Soap Opera Weekly, 05/11/99
Moonlighting: Where Stars Shine After Work
AW's David Andrew Macdonald: Off To The Races


DAVID ANDREW MACDONALD (Jordan/David, Another World) sheds his frightening facade and takes on serious business in Paramour, a special for American Movie Classics. The four-part series delves into the degeneration of a horse-racing magazine run by executive editor Robert Brandt (Macdonald), and features Jennifer Roszell (Eleni, Guiding Light) as a business adversary and possible love interest.
"It is about a tabloid magazine during the second World War in Los Angeles," Macdonald explains. "All the men are off at war and the magazine is suffering horribly."
Unbeknownst to Brandt, who spends more time in the bedroom than the boardroom, the publication has begun detailing the lives of movie stars. "The owner of the magazine, who is my uncle, is played by Joe Sirola (Gino Soleito, The City). He brings in a new, crackerjack editor from the Midwest who made a whole lot of lawn and garden magazines really successful. And of course, when the editor shows up, it's Jennifer Roszell."
Brandt doesn't like competition, "and is doing everything he can to get this woman out of the way and get back his horse-racing magazine. They do not get along because she is very brass-tacks and he is more of a whimsical guy," he adds. "But, of course, they are developing big crushes on each other."
Macdonald and Roszell hit it off immediately. "The (casting directors) eventually narrowed it down to me and Jennifer, because every time we walked into the room to rehearse a scene, we just sort of got each other giggling. She's terribly funny. And they said, 'Oh, they have great chemistry, let's go for it.'"--Jenifer Barend