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"By all accounts, if you&amp;amp;#8217;ve interviewed someone multiple times, it&amp;amp;#8217;s easy to become a tad&amp;amp;#8212;dare I say it&amp;amp;#8212;bored, and feel like you know everything about them. And if you don&amp;amp;#8217;t care for them personally? Well, then forgetaboutit. But Private Practice star Paul Adelstein? I&amp;amp;#8217;ll interview him every day of the damn week. Why? Because our interviews aren&amp;amp;#8217;t just interviews; they&amp;amp;#8217;re conversations. As in, hilarious, &amp;amp;#8216;this is not work&amp;amp;#8217; conversations. And the reason they&amp;amp;#8217;re conversations is because Adelstein is engaging, charismatic, witty, and best of all, not afraid to make fun of me (truth be told, it goes both ways). Maybe it&amp;amp;#8217;s the fact that we&amp;amp;#8217;re both super cool kids (well, him at least; I&amp;amp;#8217;m still very much a dork) from the Midwest who appreciates Jewish humor. Or the fact that I know he trusts me in my work, and vice versa. Or the fact that he&amp;amp;#8217;s simply one of the nicest, most approachable people you&amp;amp;#8217;ll ever meet. Adelstein might have more of an edge than Dr. Cooper Freedman does, but his heart is just as golden. Adelstein [pronounced Ay-del-stine] invited me to the set of Private Practice last week (which included a drop-by visit by the stunningly gorgeous and super cool KaDee Strickland [Charlotte, Coop&amp;amp;#8217;s wife]) for more fun talk, including the highly emotional upcoming episode he&amp;amp;#8217;s directing, the album [All The Details] that drops today (seriously, go buy it NOW), and why if I convince him enough, we&amp;amp;#8217;re both going on the road with Tina Turner. Don&amp;amp;#8217;t worry, Mrs. Adelstein, we&amp;amp;#8217;ll bring you on the road too. :) But first, a little bit more about the dashing Adelstein: Age: 42 Hometown: Chicago, IL [Friends first: Adelstein used to wait tables with co-star Kate Walsh when they both lived in Chicago!] College: Bowdoin (north of Portland, ME). He majored in English, minored in Music, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Betta Kappa. Career History: Currently starring as Dr. Cooper Freedman on Private Practice; Past TV roles include Agent Kellerman on Prison Break, in addition to ER, Without A Trace, Medium, Hack, Scrubs, Law &amp;amp; Order; Film credits include the fast-talking record producer Hy Gordon opposite John Travolta and Uma Thurman in Be Cool, the sequel to Get Shorty; and the character of Wrigley, George Clooney&amp;amp;#8217;s loyal sidekick in the Coen Brother&amp;amp;#8217;s Intolerable Cruelty, among others. Music Man: Adelstein is the songwriter/singer in the band, Doris (see below for more details). He also recorded and toured with David Singer and the Sweet Science and the Poncey Lads. Relationship Status: Married to actress Liza Weil (Gilmore Girls), 1 daughter And now, for the interview: The TV show&amp;amp;#8212;aside from Private Practice&amp;amp;#8212;that I&amp;amp;#8217;m obsessed with is: music! Oh, wait, you asked for TV show. [laughs] Ok, Breaking Bad. My DVR is almost full due to this show or movie: Sound FX from the NFL Network when they mic up the players and you can hear them. They&amp;amp;#8217;re doing like a whole playoff retrospective. And then Luck and Louie. The album I&amp;amp;#8217;ve always been obsessed with is: Oh, there&amp;amp;#8217;s so many. The Beatles &amp;amp;#8220;White Album.&amp;amp;#8221; Amie Mann&amp;amp;#8217;s &amp;amp;#8220;Bachelor #2.&amp;amp;#8221; The website(s) I must visit every day are: Daily Beast, Salon, Daily Swarm, which is a music round-up thing. It&amp;amp;#8217;s great, very snarky. My weirdest or most unusual Hollywood moment: There&amp;amp;#8217;s been so many! I had this great moment where I was on the phone with a friend of mine, and I was obsessed with the movie Diner growing up and everybody knew I was obsessed with the movie Diner. I&amp;amp;#8217;d watch it twice a week all through high school. There was a diner we all went to, and it was open 24 hours, and we&amp;amp;#8217;d have French fries and gravy, etc. etc. I have a friend, Amy Landecker, who played Paul Reiser&amp;amp;#8217;s wife on The Paul Reiser Show, and she was working with Paul, and I was working with Tim Daly. And then I know Paul, because I&amp;amp;#8217;ve met him a few times. So Amy&amp;amp;#8217;s working with Paul. I&amp;amp;#8217;m working with Tim Daly. Kevin Bacon is directing The Closer next door, and Daniel Stern is directing The Paul Reiser Show, and me and Amy are on the phone, and we&amp;amp;#8217;re like each standing next to all the guys from Diner at once. That was really kind of cool. I talk to Tim Daly about Diner all the time. But I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t talk to Kevin Bacon about it. If I could eat one food without gaining weight, it would be: bagels. Cultural stereotype? I guess, but yeah, bagels. Any kind. I could eat raw bagels, uncooked. Onion bagels. 