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‘Wells asked me my permission to marry her’ —JULIE BOWEN, revealing that her onscreen daughter Sarah Hyland’s fiancé asked for her blessing, to the Skimm
—ADAM SANDLER, on not receiving a 2020 Oscar nomination for Uncut Gems, on Twitter
‘By the time fifth period hit, it was just all-out mayhem’
‘It’s not a crime to go to bed that early’ —ROSE BYRNE, on her and husband Bobby Cannavale’s 9:45 p.m. bedtime, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
—MICHAEL B. JORDAN, on recently visiting his New Jersey high school, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
‘Congratulations to those men’ —ISSA RAE, on the Academy Awards’ all-male Best Director nominees, at the 2020 Oscar nominations
‘I didn’t really realize there was a difference until he started picking me up from school and I looked at other people’s dads and looked at my dad and was like, “Okay, that’s a different dad” ’ —ZOE KRAVITZ, on dad Lenny’s unique look, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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Timothée Chalamet will play Bob Dylan
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The Little Women heartthrob is about to be blowin’ in the wind as a young version of the rocker in an authorized Dylan biopic, reportedly titled Going Electric.
You can color Jason Momoa Stay in the lines as you shade in the Aquaman star’s bulging biceps in a new adult coloring book featuring more than 35 hand-drawn Momoa scenes.
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The Masked Singer gets a spinoff Inspired by a segment from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Fox series The Masked Dancer will have panelists guessing the identity of costumed celebrities based on their moves.
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America’s Deadliest Killer
Samuel Little confessed to an unthinkable 93 murders; now the FBI is asking for help identifying some of his victims from portraits drawn by the killer himself
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Inside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to “step back” from royal life—and what the rest of the family thinks.
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After a house fire left Michelle Lauren Anderson badly burned over 90 percent of her body, she and her identical twin overcame the tragedy together.
An Olympic Legend Turns 60
Greg Louganis, America’s greatest living diver, looks back over the twists, turns and golden moments of his life
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All about music’s biggest night.
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After competing in a golf tournament, Mark Wahlberg flaunted his sleek physique on the beach in Hawaii. The actor, 48, has been hitting the gym (and following a strict diet) to prep for the upcoming adaptation of The Six Billion Dollar Man.
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A WILD RED CARPET
Los Angeles, Jan. 11 Selena Gomez struck a goofy pose with costars Rami Malek (left) and Robert Downey Jr. at the Dolittle premiere.
MODEL BEHAVIOR Miami, Jan. 11
Kaia Gerber enjoyed a day in the sun while on vacation with pals.
BRAD’S BIG NIGHT
New York City, Jan. 8
During his acceptance speech at the National Board of Review Gala, Brad Pitt thanked pal Bradley Cooper (left) for helping him get sober: “Every day has been happier since.”
THE BOYS ARE BACK Miami, Jan. 12
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Property Brothers stars Jonathan Scott and Drew Scott celebrated the launch of their new lifestyle magazine Reveal on Jan. 9 in New York City.
Jack Nicholson and 27-year-old son Ray sat courtside at a Jan. 7 Lakers game in L.A.
Vanna White joined Wheel of Fortune costar Pat Sajak and his daughter Maggie, 25, for dinner in L.A. on Jan. 9. Last month Sajak underwent emergency surgery for a blocked intestine. White filled in as host during his recovery—and Maggie was a substitute letter-turner!
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Serena Williams celebrated her first title win in three years at the ASB Classic with 2-year-old daughter Olympia in Auckland, New Zealand, on Jan. 12.
Minnie Driver and boyfriend Addison O’Dea took her son Henry, 11, to the Jan. 11 premiere of Dolittle in L.A.
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Bombshell costars Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron shared a sweet embrace at the awards show, where their film won for Best Hair and Makeup.
CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARDS
Santa Monica, Jan. 12
Zendaya turned heads in a fuchsia Tom Ford breastplate and matching skirt.
Anne Hathaway—who reportedly welcomed her second child in December— attended the event with husband Adam Shulman.
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CHLOE’S BABY JOY
New York City, Jan. 6 Chloë Sevigny— who is expecting her first child with boyfriend Sinisa Mackovic, left—displayed her growing baby bump while out for a stroll.
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Cate Blanchett channeled Amelia Earhart when she wore a brown leather jumpsuit at LAX.
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FLYING IN STYLE
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On Jan. 9 Jessica Alba took a break in between scenes for the police procedural L.A.’s Finest in Los Angeles.
Jennifer Garner rocked a pink tutu and cowboy boots while filming the Netflix comedy Yes Day on Jan. 9 in L.A.
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These neon looks have the 2020 red carpet season off to a bright start
Kacey Musgraves In Moschino by Jeremy Scott in New York City.
Ariel Winter In Effie Kats at the In Style and Warner Bros. Golden Globes afterparty.
Rachel Brosnahan In Alex Perry at Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Kate Bosworth In Prabal Gurung at the In Style and Warner Bros. Golden Globes afterparty.
Lupita Nyong’o In Valentino at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards.
Laura Dern In Emilia Wickstead at the Critics’ Choice Awards.
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Julianne Hough & Brooks Laich
Is Their Marriage in Trouble? It’s been two and a half years since
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Power Pair
“He’s always been her biggest fan,” says a source of Laich (with Hough in L.A. in 2015, and top right, on Jan. 9). “Julianne’s spreading her wings now, and no one can really tie her down at this point.”
Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich tied the knot in an emotional outdoor ceremony in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, but now the couple are weathering a rough patch, according to multiple sources. “They’ve been having problems,” says one source. “She’s very independent and a free spirit, and that’s been tough for their marriage.” The former Dancing with the Stars judge, 31, and the NHL player, 36, have been spending time apart with work commitments and have not yet commented publicly on the state of their relationship or why Hough hasn’t been wearing her wedding ring lately. They did share a warm reunion on Jan. 9 at the Burbank, Calif., airport and recently posted videos on Instagram showing a similar snowy scene from a vacation spot within days of each other, implying they may have been January 27, 2020
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Busy Career
New Beginnings
Julianne and brother Derek Hough promoted their holiday special on Kelly Clarkson’s show on Dec. 16.
Hough (on Dec. 31) “wants to become a free-spirit, no boundaries guru, and she’s living her life by this sort of mantra,” says a source.
Standing Strong
“Brooks still hopes they can save the marriage,” a source says of Laich (with Hough in L.A. in August).
How Adele Changed Her Life
On Dec. 24 Hough posted a video of herself decorating a Christmas tree in London with a friend.
This New Year’s Eve, as Hough cohosted NBC’s telecast with Carson Daly, fans noticed she wasn’t wearing her wedding ring—nor did it appear in a Dec. 24 Instagram video—but Laich wore his in a Jan. 2 workout clip after writing on Instagram that he looked “forward to releasing old identities, and stepping into a new chapter in my life” in 2020. “Maybe it’s just a phase, maybe not,” the insider says of their issues. “Either way they are not going to address [their relationship] publicly right now.” — R e p o r t i n g b y P E R N I L L A CEDENHEIM
While vacationing with Harry Styles and James Corden in Anguilla over the week leading into and after New Year’s, Adele, 31, had her new look and her signature charm on display. “At first we barely even recognized her because she lost so much weight,” says 19-year-old fan Lexi Larson, who met the star at an Anguilla restaurant. “She told us she lost something like 100 lbs., and that it’s such a crazy positive experience.” Indeed a source says that Adele has been maintaining a strict diet and fitness routine of cross-training and full“She is a new body Pilates in order to be healthy for herself and her 7-year-old son woman with the same great Angelo, whom she shares with ex Simon Konecki. “It’s easy to just focus sense of humor,” on her physical transformation . . . but this is really about something a source says bigger,” says an insider. “She got to the point where she didn’t feel great. of Adele She knew she had to change something, because she wants to be the (in Anguilla on Jan. 2). healthiest mom possible.” Now, as she prepares to release new music this year, “she is happy,” says the source, “and excited about the future.” —BRIANNE TRACY with Pernilla Cedenheim and Linda Marx
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August Hough opened up about her there together. “They’re not giving sexuality to Women’s Health and up,” says an insider. “They want to do recalled telling Laich, “You know I’m this their way.” not straight, right?” That conversaHaving just joined Oprah tion led to “a more intimate Winfrey’s nationwide 2020 ‘IT’S STILL relationship,” she said. The Vision wellness tour, for COMPLICATED couple has also been open which she’s teaching a dance BECAUSE about trying to have children SHE LOVES workout at every show, BROOKS via IVF (Hough has Hough now considers herself AND SHE endometriosis), and Laich “a completely different ALWAYS WILL’ revealed on his iHeartRadio person than she was when —AN INSIDER podcast How Men Think that she married Brooks,” says the they had begun the process in 2018. source. “She’s had a total awakening and transformation, and it’s ongoing, “The commitment that she made to us having a family is something I’ll and she isn’t able or interested in never forget,” he said. going back to who she was.” Last
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HEART MONITOR Back On? Zayn Malik & Gigi Hadid
Happy Anniversary The pop star, 40, and the ex-motocross competitor, 44, celebrated their milestone on Jan. 7 with a motorcycle ride in Ojai, Calif. “I think we both deserve a trophy,” Pink says of marking 14 years of marriage.
Date Night
Steph & Ayesha Curry “Take me, aooooouuuutttt tonight!” the chef and cookbook author, 30, wrote on Instagram of heading to dinner at Delilah in Los Angeles with her NBA pro husband, 31, on Jan. 10.
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Katie Cassidy & Matthew Rodgers After two years of marriage the Arrow actress, 33 (who’s David Cassidy’s daughter), filed for divorce from her husband, 31, on Jan. 8. They eloped in December 2017 before a formal wedding a year later.
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Pink & Carey Hart
The on-off couple were seen arm in arm leaving a birthday celebration for the 24-year-old model’s mom, Yolanda, on Jan. 11 in New York City. The next night they spent the former One Direction member’s 27th birthday together.
Justin Bieber’s Lyme Disease Battle
Justin Bieber started off 2020 with a surprising health revelation: He has been coping with Lyme disease. “While a lot of people kept saying Justin Bieber looks like s---, on meth, etc. they failed to realize I’ve been recently diagnosed with Lyme disease,” the “Yummy” singer, 25, wrote Jan. 8 on Instagram. Aside from the chronic illness, Bieber told fans he also “had a serious case of chronic mono” that wreaked havoc on his physical health. “For a long time Justin was feeling frustrated and
Strong Support “The Hadids have been very helpful in guiding Justin,” says the source of Bella (above, with Baldwin, right, in 2017) and Gigi.
