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for PD Though I agree Tamika, some of those names are unfamiliair to me as well

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That's awesome!

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Who knows

Enchanted got a few noms at the National Movie Awards.

Best musical: Enchanted Mamma Mia! Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best male: Christian Bale - The Dark Knight Ben Barnes - The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Pierce Brosnan - Mamma Mia! Patrick Dempsey - Enchanted Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Robert Downey Jr. - Iron Man Rupert Everett - St Trinian's Colin Firth - St Trinian's/Mamma Mia! Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Brendan Fraser - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor James McAvoy - Wanted Mike Myers - The Love Guru Edward Norton - The Incredible Hulk Will Smith - I Am Legend/Hancock

Best female: Amy Adams - Enchanted Gemma Arterton - St Trinian's Cate Blanchett - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Angelina Jolie - Wanted Nicole Kidman - The Golden Compass Ellen Page - Juno Sarah Jessica Parker - Sex and the City Dakota Blue Richards - The Golden Compass Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia!

Brosnan's Mamma Mia! leads race for National Movie Awards @ NewKerala.Com News, India

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Old interview
Magic Meets Patrick Dempsey

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Great for them.

What are the National Movie awards but? What country are they from sorry, hehe

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well the links on the left of that internet page show 'India news' so I'm thinking its in that region?

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Originally Posted by shinystar (View Post) well the links on the left of that internet page show 'India news' so I'm thinking its in that region?

I would have thought it would be british, hehe. But yay for him

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great links! thanks!

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• Patrick Dempsey, greeting Star Jones with a hug while lunching at Beverly Hills hot spot Mr. Chow. (McDreamy was waiting for lunch guests to arrive – and Jones happened to be sitting at a neighboring table.) During their "moment," the two chatted about Dempsey's children and the talk-show host's recent vacation. Jones then returned to her table, and Dempsey's two male friends arrived. On the menu for the Grey's Anatomy star: chicken satay, lettuce wraps and dumplings.

Caught in the Act! - Caught in the Act, Patrick Dempsey, Star Jones : People.com

Meredith and Derek forever. Please. Hot show 'Grey's Anatomy' has turned bleak. Can't at least one relationship work out? JAIME J. WEINMAN | August 6, 2008 | The title of the TV show Grey's Anatomy is a play on the title of a medical textbook. And when that book says "solid matter is of smaller quantity," it might just as well be talking about the last two seasons of the show, where the storytelling hasn't been solid at all. The medical drama about sexy people in a Seattle hospital — a fun version of ER — was a huge success story two years ago: it became one of the top five shows in North America, propelled songs onto the pop charts and made us forgive Patrick Dempsey for making the movie Loverboy. But now, as the producers work on its fifth season, the summer repeats are being out-watched by Last Comic Standing, the Emmys are snubbing it, and one of the actors is talking about how bad the writing is. What makes a hit show burn out so fast? That's a question no medical textbook can answer. Complaints about the writing on Grey's became big news last month when Katherine Heigl, who won an Emmy last year for playing an underwear-model-turned-doctor, criticized the way her character had been written lately: "I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination." (The Emmy voters felt that way about the whole show, denying it a nomination for Best Drama.) But Heigl was late to the party; fans of the show had been complaining long before she did. Earlier this year, a petition was circulated to protest its transformation "from being something amazing to something we don't even recognize." Grey's Anatomy may have lost its sense of balance. It was an instant hit because of its combination of a bunch of different elements into an entertaining mixture: it was a medical show, a romantic soap opera and a comedy all at once. What seemed to happen in the third and fourth seasons is that the show jettisoned everything except the romantic angst: comedy bits became harder to find, and the medical stories were limited to the occasional patient with a wacky problem, like swallowing marbles. Ingrid Diaz, who runs greysanatomynews.com, says that the writers may have lost sight of the importance of light comedy to the show's popularity: "People obviously want the drama, but I feel the show got a bit bumpy when it became too dark for too long." Creator Shonda Rhimes took to replacing the humour with soap opera clichés; the only show more outrageously soapy was Grey's much-derided spinoff, Private Practice. The third season of Grey's ended with a wedding that got broken off after the guests had arrived, and introduced a long-lost half-sister for Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), while the fourth season featured Meredith constantly breaking up with Derek (Dempsey), infuriating fans who viewed these characters as the ideal couple. Or as the petitioners put it, Derek had once been "the perfect man," and the recent seasons have reduced him to "a shell of that man." Grey's Anatomy isn't alone in showing early signs of burnout. In fact, it's luckier than most, since it still qualifies as a hit. The same can't be said for Heroes, which spent its first season as a global phenomenon, only to end its second season with the creator openly admitting that the show was in trouble. Grey's network-mate Desperate Housewives had a memorable first season followed by a dismal second season. Each of these shows has displayed the same problem as Grey's, focusing more on the suffering of their characters than anything fun. Emma Rosenblum of New York magazine summed up fan reaction when she wrote about why she was disappointed with the third season of Grey's Anatomy: "Some of us had a hard week and would have very much liked to have seen at least one of these couples have a happy-ish ending." With so many shows starting out huge and then imploding, some critics are starting to worry that the very act of getting popular is the creative kiss of death in TV; Matthew Gilbert wrote in the Boston Globe that "popularity spoiled ABC's Grey's Anatomy, just as it ruined NBC's Heroes." But on the other hand, just because a show has creative trouble doesn't mean it can't improve; the few episodes Grey's produced after the writers' strike were lighter in tone than the rest of the fourth season. Diaz thinks Rhimes is trying to "bring back the humour," and that she and other fans are "really optimistic about the upcoming season." But even if Grey's Anatomy gets back into form, its moment as a cultural phenomenon may be over. Katherine Heigl seems to think so, and apart from deciding to appear in 27 Dresses, when has she been wrong?

