InTouch Weekly Scan
Thursday, March 29, 2007
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posted by Lisa @ 1:24 PM,
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Willis Partis Hard To Celebrate 52nd Birthday
BRUCE WILLIS celebrated his 52nd birthday in style recently by recruiting a team of pals for a three-day, two-city bender.
The DIE HARD star was spotted partying with pals like rocker CISCO ADLER and actress KATE WALSH at the Planet Hollywood hotel and casino in Vegas on 17 March (07).
But the party didn't end there - Willis and his entourage took the birthday bash back to Hollywood and showed up at British singer AMY WINEHOUSE's Los Angeles show on 19 March, the actor's actual birthday.
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posted by Lisa @ 5:59 AM,
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Grey's Anatomy Spinoff Gets a Name, Sort of
The heavily anticipated Kate Walsh led Grey's Anatomy spin off finally has a name - at least, a tentative one. ABC unveiled the moniker for the new show at a star studded media buyers event during network development week. ABC exec's lauded the Grey's Anatomy spin off's spectacular cast that in addition to Walsh, includes Taye Diggs, Tim Daly, Amy Brenneman, Chris Lowell, and others. The spin off is being touted for its stand alone premise that will take Walsh's character out of the realm of nightmarish medical emergencies and incorporated hospital trysts into a setting they think less hardcore medical drama fans will appreciate. In that sense, the proposed name for the Grey's Anatomy spin off is quite apt, indeed.
'Private Practice', is the name the Grey's Anatomy spin off will be called by for now, but ABC exec's are quick to caution that this may change. The two hour episode set to sample the themes of the series will debut May 10th, but don't think of it as a pilot. Grey's Anatomy is riding a high enough wave at this point that the second series is virtually a lock whether the initial sample piques interests or not.
It has been noted, in some cases not very kindly, that the bulk of the supporting cast is made up of refugees from failing shows. Diggs from 'Day Break, the LOST stand in that died after only three episodes; Daly from 'The Nine', which failed to retain enough from its LOST lead-in to remain viable; and finally, Lowell from the thought to be doomed Veronica Mars, which may be getting a new life sans 90% of its more expensive cast.
Does ABC anticipate big things from 'Private Practice'? The feedback from attendees was that the show is expected to quickly occupy a top spot in their fall line up. there is still no proposed air date or time for the new series which will premiere with the rest of ABC's new fall lineup.
- Jon Lachonis, BuddyTV Senior Writer
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posted by Lisa @ 5:57 AM,
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Untitled Grey's Anatomy Spin-Off Project - Infos
Sunday, March 25, 2007
STATUS:
currently in development (2007-2008 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to pilot
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
two-hour backdoor pilot
DESCRIPTION:
(from ABC's press release) Grey's Anatomy executive producer Shonda Rhimes combines the heart and soul of television's top-rated drama with exciting new faces in a sun-drenched new location to create a drama with a very different vibe. It's an intimate portrait of the choices and changes we make in our search for happy lives. Following a failed attempt at reconciliation and two disastrous affairs, neonatal surgeon Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery craves a new relationship and journeys to Santa Monica to seek advice from her med school friends, Naomi and Jackson. But she finds her idealized view of their achievements – successful marriage, 14-year-old daughter and a highly successful health cooperative – doesn't match reality. Jackson's success as a TV health guru pushed him to divorce Naomi and now he's lonely. Fertility specialist Naomi wants love, but she doubts their boyish surfer/receptionist is the answer. The rest of the Oceanside Wellness Group staff has their own life issues. The sexy alternative medicine doc is a widower masking his grief with one-night stands. The gynecologist who doesn't know a thing about women had his car stolen by this week's Internet hookup. And the therapist doubts she's doing any good at all. Fortunately, together they're a formidable medical team doing cutting-edge work. Working with them, Addison realizes that moving to Southern California and joining her friends could be the right prescription for her own life. Starring Kate Walsh (Grey's Anatomy), Tim Daly (Wings, The Nine), Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy), Chris Lowell (Veronica Mars), Merrin Dungey (Alias), Paul Adelstein (Prison Break), and Taye Diggs (Day Break, Kevin Hill). It's a warm, funny, deeply affecting character drama against the backdrop of the joys and sorrows all doctors experience while practicing medicine.
