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‘THAT’S EASY! FIRST, SHONDA RHIMES IS A GREAT WRITER. SECOND, TAYLOR SWIFT NAMED HER CAT AFTER MEREDITH GREY! JUST KIDDING, IT IS BECAUSE OF OUR AWESOME FANS’—ELLEN POMPEO, ON THE REASONS FOR GREY’S ANATOMY’S LONG RUN GREY’S ANATOMY AT 20: STILL OPENING HEARTS EXCLUSIVE New People Interviews • On-Set: Interns’ Photo Diary • Top Medical Shockers! PLUS The Cast’s Favorite Episodes & More…
I was just 16 years old when Denny Duquette died in a hospital bed at Seattle Grace. May 2006. He wasn’t a relative or friend, or even a real person. But I was devastated, nonetheless, when his weak heart gave out. I remember Izzie Stevens—his doctor, his fiancée, his rogue advocate in jumping the transplant list—lying on his chest as she said, “An hour ago he was proposing, and now … and now he’s going to the morgue.” My mom, over my sobs, told me, “If this show is going to do this to you, maybe you shouldn’t watch.” No quitter, I pushed though, because I loved the series, though I had no idea how influential it would become in our lives. My dad’s investment in Drs. Callie Torres and…
No surprise that the creator of Grey’s Anatomy, Shonda Rhimes, considered being a doctor and later loved watching surgeries on TV. Her producing partner Betsy Beers, however, admits, “I never understood medical shows. I never knew what was going on, and they scared me.” Rhimes brought her around with a pitch that their medical show would be different: It would focus on interns, the hospital newbies learning on the job. “I said, ‘That sounds great,’ ” recalls Beers. “I could actually follow the show through them.” And for a record 20 seasons, Grey’s Anatomy fans have done just that: learned a little about medicine and a lot about the private lives of the staff of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. They saw first surgical scrub-ins, first harrowing patient deaths and first…
SARAH DREW’S FAVORITE DAY PROPOSAL BY FLASH MOB “There was so much rehearsal involved, and it was so epic.” says Drew, who played Dr. April Kepner, who accepts a ring from paramedic Matthew Taylor (Justin Bruening) in season 9. “I loved the dancing. I must have watched 100 flash mob proposals on YouTube in anticipation of this moment. It took us all day to shoot it, and it felt like such a departure. I loved every second of that day.” NIKO TERHO’S PICK THE BROKEN HEART “I loved the whole Denny Duquette-Izzie Stevens saga,” says Terho (Dr. Lucas Adams). Izzie (Katherine Heigl) falls for a cardiac patient (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and moves him up the transplant list by cutting the cord to his LVAD heart pump. “Heartbreaking to this…
‘IS THIS AS BIG OF AN HONOR AS I THINK? OR IS IT JUST THAT LEVI IS THE ONLY RESIDENT AVAILABLE?’—JAKE BORELLI, ON SCHMITT BECOMING CHIEF RESIDENT…
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