep, true, funny, doesn’t seem to take himself too seriously, he seems very REAL to me, like a real man, and in every moment he has multiple things going on … he makes scenes SPARK. People who act with him obviously shine – because of the great stuff he is giving them.<\/p>\n I am a total convert.<\/p>\n I apologize, Mr. Dempsey, for the years of bad-mouthing you. I must have been absolutely out of my mind. I watched Grey’s Anatomy<\/i> last night and felt an actual obsession bloom in my heart for you and your work.<\/p>\n This would be like discovering, 20 years from now, that I actually love <\/i>Renee Zellweger, and that I think she’s a great actress, and I need to go back and reevaluate all her work. This would be like me suddenly thinking that that Renee is a GENIUS in Down with Love<\/i>. 20 years from now, I would sit down, watch that movie, and think: “What a great performance!”<\/p>\n Like … inconceivable<\/i>.<\/p>\n But with the Dempsey Revelation, all bets are off now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That is the only explanation: For some unknown reason, I have pooh-poohed Patrick Dempsey for all of my adult life. I do not understand it. And not just pooh-poohed him but actively despised him. I tried to sway others to … Continue reading