16.4 million people watched the ER finale - huge numbers, the biggest for a TV drama series finale since 1996, when Lansbury finally stopped writing on Murder She Wrote.
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And the parade of original cast members continues in the final season of ER...
Everyone all together now: FLASHBACK! (Diddle-doodle, diddle-doodle...)
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Anthony Edwards is coming back to guest on the final season of ER as Mark Greene, the bespectacled surgeon who fell prey to a brain tumor back in 1990-something, just around the time we quit admitting we'd still watch ER at all. Before you say "Wha?????" too loudly, he will not be rising from his dusty grave to feed on the brains of John Stamos or anything. (If only!) He'll be showing up in flashbacks depicting him and cast newcomer Angela Bassett knowing each other back in the day, which sounds sort of thankless to us unless they have a torrid affair or, you know, build a time machine to save Kellie Martin from getting stabbed in the operating room.
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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.
Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.
Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.
Ben Kallen is an entertainment, health and humor writer who's been lectured to by Sidney Poitier, argued with by Lea Thompson and smiled at by Jennifer Connelly. He's the coauthor of The No S Diet and author of The Year in Weird, along with hundreds of magazine articles. He lives near the beach in Los Angeles, just like the gang from Three's Company.
Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.
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