The most popular post at Celebrity Psychings this week was Optimism And Reality: Lessons From Drew Barrymore, but when I logged in yesterday morning and saw that What’s Going On With Izzie Stevens’s Brain? - a much older post - was quickly on its way to taking the lead, I was not at all surprised.
I mean, did you see Grey’s Anatomy Thursday night? Izzie finally realized she was sick, but she also managed to make dead ex-fiance Denny Duquette disappear, which I’m guess has a lot of viewers wondering if Duquette’s appearance really were just ghostly and not symptoms of some kind of brain problem after all.
Sorry folks, I don’t have any answers. Even Michael Ausiello, who usually knows at least a tiny bit about everything, is going to have to “ask ABC president Steve McPherson and get back to you” regarding anything related to Izzie and Denny and the maybe-but-maybe-not brain illness.
The good news is you can still check out the lasted edition of Weekend Psychings!
On the boob tube, Toni Collette is lovin’ her new role as Tara Gregson, a woman with dissociative identity disorder trying to manage her disorder and being a wife and mom in Steven Spielberg’s United States of Tara (that’s actually a clever little play on words, even if it did take about a week for it to dawn on me). Too bad I don’t have showtime. Across the pond, the first ad for the Time to Change campaign aired earlier this week with support from celebs Stephen Fry and Ruby Wax (and in addition to the Daily Times and Sun, you can expect to see Time to Change ads on Facebook soon, too, I read).
In movie news, celebrities, musicians, and famous faces with disabilities celebrated Rain Man’s 20th anniversary last week with a special gathering in honor of Kim Peek, the man on whom Dustin Hoffman’s character was based.
Books to look for include The Lily Pond, in which author Mike Barnes attempts to provide a variety of perspectives on life with bipolar disorder. Depending on how much consideration you give book reviews, of course, a book that might not be one to run out and grab is Norah Vincent’s Voluntary Madness. I’ve mentioned it a few times here before, but this time the reference is to Deirdre Donahue’s not-so-hot review over at USA Today.
And finally, there’s not a lot from the red carpet, but I couldn’t help passing up this doctor’s friendly nod in Jenny McCarthy’s direction regarding her views on autism and treatments as related to his own and recent FDA decisions to take certain dietary supplements (namely DMSA) off the public market. I don’t really keep up with McCarthy’s stance on autism, but I have read that a lot of folks in the community aren’t too thrilled with her. What do you think?
And that wraps up another Weekend Psychings. If you have anything you think should make next week’s edition, feel free to send it my way. In the meantime, enjoy your weekends!
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