Christina Rich

Actors Rich Sommer (Harry Crane), Robert Morse (Bertram Cooper), Christina Hendricks (Joan Holoway), and January Jones (Betty Draper) talk about reactions to their characters.

Billy (Andre Frauenstein ) is a sensitive, handsome young vampire who spends his nights prowling the city haunts with his friends. They appear to lead a charmed life, owning the night and partaking in the rich social life that the city offers. However, Billy is lonely and yearns for the one true love who will give meaning to his solitary life. When he meets Jenny (Rikki Brest), a beautiful and charming human girl at a nightclub, he is immediately smitten. His easy charm and gentlemanly manner draw Jenny to him and, despite all attempts by Billy s ex-girlfriend Lisa (Christina Storm), to scupper the budding relationship, Jenny falls for him. It seems that destiny has favoured both of them. But all is not what is appears in the twilight world of the vampires. Jenny s father, Tevis Shapiro (Ian Roberts), a human scientist researching a cure for the human HIV/Aids virus accidentally produces a serum that will enable vampires to survive the sun s rays and share the daylight with humans. This leads to a clash between the vampire clan leaders Constantine (Gys de Villiers), a traditionalist who is against the serum and Borlak (David James) a power-hungry upstart who is determined to lead the vampires out of the shadows and into the light so that they can walk with the humans. All-out war ensues between Billy and Borlak when Jenny s mother, Lilian Shapiro (Brumilda van Rensburg), is murdered and her father Tevis is abducted by Borlak s henchmen. In a race against time, Billy teams up with vampire hunter, Detective Joe Kau (Hlomla Dandala), to defeat Borlak, free Tevis and claim the hand of the girl he loves.

May 13: Christina Brinkley of The Wall Street Journal explains why the recession has forced millions of Americans to learn to live with less.