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—PAUL RUDD, on being named People’s Sexiest Man Alive last year, at D23 Expo 2022
—TYLER PERRY, on taking a rare dramatic turn with his new directorial effort, A Jazzman’s Blues, to People
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The reign of Elizabeth Alexandra Mary “Lilibet” Windsor began abruptly: Vacationing in Kenya and away from her family, she was in a tree house overlookingagamepreservewhenherfather,King GeorgeVI,passedaway.“Shewentupatreeaprincess and came down a queen,” her friend and bridesmaid Lady Pamela Hicks once told People The new Queen quickly faced questions of whether, at 25 years old, she’d be up to the task of leading the monarchy. When she died on Sept. 8, she was with two of her children, Princess Anne andPrinceCharles,andsheleftlittlequestionhow impactful—if imperfect—her rule had been.
We’vehadachangingoftheguardhereat People aswell.LizVaccariellohastakenonanewposition advising several brands in the Dotdash Meredith family. As I step into the role of editor in chief, after serving as the deputy editor of the brand for more than three years, I couldn’t be more proud and grateful to work alongside this incredible team. We will continue bringing you the extraordinary story of the loss of a monarch, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
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Our royals team has spent a combined 99 years covering this powerful and secretive family. Top, from left: Perry, Tauber.editorMoniquecorrespondentJessen,staffPhilBoucherandBottomleft:staffeditorStephaniePetit.WiththeQueen’sdeath,saysseniorroyalseditorErinHill(bottomright),“theworldlostanincrediblefemaleleader.Overher70-yearreign,shewasoftentheonlywomanintheroom.Herlifeandlegacyareaninspiration.”
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The transition of the monarchy from Queen Elizabeth to King Charles was widely anticipated, and no one was more prepared than the People royals team, led by Michelle Tauber, editorial director of Society & Culture. And yet when the Queen’sdeathwasannounced—onTwitter,notby some decree on parchment—even they felt the world shift. For Tauber, who as an 11-year-old dressed up like the Queen because she was so charmed by the royal magic, it marked the end of an era: “I felt the curtain pull back on a time when fairy tales seemed real and the Queen seemed everlasting, and then I watched it close with finality.”London-basedSimonPerry,chiefforeigncorrespondent, felt the grief of his countrymen: “There was a strange sense that life in the U.K. would feel different—the constant presence and image at the center of our national life, gone.”
Philip,“Hehas,quitesimply,beenmystrengthand stayalltheseyears.”ThoughHerMajestystruggled to modernize the institution and reckon with its colonialist past, she was also a fixture for seven decades—a “strength and stay” for the world.
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After winning Best Actor in a Comedy, Ted Lasso creator and star Jason Sudeikis returned to the stage with the cast and crew to accept the honor for Best Comedy Series for the second year in a row. “Otis, Daisy, I love you very much,” he said, shouting out to his children (whom he shares with ex Olivia Wilde).
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Abbott Elementary’s Sheryl Lee Ralph, who burst into song as she accepted her Emmy, became the second Black woman ever to win Best Supporting Actress in a comedy (35 years after 227’s Jackée Harry).
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The Hacks winner revealed that her custom Christian Siriano gown was initially created for last year’s ceremony, but she wore something else instead.
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“I’m a mermaid tonight,” the Dropout winner said of her blush pink crystal mesh Armani Privé gown with crinoline detail at the neckline. Cartier jewels completed the look.
“We saw it again and went, ‘This is fabulous, what were we thinking?’ ”
“Channeling her inner Prince,” stylist Jordan Johnson Chung said of the Killing Eve nominee’s sparkly custom purple sequin suit by Rodarte.
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“It’s just heaven,” the Pam & Tommy nominee said of her custom bronze metal mesh Atelier Versace gown. “It was designed for me . . . I’m obsessed with every tiny bit of it.”
The Euphoria winner kept it classic in a custom black Valentino ball gown (with pockets!)—which was inspired by one of the fashion house’s late ’80s collections— and Bulgari jewels. REESE WITHERSPOON The Morning Show nominee topped off her plusaquamarineembroideredsequin-and-crystal-ArmaniPrivédesignwithadazzlingTiffany&Co.anddiamondnecklace,acoordinatingringandearrings. Hairstylist Tony Medina gave the star voluminous waves inspired by Grace Kelly as a “nod to Old Hollywood,” while makeup artist Sheika Daley created a “soft, sculpted eye and a muted, nude lip” for the Lancôme Ambassadress. September 26, 2022COUNTER CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAGES; JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK; FRAZER HARRISON/ GETTY IMAGES; ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; TRAE PATTON/NBC/GETTY IMAGES; FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAGES(2)
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Harrison Ford posed with Temple of Doom costar Ke Huy Quan at D23 Expo 2022, where Ford revealed the upcoming fifth movie would be his last in the franchise: “This is it! I will not fall down for you again.”
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Still, a few in the power couple’s inner circle aren’t sure the rift is all about the game. “They had a happy summer together, and she threw him a big birthday party in Italy,” another source who knows the family says of their August getaway. “He announcedalreadyhisreturn to football this spring, so friends don’t understand why she’s upset now. They’ve been very private about what’s really going on.”
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Bündchen. (He is also dad to son Jack, 15, whose mom is actress Bridget Moynahan.) “The problem is that during the season, Tom is very much absent.”
The American Horror Story actress and her actorproducer husband, both 30, revealed that they are expecting again when they stepped out for the Sept. 7 premiere of Ticket to Paradise in London (left). They are already parents to son Kingston, 1.
