Aw, even mainstream media such as Newsweek has turned on Katie Heigl.  They’ve published a not-so-complimentary piece on their website highlighting the most annoying parts of the Grey’s Anatomy actress.  What’s going on?  I guess people are tiring of the constant smoking, the constant whining, and her general inability to let something go (Isaiah Washington).

How did Katherine Heigl fall so far and so fast in esteem? Part of it is pure sexism. Every decade has a Most Annoying Actress (not that long ago, Jennifer Love Hewitt was the object of tabloid disaffection), never an actor, and it’s a distinction doled out via a caveman’s principles. Heigl violates every archaic, unspoken rule of being America’s box-office sweetheart. A lot of actors smoke, curse, drink, and mouth off, but she gets the most grief for it. Last summer, when she was caught flicking a finished cigarette onto the sidewalk, Star magazine quickly tarred her as an environmentally unfriendly “litterbug” who inappropriately goaded a nearby police officer into letting her off without a ticket.

But more than simply daring to challenge chauvinistic mores, Heigl has shot herself in the foot with her delivery. Everybody applauded her defense of Grey’s costar T. R. Knight after costar Isaiah Washington called him a “fag.” But then Heigl kept prattling on and on, even after Washington was fired in disgrace. People started to wonder if Heigl’s comments were less about Knight and more about her. Last July, in an attempt to be noble, she removed herself from the Emmy race because, she said, she had not been “given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination.” The press again slammed her for the diva attitude (did she really need to issue a statement? And did she have to insult the show’s writers and producers while she was at it?). When she resubmitted herself in the race this year, Emmy voters failed to nominate her—even though she’s done her best work on the show this season as cancer-stricken Izzie. But forget about Izzie and her eroding brain. Heigl wants all the sympathy for herself. This week, she carped to David Letterman that she’d had a “seventeen- (dramatic pause) hour (dramatic pause)” workday on set, and that she was “going to keep saying this because I hope it embarrasses them [the Grey's Anatomy show runners].” Embarrass them for what? Keeping her employed? To a country nearing 10 percent unemployment, the remark was tone-deaf.

She is an undeniable box office draw, as her newest movie The Ugly Truth premiered this weekend to $27M in ticket sales.  That’s a career best opening for Heigl and her costar Gerard Butler.  Unfortunately, Newsweek wasn’t so impressed with her performance.

Heigl has fared pretty well on the big screen—Knocked Up was a smash, 27 Dresses a modest hit. Now she’s back with The Ugly Truth, a romantic comedy that hits theaters Friday and does her likability no favors. She plays Abby Richter, an uptight local news producer whose staples are Ann Taylor button-downs and sanctimony. When a boor named Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler) with a smutty dating show joins her morning lineup, Abby kicks the shrillness into overdrive, furious that non-news would invade her pristine segment. But then, before you know it, Mike and his 5 o’clock shadow are leaving beard burn all over Abby’s face. Soon, they’re floating away to paradise in a hot-air balloon. Good for them.

Except, you don’t feel very good for them. It’s hard to empathize with Heigl’s character, so thorny and shrill for the first half of the movie, so dumb and willing for the second half. (At a recent pre-screening in New York City, at least five people bolted for the door midway through the movie.) Abby fails to see the vast swath of middle ground between buttoning up to the top button and donning vibrating black-lace panties, which she does meekly at Mike’s command. Just like real life, in which Heigl seems unable to see the acreage between oversharing and keeping her mouth shut. Heigl might be an actress, but she could work on her act.

There’s only one thing that can save Katherine Heigl’s rep.  She needs to start adopting orphans.  Stat!

The press junket for Katherin Heigl and Gerard Butler’s new film The Ugly Truth was interrupted Saturday when a bomb threat was called in to the Four Seasons Hotel where it was being held. The building was evacuated for two hours while police searched the premises. Butler and Heigl mingled and took photographs outside with other evacuated guests, then ducked into a nearby restaurant to grab a bite.

After the police search turned up nothing, the hotel was reopened.

No word yet on what Wendie was doing yesterday afternoon at approximately 1:45pm when the threat was called in, or whether or not she has the phone records to prove her innocence.

Bad news, guys.  I don’t think Izzie is dead.  A source close to negotiations of the Grey’s Anatomy cast confirms that T.R. Knight is definitely a goner, but Katherine Heigl got a bunch of money thrown at her to stay.  Want to take a collection so we can throw a bunch of money at her to leave? 

I think I watched one season of Grey’s and couldn’t tolerate any more.  If I remember correctly, Izzie was performing all sorts of unorthodox and life-saving procedures on Denny — the dead dude she’s been chatting up this past season courtesty of a brain tumor – and I had to stop watching.  I would torture my husband, asking questions like, “Is that proper hospital protocol?  She didn’t wash her hands, couldn’t that kill him?  Would a bunch of doctors just stand around and watch her kill her fiance?  Is there anyone on staff that Izzie hasn’t schtupped?  If I agree to have another kid, will you promise me that we never have this show on our television again?”  I don’t know if I have any of those facts right, but that’s how acid-induced the show appeared to me at the time.  And we have a two-year-old — I’m a woman of my word.

So, to all you rabid Grey’s fans, are you just so excited that Izzie is alive?  Who is she going to sleep with on this upcoming season?

Dr. Isobel Stevens is FINALLY DEAD!!!

If I’d known for sure she was gonna die, I would have hosted a viewing party. We would have played a drinking game. It would have gone like this: If Izzie dies, you have to chug a fifth of vodka and then puke all over the screen during her funeral. Screaming “HAVE FUN MAKING SAD WHINY FACES AT THE DEVIL, IZZIE!” would have been optional.

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OK. So back to the important business.

I haven’t watched Grey’s Anatomy in years, mostly because when Katherine Heigl is on the screen I just want to slap somebody, and since I live alone I was afraid I would start injuring my cats. So you’d think I’d be delighted to watch this footage of her close to death in the 100th episode — and I guess I am, kinda — but even though she’s dying she’s still annoying as hell. Seriously. This trailer of Izzie dying annoys me. How is anyone on this planet not annoyed with the Izzie character?

Anyway. Yeah. Izzie’s dying, Denny’s ghost is off to jump the shark again usher her to the netherworld, Derek and Meredith are getting married, and the truth is I’m probably never going to watch this show again. Katherine Heigl ruined it for me forever.

Grey’s Anatomy cast member, James Pickens Jr.,  has announced that Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight are leaving the show.  Seriously, I don’t possess the blogger hate that seems so prevalent for Katherine Heigl, but it will be a nice reprieve to not have to listen to her constant bitching and complaining about the show that made her famous.  I just want to say “Listen, Katie, you were a nobody before Grey’s.  So suck it up, fuck your dead fiance and cash your paycheck.”  I don’t think there is any doubt that her character, Izzie, will be killed off in a tragic and final way.  Of course, dead never means dead on Grey’s.  Yeah, I don’t watch this suck ass show but even I know about Denny.

Knight, the much less hated departing doctor, is leaving to pursue other interests and will probably be written out in some open-ended way to allow for his return.

Linking you guys to my sister site, Film.com, where Laremy has done a very hilarious play-by-play of the whole show. It’s here.

See?

Way easier than writing it myself.

Also way easier than getting Katherine Heigl into those pants, I think.