Otro artículo a Kate... omg la dude está en todas!
A talk with Kate Walsh from 'Grey's,' who goes into 'Private Practice' 
Kate Walsh has plans for Addison Montgomery.
The redheaded doctor spent the last two seasons of "Grey's Anatomy" trying to salvage her failing marriage to surgeon Derek Shepherd. But thanks to his on-again, off-again affair with Seattle Grace Hospital intern Meredith Grey (and her own dalliances with a guy nicknamed McSteamy), the marriage failed.
Now Addison has moved down the coast, from drizzly Seattle to sunny Los Angeles.
She's got her own show, the much-publicized "Grey's Anatomy" spinoff "Private Practice," which premieres 8 p.m. Wednesday on ABC.
And when it comes to Addison's future, Walsh is thinking cocktails and cougars. (And she doesn't mean the cousins of kitties: UrbanDictionary.com defines "cougar" as "an older woman who frequents clubs in order to score with a much younger man.")
"I'd love to see a cougar date situation," Walsh, a former Chicago theater actress, said by phone from the show's Los Angeles set. "I'd love to see her cougar it up. I'd like to see all the ladies [from Addison's new practice] go out with [young, male receptionist] Dell and his friends." 
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y de ahí todos los boys poniendose celosos cuando se enteren 
What may be harder for "Private Practice" is capturing the magic -- and the ratings momentum -- of "Grey's Anatomy," which premiered 2 1/2 years ago and since then has started more than its share of water-cooler conversations.
The medical drama's massive success came as a surprise to ABC, but "Grey's" runaway-hit status helped shape the network's current drama template, which calls for large ensembles, sexy and soapy antics, mostly well-to-do characters and the occasional heart-tugging emotions.
Whether "Private Practice" will be able to consistently deliver a pleasing variation on that ABC formula is another question. A "backdoor pilot" for "Private Practice" aired during an extended episode of "Grey's" in May; it featured Addison's first foray to her new place of employment, the Oceanside Wellness Center in Santa Monica.
That two-hour episode was widely panned by critics,
who disliked the way the new show made the strong Addison seem wishy-washy. And you'd be hard-pressed to find a "Grey's" fan who liked the Ally McBeal-esque talking elevator, or the way that Tim Daly's character, the New Age Dr. Pete Wilder, informed Addison he was going to kiss her "with tongue."
Though nobody faulted the skills of the acting ensemble in the May pilot -- which featured respected TV veterans Amy Brenneman ("Judging Amy"), Paul Adelstein ("Prison Break") and Taye Diggs ("Day Break") in addition to Daly -- their characters, which included the author of a best-selling self-help book, a psychiatrist and a fertility specialist, were widely seen as whiny and not particularly fun to be around.
The "Private Practice" series premiere struggles mightily to settle on a tone, but in the meantime veers among tragedy, predictable medical melodrama and humor that comes off as far more brittle (and even hostile) than funny.
At least the talking elevator is gone.
As is Merrin Dungey ("Alias"), who over the summer was replaced in the role of Addison's best friend, fertility specialist Dr. Naomi Bennett, by Broadway veteran Audra McDonald.
As for the negative reactions to last spring's pilot, it's not as though the "Private Practice" team was in the dark about them.
"I've certainly heard those reactions too, but it seemed to me that half the criticism was that it was too dark and half the criticism was that it was too light," said Adelstein, another former Chicago actor, who plays pediatrician Cooper Freedman on "Private Practice."
Even ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson acknowledged to the media in late May that the show needed some work.
"We spent a lot of time introducing the characters but not enough time on the stories. We really have to hit the stories stronger," McPherson was quoted as saying.
At a press event for the show in July, University Park native Shonda Rhimes, who created both "Grey's" and "Private Practice," was unapologetic about the elevator. And she defended the depiction of Addison as that of a woman in flux, searching for a new direction in her life.
"I think that the Addison that you see as a doctor is very strong and decisive. I think that Addison as a person has never been fully that -- as strong or as decisive, but I think she's a smart, interesting woman," Rhimes said.