New York with the kids to attend Jack’s football practice. The main issue causing friction, some insiders believe, is Brady’s dedication to the sport that make him a superstar. “Football defines Tom. . . . Gisele is frustrated and sick of his career coming before their family,” a Brady source says. Adds the family source: “She doesn’t understand why he hasn’t had enough. He is healthy and will continue to have a great life without playing football. She is always nervous that he will get hurt. It’s very stressful for her.”
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“He’s such a sweet dad,” a source who knows the family says of Brady (with Benjamin, Bündchen, Jack and Vivian in an August Instagram).
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athlete is hopeful he and Bündchen can get back to a good place: “They’re trying, or at least he’s trying, to figure it out and make it work. He wants to get through this and for things to get better.” —JASON HAHN with reporting by Pernilla Cedenheim, Steve Helling, Linda Marx and Charlotte Triggs
Happier Times “Without her, there’s no way I could be doing what I’m doing,” Brady says of Tropez(above,BündcheninSaintinJune).OnAug.3BündchenwishedBrady(right,withVivianandBenjamin)ahappybirthdayonInstagram.
From Maroon 5 to party of five! The rocker, 43, and the model, 34, will welcome a third child, People confirms. Prinsloo (who shares daughters Dusty, 6, and Gio, 4, with Levine) showed off her bump in Santa Barbara on Sept. 5 (inset).
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Rumors of a rift surfaced in August, when Brady was excused from practice to “deal with personal things.” Then, over Labor Day weekend, the couple spent time apart as Bündchen took Benjamin and Vivian to a Florida water park, after Brady traveled to
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On Sept. 10 the Shotgun Wedding actor, 49, and the former Miss World America, 28, wed in Fargo, N.Dak. The newlyweds—who began dating in 2019—“had a great time,” says a source, who adds the evening “was lovely.”
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The actress, 43, recently brought her philanthropistpoet boyfriend, 39, to the premiere of her new movie Clerks III. “We went dancing,” Dawson says of Okafor, with whom she went public in August.
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After four years of marriage and a baby, the model, 31, reportedly filed for divorce from the film producer, 41, on Sept. 8 in New York City. “It was Em’s decision,” a source told People of the split.
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The singer and Dance Moms alum (left), 19, seemingly confirmed she’s dating influencer Cyrus, 22, in a TikTok she posted on Sept. 4. Siwa and on-off ex Kylie Prew split over the summer.
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“I remember ripping a picture of her out of a magazine and bringing that into Vidal Sassoon,” she says.
In July a photo of your beachy waves got 1.6 million Instagram likes. Were you surprised? I don’t honestly pay much attention to it. I try to be careful of what I let into my head, because sometimes it can be good, and sometimes it’s not so good. Your friend Courteney Cox has a home-care line, Homecourt. Do you guys bounce ideas off each other? There were many weekends when we would be at her house trying each other’s this or that. It was fun!
Nearly 30 years ago Jennifer Aniston debuted her iconic “the Rachel” haircut on Friends. Now the star of The Morning Show, 53, is celebrating one year since her hair-care brand LolaVie hit the market. What was your first impression of “the Rachel”? I thought, “This is amazing.” Then I didn’t have [hairstylist] Chris McMillan living in my bathroom, so I was stuck blowdrying this complicated haircut. That was the beginning of me trying to be a hairdresser on the side. The haircut literally only lasted about six months, yet it’s lived on forever. What’s different about LolaVie’s new shampoo and conditioner?
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‘Everyone keeps saying that I will love my baby more than my cat. But that’s not true. Maybe I’ll love him as much as my cat?’ ” Ultimately, she added, “My heart has stretched to a capacity that I didn’t know about.”
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Lawrence (with Maroney July 24) recalled meeting the
Sixteen celebs will battle for the Mirrorball Trophy in the upcoming 31st season of Dancing With the Stars when it debuts on Disney+ Sept. 19. The lineup includes TV host Wayne Brady, Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Teresa Giudice and TikTok mother-daughter duo Heidi and Charli D’Amelio. Sixth-season American Idol winner Jordin Sparks; Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bodybuilder son Joseph Baena; and Charlie’s Angels alum Cheryl Ladd also will compete. “At 71, it’s going to be a challenge,” admits Ladd, whose partner Louis van Amstel is rejoining the show after seven years away.
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RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Shangela will make history as the series’ first-ever drag entertainer, while actress Selma Blair, who revealed her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2018, says she hopes to show viewers, “I am in a wonderful place.”
Indeed, Lawrence, who is raising Cy with Maroney in L.A., “seems very happy,” says a source. “She enjoys being a mom.”
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Inside Jennifer Lawrence’s Life as a New Mom
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Jennifer Lawrence is talking about the miracle of motherhood. The morning after the Oscar winner, 32, welcomed a baby with her husband, art gallerist Cooke Maroney, 38, in February, “I felt like my whole life had started over,” she said in Vogue’s October cover story. “Like, ‘Now is day one of my life.’ I just stared. I was just so in love.”Thestar also revealed the sex and name of her child: a boy, Cy, whom Lawrence and her husband named after artist Cy Twombly, one of Maroney’s favorite painters. And though the star of the upcoming Apple TV+ movie Causeway now says she feels “euphoria” looking at Cy, she admits she was afraid she wouldn’t feel that way. “I have so many girlfriends who . . . were like, ‘It’s scary. You might not connect right away,’ ” Lawrence said. “I remember walking with one of my best friends at like, nine months, and being like,
—Reporting by Pernilla Cedenheim
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Singer Lewis Capaldi, 25, shared that he was recently diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome.•Funny Girl star Lea Michele, 36, will miss 10 days of the show’s Broadway run after testing positive for COVID-19.
