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‘This is the beginning for a new career for me. I’m not going to be gone after the [U.S.] Open.’ —SERENA WILLIAMS, on balancing motherhood and tennis, on Today
‘It wasn’t their words, it’s that I started to believe them.’ —KELLY MARIE TRAN, about online harassment after her Star Wars role, in an essay for The New York Times
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Crazy Rich Asians will get a sequel. Hollywood is rich—and not crazy. After the rom-com’s smash success, Kevin Kwan’s second book in the series, China Rich Girlfriend, will receive the bigscreen treatment. More Henry Golding and Constance Wu, please!
The former Daily Show host and his wife, Tracy, an animal activist, joined Farm Sanctuary in rescuing a pair of goats from the subway tracks in Brooklyn and brought the crazy kids to upstate New York.
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Jenner told Lovee magazine she “was never one of those girls who would do like 30 shows a season”—you know, working. She later said her words were “twisted” and meant “to be entirely complimentary.”
The English actor, 38, stars in the drama Papillon, based on the reallife story of a man falsely imprisoned for murder. You lost a lot of weight for this role. How did you indulge after filming ended? I did two films in a row where I had to lose a lot of weight—about 40 lbs in 10 weeks. So I went on a rampage as soon as I finished: I had steak, french fries, ice cream, all kinds of stuff; I was really really sick for a day afterward. I learned from that mistake. What are you enjoying most in your downtime? I took off almost all last year and just lived. I wrote almost every day and hung with my girl [jewelry designer Morgana McNelis]; it was amazing. Life is good. The lady is really happy, the pals are good, and my mom is good. You’ve mentioned you enjoy cooking— any new specialties up your sleeve? We cook every day at home. All of the old classics are still in rotation, but we’ve started cooking a lot of Indian food; it’s fun. —KARA WARNER
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45 Friends and loved ones remember the extraordinary life of Sen. John McCain, who died of brain cancer at age 81.
Two years after she fell from a third-floor balcony and was left paralyzed from her waist down, the 25-year-old says she’s never been happier
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While on Italy’s Amalfi Coast on Aug. 23, Thomas Rhett and wife Lauren Akins enjoyed “a little dip after a little limoncello,” she posted on Instagram.
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Vanderpump Rules’ Brittany Cartwright showed off her bling with fiancé Jax Taylor at their Aug. 21 engagement party in Topanga, Calif.
Idris Elba posed with his fiancée, Sabrina Dhowre, at the Aug. 21 premiere of his directorial debut, Yardie, in London.
wly enga ed Katharine McPhee and David Fosster supported her former Am rican Idol judge Simon Cowell en received his Hollywood Walk of Fame star on Aug. 22.
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TAYLOR’S NASHVILLE RETURN Nashville, Aug. 25 During the Music City stop on her Reputation Stadium Tour, Taylor Swift revisited her country roots and sang her breakout 2006 single “Tim McGraw” with its namesake—and his wife, Faith Hill!
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Also at Swift’s Aug. 25 show: pal Karlie Kloss, who laid to rest unfounded rumors there was bad blood between them. “I am SO proud of you,” the model wrote on social media.
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On Aug. 25 Selen na Gomez shared a behind-the-scenes look at her new project with Card di o B. “Today was so fun,” she wrote e of a video shoott with the rapper, D DJ Snake and Ozuna.
FAMILY MOVIE DAY East Hampton, N.Y., Aug. 26 Neil Patrick Harris and his 7-year-old twins Gideon (left) and Harper rocked matching shades at a screening of the upcoming animated film Smallfoot.
BONDING WITH BABY SANTIAGO On Au ug. 26 Eva Longoria documented a poolside “Sunday Funday” on Insstagram with her son Santiago Enrique, whom she welcomed on June 19 with husband José “Pepe” Bastón.
GTL IN N.Y.C. New York City, Aug. 22 Jersey Shore’s Vinny Guadagnino (left) and Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio Jr. took a sweet stroll together. “Grab your closest bro by the hand for #Jerzday,” Guadagnino wrote on Instagram.
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“This short, sparkly dress with the tulle train was the perfect combination of cool girl meets rock and roll,” says Mariel Haenn who, along with Rob Zangardi, styled Ciara.
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Misty Copeland in Cushnie.
The annual BET awards show honored the year’s most inspiring black women and gave us some major fashion moments
Mary J. Blige in Roberto Cavalli.
Guatemala City, July 2 Ben Stiller—a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency—traveled to Central America from June 30 to July 3 to meet with refugees who have fled their homes due to gang violence. “I was met with smiles and happiness by a group of resilient and incredible children,” Stiller said. The kids, many of whom are victims of physical or sexual abuse, covered their faces to protect their identity. Despite their hardships, “they were full of laughter, questions, games, singing and jokes,” Stiller added. “Similar children are everywhere.”
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It’s Over Lambert and Felker, who began dating in February—just before the Turnpike Troubadours singer (right) split from his wife—have now called it quits.
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her ow her own n ly lyrics for lifee advice, she might be taking solace in this line from her hit “Mama’s Broken Heart” right about now: “Fix your makeup, girl. It’s just a break up.” The split in question? The 34-yearold Nashville Star alum’s six-month two-step with Turnpike Troubadours singer Evan Felker. (If Lambert’s life wasn’t already like a country ballad, recall that Felker, 34, filed for divorce right after meeting her, and that his jilted wife made her displeasure known on social media.) All of it is inspiration for the multiplatinum-selling singer-songwriter. “Love is a hard road sometimes, and it’s been a roller-coaster ride for me,” Lambert said in a recent interview with The Tennessean. “But I’m PEOPLE September 10, 2018
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definitely thankful for all the ups and downs, because I’ve had some really good songs come out of it.” The Texan now calls herself “happily single” but hasn’t revealed why things went south. “He did something he knew she wasn’t going to approve of,” an insider hints rather tantalizingly. “He knew what he was ‘allowed’ to do based on her rules, and he broke them.” Just what that transgression was, reps for Lambert and Felker won’t say. Sources say Lambert and Felker’s relationship heated up in February, The Felkers’ divorce has since ‘YOU’VE GOT TO when they began texting before been finalized, but now that he TAKE THE BAD his band joined her Livin’ Like and Lambert are history, there’s PARTS AND PUT been speculation about a marital Hippies tour. That was a few THEM ON PAPER AND THEN MOVE make-up. “Evan Felker will never months before she announced ON TO THE her split with then-boyfriend be a nobody to me, his friends, HAPPY PARTS’ Anderson East. “It started very —MIRANDA LAMBERT family or fans,” Nelson posted after his band recently canceled much about work, [and] he was completely thrilled,” the insider told People. its tour with Lambert. That old dog won’t “By the time he was leaving for tour, it had hunt, says the insider: “Evan knows they become a lot flirtier.” The insider adds were never gonna get back together.” As for Lambert, she’s moving on with plenty that 15 days after meeting Lambert, Felker of new material. “You’ve got to take the “ghosted” his wife, Staci Nelson, and then served her with divorce papers after leaving bad parts and put them on paper,” she town. Nelson didn’t take too kindly to that, told The Tennessean of life post-split, at one point posting a tearful self-portrait “and then move on to the happy parts.” — NICOLE SANDS on Instagram.
In April Lambert split with singer Anderson East after two years.
“Staci believed in marriage,” the insider says of the Felkers (in happier times).
Eddie Murphy Baby No. 10! You read that right: Daddy Day Care star Eddie Murphy, 57, is expecting a 10th child in December with his girlfriend, Australian model Paige Butcher, 39, whom he’s been dating since 2012. (The couple also have daughter Izzy Oona, 2.) Murphy’s rep confirmed the news on Aug. 27, after Butcher showed off her baby bump in L.A. The new arrival will have plenty of half siblings to help babysit— Murphy is also dad to five kids with his ex-wife Nicole Murphy, daughter Angel Iris with ex-girlfriend Spice Girl Melanie Brown, son Eric with ex-girlfriend Paulette McNeely and son Christian with ex-girlfriend Tamara Hood. —DANA ROSE FALCONE
Butcher debuted a bump on Aug. 13 in West Hollywood.
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On Aug. 20 MTV announced a Hills reboot at the MTV VMAs with these cast members.
