fast-talking

Villarreal: When people think of Hollywood agents, we sort of associate it with fictional figures like Ari Gold from “Entourage” — this ball-breaking, fast-talking, egocentric guy.

She was right to trust her instinct: “Grey’s Anatomy,” now in its 20th season, is one of the longest-running prime-time dramas on American TV and the cornerstone of an entertainment empire built around complicated, fast-talking female characters who fly in the face of narrow-minded Hollywood assumptions about race, gender and “likability.”

Together, this band of bohemians molded the modern movie business into what Kael hails as “wisecracking, fast-talking, cynical-sentimental entertainment.”

It was great to see them all, but none of it overshadowed Wiig’s absolute mastery of an assortment of oddball characters, from a fast-talking secretary named Tootie who works alongside Heidi Gardner’s Trudy to an oxygen-tank-carrying smoker at a retirement party to a hyperactive French dancer on a ‘70s show called “La Maison Du Bang.”

Her legacy stands in the pantheon of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope, a fast-talking screwball woman who protests, “Too many guys see me as a concept.”