Sighting 6

November 15, La Poubelle: Sandra Oh having dinner with a small group of friends. None of this "please don't let me be seen by the masses" crap for her. Oh no, she was sitting at the first table inside the door, clearly enjoying the food and the company. I get the feeling that she goes there often since not a single person (but me) paid any notice she was there. Telling a story of some kind that required lots of waving and arm movements, but everyone was enthralled. She looks EXACTLY like she does on TV but with a bigger head; but that could have been the poufy hair.

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People: Caught in the Act!

Grey's Anatomy's Sandra Oh, watching Canadian rock outfit Stars in concert from her gold-gilded private balcony perch at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. Dressed casually in a black turtleneck and jeans, Oh sported the oddest accessory for a chilly November evening – a vintage-looking hand fan, which she used to casually cool herself. But when the band began, the actress and her friends stood, clapped and danced along.

Source: People Magazine

Out Magazine: Oh, Sandra!

Interview with Sandra Oh from Out magazine, originally published in June, 2006

The sassy Golden Globe winner talks about closeted actors and why same-sex marriage (and pot) should be legal! 

by Jeffrey Epstein 

In Out’s June Hot Issue, Sandra Oh is Hottest Gay Icon in the Making. In exclusive outtakes from our chat with the actress, best-known these days for playing the acerbic Dr. Christina Yang on Grey’s Anatomy, talks about her late-blooming sexuality and why she understands people who stay in the closet. 

Have you always felt the gay love? 

I don’t know when that started really happening. That’s when you really get a sense of who’s watching. I have always felt it as a presence, but for real I did Diana Son’s play Stop Kiss at the Public in ’99. I have played a lot of gay characters in theater before, but this was the first piece of theater that a lot of people saw. And then Under the Tuscan Sun, too, there was a lot more notice. But it’s grown as my career has grown. It’s good love to have. 

Why do you think the gays love Christina? 

I like the fact that she’s someone who is their own person who is bucking a lot of things. But the wittiness, her sense of humor, comes from a beautifully arrogant and insecure place. I like that about her. I find it fascinating. I think you have to be a fairly aware person to play someone who is deeply unaware. 

When you played gay in Under the Tuscan Sun did anyone—including your “people”—advise against doing that? 

No. And if anyone said that, I wouldn’t have paid attention anyway. I have no one around me who would say anything like that. Half of Hollywood is gay—at least the people I run into! I’m not a person whose sexuality is so much of their personae. I understand it’s a very personal decision for actors, if they’re gay, whatever they want to do with that info, I understand. If you’re successfully seen as some hot guy and you’re hired to be the hot guy, and because of where and how we live you decide to stay in the closet because who you are might alienate your audience… if that’s important to you, that’s important. But I don’t have that pressure to fulfill a certain type of archetypal thing in society. There’s no pressure. 

Your home country of Canada has legalized gay marriage. How did you feel when you heard that? 

Oh, so proud! Legalizing things that make people get along better: pot and gay marriage. What’s the big deal? Live and let live. If you want to love who you want to love, go ahead! 

Have you always had gay people in your life? 

I guess so. I didn’t notice until I left home and went to theater school. I think I was really a late bloomer in a lot of my sexual consciousness. I’m ultimately happy with my development.

Strike! Again.

The Writers Guild of America strike continues. More pictures of Sandra Oh and the rest of the Grey's cast joining the writers on the picket line.



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Strikewatch: Grey's Stars Speak Out

"Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Management can’t write the show!"

"Webisodes and DVD, we won’t write ‘em, not for free!"

These were the choice chants of the picketing members of the Writers Guild of America today at Prospect Studios in Los Angeles—and some of our Seattle Grace favorites, who were shooting Grey's Anatomy inside the studio, spent their hourlong lunchbreak on the picket line to show their support. In attendance were Patrick Dempsey, Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh, T.R. Knight, Katherine Heigl, Eric Dane, Sara Ramirez, Brooke Smith, Justin Chambers and James Pickens, Jr., and here's what they said...

"We want to support these writers and what they do," Mr. Pickens (the Chief) told us. "They are the artists behind the words that the actors and performers speak every week. They’re the ones who have made this show such a huge success. It’s just incredible what they’ve done over the past four seasons. They should be compensated for their talent. They just want an equitable share of this huge pie."

"If the fans want to support the actors and the writers, do not download shows on the internet," Ellen Pompeo suggested. "Don’t watch them. Because the writers aren't paid for them."

As for how much longer we'll get our Grey's fix, Ellen explains: "Episode seven airs this week. So we just have a few more left, and then there will be no new episodes of Grey’s Anatomy. I think everybody’s really worried. You know, the actors don’t have as much to worry about obviously, we’re very well compensated for what we do. It’s the crew that has a lot to worry about. This affects everybody, and they can’t afford to have four or five months off. It’s Christmas, they have mortgages."