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12 YEARS AFTER THE MTV REALITY HIT’S DEBUT, SEVERAL OF THE STARS ARE REUNITING FOR THE HILLS: NEW BEGINNINGS. BUT A FEW HAVE DECIDEDLY MOVED ON —CHRISTINA DUGAN STEPHANIEPRATT
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Patridge’s former on-again, off-again beau is most remembered for confusing us all—and some of his castmates as well—with his two first names. A musician, Brescia, 36, and his band BobbyrocK recently wrapped their fourth U.S. tour.
Pratt, 32, joined the cast in 2007 and became fast friends with her older brother Spencer’s nemesis Conrad. After the show’s finale, Pratt published her own memoir and appeared on U.K. reality shows Celebrity Big Brother and Made in Chelsea.
In 2013 Spencer and Brody’s longtime pal married wife Jennifer, and the couple have daughter, Isabella, 4, and son, Francis, 1. Currently Delgado, 37, runs a trio of trendy restaurants and nightclubs in Los Angeles. His family will appear on the new series.
After The Hills wrapped, Port, 33, starred in her own spinoff, The City, for two seasons. In 2009 she launched her fashion line and married TV producer Tim Rosenman in 2015. The couple have a son, Sonny, 1.
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He may have broken Lauren Conrad’s heart a couple times during the show’s run, but now Wahler, 31, is happily married to Ashley Slack and is father to 1-year-old daughter Delilah. After struggling with addiction over the years, Wahler is now sober.
Moving on after a contentious split from ex-husband Corey Bohan, the 33-year-old is looking forward to the next chapter. “Kirra [her 2-year-old daughter with Bohan] is her top priority, and she’s trying to focus on the positive,” a friend of the star says.
The couple, who sparked outrage (and all kinds of drama!) when they started dating early in the show’s run, were married in 2009 and have son Gunner, 11 months. Nicknamed “Speidi,” the duo have since made appearances on several other reality shows.
Linked to Conrad and Cavallari during the show, Jenner, 35, married longtime girfriend Kaitlynn Carter in June. Though they’re not confirmed to join the cast, a source says the duo are “in talks.”
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The married designer, author and mom of one, 32, “is in a different place in her life, but she wants everyone to enjoy themselves,” says a source.
She’s too busy with other obligations, but a source says the E! personality, 31, who is married to NFL star Jay Cutler, is “excited” for her castmates.
She’s “happy” for some of her former friends, but Bosworth, 31, said on her Lady Lovin’ podcast, “I don’t want any association with any of those people.”
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Six months after welcoming daughter Mia Love, the singer, 41, and model, 23, confirmed they are expecting another baby. “Going to have another daddy’s girl!!!” Geary revealed on Instagram on Aug. 25. Thicke is also dad to son Julian Fuego, 8, with ex Paula Patton.
The SNL star and singer (who dated for a few weeks before he proposed in June) are still in the honeymoon phase of their engagement. “I’m a very, very happy boy who is very, very loved, and I’m very lucky,” Davidson, 24, said at Auburn University in Alabama on Aug. 23. Two days later he kissed his fiancée, 25, onstage at her Sweetener Sessions concert in L.A.
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Since Phypers finalized his divorce with ex Nicolette Sheridan on Aug. 17, his relationship with Richards is stronger than ever. “Denise and Aaron are getting pretty serious,” says a source. “They really care about each other.” Richards, 47, and Phypers have been linked since December; Phypers was married to Sheridan, 54, for six months before they separated in 2016.
G-Eazy & Halsey The pair—who collaborated on the hit single “Him & I”—appear to have rekindled their romance. On Aug. 20 the rapper, 29, and singer, 23, were photographed holding hands while leaving an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty at 1 OAK in New York City. Two months ago Halsey (a.k.a. Ashley Frangipane) revealed she and G-Eazy (real name: Gerald Gillum) were “taking time apart” after a year of dating.
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“I just want to keep working,” says Hart (in Clarissa, which ran from 1991 to ’94). “I want to be Betty White.”
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Hart returned to where she filmed 1998’s Sabrina Goes to Rome with Wilkerson and her sons on July 16. 2017
In Operation Finale (out Aug. 29) you play an Israeli spy who captures Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. What makes the movie timely? When we were shooting, we had period costumes, all these old cars—it felt like a historical movie. Then we switched on the news and Charlottesville was happening, and there were these people walking around with Nazi flags and saluting. It felt like we were making a movie about what’s happening now. And you just finished Triple Frontier (2019) in Hawaii with Ben Affleck and Charlie Hunnam . . . Hawaii sounds very luxurious, but we were out in the jungle in the mud and the rain, so it was definitely challenging. I hope we made a good movie. Will the next Star Wars be a wrap for Poe Dameron? I think the idea is to definitely wrap this particular story up. What’s really satisfying as an actor is to have a fulfilling arc. We’ve already started shooting, and it feels different. More fun, more relaxed, a little looser. It’s a joy to be on-set. —NIGEL SMITH
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Was there even TV before Melissa Joan Hart? Sure, but at 42, the peppy Long Islander has been a pop-culture fixture for nearly 30 years. Back in 1991 she became a teen icon in Nickelodeon’s Clarissa Explains It All. Hart was 14, but her life changed forever. “Trying to learn those lines, stay up on your work, your family, your friends—and you’re a teenager, you want a boyfriend—it was a lot,” she says. Then came Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which began as a TV movie with Ryan Reynolds. “He was always so sweet,” she says. When Sabrina ended in 2003, she wed musician Mark Wilkerson, and they share three sons: Mason, 12, Braydon, 10, and Tucker, 5. “I’m in a place where I can pick up a series here and there, direct, produce and still be a soccer mom,” says Hart, who stars in the evangelical movie God’s Not Dead 2 (out now in a DVD three-pack). She’s not a part of Netflix’s announced Sabrina reboot. “It ended perfectly,” says Hart. “I wouldn’t want to touch it with anything.” —DANA ROSE FALCONE
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Kim Kardashian West’s 20-lb. Weight Loss She’s never been shy about flaunting her physique, but since cutting back on sugar and embarking on an intensive weight-training regime, Kim Kardashian West, 37, feels like a new woman. “I’ve lost 20 lbs., and I’m really proud of that,” the 5'3" Keeping Up with the Kardashians star told E! News in an interview that aired Aug. 22. “I was almost 140 [lbs.] forever, and now I’m like 116, and it just feels good.” Not everyone was celebrating: Her decision to share the numbers on her scale was met with criticism online for encouraging an unhealthy body image. The mom of three said that she exercises for “about an hour and a half every single day,” preferring heavy weights over cardio when she trains with former bodybuilder Melissa Alcantara. She also eats “a lot healthier than I used to.” Still, “I love HäagenDazs ice cream,” she confessed. —DANA ROSE FALCONE
A curvier Kardashian back in 2017 (at left) and the ripped reality diva in Versace in August.
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The Fifty Shades of Grey actor, 36, has listed his Hollywood Hills home for $3.2 million. The 2,510-sq.-ft. house features four bedrooms, a pool and a patio with firepit. Floor-to-ceiling windows, an open floor plan and an atrium m add to the mid-century modern aesthetic—and would make it tough to hide a Red Room of Pain.
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There’s a baby boom going on at Banner Desert Medical Center, where 16 intensive-care-unit nurses (12 of whom are pictured here) are all due to give birth between October and February. They discovered the surprising coincidence when they started a Facebook group in July. “Every week someone else popped up!” says Alyssa VanderMolen, 28, who’s due in October. Now the women are bonding over their shared baby joy. Says Rochelle Sherman, 28, who’s due Oct. 24: “It’s nice having that support.”
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The deal was that 6-year-old Katelyn Lunt could get one Barbie Doll from Amazon in exchange for helping her mom, Catherine Lunt, 47, with a few household chores. It wasn’t until several days later that Catherine discovered her daughter had secretly gone back to the computer and ordered another $400 worth of toys from the retailer. “I was like, are you kidding me?!” recalls Catherine. By that time it was too late to cancel most of the orders—which the Lunts donated to a local hospital to teach Katelyn (who is now banned from Amazon) a lesson. “It was all pretty funny,” admits Catherine. “Katelyn’s been a little firecracker from the day she was born!”