“I am angry,” said Memphis mayor Jim Strickland. “This is no way for us to live. The people of our city were confronted with violence no one should have to face.”
The deadly incident began to unfold just before 1 a.m., when Kelly allegedly shot Dewayne Tunstall, a 24-yearold father of a little girl. Later Kelly—who reportedly broadcast himself on Facebook Live committing carjackings and opening fire—fatally wounded two more victims, Richard Clark, 62, a correctional officer and security guard, and Allison Parker, 38, a nurse and mother of three, who was driving with her daughter at the time. (Authorities concluded a presumed fourth casualty, a 17-year-old girl, was killed by a different suspect in an unrelated incident.) Police arrested Kelly hours later in DeSoto County, Miss., following a high-speed chase. He has been charged with first-degree murder.
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An hours-long shooting rampage on Sept. 7 left three people dead and three more wounded across Memphis, a city already reeling from the shocking murder of kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher earlier in the week.
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Dr. Death actress AnnaSophia Robb, 28, married lawyer Trevor Paul, 37, in Accord, N.Y., on Sept. 10 after six years of dating. “Just the
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Retired MLB star Alex Rodriguez, 47, and Kathryne Padgett, 25, have parted ways after several months of dating. “It just ran its course,” a source told People
•Pig star Nicolas Cage, 58, and his wife, artist Riko Shibata, 27, welcomed daughter August Francesca on Sept. 7 in Los Angeles. This is the first child for Shibata and the third for Cage, who is dad to sons Weston, 31, and Kal-El, 16, from previous relationships.
Residents were told to stay inside as police launched a manhunt for Ezekiel Kelly, 19, who allegedly drove around the city targeting people at random.
Actors Joey Lawrence, 46, and Samantha Cope, 35, who tied the knot in May, are expecting their first child together. Lawrence is also dad to daughters Charleston, 16, and Liberty, 12, with ex-wife Chandie Yawn-Nelson.
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The official White House portraits of former President Barack Obama, 61, and First Lady Michelle Obama, 58, painted by Robert McCurdy and Sharon Sprung, respectively, were unveiled on Sept. 7 in a ceremony in the East Room.
Spanish tennis star Carlos Alcaraz, 19, became the youngest-ever No. 1 men’s player when he beat Casper Ruud to win the 2022 US Open on Sept. 11.
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nephew Remy, 22 months—were among 10 people killed in a floatplane crash off Whidbey Island in Washington on Sept. 4.
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Three family members of Smash actress Megan Hilty—her sister Lauren Hilty, 39, brotherin-law Ross Mickel, 47, and
One of Bernard Shaw’s most treasured memories was of an interview he did early in his career, when he was a radio reporter in his hometown of Chicago. The man answering Shaw’s questions was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who told him, “One day you’ll make it—just do some good.”
Shaw, who died of pneumonia at age 82 on Sept. 7 in Washington, D.C., lived up to King’s words. On June 1, 1980, he became one of television’s first Black anchors, at the helm for the launch of CNN, the 24-hour cable news network that redefined how TV covered national and world events. He stayed there for nearly 21 years.
In a field known for cool heads, his was often the coolest, whether he was in Baghdad for 1991’s Gulf War or in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. “One of the things I strove for was to . . . control my emotions in the midst of hell breaking out,” Shaw—who’s survived by wife Linda and children Anil and Amar—told NPR in 2014. But not always: In 1987, after an Iraqi missile attack killed 37 U.S. sailors, he choked back tears. The positive viewer response didn’t please him: “It made me uneasy. I was being praised for crying.”
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newsmen like Edward R. Murrow, and he never felt race was an impediment to his ambitions. “I didn’t see Ed Murrow as white,” he told The New York Times, “I saw him as a journalist.” And that, to him, meant that certain standards were sacred. “More important than how I sound or how I look is how I think, how I write, how I communicate,” he once said. Anything else “is BS. Using my initials in vain.” —TOM GLIATTO
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Wally, perhaps the world’s only emotional-support gator, is known for his calm demeanor around seniors and kids (like 7-year-old Emmalyn Johnson, below).
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“We can’t explain him,” says handler Joie Henney, 69, who runs a reptile rescue and takes Wally to camps and hospitals. “He gives comfort in so many ways.”
After realizing students at his elementary school were going hungry at home, PE teacher Jason Watson got a wave of inspiration—and a cool set of wheels. He and his wife, Anne, a school librarian, bought a used ice-cream truck, and for the past two summers the couple, both 39, have delivered 1,500 hot lunches and icy treats to kids in need.
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1. Per the code-named plan for Elizabeth’s funeral, drafted in the 1960s, her coffin is lying in state in Westminster Hall, open to the public 24 hours a day before the Sept. 19 funeral. 2. The funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey. 3. Her final resting place is Windsor Castle’s St. George’s Chapel, beside her parents, sister and husband.
On Sept. 8 the woman who stood just 5'3" tall but loomed as large as any figure in modern world history died at her Balmoral home—her remarkable reign finally at an end. Even her family appeared to be caught off guard: Her son and heir,
Queen Elizabeth, just two days before her death at the age of 96, did what she had done for 70 years: reported for duty. Conducting her most important constitutional role, she appointed the incoming British prime minister, Liz Truss, on Sept. 6 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland—the Queen’s 15th prime minister in a record-breaking reign. Although she had become “very frail,” says a royal insider, “there was no hint of anything happening,” says another close source. “Guests were still set to arrive in the weeks before the end of the month.” The Rt. Rev. Dr. Iain Greenshields, who also met with her at home in the days before her death—ongoing mobility issues prevented the devout monarch from attending church in person—found her signature sparkle as bright as ever. “She was talking about her horses from the past, naming them from 40 years ago,” he told The Times in the U.K. “For someone her age to have the memory she had . . . she was quite remarkable.”