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Amy Brenneman as Violet
· Chris Lowell as Dell
· Kate Walsh as Addison Shepherd
· Merrin Dungey as Naomi
· Paul Adelstein as Cooper
· Taye Diggs as Jackson
· Tim Daly as Pete
CREW INFORMATION:
· Betsy Beers as EP
· Michael Grossman as DIR (Pilot)
· Shonda Rhimes as CRTR/EP
GENRE(S):
· drama
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· ABC Television Studio
· Shondaland Productions
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posted by Lisa @ 11:27 AM,
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Kate And Dave - US Magazine
Dishy Details:
Things are going strong for GA's Walsh, 39, and B&S's Annable, 27, who first mingled at an Oscar bash in Feb. "They love hanging out and talking about Grey's Anatomy!" says a pal of the pair, who were smitten at the March 17th IFL Fight Night in Inglewood CA. "They make a great couple."
Will They Last?
Prognosis looks good. "They're not a bad match," Kosarin says. "Libras like Walsh are looking for harmony and balance while Virgos, such as Annable, are calm and grounded."
Photo caption: "They're both smart," says a friend of the ABC actors.
Thanks to AEW21!
posted by Lisa @ 10:48 AM,
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Intimate Zac Posen Show Draws Stars
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Grey's Anatomy star Kate Walsh, right, takes time out from her spinoff shoot to hang with co-star Eric Dane's wife Rebecca Gayheart.WEST HOLLYWOOD — Monday evening at the Chateau Marmont hotel, Demi Moore sat poolside under a canopy of palms, bathed in a purple glow. Sipping cranberry juice, the actress looked svelte in a form-fitting black Zac Posen gown.
"Zac knows how to dress a woman's body with exquisite detail," raved Moore about one of her favorite designers, who was showing his fall 2007 collection at L.A. Fashion Week.
The intimate event, hosted by Saks Fifth Avenue Beverly Hills, benefited Chrysalis, a non-profit organization that helps find jobs for the homeless. Six years ago, actress Rebecca Gayheart was introduced to the charity at a gala honoring her ex-fiancé, Rush Hour director Brett Ratner. She began volunteering and established its annual Butterfly Ball as an extension of her court-ordered community service. (In 2001, Gayheart pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in the death of a 9-year-old boy.)
"We now raise over a million dollars each year," said Gayheart. "Before six years ago, I never thought about being charitable. But then I had the epiphany and the button switched on."
Gayheart's husband, actor Eric "McSteamy" Dane, was delayed while shooting scenes on the set of Grey's Anatomy. But co-stars Kate Walsh and Justin Chambers arrived in time to catch models parading down the catwalk.
Though Chambers, a former model, appeared bored throughout the show, his wife, Keisha, insisted "he has great fashion sense."
Gayheart also praised Dane as being "very metrosexual. In a good way," she clarified. "He's still a dude."
All this week, Walsh is shooting her as-yet untitled Grey's spinoff, which she said will air May 3 as a two-hour Grey's episode. "I feel like I won the lottery," said Walsh of her show and co-stars Taye Diggs, Tim Daly, Paul Adelstein (Prison Break) and the just-added Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy).
"I'll be watching," Gayheart told Walsh.
"Yay!" cheered Walsh. "We've got one viewer."
Gayheart was wearing one of Posen's silky gowns in an exuberant iris hue. Posen, with his black jacket sleeves rolled up to expose a mint green sweater, said iris will be the stand-out color of his fall line.
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posted by Lisa @ 11:12 AM,
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Kate And Dave Out & About - Pictures
Monday, March 19, 2007
New Pictures of Kate with Dave Annable at a IFL Match In Los Angeles On March 17, 2007!
posted by Lisa @ 8:14 AM,
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Kate On Square Off
Thursday, March 15, 2007
posted by Lisa @ 11:36 AM,
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Grey's Spinoff News!