Meredith and Derek forever. Please. | Macleans.ca - Culture - Entertainment

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YouTube - Sexiest Doctors 6

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thanks for that Gio!

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thank you gio! nice new informations

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Thanks for those articles, he looks great in that picture too

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New race coming up..

TV's Dempsey may race at Millville track The most widely recognized star coming to the New Jersey Motorsports Park this year doesn't make his living behind the wheel of a racecar. Patrick Dempsey, star of the hit ABC drama "Grey's Anatomy," and his Hyper Sport team are scheduled to race in the Supercar Life 250, part of the Grand-Am weekend, Aug. 29-31. "This is one more example toward the level of competition and the types of sanctioning bodies that are participating here," said Don Fauerbach, a motorsports park official. Dempsey drives the No. 40 Hyper Sport Mazda RX-8 GT in the Rolex GT series along with Joe Foster. The actor, who plays Dr. Derek Shepherd -- nicknamed "McDreamy" -- is a lifelong racing fan and became involved with the Grand-Am series in 2005. He is the principal owner of Hyper Sport, a team bringing seven cars to race that weekend. "He's been doing it for three or four years now, and he's improved quite a bit considering how much he gets to practice because his day job takes up a lot of his time," said Foster, who has been racing for 24 years and coaching for 15. The team is coming off its best finish of the year, a ninth-place spot at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal where Foster turned the fastest lap of any GT. Dempsey did his part by remaining on the lead lap before the driver change, when Foster took over. "He proves he deserves to be there," Foster said. Dempsey wasn't available for comment, because he is currently filming in Los Angeles, a commitment that takes first billing and routinely jeopardizes his attendance for race weekends. ABC "can keep him from racing if they need him to film," Foster said. "To be honest, we won't know that he's coming until he's on the plane." Dempsey's star power has its perks though. "It brings a lot of media attention to our sponsors," Foster said. "But at the same time, it does create a large crowd scene at the different events, and we have to be ready for that." The park said they are prepared. "Our security staff is already advised and aware of the need to give them their space," Fauerbach said. "And it's our hope that he will be willing, during the appropriate times, to sign our inaugural posters." Foster said he and Dempsey will participate in whatever autograph sessions Grand-Am arranges, the times of which have not yet been made available. Fans looking for more than just an autograph might be interested in the Philadelphia ABC affiliate's sweepstakes in which a fan can win a chance to be a part of Hyper Sport's pit crew for the day. More information on the sweepstakes is available on the 6 ABC Web site, 6abc.com: Action News: Philadelphia News, Weather, and Traffic for the Delaware and Lehigh Valleys TV's Dempsey may race at Millville track | thedailyjournal.com | The Daily Journal