‘JUSTIN IS OPENING UP ABOUT HIS STRUGGLES BECAUSE HE DOESN’T WANT PEOPLE IN THE SAME SITUATION TO GIVE UP’ —A BIEBER SOURCE
angry,” a source says of the singer’s struggle with Lyme disease, an infection caused by bacteria commonly carried by ticks that leads to fevers, fatigue and muscle pain. “He wants people to know his
struggles were real.” Bieber’s wife, model Hailey Baldwin, defended her husband following his reveal, slamming fans who were “trying to downplay the severity” of his illness. “Making fun of and
belittling a disease you don’t understand is never the way, all it takes is educating yourself,” tweeted Baldwin, 23, who went on to thank her close friends Bella and Gigi Hadid, and their mom, Yolanda, for their support. (Yolanda, 56, Bella, 23, and her brother Anwar, 20, have all struggled with Lyme disease.) “Justin is getting the right help and is looking forward to this year,” the source says of Bieber, who will reveal more in a new YouTube docuseries. “He can’t wait to resume his career.” —MELODY CHIU with reporting by Pernilla Cedenheim
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Amy Schumer Reveals IVF Journey Amy Schumer and her husband, chef Chris Fischer, are preparing to expand their family. The Trainwreck actress, 38, announced on Instagram on Jan. 13 that she recently completed the eggretrieval stage of IVF (a procedure where eggs are collected from ovaries) with the goal of freezing embryos for future use. Schumer, who is mom to 8-month-old son Gene Attell, first
revealed she was undergoing IVF four days earlier. “Feeling really run down and emotional . . . we are figuring out what to do to give Gene a sibling,” she wrote, urging fans to share their advice and experiences. Schumer later thanked those who chimed in: “I feel incredibly lucky. I’m really hoping this works and staying positive.” — E M I LY S T R O H M
Staying Hopeful Schumer opened up about her IVF journey on Instagram on Jan. 9 (left). Right: with Fischer, 40, and son Gene on Dec. 30.
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Fun in the Sun
Hemsworth and Brooks smooched on the sand in Australia’s Byron Bay on Jan. 3.
Liam’s Hot New Romance
Tia Carrere: A Rock Goddess Grows Up It’s been nearly 30 years since Tia Carrere rose to fame as rocker chick Cassandra in 1992’s Wayne’s World, but the Honoluluborn actress, 53, says people still quote the film to her all the time. “It’s pretty often,” she says. “That movie coined so many phases. ‘We’re not worthy!’ is the one that seems to be used quite often.” Now starring as the villainous Lady Danger in Netflix’s AJ & The Queen alongside
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RuPaul, she’s relishing playing a baddie. “I’d been praying to play a character that meets me where I’m at age-wise, with my depth of life experiences. She’s sort of like if Cassandra from Wayne’s World fell on hard times and lost her moral compass.” She adds, “People might watch for the camp or the laughs, but they’ll be touched by the human moments of love and connection.” In between acting jobs
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Carrere is busy being mom to daughter Bianca, 14 (with photojournalist ex Simon Wakelin). “I’ve been a Girl Scout leader, school chaperone for camping trips, been on the PTA. Having a teenager is challenging, but it is the best job I will ever have.”
—GILLIAN TELLING
2019 Carrere (inset, with Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey) says RuPaul is “a joy to work with.”
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Liam Hemsworth left his heartbreak in source says. Before he was linked to Brooks, Hemsworth 2019. Nearly five months after filing for stepped out with Dynasty actress Maddison Brown, 22, in New divorce from Miley Cyrus, the actor, 30, was seen York City in October. As for Hemsworth’s pop star ‘LIAM AND kissing model Gabriella Brooks in their native ex Cyrus, 27, she briefly dated reality star Kaitlynn GABRIELLA HAVE Australia on Jan. 3. According to a source, the Carter, 31, over the summer before moving on with SPENT A LOT OF Hunger Games alum and Brooks, 21, are already TIME IN AUSTRALIA Australian singer-songwriter Cody Simpson, 23, in TOGETHER. getting “serious.” In December Hemsworth October. Hemsworth and Cyrus, who met on the [HE] HAS BEEN introduced his new flame to his parents, Craig and set of The Last Song in 2009, were married for less IN A GREAT MOOD’ Leonie, during a lunch outing. “Gabriella has met than eight months before calling it quits. The pair —A SOURCE Liam’s siblings and his parents,” the source confirms. reportedly reached a settlement agreement in late “Liam and Gabriella have spent a lot of time in Australia December—one year after saying “I do”—though their divorce together.” The two enjoy the same hobbies—exercising, isn’t expected to be finalized until March. surfing and relaxing at the beach—and Hemsworth’s pals get —DANA ROSE FALCONE with reporting along with Brooks too. “Liam has been in a great mood,” the by Pernilla Cedenheim
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Gal Gadot on Raising a Healthy Family
The actress, 34, returns in Wonder Woman 1984 this June—and is the new face of Smartwater. You posted about Smartwater bottles being recyclable. How do you teach your daughters Alma, 8, and Maya, 2, to be environmentally conscious? I think being a role model and showing them is a big thing. We recycle; we make sure not to use plastic bags
and not to travel with [private] jets when we’re doing press. How do you and your husband, Yaron Varsano, instill healthy habits in them? We do it in the small things. We make sure to stay active. My daughters are like firecrackers. I play them guided-meditation apps when I put them to bed. They’ll fade out like that. Wonder Woman doesn’t
have a sword or shield in the sequel. Why not? If she has a sword, that means that she’s going to have to use it, and there’s something very aggressive about that. It’s not necessary. She has her own strength and abilities. — A L E R U S S I A N
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“I enjoy a hardcore workout,” says Gadot (inset, in Wonder Woman 1984), but she goes easier when she’s not training for a role.
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The Oscar Race Is On!
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SNUB Despite months of buzz, Jennifer Lopez didn’t earn a nomination for Hustlers.
A-listers like Brad Pitt and Renée Zellweger scored nominations— along with some more surprising picks. See who wins Feb. 9 on ABC.
SURPRISE Scarlett Johansson scored two nods (her first!) for Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit.
SNUB Beyoncé’s Lion King track “Spirit” missed out on a Best Original Song nod.
SURPRISE Thriller Parasite is the first South Korean movie up for Best Picture.
Jenna Dewan Getting Ready for Baby No. 2 Jenna Dewan made a New Year’s resolution to get “a little bit more organized” in 2020, but she has a more important goal for the short term: “Birthing this new child!” The 39-year-old actress and host of Flirty Dancing (Wednesdays on Fox) and her boyfriend, Broadway actor Steve Kazee, 44, announced in September that they were expecting their first child together. (Dewan shares daughter Everly, 6, with ex-husband Channing Tatum.) Even with cravings that include “salt, chips and bad food,” Dewan admits she feels more at ease during this pregnancy: “You know [what to expect] already so there’s not as much anxiety or unknown happening,” she says. “I’m a little bit more relaxed and at peace with the ‘I PUT EVERLY, whole process.” And Kazee has been immensely MY FAMILY AND supportive. “He’s the most nurturing man,” Dewan MY LOVE FIRST; says. “He communicates well with me, and he’s EVERYTHING always down for a foot rub and grabbing me bean ELSE COMES burritos.” After the baby arrives, Dewan, who also AFTER THAT’ stars in the Netflix musical series Soundtrack, has —JENNA DEWAN several projects lined up as a producer, including a TV series for HBO Max. “I want things to be balanced and flow as much as possible,” she says. For now, she and her growing family are “really excited, preparing and hoping for the best,” Dewan says. “We’re reading a lot about adding a sibling and how we can help Everly with that transition and make it exciting. We’re like a little unit. It’s been so far, so good.” — C H R I S T I N A D U G A N
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“Steve and Evy are really excited about the addition,” says Dewan (with Kazee, top, and daughter Everly). January 27, 2020
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From a distance, Josh Phillips, 28, could only see that the sailboat in Eld Inlet, off the Puget Sound, was sinking. But as he drew closer, the problem became clear: A pair of Steller sea lions—who can weigh as much as 1,200 lbs.—had clambered onto the craft for an afternoon cruise. “They looked at us as if there wasn’t a worry in the world,” says Phillips, who owns the local Spawn Fly Fish company. Hilary Franz, the Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands, had some bad news-good news for the boat’s owner. “Unfortunately the boat did later sink,” she says. “Fortunately sea lions can swim!”
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Employees celebrate their bonus. “We wanted to reward them in a big way,” said CEO Edward St. John (inset).
A CEO stuns his 198 employees with $10 million in bonuses B A LT I M O R E
Hard work definitely pays off at St. John Properties, a real estate firm where CEO Edward St. John recently rewarded his workers with a collective yearend bonus of $10 million. “Without the team we are nothing,” said St. John, who divided the money among 198 employees—from maintenance workers to senior staff—based on tenure, with an average bonus of $50,000. “It’s life-changing,” says Danielle Valenzia, an 18-year SJP veteran. “I hope other companies will realize that their employees are valuable and do the same.” By WENDY GROSSMAN KANTOR and MORGAN SMITH
“It just made me feel good to do it,” Esch told the Atlanta JournalConstitution. “I didn’t expect anything from it.”
When Uber driver Latonya Young, 43, picked up passenger Kevin Esch, 44, back in June 2018, she never imagined that one ride would change her life. But as they talked, she told Esch that her degree at Georgia Perimeter College was on hold because she couldn’t pay the $693 she owed in tuition. A week later Young learned that Esch, an estate manager, had paid her bill—and on Dec. 17 she received an associate’s degree in criminal justice with Esch cheering her on. “I’d never had a stranger do anything for me,” says Young. “It’s like I have a guardian angel.”
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Babies Former Little People, Big World stars Jeremy Roloff, 29, and Audrey Roloff, 28, welcomed their second child, a son named Bode. He joins sister Ember, 2. Ray Donovan actor Johnathon Schaech, 50, and his wife, Julie Solomon, 35, are expecting another baby in July. The two are already parents to son Camden, 6. Queen & Slim actress Jodie Turner-Smith, 33, and former Affair star Joshua
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Vice President Mike Pence’s daughter Charlotte Pence, 26, and her fiancé, Henry Bond, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, married three days after Christmas at the Academy in Annapolis, Md.
Health Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 86, announced she’s “cancer free.” Ginsburg, a fourtime cancer survivor, underwent pancreatic cancer treatment twice in 2019. She also had surgery in December 2018 to have two malignant modules removed from her left lung.
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Santa Monica home. He was 87. Drummer Neil Peart, who was a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer with his band Rush, died of brain cancer at 67. Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta died by suicide in Miami at 45. “His talent and creativity brought me and so many others such joy & light,” America Ferrera wrote on Instagram. Andrew Burkle, the son of billionaire businessman Ronald Burkle, died of unknown
Actor Edd Byrnes, who played Vince Fontaine in Grease and Kookie in 77 Sunset Strip, died of natural causes in his
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The actor, 55, helps provide college scholarships to students who have overcome serious adversity
Lowe at the Horatio Alger Awards in Washington, D.C.
