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76 BRANDY VELA After months of being bullied online, an 18-year-old kills herself in front of her family

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break” the agreement that grants Jolie custody of 2016 in a far different place than where they Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10, and started. Heading into the holidays, the exes have 8-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox, with ramped up their legal strategies as they therapist-supervised visitation for Pitt.

‘BRAD WANTS TO continue to wrangle over custody of their “Angie has been by the kids’ side nonstop DO WHAT IS IN six children. On Dec. 2, Jolie, 41, filed since this happened,” says the source.

THE BEST court documents outlining her current “Their health and well-being has been her INTEREST OF HIS agreement with Pitt, 53, which has been in only priority. She hasn’t traveled, and she CHILDREN AND HIS ENTIRE place since shortly after their surprise delayed completing [her new film] First FAMILY, split in September. A source close to the They Killed My Father. Angie also hasn’t INCLUDING situation says that Pitt’s team “forced [the been the one to keep Brad from seeing the [ANGELINA]’ —INSIDER Dec. 2] filing by trying repeatedly to kids. It hasn’t been her choice. She has PEOPLE December 26, 2016

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Shiloh, Vivienne, But another insider notes Knox, Zahara that there was “zero legal and Pax in January. reason” for Jolie’s filing, which made details of the established agreement even more public.

“The original agreement is temporary and voluntary, and that has not changed in the slightest,” says the insider.

Two days after Jolie’s filing, Pitt—who spent Thanksgiving in Turks and Caicos apart from his kids during a “restful and relaxing getaway,” a source says—requested an emergency hearing to have all divorce documents sealed.

A judge quickly rejected the request. Laura Wasser, Jolie’s attorney, says Pitt’s team did not consult with them before their hearing, which is why she opposed it at the time.

‘EVERYONE Not so, says the insider: “Brad Pitt’s AGREES THE team repeatedly asked Angelina’s CHILDREN CAN ONLY BENEFIT camp to agree to seal custody FROM A HEALTHY, proceedings. Instead, they filed RELATIONSHIP on [Dec. 2] and put the children’s WITH THEIR DAD’ privacy at risk.”

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But the source close to the situation stresses that the family’s privacy, including Pitt’s, remains a priority for Jolie, who filed for divorce on Sept. 15 after two years of marriage and a decadelong romance. Ultimately, the source says, “Everyone agrees the children can only benefit from a healthy relationship with their dad.”—JODI GUGLIELMI

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5. Kate’s tiara and earrings

The men’s knee-high look for the Dec. 8 palace photo also signifies the Order of the Garter, the oldest British chivalry order.

The record-breaking monarch, 90, paired a sapphire-anddiamond tiara with jewels gifted to her by her father, George VI.

The royal dad wore two medals: one for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and the other honoring the Queen’s Golden Jubilee.

Once again, Kate, 34, wore the Cambridge Lover’s Knot tiara, a favorite of Will’s mom Diana. Her earrings are on loan from the Queen.

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6. Kate’s dress She wore the red Jenny Packham to her first-ever state banquet last year. The bracelet was worn by the Queen to her 1947 wedding to Philip.

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Stars like Lady Gaga, Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis and Stevie Wonder will honor the iconic crooner in Tony Bennett Celebrates 90, airing at 9 p.m. ET on NBC on Dec. 20.

Angelson, 30, plays the “sexy, precocious and hardworking” journalist Patti Robinson.

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“We get along great,” Bennett says of pal Lady Gaga (in 2015). Inset: performing ca. 1954.

In 2014 Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley, 36, revealed on his website that he’d nearly died due to years of alcohol abuse, and photos of his frail appearance shocked the music world. Two years later Sum 41 has a new album, and the now sober Whibley has a new lease on life. “I remember thinking, I don’t even know how to get on the phone without h vi ha vn ng at lleasst a drink or two already,” he says. “That was the reaalization of how bad it had gotten.” Whibley, w h wass once married to Avril Lavigne, credits new who f Arriana Cooper and a support system that wife includes Iggy Pop with saving his life—along with h desire to play music. “Putting out a record was his de h only thing that helped me recover quickly. the Id dn’t care about how well it was going to do, did b ause what it was doing was keeping me alive.” beca

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Though Angelson’s character in Good Girls Revolt (now streaming on Amazon) was trying to break the glass ceiling for female journalists in the ’70s, Angelson says that fight isn’t over. “I feel like I’ve been dealing with a rising anger about [inequality] my whole life,” she says. “This show isn’t timely—it’s overdue.”

When the streaming network passed on a second season of the critically acclaimed series, the actress and her costars urged fans to share their love for the show online with the hashtag #SaveGoodGirlsRevolt, which encouraged Sony to start shopping the show to new networks.

No matter the result, Angelson is as motivated as her character is.

“Patti wonders, What can I do for deep fulfillment?

Work. It’s about your own worth and service to the world,” she says.

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A very happy 90th birthday!

How are you feeling?

I’m still wide awake! My doctor likes to kick me out of his office and say, “There’s nothing wrong with you— don’t bother me!” I’m very fortunate.

You’ve been performing for over 70 years. When did you feel as though you’d made it?

I had a wonderful time growing up in Queens and dreaming about coming to the big city to make it—it all happened [in 1962] with my song “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”

Which goals do you still hope to accomplish?

I’d love to do a second album with Lady Gaga. She was performing at a benefit the first time I met her. I told her backstage, “You were terrific! I’d love to do an album with you someday.” She said, “Let’s do it!”

Boom! We’ve been close ever since.

You’re the king of duets—who do you still want to sing with?

Beyoncé. She’s thinking of something to do with me, so we’ll see what happens! —JEFF NELSON

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Though he began his career in music, signing with Jive Records at age 13, the Atlanta-based Latimore, 20, is now making a name for himself as an actor, starring alongside Will Smith and Helen Mirren in the holiday film Collateral Beauty (out now). “It was incredible being around legends,” he says of his celebrated costars.

“They’re all so professional.”

Latimore, who just released his debut album, Connection, says Smith was especially inspiring. “Seeing him interact with his fans, the paparazzi, it’s exactly what I want to be,” he says. “Calm and collected. No one is perfect, but he is the most perfect celebrity I’ve ever met.”

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You’re playing Count Olaf, the villainous As opposed to the 2004 movie, which did the main character in Netflix’s upcoming show first three books in under two hours, we’re A Series of Unfortunate Events. What was covering the first four books in eight hours. it like? Well, I play multiple characters sort of, So we have much more opportunity to be because in each book Olaf comes back in faithful to them. disguise, and the disguise has to be good What’s the best part about playing a bad enough so that people are fooled. Olaf isn’t a guy? I think I was able to be as fearless as I have good person, but he’s a bad actor. So trying to ever been before as an actor, because I was so find that balance was a bit tricky. But all the hidden behind prostheses and had a totally other stuff was super-fun. different look. I got to be as overtly, ridiculously Your costars are child actors, which you mean as possible because Olaf is being seen once were too. Did that make it easier? from the eyes of kids, with no redemptive I’m very protective of adolescent actors. qualities. In the role I look nothing like myself, They have a lot going on in their lives in addition so I really go full dose! —BRITTANY KING to acting. And one tends to be guarded as a kid instead of feeling free to fail, so as Olaf I was willing to embarrass THE myself in any way possible DARK SIDE because I just wanted them “I’m very anxious to see what people think to feel safe to fail. of it!” says Harris of Did they know who you Series. (The show were? I don’t know! I never comes to Netflix asked. I was often covered in on Jan. 13.) makeup telling them what terrible people they were, so I hope I didn’t scar them.

For fans of the books, how true is this series to them? Very true.

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“People aren’t always the easiest to interview, but I wouldn’t have it any other way,” says the longtime host of Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, who has been doing celeb interviews on air for more than 20 years. “I always think, ‘What could I ask them thaa unique?’” —GILLIAN th L AN N TELLING LING LIN L ING that’s MADONNA

JUSTIN BIEBER

She’s a pioneer and always true to herself, but she was one of the most difficult interviews I’ve ever done. She just wouldn’t give a straight answer answ ans wer! we w er! answer!

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MARIAH CAREY

I love being around her, and I love interviewing her because she just comes from another planet. I’ve never had a boring interview with her!

Jay Z is awesome.

Very chill and in control of his surroundings.

You really feel enlightened being around him because he’s so smart.

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It was hard for me to work with the crew at first, and they had to chase me around at times to put the mic on. But now my fans see the truth.

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Ed Sheeran came on and performed an acoustic song, and he made us all cry. To just give our listeners his all, it was truly a beautiful gift.

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THE FRENCH FILM GODDESS IS STILL STEAMING UP THE SCREEN IN ELLE AND THINGS TO COME. BONJOUR, OSCAR?

Newly nominated for a Golden Globe for Elle, Huppert is also likely to get an Oscar nod.

Tell us about playing a videogame exec who plots revenge against her rapist in Elle.

She cannot be defined in any one way.

When bad things happen to her, she wants to take control of them. The audience can only guess why she does what she does. She’s an enigma.

How did you prepare for the role?

[The director] Paul Verhoeven and I never discussed the character.

I felt like I was a sculptor with a huge piece of mud, shaping it in the way I wanted, without any limitations.

He also made the movie Showgirls.

Showgirls is considered a great film in France, as are many of his films that are considered controversial.

That’s what I like about him.

He does nothing to please.

In Things to Come you play a professor whose husband leaves her for a younger woman. Have you experienced ageism?

I don’t feel old, so it’s not an issue for me. I think we are too much obsessed with this question. Men are never questioned this way.

What do you think of our obsession with Frenchwomen, from thinness to bringing up bébé?

I don’t exercise at all, I’m afraid. I walk a lot and I eat simple things. As for raising children, I was never strict.

But I think the grass is always greener.

We also think the same of Americans: having the perfect body and being so efficient. Maybe we’re all the same!

—LIZ McNEIL

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I once had fans knock on my door and ask me if they could watch me sleep.

They were twins, and after we took photos, they ran inside and then asked if they could watch me sleep, promising, “We will be quiet.’’

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I can’t do meet-andgreets at schools.

There are some places I just can’t go to because I’ll get mobbed!

THE LIE 2. “My mom let me travel to New York on my own at 18. I was very surprised! But my family is very happy for me.”

ISABELLE HUPPERT

My mom still won’t let me travel on my own.

She’s superprotective and doesn’t want me to get lost in any of the cities I have to go to.