And she described "Private Practice" as more "squabbling family" than "Grey's" "high school with scalpels."
Well, there's no shortage of squabbling on "Private Practice." And it may be inevitable that critics will have their scalpels out for the show at first.
Not just because it needs "serious script surgery," as TV Guide's Matt Roush put it, but because a number of critics have a good amount of pent-up animosity toward "Grey's Anatomy." Even the most hard-core fans had to admit that the show had a horrible Season 3, the second half of which was so inconsistent and strident that it was nearly unwatchable.
Add that simmering resentment to the season-long controversy over the offensive remarks of "Grey's" actor Isaiah Washington, whose character, Dr. Preston Burke, was written out of the show in the finale, and it stands to reason that anything coming from Rhimes' pen is going to get extra scrutiny.
"We will be under that microscope without already having great success, which is a strange phenomenon," said Adelstein, who, by a quirk, was cast as Burke in the "Grey's Anatomy" pilot but had to drop out because of a movie commitment.
"I hope it'll be well received."
But, he adds, "I think there will be vitriol."
Rhimes said in July that she's unafraid of strong reactions.
"I read the blogs," Rhimes said, and responses to "the writers' blog of 'Grey's Anatomy.' ... I take really seriously what the fans say. I kind of love that people feel this strongly about the show. What that means to me is that they are watching it and that they care about it and that they feel as emotionally connected to the characters as I do."
But the "Grey's" characters, for all their foibles and inconsistencies of late, at least used to have a fun, fresh enthusiasm for medicine and appealing friendships that connected with viewers, especially women viewers sick of catfights between female characters on TV.
The "Private Practice" characters, on the other hand, seem to be pretty lost in their personal lives, and many of the women in the pilot episode seem angry ... about what, it's not always clear.
Walsh, who was initially signed to do a five-episode guest arc on "Grey's" and
became a fan favorite, appears to have already steeled herself to the "but it's not 'Grey's'" criticism. "The tone is different. It's a whole different show. I think if people watch it expecting 'Grey's,' they're going to be disappointed," said the actress, who used to study at Evanston's famed Piven Theatre Workshop with Adelstein, an old friend from their mid-1990s Chicago theater days.
There are clear differences between "Grey's" and "Private Practice." For one thing,
the focus of the progressive Oceanside doctors is not surgery, but, as the name of the practice states, wellness. Each doctor in the practice has a specialty, but they come together to treat patients with a team approach.
"You've got this group of people who want to go back to this more humane model [of medicine]," Adelstein said.
And the lack of direction in these doctors' personal lives may just be a sign of the times, according to Adelstein.
"Part of what Shonda is exploring here is American extended adolescence," he said. "
You have these people -- I know tons of them out here -- they are in their late 30s and early 40s, and either have never been married or had starter marriages that didn't work out. ... They casually date, do a lot of sitting around lamenting not being able to find a mate but there's not a lot of self-reflection about what it would take to make that kind of commitment."
Addison knows about that kind of commitment but for now she wants none of it (though there are strong hints that she and Pete may hook up again).
Los Angeles represents a fresh start for Addison, Walsh said. Whether or not the doctor "cougars it up,"
she wants to have some new adventures in her new city and figure out what the next phase of her life will bring. And that may take some time to figure out -- both for the doctor and for the show.
"To be honest with you, I don't know how it's going to be until we see it," said the recently married, 39-year-old Walsh, who acknowledged she has had bouts of "Addison anxiety" since being approached about the spinoff in February. "I'm just as anxious as the audience is to know what it's going to be.
"I think it made sense [for Addison to leave Seattle], and also, Shonda was excited about writing a different story for ... men and women in their 30s who are established," Walsh continued.
"What happens when you get what you want in your career, and then what's the next phase? What happens when your dream comes true, what's the next dream? That was sort of the idea ... people who seemingly have it together, and then are sort of not together at all." Photos: Kate Walsh, Paul Adelstein. 
y Taye estará con Ellen.
(Naaaaaaaaaa sigo soñando) 
awww... como extraño a esa bitch! y como AMO este momento 
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