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Solemn Journey
Archers (above, on Sept. 12) flanked the hearse carrying the Queen’s coffin to St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh as her children—(from left) King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward—followed.
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William extended an olive branch to Harry two days after they lost their grandmother, inviting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to accompany him and Catherine to greet the crowds outside Windsor Castle.
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Despite a strained relationship between the brothers amid Harry and Meghan’s move to the U.S.,
“It was a very genuine invitation and well-acted-upon by Harry. It was a gesture of leadership.”
William thought it was “an important show of unity at an incredibly difficult time for the family,” says a royal source. Adds an insider: “They did it for harmony because of the Queen.” Observes a family friend:
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The Queen’s death plunged her family into mourning—and instantly set off an ancient domino effect within the royal-family hierarchy: The newly acceded King Charles III promptly named
The foursome spent 40 minutes shaking hands and chatting with well-wishers in Windsor on Sept. 10 before leaving together in a car driven by William. Seeing the couples together was “lovely,” said Elaine Gee, 62, who was in the crowd.
73-year-old Charles—who became King upon his mother’s death—and daughter Princess Anne, 72, were the only two close family members to arrive attheQueen’sbedsidebeforeshedied.HeryoungersonsPrinceAndrew,62,andPrinceEdward,58, arrived a short while later alongside her grandson Prince William, 40, while grandson Prince Harry, 37,rushedseparatelyfromWindsor,wherehehad been staying with wife Meghan during a previously planned visit away from their California home. At6:30p.m.intheU.K.,thepalaceannouncedthat the Queen had “died peacefully,” and in an image that quickly traveled around the world, a rainbow appeared over the Queen’s Windsor Castle home just as the Union Jack flag was lowered to signify the monarch’s death. Her exceedingly loyal personal staff “are devastated,” says the close source. “Theyareincandescentwithgrief.Howevermuch you are prepared for it, after a lifetime of service, it was still a terrible shock.”
“Let’s hope it puts an end to the bad doings, and they can move on.”
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As the first chants of “God Save the King” began to rise across the U.K., admirers flooded the gates of Buckingham Palace to memorialize a woman who for many represented a model of duty. “I’m in aweofher,”saysBeckieRidley,whosegrandfather was a groundskeeper for the Queen. “She never forgot anyone’s name—she was famous for that. She always had time for my grandpa.” She was not without her critics, who pointed to the royal family’s colonial past and staggering hereditary privilege, both of which the Queen was reluctant to address. But no one disputes her role as a con-
In the enduring irony of her life, the woman who would rule as Britain’s longest-reigning monarch wasneversupposedtobeQueen.Twotwistsoffate intervened: In 1936 her uncle Edward VIII abdicated the throne in scandal to marry divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson, making her father King George VI and Elizabeth next in line. Toldthathernewstatusrequiredthatsherelocate from her beloved childhood home in Piccadilly to BuckinghamPalace,thethen-10-year-oldprincess criedtohergoverness,“What?Youmeanforever?”
Wartime Service When driver,ServiceforprincessGermanydeclaredBritainwaronin1939,the13-year-oldknitsockssoldiersandgavepocketmoneytotheRedCrosstoaidthecountry’seffort.Later,at18,Elizabeth(above,in1945attheopeningofanImperialWarMuseumexhibition)joinedtheWomen’sAuxiliaryTerritorialasamilitary-truckmechanicandbutshewasn’tallowedtostayatthebase.InsteadshewaschauffeuredbacktoBuckinghamPalaceeachnight.
But young “Lilibet” soon proved herself a natural leader with a precocious calm that would
his “darling wife,” Camilla, 75, Queen Consort and his heir, William, Prince of Wales—with William’s wife, Kate, 40, becoming the new Princess of Wales, the first to hold the title since the death of William’s mother, Princess Diana, 25 years ago. InhisinauguraladdressasKingonSept.9,Charles thanked the nation for their condolences and spoke lovingly of both his mother and his father, Prince Philip, who died at age 99 just 17 months before his wife of 73 years. “To my darling mama, asyoubeginyourlastgreatjourneytojoinmydear latepapa,”hesaidinaspeechbroadcastaroundthe world, “I simply want to say this: Thank you.”
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stantinanever-changingworld,who,whenthrust into service as a young mother at age 25, did not blink. “She will be missed by so many,” Princess Catherine, as she is now formally known, told the crowd in an appearance with William, Harry and Meghan outside Windsor Castle on Sept. 10—a surprise show of unity that reflected the brothers’ shared affection for their grandmother. “It’s lovely to see the outpouring of love from people of all ages here today. It’s hugely touching to see.”
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“I knew this day would come, but it will be some time before the reality of life without Grannie will truly feel real,” William (with the Queen and Harry in 1987) wrote after her death.
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become her hallmark. In 1940 at age 14, she gave her first radio address, speaking to thousands of children who had been separated from their parents during the Blitz—just as she and her sister Princess Margaret, then 10, had been sent away to Windsor while their parents remained in London in a signal of national strength and solidarity. “We know, every one of us,” Elizabeth reassured her listeners, “that in the end, all will be well.”
On Nov. 20, 1947, Elizabeth, 21, wed Philip, 26, at Westminster Abbey. “She thought life would never be dull with him,” says historian Robert Lacey. Bridesmaid Lady Pamela Hicks previously said, “I can think of few couples who are as united.”