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Oh, God, she was incredible.

She’s a very giving interview.

She’ll talk and talk. She’s hilarious, engaging—and she’s real. Plus, that talent!

JAY Z

I love him. There was a time when everyone only reported the negative, but what we all forgot is that he is just so incredibly talented.

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THE ENGLISH STARS OF THE AFFAIR GET CANDID ABOUT THEIR COMPLICATED, SEXY DRAMA The Affair is back for year 3! Where are we now in the lives of your characters? I know we time-hop a bit.

WILSON In my storyline

we jump ahead two years, and then in another episode we leap another year, so it’s quite odd. I actually don’t have many scenes with Dominic this year, which is sad because we have great chemistry. And the crux of the series was initially about them, but now it’s more about Dom’s individual decline.

WEST We had one episode together—didn’t we, darling?— which was fun, running around Block Island.

WILSON Yeah, back where it all started.

Brendan Fraser plays a new character this season.

What’s he like?

WEST He’s hilarious. He’s

a comedy genius, but he also plays my tormenter. I think he’s about to experience a huge renaissance.

So many bad things happen as a result of your affair—is the point of the show to not

glamorize infidelity?

WEST Are you suggesting

that if you have an affair you may end up killing someone and wind up in jail with Brendan Fraser?!

WILSON Oh, stop. But yes, I think that’s the overarching theme, that there are consequences to acting outside of your marriage.

But Dominic, despite all the stuff that happens to you, every character still wants to sleep with you!

WEST Then why do you refuse to do the love scenes with me? You always get a body double!

WILSON I’ve done enough of those with you, Dommy!

It’s time to let someone else have a go now.

You’re both from the U.K.— do you hang out when you’re in London?

WEST I’ve never been

invited round. Ruth says weekly, “Oh, you must see my new place in London,” with her fingers crossed firmly behind her back.

WILSON Four months of filming out of the year is enough with you.

I’ve heard many married couples tell you they can’t watch the show together.

WEST They do, and I think

that’s normal. It’s the ones who watch it with their spouses that I worry about!

I watch it with my husband.

WEST Oh, I’m just kidding

then, of course it’s normal.

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BABIES Spy Kids actress Alexa PenaVega, 28, and her husband, former Big Time Rush member Carlos, 27, welcomed their first child—a baby boy named Ocean King—on Dec. 7.

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, 73, welcomed a baby boy with his girlfriend ballerina Melanie Hamrick,, 29,, on Dec. 8.

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wife Vanessa, 34, have welcomed a baby girl. The newborn joins big sisters Natalia, 13, and Gianna, 10.

EXPECTING The Secret Life of Pets star Lake Bell, 37, and her husband, New Yorkbased tattoo artist Scott Campbell, 39, are expecting their second child. The couple are already parents to daughter Nova, 2.

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her husband, Dakota Meyer, 28, are expecting their second child in the spring. The couple are parents to daughter Sailor Grace, 1, while Palin is also mom to son Tripp, 7, from her relationship with ex-fiancé Levi Johnston.

WEDDINGS Pretty Little Liars actress Troian Bellisario, 31, married Suits actor Patrick

Billionaire Jocelyn Wildenstein’s Relationship Troubles The New York socialite and her boyfriend Lloyd Klein have split after being arrested for allegedly assaulting each other

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Following arrests for alleged assault, Jocelyn Wildenstein and her boyfriend of 14 years, fashion designer Lloyd Klein, have separated. Wildenstein, 71, a New York socialite famous for her extensive plastic surgery, first faced second- and thirddegree assault charges for allegedly attacking Klein in their Trump World Tower apartment on Dec. 7. “Wildenstein is accused of scratching his face with her fingernails and using a pair of scissors to cut him on the upper right part of his chest,” a New York Police Department spokesman told People. She was later arraigned and released on her own recognizance, with her attorney Alan Kachalsky saying there are “two sides to each story.” Four days later, on Dec. 11, Klein, 49, was arrested for a “physical altercation” that took place while he was trying to remove “his personal effects” from their apartment, his rep Melanie A. Bonvicino told People. He was arraigned and is expected to appear in court on Jan. 30. Both Klein and Wildenstein now have restraining orders against each other, according to a district attorney’s office spokesman. Wildenstein was previously married for 20 years to billionaire French art dealer Alec Wildenstein. —JESSICA FECTEAU

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Jagger has seven other children from previous relationships: Karis, 46, Jade, 45, Elizabeth, 32, James, 31, Georgia, 24, Gabriel, 19, and Lucas, 17.

The Kitchen’s Marcela Valladolid, 38, and her fiancé, Philip Button, welcomed their second child, a baby girl named Anna Carina, on Dec. 5.

Anna joins big brother David, 20 months, and Fausto, 12, from Valladolid’s previous relationship. Today cohost Savannah Guthrie, 44, and her husband, Michael Feldman, 48, welcomed their second child on Dec. 8.

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ENGAGEMENTS HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Ricky Martin, 45 Dec. 24, 1971 Jordin Sparks, 27 Dec. 22, 1989 Susan Lucci, 70 Dec. 23, 1946

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CRIME Silicon Valley and Office Christmas Party star T.J. Miller, 35, was arrested after a car-service driver accused him of battery in Hollywood on Dec. 9. The actor was cited for a misdemeanor with bail set at $20,000, and he was released on his own recognizance. Miller

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DEATHS Johannah Deakin, the

mother of One Direction member Louis Tomlinson, died at the age of 42 from leukemia on Dec. 7.

Tomlinson returned to The X Factor—the show that made him a star—three days later for an emotional performance in tribute to his mother. Van Williams, who starred in the 1960s television series The Green Hornet, died from kidney

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failure in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Nov. 28. He was 82.

Game of Thrones star Peter Vaughan died at the age of 93 in Mannings Heath, England, on Dec. 6. Greg Lake, progressive-rock legend of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, died from cancer on Dec. 6. He was 69.

Margaret Whitton, best known for her role as the team owner in Major League, died from cancer in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 4. She was 67.

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Kelly Rowland

The singer, 35, is helping to increase awareness of breast cancer Breast cancer awareness is near and dear to my heart because of a very special woman who I happened to lose to the disease. It was my husband’s favorite aunt, and I think I loved her just as much as he did. That was really a tough loss, so I feel a responsibility to tell women about being aware of what’s going on with their bodies. They should do self-checks, go to the doctor and read up about it—just become knowledgeable. I also partnered with Ulta Beauty and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to give women affected by breast cancer a day of pampering to make them forget for a second what they’re dealing with and just have them feel beautiful.

Their stories, their will and their strength have been such an For more information, go to inspiration to me. bcrfcure.org –REPORTED BY BRIANNE TRACY

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bohemian ceremony and reception in Southern California on Dec. 12. The couple were surrounded by their friends, family and fellow cast members, including Lucy Hale, Ashley Benson, Ian Harding and Sarah Rafferty. Glee star Becca Tobin, 30, married Zach Martin in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on Dec. 3.

Dancing with the Stars host and Fox NFL sideline reporter Erin Andrews, 38, is engaged to NHL player Jarret Stoll, 34. Harry Potter’s Matthew Lewis, 27, has reportedly proposed to his eventplanner girlfriend Angela Jones in Paris.

hosted the Critics’ Choice Awards two days later and did not directly address the arrest. He is due in court at a later date.

Santa Claus actor Judge Reinhold, 59, was arrested at the Dallas Love Field airport on Dec. 8 on a disorderly conduct charge after he refused to submit to a security screening by the Transportation Security Administration.

“I knew better; I just didn’t do the right thing,” he later said in a statement.

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New star in the galaxy: Jones risks her life in the battle against the Empire.

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The saga’s first stand-alone film charts an exciting new course with Felicity Jones FANTASY Set shortly before the events of Episode IV—the original 1977 Star Wars—the most anticipated film of the holiday season follows a dynamic new heroine on a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star. Jyn Erso (Jones; see p. 96) leads a ragtag group into battle after receiving a cryptic message from her estranged father, scientist Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen), who’s had a hand in the Death Star’s creation. Her backup team includes resourceful, brash Capt. Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), a sarcastic, scenestealing droid, K-2SO (Alan Tudyk), and some fine, seasoned fighters (Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen).

Director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) delivers a weightier, darker Star Wars film than usual, but he hasn’t gone rogue: While not meant to be an episode in the greater intergalactic narrative, this one delivers both crowd-pleasing cameos from familiar faces and, most crucially, the rousing thrills that leave the galaxy wanting more. (Dec. 16, PG-13)

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Stone and Gosling in a magical moment.

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling gotta sing, gotta dance, gotta love MUSICAL People fall in and out of love all the time without bursting into song, but in our hearts we know this is what we’d like to do—maybe even dance a gentle pas de deux with our significant other in the park at sunset. Director Damien Chazelle’s sublime new movie musical—a bittersweet fable about the romance of an aspiring actress and a brooding jazz musician—makes these conventions seem natural, simple and irresistibly spontaneous. Stone and Gosling’s singing voices are, at best, sweetly plain, but their chemistry is so direct—the arrows so cleanly shot and so deeply lodged in each other’s heart—you wish their duet could la-la-last forever. (In limited release, PG-13)

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COMEDY Classical conductor Rodrigo (Gael García Bernal) begins season 3 in Venice, working with a gorgeous diva (Monica Bellucci).

She’s tempted to star in a new opera about Amy “Long Island Lolita” Fisher—a nice note of absurdity in this gentle satire. (Now streaming)

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been dropping R&Btinged pop since he was just 9, comes into his own a little more than a decade later. His fulllength debut album follows in the tradition of Confessions-era Usher, with bedroom ballads bumping alongside club bangers. “Mutual” is the standout, a slow jam brimming with rumination and regret.

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Devon Terrell as “Barry” Obama.

