Afternoon Greg: Funeral for T.R. Knight’s character on Grey’s Anatomy; Boy George humbled; one last Palin item

It’s so hot out that I’m not my usual chatty self (yeah, right). So I’m gonna post these items in a very straightforward way then get the heck over to the Park LaBrea pool for a dip.

BYE, GEORGE: PopEater has posted photos of Grey’s Anatomy cast member Ellen Pompeo, Katherine Heigl, Justin Chambers and Patrick Dempsey filming what appear to be funeral scenes for George O’Malley, played for five seasons by T.R. Knight. George was killed off in the season finale because T.R. wanted off of the show.

BOY, GEORGE: When someone keeps screwing their lives up with drugs etc. and they are well into their 40s, it would be understandable if their friends started avoiding them! But Boy George says that when he was in prison for attacking a male escort, he got unexpected support from Elton John who wrote him a letter while he was behind bars.

“Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas, Antony Hegarty and Holly Johnson wrote to me too. The only time I got emotional in prison was when I got letters from friends. People that beforehand I wouldn’t have thought I could rely on. It was really humbling.”

BYE, PALIN: Just when I thought my Sarah Palin-related items were done for the day with the William Shatner poetry reading, I go and watch Jon Stewart’s piece on the wacky former Alaska guv.