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Roger Cormier\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/b>\u00a0present 15 Critical Facts About ER<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 2. GEORGE CLOONEY “BEGGED” FOR AN AUDITION.<\/strong> 12. SOME ACTORS ASKED TO BE KILLED OFF.<\/strong> 15. THE SHOW SAVED LIVES.<\/strong> Roger Cormier\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 15 Critical Facts About ER. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 2. GEORGE CLOONEY “BEGGED” FOR AN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-trivia","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26906,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions\/26906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n“George Clooney begged me for a part,” said executive producer John Wells. The 33-year-old was by that time a TV veteran who hadn\u2019t yet found his breakout role (one of his earlier roles had been on a short-lived 1984 CBS sitcom titled E\/R<\/em>). “George was the first person to audition. He came after me for it,” recalled Wells. “Our second day in the office, George showed up and wouldn’t leave until I’d let him audition … George got his hands on the material and was like a dog with a bone.”<\/p>\n
\nMaura Tierney, who played Dr. Abby Lockhart from 1999 to 2009, asked to be killed off. Instead, she was given a juicy enough storyline that she was okay with sticking around until the end of the series. When Edwards told John Wells that he was leaving the show after eight seasons, Wells said that Dr. Greene was too important a character to just walk away from the show, so he asked Edwards: “‘Do you mind if we kill him?’ And I was like, ‘Nope!’ You\u2019ve gotta do what\u2019s best for the show, so that\u2019s okay.\u201d When Kellie Martin decided her character, Lucy Knight, wasn\u2019t working for her, she requested that her departure be made \u201cbig.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nA 28-year-old woman in Texas discovered she had a brain tumor because her tongue went out to the side, just like Dr. Greene\u2019s tongue did when his brain tumor returned. The woman\u2019s tumor was caught early and she survived. A USC study found that subjects were 65 percent more likely to change their eating habits if they watched the episode about obesity. And a 2002 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation discovered viewers \u201cincreased their knowledge\u201dof HPV and contraception after viewing episodes of the show.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"