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DRAMA This film about Barack Obama’s student days at Columbia University doesn’t have the ambling ease or humor of Southside with You, the year’s other study of the future President. But Devon Terrell captures Obama’s reflective intelligence, which is put to the test and further refined as he faces the realities of race on campus and in the city. (Launches Dec. 16)

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Sing

The closest we’ll ever get to Animal Idol ANIMATED Buster Moon (voice of Matthew McConaughey) is a theater-impresario koala who needs a hit. He decides to stage a singing competition with a $100,000 prize (actually, there’s a typo in the announcement: He meant $1,000). Sing is a fairly uncomplicated cartoon by today’s standards—let’s put on a show! With animals!—but it has plenty of good gags, including a pig in a gold lamé jumpsuit singing “Bad Romance.” And it’s hard not to go all wobbly inside when the Beatle’s “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight” is sung by Jennifer Hudson, even if she’s portraying a sheep. (Dec. 21, PG)

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R&B Donald Glover’s alter ego achieved mixed success with rap, but here the gimmicks are gone, replaced with inventive funk instrumentation. The swirling “Riot” could have been beamed down from the Parliament-Funkadelic mothership, and the slow-burning “Redbone” sounds as if it popped in from Paisley Park. Did the Atlanta star just drop the party album of the year? It looks that way.

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Art and the heart: Adriana Ugarte (right, with Inma Cuesta) as the young Julieta.

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Almodóvar has taken Nobel laureate Alice Munro’s Canadian stories, which conceal sad, turbulent lives beneath a deceptively flat prose surface, and made them his own. Julieta, the story of a middle-age woman reflecting on her one great affair, is passionate, weepy and lushly colored—not so much a melodrama as a feat of magic. (In limited release, Dec. 21, R)

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Office Christmas Party

COMEDY In an effort to rescue the failing branch of his late father’s tech company from his budget-minded Scrooge of a sister (Jennifer Aniston), Clay (T.J. Miller) invites a potential client to the office holiday party. Bring on the live reindeer! Fire up the cocaine-blowing snow machine! It’s a wild, funny mixer, much like the movie.

(In theaters, R)

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Serenity later!

Jennifer Aniston and T.J. Miller.

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Peter Berg’s propulsive direction and a group of top-notch actors bring fresh suspense, insight and emotion to the story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and the manhunt for the suspects. Mark Wahlberg’s composite cop doesn’t quite work— the film doesn’t need that sort of screenplay carpentry—but Kevin Bacon’s FBI agent and John Goodman’s police commissioner (both real-life characters) lead riveting narratives. (In limited release Dec. 21, R)

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The war at home: Rupert Evans (left) and Brennan Brown.

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The Man in the High Castle DRAMA Season 2 of

the dystopian fantasy— Germany and Japan, victors of World War II, rule America as what foreign-policy experts would refer to as frenenemies— deepens the mystery: Everyone (including the Führer) is trying to make sense of baffling, contraband newsreels that show an alternate history: For one thing, San Francisco gets flattened by an atom bomb. Mindwarping fun. (Launches Dec. 16)

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NOVEL A “simple woman from a good family,” Mrs. Sharma is certain nothing untoward will happen when she meets a nice man in the Delhi metro. But her husband is working overseas, her beloved son has become impossible, work’s a bore and . . . uh-oh. This delightfully funny novel delivers a serious message about what happens when our responsibilities push us to the breaking point.

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E G A I R R A M S H AT T E R E D They y ’ve be een secretly separated for months, after an alarming alarming iincident inciid t involving i a gun. Now Tarek and Christina El Moussa say they are committed to figuring out a future for their kids—and their business

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The couple, putting on a happy face for People’s cameras in August (though they were already keeping their split a secret), say an eventual custody decision “will be in the best interest of the kids.”

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arek and Christina El Moussa have long been known to bicker. In fact, it was part of their charm: As the husband and wife team would undertake risky renovations and flip houses for profit on their hit HGTV series Flip or Flop, they would often fight over such things as the cost of bathroom tile and granite countertops and whether to bother with new flooring. When they remodeled their own Yorba Linda, Calif., home last year, it was even worse. “The first remodel was about 25 percent in, and we were lying in bed at night, and Christina looks over at me and says, ‘I don’t like the house,’ ” Tarek told People in August.

“So to make a happy wife and a happy life, we started over.”

Turnsoutthewhole“happywife,happylife”thing didn’t exactly work out. On Dec. 12 fans of the show were shocked to learn that the couple, who are parents to daughter Taylor, 6, and son Braydon, 16 months, had secretly split after seven years of marriage following a bizarre altercation last May during which police say Christina feared her husband was suicidal. According to police, a “crying and shaking” Christina called 911 on May 23 after Tarek fled their home with a gun in his backpack, leapedoverthefenceofhisbackyardintoparkland and ran off down a hiking trail following an argument. A total of 11 officers and a helicopter were dispatched to the scene; a compliant Tarek insisted he was not suicidal and voluntarily surrendered his entireguncollectionfor 30days. Inthewake ofthe unflattering news, the couple were quick to quell speculation that marital trouble had resulted in the stand-off. “Tarek was going on a hike and took a gun for protection from mountain lions, bobcats, coyotesandrattlesnakes,”the pairexplainedtoPeople exclusively in an e-mail interview on Dec. 12. “His intentions were misread.Once[police]werethere it was determined that he had no negative intentions towards himself or anyone else.” (Of Tarek’s newly revealed passion for gun collecting—he has at least five at the home and posted an Instagram video of himself shooting an AR-15 rifle, one of which he owns, at a gun range last month—the star explains, “Safety is paramount. The guns are kept unloaded in a locked gun safe.”)

In the wake of what the couple now insist was a “nonincident” (“There was no violence, there was no threat, there were no arrests,” they say, though they offered no explanation for why Christina was so distraught when she called 911), they sought marriage counseling and ultimately decided to

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“One of the dynamics on the show that bothered Tarek is that he’s always in the wrong and she’s always right,” says a source who has worked alongside the couple (at work on their various houseflipping projects, right). “He felt like his masculinity took a hit on the show.”

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separate. Today they are surprisingly candid about their decision to move on even before their split was made public. “We have both dated other people following the separation, but neither of us is ready to announce anything in terms of another relationship,” the couple say, adding that they have every intention to keep putting on a happy face for the public.

“We plan to continue working together in front of the camera,” say the pair, who will resume filming for HGTV following the split and are releasing a book, Flip Your Life, in March. “We have been working towards this for the past five years, and, as you can imagine, fame is a mixed bag. We decided to separate while we reevaluated the next steps in our married life. . . . We believed this was in the best interests of the children and the best way to determine a path forward.”

While they seem to address their split in a matter-of-fact manner, for Tarek, 35, and Christina, 33, the breakup punctuates a traumatic three years, during which they dealt with the anxiety of both cancer and infertility. After launching their HGTV series in 2013, the real estate agents and interior designers were dealt a shocking blow when Tarek was diagnosed with thyroid cancer after an avid fan of the show repeatedly e-mailed producers saying she noticed a lump on Tarek’s neck. A biopsy confirmed their worst fears—cancer that had spread to his lymph nodes. “They said they would be done with the biopsy in an hour, but it ended up being four hours and they ended up removing my entire thyroid,” Tarek told People at the time. “When I woke up, my wife was crying and the first thing I said was, ‘It’s cancer, isn’t it?’ It was a nightmare.”

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“I was having a harder time swallowing, and this lump was getting bigger . . . and they initially said it was nothing,” Tarek told People after his cancer diagnosis in 2013 (right).

After several failed attempts to get pregnant, Christina said baby Brayden (above, with his big sister Taylor, in 2015) “is the happiest baby—it was so worth it.”

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stay in isolation while he received radioactive io-dine therapy, and their attempt to have a secon nd child was complicated. Christina went through gh two attempts at in vitro fertilization—one of which ch resulted in a devastating miscarriage at 8 week ks..

When she finally got pregnant again via a third rd IVF treatment in 2014, “I had to be really strictt,”” she told People in 2015 of her high-risk pregnan ncy. “I had to do one full week in bed. For 13 week ks after that, I couldn’t go for a walk and couldn’t lif ift anything over a gallon of milk.” As the pair juggled their show, cancer treatments and then an unexpected back surgery for Tarek, “it was very challenging—the worst time of my life,” Tarek confessed in 2015. Christina, meanwhile, worried she would lose another pregnancy. “At around 6 weeks pregnant I started spotting, so I thought that we lost the baby again, and my husband was laid up, and I had to just go upstairs and cry,” she said.

But as the couple celebrated the arrival of Brayden James with a People photo shoot in October 2015, their seemingly playful bickering was back in full force. At the time, it seemed like a sign that the dark clouds had passed. “He never changed one of Taylor’s diapers, and I think he has changed one of Brayden’s. He has a bad gag reflex,” Christina complained indignantly during a 2015 interview, adding that she was on her own for midnight feedings and was the only family member who never got breakfast in bed. “I am not

Their Controversial Seminars Despite criticisms that their $500+ Success Path seminars were misleading (participants also complained that the El Moussas didn’t always actually attend), the pair insist, “We are proud of these seminars and have worked on them together since our separation. We remain committed to providing aspiring real estate flippers with meaningful and practical instruction.”

equipped with her equipment,” Tarek added with a laugh, gamely playing the role of the bumblingly inept dad. “She runs the house!”

But those close to the couple say their seemingly made-for-TV squabbles may have belied more serious marital frustrations. “In a lot of ways they just seemed wildly incompatible,” says a source who worked alongside them for several years. Although Tarekhassplurgedonahigh-priceitemsincluding a Lamborghini and an extensive watch collection, “she has champagne tastes, and he’s a beer-from-acan kind of guy. That was okay for a while, when all they could afford was canned beer. Back then, they were on the same page, working together to make it and to do the best with what they had.”

The pair first met in 2005 when Tarek was a 24-year-old real estate agent making a name for himself selling multimillion-dollar homes in Orange County, Calif., and Christina, just 22, was a newbie real estate agent. They started working together selling houses but were forced to downsize their lifestyles drastically after the 2008 housing-market crash, trading in their $6,000-a-month rental for a $700-a-month apartment. Dead broke and forced to share Subway sandwiches for dinner as the market bottomed out, they decided to wed in 2009. They also reconceived their business: buying up foreclosure properties at bargain-basement prices and flipping them for a profit. In 2010 Tarek’s friend filmed an HGTV audition tape of them,

WHAT’S AT STAKE? HGTV’s Flip or Flop

Their reality show premiered in 2013 with the couple making a reported $10,000 per episode. Now in its seventh season, Flip or Flop has become one of the network’s most popular shows; HGTV currently plans to keep airing episodes filmed before news of the split broke.

An Endorsement Deal They signed on to create their own line of tiles: “Our collection is called the Diamond Collection, because I like diamonds,” Christina told People in September. “We’ll use it in all of our flips.”