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Henry, a shepherd-huskyboxer mix, and Baloo have been inseparable since the day they met.
“It’s like they complete each other,” says Cynthia Bennett, 24, who, with boyfriend Andre Sibilsky, 30, first adopted dog Henry nearly four years ago and then his feline BFF, Baloo, last year. During a hike not long after, Bennett put Baloo on Henry’s head for a photo—and the two have been Instagram favorites ever since, with over 880,000 followers. “To me, Henry and Baloo embody the idea that no matter our diferences, we can all love each other,” says Bennett, “and people pick up on that.”
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her third child with husband David Rubulotta on Aug. 20. Owen Thomas joins the couple’s son Nyle Thomas, 4, and daughter Colby Isabelle, 3. Prison Break’s Lane Garrison, 38, and his fiancée, Mary Kaitlin, welcomed their first child, a daughter named Linden Rose, on July 28. Former Drake & Josh star Josh Peck, 31, and his wife, Paige, are expecting their first child.
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battling dementia. Shaun Weiss, 40, the actor who played the goalie in the Mighty Ducks films franchise, revealed on Aug. 21 that he has checked into rehab weeks after he was arrested for allegedly being high on drugs and acting strangely.
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Jack Klugman and Tony Randall in ABC’s The Odd Couple series (1970-75).
Probably the most successful American playwright of all time, Neil Simon, who was 91 when he died in New York City on Aug. 26, is world-famous for The Odd Couple, his 1965 comedy about mismatched roommates. It became a hit movie, a hit TV series and the unofficial template for dozens of other odd-couple comedies. Described by Matthew Broderick as “a brilliantly funny, unthinkably wonderful writer,” Simon was the author of more than 30 plays (from 1963’s Barefoot in the Park, which made a star of the young Robert Redford, to 1983’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, which marked Broderick’s Broadway debut). In 1966 alone he had four shows on Broadway at the same time. Add to that his more than 20 screenplays, which won Oscars for the likes of Maggie Smith (California Suite) and Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl—costarring Marsha Mason, the second of Simon’s four wives). The secret to his success, Simon told The New York Times, was that he aimed for the heart as well as the funny bone: “It’s not all about the laughter—it’s about the feelings that the audience gets.” —TOM GLIATTO
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Welcome to Mr. Carrey’s neighborhood—it’s no place for ids as the soft-spoken, saintly host of his own PBS COMEDY-DRAMA Carrey, who in recent months has been busy posting anti-Trump cartoons on his Twitter series: Even migrant farmworkers, pulling up account—well-drawn cartoons at that, wild and cucumbers in the field, cite his little moral lessons squiggly—is back with his first TV vehicle in nearly and songs (“Feelings gotta grow, like feet”). But no 20 years. Kidding, in which he plays a children’s TV one will let Mr. Pickles film the very special episode host named Mr. Pickles, is wild and squiggly too, and dearest to his heart—the death-and-grief episode. His own son was killed recently in a car accident, from time to time very funny. But it’s also melanand Mr. Pickles, his wife (Judy Greer) and their choly, anxious and damp with an air of existential remaining son have no adequate way to bewilderment. (And not for family viewing.) This probably has something to do ‘The show express their sorrow. As he puts it, “My family’s shriveling up like a Polaroid in a with the fact that most of the season is is wild, directed by Michel Gondry, who teamed puddle.” Carrey’s performance is crushsquiggly, ingly sad and rather unsettling. It’s as if a with Carrey for the 2004 movie Eternal funny—but Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, an eccentric funeral-home director impersonated masterpiece. Mr. Pickles inspires millions melancholy’ Fred Rogers. (Showtime, Sept. 9, 10 p.m.) PEOPLE September 10, 2018
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So how many costumes can we expect? Listen, the band is called Queen. I’m a queen—let me let you have it! Freddie’s fashion was so flamboyant. It gives me a free pass. You accidentally posted a video recently of Sam Smith saying he doesn’t like Michael Jackson. What happened? We had had some champagne. . . . I had my phone on mute, and I did not listen to the video. That was a sliver of a fuller conversation; now people are jumping all over him! People need to give him a break. —JEFF NELSON
Bateman and Linney gamble big on a new scheme.
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Dirtier, rottener scoundrels DRAMA “We need 100 percent honesty,” Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) tells his family at the start of season 2, “like our lives depend on it.” Like? The Byrdes’ lives do depend on it. Their criminal enterprise is growing new tentacles, and the local yokels are still violent and shifty. Laura Linney, as Marty’s wheeler-dealer wife, gives of the subtlest sense of degradation, as if she were a fine lady intent on looking straight ahead and not down at her mud-caked hem. (Launches Aug. 31)
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COMEDY Season 13 starts with a few nice surprises, but none match the perverse running gag about a male sex doll. It delivers telepathic messages, mostly put-downs. After all these years the show still feels like something that ought to be scraped of the bottom of your shoe. May it always remain so. (FXX, Sept. 5, 10 p.m.)
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Q&A A Hamilton Star’s Next Moves
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Destination Wedding ROMANTIC COMEDY Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder play two dour, middle-aged singletons stuck at a wedding. They’re made for each other—but his pessimism is a killer. Ryder: “Don’t you believe there’s someone for everyone?” Reeves: “Close—I believe there’s nobody for anyone.” It’s barbed but sweet, as if Larry David had directed Before Sunrise. (In limited release Aug. 31, R)
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CROSSOVER The beloved soprano, who made her Broadway musical debut this year in Carousel, lends her rich voice to what are often referred to by the lowly term “show tunes.” She sends them soaring. The album sticks mostly to the big guns (The Music Man’s “Till There Was You”) but also gives the very new its due (Dear Evan Hansen s “So So Big/So Small (Sept. 7) Hansen’s Small”)). (Sept
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Leslie Odom Jr., 37, plays the Gatsby-like new guy in town on the CBS All Access drama One Dollar. The show shoots in Pittsburgh—is that tough for a dad with a baby back in Manhattan? [Lucille was born in April 2017.] One Dollar has been a really nice job for a family man—it’s such an ensemble show, I’m not there a whole lot. But it’s nice to pop into Pittsburgh four or five days out of every month. You’re an author too. Is there another book in the works after Falling Up? That is hard work! I have an idea, but I don’thaveanyplans to start writing it. And you’re a great singer! You released a jazz album last year— have you been in the studio? I’m working on a record now, so next year. Very excited. How did you link up with Sia, who directed you in the upcoming movie Sister? I got a private message on social media from her saying she’s written this part for me in a movie. I was like, “How fast can I say yes?” —BREANNE L.
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COUNTRY Stars young and old turn out for this double album celebrating the Country Hall of Famer and his genial, charming songs, which include not just his signature classic “King of the Road” but the Broadway musical Big River. Kacey Musgraves—who was only 4 when Miller died at age 56 in ’92—brings her rollicking retro style to “Kansas City Star.” Willie Nelson updates his Miller collaboration “Old Friends,” this time with Kris Kristoferson and the late Merle Haggard in tow. For “King,” everyone chimes in—after all, Miller alone owns that crown. (Aug. 31)
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A dangerous new world of drugs, gangs and deadly turf wars DRAMA This follow-up to Sons of Anarchy, FX’s groundbreaking hit, is another powerfully dusty, violent saga. It’d probably be the same if creator Kurt Sutter had decided to go with Daughters of Anarchy. EZ (handsome JD Pardo) wants to join his big brother’s motorcycle gang, which means he’s immediately dragged into a drug-smuggling operation and murderous fun on both sides of the California-Mexico border. There’s a large, excellent Latino cast and plenty of whiplash turns of plot. (FX, Sept. 4, 10 p.m.)
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The Best New Books A searing memoir from Steve Jobs’s daughter, a poignant novel set at Auschwitz and photographer Bill Cunningham’s life story Edited by Kim Hubbard
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MEMOIR Her mother was a bohemian single parent on welfare, her father the stratospherically wealthy Steve Jobs. In her extraordinary memoir, Brennan-Jobs shares haunting anecdotes from that bifurcated childhood: excruciating fights with her mom, her dad’s cruelty and frequent absences, but also the joy of roller-skating Palo Alto’s streets with “Steve” (never Dad) and her triumphant acceptance to Harvard. An eye-opening portrait of Apple’s complicated founder, this is also an aching, exquisitely told story of a young woman’s quest for belonging and love.
