For Olivia Newton-John, the holidays mean family. "I get together with my sister," she tells me. "We usually cook the same dishes each year." She also has fond memories of singing Christmas carols around the piano with her father. So it's fitting that she has recorded holiday albums. Her second, "Christmas Wish," is out this year. Along with traditional carols are new songs with guest vocalists Barry Manilow, Jon Secada and Michael McDonald. Newton-John, 59, is a breast cancer survivor who is passionate about women's health. Women put themselves second, she says, but "without you, nothing is going to happen."

Q: CBS' new drama "Moonlight" didn't get much attention when the new season launched. I really like the star. Tina Montiel, Sun City, Ariz.

You're not the only one who appreciates Alex O'Loughlin. The 31-year-old Aussie tried out for James Bond, which ultimately went to Daniel Craig. "I wasn't ready," he says. "In five years, I'll be a great Bond." O'Loughlin, whose girlfriend is Australian singer and actress Holly Valance, was in FX's "The Shield." He says that Hollywood is filled with Aussies because Down Under "there's not enough work to sustain us all."

Megyn Price, 36, plays married with no children on CBS' "Rules of Engagement," but in real life she's a new mom -- daughter Grace is 5 months -- and she's loving every second. On TV she's a New York working woman who has a lovable lug of a husband. At home she lives a suburban L.A. life and is married to an ER doctor. The interesting thing is, she might have been a journalist. A graduate of Stanford, she thought that was the path she would take until "a friend told me I was happiest when I was acting." And that she is, although at press time, the writers' strike meant she wasn't actually working. Of course, Price was hoping that the strike wouldn't last long, but "I'll look at it as some maternity leave," she says.