Their Personal Real Estate The couple’s Orange County house is worth an estimated $2 million. Christina has continued to live there post-split, though some neighbors have already had issues with streets being clogged during filming.

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Flip Your Life Their self-help book is due out in the spring.

“Getting educated and motivated by some other inspiring writers/entrepreneurs,” Christina posted on Instagram, boasting of news of the deal.

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Watch the full episode of People Cover Story: Tarek and Christina El Moussa: Inside Their Split, available now, on People Entertainment Weekly Network (PEN). Go to PEOPLE. com/PEN, or download the PEN app on Apple TV, Roku players, Amazon Fire TV, Xumo, Chromecast, iOS and Android devices.

one, is singularly focused on salvaging their hardearned brand. For months after separating, the couple filmed episodes of the show and even cozy holiday-themed promotional ads for HGTV; it is unclear whether the network was aware of the pair’s true relationship status while the stars put up a happy facade. For now, the plan is to proceed full-speed ahead with their business commitments together, even if they’re no longer a couple. “We plan to continue our professional life together by being professional, bydoing ourjobswell,bybeing prepared and by working hard,” the couple explain.

Though they are currently living apart, the pair say they have no imminent plans to file for divorce and call talk of custody arrangements “premature.”

They are clear, however, that their main concern is creating a healthy environment for their two kids.

“The most difficult part of the decision to separate was the kids. We want the best for them, and we’re doing everything we can to ensure that,” they say.

“We hope that we can get to a better place and that ourkidswillcontinuetobeaswell-adjusted,bright and loving as they are now.”

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which eventually landed the El Moussas their own show and a paycheck of at least $10,000 per episode.

As their fame grew—the show currently brings inasmanyas2.8millionviewersper week—Christinaremained unfazed. “She didn’t really expect to become a TV star, but she wants to enjoy their success and build their brand and really likes being out there,” says the source. “Why shouldn’t she? She’s beautiful, has a good, strong design sense, and this is all sort of a dream come true for some girl who was just selling real estate a few years ago.” Tarek, on the other hand, has struggled. Sources havewitnessed him complain about his many work commitments, flub lines on-camera and balk at the special brand of “acting” required of a reality star.

“While Christina would be on board for plotlines that producers came up with like freaking out over the wrong tile being delivered or finding a dead rodent in the corner, Tarek was always more reluctant,” says the source. “He’d pull it off, but he was never going to be a natural. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if at some point he hit a breaking point.”

Despite the split, a source says Christina, for

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A N A ME R IC A N HE RO As the first NASA astronaut to orbit the Earth, he embodied daring and courage—and inspired a generation

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part of a noble, heroic future,” Sullenberger tells People. “Our society still did big things then, and the possibilities seemed boundless.” Even to those intrepid types who make a living by traveling into outer space, Glenn stood out for his cool, focused professionalism. “We were behind the Soviets, and he’s the guy who got us caught up and basically laid the groundwork for us to eventually beat the Soviets to the moon,” says former Space Shuttle commander Mark Kelly.

Glenn and the Kennedys An early hero of JFK’s space program, Glenn became a close friend of both John Kennedy (left, with Glenn in 1962) and Robert Kennedy (right, with wife Ethel in 1967). In fact Glenn was campaigning with RFK when he was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968. “John stayed up all night with us that night,” says RFK’s son Bobby.

“He was like a member of our family.”

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‘He had the kind of life that old movies used to be made about’ —FORMER NASA ADMINISTRATOR DANIEL GOLDIN

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n the final hours before John Glenn became the first American to venture into the dark abyss of space and orbit the Earth in 1962, he spoke to his wife, Annie, from the cramped confines of his Friendship 7 capsule. “Well, I’m going down to the corner store and buy some chewing gum,” Glenn reassured her over his headset—just as he always had before leaving home for his high-risk missions as a Marine aviator in World War II and the Korean War. “Don’t take too long,” replied Annie, his high school sweetheart, who was among the millions riveted to their TV screens as her husband’s unpredictable Atlas rocket left the launch pad.

By the time the freckled-faced astronaut’s four-hour, 56-minute flight splashed down in the Atlantic, Glenn—who died on Dec. 8 at age 95—had become a bona fide American hero. In the decades that followed, Glenn, a clean-cut, good-natured, fiercely patriotic Midwesterner who later spent 24 years in the Senate, inspired a nation—along with a generation of future aviators including Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who had his own brush with fame after landing a US Airways jet on New York’s Hudson River in 2009. “He inspired me to want to be

1. An elated Glenn shortly after his iconic flight around the Earth on Feb. 20, 1962.

2. Glenn (front row, third from left, in April 1959) was part of the Mercury 7, the original seven astronauts celebrated in the book and movie The Right Stuff.

3. With wife Annie, son David and daughter Carolyn after he made what was then the fastest-ever transcontinental flight in July 1957.

“He’s a colleague, but I think I speak for most astronauts when I say he’s also our hero.”

Raised in New Concord, Ohio, by John Sr., who owned

a plumbing business, and Clara, a teacher, young John was heavily influenced by the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. “When WWII came along, he knew what he had to do,” recalls Mike McCurry, who served as press secretary for Glenn’s 1984 presidential bid. “He felt a sense of outrage that many people did.” Instilled with what Nick Taylor, who cowrote Glenn’s 1999 memoir, called a sense of “dedication to service as well as doing what you have to do to fight for freedom” that he learned from his father, Glenn left Muskingum College in New Concord to become a Naval air cadet.

Glenn flew 59 combat His Life on Film missions in WWII and Actor Glen Powell another 90 in the Korean (above, with Octavia War before becoming a test Spencer and Taraji pilot and one of the nation’s P. Henson) plays Glenn in the new first astronauts. “He was film Hidden Figures, kind of the template for about three female American ingenuity, African-American resourcefulness and bravmathematicians at NASA. “He inspired ery,” says Bobby Kennedy, so many people,” whose father, Robert, says Powell. “It’s became a close friend of a loss. But at the Glenn’s. In 1998, at age 77, same time, what a celebration of life.” those qualities helped earn him a seat on the shuttle Discovery, where he again made history, this time as the oldest person ever to fly into space.

Throughout all of his out-of-this-world adventures there was one woman keeping his feet firmly on the ground: Annie, whom he’d met “in the playpen,” as he liked to say of their shared Ohio childhood. Yet few outside of their close family (including son John, now 71, and daughter Carolyn, now 69) and friends knew that Annie, his wife of 73 years, had battled a stuttering problem so severe she could hardly communicate. (She overcame it through intensive speech therapy in 1973.) “He supported her all the way,” says Taylor. “They were just very much together.” In an age where the word “hero” has become “a little cheapened,” says Taylor, Glenn will ultimately be remembered as exactly that. “He’s one of the great American heroes,” he says,“for his courage, his public service and his devotion to his wife and family.”

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2. The Glenns waved to friends at the Kennedy Space Center in November 1998 before John’s space shuttle Discovery flight at the age of 77.

3. Glenn flanked by the space shuttle crew before their nine-day scientific mission.

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Joyful Home “I’m loving this time together,” says Fletcher, with Rodgers and their 2-year-old dog Jackson (previously Fletcher’s pup). “Marriage isn’t something to rush into.”

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Many Bachelor-franchise engagements don’t survive the transition from fantasy dates to real life. But former Bachelorette JoJo Fletcher and her fiancé, Jordan Rodgers, didn’t waste any time moving forward. “As soon as the finale aired, we packed up my stuff, and I moved a week later,” says Rodgers, who has now been living with his fiancée in her hometown of Dallas for the past three months, happy to tune out the gossip and share some much needed one-on-onetime awayfrom thecameras. “It was the best thing that could have happened for our relationship,” says Fletcher—particularly after their tumultuous season, during which the pair dealt with rumors that Rodgers wasn’t there for the proverbial “right reasons.” That’s not to say that everything went smoothly. “We had no furniture for the first three months,” says Fletcher with a laugh. “We had this idea that we’d have movie nights snuggled up on the couch. But for a while, we just sat on the floor!” Now, having finally furnished their cozy bun-

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galow with a “cozy chic” look, Fletcher, a real estate developer, 26, and Rodgers, a college-football analyst, 28, are showing off their home—and opening up about their next steps. “I can’t wait to get married,” Fletcher says. “This year has been a roller coaster. I didn’t expect to be here. And I’m so happy.”

JoJo, a year ago you had just been dumped by Ben Higgins on The Bachelor. How does it feel to be in this place with Jordan now?

JOJO There wereso manynightsthat I would pray

that it would work out the way it was supposed to.

Seeing where I’ve come is nice!

Have things calmed down since the show aired?

JOJO It’s slowing down. But we still have fans

coming up to our door. That’s super-creepy and took a little getting used to. In the beginning, we didn’t go out because it was so overwhelming.

JORDAN But still, if we don’t post a photo together for three days, people think we’re broken up.

JOJO It is a little stressful. We’re trying to find the

balance of living our lives in the present but also avoiding the rumors. It’s annoying to read that we’re faking our relationship or breaking up. Jordan is much better at not getting fazed. I’ve learned to handle things much better with him.

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JORDAN I don’t think we have anything to prove.

It’s completely ridiculous. I didn’t allow rumors to affect our relationship while the show was airing, and I don’t now.

JOJO It wasn’t a conventional way to meet, so it’s hard for people who have never done it to understand. We’re trying not to focus on [the negative] and just live our lives.

What have you learned from living together?

JORDAN We’ve learned all the great things, like

the weird quirks and noises and routines.

JOJO Jordan sleep-talks! It’s funny. He slepttalked in a perfect Irish accent, and I’m so mad at myself that I didn’t get my phone out to record it.

JORDAN JoJo gets really hot. She’s not a cuddler before bed. And allegedly I’m the worst and most loud eater of cereal. She’s always like, “You clink your bowl too loudly!” I guess that’s annoying.

Are you excited for your first Christmas together?

JOJO Jordan convinced me to get a real Christmas

tree, which was the best decision ever. We’re starting to build traditions that we’ll have for years to come. Just decorating our house for Christmas, we feel this closeness. Stuff like that is so much better than flying in a private jet!

Any fights?

JORDAN We are human. But I’ve never had any

doubts that we would make it work.

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‘Jordan was very easygoing during the home design process. He let me have my fun with it’

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if you’re able to go through a disagreement and then come out and still have respect for each other and not lose that love. I’ve never expected our relationship to be perfect.