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NOVEL After Lale Sokolov is taken to a Nazi concentration camp in 1942, his captors assign him to tattoo identifying numbers on fellow prisoners—one of whom, Gita, captures his heart. Based on a true story, the wrenching yet riveting tale of Lale’s determination to survive the camp with Gita is a moving testament to the power of kindness, ingenuity and hope.
MEMOIR The phenomenal joie de vivre of the legendary New York Times photographer, who died at 87 in 2016, bursts of the pages of this chronicle of the early days of his career. His escapades as a renegade hat designer in New York, an Army private in Europe, a gate-crasher and people-watcher in high society are enchanting, his passion for fashion irresistible.
Teen Pick Jennifer Gilmore If Only In alternating chapters, a pregnant teenager grapples with choosing parents for her unborn baby, and the baby—now a thoughtful 16-year-old—wonders about her birth mother’s identity and choices. An emotional, sensitively wrought novel about identity, chance and fate.
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Strong Spirit “He was a fighter pilot, and the operative word is ‘fighter,’” says Dr. Hal Kushner, a former Army flight surgeon and Vietnam War POW alongside McCain.
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“He says, ‘We are getting back to work and going to Afghanistan!’” recalls Buchanan. It was an inside joke among the McCainiacs that the wisecracking former Naval oicer—then 72 and the oldest presidential nominee in history—could easily outrun and outlast even the strongest in his pack. Says Buchanan: “We all thought that he’d live past me and he’d be the one giving my eulogy someday.” But on Aug. 25 the decorated warrior politician, who in his 81 years survived being tortured by the North Vietnamese, bruising political battles and most recently, tangling with Donald Trump, died of brain cancer at his Arizona home just 13 months after announcing his diagnosis. “My heart is broken,” tweeted his wife, Cindy, 64, minutes after the family announced his death. “I am so lucky to have lived the adventure of loving this incredible man for 38 years. He passed the way he lived, on his own terms, surrounded by the people he loved, in the place he loved best.” Added his daughter Meghan, 33, one of McCain’s seven children: “I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning. He loved me, and I loved him.” Even in death McCain fulfilled his reputation as the Republican party’s maverick—so named because “he was a man of his own opinion, not led by polls or focus groups or party leaders,” says Dr. Hal Kushner, a former Army flight sur46
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Courage Under Fire “We communicated with hand signals,” former Marine Corps pilot Orson Swindle says of his time in a North Vietnamese prison alongside McCain (above, in ’67, and meeting then-President Nixon in ’73). “John was a dear friend, a patriot, a great senator.”
geon and fellow POW during the Vietnam War alongside McCain. Although he voted in line with Trump on most issues—and, like Trump, was a top beneficiary of campaign contributions from the NRA—he was also the only senior Republican to repeatedly and publicly take a stand against Trump, such as when he famously cast the deciding vote to save the Afordable Healthcare Act. After McCain’s death, Trump—who in 2015 said the senator was “not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured”—only briefly flew the
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fter Election Night 2008, when John McCain surrendered his decades-long dream of reaching the White House, there was no hiding under the covers. He graciously conceded defeat to Barack Obama, who, he acknowledged, “achieved a great thing for himself and his country.” By 7:30 the next morning the Arizona senator was rallying his troops—the stafers 30 or 40 years his junior who called themselves McCainiacs—for his next mission. “Get your ass out of bed!” he barked over the phone to communications strategist Brooke Buchanan.
White House flags at half-staf before reversing course amid mounting backlash. Vice President Mike Pence, not Trump, was scheduled to represent the White House at McCain’s memorial service at the United States Capitol, on Aug.31. In a posthumous letter McCain rebuked the current Administration, writing, “We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism for tribal rivalries. . . . We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down. . . . Do not despair of our present diiculties, but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender.” John Sidney McCain III never did. The son and grandson of two four-star U.S. Navy admirals, “Johnny,” as his surviving 106-year-old mother, Roberta, called him, was a troublemaker at the Naval Academy. He ran with a group who called themselves the Bad Bunchand,in1958,graduated 894th in his class of 899 midshipmen. Still, military leadership was in his genes, and by 30 he was a lieutenant commander in the Vietnam War. After his A-4 Skyhawk was shot down over Hanoi on Oct. 26, 1967, McCain was held prisoner by the North Vietnamese—and tortured—for 5½ years. When his father was named commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, his captors ofered to free the younger McCain. He refused, citing the Naval code of conduct. “Three things kept me going,” McCain told People in 1992, “faith in God, faith in my fellow prisoners and faith in my country.” Stalwart and stoic, McCain always insisted that after his release in March 1973, he dodged PTSD
His Maverick Moments Running with Sarah Palin In his recent memoir, he called choosing Palin over Joe Lieberman as his 2008 running mate a “mistake.”
Reaching Across the Aisle He counted political opponents Sen. Ted Kennedy, who died in ’09 of brain cancer, and Sen. Joe Lieberman as close friends.
Defending Obama At a 2008 town hall, he told a supporter who said she was “scared” of President Obama, “He is a decent person.”
Thumbs Down In July 2017, McCain cast the deciding vote to stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, just days after his cancer diagnosis.
Family Man Left: John and Cindy on their 1980 wedding day. In addition to his three kids with first wife Carol, he had Meghan, Jack, Jimmy and Bridget (adopted from Bangladesh) with Cindy (in the mid-1990s). Right: At Meghan’s wedding last November.
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His Lasting Words “War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.” —1999 “In prison I fell in love with my country. . . . It wasn’t until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her.” —1999
and other homecomingg crises commonlyy expep rienced by so many of his fellow Vietnam vets. “I was able to put it all behind me when I came home,” he said in that ’92 interview. “People ask me how long did it take to readjust? It took me about 45 minutes.” But McCain’s first marriage, to Carol Shepp, with whom he had three children, fell apart upon his return to civilian life. Just six weeks after their divorce, he married beer heiress Cindy Lou Hensley in 1980 and entered politics. From 1983 until his death, McCain represented Arizona in Washington, first in the U.S. House and then, for 31 years, in the Senate. Former Rep. John Dingell, a Democrat from Michigan, remembers McCain’s first day on the House floor: “I saw a slighter, smaller-than-medium guy with white hair and I said, ‘Who the hell is that?’” Dingell, now 92, says the McCain he worked with was “a dogged ole SOB, sharp as hell and tougher than a $2 steak.” For all his military medals (two Purple Hearts and the Silver Star among them), the loftiest prize of a lifetime in patriotic service—the White House—eluded him. At the low point of his 2008 presidential primary campaign, when he was out of money and given up for politically dead, his own mother assessed the arc of his career and asked a People reporter, “Do you know anybody who would go through what he’s gone through for money or fame? He just wants to serve.” As for the controversial fame that followed his Vice Presidential pick, Sarah Palin, McCain expressed regret in his candid end-of-life memoir, The Rest48
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“We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always. Let us argue our differences. But remember, we are not enemies.” —2004 “I don’t believe in destiny. We are not born to become one thing or another, left to follow helplessly a course that was charted for us by some unseen hand.” —2005 “So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. . . . Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.” —2005 “I don’t have a complaint. Not one. It’s been quite a ride. . . . I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times.” —2018
less Wave,writing that he wished he had gone with his gut and chosen his good friend, former Democratic senator Joe Lieberman. In McCain’s final months it was the lifelong bonds he shared with friends and loved ones that gave him comfort. Daughter Meghan, a cohost of The View, accelerated her wedding plans, marrying Ben Domenech at the family home outside Sedona on Nov. 21. It was there, in a valley McCain often described as paradise, that Meghan and her siblings and half siblings (brother Jack, carrying his father’s legacy, is a lieutenant in the Navy; Jimmy is a Marine) gathered during their father’s cancer treatments. “Theyrallied around him,telling great stories about their childhood,” says Lieberman. McCain’s first wife, Carol, kept in quiet touch with him in the decades after their divorce, telling People, “I don’t want to speak publicly about John, but this is a sad time for me. I am sad that he is gone but so happy that he is not sufering.” As for his mother, Roberta, “she is a very strong woman,” says a close family friend. “She outlived her 81-year-old son. That tells you a lot. But it’s a tough blow to bury your child.” To the end, McCain remained humble about his extraordinary life. He told Jan Scruggs, who founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C., “I wish we could trade legacies,” recalls Scruggs. “You have really accomplished something in life with the [Vietnam Veterans] Wall. I am just one of Club 100, a.k.a. the U.S. Senate!”
