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Tinuviel said:
I think thats my favorite "Grey's" song!!! (and its played in the scene that my siggy quote is from!)
Check out the new promo video featuring "How to Save a Life" by The Fray (another good song!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWgYM6tdSqw
It starts out with scenes from the finale and then shows a lot of new scenes!
make's me sooo excited for season 3
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mcsteamy's coming back!
This should be very interesting. Only 10 more days til the season premiere. 
Here's an article from NY Daily News. I LOOOOVE Addison, so I thought it was a good read. It gave a really nice summary of why I hate Meredith, too. Why do the writers seem to emphasize that she sleeps around a lot? Her flawed character doesn't make her a likable one, to me...it just makes her seem self-absorbed, whiny, and sl*tty.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ent_radio/story/450652p-379275c.html
Dr. Strained Love
...Or, how 'Grey's Anatomy' fans learned
to stop worrying and adore Kate Walsh
BY LAURA DEBRIZZI
[SIZE=-1]Walsh has made Addison essential to 'Grey's' DNA. [/SIZE]
"So you're the woman who's sleeping with my husband."
With that line, Kate Walsh, playing Dr. Addison (Addy) Shepherd on TV's hit "Grey's Anatomy," click-clacked her heels into television infamy. It was two years ago, at the close of the drama's first season, and Walsh's Addison had marched toward her estranged spouse, Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), and the program's protagonist/narrator, resident Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), in the halls of fictional Seattle Grace Hospital.
Addison was an unexpected face from Derek's not-too-recent past, and Walsh was an addition to the ABC show, which, with her onboard, established its signature love triangle - and then got some unplanned-for results.
Because instead of being just a black-clad, wronged wife with her hair coiled tight, Addison became a thinking woman's heroine. She, too, had guilt issues - she had previously slept with Derek's best friend - but was also sympathetic; a dedicated prenatal ob-gyn, she had come to Seattle Grace ready to make amends. And while the character flits between steely and humane, alternating some biting put-downs with a comforting bedside manner, the woman who plays her likes to break the mold in a very "Grey's" kind of way.
"Originally, I knew very little about this character other than the fact that she supposedly had an affair," says Walsh, who joined toward the end of the show's debut half-season. "My only job was to rain on Derek and Meredith's parade ... but on 'Grey's,' you never do know what's going to happen next.
"And then I think a lot of people [behind the scenes of the show] became a tad ... concerned that women throughout the country would stone me."
Quite the contrary. In fact, as the new season opens on Thursday, Sept. 21, at 9 p.m., the question on many fans' minds is, will Derek - aka "Dr. McDreamy" - come to his senses and choose the complex Addison over the now-seen-as-somewhat-whiny Meredith Grey?
"[We've] shown a tender side to Addison - her human side as well as her professional one," says Walsh about her character's appeal. "Originally, I think more teenage girls rooted for Meredith, but older women and men sort of identified with the struggles Derek and Addison [were going through]. The Shepherds are seemingly great people who are really trying to make it work by hanging in there."
In last spring's season two finale, as Derek and Meredith emerge from a particularly risqué moment in a supply closet - only legally blind viewers would have missed what color underwear Meredith had on under her cocktail dress - Addison stands in the hospital corridor with Meredith's current boyfriend (guest star Chris O'Donnell), sad and horrified. Who will wind up with whom is left up in the air.
Scenes such as these - along with Walsh's likability - are making many root for an Addison/Derek reunion, and are helping to make the show a smash. By the end of last season, it was drawing a bigger audience than its Sunday-night lead-in, "Desperate Housewives." And not even "ER" makes medicine so sexy.
The show's creator, Shonda Rhimes, has given that old chestnut genre the medical drama an infusion of sex appeal, with some extra brainpower to boot. Viewers love the personal and professional crises of Seattle Grace's residents and staff, and an army of female McDreamy fans have risen up to give Dempsey a career lift.
The fact that producers called on Walsh to further quicken the show's pulse was a shock to the 38-year-old Tucson native, one of five siblings raised in an Irish/Italian Catholic home. The only performer in the bunch, she attended the University of Arizona and did regional theater before moving to Chicago to study at the Piven Theatre Workshop - run by "Entourage" cast member Jeremy Piven's parents, who also taught John and Joan Cusack and Lili Taylor, among others.