So when are you getting married?

JORDAN We’re still planning on next year. We’re

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Says Fletcher: “We found a good balance of our styles.” 3. The home office is more minimal3 ist. 4. “They didn’t want a place that was too uptight,” says designer Williams of the living room, complete with a curved Vera sofa. Adds Gold: “Furnishing a home can be traumatic for a couple. But Jordan and JoJo are very in sync with each other.

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just taking our time. We’re enjoying this time in our life and getting to date each other.

JOJO I think about my wedding dress and seeing Jordan for the first time and how amazing that will be. I know it will be what I dreamed it would be.

And I keep envisioning babies, and I’m like, “Wait, JoJo, pump the brakes! Do this in the right order.”

How do you feel at this stage in your relationship?

JOJO We want to keep the promises we made to

each other. I’ve never once doubted my decision.

JORDAN There’s such a big difference between the happiness we felt during the surrealness of the show and the happiness that we have now. We’re growing together and it’s so much more real.

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Celebrity chef and events planner Joey Santos chose a palette of ivory, pink and green: “colors Janice has in her home.”

Above: her Harry Winston engagement ring and the couple’s custom-designed wedding bands.

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anice Dickinson spent decades searching for her true love. “It’s taken me half a century to find a soulmate. My stars were aligned the day Rocky and I met,” the model, 61, says of meeting her future third husband, Robert “Rocky” Gerner, 70, on a blind datein 2012. “He’sthebest andbrightest man I’ve ever met.” Less than a year later, Gerner proposed. “I knew I wanted to marry Janice two weeks after we met,” he says.The couple exchanged vows in the garden ofa friend’sBeverly Hills estateonDec. 10. “Our wedding was just stating what is already the reality,” says the groom. “We’re going to be together for the rest of our lives.”

The couple started planning their nuptials only two months ago after each survived a health scare. (Dickinson, who publicly accused Bill Cosby of sexual misconduct—which he’s denied—in 2014, battled breast cancer earlier this year; Gerner suffered a collapsed lung after falling off the roof of their home in October.) “Janice loves gardening, so I envisioned our wedding outside,” says Gerner. The afternoon ceremony was followed by high tea, during which Dickinson, an agent.com spokeswoman, says she “floated around like a butterfly” in a Jane Booke gown. Among the approximately 100 guests were pals Emma Roberts and model Beverly Johnson. “It was all about great food and great music,” says Dickinson.“And, of course, all the love in the universe.”

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THE ELECTOR WHO PROMISED NOT TO VOTE FOR TRUMP

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coming on Dec. 5—the day he announced in The New York Times that he would not cast his Electoral College vote for Donald Trump—didn’t surprise Christopher Suprun. “This is politics,” says the Texas paramedic and Republican. “I have a pretty thick skin.” At least, he notes, the supportive comments were running roughly equal to the denunciations. Still, after a week in the spotlight he wondered if his wife was having second thoughts about his decision to go public. “I asked Dianne, ‘Are you still good?’ She said, ‘Yeah.’ I know she is stressed, but she’s a rock,” says Suprun, 42,a dad of five. “If she wasn’t, I wouldn’t be able to do this.”

Suprun’s defiance as a first-time elector opened one more front in a storm of controversy surrounding Trump and the legitimacy of his election. Four days after Suprun’s op-ed in the Times,

‘FAITHLESS ELECTOR’ “I wish people would look at me more as a faithful elector to the Constitution,” says Suprun (on Dec. 11) of his vote for an unnamed Republican over Trump (inset).

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President Obama has ordered a probe, Senate leaders promise hearings, and 10 Electoral College members demanded their own intelligence briefing before their vote. Former CIA analyst Mark Lowenthal breaks down the Russian hacking of Democratic Party and Clinton campaign officials— plus Trump’s disdain for U.S. intelligence: Only fairly exquisite intelligence could prove the Russians hacked us to favor Trump. They are not going to leave that kind of trail. We do know the Russians hacked the DNC, because they clearly gave that to WikiLeaks, and Julian Assange said he wanted to defeat Clinton.

So for Trump to say it’s impossible to know who did the hacking is not correct.

You can trace things back and find the hacker. But Putin already won this one, with all the publicity. I think his first goal was to remind people, “I still matter.”

Could investigation findings keep Trump from office?

I think he’ll take the oath on Jan. 20, but all this clearly raises doubts about how he won. I think that’s why he’s reacting as strongly as he is; he’s offended by the inference he needed outside help to win.

Trump has refused daily intelligence briefings and is dismissive of their value. Is there precedent for this?

No. Not every President has gotten briefed every day, but we’ve never had a President flatly refuse. They will adjust the briefings to fit Trump’s style, but the idea of his saying he only needs to be briefed once a week and the Vice President can be briefed daily—that’s a huge mistake. When there is a crisis and people are in the Situation Room, they are going to turn to the President and say, “Sir, what do you want us to do?”

Without that depth of knowledge [from the daily brief], he risks making bad decisions that are not as well-informed as they could be.

Is his attitude toward U.S. intelligence a problem?

The White House and CIA at war with one another is not good for national security.

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and against the backdrop of Hillary (“demagoguery”) and prolific tweets— Clinton’s winning margin of nearly 2.8 attacking the press, Saturday Night million in the popular vote, intelligence Live and the institutions of democracy. officials leaked to The Washington Post “When Donald Trump said that mildetails of a secret CIA assessment that lions of illegal voters voted for Clinton, the Russian government had meddled that’s fake news,” says Suprun. And in the 2016 election to help win Trump while Texas A&M professor George C. the Presidency. Amid congressional Edwards III, author of Why the Eleccalls for a full investigation—from both toral College Is Bad for America, was predicting “no possibility sides of the aisle—Trump’s at all” of Trump’s election team questioned the CIA’s being reversed, Suprun has integrity (“These are the no regrets about trying to same people that said Sadduse the Electoral College as am Hussein had weapons the “safety valve” America’s of mass destruction”) and Founders intended. “A misthen falsely declared, “The take was made [on Election election ended a long time Day],” he says. “Trump is a ago in one of the biggest danger. I’m just a guy doing Electoral College victories what I’m supposed to do.” in history.” In fact, the Dec. 19 vote by electors in 50 states was still 10 days away. —CHRISTOPHER

By Sandra Sobieraj Westfall SUPRUN The President-elect’s and Diane Herbst “fast-and-loose” relationship with facts, Suprun tells People, was only one reason he reconsidered his nonbinding pledge to support the Republican Party’s chosen candidate.

For Suprun, who lived in Virginia and Trump has was a first-responder at the Pentagon expressed on Sept. 11, 2001, there are also Trump’s admiration still-undisclosed financial conflicts of for Russian interest (“the Constitution is clear that president Vladimir Putin. the President can’t profit off of foreign governments”), his divisive rhetoric

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LOVED & CHERISHED “We always knew that she was beautiful, but she didn’t see it,” says her sister Jackie.

A TEEN’S TRAGIC DEATH

BULLIED INTO SUICIDE? After months of online torment, 18-year-old Brandy Vela fatally shoots herself in front of her horrified family. Could she have been saved? By CAITLIN KEATING

GONE TOO SOON Friends and family members have covered the wall of Brandy’s bedroom with notes of love and remembrance. Says Jackie: “We have to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”

Brandy Vela sent the text message to her family at 12:52 p.m. on Nov 29: “Guys, I love you so much, please remember that, and I’m sorry for everything.” Within minutes the family converged at the Velas’ Texas City, Texas, home to find 18-year-old Brandy leaning against her bedroom wall with a gun to her chest. “I started yelling, ‘Brandy, stop, talk to me!’ ” recalls her sister Jackie. Ignoring her family’s pleas to put the gun down, Brandy asked her father, Raul, to look away: “Dad, turn around. I don’t want you to see this.” “I will never turn my back on you,” he responded. But Brandy was desperate. “I can’t do this anymore,” she said. “I’m tired.

I’ve come too far not to do it.”

Sadly, nothing—and no one— could change her mind. Brandy pulled the trigger, sending a bullet into her upper chest. In sheer horror, Raul, 45, held a towel to his daughter’s chest to try to stop the bleeding until an ambulance arrived, but it was too late. The high school senior was pronounced dead upon arrival at a nearby hospital. Police say she died from a “self-inflicted gunshot wound.” Now, however, they have opened a criminal investigation into Brandy’s death, trying to determine if she was a “victim of cyberbullying.”

“Once we develop more facts, we will have a better understanding of any potential criminal charges,” says Capt.

Joe Stanton of the Texas City police department. But Brandy’s family has no doubt. “It didn’t stop,” says Jackie, 22. “What they did wasn’t just bullying, it was stalking.”

According to Brandy’s family, her tormentors set

up fake Facebook accounts and posted relentlessly about her weight and looks. They spread lies and made hurtful sexual innuendos, with claims that Brandy would “offer sex for free.” Brandy reported the harassment to school administrators before the Thanksgiving break. “Our deputy investigated,” officials at Texas City Independent School District said in a statement toPeople, “and theapp that was beingused to sendthemessages was untraceable. ” The accounts often included COURTESY VELA FAMILY(5)

Brandy’s cell phone number, which led to endless text messages and phone calls that would keep Brandy up throughout the night, says Jackie.

“They would call her a slut,” she says.

“We always thought she brushed it off and didn’t care, but now we know how bad it really was.”

Somehow the bubbly and cheerful girl who loved animals and dreamed of becoming a veterinarian hid the depth of her anguish from everyone— including Jackie, younger sister Michelle, 16, and brother Victor, 19.

“She was so determined and was a real family person,” says Jackie.

When she wasn’t interning at a local animal hospital, she was a server at a nearby seafood restaurant. “She was the heart of this place,” says her cousin Juan Trevino, 36, who manages the restaurant. “She’d come in and bake everyone cookies. She was loved by so many.” She also confided in him regularly. “I knew the bullying was taking a toll on her, but she was still so positive,” says Trevino. “It makes no sense.” Just two days before her suicide, Brandy attended a party where she danced and “was smiling,” says her coworker and friend Marnie Weinstein, 33. “But she looked like she was going to cry through it.” Still, Weinstein says, “no one could foresee anything like this happening.”

As the Velas struggle to understand HAPPIER TIMES Top: the Vela family in August 2015 on vacation in Cozumel, Mexico. From left: Michelle, Juany, Brandy, Jackie, Raul and Victor. Middle: Michelle, Jackie and Brandy at home in Texas.