‘I hope those who mourn my passing, and even those who don’t, will celebrate . . . a happy life lived in imperfect service to a country made of ideals’ —JOHN McCAIN
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Loving Bonds “I love you forever,” Meghan McCain (left, with him in March) tweeted after her dad’s death. Cindy and John (above, in 2000) first lied to each other about their ages to avoid addressing their 17year age difference, Cindy later said. “He is my hero,” she said last year.
McCain himself, the day after he deep-fried seven turkeys for a post-wedding Thanksgiving feast with Meghan’s in-laws, pondered what people might remember of him after he was gone. “I’ve been a small bit of American history,” McCain told People on Nov. 24. “So I think if there’s something on my tombstone, it’ll be ‘He served his country.’ And, hopefully, you add one word—‘honorably.’” In his parting memoir, one of the nation’s most determined hawks expressed a
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Johnny Galecki ‘Leonard’ The former Roseanne star, 43, plays the ultimate nerd—and Sheldon’s roommate—who eventually finds love with Penny.
Simon Helberg ‘Howard’ The actor, 37, embodies an aerospace engineer and self-proclaimed womanizer who lives with his mother.
Jim Parsons ‘Sheldon’ The Emmy winner, 45, wrote an emotional message about the series ending, saying he feels “very fortunate we have another 23 episodes to shoot.”
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“This ride has been a dream come true and as life changing as it gets,” Cuoco, 32, wrote on Instagram after news broke. “No matter when it was going to end, my heart would have always been broken in two.”
Kunal Nayyar ‘Rajesh’ “There are no words in any language that can describe what my heart wants to say,” Nayyar, 37, said of the show coming to an end, calling his love for the fans “boundless.”
Mayim Bialik ‘Amy’ “Am I happy? Of course not,” Bialik, 42, wrote on her website Grok Nation. “This is hard. I love coming to work and pretending to be Amy. She’s a riot. She’s me, and I am her.”
is everything. Back in 2007, when the stars of The Big Bang Theory were first brought together for a quirkyCBSsitcomaboutphysicists,friendshipand findinglove,theyknewtheyhadit.“We’resoclose,” Kaley Cuoco, who became famous as waitressactress Penny, said in 2014. “It’s a great group of peoplewholeavetheiregosatthedoor.”Theirlittle science experiment proved to be a megahit, but on Aug.22producersannouncedtheshow’s12thseason (premiering Sept. 24) will be its last. In a statement they and the cast—which includes Cuoco, JohnnyGalecki,JimParsons,KunalNayyar,Simon Helberg, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch—were wistful, saying they were “forever grateful to our fans” and promising “an epic creative close” to the long-running comedy. Had they signed on for two moreseasons,Bang’soriginalfiveleads(Rauchand Bialik joined the ensemble later) were set to make an astounding $50 million each, but Parsons was ready to move on, and ultimately all agreed it was better to bring things to an end, reports Entertainment Weekly. Fans are bereft, but wrapping things up has long been on the actors’ minds. “We’re all goingtobeverysadwhenthatdaycomes,”Galecki told reporters in January. “But I think at this point everyone’sverycomfortablewith12seasonsbeing a good time to go home and see our families.” And no matter how writers sum up the story lines of each character in the finale, Big Bang will live forever in syndication. “I don’t think there really will be my life without it,” Cuoco said earlier this year. “I think it’ll always be there. I think it’ll always be running. I think we’ll always have those fans. It’s always going to be a part of me.”
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A MOTHER’S LOVE “She was so into her family,” says friend Kris Landon of Shan’ann (with, from left, Celeste and Bella in an April 21 Facebook post). “She talked about her girls as miracles.”
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PICTURE PERFECT College friend Lauren Gorry remembers Shan’ann and Chris’s 2012 wedding as “laid-back. . . . They seemed happy.”
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he Watts family home 30 miles north of Denver sits on a tidy street typical of American suburbia: The kids ride bikes, the adults confer about lawn maintenance,andsometimestheneighborsoverhear fights between husbands and wives. So when Melinda Phillips headed out to work one morning earlier this summer, she didn’t think much at first of seeing Shan’ann and Chris Watts “clearly having an argument” in their driveway across the street. “Lord knows I’ve
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Shan’ann’s father, Frank Rzucek, is comforted by son Frankie as Chris (far left) is arraigned on Aug. 21. Frankie, on Facebook, asked for prayers for Chris’s relatives too: “They are our family and are hurting just as much.”
‘STRANGULATION IS A VERY PERSONAL WAY TO KILL. . . . THERE IS EVIDENCE TYING CHRIS TO HIS DAUGHTERS’ MURDERS’
had arguments with my husband,” says Phillips. “But they caught my eye, and suddenly everything changed. They started talking a lot more calmly. He even gave her a hug. This was in the 30 seconds to a minute while I put my stuf in the car. From a full-blownfighttohugsinlessthanaminute.Itwas incredible. They were putting on a show.” These days no one on Saratoga Trail in Frederick, Colo., trusts what they thought they knew about the family in house No. 2825. Chris and Shan’annWatts,marriedfiveyears,hadseemedso blissfully in love, raising their two young daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, with a third child on —POLICE SOURCE the way. Today Chris, 33, sits in jail, accused of murdering Shan’ann, 34 and 15 weeks pregnant, and their two daughters and stashing their bodies on the property of the oil-and-gas com-
pany where he worked—Shan’ann in a shallow grave, Bella and Celeste in two nearby oil tanks filled with crude. Held without bond, Chris has not yet entered a plea (his public defender hasn’t responded to People’s requests for comment) and is next due in court on Nov. 19. But the nine felony charges against him—including two counts of first-degree murder of a child under 12 by a person in a position of trust and unlawful termination of a pregnancy—are telling, a Frederick police source tells People. “This does not seem like a crime of passion,” the source says. “We have evidence that shows he was thinking about this for some time. That’s why he’s charged like he is.” The arrest aidavit, made public six days after Chris stood on his front porch and gave stilted TV interviews pleading for his family’s safe return (“He didn’t seem upset at all,” observed neighbor Terry Witt at the time), was a bombshell: Chris, according to police, confessed to strangling Shan’ann in the early hours of Aug. 13 after she arrived home late from a work trip and he announced that he wanted a separation. But Chris alleged he killed her in a fit of “rage” after seeing her—on a baby monitor in their bedroom—strangling Celeste beside Bella’s lifelessbody.Theaidavitalsorevealedthatpolice determined Chris was having an affair with an unnamedcoworkeratAnadarkoPetroleum,which fired him the day of his arrest. As authorities took him into custody, “he showed no emotion,” says a police source. “He looked like he couldn’t be bothered by the whole thing.” While Shan’ann’s shattered parents, Sandra Onorati Rzucek and Frank Rzucek, plan funeral services in Pinehurst, N.C., near her childhood home in Aberdeen, all who knew the Watts family struggle to reconcile their memories with new information about what lurked below the surface. And the Frederick police are still gathering evidence. “He’s lied to us before,” says the police source.“Sowehavetocheckeverypartofhisstory.”
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who asked for anonymity because the officer is not authorized to speak to the press, tells People that hundreds of hairs recovered from the interior of Chris’s work truck—which, according to his confession, he used to transport the bodies of his pregnant wife and two daughters—are being tested to determine whether the hairs fell out before death or postmortem, which is key to establishing a timeline: “If [Shan’ann] killed the kids and he then killed her, the girls won’t have been dead for very long when he loads them in the truck. The hairs should reflect that.” But, the police source
ALL SMILES The couple’s five-bedroom home (top) was ready-made for the growing family Shan’ann had wanted since at least her college days. With recent success in direct-marketing sales of Le-Vel wellness products, Chris and Shan’ann (middle, in Punta Cana in February) enjoyed vacations paid for by the company. Shan’ann’s father, Frank “Pop Pop” Rzucek, sometimes came from North Carolina to babysit Bella and Celeste (bottom, left to right) during their parents’ travels.