After falling in love as a teen with Prince Philip ofGreece,adashingRoyalNavycadetwhowasfive years her senior, she set a new path for herself as a young Navy wife when the two wed in 1947. “It was one of her greatest achievements, being allowed to marry the love of her life,” says Suzanne Mackie, executiveproduceroftheNetflixdramaTheCrown, which introduced the Queen to a new generation.
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“She loved being an ordinary mother [at Balmoral],” says Samantha Cohen, the Queen’s former assistant private secretary.
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The birth of the Queen’s first biracial grandchild, Archie (meeting his royal great-grandparents in 2019 with his parents and maternal grandmother, Doria Ragland), was “monumental,” said Tessy Ojo of the Diana Award.
“She was a pioneer,” royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith says of the Queen (with Charles and Anne in 1953, a year after taking the throne). “Nobody among her cohort was a working mother. She was a working mother to the end.”
“She would muck in and set the table. Everybody would have their family roles as opposed to their formal roles.”
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said in a 2019 interview. “And she’s done it.”
Although she could project a frosty air—which seemed to markedly warm in her later years— those who knew her best say her reserve was due to shyness, not snobbishness, and behind the royal curtain she was a friendly presence. “She personally presented the Christmas puddings every year,” says Cohen. “Even in their eighties, she and [PrincePhilip]wouldhandthemoutsoeverybody got to say, ‘Yes, I work for the Queen, and yes, I have met the Queen.’ She was the least snobbish person I ever met. She loved anyone who was a bit cheeky or a bit funny or a little bit different.”
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The Queen at 90. “Don’t forget that when she turns up somewhere, the crowds are 2, 3, 4, 10, 15 deep, and someone wants to be able to say they saw a bit of the Queen’s hat as she went past.”
tour in Kenya, Elizabeth’s father, King George VI, died of lung cancer at age 56, making Elizabeth Queen. “It was a terrible moment—she was very close to the King,” her lady-in-waiting Pamela Hicks later recalled. Yet when Martin Charteris, her private secretary, came upon Elizabeth in the lodge, he would find her “sitting erect, no tears, color up a little, fully accepting her destiny.”
Upon her return to England, Elizabeth found Winston Churchill waiting for her on the tarmac. “There was this sudden realization that this was the end of her private life,” Hicks said. When Elizabeth was crowned on June 2, 1953, half a million subjects lined the streets to glimpse their young Queen as she rode through London in a stagecoach. “The coronation was like a phoenix time,” her glamorous younger sister Princess Margaret told biographer Ben Pimlott. “There was this gorgeous-looking, lovely young lady and nothing to stop anything getting better and better.”
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Resolutely neutral on political matters—a requisite of the job—and with a knack for connecting with others while giving very little of herself away, “she had a great curiosity about people and was a great judge of character,” says Samantha Cohen, her former assistant private secretary. “She was interested in people. That was the great unifying force. With all these prime ministers and leaders, she was able to relate to them as people. Male leadership is often transactional, and female leadership is relational. She built relationships with people like [Nelson] Mandela and [Ronald] Reagan, and those relationships endured.”
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In fact, she faced a daunting job: leading her nation in an era when few women did so, and balancing work and family before the term “working mom” was in the public discourse. “My grandmother becoming Queen at a very young age, in the days when it was a man’s world, it was very difficult for her to make a difference,” William
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‘I can never wear beige, because nobody will know who I am’
—QUEEN ELIZABETH
Royal watchers have long called Prince Andrew the Queen’s favorite son. But in keeping with her countryfirst ethic, she stripped him of his military titles and patronages in 2022 after he had stepped down as a working royal in 2019. Still, it was Andrew, who denies wrongdoing, escorting his mother to a March memorial for Philip. “She loves and believes her son,” royal commentator Robert Jobson previously said.
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Criticized for days of public silence while her people grieved for Princess Diana, the Queen finally, on Sept. 5, 1997, gave a rare televised speech (above)—speaking, she said, as “your Queen” and “as a grandmother.” It was a tacit acknowledgment that Diana, whom she eulogized as “exceptional and gifted,” had rewritten old royal protocols for stoicism. Before then, says a royal source, the Queen thought keeping quiet was “always best.”
The Queen did not approve of divorce—until sons Andrew and Charles ended their marriages in 1996. Andrew’s wife, Sarah Ferguson (with Elizabeth and Andrew in 1987), later recalled, “When I met with Her Majesty about it, she asked, ‘What do you require?’ and I said, ‘Your friendship,’ which I think amazed her.”
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(smallflyinginsects)werebitingeveryoneinsight. “The Queen said to me, ‘The midge was fierce tonight, but you didn’t flinch at all. Why?’ I said, ‘Yes, Your Majesty. I have a secret weapon.’ And she said, ‘Really?’ I said, ‘I laced myself internally withgin.’Andshepunchedmeinthearm!With22 members of the royal family sitting there. They all looked. I grabbed my arm, pretending I was really hurt,going,‘TheQueenjustpunchedme!’Shejust started laughing, and then everyone else did too.”
all,”saysCohen.“Sheworethesamepearlnecklace every day. She had the same handbag.”
