Issue Date: November 11, 2007
While most actors impress us with tales of trips to exotic islands or trendy European cities, D.B. Woodside, star of CBS's "Viva Laughlin," does it with his love of train travel. "I recommend doing it from the East Coast to the West Coast. As you start to leave [the East], everything starts to open up. It gives you freedom," says Woodside, 38. "Maybe it's what the settlers felt as they were traveling westward." With a resume of great TV parts, including President Wayne Palmer on 24, Woodside says he'd like to return to his native New York for a Broadway role. "I would love to have done "A Raisin in the Sun," but they had P. Diddy. That was interesting."
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Q: I see that former NBC anchor Alexis Glick is on the new Fox Business Network. How did she end up with that job?
Alexis Glick is on the new Fox Business Network.
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Max Robinson, Hayward, Calif.
Glick was ready for a challenge when Fox boss Roger Ailes invited her to talk. She told him she missed running a business; she had more than eight years of experience on Wall Street. Now she is VP of Fox Business News, plus she is the co-anchor of its morning show. "I get in at the crack of dawn. The first part of the day will be about the show. ... The second part of the day, I can focus on the channel." Glick, 35, a married mom of three boys (5, 3, and 10 months), is a "sportsaholic." She jokes that she told Ailes, "The truth is, I want to do the NFL pre-game show."
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When newly svelte Kimberley Locke decided to record her new Christmas album, out last Tuesday, she knew it would include the beautiful "Mary, Did You Know?" Locke, an "American Idol" Season 2 finalist, grew up singing in Key Stewart United Methodist Church in Gallatin, Tenn., and members ask her to sing the special hymn when she goes home each holiday. "I knew if I didn't put 'Mary, Did You Know?' on my album, my church would hunt me down," Locke, 29, says, affectionately adding, "The church family doesn't understand the impact they have had on me."
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Q: I am an Oprah fan, but when I heard that she has a boyfriend, I wasn't sure it was true.
Jillian Craven, Boston
When you hear Oprah say, "Oh, Stedman would love this," or "I'm going to make these for Stedman," she's talking about longtime love Stedman Graham. However, she continues to profess her lack of desire to marry or have kids. Graham told us last year that that's fine with him.
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Q: Whose familiar voice announces "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric?" I say it's Walter Cronkite. My husband says no. There's $100 riding on this.
Kathy Sylvester, Manchester, Conn.
Collect, Kathy. You win. That is, indeed, Walter Cronkite announcing the show. The American icon has been doing the voiceover for "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" since she debuted on Sept. 5, 2006, as a nod to the long history of the news show. Cronkite, of course, anchored that news program from 1962 to 1981.
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Kevin McKidd, 34, has been a bit on pins and needles since the debut of his NBC show, "Journeyman." It wasn't a hit with audiences right out of the gate, but he has been working on it since the summer, so naturally he's invested. He sees it as "very emotional, very intense, very romantic." It is about time-travel, yes, but also about "journeys and making choices." He says this all in a charming Scottish brogue that makes you want to throw back a couple of shots of whiskey with him. He grew up in distillery country in the Scottish Highlands. He lives in L.A. now, and he'll be fine if "Journeyman" doesn't work out. He has already wrapped a movie with Patrick Dempsey for spring, "Made of Honor," and is in talks for a part in the movie "Thor."
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Q: I'm a military spouse, and I adore the drama "Army Wives." Please tell me it's being picked up for a second season.
Rebecca Hall, Stuarts Draft, Va.
Lifetime's most successful series ever will return next spring with 19 episodes, up from last season's 13. "There will be more opportunity to flesh out the characters," says creator Katherine Fugate. When we spoke, Fugate, 42, was on her way to spend time with some real Army wives at Virginia's Fort Belvoir. Fugate says they are "the unsung heroes," and they feel we have "shined a light on what they're doing at home ... their sacrifices." What they don't like: stereotypical portrayals of military wives having affairs.
Contributing: Gayle Jo Carter, Caren Oppenheim
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BIRTHDAYS
November 11: Leonardo DiCaprio, 33; Calista Flockhart, 43; Demi Moore, 45
November 12: Anne Hathaway, 25; Ryan Gosling, 27; Cote de Pablo, 28; Sammy Sosa, 39; Megan Mullally, 49
November 13: Jimmy Kimmel, 40; Chris Noth, 53
November 14: Josh Duhamel, 35; D.B. Sweeney, 46; Prince Charles, 59
November 15: Kevin Eubanks, 50
November 16: Maggie Gyllenhaal, 30; Marg Helgenberger, 49
November 17: Daisy Fuentes, 41; Lorne Michaels, 63; Danny DeVito, 63; Martin Scorsese, 65
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