How does she do it all?

During the last 14 months, Afre Woodard has made three movies, started a series, tubthumped continually across the country for Barack Obama, and "been there for my daughter's horse shows and all that," she says.

How has she managed all that?

"I don't sleep a lot," explains the distinguished actress. "I can sleep next year."

Thus far, she says, she's covered "every state but Montana" for the Democratic presidential candidate.

If anything takes precedence over her political activities, for the actress who's earned Emmys for "The Practice," "Hill Street Blues," "L.A. Law" and the TV movie "Miss Evers' Boys," it's being part of the lives of her son Duncan and daughter Mavis.

"Nothing makes me happier than being away on holiday with the children and my husband," she says. "I find my greatest excitement is in parenting my kids, and even now as teenagers I'm saying, 'They're at their best stages.'"

She adds that she's been saying the same thing ever since the children she and her husband Roderick Spencer adopted were tots.

Right now Woodard is juggling family activities and political campaigning with work on her NBC "My Own Worst Enemy" series, which debuts Oct. 13, with Christian Slater playing a stay-at-home dad who leads a double life as a super spy and Alfre portraying his boss. The show was picked up on the basis of just one script, and, according to the actress, will be a sure hit with her family.

"There is a lot of intrigue, things blowing up, people getting eliminated — which my son will love. My daughter will think Taylor (Lautner), who plays the son, is hot. And my husband will be covered because the show is smart. And also it's very exciting and crazy and emotional. It's got something for everyone."

FILMLAND FLAIR: The world premiere of "9 to 5: The Musical" at the L.A. Music Center turned out to be a love fest for Dolly Parton, the show's composer/lyricist, and for Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, her co-stars from the 1980 "9 to 5" big screen hit. Each of the women received a standing ovation the other night when they entered the Ahmanson Theatre, with the applause for Dolly growing even stronger when she led the crowd in a singalong during an unplanned Act One break caused by the malfunction of the set's equipment (the same problem that had occurred during previews of the show that's slated for Broadway next spring.) Dolly had the crowd howling with laughter when she noted that she had been asked why Jane, Lily and she weren't starring in the musical (rather than Allison Janney, Stephanie J. Block and Megan Hilty) and she quipped, "It's because people are coming to see '9 to 5' — not 95!"

Fonda and Tomlin sat next to Dolly in the auditorium, part of an all-star crowd that included Dabney Coleman, David Hyde Pierce, Jason Alexander, Lance Bass, Gabriel Byrne, Joel Grey, Blythe Danner, producer George Schlatter and Doris Roberts. Fonda zipped through the red carpet without answering a question from the media. Parton, on the other hand, seemed to enjoy every moment of the limelight, even making a special appearance at the entrance of the theatre to check out a Dolly look-alike who had stationed herself near the media crowd. The women — with their overblown hair, oversized breasts and hourglass waists — looked remarkably alike, and Parton seemed to love it.

UH-OH: Seth Green has proven to be one of young Hollywood's busiest actors, and he tells us he takes his work very seriously. "I don't go out too much. I work a lot. Every day I'm hustling," he says with a laugh. Green seems to save his wilder antics for the big screen, as can be seen with his latest project alongside buddy Clark Duke, who stars in "Greek." "We made a movie called 'Sex Drive' coming out Oct. 17. It's a hilarious R-rated comedy," Green wants us to know. But just how far do they push the envelope? "There's all sorts of crazy stuff in it — sex, language, nudity, violence, inappropriate behavior. Clark even gets a little naked in it," he adds. "We were excited to get to do this together, and it was on camera, which makes it different than the work we did on 'Robot Chicken' together."

GIRLS GOT SEOUL: Dance choreographer Shane Sparks tells us he wants to take dancing to the next level in his plan to create dance videos to be played on music channels across the world. "It's not going to be just an artist doing a video with choreography in it. I'm talking about real dance videos so the edit is based around the choreography and not the artist. I'm going to be the first to do that. It's going to be the biggest thing on Earth," says the confident judge on the MTV show "America's Best Dance Crew." In fact, he's creating a lot of firsts, including working on the Dreamgirls Broadway revival. "We'll be adding a little hip-hop flavor to it this time, and with a whole Korean cast. They're going to be singing Jennifer Holiday's stuff in Korean, so it's going to be kind of weird to see that and hear that, but it will be exciting."

With reports by Emily Feimster.

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