Rising every morning at 7:30 to the sound of the BBC’sTodayprogramplayingonherRobertsRadio, she would sip Twinings English Breakfast tea and nibble a Marie biscuit left on her calling tray by a footman. An evening watching historical shows while reveling in spotting mistakes in military uniforms or decoration would follow days immersed in horse racing. Until her death, she continued to receiveherfamous“redbox”ofofficialpaperseach morning,carefullystudyingthem,whilealsoevolvingthewaysinwhichthemonarchyconnectedwith the public. (Just as she ushered in the television era with her coronation, she later embraced social media,includingInstagramandTwitter.)Famously frugal, “she wasn’t interested in material things at
Although renowned for her stiff upper lip, “Grannie” (as she was known affectionately to her eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren in the last act of her long life) preferred “the countryside ratherthanthecity,smallratherthanlarge,private ratherthancrowded,animalsratherthanhumans,” saysPeterMorgan,thecreatorofTheCrownandthe Oscar-winning2006film The Queen, bothofwhich ingmyaboutdowasn’tmyverymark,grandmothererineexploredthemonarch’shiddenworld.ActressCath-Oxenberg,whoisrelatedtothefamilyviaherPrincessOlgaofGreeceandDen-was10whenshefirstmettheQueen.“Iwasnervous,”Oxenbergrecalls.“AndIremembermomtryingtoteachmetocurtsy,whichIverygoodat.AndIsaidtomymom,‘Whatwetalktoherabout?’Shesaid,‘Justtalktoherdogsandhorses.’Andsothat’swhatIdidinveryyoungway.Andthenyearslater,I’mwatchThe Crown, and[theactressplayingtheQueen] says, ‘Why does everybody only talk to me about dogs and horses?’ And I died laughing, because it’s
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Laying her husband, Prince Philip, to rest in April 2021, when COVID-19 rules were enforced, Elizabeth sat alone in the pew of St. George’s Chapel during the familyonly funeral service. It was a poignant coda to her 73-year marriage to the man she called “my strength and stay.”
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3. In 2014 the monarch visited the set of HBO’s Game of Thrones but declined to test the sword-coveredshow’sseatofpower,theIronThrone.
1. The Queen filmed a Paddington Bear sketch for her Platinum Jubilee in June, showing a willingness to “take a chance and surprise us,” a royal insider said. 2. She delighted the crowd at the 2012 Olympics by appearing in a fromlikenessBond-themedJamesskitwithDanielCraig,endingwithherparachutingahelicopterintoLondon’sOlympicStadium.
4. The Queen played along to promote Harry’s Invictus Games in 2016. “Please,” she said with a shrug after watching a video from Michelle and Barack mock-boastingObamaabouttheU.S.teamwhilehergrandsonstifledalaughandmimedamicdrop.
Pop-Cultured Queen
like, well, that’s what my mom told me to do.”
At age 4, Elizabeth was given a Shetland pony. Then, when she was 7, her father, King George VI, brought home a corgi and named him Dookie. Over the years, she owned dozens of hundredscorgis—andofhorses,whichsherodewellintoher90s.
The Queen’s beloved corgis, which are now being cared for by her son Andrew and his ex-wife SarahFerguson,werearefugeduringtimesofpersonal crisis. In 1992 she weathered her “annus horribilis,” marked by a fire at Windsor Castle and scandal surrounding the marriages of Charles and Andrew. When Charles’s ex-wife Diana, whose popularity had captivated the world, was killed in a Paris car crash in 1997, the Queen was criticized for being slow to acknowledge the public’s grief. Privately, however, she was an essential support to her devastated grandsons William and Harry. “She was by my side at my happiest moments,”
William said in a statement on Sept. 10. “And she was by my side during the saddest days of my life.”
She also remained tightly bonded with Prince Harry even after he and wife Meghan made the decision to step back from royal life in 2020—an arrangement that the Queen herself helped negotiateduringtheinfamous“SandringhamSummit” alongsideWilliamandCharles.Thefollowingyear, after Meghan and Harry told Oprah Winfrey that a member of the royal family had commented on their son Archie’s possible skin color, the Queen issued a rare personal statement, saying, “The issues, particularly that of race, are concerning. While some recollections may vary, they are taken
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Charles is now able to call his wife of 17 years Queen Consort. She’s likely to follow in saystoprimaryfootsteps:Philip’s“Herrolewillbebethereforhim,”asourceclosetotheroyalhousehold.“Hefeelsmoreconfidentwithherbyhisside.”
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His first important act as monarch “will be to lead the family, and the nation, in mourning the Queen,” says Charles’s Harverson.communicationsformersecretaryPaddy“Hehas a natural facility for empathy in moments of loss.” NewTheRoyalLine of Succession
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The Queen was determined that her heirs be prepared to take the reins. In her final years she, Charles and William would “operate together,” says royal historian Robert Lacey, thereby guiding the future of the monarchy.
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With her poise and focus on issues like early childhood, the future law’sgrandmother-in-ConsortQueenwonherapproval,says a royal doing“Hearinginsider.fromtheQueenthatyou’reagoodjob...yougrowinconfidence.”
When he was 4, his meme-worthy moods stole the spotlight at the (andcelebrationPlatinumQueen’sJubileeinJunemadehisgreat-grannielaugh!).Astheyoungest,PrinceLouisisgivenfreedomtobea“cheekymonkey,”afamilyacquaintancesays.
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Two years before her birth, the Succession to the Crown Act did away with male preference for the throne, Charlotte,placing7,inlineafterGeorge.InAugustshejoinedherparentsonherfirstsoloroyalouting.
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Taking the title his father held for 73 years, William is counted on to modernize Lowther-Pinkerton.continuity”monarchy—intheawayconsistentwiththe“compassionandCharlesandElizabethmodeled,saysformerprivatesecretaryJamie
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62 very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately.Harry,MeghanandArchiewillalwaysbe much-lovedfamilymembers.”(HarryandMeghan subsequently clarified that the comment had not been made by the Queen or Prince Philip.) In a Sept. 12 statement, Harry made it clear how much he adored his grandmother. “Granny, while this final parting brings us great sadness, I am forever grateful for all of our first meetings—from my earliestchildhoodmemorieswithyou,tomeetingyou for the first time as my commander in chief, to the first moment you met my darling wife and hugged your beloved great-grandchildren,” he said, referring to 3-year-old Archie and 1-year-old daughter Lilibet,whowasnamedaftertheQueen.“Icherish these times shared with you, and the many other special moments in between.”