Bottom: Brandy with her dog Krispy.

Brandy’s death, they have been embraced by a community united in grief. Brandy’s bedroom walls are covered in Post-it notes from friends and loved ones, with messages such as “You will never be forgotten” and “You will always own a piece of my heart.” And her family has committed themselves to making sure no one else’s child has to go through what Brandy did, joining efforts to pass Texas legislation that gives police and schools new tools to combat cyberbullying. The bill, called “David’s Law,” is named in honor of 16-year-old David Molak, who killed himself in January after aggressive online threats and bullying. “There was nothing we could say or do for Brandy,” says Jackie. “And we’ll live with that forever.”

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From Tragedy to Triumph PARALYZED DURING A COLLEGE ICE HOCKEY GAME, TRAVIS ROY HAS SPENT 20 YEARS HELPING PEOPLE WITH SPINAL CORD INJURIES By DIANE HERBST T

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“But I had to reevaluate my life and find success in a different direction.”

In 1997 he established the Travis Roy Foundation, which has since raised more than $7 million for spinal cord research and provided adaptive equipment, such as wheelchairs and ramps, to people with spinal cord injuries.

“He’s made a huge contribution to the field,” says Dr. Jason Carmel, director of the Motor Recovery Laboratory at the Burke Medical Research Institute in White Plains, N.Y. “It inspires a lot of hope.” “Travis takes people who have gone through a devastating injury and helps them get by, ” says Jack Trottier, 21, who was paralyzed in a 2013 snow-

boardingaccidentandreceiveda$7,000 grant to install a wheelchair lift in his family’s home in Tyngsboro, Mass. “It helped me get back to a normal way of living.” For his part, Roy—who makes some 40 appearances a year as a motivational speaker—says he gets as much as he gives. “So many people have filled my life with opportunity and put smiles on my face,” he says. “Smiles I didn’t think were possible 20 years ago.”

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wenty-one years ago Travis Roy skated onto the ice for the first time as a star freshman recruit for Boston University’s ice hockey team. “It was a special day,” remembers Roy, who was already planning a pro career after college. “It was my childhood dream to play for the Boston Bruins.” Eleven seconds later that dream became a nightmare, as Roy lay facedown on the ice after crashing headfirst into the rink’s sideboards during a play. Instantly paralyzed from the neck down, Roy would never walk—let alone skate—again. “Selfishly, there was a lot of sadness and loss,” says Roy, now 41.

GIVING BACK “I’ve always had this feeling of gratitude,” says Roy (top, at a benefit in his hometown of Boston in August; insets, in 1995 before the accident). “It’s been my lifeline.”

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After his junior year of high school, Jake moved “Growingup, I playedfootballand was always one of the best on the team,” the out to Los Angeles with his brother to pursue social media and Disney Channel star, their showbiz careers. He found small acting 19, says of his childhood in Cleveland. roles quickly, but his big break came when his “I wanted to go into the NFL, so when I was 10, my Disney Channel showBizaardvark premiered in dad got my brother and me a video camera so we June. Twitter, which owns Vine, recently could record our games and watch them back.” announced the video-sharing site will be shutting His dad never thought that gift would set Jake and down, but Jake is already focused on his next venhis older brother, fellow Vine star Logan Paul, 21, ture: growing his social media label Team 10. “I on a path that would change their lives forever. want to be the Dr. Dre of social media. I want to Jake was just 16 years old when he and Logan take my success and replicate it with other artjoined the six-second-video-sharing app Vine. ists,” says Jake, who has signed social media talent from around the globe to live and “Logan and I got into an argument about who could make a better ‘Within six create together in L.A. (like a Silicon Valley incubator) and hopes they’ll video,”saysJake.Withinaweek,one months soon rival his Vine fan base of 5.3 milof their quick creations had gone we were “When I moved here, I didn’t viral—and social media domination making more lion. know anything about the industry,” followed. “Within six months we money than says Jake, who just released his memwere making more money than our our parents’ oirYou Gotta Want It. “Now I’m ready parents,” says Jake, whose father, —JAKE PAUL to take Hollywood by storm.”

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“Every day is a new adventure,” says Carla (with Barton in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Oct. 1).

At Stonehenge on Nov. 3 with Barton’s fiancé, Gregg Goodbrod .

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A YEAR AFTER HIS FATHER’S DEATH, BARTON BROOKS TAKES HIS MOM ON A EUROPEAN ADVENTURE—AND SHOWS HER HOW TO LIVE AGAIN By ROSE MINUTAGLIO When Carla Brooks’s husband of 50 years, Karl Brooks, died in November, 2015, in many ways she felt her own life had ended too. “He was my love, my purpose in life. I felt like I didn’t have anything to do,” says Carla, 77, who’d been Karl’s primary caregiver in their St. George, Utah, home for nearly 20 years, ever since he’d suffered a debilitating stroke in 1997. “We were really worried about Mom,” says her son Barton Brooks.

“Her focus was always on Dad. She had no plans or dreams.”

Which is why Barton, 45, and his fiancé, Gregg Goodbrod, 43, set out to help Carla rediscover her dreams— and then make them all come true.

“At 22, Mom traveled the world,” says Barton, a real estate agent who lives with Gregg, an actor, in Woodstock,

“II’m sure “I’m “I’ sure he he’s ’s wit with h us, u loo lookin looking king g down d down, own, smiling,” says Carla (with Karl at their June 4, 1965, wedding).

N.Y. “We wanted to re-spark that youthful vigor, so we came up with a plan to take her on a grand adventure through Europe.” On Sept. 26 Barton and Gregg took the money they’d been saving to buy a new car and surprised Carla with a flight to Paris, their first stop on a months-long jour-

ney of 20 life-affirming adventures— one for each year she cared for Karl.

“We wanted her to find herself, to really live again,” says Barton. Adds Gregg, whose own mom, Gwendolyn, died from a brain aneurysm in 1997: “We’re making new memories. New places bring us all closer together.”

In the past two months the intrepid trio have baked croissants in Paris, toured castles in Wales and trekked to the summit of Switzerland’s Jungfrau mountain. Next up: Germany, Austria and Italy. “I think about Karl or get teary every day,” says Carla. “But I feel whole again for the first time in a long time. I can’t wait for the next surprise! This trip is changing my life.”

Which is all her son had hoped for.

“She’s come alive again,” says Barton.

“We may never go home!”

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THE CHARMER “I’m a pretty enthusiastic and positive person. If you’re feeling moody, it has to stop with you, or else you can spoil the environment for everyone else.”

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hris Pratt’s life story was made for the movies.

Growing up in rural Washington, he yearned to be an actor but thought it was an impossible dream. “I didn’t know anybody,” he says. “I didn’t have any money to get myself to L.A. I was very much an outsider. There was no way in.” But at 20, Pratt was waiting tables at a

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. on Maui when he caught the eye of actress Rae Dawn Chong, and the Soul Man star auditioned him for a movie she was directing. “She said, ‘You’re good. We’re going to use you.’ I really felt in that moment that my life had changed forever,” Pratt says. He became a working actor, and—14 years after his first film—a bona fide A-lister after starring in Guardians of the Galaxy. Pratt, 37, sat down with People’s editorial director, Jess Cagle, for a SiriusXM radio interview about fame, his space thriller Passengers

and life with wife Anna Faris and their 4-year-old son Jack.

Your new movie Passengers, with Jennifer Lawrence, is a big, expensive sci-fi movie, and it’s a rarity because it’s not based on anything.

That’s exactly right. There’s something so fresh about it. I remember reading the script, and I was absolutely blown away. It was truly the greatest script I’ve ever read. It’s original. It poses these questions that, for me, have never existed in storytelling.

What happens to you and [Lawrence] when you’re on this spaceship?

We play two of 5,000 passengers on the Starship Avalon, which is like a luxury cruise line traveling the cosmos toward a new colony planet . . . we’re essentially in a state of suspended animation because we’re traveling for 120 years to this new world. Through this mysterious malfunction in the sleeping pods, two of us wake up 90 years too soon.

Then the ship starts shutting down.

And we’re also falling in love!

Did you know Jennifer Lawrence before you started the movie?

No, I’d never met her before. I mean, I knew of her, of course, from her

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ANDY ON PARKS AND RECREATION “Someone who’s so confident yet so dumb . . . it’s an endearing quality.”

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY “I cried when I read the new script.

It’s really fun, but there’s emotion too.”

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‘IT WAS A LONG SHOOT. LONG DAYS. BUT I DIDN’T WANT TO FAIL THE EXECUTION OF THIS WONDERFUL STORY, AND I THINK WE NAILED IT’

SOULMATES “She’s one of the funniest people alive,” Pratt says of his wife, Mom star Anna Faris, who often joins the die-hard Seattle Seahawks fan in rooting for his home team.

opinion? There’s no equal in Hollywood. He’s the best I’ve worked for.

I owe so much to him. This one is just heightened. It’s bigger and better than the first movie in every way, and that’s saying a lot, because I think the first movie is really good.

We released the trailer recently, and it got 81 million views in the first day.

It’s the biggest trailer in the history of Marvel. Not that it’s a competition, but if it was, we would win!

It’s also a really funny movie— like it really makes you laugh.

I think that’s been part of the evolution of comic book movies. The success of Guardians of the Galaxy resonated through all comic book and superhero movies.

But nothing bothers me more than, when something’s not funny, thinking that it is. I’m probably a bit of a comedy snob. That’s what happens when you work on Parks and Rec for seven years. I have a hard time fake laughing. This movie will get huge laughs.

‘THE ONE DOWNSIDE IS THE DISTANCE. IT CAN BE TOUGH’

—CHRIS PRATT ON BEING AWAY FROM ANNA FARIS AND THEIR SON JACK, 4, WHEN HE’S AWAY FILMING

work. But the first time I met her was on this job. It’s like, by the way, here’s this stranger, and you guys are going to be stuck together for a while.

I got pretty lucky that she’s awesome.

She’s about as cool as you’d imagine.

And more.

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There’s a love scene. She’s spoken about how awkward it was for her.

She said she got really drunk before it.

Essentially it’s your job to minimize the discomfort by making sure it’s a closed set and assuring the person you’re with that they’re okay.