Happy B ir th d a y ! Mariska Hargita y, 56 Jan. 23, 1964 Ellen DeGeneres, 62 Jan. 26, 1958 Patton Oswalt, 5 1 Jan. 27, 1969
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Why I Care PERSONAL
I was asked to narrate a documentary about STORIES ABOUT the Horatio Alger Association in 2011 and GIVING BACK became fascinated by the work they do. Then, two years ago, I was sworn into the association. The group gives out college scholarships to profoundly disadvantaged students—inspiring, humbling, amazing people who are going to go on to lead this country. In 2019 we awarded $21 million in undergraduate and graduate scholarships to 2,500 students across the U.S. and Canada. The association is emblematic of the American dream. It recognizes self-made American leaders who have persevered over adversity to achieve great success. I remember being an 8-year-old kid from Ohio from a divorced family and wanting to be an actor. Over the years I realized you can make a name for yourself in this country. It’s still possible, and I am so happy to be able to give back to kids trying to do just that. —R e p o r t e d b y M I A M c N I E C E For more information, go to horatioalger.org January 27, 2020
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Opposites attract: Fonda and Tomlin as Grace and Frankie.
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Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin make a terrific twosome COMEDY Grace and Frankie, which will wrap up next year after its seventh season, has never been one of Netflix’s groundbreakers. The story of the odd-couple friendship that grows between uptight Grace (Fonda) and free-spirited Frankie (Lily Tomlin), the show is hatched from the plastic egg of sitcom formula: The women are thrown together after they learn that their husbands (Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston) have fallen in love. Grace and Frankie could have been The Golden Girls with just two girls, but could a network vehicle have contained the talents of these phenomenal actresses? Maybe not. You wouldn’t call Fonda a natural comedian, but she can certainly do comedy—
she’s as sincerely committed an actress as she is climate-change protester. In one late episode Grace makes a plea to Frankie—she needs to salvage their once-again-torpedoed relationship—that’s both funny and touching. (Fonda also has the guts to play a scene in which Grace can’t get herself up off the toilet.) Tomlin, who has more experience in television, is the opposite: a natural comedian who can play, well, anything you like. In a slight but magical moment, she mimes a bird landing on her finger and then hopping onto her shoulder—it’s a tiny echo of a scene in 9 to 5, the landmark feminist comedy she and Fonda starred in nearly 40 years ago. (Streaming now)
‘Could a network vehicle have contained the talents of these phenomenal actresses?’
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COMEDY Fresh off her Golden Globes win for The Farewell, Awkwafina stars in a semiautobio graphical sitcom. She’s a young woman unsure of how to get going on a life independent from her family. (An attempt at being a driver for hire ends abruptly and badly.) The star’s perfor mance, which is often very funny, is in the same spirit as the one she gives in Farewell: She plays frustration, indifference and disgruntlement with the tough, resilient energy of a born opti mist. (Comedy Central, Jan. 22, 10:30 p.m.)
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WHAT’S BETTER THAN A HIGH FIBER BREAKFAST?
Q&A Fortune Feimster
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The Mindy Project actress, 39, stars in her first Netflix stand-up special, Sweet & Salty, launching Jan. 21.
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TV | Everything’s Gonna Be Okay
COMEDY-DRAMA When his father dies, Nicholas (Josh Thomas), an insect specialist from Australia, becomes the oftenbaffled guard ian of half sisters Matilda and Genevieve (Kayla Cromer and Maeve Press). Okay has tears, of course, but also lots of sweet, flaky humor. (Freeform, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m.)
On the show you talk about coming out as a lesbian to your mom. What an inspiring story! Coming out is terrifying for everybody. You hope at the end of the day your family loves you no matter what. Thankfully mine did. You got engaged to actress Jax Smith in 2018. How’s the wedding planning? Neither Jax nor I are planners. Therefore nothing is getting done! Our plan is to hire someone to help. Mindy Kaling said she’d officiate—is that still in the cards? I hope so. I’m going to have to ask her if that expired—if it’s like a coupon we need to redeem. —CHRISTINA DUGAN
Romero (left) is the Commander in Chief as a kid.
DISNEY+ | Diary of a Future President
COMEDY In this adorable little sitcom, President Elena CañeroReed (Gina Rodriguez) looks back on her days as a middle school student. The long road to the White House begins with the 12yearold Elena (Tess Romero) freaking out because she forgot to do a history assignment. Better that than lying about a cherry tree. (Jan. 17)
A TASTY, HIGH FIBER BREAKFAST WITH RAISINS.
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A GOOD SOURCE OF FIBER AND A GREAT SOURCE OF CRUNCHY DELICIOUSNESS.
COMEDY Veep creator Armando Iannucci returns with this wryly entertaining fantasy about a vacation-cruise spacecraft thrown disastrously off course. There doesn’t seem to be any real satiric thrust here—if this is a ship of fools, so is Star Trek—but Hugh Laurie is funny as an inept captain, and there’s some good macabre humor about how to dispose of casualties when gravity won’t accommodate a casket. (HBO, Jan. 19, 10 p.m.)
Q&A Jonathan Pryce
The actor, 72, is Oscar-nominated for his performance as Pope Francis in The Two Popes (Netflix). Did you know costar Anthony Hopkins before filming? Not very well, but he’s always been a hero of mine. Both being Welsh, we had an immediate rapport. As you see the two popes becoming great friends, so Tony and I became great friends.
MUSIC | Little Big Town, Nightfall
How does one prepare to play the Pope? It seems like I’ve been preparing to play him all my life! I mean, either he looks like me or I look like him. I had to learn Spanish and Italian and a bit of Latin and watched video of him on YouTube. Did Game of Thrones earn you new fans? It reaches so far. I was in a fishing village in China, and people were shouting, “High Sparrow!” —SAMANTHA MILLER
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COUNTRY The foursome, Grammy-nominated for 2017’s The Breaker, continue their hot streak with this new set, packed with tearjerking ballads (“The Daughters”) and cathartic anthems (“Next to You”). There are curves too, like “Wine, Beer, Whiskey,” a blaring, Mexican-horn-infused salute to good evenings (and rough mornings). (Jan. 17)
With Hopkins (left) as Benedict.
NUTS ABOUT FIBER? CRUNCHY VANILLA ALMOND IS A GOOD SOURCE OF IT. Scouting mission: Janney and Davis.
AMAZON | Troop Zero
Kid misfits claim their share of space
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COMEDY In a small Georgia town in the 1970s, young Christmas Flint (McKenna Grace) might as well be from outer space: Obsessed with the stars, she lies in the backyard at night and whispers to the cosmos, hoping for a sign of intelligent life. Then she finds a way to connect with other earthlings—lonesome outsiders like herself—as she joins a chapter of the Birdie Scouts. Troop is more winsome than it needs to be, starting with the name Christmas Flint, but you get Viola Davis and Allison Janney, both in uncompromisingly fine form, as rival scout leaders. Those two count for everything. (Launches Jan. 17)
NETFLIX | Medical Police
COMEDY A spinoff of the aggressively dopey Childrens Hospital, Police stars Erinn Hayes and Rob Huebel as doctors hopping around the globe trying to prevent a pandemic. Their breathless quest provides the narrative—it’s a biothriller—but the show is really just a string of ridiculous gags and jokes. This is the kind of comedy in which someone, walking through Berlin, will ask, “Does everyone here speak German?” (Streaming now)
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NOVEL Imagine a world where nothing is more important than how many people are watching you. . . .In 2015 a blogger and a wannabe lifestyle celebrity in New York team up to kick the latter’s brand into the stratosphere. In 2051 a reality star in Constellation, Calif., lives her days in front of 12 million followers—her life is a story line sponsored by the company that makes her antidepressants. This dark, pitch-perfect novel about our dependence on technology for validation and human connection is as addictive as social media itself.
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J U S T 2 0 M O N T H S A F T E R T H E I R F A I R Y-TA L E WEDDING, THE COUPLE MAKE THE DECISION TO ‘ S T E P B A C K ’ F R O M R OYA L L I F E , STUNNING THE WORLD—AND THE QUEEN By M I C H E L L E TA U B E R
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‘THERE IS A LOT OF HURT’
House Divided
“It takes a lot for the Queen [driving on Jan. 10] to get involved in family issues,” says a close source. “From the outset it seemed Meghan and Harry wanted to carve their own paths.” Below: Her postsummit statement.
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Outside the Queen’s Sandringham House on Jan. 13, wintry winds whipped across the fields as the first major storm of the New Year passed through. Inside, a very different kind of storm was unfolding: an unprecedented meeting ordered by Queen Elizabeth in the wake of her grandson Prince Harry’s stunning decision to “step back” from royal life with wife Meghan Markle. With two fires roaring in the salon, key members of the royal family—the 93-year-old Queen, her son and heir Prince Charles, 71, and his sons Prince William, 37, and Prince Harry, 35—convened in the nearby “long library” to hash out an agreement on Meghan and Harry’s departure. “The rooms at Sandringham are quite gloomy, particularly on a winter’s afternoon,” says someone who has spent time there. “It is a somber setting.” An hour after the 90-minute summit ended, the palace released
Bold Steps
A source says Harry and Meghan (on Jan. 7) “ignore their own advisers and blame others when things go wrong.” Supporters counter that they are simply thinking outside the royal box.
HOW it went SO WRONG A host of factors led to the rift in the royal family
H a r r y ’s L a c k o f a R o l e Post-Militar y
While William’s future path has always been clear, Harry has struggled to find his place since leaving the army in 2015. “I felt I was part of a team,” Harry said of his military years.
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Their Whirlwind Romance
William warned Harry he was moving too fast when he proposed to Meghan after less than a year of dating, creating bad blood between the brothers.
We d d i n g - D a y D r a m a
Tensions boiled over when Meghan’s dad backed out from the wedding at the last minute; Meghan (with mom Doria) also argued with Kate at a dress fitting.
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an extraordinary statement from Elizabeth herself, in which she addressed the couple by their first names but pointedly did not use their titles. “My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan’s desire to create a new life as a young family,” she said. “Although we would have preferred them to remain full-time working Members of the Royal Family, we respect and understand their wish to live a more independent life as a family while remaining a valued part of my family.” The stunningly personal statement—issued by the woman with the world’s stiffest upper lip— was just the latest breathtaking development in a crisis unlike any other the royal family has encountered in modern history. “We’ve never seen a statement like that from the Queen,” says royal biographer Ingrid Seward. “But we’ve never had a situation like this.” For the first time, a prominent royal family member and his spouse have chosen to walk away not amid scandal but rather out of a desire for a different life, or “to carve out a progressive new role,” as the couple stated on Jan. 8 in announcing their decision to divide their time between the U.K. and North America and become “financially independent.” The radical move came just 20 months after the couple were anointed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on their wedding day— and marked a dramatic U-turn from the hope and promise they expressed in their engagement interview in November 2017. “The fact that [Meghan] will be really unbelievably good at the
A t t a c k s f r o m t h e Ta b s Harry and Meghan are suing several British newspapers over what they called a “ruthless campaign” against them.
job part of [royal life] is a huge relief to me,” Harry said at the time, “because she’ll be able to deal with everything else that comes with it.”