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With an understated warmth, faultless diplomacy—and a well-placed quip— Elizabeth forged bonds with dozens of world leaders, including 13 sitting U.S. Presidents. Winston Churchill, upon her 1953 coronation, called her “a lady whom we respect because she is our Queen and whom we love because she is herself.”
1. Serving together through WWII left Winston Churchill (in 1950) and the enduring—friends.unlikely—butQueen
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3. On a wet 1983 visit to California, the Queen’s wry quip about Britain exporting weather to America won a belly laugh from President Reagan.
Although she never hinted at retirement—“She’ll want to hand over knowing she’s done everything she possibly could to help, and that she’s got no regrets and no unfinished business,” William said in2011—shedidbegintoslowdowninrecentyears, particularly after the death of Prince Philip. With her mobility in decline and amid ongoing COVID isolation,herengagementswerecutback.(Sheherself had COVID in February but recovered; her official cause of death has not been released.)
4. Nelson Mandela (at monikerPalaceBuckinghamin2000)gavetheQueentheaffectionate
6. Barack Obama (in 2011) swooned after his fourth meeting with the Queen, in 2016 at Windsor Castle: “She is a real jewel to the world.”
Motlalepula, which means “to come with rain.” 5. George W. Bush (in 2007) treated Elizabeth to a white-tie state dinner at the White House. “She was a woman of great intellect, charm and wit,” he said.
2. After the Queen hosted President John F. and First Lady Jackie Kennedy at Buckingham Palace in 1961, the President wrote to Elizabeth, “We shall always cherish the memory of that delightful evening.”
Born to take over for the mother (top, in 2009) with whom he had a sometimesstrained relationship, Charles used his first address as monarch (inset, on Sept. 9) to assure the public he would serve them as she did— “with devotion . . . respectunswervingandlove.”
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73 Years in the Making
Just hours after his private bedside farewell to his “beloved mother,” King Charles III pivoted straight into the balancing act that is now his for the rest of his life: tending his family while leading a kingdom. “It’s the moment I’ve been dreading,” the new King, speaking of his mother’s death, said to new prime minister Liz Truss. “But we’ll try and keep everything going.” With that, the longest-serving—and not always popular—heir apparent in British history was off to a promising start in the eyes of close observers. “He’s had time to prepare, and he’s used it exceptionally well,” says a source close to the royal household. Among mourners in Windsor, Dr. Simon Bays said this transition period has shown a warmth and “unerring solidity” in Charles: “Maybe he will be Charles the Gentle. I’m very impressed.”
Grieving Son & King
SeeingthefissuresintherelationshipbetweenWilliam and Harry would have pained her. “She had seeneverythingandprobablythoughtofwhathappened to her own uncle,” says a close royal source. “Sheknewthatconflictswereapartoflife,andshe didn’t hold grudges. Most of all, she wanted to see her family happy and her children happy.”
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Her family, now united in grief, enjoyed a final celebration with the Queen they shared with the world in June, when she marked her Platinum Jubilee, signifying 70 years on the throne. Bruno Peekwastaskedwithorganizingtheextraordinary beaconlightingsacrosstheU.K.fortheevent,ashe had previously done for her Golden and Diamond Jubilees.“In30-oddyearsasIdidthatjob,I’veseen how much affection people had for her,” he says. “She had that aura and could make you feel comfortable.Mylastingmemoryofherwaswhenwelit theprincipalbeaconatWindsorCastleontheJubilee night, and she turned to me and gave me one of her wonderful smiles. I thought, ‘The boy’s done good!’ ”AftertheQueen’sdeath,“mywifeaskedme, ‘Whyareyoucrying?’ ”recallsPeek.“Isaid,‘Idon’t know.’ A light of the world has gone out.”
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THE CNN ANCHOR TALKS ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE WITH GRIEF AND HOW BECOMING A DAD HAS HELPED HIM EVOLVE AND GROW By EMILY STROHM ANDERSON COOPER H a ving Ki d s C h ang e d MyL i fe September 26, 202268 WATTSBEN
For Anderson Cooper, coping with grief has been a constantly evolving journey. When the CNN anchor was 10 years old, his father, author and actor Wyatt Cooper, died unexpectedly during open-heart surgery at age 50. Ten years later his older brother Carter died by suicide at 23 at the New York City home of his mother, legendary heiress and fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt. “I just sort of retreated deep into myself,” he recalls. “I didn’t talk to people about it. I just became very introspective and introverted.”
It wasn’t until the Anderson Cooper 360 host, 55, became a father to sons Wyatt, 2, and Sebastian, 7 months, that he started to rethink his lifelong method of avoidance. “I don’t want to pass along to my kids any of my own failures or limitations,” he says. “I want to be the best parent I can be, and I realized that the way I dealt with loss was effective for the time that it occurred, but that stuff catches up with you. You have to face it at some point.”
keep. It wasn’t just my mom’s stuff; it’s my dad’s and my brother’s. I’m the last one who knows all those stories. There’s an isolation that comes, and it’s overwhelming at times.”
“I want my kids to know who their grandparents were,” says Cooper (left, with his parents and Carter on March 30, 1972).