And you know—for all the sense of anxiety that comes with leading up to a scene like this—you get into it and you realize there’s nothing sexy about it at all. It’s just really awkward! But it’s part of the gig, so you just do what you can to try and ease any discomfort the other person feels.

When did you decide you wanted to be an actor? Growing up in Washington, you had no exposure to show business.

When you’re away shooting, you’re gone months at a time. How do you stay in touch with Anna and your little son Jack? Is there a lot of Skyping?

No, I was very much an outsider.

I met a director who essentially There is, yeah. I just did it and made discovered me when I worked as a everybody wait so that I could at least waiter in Hawaii. She [cast me] and say good morning and tell Jack the said the movie was going to things I needed to tell him shoot in Los Angeles, and I for the day. So it’s just said, “I can’t afford to go to checking in every day.

Los Angeles.” She said, Thank God for technology.

“Sweetie, we’ll fly you there.”

I don’t know if this is Isn’t it amazing? hindsight, but I think I knew It’s really astounding.

Watch the full episode of Chris Pratt’s So we’re grateful for that. in that moment that I was Jess Cagle Interview going to come to Hollywood But nothing can substitute available now, on the new People/ and become a movie star. for actual face time—even Entertainment FaceTime can’t substitute Weekly Network (PEN). Go to What are you excited about being present and being people.com/PEN for Guardians of the Galaxy able to physically hold or download the PEN Vol. 2 [out next year]? your family. But you do app on Apple TV, Roku Players, Amazon Oh, man. James Gunn everything you can. But Fire TV, Xumo, wrote and directed the first that’s the one downside.

Chromecast, iOS and second one, and my The distance. and Android devices.

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My American Dream GREAT SUCCESS AGAINST THE ODDS

DRIVE & AMBITION “I had the best of both worlds,” says Galán (top, in 1969) of being Cuban and growing up in the U.S. Working as an intern at Seventeen (in 1979) “made me over,” she says. Below: with submissions for her 2004 FOX reality show The Swan.

“I feel afraid every day of my life,” says Galán.

“But I have to push through, because getting through it makes me stronger.”

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Taking Chances Growing up in a largely black and Jewish community made her bolder, in spite of her caution as an immigrant, she says. When she was falsely accused of plagiarizing an English assignment in

school, she didn’t back down— she wrote an essay for Seventeen about the experience. That landed her a guest editorship at the magazine, her first job in media. “When I push myself to take action, sometimes something magical happens,” she says.

Sharing Her Voice After working as a reporter for the pioneering Latina producer Aida Barrera in Austin, Texas, then at TV stations in Boston and New Jersey, Galán started her own production company in the ’90s.

She used her multicultural background to bring more Latino stories into the mainstream—and channeled the confidence of others until she could find her own.

“Eventually you create your own voice that is empowered,” she says. Now she shares that advice

with other women: “I tell them, ‘If you feel you can’t stand up to someone, make believe you’re me, because you know I would do it.’ ”

Making a Mark After years on her own, Galán was named Telemundo’s first female president of entertainment in 1998. When NBC bought the network three years later, she struck back out on her own, selling shows to both NBC and FOX and appearing on the first season of Celebrity Apprentice. Galán says she used all those experiences in her book Self Made: Becoming Empowered, Self-Reliant & Rich in Every Way, published in May. “Around the corner of my biggest failures is always my greatest success,” Galán says. “So if I don’t hang in there, I don’t get to the next success.”

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her rags-to-riches path as Cuban immigrant turned television mogul and selfhelp author may seem meteoric, it actually took decades of hard work and careful strategy. “I’m really slow, like a turtle,” insists Galán, 53, the former entertainment president of Telemundo.

“I’m methodical and thorough.” Now the head of Galán Entertainment, she shares her strategy on the Fortune 500 speaking circuit: “You have to acknowledge no one is coming to save you. You can save yourself.”

Coming to America Galán immigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was 5, moving to New Jersey after they were “adopted” by a local Presbyterian family. The entire church community rallied around them, even helping to get Galán’s father, Arsenio, a job painting cars at Ford Motor Company. Her mother, Nelida, sewed clothes for her and her younger brother Arsenio Jr. “It was difficult because we didn’t speak English, and that was weird,” Galán says. “But we never felt unloved or unwanted in this country.”

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Jones calls her Rogue One character, Jyn Erso, a “resourceful, determined, streetwise young woman. We see her find out her purpose in the galaxy.”

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1. Playing Lewis MacDougall’s terminally ill mom in A Monster Calls.

2. Breaking hearts with Anton Yelchin in Like Crazy.

3. With Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything.

4. Racing around Florence with Tom Hanks in Inferno.

5.The Best Actress nominee after the 2015 Oscars.

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For years, Felicity Jones has teetered on the brink of stardom. She first packed an emotional punch in the 2011 indie romance Like Crazy opposite the late Anton Yelchin, before delivering an Oscar-nominated performance as Jane Hawking, wife of famed scientist Stephen, in 2014’sThe Theory of Everything.

This year Jones is once again on awards short lists, for her heartbreaking turn as a terminally ill mother in A Monster Calls. But for all that acclaim, it is an altogether different sort of role that is about to launch her into the stratosphere— literally. As the star of the massively anticipated Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Jones is helming a group of rebels whose mission is to steal the plans of the deadliest weapon in the galaxy (sound familiar? It’s because it’s described in the S opening crawl off the original 1977 7 Star Wars). By takingg on the role, she is also joining the sort of box office ffi juggernautt thatvaultsactressses ontotheA-list.Alloff which suits Joness just fi d fine. “I had wanted that kind of role for f so long,” she says. “Itt was just the kind off thing I’ve been look-ing for for years.””

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1. Director Gareth Edwards wanted Jyn “to look like she could take care of herself in a fight,” says makeup artist Amanda Knight.

2. Jones and her first mate, Diego Luna.

3. Taking place between Episode III and Episode IV, Rogue One tells the story of how the Rebel Alliance got the Death Star plans from the evil Galactic Empire.

but I enjoyed it,” she says. She also loved movies. “My brother and I were obsessed with films growing up.” One in particular stood out:Star Wars. “I was 7 or 8. My cousins and I were watching it on VHS. I remember sitting very close to the TV, and as that really iconic description rolls up with the music playing, it was one of those moments where you felt something very special was happening.”

When Jones enrolled at Oxford, “I never quite thought I’d go into acting.

At one point I thought I was going to do law. I think it was wishful thinking on my part.” After graduating with an English-literature degree, she decided to try acting after all, going from small role to small role until Like Crazy. The warm response to that film “opened a whole new world,” Jones says.

Despite a blockbuster under her belt and possibly another awards season on tap, “nothing has changed” in her life, says Jones, who declines to discuss her romantic status. “Luckily my private life is still pretty private, and I hope to maintain that.” Now, after a whirlwind year, she’s looking forward to some well-earned time off. “I’m going to be with my family and taking it easy. I love being in the kitchen, cooking for friends and family. I throw a lot of ingredients together and pray to the gods.” Her career, at least, requires no such divine intervention. “It’s been an absolute dream,” she says with a smile. “And I’ve been enjoying every single minute.”

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After months of auditioning for what Luna calls the most “relatable” Star Wars movie yet, the Mexican actor scored the role of Captain Cassian Andor, an accomplished Rebel Alliance intelligence officer. His ability to stay calm under pressure lands him the mission of keeping an eye on the hotheaded Jyn Erso. As an actor who got his start on telenovelas before catching his big break in 2002’s Y Tu Mama Tambien, Luna is still trying to wrap his mind around starring in one of the most famous film franchises in the world. “I think this is the most grounded Star Wars film, because it’s really about the people,” he says. “It reflects on the world we live in today— one rich with diversity and culture and the conflict that happens around that. It’s very pertinent to today and very exciting to see in a film with such reach.” His biggest struggle?

Keeping all the secrets. “You have to keep it quiet, so it becomes much more complicated, and it’s all happening in your head,” he says.

“It was quite a journey. It still is!”

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On his Instagram, @dr.evanantin, Antin often shows off his pets, like rescue pup Henry (top) and cat Willy.

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HE LOVES CATS AND DOGS—BUT HIS HEART BELONGS TO EXOTIC ANIMALS AND PLACES By KATE HOGAN IT’S A GOOD THING Evan Antin has understanding parents. Growing up outside Kansas City, Kans., “I was always going to the creek in my backyard and looking for insects and turtles and reptiles,” he says. “I’d take home what I found—a box turtle or water snake—and keep it as a pet for a week or two.”

That childhood passion led to vet school at Colorado State University— and the two-time title of People’s Sexiest Veterinarian Alive.

Antin, 31, sees patients at Conejo Valley Veterinary Hospital in Thousand

Oaks, Calif., and spends his free time traveling to some of the most exotic places on the planet to check out the wildlife. His latest trip was to the Philippines, where he visited a rescue organization that breeds Philippine freshwater crocodiles, among the most endangered in the world. In the past, he’s done dental work on primates in Indonesia, wrangled lizards in Botswana and watched the echidnas (spiny anteaters) of Australia. “If it has good wildlife, maybe a jungle, cool people and neat history, I’m there,” he says.

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Cuddling with his cat Damien before he was neutered. “I’ll always have cats and dogs,” he says.

Antin’s fiancée, Nathalie Basha, regularly joins the vet on his international adventures.

Not that his day job is boring: In a new video series for People, Antin chronicles his patients and procedures at the animal hospital, where he specializes in reptiles (his favorites) in addition to the usual dogs and cats. And with a permit allowing the practice to treat wild animals native to California, Antin has operated on coyotes, opossums and raccoons and once faced a badger (“That was unreal; I didn’t even know they were in Southern California,” he says).

At home in Agora Hills, Calif., Antin and his fiancée, travel journalist Nathalie Basha, keep a menagerie: Chihuahua/toy fox terrier mix Henry; cats Willy, a domestic shorthair, and Damien, a Russian Blue; a mangrove snake; a monitor lizard; and some fish. But there’s one more animal on his list. “Someday when I’m old and retired and not traveling as much,” he says, “I see myself getting a parrot and spending time at home.”

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Antin snaps a puppy selfie— a.k.a. a “pelfie”— with a cute fourlegged client.

PREPPING FOR A PET Before bringing an animal home, pet-proof.

“Make sure they can’t get into cabinets, food or small toys,” Antin says.

“Puppies like to chew on expensive stuff like leather purses, belts and shoes, so lock those up too.”

