Out here at press tour, in the slum called Beverly Hills, we all like to gnaw on bones well after the meat and gristle are gone. Katherine Heigl - Izzie - is the bone du jour. Yesterday afternoon, Shonda Rhimes - "Grey's Anatomy" chief - went before us bonepickers and had to deal with a few more Heigl questions. They're really old and tired, these questions, by this point: Really, who gives a damn what anyone thinks about why Heigl pulled herself outta Emmy contention and whether poor little "GA" writers' feelings were bruised? Don't we have anything else to worry about?
Apparently not...Anyway, Rhimes - sitting in the poll position among a group of superstar producers who included Darlton and Greg Berlanti, et al - said there's no problemo with her Kate, and that "everything's fine...I have a wonderful working relationship with Katherine Heigl, and as you know, I love her character..." Shonda did admit she "found it surprising" when she first heard of Izzy/Heigl's comments, but "I didn't feel insulted" because "in the back half of the season, she asked me to write her light" - that is,with a diminished role on the show - "for the movie ['The Ugly Truth.']" Meaning? If she didn't have much to do, she didn't have an Emmy-worthy role last year.
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The movie was actually The Ugly Truth, not 27 Dresses.