Had they been “driven out” amid family power
‘We’ve never seen a statement like that from the Queen’ —INGRID SEWARD
struggles, as ITV journalist and longtime Harry friend Tom Bradby has claimed, or did the couple just see a brighter future for themselves outside the confines of the royal family? Those close to Charles deny reports that he sought to slim down the monarchy by squeezing out his younger son and daughter-in-law, and William and Harry issued a joint denial on Jan. 13 that William had “bullied” his brother in any way. But what is certain is that Meghan’s own words in an interview with Bradby in October revealed the direction things were headed: “It’s not enough to just survive something, you’ve got to thrive.” Rather than thrive, sources say, the couple felt stifled by the “ribbon-cutting” nature of much of the job and the financial restrictions on working outside the family firm. “It is impossible for any foreigner to really understand the subtleties of the British royal family and how they expect one another to behave,” says Penny Junor, author of Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son. Though the particulars have yet to be worked out, declining to continue receiving U.K. taxpayer funds from the Sovereign Grant opens the door to new avenues of income, such as TV and book deals, while allowing the couple to focus
Isolation from the Palace In an interview with journalist Tom Bradby in 2019, Meghan said she was “not okay” and hinted that the royals had not been supportive.
An Eye on Succession
The Queen posed with future kings Charles, William and 6-year-old Prince George in December, highlighting the monarchy’s focus on heirs, not spares. January 27, 2020
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Their Great Canada Escape
Meghan's Support
On Jan. 6, Meghan’s close friend—Toronto-based I Do, Redo host and stylist Jessica Mulroney— arrived in Victoria to help care for Archie while Meghan and Harry headed to London, where they made their announcement.
between the couple and the rest of the royal family. Meghan “was struggling to cope with a new culture, and Harry doesn’t know how to best handle things, so they end up making rash decisions because he wants to protect her,” says a source close to the royal household. While many insiders note that the couple were lavished by the palace with a grand wedding, refurbished home and tailored foreign tours, the negative press they endured left Meghan “deeply, deeply hurt,” says the household source—and feeling unsupported by her in-laws. Her outsider status as a biracial American made things even more difficult. When she told Bradby, a longtime Harry pal, that “not many people have asked” if she was doing “okay,” insiders said the comment was aimed squarely at the family. “Meghan and
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Harry (with Archie in a photo taken by Meghan) spent the holidays away from the royal family, on Canada’s Vancouver Island.
on “their own causes with a little less constraint and still be supporting the institution and the monarch,” says a friend. Still, there was bewilderment within the palace walls at Meghan and Harry’s statement that they look forward to “continuing to collaborate with Her Majesty the Queen.” “You don’t ‘collaborateÕ with the Queen,” one courtier reacted with incredulity. “To say that about the Queen is remarkable.” The move came after months of tension
WHERE will they LIVE? The likeliest locales for their North American home base
To r o n t o
Meghan called Canada’s largest city home for years while she filmed Suits, and she was living there when she and Harry began dating.
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Va n c o u v e r I s l a n d
The couple have been staying in a private lakeside mansion on the idyllic island in British Columbia.
Malibu
The couple “love the idea of living in Malibu,” says an insider. Meghan’s mom, Doria, lives nearby in her hometown of L.A.
INSIDE the SANDRINGHAM SUMMIT Queen Elizabeth ordered Prince Harry, Prince William and Prince Charles to meet at her country home on Jan. 13 to “talk things through,” according to palace sources. The meeting marked the first time they had all been together since Remembrance Day weekend in November. After 90 minutes of discussions, Harry, William and Charles were spotted leaving Sandringham in separate cars. “It can only be a good thing that they met to talk,” says a friend. “For someone who is sixth in line, it is worth taking an innovative approach. Everyone wants it to work. There is no point in forcing people to do things and having them unhappy.”
Monarch
“My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan’s desire to create a new life as a young family," the Queen said following the summit.
Direct Heir
Sixth in Line
Future King
Charles “is a father, “Your life is a “There were and he loves his matter of slipping attempts by son, but he is also down the ladder William to make thinking about into which you amends after the future of the were born and [Meghan and institution,” says into which you Harry’s emotional] a palace insider, were trapped,” documentary who calls the idea historian Robert aired,” says a pal, that the future Lacey says of “but I don’t think didn’t include Harry’s place in it really got Harry “rubbish.” the family. very far.”
Harry didn’t feel they got enough comfort or solace from them,” says the household source. Harry, meanwhile, had felt constrained by the rigid life of a royal long before he fell head over heels for Meghan. “Harry the royal and Harry the person are completely different,” says an insider. “He has chafed against various parts of his life for ages.” Since losing his mother, Princess Diana, when he was 12, he has battled grief and trauma and lost himself to it throughout much of his youth—compounded by the pain of being referred to as “the spare” to heir William from the day he was born. “It’s not terribly good for your self-confidence,” says Junor. “He was always compared to William: William was the good-looking one, the important one, the clever one. Harry was the also-ran. I think that did take a toll on him.”
‘Harry the royal and Harry the person are completely different’ —INSIDER
But he found purpose in the military as an army captain in his 20s. “I wasn’t a prince, I was just Harry,” he later told the Mail on Sunday. “Being in the army was the best escape I’ve ever had. I felt I was really achieving something.” Adds Junor: “He went from being this troubled, unconfident teen to this amazing ambassador for the Queen and charity. He charmed the world.”
To those in palace circles, Harry’s global pop-
ularity—he has won legions of new fans since launching his Invictus Games for wounded service members and opening up about his own mental-health struggles—is at odds with suggestions that he would have been forced out by either his father or the Queen. “Charles has always envisioned working with both of his sons and their families in the future,” says a close source. The leaner monarchy that has been proposed by Charles for cost-cutting purposes “included Harry and whoever he married,” adds a palace insider. Junor notes that given the high volume of charities and engagements the royals take on—and with Prince Philip, 98, retired and the Queen largely absent from daily public work—“courtiers imagined in the future that Harry would be shoulder to shoulder with William when he was King. He would pick up the bits that William wouldn’t be as good for. They would be complementary and side by side throughout their lives. That was a lovely picture. Harry was the secret weapon, really.” But the reality proved far more complex, and “when Meghan came around and she was interested in making changes, he welcomed it,” says the insider. When son Archie was born last May, the couple’s focus shifted even more to “doing what’s right for their family,” adds a friend. What’s more, the couple felt they had already absorbed more than their share of blows in the U.K. press. “Their instinct was not to take it on the chin,” says Bradby. Once again they felt unsupported by the royal family, who traditionally follow a “never complain, never explain” mantra. Adds a family friend: “This is not how they wanted to handle this, but Meghan and Harry’s hand was forced. There is so much bad blood in that family—it’s toxic. If relationships had been better, things would have been different.” A fracture that began when William warned Harry about moving too quickly with Meghan widened into a chasm as the newlyweds increasingly felt ostracized from the family. By this past May January 27, 2020
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Burning Questions Will They Keep T h e i r Ti t l e s ? Harry and Meghan were named Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Sussex by the Queen on their wedding day, and it’s unlikely she’ll strip them of their titles. When the Queen’s uncle Edward VIII abdicated, he was given the Duke of Windsor title and maintained his HRH status. “They won’t have HRH taken away any more than the Duke of Windsor did,” predicts historian Robert Lacey.
Will They Still Receive Income from the Monarchy?
What Happens to Frogmore Cottage?
Harry and Meghan moved into their Windsor home in April after $3 million in renovations. They stated that they plan to keep it as their residence in the U.K. with the Queen’s blessing “so that their family will always have a place to call home in the United Kingdom.”
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It’s the manner in which they chose to hit the
button that most ruffled feathers, say insiders. There remains “a lot of hurt” over the timing of the announcement, says a royal source. Although the couple had been in preliminary talks with the royal family about their plan, the Queen had asked that they refrain from sharing it publicly until the complexities could be discussed. But when the news leaked to The Sun, “Harry felt all bets were off,” said Bradby. The Queen was then given the couple’s statement just 10 minutes before it was released to the world. “I wouldn’t want this for my own grandmother, let alone the monarchy,” says the insider. Harry “knows the Queen is incredibly tolerant when she is kept in the picture, and she hates surprises,” says Junor. “It is a firm, and they are all working for the benefit of the monarch. As an army man, he should get that. I understand that he or Meghan might feel life had become intolerable in the U.K. But to do things in this way is a real kick in the teeth.” Counters the source close to the royal household: “Harry knows about service, but what he can’t cope with is a wife in distress.” Still, many observers question whether walking away from full-time royal duty, which draws an international spotlight, is the best way to achieve the most impact. “Harry pulled together the Invictus Games in under a year, which was the most astonishing feat of —PALACE organization,” says Junor. SOURCE “He would never have been able to do that if he had been Harry Wales with a very good idea. He absolutely gets that, so that’s another reason this is so surprising.”
‘Harry knows about service, but what he can’t cope with is a wife in distress’
Even in the midst of crisis, however, the royal
family keep calm and carry on: William and wife Kate were set to make an appearance promoting community cohesion on Jan. 15 in Bradford, and Harry had a scheduled engagement hosting the draw for the Rugby League World Cup on Jan. 16 before he was expected to reunite with Meghan and 8-month-old Archie on Canada’s Vancouver Island, where they have been staying since late November. In her statement the
THE TROUBLE with Being THE SPARE The struggle is real for younger siblings of the future monarch
More than a half century before Harry’s exit, his great-aunt Princess Margaret struggled with her place in the shadow of her older sister Elizabeth. “The younger-sibling syndrome is an enduring problem,” says Robert Lacey, author of the books Majesty and Monarch. “The system has not found a way of giving them the recognition that they need.” And as the older sibling has children, the problem only gets worse. “Until Elizabeth produced heirs, Margaret was a possible future Queen,” adds Lacey. “It is a family situation of conflict that goes back over generations.” M a r g a r e t ’s L o n e l y R o a d
Margaret (top, with Elizabeth in 1953; bottom, in 1976) famously sacrificed her romance with Peter Townsend because he was divorced— and her sister declined to approve the union.
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They will no longer get money from the taxpayerfunded Sovereign Grant, but Prince Charles will likely continue funding them through the Duchy of Cornwall, an estate that helps support the Prince of Wales’s family. Last year William and Harry together received about $6.4 million from their father.
“they knew they were going to hit the nuclear button,” says the palace insider.
YOU CAN’T SHUT DOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS BUT YOU CAN SHUT DOWN YOUR COLD SYMPTOMS
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The couple visited Canada House in London on Jan. 7, where they made no mention of the big announcement coming the next day.