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Exclusive Details on Addison's Anatomy and What It Means for Veronica Mars.
Watch with Kristin:
I have to admit, I’m getting a little giddy over the idea of this Grey’s Anatomy spinoff with Addison. Not only have I been told by trusted insiders that the script is "phenomenal," but it also includes just about the best cast a TV fan could ever want: Kate Walsh (duh), Taye Diggs (yum), Tim Daly (double yum), Alias’ kickass Merrin Dungey (love), Prison Break’s Paul Adelstein (also known as Paris Geller’s hubby) and Chris Lowell of Veronica Mars.
Still, I also feel the pain of you fellow Veronica Mars fans, since yoinking our beloved Chris Lowell (Piz) from the most underappreciated show on television is, well, less than ideal for the world of Neptune, California.
Since so many of you have emailed asking, "Is Chris Lowell off of Veronica Mars?" I went straight to Veronica’s big boss himself, the genius Rob Thomas to get the answer. Here’s what R.T. told me: "We only had Chris in a one-year deal, so he was free to pursue other shows. We hope to be able to use him some more, though clearly we won't be able to resign him as a series regular."
Meanwhile, insiders tell me that the storyline will bring America's sexiest gyno, Addison Montgomery, away from Seattle to this very city—Los Angeles. So, I'm told Addison will be far away from the hot men of Seattle Grace, all of whom plan to stay over on that other (original) show. (Let’s take a moment for the hotness that almost was Addisex. Blimey!)
Also, as luck would have it, I just ran into fellow bride-to-be (you know I’ll mention that any chance I get) and former Francinator Merrin Dungey, and she was bursting at the seams (thankfully, not in her bridal gown) over her new Addison’s Anatomy gig. "I am thrilled beyond words!" she beamed. "What a wonderful group of people to be working with, right? The best part was, they day I got cast, all my family had just arrived and I could run home and tell them that I got the part. How awesome is that?!"
Awww...Sydney Bristow would be so proud.
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posted by Lisa @ 1:54 PM,
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Kate In The 'Best Life' Magazine
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
On TV, Kate Walsh is a sexually charged, romantically confused, fiercely intelligent surgeon. But TV isn’t real life.... In real life, she’s not a surgeon.
Kate Walsh can’t understand why her ass is so damn hot. It’s Manhattan in the 1990s, and Walsh’s breakthrough role as Grey’s Anatomy’s Dr. Addison Montgomery-Shepherd is a decade away. For now, she’s just a struggling waitress on a first date, riding in a BMW 5 Series, and unfamiliar with one of the newest features in luxury cars. “When you don’t know what a seat warmer is or that you’re sitting on one, how do you tell a guy you’re out with for the first time that your ass is burning up?”
Bimmer Man had superb tickets to Così fan tutte at the Metropolitan Opera, which is why Walsh—an opera fanatic—stuck it out, even when her date began taking bizarre liberties. “I get into the car, and the first thing this guy does is spray me with perfume,” says Walsh, laughing. “I don’t even know where it came from. Maybe it belonged to the last woman he killed.”
Today, Walsh has a BMW with heated seats of her own, and she can buy her own perfume, thank you. Dressed in layered lacy camisoles, a denim skirt, and knee-high Christian Louboutin boots the color of a Pacific sunset, the 39-year-old Walsh looks younger in person than she does as the romantically tormented—and tormenting—neonatologist she plays on TV. Her ivory skin is smoother, her cheekbones are more chiseled, and her features—that fiery red hair, those icy blue eyes—are much softer than those of her preternaturally unflappable character who has loved (and let go of) two of prime time’s most dominant McAlpha males. Across the table at Puran’s Restaurant, in the hip but discreet L.A. neighborhood of Los Feliz (where she owns a two-bedroom home that her recent success has helped her to buy and now renovate), Walsh is warm, friendly, inviting, and endearingly kooky. She is far more interested in learning about her dinner companion than she is in talking about herself. It’s not because Walsh prefers to be hidden, but rather that she possesses a quality increasingly rare in the solipsistic world that is Hollywood: inquisitiveness.