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DO PETS MAKE GOOD PRESENTS? In a word, says Antin, “no.” “If you’re not expecting an animal, you’re not ready for it. You need to prepare to care for it, adjust your lifestyle and schedule and figure out your budget beforehand.”

PET SHOPS VS. SHELTERS If your loved ones agree about getting a pet, visit a shelter first.

“There are so many animals that need homes that don’t have them. There are even a lot of exotics rescues that have the animals you’ll see in pet shops.”

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START WITH A PERFECT PART I’ve known Lea Michele for over 10 years, and a relaxed wave is one of her signature looks. When we don’t want the style to look beachy, I part her hair in a nice, clean line first.

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FIND A TOOL THAT WORKS FOR YOU I’ve become known for relaxed waves because a lot of my clients wanted that perfect combination of a little bit of glamour with a little bit of a lived-in look. Many of them tried to do the style themselves but found it difficult to hold the iron the way they needed to.

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Charred Carrots with Apple Vinaigrette THIS SIDE DISH IS ‘SEDUCTIVE ONCE IT’S BATHED IN BROWNED BUTTER,’ SAYS THE AUTHOR OF DEEP RUN ROOTS 1 tbsp. vegetable oil 2 tsp. ground coriander 1⁄ 2 tsp. ground fennel 11⁄ 2 tsp. kosher salt, divided 1 lb. medium carrots, scrubbed 3 tbsp. unsalted butter 2 tbsp. pine nuts 2 scallions, white parts only, sliced into 1⁄ 8-in.-thick rounds 1⁄ 4 tsp. crushed red pepper 1⁄ 8 tsp. fresh thyme leaves 1 large apple, cut into 1⁄ 4-in. pieces 2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice

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1. Preheat oven to 300°. Heat oil in a 12-inch cast-iron skillet over mediumhigh heat. Stir together coriander, fennel and 1 teaspoon salt in a small bowl. Toss carrots with coriander mixture; place in a single layer in skillet. Cook, turning often, until charred on all sides, about 8 minutes.

2. Transfer skillet to oven, and bake carrots until caramelized and tender when pierced with a fork, about 50 minutes.

3. About 10 minutes before carrots are finished roasting, melt butter in a medium skillet over medium heat. Cook until slightly brown, about 3 minutes. Add pine nuts, scallions, crushed red pepper and thyme. Cook, stirring often, until nuts are toasted and butter is brown and smells nutty, about 3 minutes. Add apples, lemon juice and remaining 1⁄ 2 teaspoon salt; cook, stirring often, until most of the liquid is absorbed, about 1 minute.

4. Place carrots on a serving platter.

Top with apple mixture and any remaining pan liquid.

Serves: 5 Active time: 20 minutes Total time: 1 hour

food HACK When browning butter, use a skillet with a light-colored bottom so you can monitor the shade—which will go from light yellow to tan to, eventually, a toasty brown.

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Greek Feta, Cucumber & Olive Toast THE CHEF OF BEAUTY AND ESSEX LAS VEGAS SUGGESTS SERVING THIS DISH AS A REFRESHING APPETIZER OR LIGHT LUNCH 8 oz. Greek feta cheese 2 tbsp. heavy cream 1⁄ 2 cup pitted kalamata olives 1 medium cucumber, seeded and thinly sliced 1 small red onion, thinly sliced or chopped 2 tbsp. granulated sugar 1 tsp. kosher salt 1⁄ 2 cup apple-cider vinegar 1 focaccia or ciabatta loaf, cut into 1⁄ 2-in.-thick slices 2 tbsp. olive oil, divided 1 tbsp. chopped fresh basil

HACK Put away the knife: Use a vegetable peeler to make thin cucumber “ribbons” that are flexible enough to fold and twist.

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1. Preheat oven to 300°. Combine feta and cream in a food processor until smooth, about 20 seconds. Set aside.

2. Spread olives on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake in oven until olives are dry and slightly crispy, about 30 minutes.

Cool completely. Roughly chop olives; set aside.

3. Meanwhile, toss together cucumber, onion, sugar and salt in a medium bowl.

Add vinegar; let stand 20 minutes.

4. Increase oven heat to 450°. Rub focaccia slices evenly with 1 tablespoon oil; place on a wire rack on a baking sheet. Bake until edges are golden and focaccia is toasted, about 10 minutes.

5. Spread feta mixture evenly on focaccia slices. Using a slotted spoon, place about 1 tablespoon cucumber mixture on each slice. Top evenly with olives. Drizzle with remaining 1 tablespoon oil, and sprinkle with basil.

Serves: 8 to 10 Active time: 20 minutes Total time: 45 minutes

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Snowflake Shortbread Cookies THE JAMES BEARD AWARD-WINNING CHEF SHARES A POPULAR WINTER TREAT FROM HIS BOUCHON BAKERY 3⁄

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1. Beat butter with a heavyduty electric-stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium-low speed until smooth. Add granulated sugar, vanilla bean paste and salt; beat until all ingredients are distributed evenly, about 2 to 3 minutes, stopping to scrape down sides of bowl.

2. Add flour, and beat on low speed until just combined, stopping to scrape the bottom of the bowl. Turn dough out onto a piece of parchment paper on a work surface.

Top with a second sheet of parchment. Using a rolling pin, roll dough to 1⁄4-inch thickness.

3. Remove top layer of parchment. Using a 3-inch

snowflake cutter, cut shapes from dough, making sure to cut cookies close together to get the most from the dough.

(Reroll and cut the excess dough scraps as necessary.)

Place the snowflake cookies on 2 parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing them 3⁄4 inch apart. Cover cookies with parchment paper and chill until firm, about 45 minutes.

4. Stir together 1⁄ 2 cup sanding sugar, blue food coloring and vinegar in a small bowl until the sugar is completely blue.

Place remaining sugar in another small bowl.

5. Preheat oven to 325°.

Remove cookies from refrigerator, and discard top sheets of parchment paper.

Sprinkle each cookie with blue or white sanding sugar.

6. Bake in preheated oven until golden brown at the edges, 13 to 14 minutes.

Cool on baking sheets on wire racks 10 minutes.

Cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 days.

Makes: 2 dozen cookies Active time: 35 minutes Total time: 1 hour plus chilling time

For more seasonal recipes and ideas, watch People Food for the Holidays, available now, on the new People/Entertainment Weekly Network (PEN).

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What I Eat in a Day

Snack

4 olives, 2 carrots and 2 tbsp. hummus; handful of wasabi sunflower seeds

‘MORE THAN ANYTHING I TRY NOT TO EAT PROCESSED FOOD,’ SAYS THE 5'6" TOP CHEF JUDGE, 40

Brown rice with roasted delicata squash, roasted carrots, chickpeas, chives and lemontahini dressing; sautéed kale with shallots, lemon and extra-virgin olive oil

3-4 glasses of water

Breakfast

Slice of Ezekiel sprouted grain toast with 1⁄4 of an avocado, mashed with lemon, salt and a pinch of chili flakes; 1 hard-boiled egg; coffee with whole milk and 1 tsp. sugar

TIP! ‘ADD COOKED QUINOA TO SALAD FOR A DOSE OF SMART CARBS,’ SAYS BLATNER

Lunch

Chopped spinach salad with grilled chicken, tomatoes, roasted red peppers, cucumbers, olives, artichokes and shaved Parmesan, dressed with red-wine vinegar and extra-virgin olive oil

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‘Life’s too short to spend all your time thinking about what you can’t or shouldn’t enjoy’ —GAIL SIMMONS

Dessert

Small apple; 2 pieces dried mango; 2 pieces soft black licorice

Total Calories: C :1 1,920 The Verdict “Gail has an awesome balance of whole grains, quality protein, colorful produce and healthy fat,” says Chicago-based dietitian Dawn Jackson Blatner. Although Simmons eats an impressive amount of vegetables, Blatner advises adding “antioxidant-rich” watercress or microgreens to her avocado toast at breakfast. And for a healthier dessert Blatner suggests swapping the licorice and dried mango for extra-dark chocolate. “It would be fewer calories and less sugar,” she says.

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“And she’s into decorating Gibson’s onesies. It’s really cute.” Now a lifestyle blogger, Johnson has learned to let go of perfectionism.

“Feeling like I’m doing everything halfway has been hard. But as long as my kids are clean and fed, I don’t care about the rest,” she says.

And this time around “I’m trying to hold on to memories,” Johnson says. “Jennings is on the go all the time, so with Gibson, I cherish the moments he’ll let me hold him and rock him to sleep.” She adds that the family isn’t done growing yet. “We’ll have at least one more,” she promises. “But this time we’ll space it out a bit better!” —AILI NAHAS

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EMILY MAYNARD JOHNSON ALWAYS KNEW SHE WANTED a big family. But the season 8 Bachelorette, now settled in Charlotte, N.C., admits that having her two youngest children, Jennings, 17 months, and Gibson, 3 months, so close in age is “the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I feel like I’m in the twilight zone most of the time.” Luckily she has husband Tyler Johnson, 30, an auto consultant, and 11-year-old daughter Ricki (from her relationship with racecar driver Ricky Hendrick, who died in 2004) to help out. “Ricki likes to push the stroller,” says Johnson, 30, who has “girls’ nights” with her daughter once a month.

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THE ACTRESS, 28, STARS IN THE NEW MOVIE MUSICAL LA LA LAND

Last irrational fear I don’t love needles. I had to get my blood drawn a couple of weeks ago.

I cover my face and sing.

The anticipation is the worst part, but then afterward I feel like a superhero all day.

Last time I was late I am sometimes, but I don’t like to be late. I don’t remember a time more than 15 minutes. I guess it’s important to me to be on time. Well, I try to be, but I’m not always great at it.

Last superstition I accidentally said “Macbeth” in rehearsals for SNL. If it was a theater, I would go outside and spin around, but they assured me it was a studio. That’s a theater superstition. You say “the Scottish play” instead of “Macbeth” or it can curse your production.

It’s pretty major.

Last time I cried Oh God, frequently. But that’s just part of my life; I accept it. Commercials, acts of kindness, all of that.

I’m trying to work on it.

Last thing I took from a set

I did Battle of the Sexes, and they had a key chain on my fake car keys that said, “Virginia Slims. You’ve come a long way, baby.”

So now I keep that on my actual car keys, which I love. I always ask. I’m punctual and I don’t like to steal; it is what it is.

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