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Queen acknowledged that there were “complex matters” still to be resolved. “There is some more work to be done, but I have asked for final decisions to be reached in the coming days.” But many of those close to Harry express concern about the distance between him and the rest of the family, especially since he has also distanced himself from many of his longtime friends. “He cut them off about six months into Meghan’s pregnancy,” says a source connected to the previously tight-knit circle. (One notable exception: Charlie van Straubenzee, who is a godfather to Archie.) “Most no longer even have
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his cell number. They totally understand that men often drift away from their friends after marriage, but there’s still a lot of resentment because they had been so close for so long.” Meghan, too, has changed her cell number but remains close with her own friend group— including Canadian stylist pal Jessica Mulroney, who flew to Vancouver Island to help watch Archie while Meghan and Harry made a Jan. 7 appearance in London just before announcing their plans. Meghan’s mom, Doria, who lives in Los Angeles and spent Thanksgiving with her daughter, W h e r e Wa s son-in-law and grandson in Princess Kate? Vancouver, “says Meghan The royal mom is strong and will always of three (outside be okay,” says a source who Kensington Palace on Jan. 12) occasionally crosses paths was not present with her. “She says her at the summit— grandson is the cutest.” nor was Charles’s wife, Camilla, Ultimately, friends say, or Prince Philip, the couple’s decision to all of whom, like step away from royal life Kate, married into the family. is for their son’s benefit. “I She remained don’t see this as running in London with away from the U.K. but as a her kids. desire to have a life in both places,” says a friend of the couple’s. “Neither wants to lose the links to the countries they have grown up in. I imagine a year from now you will have seen them having spent good chunks of time in both places.” But where will the relationships between the couple and the rest of the royal family be in a year? Palace sources say there is a determination to understand Meghan and Harry’s position and help them get to a place where they feel comfortable and content. Yes, “there is anger at the moment,” says historian Robert Lacey. “But if Harry and Meghan are prepared to enter into the spirit of this new arrangement”—making sure not to appear to cash in on their titles and reputations—“I think the Queen, Charles and William will [support them]. Each of them, for different reasons, will want to heal what has gone wrong.”
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Samuel Little says he killed 93 people, making him the deadliest serial killer in U.S. history. Now he’s drawing portraits of his victims from memory— and anguished families may finally get answers By S A N D R A S O B I E R A J W E S T F A L L
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Little (at his 2014 sentencing) has to date drawn more than 30 portraits of women he says he murdered (left). Inset: His portrait of victim Roberta Tandarich, killed in Ohio in 1991.
As a little girl, Pearl Nelson would listen to stories her uncle would tell about the mother she never knew— how despite a troubled life of prostitution and drug abuse, Audrey Nelson delighted in buying presents for her baby girl, including a lamp that lit up their room with dragonflies. Left in the care of relatives by the time she was about 2, Pearl was 13 when her mom came back for her. “She turned her life around, and she was ready to be a mom again,” says Pearl. But on the 1989 summer day of their planned reunion in Mountain View, Calif., Audrey was a no-show. Her body was discovered several weeks later in a dumpster in Los Angeles. “Imagine when she doesn’t come,” Pearl says. “Every night I was like, ‘I just want my mommy.’ ” Nearly 30 years later Pearl did see her mother again—staring up from among other chilling sketches by a confessed serial killer. “I could tell right away which one was her,” says Pearl, now 43 and a mom herself. “I could look at 90 pictures and pick her out in a second.” Audrey’s portrait is one in a macabre trove of portraits that FBI officials hope will bring long-awaited answers to more families whose daughters, sisters and mothers went missing between 1970 and 2005, when a convicted killer named Samuel Little claims to have strangled to death a staggering 93 women across 19 states. In hundreds of hours of interviews over the last 21 months, Little—a onetime truck driver currently serving multiple life sentences in California State Prison, Los Angeles County for the murder of Audrey and two
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other women—has poured out to police graphically detailed confessions, complete with drawings of his alleged victims. Already the 79-year-old’s illustrated confessions have been matched to more than 50 cold-case Jane Does around the country, and the FBI is racing against time and Little’s failing health to identify the rest of his victims. “Little [told us] he chose women that would be less missed,” says Angela Williamson of the Justice Department’s Violent Crime Apprehension Program. “Every one of these victims that we’ve helped to identify so far, they were missed and loved dearly. There’s somebody out there who still cares, still wants to know.” Williamson was at a cold-case conference in December 2017 when she and Texas Ranger James Holland, an expert on interviewing sociopaths, happened to hear about Little, who— despite dozens of arrests for violent crimes (see box )—had eluded murder convictions until 2014, when his DNA connected him to the late-1980s Los Angeles murders of Audrey, 35, Carol Alford, 41, and Guadalupe Apodaca, 46. Williamson and Holland had a hunch that Little—who at first denied those murders but had run out of appeals by then—might have information on cold cases that had long vexed them. So with Williamson and FBI analyst Christie Palazzolo listening from across the hall with a pile of case files and access to the FBI database, Holland first met with Little at the California prison in May 2018, gingerly poking into the 1994 unsolved murder of Denise Brothers in Odessa, Texas. “Jim was talking about, ‘Did you ever do anything in Texas?’ And threw out city names, threw out
DARK REVELATIONS Ranger James Holland spent more than 700 hours with Little.
Odessa. And Little just unloaded, basically the contents of the Odessa case file that Christie and I had in front of us,” says Williamson. “That’s how all the cases have come out. He just kept talking, telling us what he did, where he did it, listing off cities, approximate years. It was dumbfounding.”
All told, Holland logged more than 700 hours of
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one-on-one interviews with Little, plying the killer with peanut M&Ms and Dr. Pepper to keep his confessions coming. To gain Little’s trust Holland even talked Ector County, Texas, District Attorney Bobby Bland into waiving the death penalty in exchange for Little’s guilty plea in Brothers’s murder. “That broke open the floodgates, and he started confessing to a bunch of cases,” Bland says. “The details he gave were so uncanny that they had to be true.” And Little seemed to relish reliving his crimes, most of which played out before DNA testing and surveillance cameras were ubiquitous. “You have a person who enjoyed what he did and wanted to remember the details for his own gratification,” says Bland. At one point prison guards showed Williamson and Palazzolo portraits of celebrities that Little had drawn and taped up in his cell. “They were pretty decent, and we could tell who everyone was,” Williamson explains. “So Ranger Holland was like, ‘Hey, you really like talking about your victims. Would you like to draw them?’ Little said, ‘Yeah.’ He would stay up all night drawing.” Soon Holland invited other coldcase detectives, like Miami-Dade, Fla., Police Det. David Denmark, to take a crack at Little on their own unsolved cases. “We were all ears, and he was all
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Little (left, in mug shots and booking photos from 1966 to 1995) has a rap sheet of more than 75 arrests dating back to when he was just 16. Though arrested on rape and murder charges as early as 1982, he was not convicted of murder until 2014. FBI investigators now believe his alleged 35-year killing spree spanned more than 19 states.
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mouth,” says Denmark. “We were like, ‘Holy crap!’ He knows he’s going to die in prison, and here he is telling us he wants to help us out.” Through Little’s rambling soliloquies and interviews with his surviving relatives, authorities sketched out some more of the killer’s backstory: As an infant he was abandoned by his mother and then raised by his grandparents in Lorain, Ohio. Aunts and uncles “all said it was a fairly normal upbringing,” says Palazzolo. L.A. County prosecutor Beth Silverman helped fill in some details: By age 16, Little was arrested on suspicion of burglary. He dropped out of high school, and by age 30, his rap sheet included aggravated assault with a gun. He lived out of his car, kept a string of girlfriends in several cities and committed his first homicide, in Florida, at age 42. “His family weren’t child abusers,” adds Silverman. “He’s just evil.”
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have at least brought answers, if not peace. “It’s not doing me any favors to know who did this,” says June Leuenberger, 57, whose mother, Julia, was killed in Saucier, Miss., in 1978. June still relives the horror she felt when she learned of her mother’s death—“I remember sitting there with an investigator when I was 15, and he tells me, ‘Your mother was raped with foreign objects,’ ” she recalls—and she spent years afterward being bounced among 15 foster homes. “There’s no closure,” says June. “It opened up a whole other door of pain. She never got to meet my husband, my children, my grandchildren. He took all that away.”
Authorities hope that matching Little’s drawings to cold cases will bring answers to grieving family members like Minnie Hill (left), who holds a photo of her daughter Rosie, killed in Florida in 1982 (Little has confessed to the murder). Rosie and other victims were honored at a memorial service in Los Angeles in 2018 (inset). Right: Little’s portrait of Audrey Nelson, murdered in 1989, alongside her photo. Little was convicted of her murder.
Reginald Thomas can’t forget the “two big thumbprints” he saw pressed into his older sister Melissa’s neck when he saw her body after her 1996 murder. Little’s confession to meeting Melissa in a nightclub parking lot and strangling her in an Opelousas, La., graveyard the next day included a vividly accurate description of her short hair and single gold tooth—but did not capture her spirit. “She loved to dance and dress up. She was a good caretaker and probably would have been a sweet mother,” says Reginald, 46. His parents didn’t live to see Little answer the questions that had haunted them for years, but Reginald staged a balloon release after learning the truth a year ago. “I feel that she can finally rest because she knows that her family now knows what happened,” he says. “[Little] is showing remorse by opening up. For me to move forward, I have to forgive him.” As for Pearl, who blames Little for the “big black hole” in her life, she sees no remorse. “He’s got nothing in his eyes. Now he wants his glory for his disgustingness,” she says. “But it’s good that all these people can finally have the answer to what happened to their loved ones. And we got a huge monster off the streets.” Reporting by K.C. BAKER & CHRISTINE PELISEK
CAN YOU HELP IDENTIFY LITTLE’S REMAINING VICTIMS? Contact 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov with any information related to Little and his victims. Some of Little’s drawings and video clips of his confessions can be found by going to fbi.gov and searching “Samuel Little.”
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Role Model
De Niro (with his dad, painter Robert De Niro Sr., in the mid-1940s) says having artist parents helped inspire his creativity.
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AFTER 50 YEARS IN THE BUSINESS, THE IRISHMAN S TA R R E F L EC T S O N FA M E , FAT H E R H O O D A N D LASTING FRIENDSHIPS By M I A M c N I E C E
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Marty & Bobby: The Movie D r e a m Te a m Scorsese and De Niro, both Italian Americans who grew up in downtown Manhattan, first teamed up for the 1973 crime drama Mean Streets and have gone on to make nine films together. “Marty is a filmmaker who breaks boundaries in cinema,” De Niro said when presenting his friend with an award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival gala on Jan. 2. “He still manages to be completely original every time he steps behind the camera.” 56
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In 2013 with son Raphael, a New York real estate agent who has three kids of his own. “It’s important for them to find their own lane,” De Niro says of his children.
De Niro with his grandson Leandro (Drena’s son) in 2014.
Proud Papa
After marrying Diahnne Abbott in 1976, De Niro adopted her daughter from a previous marriage, Drena (with him in 1988). She is an actress.
