Angela Bassett-related stories
Posted Nov 13th 2008 10:00AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Video, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Tonight's the night that thousands of fans of
ER have been waiting for, the return of Jennifer Aniston! Oh wait,
that's 30 Rock that she'll be on tonight. Never mind.
Actually, tonight is the night that Dr. Mark Greene (
Anthony Edwards) returns to County to try to save the life of Dr. Banfield's sick son. As we told you last week, Greene isn't really alive and he's not a ghost. It seems that Dr. Banfield came to County with her son and husband, years before she became the new head of the ER, and Greene was the doctor who worked on her son. Her memory (and the flashbacks) are triggered by a current story where Banfield is trying to save the life of another child who comes to County.
Edwards isn't the only one who comes back. Since most of the episode takes place years ago, we also see
Laura Innes as Dr. Weaver and
Paul McCrane as Dr. Romano. Innes has a rather dramatic entrance in the clip after the jump!
Continue reading Here's a sneak peek at tonight's ER with Anthony Edwards - VIDEO
Posted Nov 4th 2008 1:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Reality-Free
When the news came that
ex-ER star Anthony Edwards was going to return to the show for an episode this last season, fans wondered how that could happen, since he died (and we mean really died, not soap opera died) of a brain tumor around 6 years ago. Would he be a ghost? A hallucination only a patient can see? Would he be Mark's long-lost twin brother (Matt, or maybe Monty) who comes to work at County because his brother worked there? The news that Dr. Mark Greene is going to interact somehow with new doctor Cate Banfield (Angela Bassett) just makes the scenario more confusing.
But now we have our answer. Edwards tells the AP that
Mark will be shown via flashback in an
ER story we haven't seen before.
Continue reading Anthony Edwards to interact with Angela Bassett on ER (and he's not a ghost!)
Posted Sep 29th 2008 1:07PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, ER, Reality-Free
We all know that ER is famous for its deaths. Not only of the patients that are served by Chicago's County General but of its staff as well. Particularly in its emergency room. Fact of the matter is, there have been so many deaths of ER personnel that I'm surprised that a police investigation hasn't been opened to determined if they were natural or a bit suspicious. Some of these deaths have been shocking, such as Lucy Knight's during season six. Others were long in coming, like Mark Greene's peaceful death in season 8.
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Posted Sep 4th 2008 2:24PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ER, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Remember a while back when we talked about this being the
last season of ER and producers were trying to get old cast members to come back for an episode of the show and we joked that they should find a way to get Anthony Edwards back on the show for an episode even though his character died?
The producers have
Anthony Edwards coming back to the show for an episode even though his character died.
You can probably guess how Dr. Mark Greene will be coming back. He hasn't been kept alive by some mysterious millionaire in a mountain hideout all these years (though I would happily swallow such a soap opera-ish plot because I never thought they should have killed off Mark in the first place), the character will actually be seen in new flashbacks that have something to do with a new character played by
Angela Bassett (this won't be footage from past episodes, they're new flashbacks to events we didn't see on the show before).
Continue reading Anthony Edwards returning to ER (!)
Posted Aug 20th 2008 12:28PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: ER, Casting, Reality-Free
Okay, I'm not a doctor (surprising, I know), so maybe if you
are a doctor, and your most recent medical experience is tsunami relief in Indonesia, maybe moving to County General doesn't seem so bad. Sure, it gets blown up occasionally, gunfire breaks out often, and maybe you may get taken hostage and/or stabbed by a crazy patient or two. But here's my question: Would you tell your spouse to work there too?
Apparently
Angela Bassett would.
Bassett, who is joining the cast of ER as a "troubled" new attending, is bringing her husband along with her.
Courtney B. Vance, who spent five seasons on NBC's
Law & Order: Criminal Intent as ADA Ron Carver, is also joining the cast.
Vance will be playing another attending physician an the on-screen husband of his real-life wife on a recurring basis. While I'm sure that the set of
ER is a perfectly safe place for Vance, I'm highly worried about the fate of his character.
Continue reading Courtney B. Vance joins his wife on ER
Posted Apr 28th 2008 9:04AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: ER, Casting, Reality-Free
NBC doctors may have already called the time for
ER, setting next season for the end of the enduring medical drama, but the final year will go out with fire and brio. That was made abundantly clear by casting dynamic actress
Angela Bassett as a series regular for the 15th season of ER. Despite rumors,
Anthony Edwards may or may not return, and
Noah Wyle's back for just four shows, but Angela can be counting on to carry the load.
This is the first full-time series for Ms. Bassett, an Oscar-nominated actress for
What's Love Got to Do With It? (1994). Who will ever forget her playing Tina Turner in that film? She made muscular arms on a woman sexy, in addition to providing a terrific performance as the musical star. In 2006, she was superb in the indie hit
Akeelah and the Bee, and on TV, she did a short stint on
Alias in 2005 as a CIA director.
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