“I’m curious about everything in life, and lately I’ve been obsessed with my own mortality and the very real notion that life is short,” says Walsh. One reason for that is her encroaching 40th birthday, in October. Another has chased her since the death of her father, an Irish immigrant who later became a union leader (her mother is Italian), when she was 22. “That was the first hit I had of ‘Oh my God, it ends.’ ” That awareness of the fragility of life propels her need to get everything in—to travel and read and explore and cook and drive fast cars (she recently bought a 1985 Aston Martin)—yet she is trying at the same time to figure out a way to slow down. “I feel torn between having the time of my life and wanting very serious things, like a surplus of love for a family and all that,” says Walsh. “But what’s in front of me right now is work. Often, I think it would have been so great if this success had happened when I was 27 or 28, but then again, I wouldn’t have had the maturity back then to deal with it and not end up in rehab.”
Walsh can’t remember a time when she didn’t work. At 14, she manned the cash register at a Burger King in Tucson, Arizona, where she moved with her mother, stepfather, and four older brothers and sisters (two of each) after her parents divorced (the family spent its first 11 years in San Jose, California). Before that, her stepdad, a prison psychologist, paid her $5 a page to type up psychological profiles of inmates he treated. And in the past several years, she has worked regularly, if not recognizably, as an actress in both TV—as Drew Carey’s girlfriend on The Drew Carey Show, for which she plumped up with a fat suit—and films, like Under the Tuscan Sun, in which, coincidentally, she played the lesbian lover of Grey’s cast mate Sandra Oh.
But it’s her testicle-torquing turn as Patrick Dempsey’s cuckolding wife that has seared her into our consciousness. Originally, her role was written into only five episodes, introduced in the first season’s finale, in May 2005, as a noirish, wavy-haired, scarlet-lipped vixen in black Prada heels, the heartless siren who dared to cheat on McDreamy and was now singing her song to lure him away from Meredith Grey, the show’s title character. “I was aggressive and catty and witty,” she says. “It was fun.”
Fun, yes, and convincing. So much so that Walsh’s tough-talking trollop proved too tantalizing to let go, and the show’s producers decided to extend her role. Good thing, too, as the episodes she had recently filmed for a new sitcom called The Men’s Room never made it to the airwaves. “My last job before Grey’s was playing a transvestite Las Vegas showgirl on CSI,” she remarks. “Let’s just say I was pleasantly surprised with the news.”
Walsh adapted easily to the pressures of working with a talented ensemble cast on the hottest, most successful set in television. Asked for her reaction to the blowup over Grey’s cast mate Isaiah Washington’s antigay remarks, she insists there has been “no fallout on the set, really,” but she can’t seem to hide her anger at the distraction. “We’re plowing through and working really hard and leaving it up to the powers that be. It was definitely sad. It’s annoying. And it eclipsed our Golden Globes win, which I was upset about.”
Despite the distractions, Walsh soldiers on, as she has always done when life hasn’t abided her desires. As a tomboyish little girl, all she wanted was a set of walkie-talkies. Instead, her parents gave her a CB radio. Her handle was Katie-Kat, a childhood nickname. “I was in the fourth grade talking to truckers,” she said. “I loved it.”
In high school, she tried out to be a song leader, which is something like a cheerleader but with more dancing and less athleticism—“Sort of like what the Laker Girls do,” she says. For the audition, Walsh dressed in a gold leotard and tights, rubbed her body from head to toe with gold powder, and sang “Twilight Zone,” a 1982 demi-hit from the Dutch hard-rock band Golden Earring. Walsh had the lyrics down, but for reasons she still can’t explain, her body froze. “I did the same dance move over and over for the entire song, and the judges just stared at me.” Walsh didn’t make song leaders, no surprise. But she did make the shot-put team, and even earned a junior varsity letter. “That’s when I learned my strength lay in hurling heaving, massive balls.”
