PASSAGES

Kelly Clarkson Gets an Apology

Clarkson is unfazed by critics like Wallace (inset).

Fox News host Chris Wallace apologized after saying Kelly Clarkson should “stay off the deep-dish pizza” during an April 3 radio chat. (“I admire her remarkable talent,” he said in a statement.) But Clarkson—who gave birth to daughter River Rose last June— isn’t concerned with the attention on her weight. “We are who we are,” she recently told Ellen DeGeneres. “Whatever size.”

in 2013. New Jersey’s

Sen. Robert Menendez

was indicted on April 1 for allegedly promoting the interests of friend and Democratic donor Dr. Salomon Melgen in exchange for gifts. Menendez has been charged on 14 counts, including conspiracy to commit bribery and honest services fraud.

DEATHS

Sarah Brady, widow of former presidential press secretary and antigun activist Jim Brady, died on April 3. She was 73. Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released a statement saying, “She transformed tragedy into a courageous campaign, and because of her work and her remarkable life, American families are safer today.” Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of John Lennon—and mother to Julian Lennon—died at her home in Mallorca, Spain, on April 1 at the age of 75. She had been battling cancer. Pet Rock inventor Gary Dahl died on March 23 at age 78 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Jacksonville, Ore.

By Jessica Fecteau, Ana Calderone, Tara Fowler

and Becky Randel

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Jennifer Garner, 43 April 17, 1972 Martin Lawrence, 50 April 16, 1965 Kate Hudson, 36 April 19, 1979

Why I Care

Luke Perry

The actor, 48, joined forces with Fight Colorectal Cancer to honor his friends

PERSONAL STORIES ABOUT GIVING BACK

I lost a friend this year to colon cancer, and she had two small children. And my oldest friend Chad Schrack’s wife is a survivor of the disease. He asked me to help him, so I’m helping. It’s about raising awareness. I got involved with the Fight Colorectal Cancer “One Million Strong” campaign because I want people to be proactive about their health, to get information and go out there and get colonoscopies. Don’t worry about the stigma of it. Once I found out the numbers about this cancer—how detectable it is, and how lethal it is if you don’t detect it—it boggled my mind. I think if you gave people a choice of having a colonoscopy or having to have a tumor cut out of them, they would much rather have the colonoscopy. It needs to be put in those simple terms. We need to get everyone talking about it.

—REPORTED BY GABRIELLE OLYA Perry with the Schrack family.

For more information, go to

fightcolorectalcancer.org

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Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) has fires to put out—and they aren’t caused by her dragons.

Game of Thrones The drums of war grow louder in the Seven Kingdoms. And winter? Still in the forecast FANTASY The kingdoms in the densely plotted HBO series are littered with butchered royals—so when will the contest for the Iron Throne finally trigger an exciting world war? (Imagine if God had pushed “pause” after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.) Season 5 suggests, at last, that the main forces will be: (1) Daenerys Targaryen allied with Tyrion

1No. TV Lannister, exiled after killing Pa on the toilet. (2) Stannis (Stephen Dillane, who deserves praise for his fine-grained subtlety)—and Jon Snow? (3) Queen Regent Cersei and whoever can stomach her. The mind at times tires of absorbing so much invented detail—why is a rebel group called Sons of the Harpy? Why not something easy, like the Bad Tizzles?—but Game is in great shape. (HBO, April 12, 9 p.m.)

2No. The Comedians COMEDY Billy Crystal is in good form here—TV something like Larry David without so much of the agita of daily living. He’s a well-situated, very successful comedian (named Billy Crystal) paired up in a skit show with an edgy, selfimportant younger comedian played by (and named) Josh Gad. What’s inherently off in this setup is Gad/Gad. He’s a funny performer, but he’s not Russell Brand—he’s not even Uncle Leo from Seinfeld. And the “skits” we see aren’t much. But you should never underestimate Crystal’s way with a scene or a line. Self-effacing but pointed, he basically emcees the whole show. The one who’s flat-out funniest, though, may be Stephnie Weir as the duo’s neurotic producer. In an acting exercise with Gad, she starts off telling him, “Your grandma died,” then piles on detail after detail until she concludes: “Your bubbe exploded.” (FX, Thursdays, 10 p.m.)

Jackie (Edie Falco) has become her own state of emergency. Billy Crystal and Josh Gad play costars who aren’t quite in step.

3No. Nurse Jackie COMEDY-DRAMA Edie Falco’s series about a nurse addicted to painkillers TV starts its final season with Jackie Peyton teetering once more on disaster. In retrospect, the show’s greatest strength, apart from the tacit pride in Falco’s refusal to ask for our pity, was the performances of Anna Deavere Smith, formidable and funny as supervisor Gloria Akalitis, and Merritt Wever as Zoey, a nurse who hopes for the best and, unlike Jackie, will probably never experience the worst. (Showtime, April 12, 9 p.m.)

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