And though Walsh studied drama, she remembers telling everyone within earshot that her break would come via comedy. They should have listened: In New York in the '90s, Walsh was a member of an improv group called Burn Manhattan, and, in 1997, joined "The Drew Carey Show."
"'Drew Carey' was my first sitcom, and I remember a director stopping me as I was about to make an entrance [on stage] and asking, 'Kate, you know to hold for the laughs, right?'" she says with a smile. "Of course I knew! That's like saying, 'You do know to keep your eyes open when you talk?'"
After more TV comedies (HBO's "Mind of the Married Man," Norm MacDonald's "The Norm Show") and filming Will Ferrell's 2005 soccer-parent goof "Kicking and Screaming," Walsh signed on to "Grey's Anatomy."
"Kate has succeeded in making Addison very sympathetic, which was not initially the easiest thing to do," says one of the show's executive producers, Betsy Beers. "Her comedic talent has helped add another dimension to the character. And she has no fear of taking chances."
Walsh has made Addison essential to the DNA of "Grey's." The reaction to Addison and Derek was so strong, in fact, that producers junked scenes Walsh and Dempsey had already filmed, fearing that they might overpower the Derek/Meredith story line.
"Patrick and I have so much fun together, it was frustrating for us [to have those scenes cut] - because we were starting to feel like we were in a miserable marriage," Walsh says.
"It's very hard to play [an unhappy couple]. It's challenging for us, whether these two characters are going to work things out. We were both like, 'C'mon, let us have some fun! Let us connect!' "
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The tussle of love between Meredith Grey, Derek (Dr. McDreamy) Shepherd and his wife, Addison Shepherd, shows zero signs of cooling this season. When last we saw TV's favorite and juiciest romantic mess, Meredith was fresh from coital bliss with McDreamy, in an empty room at the hospital, no less. And sweet, kind, too-good-for-her Finn (Chris O'Donnell) was lovingly beckoning to her.
But after one and a half seasons of penance, has Addison been punished enough? Sure, she cheated on her husband - with his best friend. And yes, that may have driven him into the arms of another woman. But how much longer will she be chastened by guilt now that they're both guilty?
So, who should end up with whom? Herewith, the anatomy of this triangle's two female sides.
Marisa Guthrie
Addison Shepherd
What we love about her: She cheated! On television, the philandering-spouse role is usually reserved for men. But Addison shows a kind of independence and devil-may-care indulgence that every woman can cheer for. And having paid her debt - by witnessing her husband's affair - she's trying to save her marriage. There's something noble (if misguided) about that. Plus, she's also a neonatal surgeon. What job could be nobler?
What makes us cringe: Well ... she cheated. Viewers aren't programmed to overlook such indiscretions in TV heroines. And she's a touch too noble. Worse than her cheating may be her putting up with his cheating.
Why she and Derek wouldn't work: He probably doesn't love her, given all that she's done, and all he's done in response.
Why they would: Unlike Meredith, she's an adult. And they've both strayed, so they can scratch that off the "marriage inevitables" list. Then it can be smooth - if uneventful - sailing into the sunset.
Meredith Grey
What we love about her: She's real. She's utterly flawed. She's striving. And the fact that she gave in to lust and hooked up with McDreamy yet again in the season finale makes Meredith - much to the postfeminist collective chagrin - totally relatable.
What makes us cringe: Her mopey, self-indulgent side. Her inability to make a decision. Her lack of self-control. Her painfully obvious self-destructive streak. And her sloppy sexuality - why, again, did she hook up with George (played by T.R. Knight)?
Why she and Derek wouldn't work: She doesn't know what she wants, which means she's sure to break his heart. She seems predisposed to do the wrong thing (sleeping with George, if it has to be said again ...). She's selfish. And there's a distinct possibility that she longs for McDreamy precisely because she knows in her heart that he's the wrong choice.
Why they would: There's only one reason, and fans will have to wait to see if it's true: McDreamy is hopelessly, dumb-struck, slack-jawed, no-one-else-exists in love with her.