24 hours a day. And I&amp;amp;#8217;d also go with pretzels. The sports team I&amp;amp;#8217;m most obsessed with is: The Cleveland Browns. The athlete I&amp;amp;#8217;d most like to meet is: Well, I met [Michael] Jordan. Did you really? Yeah, I did a commercial with him. Get out of here! Back in the day at the height of the [Chicago] Bulls. It was for World Com. I was barely in the scene with him, but then they had me stick around and do improv with him because they needed someone else on the other end of the phone with him. Didn&amp;amp;#8217;t go well. But anyway, I guess I&amp;amp;#8217;d say Jordan. Derrick Rose [also]. Oh, and Bill Russell. My wife [actress Liza Weil] makes fun of me for: everything. [I always say], &amp;amp;#8220;I have stuff to do. I have so much stuff to do.&amp;amp;#8221; And then she&amp;amp;#8217;s like, &amp;amp;#8220;you&amp;amp;#8217;re not doing anything. You&amp;amp;#8217;re puttering.&amp;amp;#8221; How has having a child changed you? It magnifies everything. It&amp;amp;#8217;s a great thing. The best advice I ever got was: Be your own man. The career path I secretly want to take is: spy. Do you really? No. I want to be Tina Turner&amp;amp;#8217;s back up singer. Me too! Professional athlete. Pro-football or pro-basketball. Linebacker or two guard [aka Shooting Guard]. What I most admire about Cooper is: his heart. His passion for taking care of children. What I most wish I could change about Cooper is: I think there&amp;amp;#8217;s a . . . I think he can be quite stubborn. And a little myopic about certain things. The co-star that cracks me up the most is: Taye [Diggs]. He&amp;amp;#8217;s just hilariously funny. And Kate [Walsh]. They&amp;amp;#8217;re both so quick and so funny. And they are those people that when they say &amp;amp;#8216;cut,&amp;amp;#8217; can go from the most serious scene and come up with a quip that makes everyone fall down laughing. I could go bankrupt buying: musical instruments. Guitars. The fun fact people would get a kick out of knowing about me: Hmmmm. That I&amp;amp;#8217;m tall? But that&amp;amp;#8217;s not really a fun fact. I had six wisdom teeth. All of them had to be pulled. And then I found out I had a bleeding disorder, but not till I got my wisdom teeth out when I was 21. That was no fun. Um, my parents are second cousins. It&amp;amp;#8217;s perfectly legal. They met when they were 18 and 16 respectively. They met as cousins, but I think that their parents designed it for them to be together. The twitter account I must follow is: Josh Malina. [@JoshMalina] He&amp;amp;#8217;s hilarious! I&amp;amp;#8217;ll tweet you back if . . . you buy my album! [Editor&amp;amp;#8217;s Note: Extra points if you use #DorisMusic] Adelstein&amp;amp;#8217;s newest album, All The Details from his band, Doris, drops today. The CD [available on vinyl too], which features Adelstein on vocals, is &amp;amp;#8220;a rock record. It&amp;amp;#8217;s the style of Randy Newman, early Elton John, and Paul Simon.&amp;amp;#8221; It ranges from &amp;amp;#8220;heartfelt contemplation to folk storytelling to sympathetic satire.&amp;amp;#8221; Available on iTunes or www.DorisMusic.net. Follow Adelstein on twitter @AdelsteinPaul, as well as on Facebook, and don&amp;amp;#8217;t forget to check out the music video to Ladybug Luck, available on the new album, by clicking here. Stay tuned for more Q&amp;amp;A from Adelstein on March 15th. . that&amp;amp;#8217;s when his second episode directing Private Practice airs, and trust me, you won&amp;amp;#8217;t want to miss it. More TV Exclusive Interviews: *5 Questions with Suburgatory&amp;#x27;s Jeremy Sisto *Obsessed Q&amp;amp;A with Modern Family&amp;#x27;s Sarah Hyland *Obsessed Q&amp;amp;A with Revenge star Christa B. Miller Thanks Paul! Photo: Doris Music Photo: Paul Adelstein Photo: Getty Images Photo: Jessica Radloff Photo: Richard Cartwright/ABC Photo: Andrew MacPherson/ABC"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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