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continues, they may also bear out an alternative scenario: that Chris killed the girls even before Shan’ann returned from her Aug. 10-12 work trip to Arizona. “Then,” the police source explains, “the hairs will show that the girls were dead for longer than his version of the story.” The telltale hairs are just one piece of the puzzle investigators are poring over. While the baby monitor does not store footage, the source says, police are finding plenty of evidence on bedding, clothes, computers and phones taken from the Watts home. And police are helped by the fact that text messages and search histories were not deleted. “We don’t think that this was a situation where someone just snapped,” the police source says, adding of Shan’ann, “The theory that she did it doesn’t hold any water. There is absolutely no evidence that she killed her children.”
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murders took place, it’s the why that haunts those who knew and loved Shan’ann. “It’s hard to find reasoning for such things,” her younger brother FrankieRzucekwroteonFacebookonAug.18.Just weeks before the murders, Chris and Shan’ann were seen walking hand-in-hand behind their two daughters—Bella on a bike with training wheels, Celeste on a tricycle—as they pedaled to the community playground. “They looked like a comfortable couple who had been together for a while,” says a neighbor who asked that her name not be published. And Shan’ann’s prolific posts to Facebook and Instagram painted a portrait of a picture-perfect family eagerly awaiting the birth of a new baby. But the Wattses’ lives had not been without
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‘I DON’T KNOW WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE IN THAT HOME, BUT THERE WERE NO RED FLAGS THAT THOSE GIRLS WERE SCARED OF HIM’ —A WATTS NEIGHBOR
HIDDEN HORROR Police say Shan’ann and her daughters were killed in their Frederick, Colo., home (bottom left, with neighbors’ tributes) and then moved to a remote stretch of property (right) of the Anadarko oil-and-gas company, for which Chris worked. A police source says that clothing seized from the Watts home ties Chris to both scenes. “We’ve just begun our investigation in many ways, but we have a lot of evidence,” the source says.
hardships. When Shan’ann met Chris on Facebook in 2010, she was divorced and struggling with both a diagnosis of lupus and her doctor’s warning that the autoimmune disease could prevent her from ever having children. “She always talked about how many kids she wanted—and she wanted a lot,” recalls Lauren Gorry, who met Shan’ann in a psychology class when they were students at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. Chris, whose cousin’s wife knew Shan’ann and thought they would be a match, sent her a friend request, and they started dating. In a Facebook video earlier this year, Shan’ann credited Chris with sticking around in those early days when, she recalled, “I was in a really, really, really bad place. . . . Through sickness and everything, he’s been there.” Along the way, Chris could seem aloof, especially beside Shan’ann, who is widely described as the more outgoing of the two. “I always wondered why he was so quiet,” his former high school teacher Joe Duty told ABC News. “Looking at what has happened, I’m wondering if there was anything way back in his head back then that he may have kept from everybody.” In 2012, six months before Chris and Shan’ann wed, he posted to YouTube a video presentation he made for a communications class he was taking on the topic of “relationship deterioration and repair.” In it he identifies infidelity as a cause of “sudden” vs. “gradual” deterioration. “When somebody is not faithful,” Chris said then, “. . .the partners realize the relationship cannot be
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sustained.” Close friends Amanda and Nick Thayer, with whom Chris spent the night before his shocking confession and arrest, say the Wattses’ marriage betrayedonlythe“normalmarried-coupleupsand downs.”AsAmandatoldDenver’sKUSA,Chriswas theonewhotold Shan’annhewantedathirdchild, and while she would sometimes joke—when a text went unanswered, for example—about a potential “other woman,” she never seriously suspected Chris was cheating. The last time the two families were together, for a taco night at the Thayers’ in June, “everything was normal. The girls were playing, Shan’ann was having fun. Chris was having fun,” recalls Nick. Another friend now reconsiders the scene at this year’s neighborhood Super Bowl party, when Chris showed up with just Bella and Celeste. “He told us thatShan’annhadamigraine,buthesaiditinaneyeroll way,” says the friend. This friend’s wife says she rememberstheChriswho,cominghomefromwork, would kneel down in the driveway for kisses as his girls barreled toward him with squeals of “Daddy! Daddy!” Says this woman: “It was exactly what you expect from a happy family, which is why everyone herecan’tstoptalkingaboutit.It’sliketheheadlines areaboutanotherfamily,notthefamilyweknew.”
GONE TOO SOON Shan’ann (wearing one of the Thrive skin patches she sold) and her daughters and unborn son are remembered at a memorial (top) at their home. “Shan’ann was one of those people born to be moms,” says friend Lauren Gorry.
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A Cry for Help On Aug. 22 Affleck’s ex Jennifer Garner and an alcohol counselor drove him to a Malibu treatment center. “He knows she will come and rescue him,” says a source. “He is extremely lucky to have Jen.”
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AFFLECK SHOWED SIGNS OF TROUBLE IN THE DAYS BEFORE HIS RETURN TO REHAB
Aug. 15 Affleck looked upbeat on his 46th birthday, when he was spotted shopping for a new car and having dinner with his kids.
A Fizzled Romance Now exgirlfriend Lindsay Shookus (with Affleck in San Juan in July) broke off the relationship because “she had to let him hit bottom,” says a source.
to stage an intervention in the middle of the afternoon, pretty much in public. But this was a crisis.” As always her focus remains squarely on their kids Violet, 12, Seraphina, 9, and Samuel, 6. “There are no secrets, and Jen is great at explaining what’s going on in age-appropriate ways,” adds the insider. “She tells them Ben is sick and needs doctors. What she ultimately cares about is his sobriety and whether she can rely on him to co-parent. She is trying to keep the father of her children alive.” Some sources say Aleck’s split with Shookus, 38, exacerbated his spiral. “Lindsay had been supporting Ben’s sobriety, but she knew he wasn’t getting better,” says a friend of the former couple’s. “And that it was time for her to step aside.” Others close to Aleck say his issues run far deeper. “He’s been famous for most of his life,” adds the source close to him. “He was young when he became famous and part of a fun, rebellious crowd. He didn’t grow up or away from it and doesn’t know how. He’s really never been alone. I think Ben struggles with being two people, being the family man and also having that need to be the consummate cool kid.” Aleck’s first trip to rehab came in 2001, when he was driven by friend Charlie Sheen to a residential facility. “If it wasn’t drinking, it was gambling,” says the insider. “He has this personality, and it’s very diicult to get away from.” In March 2017 Aleck revealed on Facebook that he had once again completed treatment, writing, “I want to live life
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ous: a breakup with his girlfriend of a year, Saturday Night Live producer Lindsay Shookus; dates with a 22-yearold Playboy model, Shauna Sexton; a delivery of what appeared to be a box of alcohol at his L.A. house. For Ben Affleck, who has publicly struggled with addiction since 2001, it all amounted to yet another cry for help. On Aug. 22 his ex, actress Jennifer Garner, with an addiction therapist at her side, staged an intervention at his home and drove the emotional Justice League star to a Malibu rehab facility. “Ben had been drinkingalonefordays,”says an insider. “He was in bad shape. He had barely been eatingandhadnotshowered. It didn’t take much convincing. He wanted to go, and he cooperated.” While his rehab trip followed a week of troubling public behavior, several sources confirm Affleck, 46, has been struggling with his sobriety for months despite attending meetings at various treatment centers and working with a sobriety coach for much of the last year. “He’s battled addiction for a long time now,” says an Affleck source, noting the star had been “constantly working on himself” but after splitting with Shookus in July “went into a darker and darker place until he had to reach out for help.” For Garner, 46, the entire situation has been “very stressful,” the insider says. “And also devastating for her to have
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Aug. 19 For the second time in four days Affleck was photographed at a Jack in the Box fast-food drive-thru with Sexton.
Aug. 20 Two days before returning to rehab, Affleck received an alcohol delivery, including a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label, outside his home.