Originally published on September 10, 2006
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ent_radio/story/450652p-379275c.html
Dr. Strained Love
...Or, how 'Grey's Anatomy' fans learned
to stop worrying and adore Kate Walsh
BY LAURA DEBRIZZI
[SIZE=-1]Walsh has made Addison essential to 'Grey's' DNA. [/SIZE]
"So you're the woman who's sleeping with my husband."
With that line, Kate Walsh, playing Dr. Addison (Addy) Shepherd on TV's hit "Grey's Anatomy," click-clacked her heels into television infamy. It was two years ago, at the close of the drama's first season, and Walsh's Addison had marched toward her estranged spouse, Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), and the program's protagonist/narrator, resident Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), in the halls of fictional Seattle Grace Hospital.
Addison was an unexpected face from Derek's not-too-recent past, and Walsh was an addition to the ABC show, which, with her onboard, established its signature love triangle - and then got some unplanned-for results.
Because instead of being just a black-clad, wronged wife with her hair coiled tight, Addison became a thinking woman's heroine. She, too, had guilt issues - she had previously slept with Derek's best friend - but was also sympathetic; a dedicated prenatal ob-gyn, she had come to Seattle Grace ready to make amends. And while the character flits between steely and humane, alternating some biting put-downs with a comforting bedside manner, the woman who plays her likes to break the mold in a very "Grey's" kind of way.
"Originally, I knew very little about this character other than the fact that she supposedly had an affair," says Walsh, who joined toward the end of the show's debut half-season. "My only job was to rain on Derek and Meredith's parade ... but on 'Grey's,' you never do know what's going to happen next.
"And then I think a lot of people [behind the scenes of the show] became a tad ... concerned that women throughout the country would stone me."
Quite the contrary. In fact, as the new season opens on Thursday, Sept. 21, at 9 p.m., the question on many fans' minds is, will Derek - aka "Dr. McDreamy" - come to his senses and choose the complex Addison over the now-seen-as-somewhat-whiny Meredith Grey?
"[We've] shown a tender side to Addison - her human side as well as her professional one," says Walsh about her character's appeal. "Originally, I think more teenage girls rooted for Meredith, but older women and men sort of identified with the struggles Derek and Addison [were going through]. The Shepherds are seemingly great people who are really trying to make it work by hanging in there."
In last spring's season two finale, as Derek and Meredith emerge from a particularly risqué moment in a supply closet - only legally blind viewers would have missed what color underwear Meredith had on under her cocktail dress - Addison stands in the hospital corridor with Meredith's current boyfriend (guest star Chris O'Donnell), sad and horrified. Who will wind up with whom is left up in the air.
Scenes such as these - along with Walsh's likability - are making many root for an Addison/Derek reunion, and are helping to make the show a smash. By the end of last season, it was drawing a bigger audience than its Sunday-night lead-in, "Desperate Housewives." And not even "ER" makes medicine so sexy.
The show's creator, Shonda Rhimes, has given that old chestnut genre the medical drama an infusion of sex appeal, with some extra brainpower to boot. Viewers love the personal and professional crises of Seattle Grace's residents and staff, and an army of female McDreamy fans have risen up to give Dempsey a career lift.
The fact that producers called on Walsh to further quicken the show's pulse was a shock to the 38-year-old Tucson native, one of five siblings raised in an Irish/Italian Catholic home. The only performer in the bunch, she attended the University of Arizona and did regional theater before moving to Chicago to study at the Piven Theatre Workshop - run by "Entourage" cast member Jeremy Piven's parents, who also taught John and Joan Cusack and Lili Taylor, among others.
And though Walsh studied drama, she remembers telling everyone within earshot that her break would come via comedy. They should have listened: In New York in the '90s, Walsh was a member of an improv group called Burn Manhattan, and, in 1997, joined "The Drew Carey Show."
"'Drew Carey' was my first sitcom, and I remember a director stopping me as I was about to make an entrance [on stage] and asking, 'Kate, you know to hold for the laughs, right?'" she says with a smile. "Of course I knew! That's like saying, 'You do know to keep your eyes open when you talk?'"
After more TV comedies (HBO's "Mind of the Married Man," Norm MacDonald's "The Norm Show") and filming Will Ferrell's 2005 soccer-parent goof "Kicking and Screaming," Walsh signed on to "Grey's Anatomy."
