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帕特里克·德姆西大器晚成“梦幻先生” 　　nce a week, Patrick Dempsey, 42, sends the 1)flutter of hearts as Dr. Derek “McDreamy” 　　Shepherd on 2)ABC’s popular drama, Grey’s Anatomy. Playing the role of a handsome 3)neurosurgeon, he’s made the word “McDreamy” part of the 　　national 4)lexicon these days. I mean, just ask the many, many female fans who kept screaming his name while he shot scenes for the Disney big-screen hit Enchanted (2007) at New York City’s 　　Central Park. Or People magazine, which, in 2007, put him on the cover of its year-end issue and named him “Star of the Year.” 　　Things aren’t always this good for the Grey’s star. He used to be one of Hollywood’s rising stars in the late 1980s with movies such as Can’t Buy Me Love. Then he was 5)relegated to guest-starring roles. By 2000, he just got a small part in Scream 3. Before finally getting into the halls of fame, fortune and status, the decade-long career-6)drought Dempsey tried really hard to get a job to pay his rent. In fact, he had considered becoming a 7)catalog model before his Grey’s 8)audition. His first marriage also 9)collapsed, driving him into a period of 10)severe depression. 　　“It was a very difficult time. I was insecure. I felt I was no good,” Dempsey says. “It was very hard to stay positive. There were years when I wasn’t working and people didn’t care about me.” 　　Casting director Jane Jenkins still 　　remembers Dempsey in his pre-McDreamy day, “We had to fight with everyone to hire this guy.” His doctor role, however, turned out to be a great success. With ordinary issues such as families, children, wives and problems at work, television offers familiarity and intimacy that brings a new wave of leading men ? like McDreamy ? not only into everyone’s homes but also into their everyday lives. They are smart, attractive, interesting, confident, comfortable, 　　strong, deep and mature; but above all, they are everyday men, not 11)larger-than-life superheroes. 　　The once-struggling actor, on the oth