Sitting down with People, he opened up about lessons he’s learned along the way. Encourage your kids to reach for the stars “When you become a parent, there are certain things that you become more aware of, more sensitive about,” he says. “For my kids, I tell them, ‘If you want to be an actor or you want to do this or that, that’s fine as long as you’re happy. Just don’t
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De Niro bulked up to play middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta in the film that earned him his second Oscar. (His first was for The Godfather Part II in 1974.)
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According to Robert De Niro, the secret to success is simple: Find your passion, and follow it. The two-time Oscar winner, 76, has been doing just that for more than 50 years, ever since the self-described shy kid from New York City made his big-screen debut in 1969’s The Wedding Party—and he has no plans to slow down anytime soon. “Happiness,” he says, “is doing what you love to do.” It’s something he learned at an early age from his parents, artists Virginia and Robert De Niro. At 16, he enrolled in the prestigious Stella Adler Conservatory in Manhattan, but it wasn’t until age 30 that he landed his first major role, in 1973’s Mean Streets. The film launched not only his career but also his lifelong friendship with director Martin Scorsese, 77, with whom he has now collaborated on nine films. “I consider myself very lucky to have that long of a relationship with him,” De Niro says. “I can’t imagine my life without it.” The two most recently joined forces for the Netflix Mob drama The Irishman, which costars Al Pacino and Joe Pesci and is nominated for 10 Oscars and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, including best cast. “Doing this film was so special for all of us no matter what happened,” he says. “The good reception is the icing on the cake.” On Jan. 19 De Niro—who also played a talk show host in this year’s Joker, up for 11 Oscars— will be honored with the Life Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. With six children and four grandchildren, he has a full plate. “I have a lot going on in my life,” he says, channeling some of the laconic philosophy of The Irishman’s tough guys: “A lot of it is good, some of it could be better, but it is what it is.”
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sell yourself short.’ That’s the most I would say— push yourself a little more, and reach for what you really think it is you want to do. Don’t be afraid.” Surround yourself with people you admire Besides Scorsese, De Niro has repeatedly worked with fellow actors like Pesci (seven films), Meryl Streep (three films) and Bradley Cooper (four films). “Marty is very sensitive about people and actors. He takes what actors give him and uses it,” he says. De Niro says it was Cooper who persuaded him to take on the role of talk show host Murray Franklin in Joker. “Bradley was one of the producers, and he told me to do it. He’s really terrific. What he did with A Star Is Born, the way he worked on it quietly by himself, put it together, found the right actors, the right people . . . When you know what you want to do, that’s a great thing, and you know it’ll be special.” Never stop doing what you love “I plan to keep on acting,” De Niro says of the future. “I’m talking with Marty now about our next project and seeing when it’s going to be ready. I get excited hearing about it. That’s a great thing, to be able to say, ‘Oh, I can’t wait to get into that and get working.’ ” The arts should matter—to everyone “It’s not like my family sat around the table and talked about art, but they led by example,” he says, crediting his parents, both painters, with nurturing his creativity. “Expression through music, movies, acting, dance, whatever—those are expressions that people need to connect to,” says De Niro, who cofounded New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 after the Sept. 11 attacks. “Whether it’s going to museums, theaters, movies, TV, whatever. We need that. It’s part of our culture, part of our society. It’s essential that it’s there.”
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The drama, which also starred Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci, didn’t originally test well but became a big hit. “It was a great experience, but you never know the impression it is going to make,” De Niro said.
‘When you become a parent, there are certain things that you become more sensitive about’
Honor of a Lifetime Watch People, Entertainment Weekly & TNT Red Carpet Live: 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Jan. 19, starting at 5:30 p.m. ET/ 2:30 p.m. PT on people.com. Stay tuned for the annual SAG Awards, airing on TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT.
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De Niro will receive the Screen Actors Guild’s Life Achievement Award, presented by his two-time costar Leonardo DiCaprio (above, with De Niro at a 2016 amFAR benefit). “When people in your own profession recognize you in this way, it’s an honor,” De Niro says. Inset: DiCaprio and De Niro in their 1993 drama This Boy’s Life.
Focus on what’s important, and don’t worry about the rest “Over the years I have learned to look at things with less angst,” he says of how he’s changed. “For example, when acting, I know one thing that I need to work on and then I let go of the rest. I just go into the scene. You don’t want to push for anything. You just have to take things as they come.”
The duo’s eighth collaboration, about the Mob in Las Vegas, also starred Sharon Stone (above) and Pesci.
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Michelle Lauren Anderson and Katherine Anderson-Hill on Nov. 10, 2019. Inset: The twins, just a few months before the fire in 1996.
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A horrific house fire left then 2-year-old Michelle Anderson with burns over 90 percent of her body. But her sister Katherine escaped uninjured. Yet they overcame the tragedy and forged an even deeper bond By
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They were inseparable from the moment they were born, but even as toddlers, identical twins Michelle Lauren Anderson and Katherine Anderson-Hill had their own personalities. “Michelle was spunky and stubborn,” says their mother, Linda Anderson. “Katherine was quieter; Michelle would run and Katherine would follow. They were different, but they loved doing everything together.” That inimitable bond between them changed forever on May 19, 1996. The twins, just 2 at the time, were visiting their father and his wife (their parents divorced in 1994) for the weekend in Fridley, Minn., when a fire broke out in their bedroom around midnight. Katherine was able to escape without major injury, but Michelle’s bed was ablaze. “I remember seeing the flames coming up on me,” says Michelle, whose father managed to pull her out—but not before more than 90 percent of her body had been badly burned. (An investigation suggested the cause of the fire was a wayward cigarette, but it was never officially confirmed. The twins have had no contact with their father or his wife Unbreakable Bond since.) “She’d been wearing a wet diaper, so Katherine and that part of her wasn’t burned, and she had a Michelle on their pacifier in her mouth, so her lips were saved. 8th birthday, in July 2001. Her eyes were open, so her eyelids weren’t “There are parts burned off. I believe she was standing in the of our lives that corner, trapped,” says Linda, 51, who marnobody else can understand,” ried Edward Anderson in 2000. “Every day says Katherine. after that was a battle. We knew it was going to be challenging forever—for all of us.” In the 24 years since that fateful night, Michelle and Katherine, 26, have forged an even stronger connection—one that has grown through a lifetime of physical and emotional challenges. While Michelle has fought mightily to overcome the
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Four months after the 1996 fire, Michelle began learning how to walk again at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare.
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An external fixation device would enable Michelle to regain mobility in her right hand; at home in 1998, Katherine carefully “helps” clean it.
The twins at age 12, leaving Regions Hospital in St. Paul, following foot surgery that left Michelle using a wheelchair for more than six weeks.
pain and ordeal caused by her injuries (she’s had more than 80 surgeries so far), Katherine has had to come to terms with her own remorse and frustration. “There were times when I felt a lot of guilt seeing my sister in pain and knowing there was nothing I could do,” she says. “But we’re as close as sisters can be.” Adds Michelle: “Katherine was my constant support system. But having someone who looks exactly like you—but doesn’t have scars—is always a reminder of what my life would have been. She’s the life and the face I could have had.” In the weeks following the fire, Michelle’s prognosis was dire. “They told me that if she survived, she would have no hands and feet, maybe no arms and legs, and if she got off the ventilator, she’d be on oxygen and possibly be blind,” says Linda, a registered nurse who works in a postanesthesia care unit. Two weeks in, Michelle devel—KATHERINE, oped sepsis, and doctors urOF TWIN gently began a series of tempoMICHELLE rary dressings and skin grafts, mostly from donated tissue, to cover her burns and avoid further infection. “They did her face first,” says Linda. “Then every two weeks for months, they’d take skin from her back, head or her butt and replace another part of her.” Michelle underwent 25 surgeries before she finally went home on Nov. 1, 1996. “That’s when the recovery really began,” says Linda. “Katherine was too young to understand, but Michelle had lost everything.”
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“I begged my mom for horsebackriding lessons,” says Michelle (at Woodloch Stables in 2018). She wears custom riding pants and gloves and uses special saddles to avoid chafing on her legs.
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“I was super into swimming, competitive and synchronized,” says Katherine (in 10th grade at Forest Lake High School in Forest Lake, Minn.).
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Initially Michelle, who also suffered serious damage
to her lungs and esophagus from smoke inhalation, remained on a feeding tube; dressing her wounds could take hours. She had to learn how to walk and talk again and suffered from vivid nightmares about the fire for more than a year. “Every night around midnight, about the same time as the fire, it would start all over again. I would rock her, saying, ‘You’re safe, you’re safe,’ ” says Linda, who took two years off to care for her daughter. Her skin grafts and reconstructions continued weekly—often leading to infections and other complications. “Michelle had surgeries throughout our childhood,” says Katherine, a nurse in the cardiac ICU at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “Every surgery was like a look back and another time we had to relive this horrible thing. . . . And I’d think, ‘It could have been me. Why wasn’t it me?’ It just didn’t seem fair.” In 1997 the sisters started school part-time—in some ways, both struggled to fit in. “Michelle was excluded from more things than I think she realized— and Katherine too, because they knew who her sis-
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Both got their degrees in 2015: Katherine from the University of WisconsinEau Claire and Michelle from the University of WisconsinRiver Falls.
ter was,” says Linda, who would visit their class at the beginning of each school year to explain to the kids what had happened. “There were always the questions and stares,” says Michelle, who remembers being called a monster in preschool. “That was my first realization that ‘Wait, I’m not just a normal kid.’ ” Adds Katherine: “I would tell them about her scars and her limitations and defend her.” Still, by the time the twins turned 14, tensions between them had begun to surface. Katherine had become a competitive synchronized swimJanuary 27, 2020
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H a p p y To g e t h e r Katherine, with Michelle, on her wedding day in September 2017 at Camp Courage North, for people with disabilities, where she volunteered during summers when she was in high school.
mer and cello player—and she drawn to horses,” says Michelle, who became an found herself struggling to bal- equestrian competitor and now gives therapeutic ance being there for Michelle riding lessons near her home in St. Paul. “Finding and carving out her own future. our own identities is what saved our friendship,” “It was sometimes hard to be she adds. “If we had done the same activities, it continually supportive,” she would have destroyed me. I would never have felt says, “and also be a kid and have good enough, because I would have always been my own life.” comparing myself to her.” Meanwhile, Since then the sisters’ differences Michelle’s constant have brought them even closer. “We surgeries were taktalk every other day on the phone,” says ing a new toll. Due Katherine, who married Matt Hill, 25, to the painful rea research technologist at the Mayo covery process, Clinic, in 2017. “I don’t know what I she was finding it would do without her. She’s much more harder to maintain than just my twin.” Michelle still copes her grades. She was also having diffiwith a myriad of physical issues—more culty matching her sister’s pace. “We than 70 percent of her body is unable —MICHELLE were really competitive already,” says to sweat, and she has pain and extreme Michelle. “I wanted to do everything, sensitivity in her hands and feet—but but my body wouldn’t keep up.” Adds Linda: she’s focused on finishing her second master’s de“Finding something Michelle could be good at was gree, in business leadership, in June. “There’s no important, because everything she wanted to do, way to articulate everything I’ve been through,” says her twin could do better.” Michelle, who’s also writing a self-help book That summer Michelle went away to a camp about her journey. “But it’s been a blessing to have for burn survivors in Colorado, where she discov- Katherine. Even though she wasn’t burned, she ered her passion for horseback riding. “I just was understands because she’s always been there.”
