November 2008

Nearly an hour into my chat with Brotherhood star Jason Isaacs, I’ve learned this much about Season 3 of the Peabody Award-winning Showtime series: There will be a scene in which his character, Michael Caffee, drives his car down the road at a ferocious rate of speed. I know this because the actor has sequestered himself inside said vehicle between takes to do our interview. And as our allotted 15 minutes has long since come and gone, I also learn that the crew is peering impatiently at him through the windshield. And so, until the new season premieres Nov. 2, […]

Taylor Swift may have been born two years after Def Leppard released its best-selling album, 1987’s massively successful Hysteria, but don’t you dare question her fan credibility. She’s been listening to the band since birth — even earlier, in fact. Needless to say, the 18-year-old country star, whose self-titled debut has sold more than 3 million copies since its release in October 2006, is as excited as anyone that she’ll be sharing a stage with her hard-rock heroes during CMT Crossroads: Def Leppard and Taylor Swift, premiering Nov. 7 on CMT. We spoke with Swift, as well as Def Leppard […]

It’s the kind of role that would appeal to almost anybody: a female con artist in the Old West. By necessity, it invites the almost automatic appeal of undeniably romantic elements — the period clothes, the horses, carriages, six-shooters and echoes of a simpler time. But more than anything else, it was the adventure that drew Daphne Zuniga to her role in Hallmark Channel’s Mail Order Bride. “I was thinking, ‘What kind of part do I want to play?’ and I really got honest with myself,” she recalls. “I thought, ‘I want to do an adventure. I want to do […]