Walsh began her acting career studying at the Piven Theatre Workshop, in Chicago. It was in the Windy City where she made lifelong friends with screenwriter and director Adam McKay, who later introduced her to Will Ferrell. (The three of them worked together in the 2005 comedy Kicking & Screaming.) She continued on to New York with the hope of doing theater and independent films, but steady TV work determined her career choices, while sometimes undermining her romantic ones.
“I need to do with relationships what I’ve done with work,” says Walsh, who admits to having leaped into not-so-appropriate liaisons as an escape from the stress of her day job. “In the past, I’ve been work, work, work—and then I’m done and ’cause I’m tired and desperate, I’m like…YOU!” she shouts out, as though grasping for the nearest warm male body. The result has been passionate unions with men who weren’t good for her but were “too tempting and snaky and delicious and sexy” to resist. In some ways, these passionate mismatches served their purpose for Walsh. “In the past, I think I’ve looked to men to slow me down and help me rest,” she says. “Picking people who weren’t so available allowed me to be selfish.”
But Walsh realizes that perhaps she wasn’t the only one who was being selfish. Men have often had difficulty with her commitment to work, and her most recent serious relationship came to an end shortly after she secured her part on Grey’s Anatomy. Often, she has found herself landing a consuming role, she claims, only to have the man in her life say, “Hey, I know you’re an actress, but you’re really going to do this?”
Not so ironically, perhaps, Walsh seeks in a man the same characteristics that are just beginning to emerge within herself: consistency, compassion, and the ability to be present in the now. “I’m a bit of a late bloomer,” she says, although it’s clear that, until now, Walsh simply hadn’t been ready for the constancy of a domestic partnership. “I realize it’s a juvenile fear, but I haven’t wanted to be in a relationship where I’m doing a downward dog and some guy is just like, ‘I hate you. I hate it when you do whatever that thing is that you do that I hate.’ ”
These days, though, she looks forward to being hated, loved, and everything in between. She slips into a stream-of-consciousness ramble about the perfect romance: “It’s a weird dance, when we’re in the same physical space but doing our own thing, and I’m here and he’s there and sometimes we’re madly and passionately f--king and other times I’m like, ‘I don’t even know who you are.’ But that’s real and you get through it and you keep going and you love him, but sometimes you don’t, and you want to have sex with him, but if not, that’s okay too, because in a little while, an hour or a day or a few days later, you will.”
And this future as-yet-unknown guy whom the willowy 5-foot-9 Walsh will mostly love but sometimes hate doesn’t have to be an Adonis.
“I don’t need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It’s very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity, and being really smart.” And literate. When it comes to books, Walsh is an unabashed Anglophile and pores over works written by modern British authors both dead (Joseph Conrad, Evelyn Waugh) and alive (Ian McEwan is her current favorite).
As Grey’s winds down its third season, Walsh finds the boundaries between herself and her character beginning to blur, perhaps a bit more than feels entirely comfortable. “With an hour-long drama, you start playing a little closer to who you are, because the writers hear you and are around you and they start writing for you,” she says, explaining how her character became more vulnerable and complex.
When first preparing for her role of Derek Shepherd’s wayward wife, says Walsh, “I remember wondering, Why did she cheat? Why? Why? Why?” But later, as Addison becomes more three-dimensional and more human, it becomes evident. “She was lonely in her marriage,” says Walsh. “Without it, she’s now lonely at Seattle Grace.”
This is where art becomes a little too much like life for Walsh. “Here I am working 13-, sometimes 16-hour days, and trying to date and it’s so new to me to date more than one person at a time. Sometimes I feel like, What am I doing? Am I becoming my character, or is my character becoming me?” says Walsh, who hopes the show’s writers settle her into a happy relationship sometime soon. “I’m starting to get a little superstitious here. I definitely identify with my character in that, romantically at least, this is not where I thought I’d be at 39.”
