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...with her daughter Harper on her lap, she hammered out the first episode of Grey's Anatomy, a medical drama about three female and two male surgical interns in a fictional Seattle hospital. She stocked her pilot with the kind of complex, ambitious, clever, confused women she knew. And the guys? Actually, she didn't want them to be so very real. "They were my fantasy men," says Rhimes of Drs. Burke (Isaiah Washington) and Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), two more senior surgeons. "They got to say and do things that I wish men would...
More than half the characters on Grey's Anatomy are African American or female, although Rhimes insists she didn't write race into it at all. Her script for the pilot had no physical descriptions other than gender. But it came naturally to her to cast that way. "Shonda sees the world through the eyes of human beings. That's the bottom line," says Washington, who says his role as the brilliant surgeon has finally allowed him to break away from playing so many stereotypical thug roles. "Her characterizations are definitely her strong suit," says ABC Entertainment chief Stephen McPherson...
When General Motors asked Bob Lutz to revive its product line in 2001, the thinking was that if anyone could do it, he was the man. The charismatic, brash ex-Marine fighter pilot had led the development at Chrysler of such hot cars as the Dodge Viper and PT Cruiser, and he wasn't shy about criticizing GM for cranking out the dullest metal in Detroit...
...from Georgia who is one of only a few in his party who blogs regularly, works closely on his posts and his podcasts with blog-savvy press spokesman David All, 27. "My strong recommendation for anybody who is getting on the information highway is to to have a co-pilot who is 25 years old or younger," says Kingston...
DIED. James Swindal, 88, Air Force One pilot who flew John F. Kennedy's body back to Washington after the President's assassination in Dallas; in Cocoa Beach, Fla. Swindal stayed in the cockpit while the new President was sworn in onboard, minutes before takeoff. "I didn't belong to the Lyndon Johnson team," he said. "My President was in that...