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Special Dogs Changing Lives When mental-health counselor Dawn Richard Cook is working with a client in her Wilmington, N.C., office, her dog Rupp is working too—alert to emotion and spiraling anxiety. “If a client’s voice gets louder or faster, or he puts his head in his hands, Rupp will go bump his hand, like, ‘Pet me; focus on me and let’s calm down,’” explains Richard Cook, director of the medical evaluation team at Paws4people, which trains dogs to help people with mental illness—everything from depression to schizophrenia—mitigate or manage crippling symptoms. Psychiatric service dogs like Rupp offer new possibilities for mental-health treatment. “Dogs are naturally attentive to our emotional states,” says Kerri Rodriguez of the Center for the Human Animal Bond at Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. “With training, a dog can recognize an increased heart rate—or the cues we give off when we are anxious—and act on them.” For some this tail-wagging therapy is lifesaving.
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‘He’s Been a Life Changer ’ RILEY WALL, 15, & CANYON
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job. Diagnosed with major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder and ADHD, Riley was almost 11 when he was discharged from an eight-month stay in a psychiatric facility three hours from home in Wilmington, N.C., where Paws4people is located. Soon after, Janet met a staffer from the organization, who happened to mention psychiatric service dogs as a way to help Riley. “I didn’t even know they existed,” she recalls. With Paws4people right there in town, Riley was quickly matched with Canyon. (“The dogs pick the client; Canyon jumped onto Riley’s lap and started kissing him,” Janet recalls of their first meeting.) The golden retriever then went through seven months of individual and group training and by April 2016 could shortcircuit Riley’s outbursts with a nudge of his snout. The boy still requires daily medication and therapy twice a month, but, marvels Janet, “he’s not had a violent meltdown in my house since Canyon came home.” And this year, for the first time since her son started kindergarten, she’s not once been called to pick him up from school. The pup has been a life changer, says Riley: “One hundred percent. Like, I’ve had very bad experiences with sadness. But every time Canyon is around, I’d feel happy. He’s helped me through a lot.”
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‘A Second Chance’ WIL NOBLES, 34, & HARNETT
CONSTANT COMPANION Harnett accompanies Wil to his new job, on workouts, everywhere. “I don’t have that rage in me anymore,” says Wil.
As an Army fuel-supply specialist twice deployed to Iraq, Wil Nobles saw plenty of death, but it was the smell of it he couldn’t shake when he got home. Discharged in 2011, Wil struggled to manage his PTSD—anxiety, nightmares, panic, rage and depression—as his marriage crumbled. “It was pills after pills. I was in a black hole. I didn’t care for living, and if I died, okay, whatever,” says the Jacksonville, N.C., father of two. He learned about psychiatric service dogs from a buddy, and research led him to Paws4people, then to Harnett, a chocolate Lab, in 2016. The dog is trained to sense Wil’s unease in crowds and press against his leg to calm him. At the command “Cuddle,” Harnett lays across Wil’s back. “The pressure makes me feel more at ease,” says Wil, who’s now able to hold a job
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Dogs’ instinctive bond with humans and ability to smell in parts-per-trillion mean they can be trained to smell—and act on— emotions like fear or anxiety, says Maria Goodavage, author of Doctor Dogs, which examines the growing use of canines in health care: “We’re looking at just the tip of the iceberg with what these dogs can do.” At Paws4people, prison inmates teach service dogs 120 commands (“Cuddle” and “Anchor” are standard) that are then customized to the client’s behaviors and symptoms—in concert with his or her mental-health providers. Training generally takes months and can cost thousands of dollars. “The goal is to incorporate the dog as another tool for you to use for wellness,” says Danielle Cockerham, a deputy executive director at Paws4people. For information about services in your area, go to Paws4people.org or assistance dogsinternational.org.
(stocking supplies at the hospital) and has reduced his eight daily meds to two: “Before Harnett I’d be walking somewhere and my mind would race: ‘This guy’s walking too close, what if he reaches for me?’—crazy scenarios,” he says. “I don’t do that anymore.” What he’s learned from Harnett about reading body language and emotion has helped Wil be better to his family too. “I’m more sensitive, more open in communicating with my wife and kids, more touching,” he says. “Harnett’s given me a second chance in life.”
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‘He’s the First to Notice My Anxiety ’
Shopping at the mall, riding the bus, even going to school—none of this was imaginable to Elizabeth Horner, whose persistent depression with anxious distress and agoraphobia all but imprisoned her in her parents’ house ELIZABETH HORNER, 26, & until the homeschooled PIPPIN teen saw a PBS video about mental illness that featured psychiatric service dogs. Handi-Dogs, in her hometown of Tucson, matched her with Pippin, a Greyhound rescue from the racing circuit. “Before, I lived all my life inside my house. Just two minutes outside would have me in a breakdown crying, making my mom bring me back to the house,” Elizabeth says. But Pippin is so alert to the tide of her emotions, “he’s the first to notice my anxiety getting high, before even I realize it. He will lean against my body, which is like deep-pressure therapy, to interrupt the anxiety.” Now sharing an apartment with a roommate and taking the bus to college classes, Elizabeth hopes others will see dogs like Pippin as the salve they are: “It’s a creative solution to getting through the day with mental illness.”
‘HANK IS HER BODY ARMOR’
Deb Shoemaker, Molly’s former therapist, calls Hank “a big part” of her stabilization. Her dad, Greg, a Marine, calls Hank Molly’s “body armor.”
‘He Stops My Cutting and Panic Attacks’ MO LLY W ILSON, 20, & HA NK
Because of schizophrenia, Molly Wilson hears people and voices constantly in her head telling her she should kill herself. But she can’t talk about it to anyone. “Molly’s told us that talking about them makes them more violent,” her father, Greg, explains. Between suicide attempts and cutting, Molly’s mother, Melanie, says life for the Daytona Beach, Fla., family is “constant suicide watch.” In 2015 they scrimped to pay $15,000 for the family dog, Hank, to be trained by Comprehensive Pet Therapy in Atlanta. Now the rottweiler-Lab mix can recognize a razor blade. “He nudges me when I’m cutting so that I’ll stop,” she says. He also helps her recognize hallucinations by turning on — G R E G W I L S O N , lights and “clearing a room.” M O L L Y ’ S D A D Melanie explains, “If Hank walks through and comes out, Molly knows there’s nothing there. And if she sees something and Hank, who is so friendly that he greets everyone, doesn’t acknowledge it, she knows it’s not real.” Other voices Hank cannot silence. “People judge and will say under their breath, ‘Some people just like to take their dogs everywhere,’” says Molly, who recently started work as a school after-care leader. Greg hopes for public understanding of service dogs: “It’s with Hank’s help that Molly is able to leave the house and try life.”
‘HANK HAS MADE LIFE SEEM POSSIBLE’
NEW POSSIBILITIES Now that she’s able to be out in the world, Elizabeth is studying art and Spanish in college, hoping to work as a court interpreter.
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An Olympic Legend Turns
60 AND HE’S
A M E R I C A’S G R E AT E S T L I V I N G DIVER REFLECTS ON HIS LIFE’S UPS AND DOWNS—AND HIS HOPE FOR GOOD TIMES AHEAD By J O H N N Y D O D D Photographs by PAT R I K G I A R D I N O
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One recent afternoon Greg Louganis
was rummaging through a drawer in his dresser, when he came across the red, white and blue Speedo he’d worn in an iconic late ’80s promo poster for the swimwear company. Curious, the fourtime Olympic gold-medal-winning diver couldn’t resist trying it on. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, it fits!’ ” he says with a laugh, as he relaxes in a Los Angeles health-food cafe. “I’m not doing too bad for someone about to turn 60.” In fact, Louganis is doing way better
THEN AND NOW
“The Lycra was getting a little thin, ” says Louganis (modeling his iconic Speedo in December—on the very same Mission Viejo, Calif., diving board where the original photo, left, was taken). “I want this to be a G-rated shoot!”
than not bad. More than three decades after he became the first male diver to win gold in both the springboard and the platform events in the 1984 and ’88 Olympics, Louganis is still diving— and anticipating being in Tokyo for this summer’s Olympic Games for the Brazilian TV network Globo Sport; he’s also serving as sports director for the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. “They build platforms on top of platforms that they’re jumping off,” he says. “It’s really fun.”
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But in the years since his gold medal
glory, the athlete’s life has taken some emotional twists and turns as well. “There have been some rough, chaotic times,” admits Louganis, who broke barriers as one of the first high-profile athletes to come out as gay in 1994. Following his HIV diagnosis in 1988, Louganis nearly died from a fungal infection in the early ’90s. Now, after years on a successful regimen of treatments, Louganis says, doctors have told him he can reduce the number of daily medications he’s required to take. “My T cells are higher than they’ve ever been, and it’s been that way for a while now,” says Louganis, who, in addition to meditating and doing visualization exercises, practices yoga and visits the gym daily and tries to follow a plantbased diet. His latest challenge has been with depression, which he says doctors have linked to head injuries he sustained while diving. (He split his head open on the springboard during the 1988 Olympics and was unconscious for 20 minutes after a similar accident in 1979.) “I’ve suffered from depression erratically for years, but now it’s been kind of a persistent thing,” says Louganis, who’s working with specialists on treatments to combat the condition. “I’ve always been able to pull myself up and out of it, but lately it seems so much more difficult.” January 27, 2020
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In Fi n e Fo r m “I still like to occasionally get on the boards and play,” says Louganis, who also sometimes helps train young divers. “It’s fun for them, and it’s a lot of fun for me.”
‘Life, I’ve learned, is all about finding balance’ —GREG LOUGANIS
Still, as the California native made the wedding of his half-niece on Oahu. plans to celebrate his 60th birthday on Closer to home in Los Angeles, he’s Jan. 29, he wasn’t spending a lot of time also been training dogs and their hanlooking back. “Been there, done that,” dlers for agility competitions—which says Louganis when he hears himself involve a handler directing a dog described as the “greatest male diver” through an obstacle course in a race of all time. “Whenever I hear that, I based on time and accuracy. He himthink, ‘Okay, but now what are you go- self has won several national chaming to do with your life?’ ” pionships with his beloved Parson For Louganis that future is still be- Russell Terriers Nipper and Dobby. ing written. In 2013 he wed parale- “I love how the majority of people are gal Johnny Chaillot, 59, and the two so passionate about their dogs and rerecently moved to a new home in ally love helping them be successful Los Angeles. “He’s always there for in their competitions,” says Louganis, me with the moral support,” he says. adding that his dogs—including Pax, a He has also begun forging closer re- Pyrenean Shepherd—have also helped lationships with his biological father, him through hard times. “When I Fouvale Lutu, 80, and mother, Cynthia felt most insecure, my dogs have been Harris, 77, teenage there for me.” sweethearts who had Just then, Pax, who’s placed an infant Loubeen sleeping nearby, ganis up for adoption rests his head in Loushortly after his birth. ganis’s lap. Pausing for (Louganis was raised a moment, Louganis by adoptive parents considers the chalPeter and Frances Loulenges he’s faced and ganis, both of whom are his hopes for what lies now deceased.) “We’re ahead. “It is what it is,” working on trying to fighe says. “But life, I’ve ure out boundaries and learned, is all about H a p p i l y E v e r A f t e r how to navigate them,” balance—and I’ve got so Louganis married his husband, says Louganis, who remuch more that I want Johnny Chaillot, in Malibu in October 2013. cently returned from to do.”
