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Owen Wilson, Jon Hamm/Don Draper, brooding Dylan...Fine then, make me confront my sick fascination with the attractively haunted. I still miss Fox Mulder. Just last night I was watching Crowe in L.A. Confidential and sighing lustily.
The Simpson's hit this phenomenon square on the bowed-with-sorrow head on Sunday with 'Little Orphan Millie.' Millhouse thinks his parents are dead and suddenly becomes the hot brooding loner.
Summed up in Nelson Muntz's great line, "He's troubled! But I can save him!"