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August 18, 2008, 11:15 am ABC Tries to Guide the Readers of TV Guide By Stuart Elliott Considering that TV Guide has been publishing for more than 55 years, there are few things left to do that the magazine can call firsts. The coming issue, due out on Thursday, will mark such a milestone, as the first one with a single sponsor. The ABC Television division of the Walt Disney Company is buying all the advertising space in the issue, dated Aug. 25-31, which is the annual “Fall Sneak Peek” issue. The 21 ad pages will promote ABC as a brand, with a campaign that carries the theme “Start here,” as well as promoting returning series like “Ugly Betty” and new series like “Life on Mars.” The sole sponsorship will include DVDs bound into the several hundred thousand copies of TV Guide to be circulated in Los Angeles and New York, sold on newsstands as well as mailed to subscribers. The DVDs offer the first episodes of the three Wednesday prime-time series on ABC, all of them returning on Oct. 1 for their second seasons: “Pushing Daisies,” “Private Practice” and “Dirty Sexy Money.” Advertisers like to buy out an issue of a magazine because of the visibility it generates. Among the magazines that have offered such opportunities to advertisers are The New Yorker, for the Target retail chain, and Play, published by The New York Times, for the Nielsen Company. “We like big stunts that we can own,” said Michael Benson, executive vice president for the ABC Entertainment division of ABC Television. ABC and TV Guide have collaborated previously on attention-getting promotions. There were tissue packs mailed to subscribers, to encourage them to watch the “Feel Good Sunday” ABC lineup of shows like “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” And TV Guide subscribers in Los Angeles and New York received paper hospital gowns to promote “Grey’s Anatomy.” The return of “Grey’s Anatomy” for the 2008-9 season was the spark for the sponsorship. After TV Guide’s editors decided that the “Fall Sneak Peek” cover would feature Patrick Dempsey, who plays a doctor on the series, “we decided this was the right issue to take over,” Mr. Benson said. Executives at TV Guide said the sponsorship was not pay for play because Mr. Dempsey was scheduled for the cover regardless of who advertised in the issue. “Grey’s Anatomy” is among several series that are the subjects of articles in the issue, they said, along with shows like “C.S.I.,” “Fringe,” “Heroes” and “90210” — broadcast by, respectively, CBS, Fox, NBC and CW. “Grey’s Anatomy” is “one of the top shows on TV,” said Deborah Birnbaum, editor in chief of TV Guide, “and it’s a huge seller for us.” The series has been “on the cover 15 times in 3 years,” she added. Scott Crystal, president of TV Guide, part of the Macrovision Solutions Corporation, said that readers understand there is no connection between who advertises in the magazine and what the magazine writes about. “If all the editorial content in the issue was devoted to ABC, eyebrows would go up,” Mr. Crystal said, but that was not the case. There may have been other networks that wanted to advertise in the issue, he added, but “the benefit of a weekly is that seven days later we have another issue” in which they can buy ad pages. The “Fall Sneak Peek” issue each year sets the stage for the issues of TV Guide that are published in September and October, offering elaborate previews of the coming television season with schedule grids, night-by-night lineups and other features that delight TV junkies. “We probably would not” limit ad pages in those “franchise issues” to single sponsors, Mr. Crystal said. The ABC and TV Guide executives declined to discuss what ABC is paying for the sponsorship. Mr. Crystal said it was less than what ABC would have paid for the 21 ad pages had they been bought separately.

ABC Tries to Guide the Readers of TV Guide - TV Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com