"The thing is, I watch a lot of TV on the internet," Katherine Heigl confessed. "I download everything, including my own stuff, when I’m sitting at home, when I’m on set, I can watch it on my laptop for free on ABC.com, or NBC.com or any [of the sites]. And they’re definitely putting in commercials, they’re putting in big blocks of advertising time and they’re making money off re-airing these episodes online. When an episode airs more than once on television, the actors and the writers and the directors get residuals for that. And right now, the [studios] are allowed to repeat these shows [online] for the people that didn’t catch them the night before without giving out a fair share of the profits."

As Katherine, Ellen and Sandra point out, this is really also an issue for the actors, whose current SAG contract will come up for review in June.

"We're fighting the same fight," Sandra said, just before the cast's lunch hour came to an end and she was called back to set.

The cast will continue shooting until they complete the 11th episode until Tuesday, when production is expected to shut down. Grey's writers and show runners have been picketing and not working since Monday.

Source: Eonline

"Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Management can’t write the show!"

AP: 'Grey's Anatomy' cast joins Hollywood writers on picket line

LOS ANGELES: The cast of the top-rated medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" joined striking Hollywood writers on a picket line.

Stars Patrick Dempsey, Ellen Pompeo, Katherine Heigl and Sandra Oh spent their lunch breaks Wednesday outside the Prospect Studios, where "Grey's" is filmed.

"This matter is way too important not only for our writers but ultimately everyone who makes movies, everyone who makes entertainment here in this town and again for the rest of the world," said Oh, who plays Dr. Cristina Yang.

Other cast members included Justin Chambers, James Pickens Jr., Sara Ramirez, Eric Dane and Katherine Heigl, who portrays Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens.

"You've got to have a story," Heigl said. "You've got to have a story in order to perform anything, to have any ideas on where to go and what to do, and where the character, story lines, arcs, everything. They're everything. We can't do it without them."

The strike began Monday after negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers failed to produce a deal on how much writers are paid when shows are offered on the Internet.

"It's really a big tragedy to be out here striking at all," said Dempsey, who plays Dr. Derek Shepherd. "I think there are going to be a lot of people affected by this, that have families, that live paycheck to paycheck, that upsets me profoundly. But at the same time, I do feel that the writers deserve a better break on the deals they have been getting."

The "Grey's" cast said it was shooting scenes for its last scripted episode.

"We're supposed to be going until the end of May and right now our last shooting day will be Tuesday or Wednesday," said T.R. Knight, or Dr. George O'Malley on the show. "As actors, we're paid a different way than the writers, but there's also the crew to keep in mind. They are out of work as of next Wednesday."

USA Today: IsThere A Doctor In The House?

Writers Guild of America on Strike

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Most of the cast of "Grey's Anatomy" spent its lunch hour today picketing outside ABC Prospect Studios, where the popular drama is filmed. Among the actors showing their support of their writers were Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, T.R. Knight, Katherine Heigl, Sandra Oh, Justin Chambers, Sara Ramirez, James Pickens Jr., Eric Dane and Brooke Smith.

"We were all working because we have to, but we wanted to show our support," Knight said. "It's all very disturbing. There are a lot of families that are going to be affected by this."

"Grey's" is in the middle of producing its 11th episode and will shut down Tuesday or Wednesday when it's done, Knight said. He estimated at least 250 people work on the show, including the crew.

"This affects a lot of families because they're not making the same salaries that the series regulars make," he said. It's a very different story, "but it's clear that what is happening is not fair and it's the only option. It's a scary option. Hopefully it will be effective."

Source: USA Today, Yahoo.

The Paley Festival: Panel Discussion with the Cast of Grey's - February 28, 2006

"This William S. Paley Television Festival seminar honors Grey's Anatomy, a dramatic series about five surgical interns at Seattle Grace Hospital.

This panel discussion includes show creator Shonda Rhimes; executive producers Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Peter Horton, James D. Parriott, and Krista Vernoff; and cast members Justin Chambers, Patrick Dempsey, Katherine Heigl, T.R. Knight, Sandra Oh, James Pickens Jr., Ellen Popeo, Kate Walsh, and Isaiah Washington.

The discussion includes how Rhimes began writing in television, why she chose to focus on surgeons, what it is like to work a mainly female writing team, and where the show's medical stories originate. The actors explain how they were cast in the show and how much of their characters' quriky traits are based on their own personalities.

For more great discussions with the stars and creators of today's hit televion programs, search for 'Paley Center' on iTunes. New episodes are added all the time." -- iTunes Store

The entire interview is now available on iTunes where you can download it for free. The free download is available until November 13.

Free download - Link

Peek-A-Boo!

An intoxicated looking, shy Sandra Oh leaving Kate Walshs birthday party at Parc nightclub in Hollywood, CA.

Kate Walsh celebrated the big 4-0 on Saturday night with a bash at Hollywood hot spot Parc.

The evening started off with dinner for 36 people, including her Private costar Taye Diggs and her former Grey’s Anatomy costars Justin Chambers, Sandra Oh and Sara Ramirez. The menu included crab cakes, artichoke fritters and spring rolls, and filet mignon, salmon and seabass entrees.

Later on, about 70 more friends showed up for minipizzas and Kobe burgers. Jaime Pressly’s fiancé, Eric Cubiche, deejayed. Walsh & Co. didn’t head home until closing time at 2 a.m.


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