Aug. 16 The next day, amid rumors of his split with Shookus, Affleck had a dinner date with 22-year-old Playboy model Shauna Sexton at Nobu in Malibu. “Ben’s not the best on his own,” says a source of Affleck’s need for companionship.
to the fullest and be the best father I can be. I want my kids to know there is no shame in getting help when you need it.” That September, Garner and Affleck’s brother Casey helped him briefly reenter inpatient treatment after another relapse. Aleck has been public about his father Timothy’s addiction to alcohol and the efect that had on him. “[He] turned his life
THE END OF A MARRIAGE Affleck and Garner (left, in 2015) separated more than three years ago and filed for divorce last year. Now, according to several sources, their divorce is almost finalized—with the issue of custody to be addressed when Affleck successfully completes rehab.. “Jen wants her kids to have a healthy dad who’s around on a regular basis,” says an insider. “They need him.”
around in a very laudable way,” the actor told The Mail on Sunday in 2008. “But having such serious addiction issues has a major impact—it colors who you are and becomes a part of you.” It also afected his relationship with Garner. After 10 years of marriage the two announced their separation in June2015 and filed for divorce in April 2017. Since then they have been in mediation to settle privately while continuing to co-parent their kids. They attended Hello, Dolly! on Broadway last month as a family, and Aleck celebrated his 46th birthday on Aug. 15 at a dinner with the kids at Barton G. restaurant in L.A. Despite their split, Garner has remained a source of strength and support for Aleck. “Ben very much needs Jen in his life,” says the insider. “There is no one more compassionate and dedicated to his sobriety.” Before this setback Affleck and Garner were close to finalizing their divorce. “When it comes to settling custody issues, she makes it a priority to be sure the children are safe with their father,” says an industry source. “Time will tell.” Now with Affleck in treatment again, Garner has been readying the kids for their first days of school, promoting her new film Peppermint and leaning on friends for support. And she’s hopeful Aleck will stay in rehab—for at least 30 days. “Ben knew that he needed help again,” says the source close to him. “He understands how serious his situation is.” Reporting by Pernilla Cedenheim, Melody Chiu, Elizabeth Leonard, Linda Marx and Kara Warner September 10, 2018 PEOPLE
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Happy and Healthy To help ease her lymphedema, “I’ve changed my diet, I get more exercise and have taken off about 60 lbs.,” says Bates (inset, with her Yorkshire terriers Zelda and Mini Mo in 2017). “My Yorkies weigh 15 lbs., and I was joking to my niece that I have lost about four Yorkies now.”
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Surviving Cancer—Twice AFTER OVERCOMING OVARIAN AND BREAST CANCER, THE ACTRESS OPENS UP ABOUT GETTING HEALTHY, RETURNING TO WORK AND THE HEALTH CHALLENGE SHE STILL FACES By MIA McNIECE
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Kathy Bates was feeling exhausted but chalked it up to a major heat wave sweeping the country. “I thought, ‘Well it’s the heat, I’m tired, whatever,’ ” says the Misery Oscar winner, now 70. But when she got home, a trip to the doctor revealed she had a mass on her right ovary: Bates, then 55, had stage 1 ovarian cancer. She immediately had surgery, followed by nine months of chemotherapy to treat it, but didn’t reveal her illness to the public. “I didn’t tell anybody,” she says. “I continued to work right after the operation, doing Little Black Book with Brittany Murphy. My agent at the time was very old-school and didn’t want me to be the poster child for ovarian cancer. I didn’t want anyone to know, but it really took a lot out of me.” It wasn’t the only time Bates would face down cancer—and now she’s open about sharing her journey. On Sept. 7 she’ll join Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner for the biennial fundraising special Stand Up to Cancer (airing simultaneously on CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox and streaming on PeopleTV at 8 p.m. ET/PT). In 2012 the Memphis native—who got her start in theater and went on to star in films such as Dolores Claiborne, Fried Green Tomatoes and Titanic—was once again hit with extreme exhaustion and returned to her doctor for an MRI. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and decided to have a double mastectomy because of her family history with cancer. “My aunt had died from it, my mother had it, my niece had it,” she says. She tested negative for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene
Taking a Stand Against Cancer Bates (with Stand Up to Cancer’s cofounder Katie Couric at the org’s 2016 fundraising telecast) will again help raise money for cancer research at this year’s event on Sept. 7 in Los Angeles.
mutation that increases a woman’s risk of breast andovariancancer.AnegativeBRCAresultis“not a get out of jail free card,” she says. Still, though her surgery was successful, she notes that it was an isolating experience. “Even though your family is there for you and cares for you, it becomes a solitary journey,” says Bates, who was married to actor Tony Campisi from 1991 to ’97. “I ended up going to chemo by myself.” And she also continued to work, starring in Feud and Bad Santa 2, and this time opened up about the mastectomy in 2012 on Twitter. Now, though she’s cancer-free, Bates says she is dealing with her biggest challenge yet: lymphedePEOPLE September 10, 2018
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probably millions of men out there who, because of prostate surgery, have it in their legs and groins and won’t talk about it. I’m one of the lucky ones in that I have it in my arm, and that’s it.” She’s working on getting a bill passed in New York that will mandate that hospitals have literature to inform patients about lymphedema, and she’s learned to manage her pain by wearing compression sleeves on her arms and losing 60 lbs. through exercise and a healthy diet. Today her career is booming, including roles in the new season of American Horror Story and the upcoming film On the Basis of Sex. “Acting is my life force,” she says, adding that she considered getting breast reconstructionbutdoesn’twanttotaketimeoutof her busy schedule for surgery because “I’m having too much fun.” Her advice to women: Get regular checkups and stay healthy. “Quit taking the damn selfies and worrying about what you look like,” she says. “Instead, keep everything working and in good order.”
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I Won’t Let Being ParalyzedStopMe 2 YEARS AFTER A FALL FROM A THIRD-FLOOR BALCONY PUT HER IN A WHEELCHAIR, THE 25-YEAR-OLD DOESN’T LET ANYTHING HOLD HER BACK By CAITLIN KEATING
COURTESY JILLIAN HARPIN
It was the spring of 2016, and 23-year-old Jillian
Harpin was having the time of her life. With a college degree from Bentley University in Waltham, Mass., already under her belt, she was happily juggling work as a financial analyst and a packed social calendar—filled with weekend ski trips and nights out with her girlfriends. Planning to pay of her student loans, she’d just moved back home with her parents in Wolcott, Conn., and had
set her sights on finishing a series of 50 area hikes by the end of the summer. “I was so excited for my future,” says Harpin. “I felt like I had it all.” But all of that was about to change. On April 18 she and three of her closest friends left for a weeklong vacation in Riviera Maya, Mexico. Five days into the trip—“We were having the best time,” she says—Harpin walked out onto the balcony to make a quick call home before dinner. Sitting PEOPLE September 10, 2018
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Standing Tall Harpin works out weekly with the Exoskeleton. “My favorite part is getting to walk around and have conversations face-to-face with my family and friends,” says Harpin.
on the balcony’s railing. “I lifted my foot up and lost my balance,” recalls Harpin. She plummeted three stories to the grass below, fracturing three vertebrae in her back, her sternum and several ribs. Harpin was unconscious as she was airlifted to a hospital in Miami the next day and woke up in a daze of pain medication to discover she was paralyzed from the waist down. “When I was getting prepped to go into surgery, my dad was standing right in front of me, crying and crying,” Harpin recalls. “So I looked at him and I said, ‘Dad, it’s going tobeokay.I’mstillJillian.I’mstillhere.I’vegotmy head, I’ve got my hands. It’ll be okay.’” Two years later Harpin, now 25, is more than okay. Although doctors have told her that her chances of walking again are slim, she cycles in half-marathons, plays adaptive basketball, goes rock climbing on a wall at a local gym—and even rode a mechanical bull on a trip to Nashville. In April she participated in a 5K race—and in June, with the help of a specially designed off-road wheelchair, she took second place in the Gaylord Gauntlet, a strenuous trail-and-obstacle event in Wallingford, Conn., that saw her crawling through mud, scaling walls and clambering over rock piles. “Everythingseemedimpossibleaftertheaccident,” shesays.“IthoughtIhadthisbrokenbodyandthat I would never be okay, but I really just had to reinvent how my life was going to look. It wasn’t over.” That revelation, however, didn’t come easily. “It took a long time to get here,” says Harpin. “I had 68
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to find strength I didn’t even know I had.” In the days and weeks following her accident, Harpin admitsshestruggledwithacceptingherparalysisand the likelihood that she’d never again walk without help. “I’m thankful that no one ever stood in front of me and said, ‘You’re never going to be able to walk again.’ I knew on my own that I couldn’t move, but that helped me never lose hope.” She credits her family—father Bill, 59, mother Dawn, 54, and sister Katie, 23—with helping her find the strength to push through, never leaving her side during her hospital stay. “They held my hand throughoutitall,”saysHarpin.“Oneofthemwould stay and sleep in the room with me on a chair, and they’dswitchofeveryothernight,”shesays.Close
Before the Fall “We were just really enjoying ourselves,” says Harpin (far right, with her girlfriends in Mexico, just days before her fall). “We made friends with a lot of people at the resort.”