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“Whoda thunk!?” says Lizzo, reflecting on her breakout success over the past year. Seemingly overnight, the flute-playing, positivity-advocating rapper and singer went from being mostly Watch the unknown to the hottest 62nd Annual ticket in America. But GRAMMY in truth, the Houston AWARDS® native, who’s up for 8 P.M. ET the most Grammys CBS ND this year—eight, AY JAN. including Album of the Year for her major-label debut, Cuz I Love You—has been hustling for nearly a decade. Last fall her braggadocious breakout hit “Truth Hurts”—which is up for both Record and Song of the Year— made history when it hit No. 1 two years after its 2017 release. Lizzo, 31, still can’t quite believe her sudden stardom. “Nobody knew who I was. Two years later I have a song on the charts and a platinum record. It’s crazy.” SU
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Lizzo (born Melissa Jefferson) is set to perform and expected to win big at this year’s awards in Los Angeles.
How does it feel to come back this year? I said hosting the Grammys was a onetime thing, and now here I am. I’ll probably say this is the last time, but you never know what’s meant for you, and that’s exciting. Did you ever see yourself as an in-demand host? I think that’s what has been so magnificent about the journey. We can plan as best as we can, but there’s a magical part where you don’t quite know where you’re going to end up. This Grammy hosting is a place I never thought of myself being. What’s your advice to this year’s nominees? Creating takes bravery. But remember, no award defines you.
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The band in 1984.
AEROSMITH TURNS 50 The Bad Boys of Boston are celebrating a half century as a band— and they still don’t want to miss a thing. Steven Tyler, 71, Joe Perry, For more, pick 69, Tom Hamilton, 68, Joey Kramer, 69, and Brad Whitford, 67, will up the new be honored for their musical legacy and philanthropic work at the People special edition MusiCares Person of the Year Tribute. (The annual benefit raises Aerosmith: money for the Recording Academy’s charitable branch, which helps In Their Own people in the music world in times of need.) The five are currently Words. rocking out on their Aerosmith: Deuces Are Wild residency at the Park MGM Las Vegas. “A farewell tour? I don’t feel that in my heart,” says Tyler. “We’re looking good, feeling good. The stage is my mistress; she keeps me strong.” Adds Perry: “We’ve had a lot of ups and downs. There are a lot of reasons bands don’t stay together for 50 years . . . whether it’s personalities, God’s will or whatever or . . . luck.” But maybe Whitford puts it best: “I don’t have any real reason to retire.”
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The NYU alum (who counts Pharrell as a fan) has a Best New Artist nom for her folk-pop debut.
LIL NAS X, 20 Nominations: 6
“Old Town Road” helped the rapper tie with Eilish for the second-most nominations.
LEWIS CAPALDI, 23 Nominations: 1
Scottish export Capaldi’s heartbreak hit “Someone You Loved” is up for Song of the Year.
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THE CANADIAN SINGER, 28, IS UP FOR BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM Has being nominated for a Grammy always been a dream of yours? Since I was a kid. I remember watching the show in my pajamas and feeling conflicted because I was like, “Why am I on this couch? Why am I not there?” What are you most looking forward to? I’m excited to dress up and to see my friend Billie Eilish. I’d love to meet Lizzo. And winning! I hope I f---ing win! What are your must-haves for the big night? Probably my Converse Chucks and a T-shirt, to make sure I have something to change into if I’m wearing heels and a gown. Floss because I’m a flossaholic and some ChapStick. People will be live from the red carpet at the 2020 MusiCares Person of the Year benefit gala on Jan. 24 and the 62nd Grammy Awards on Jan. 26. Download the PeopleTV app, or head to people.com and its social channels to catch all the action.
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Chorizo Burgers with Avocado Salsa ‘I infuse pork with the bold flavors of Mexican chorizo to create an irresistible burger,’ says the chef, who will host the annual Taste of the NFL party on Feb. 1 in Hollywood, Fla.
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2 avocados, roughly chopped 6 hamburger buns, toasted Thinly sliced tomatoes Crumbled cotija cheese 1. Mince enough cilantro to equal 1⁄ 3 cup, and place in a large bowl. Finely grate 2 of the garlic cloves over bowl, and add pork, onion, chipotle chiles, chile powder, oregano, cumin and 11⁄ 2 teaspoons of the salt. Gently stir pork mixture together until just combined. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour or up to 8 hours. 2. Preheat oven to broil with oven rack about 6 in. from heat. Chop enough of the remaining cilantro to equal 1⁄ 2 cup, chop remaining 1 garlic clove, and quarter the tomatillos. Place in a food processor with serrano chile, lime juice,
mint and remaining 11⁄ 2 teaspoons salt. Pulse until all ingredients are mostly uniform and resemble a chunky paste, 10 to 15 times. Add avocados to food processor, and pulse 3 times. (The salsa should still be chunky.) Set aside. 3. Gently shape pork mixture into 6 3⁄ 4-in.-thick patties, and place on a rimmed baking sheet. Broil in preheated oven until a brown crust forms on the outside and a thermometer inserted into center of patty registers 150° to 155°, about 5 minutes per side. 4. Place burgers in toasted buns. Top each patty with tomato slices, a dollop of salsa and cotija. Serve burgers with remaining salsa on the side. Serves: 6 Active time: 20 minutes Total time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
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‘This sweet and spicy combo is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser,’ says the singer and founder of the Bounty & Full sauce line. ‘It’s great for viewing parties, tailgates and everything in between!’ 2 lbs. chicken wings, separated into drumettes and flats 1 Tbsp. granulated garlic 1 tsp. kosher salt 1⁄ 2 tsp. black pepper 5 Tbsp. honey 3 Tbsp. hot sauce 3 Tbsp. salted butter 2 Tbsp. soy sauce 1⁄ 2 Tbsp. Dijon mustard 1. Preheat oven to 450°. Pat chicken with paper towels until very dry; place in a large bowl. Stir together garlic, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Sprinkle mixture evenly over chicken; toss well to coat. Arrange wings, skin sides down, in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet lined with parchment paper. 2. Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Turn chicken over; continue baking until well-browned and crispy and a thermometer inserted in thickest portion of meat registers 165°, 17 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven. Drain chicken on paper towels; let rest 5 minutes. 3. Meanwhile, stir together honey, hot sauce, butter, soy sauce and mustard in a small saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil over low heat, stirring occasionally; continue cooking, stirring often, until mixture is thickened and coats the back of a spoon, about 5 minutes. 4. Place chicken in a large bowl. Pour sauce over chicken; toss well to coat. Serve immediately. Serves: 4 Active time: 15 minutes Total time: 55 minutes
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Chunky Blue Cheese
Mix 2 ounces crumbled blue cheese, 1⁄ 1 4 cup mayonnaise, ⁄4 cup sour cream, 2 tablespoons buttermilk and 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice; season with salt and black pepper.
Creamy Peanut Lime
Combine 3 cup coconut milk, 1⁄4 cup peanut butter, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 tablespoon fish sauce and 2 tablespoons lime juice. 1⁄
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Stir 2 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper (or crushed red pepper), 1⁄ 3 cup fish sauce, 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice, 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds and 2 teaspoons sugar until sugar dissolves. 1⁄
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and bring to a boil over medium high. Reduce heat to medium low, and simmer until liquid is reduced to about 1⁄ 4 cup, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from heat; discard thyme sprigs and bay leaf. 4. Preheat oven to broil with rack about 7 inches from heat. Add 1 cup cheese to pot; stir until slightly melted. Continue to add remaining cheese, 1 cup at a time, until slightly melted after each addition. 5. Transfer dip to a 10-in. cast-iron skillet or oven-safe serving dish. Broil in preheated oven until cheese is toasted and lightly browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Sprinkle with chile strips. Serve immediately with chips. Serves: 8 Active time: 1 hour Total time: 1 hour, 10 minutes
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poblano chiles (31⁄ 2 oz. each) Tbsp. olive oil Tbsp. unsalted butter large (14 oz. each) yellow onions, thinly sliced (about 8 cups) 1 tsp. kosher salt 1 cup vegetable or beef stock 2 Tbsp. (1 oz.) mezcal 1⁄ 2 tsp. black pepper 8 thyme sprigs 1 bay leaf 2 lb. Muenster or Emmenthaler cheese, shredded (about 8 cups) Tortilla chips, for serving
1. Preheat oven to 500°. Place chiles on a small rimmed baking sheet, and coat evenly with olive oil. Roast until skins are wrinkled and charred, about 20 minutes, turning once halfway through roasting. Remove from oven, and immediately cover pan tightly with aluminum foil. Let stand until chiles are cool enough to handle, about 30 minutes. Remove and discard charred skins, stems and seeds. Cut chiles into thin strips, and set aside. 2. Meanwhile, melt butter in a mediumsize heavy-bottomed pot over medium heat. Add onions and salt, and cook, stirring often, until onions soften and begin to caramelize, about 45 minutes. 3. Stir stock, mezcal, pepper, thyme sprigs and bay leaf into onion mixture,
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Martin Lawrence THE ACTOR, 54, RETEAMS WITH WILL SMITH IN THEIR NEW ACTION-COMEDY B AD BOYS F OR LIFE
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ERIK VOAKE
Last game I played Before we go to bed, my fiancée [Roberta Moradfar] and I like to play some cards and have a nice little competition. She won a couple of times, but I talk a lot of smack. Last injury We were doing a scene in Bad Boys for Life, and I pulled a muscle in my thigh. I didn’t stretch. I mean at this age now, I should know better. Last moment of gratitude When I was honored with the Luminary Award at the [Bounce] Trumpet Awards [which celebrate African-American achievement]. Just the journey that God’s taken me on to bring me from the hood all the way to Hollywood—I feel so blessed. Last DIY project I’m not handy. Not at all. I always have to call somebody to do it. I don’t even change the battery in the smoke detector. A light bulb I can handle. Last guilty pleasure Ovaltine Chocolate Malt. Every time I come home, I have to have a cup. That’s probably why I have a gut now. I liked it as a little kid, and I found it again when I was older. Wherever I’m drinking it is like the happiest place on earth.
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