Still, finally becoming known as an actress (rather than just working as one) and, yes, being so busy, has forced Walsh to reset her priorities. She no longer looks to men to relax and relieve her stress, and often rejects wild nights out in favor of quiet evenings at home alone, drinking wine in front of the fireplace in her flannel pj’s, a good book in her hands, and her dog, Lucy, and cats, Billy and Pablo, by her side. “Part of me is like a 19-year-old boy who wants to go out and party,” says Walsh, “but there’s another part of me that’s 80 and needs to go home before I break.”
Understanding such things about herself has prepared Walsh for what she hopes is her next big thing: love. “I love my life, but I’m also eager to share it. I’m a total romantic, but also reticent and skeptical, ’cause I think some people have a lot of flowery rhetoric and love to write a 16-page e-mail describing everything they’re thinking about you, but it’s more about their own proselytizing and not necessarily knowing how to actually show up.”
And she doesn’t mind if the man who finally does show up is carrying along some personal baggage. “You don’t want to date a guy who’s 39 or 40 and hasn’t been in a committed relationship before and doesn’t have a romantic history,” she says. “Because that’s the guy who sprays perfume on you and puts the seat warmers on.”
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posted by Lisa @ 11:06 PM,
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McSpinoff: Daly Set For A "Gray" Shift
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Welcome a new McDreamy. "Wings" veteran Tim Daly is set to guest star in the "enhanced" two-hour episode of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy," designed to serve as a springboard for a potential spinoff from the hit medical drama.
Paul Adelstein (Fox's "Prison Break") also has been cast as a guest star in that episode with an eye to appear in the potential spinoff series headlined by Kate Walsh.
The two join previously cast Taye Diggs.
The story line for the two-hour episode, being written by "Grey's" creator/executive producer Shonda Rhimes, is being kept under wraps, but it is understood that it will feature popular "Grey's" character Addison Montgomery-Shepherd (Walsh) on the verge of leaving Seattle Grace, a scenario that will be triggered if ABC goes with the spinoff for next season.
Details on the characters in the potential spinoff also are being kept secret, but according to the breakdown, Daly's character is described as "handsome, sincere, like a McDreamy."
It was not clear what character Adelstein would play. The breakdown also includes a female psychiatrist and a female fertility specialist.
Daly most recently starred in ABC's critically praised drama "The Nine."
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posted by Lisa @ 5:04 AM,
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NABFEME Dreamgirls Luncheon Hosted by Moet & Chandon - Pictures
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Kate attended the NABFEME Dreamgirls Luncheon on March, 4th 2007.
posted by Lisa @ 7:12 AM,
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Kate Walsh Talks About Sleeping Disorders, And Spinoffs
Monday, March 05, 2007
Los Angeles -- Kate was on 'Good Day LA' this morning with Doctor Richard Bogan who specializes in sleep disorders.
posted by Lisa @ 12:29 PM,
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Grey's Anatomy Co-Stars Rally Around Heigl
Grey's Anatomy co-stars have rallied around her after issues surrounding her contract renegotiations became public last week. Heigl, who plays Izzie Stevens on the hit show, issued a statement last week stating she was "embarrassed" about the public dispute and had been treated with disrespect by her TV bosses. Co-star KATE WALSH says, "She's a super-talented girl. Everyone's just working hard... I don't really get into all that stuff. Everybody is doing their own thing with negotiations." Co-star SARA RAMIREZ adds, "She's lovely. Everybody's very professional, not just Katherine, but everybody else, too. At the end of the day, we all have to be grateful for our jobs. "We're working actors, and not only that, we're on a hit show." Heigl dropped out of renegotiations last week, but network executives fired back, saying the star was contractually obliged to remain on the hit TV show for "several years".
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posted by Lisa @ 12:03 PM,
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Kate In The 'O At Home - An Oprah Magazine' Spring 2007
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Big Thanks to Julie!
posted by Lisa @ 5:46 AM,
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Kate Partners With The Narcolepsy Network
Friday, March 02, 2007
Featuring Kate Walsh from Grey's Anatomy in a series of public service announcements aimed at raising awareness of narcolepsy, a debilitating sleep-wake disorder.
posted by Lisa @ 5:38 AM,
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Kate On ET - Spin-Off Talk!
Thursday, March 01, 2007
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