I'm Really Sick Of Katherine Heigl
Last week I wrote a post for Video Runway titled, "I'm Sick Of Katherine Heigl." Evidently I'm not the only one. According to a New York Times article, some of the writers and producers at "Grey's Anatomy" are as well. This after Ms. Heigl took herself out of Emmy contention because she said she didn't feel the material she was given this season was Emmy worthy.
In case you didn't pick up on it, that was a slam directed at the writers of the show, including head writer and show runner, Shonda Rhimes.
The Times article said in part:
Two people involved in the production of the show said that the program’s writers and producers were angered by what they considered a slap by Ms. Heigl at the people in the writers’ room.
Oh I can just imagine how fun that set's going to be when "Grey's" resumes production later this month.
Ms. Heigl obviously has a severe case of "David Caruso Syndrome."
DCS is a career killing disease that infects young actors/actresses on hit TV shows and causes them to have delusions that they are bigger than the show that made them in the first place. Symptoms include, bad mouthing their hit TV show all over Hollywood, winning an Emmy and thinking that people in the film industry really care, and being told by your handlers that you're bigger than that "lame show" that made you, and you believing it.
A less destructive version of the Sydrome is prevalent in the soap opera world, but when it hits primetime TV, it's in its most virulent form. The last time it hit primetime TV this hard was during the first season of "NYPD Blue." For some reasons, ABC actors/actresses seem especially susceptible to DCS.
In it's latter, more fatal stages, DCS symptoms include the actor/actress leaving said hit TV show with as much bitter fanfare as possible so there's nary a bridge left that doesn't have a puff of black smoke streaming from it.
The only cure for DCS? About twenty years on the outskirts of the television/movie business waiting tables and doing carpentry until the Hollywood Gods smile down on you once again and you get another chance at TV as part of a "CSI" franchise. Many, however, never survive.
Ms. Heigl would do well to take note of that.