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1. Waterskiing on Lake Allatoona in June 2017. 2. Climbing the rock wall at Prime Club in Wallingford, Conn. “In a lot of adaptive sports you’re sitting in a chair, but [not] with rock climbing,” says Harpin. “I’ve really grown to love it.” 3. At the Gaylord Gauntlet on June 23. “I was nervous I’d be exhausted, but I had such high energy,” says Harpin, who trained for three months. “I was feeding off all the excitement from my team.”
friends from college rallied to her side as well. “I was trying my best to stay strong for them so that they didn’t feel bad,” she says. “I feel like that gave me a lot of strength. I’m where I am today because of the support system that was there right from the beginning.” Twoweeksaftertheaccident, Harpin was transferred to the spinal unit of the hospital, where she began months of grueling physical therapy— learning everything from how to sit up in her wheelchair by herself to getting dressed and even cooking. “At one point I had to make cookies for everyone in the hospital,” she says, “so I could try tofigureouthowtonavigatearound the kitchen in a wheelchair. I was very independent before all of this,” she adds, “so it was really important to me to be independent again.” Regaining her confidence also became a critical part of reclaiming her life. A week before heading from Miami to Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford for further rehab—and where she’d be closer to home—Harpinaskedhersisterto come to the hospital with her favorite dress and hair curlers. “I did my hair for the first time in two months,” she remembers,“andthenwewentoutside . . . and [took] hundreds of pictures.” Somehow, seeing herself in those photos gave Harpin the emotional boost she
A Strong Family Bond “I wouldn’t have come so far if it wasn’t for my family,” says Jillian (with sister Katie and parents Dawn and Bill at the Gaylord Gauntlet in June).
‘I had to build my confidence to where I felt okay facing the world from this new seated position’ —JILLIAN HARPIN
needed. “I was like, ‘Okay, I’m still me. I’m just sitting down,’ ” she says. “I remember I posted one of them on Instagram, and it made me feel great.” Ultimately,sheadds,“Ihadtolearnnottodwellon what could have been. I had to stay motivated and not feel sorry for myself.” These days Harpin continues a rigorous regimen of physical therapy and weekly sessions with an Exoskeleton—a strapped-on, battery-powered apparatus that literally lifts and bends her legs so shecanwalkuprighttomaintainherstrength.She getsaroundwithastate-of-the-artwheelchairand hand-controlledcar.Andinadditiontobeingback at work, she’s going on dates (hoping to meet “the one”), taking weekend trips with friends and even planning to go skydiving. “It’s crazy that there are so many active things on my bucket list, because I neverreallyconsideredmyselfarisk-takerbefore,” she says. Harpin still credits her parents’ support withkeepingherspiritsup.“They’vepushedmeto domorethingstoo,”shesays.Althoughshestillhas moments when she “really wishes this wasn’t how my life turned out,” she finds a measure of pride in looking back on all she’s accomplished since the accident. “I’m happier than I ever was before my fall,” she says. “I’m going to live the life I’m lucky enough to have.”
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Ryan Gosling heads to the moon “As soon as I learned what the moon was, I learned that somebody named Neil Armstrong walked on it,” says Ryan Gosling, 37, who plays the astronaut who became the first man on the moon in 1969. Gosling was surprised to learn how dangerous the mission was. “I had no idea how claustrophobic and frail those space capsules were,”
computing power in our cell phones than they had on those early spacecraft.” The drama, which also details Armstrong’s relationship with his wife, Janet (Claire Foy), and the tragic death of their daughter, reunites Gosling with his La La Land director, Damien Chazelle. “I can’t imagine a greater duality than that between the intimacy of the trongs’ personal life and the infinite nature of space,” Gosling says. As for the pressure of portraying an American hero? He jokes he’s fine—“as long as people don’t find out that I’m Canadian!”
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1. Prepare the sauce: Whisk together mayonnaise, ketchup, Sriracha, 3 tablespoons onion, 3 tablespoons pickles, salt, pepper and, if desired, brandy in a small bowl. Set aside. 2. Prepare the burgers: Preheat grill or grill pan to high (450° to 500°). Shape ground beef into 6 (5-ounce) patties about 3⁄ 4-inch thick and 31⁄ 2 inches in diameter. Place patties on oiled grates and cook to desired degree of doneness, 4 to 5 minutes per side for medium. Just before burgers are done, place 1 cheese slice on each patty, and cook until cheese melts, about 15 seconds. 3. Stir together remaining 1⁄ 2 cup pickles and 1⁄ 4 cup onion in a small bowl; spread 2 tablespoons on bottom of each bun. Top each with 1 patty, about 1⁄ 3 cup shredded lettuce, and reserved Sriracha sauce. Cover with bun tops. Serves: 6 Active time: 20 minutes Total time: 30 minutes
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1. Preheat oven to 325°. Coat a 9-inch cake pan with cooking spray. Line bottom of pan with parchment paper; coat paper with cooking spray. 2. Process bread in a food processor until fine crumbs form (it should yield 2⁄ 3 cup).
Transfer to a large bowl. 3. Process almonds and rosemary in food processor until a fine powder forms, about 1 minute. Add almond mixture to bowl with bread crumbs. Stir in sugar, baking powder, lemon zest and juice. Add olive oil and eggs; stir with a whisk to completely combine. Add polenta separately, as the final ingredient, and stir to combine. Pour mixture into prepared pan. 4. Bake in preheated oven until cake is browned on top and a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool cake in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes. Run a butter knife around the edge of cake in pan. Remove cake from pan; discard paper. Place cake on a plate; sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired, and serve. Serves: 10 Active time: 20 minutes Total time: 1 hour, 15 minutes ByAna Calderone, SonalDuttandJessicaFecteau
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when Northwestern University biology professor Christine Escobar packed a bag with a change of clothes. She had a nice dinner with her husband, then went on from there to Chicago’s Prentice Women’s Hospital to give birth to her first child. Escobar, who was in her 39th week of pregnancy, hadn’t gone into labor yet, but 90 minutes after she’d settled into her room, doctors started an IV with the drug Pitocin to induce her contractions. Roughly 24 hours later her 6-lb. 13-oz. daughter was born. “It was such a calm experience,” says Escobar, 37. “I felt like I was always in control of what was happening.” Now more women may feel comfortable doing the same. After years of concern that inducing labor before the full-term 40-week mark could increase the likelihood of delivery by cesarean section, new research shows the opposite can be true. In a study involving 6,106 first-time mothers—including Escobar—published in the
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Laura Linney THE STAR, 54, RETURNS FOR SEASON 2 OF NETFLIX’S HIT DRAMA OZARK Last time I felt like a kid Oh, almost daily. I think I can get frustrated like a small child, and my abilities to cope can fall away. Then I just try and remember that I’m in my 50s. Sometimes that works.
Last guilty pleasure Well, I have a Swedish Fish problem. I can’t just have one, I have to have like 30. And there are only red ones as far as I’m concerned; that’s all I’ll eat. I’m a purist.
Last time I was starstruck That’s easy. Maggie Smith came to the opening night of my play [My Name Is Lucy Barton] in London. Thank God I didn’t know she was there. Thank God! She’s been an inspiration to me my whole life. I was completely dumbstruck seeing her.
Last time I danced This morning in the hotel room, just spontaneous prancing from the bathroom back into the other room. I can’t describe them, but I probably have a few signature moves.
Last irrational fear
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Yeah, I don’t do aquariums. We film Ozark in Atlanta, and there’s a wonderful aquarium there, and I just can’t. I don’t know—I don’t like the fish. I love my son [Bennett, 4] but no, not going to happen. That’s why he has a father. Reported by Julie Jordan