"Kate has succeeded in making Addison very sympathetic, which was not initially the easiest thing to do," says one of the show's executive producers, Betsy Beers. "Her comedic talent has helped add another dimension to the character. And she has no fear of taking chances."
Walsh has made Addison essential to the DNA of "Grey's." The reaction to Addison and Derek was so strong, in fact, that producers junked scenes Walsh and Dempsey had already filmed, fearing that they might overpower the Derek/Meredith story line.
"Patrick and I have so much fun together, it was frustrating for us [to have those scenes cut] - because we were starting to feel like we were in a miserable marriage," Walsh says.
"It's very hard to play [an unhappy couple]. It's challenging for us, whether these two characters are going to work things out. We were both like, 'C'mon, let us have some fun! Let us connect!' "
Heart rate
The tussle of love between Meredith Grey, Derek (Dr. McDreamy) Shepherd and his wife, Addison Shepherd, shows zero signs of cooling this season. When last we saw TV's favorite and juiciest romantic mess, Meredith was fresh from coital bliss with McDreamy, in an empty room at the hospital, no less. And sweet, kind, too-good-for-her Finn (Chris O'Donnell) was lovingly beckoning to her.
But after one and a half seasons of penance, has Addison been punished enough? Sure, she cheated on her husband - with his best friend. And yes, that may have driven him into the arms of another woman. But how much longer will she be chastened by guilt now that they're both guilty?
So, who should end up with whom? Herewith, the anatomy of this triangle's two female sides.
Marisa Guthrie
Addison Shepherd
What we love about her: She cheated! On television, the philandering-spouse role is usually reserved for men. But Addison shows a kind of independence and devil-may-care indulgence that every woman can cheer for. And having paid her debt - by witnessing her husband's affair - she's trying to save her marriage. There's something noble (if misguided) about that. Plus, she's also a neonatal surgeon. What job could be nobler?
What makes us cringe: Well ... she cheated. Viewers aren't programmed to overlook such indiscretions in TV heroines. And she's a touch too noble. Worse than her cheating may be her putting up with his cheating.
Why she and Derek wouldn't work: He probably doesn't love her, given all that she's done, and all he's done in response.
Why they would: Unlike Meredith, she's an adult. And they've both strayed, so they can scratch that off the "marriage inevitables" list. Then it can be smooth - if uneventful - sailing into the sunset.
Meredith Grey
What we love about her: She's real. She's utterly flawed. She's striving. And the fact that she gave in to lust and hooked up with McDreamy yet again in the season finale makes Meredith - much to the postfeminist collective chagrin - totally relatable.
What makes us cringe: Her mopey, self-indulgent side. Her inability to make a decision. Her lack of self-control. Her painfully obvious self-destructive streak. And her sloppy sexuality - why, again, did she hook up with George (played by T.R. Knight)?
Why she and Derek wouldn't work: She doesn't know what she wants, which means she's sure to break his heart. She seems predisposed to do the wrong thing (sleeping with George, if it has to be said again ...). She's selfish. And there's a distinct possibility that she longs for McDreamy precisely because she knows in her heart that he's the wrong choice.
Why they would: There's only one reason, and fans will have to wait to see if it's true: McDreamy is hopelessly, dumb-struck, slack-jawed, no-one-else-exists in love with her.
Originally published on September 10, 2006
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thanks for the article! obviously the person who wrote this likes addison better b/c they listed 5 reasons why they don't like Meredith! 
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I'm wicked excited too!
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^i know!!!! and now NBC has permenatnly moved The Office to 8:30! We can watch both of them now!!!!
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What time does it start on thur?
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9:00 I believe but I'm not sure 
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^ Thanks a lot.
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tonights the night!
5 out of Grey's cast had a tragic life
How life imitates art, no wonder they put alot of emotion into their roles, especially Katherine.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/454261p-382283c.html
5 out of Grey's cast had a tragic life
How life imitates art, no wonder they put alot of emotion into their roles, especially Katherine. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/454261p-382283c.html
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I'm so excited for tonight! Me and my girlfriends having a little Grey's premiere party, complete with martini's! Should be fun!
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^ aww that sounds great. Have fun!
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We're doing that too! 
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