The Remote Island : Angela Bassett

Dr. Greene Will Be There To Pronounce "ER"

Bryan Christian — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:28:00 GMT

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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Angela Bassett on "ER": Best News We've Heard All Day

Lindy Parker — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:23:00 GMT

We LOVE Angela Bassett. She is our number one girl-crush. We seriously sit around sometimes trying to think of ways to become her friend -- Follow her to the grocery store? Get on the treadmill next to hers at the gym? Show up at her door with cookies and hope for the best? We love her, and we couldn't be more excited that she joins the cast of ER for its final season this fall. Here's what she told TV Guide about her upcoming role:

"I'm the boss!" she all but bellows. "I'm the queen! I'm the chief of the ER! I come in, snap my fingers and tell everybody who's used to doing things in their old familiar ways what to do and how to do it. I tell 'em, 'It's my way or the highway!'"

Get it, girl. We'll be watching.