The shift began three years ago when Cooper’s mother, Gloria, the last living member of the family into which he was born, died of stomach cancer at age 95. “I had been anticipating my mom’s death, and I was ready for it in many ways,” he says, adding, “I wasn’t ready for that sense of loneliness, like, ‘Oh my God, I’m the only oneleft.’ ”Ashepackeduphertwo-bedroom apartmentthatwasfilledwithitemsshehad collected over the course of her incredible life (her father’s family owned the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad), he says, “I didn’t know what to do or what to keep and what not to
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Finding a healthier approach to processing his emotions has, he says, made him a better dad, which in turn has made him more present as a person: “All my life I’ve dreamed of having children, and it’s better than I could ever have imagined.Itputseverythinginperspectiveandexpands you in ways that are wonderful and magical.” Now happily settled into life as part of a family of four (Cooper co-parents with his friend and former partner Benjamin Maisani, 49), he admits having a second child has been a much easier transition than having the first. “Logistically, it’s more challenging because they’re on different nap schedules and there’s different feeding schedules, but you know the shortcuts, how to fold the diaper in the right way and do the milk,” he explains. And, he adds, a third baby isn’t out of the question. “I lovetheideaofit—butthere’snothingplanned.”
Cooper was determined not to fall back into old habits. “I started talking to people about it, and the more I did, I learned things that really helped,” he says. Those conversations inspired his new podcast All There Is With Anderson Cooper (out now), which explores loss and grief. “It’s not really discussed openly, but grief is a bond that we all share,” he says. “I realized this is something we all go through or all will go through in one way or another.”
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“It’s amazing to see them together,” says Cooper of his sons (in May and, inset, with Dad on Sept. 4). “Every morning, Wyatt wants to go in and smell the baby.”
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late mother’s mementos include thousands of letters (left)— including notes from Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe—and a Victorian desk calendar (right) displaying the day his brother died.
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LAS VEGAS JOURNALIST JEFF GERMAN WROTE SCATHING ARTICLES
Ozzie Fumo, a defense attorney and friend to both men. “I hope for peace for Jeff and his family.”
In the tough world of Las Vegas politics, Jeff German had a reputation as an aggressive reporter who uncovered the truth, however difficult— and dangerous—it might be. The 69-year-old Las Vegas Review-Journal writer navigated the city’s complicated inner workings for more than 30 years, fearlessly investigating wrongdoing. “He wasn’t afraid to take on big issues in Las Vegas,” says a friend, attorney Thomas Pitaro. “He was like a pit bull. If he bit on a story, he didn’t let go until he got the whole damn thing.”
EVIDENCE LEADING TO CHARGES
RobertTelleswasrelativelynewtoLasVegaspolitics when he first crossed paths with German after winninganelectionin2018tobecomethecounty’s public administrator, responsible for settling probate cases. Telles’s employees reportedly tipped off German that the new boss was behaving inappropriately. “He was a bully,” says Rita Reid, a staffer who challenged Telles in the next primary election and won. In addition to publishing stories, The Las Vegas Review-Journal released a grainy video reportedly of Telles and a female staffer in the back
ABOUT COUNTY OFFICIAL ROBERT TELLES. POLICE SAY IT COST HIM HIS LIFE
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AT THE SCENE Surveillance video showed a person wearing a widebrimmed straw hat and gray Nike sneakers. Cops say they found pieces of similar clothing at Telles’s home (right).
That dogged determination led to his murder, police say. On the morning of Sept. 3, German was found dead outside his three-bedroom ranch-style home, stabbed multiple times in what appeared to be a rage-filled attack. Just five days later police arrested Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who had denounced the reporter on social media after German penned a series of articles alleging professional misconduct on Telles’s part, including an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. “Telles was upset about articles being written by German . . . and also upset that there was additional reporting that was pending,” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Capt. Dori Koren told reporters. Telles faces one charge of open murder; at press time he had not entered a plea. Attorneys for Telles did not return People’s calls. “It’s surreal—I never saw it coming,” says
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Authoritiessaysurveillance footage from the day of the murder, of an oddly dressed person outside German’s house, matches up with articles of bloody clothing and a partially destroyed hat found at Telles’s residence. Officials say the DNA evidence also connects Telles.
As the case moves forward, German’s loved ones are mourning the loss of a man they say was kind and principled. Says journalist Lou Colagiovanni: “Jeff had countless stories left to write.”
seat of a parked car. And when Telles lost his reelection bid in June, he tweeted that Germanwaswriting“lyingsmear” pieces and accused him of rifling through his trash.
By STEVE HELLING. With reporting by CORIN CESARIC and CHRISTINE PELISEK
‘JEFF TOJOURNALISTWANTWHATWASYOUABE.HEMADELASVEGASABETTERPLACE’
—FRIEND THOMAS PITARO
SHINING A LIGHT
(in white hazmat suit) dodged reporters after meeting with authorities on Sept. 7.
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“He always got it right,” says exClark County D.A. David Roger of Jeff German (in Las Vegas in 2021).
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“He has a wife, allkids. . . . We’rebeautifulstillinshock,”saysanacquaintanceofTelles(inamugshotSept.7).Tellesisbeingheldwithoutbond.
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Ronan wowed as a young Irish immigrant torn between her new home and the one she left behind.
Brooklyn (2015)
The whimsical whodunit is a change of pace for the four-time Oscar nominee, who broke out at 13 in 2007’s Atonement and went on to acclaim in historical epics and cool indies. After a day of filming the upcoming drama The Outrun in Scotland, Ronan—who’s dating Scottish actor Jack Lowden, 32—relaxedwithaglassofredwinewhileZooming from her “tiny, tiny” seaside cottage.
One of my favorite hobbies is cold-water swimming. I’ve been doing that my whole life because I grewupbesidetheRiverSlaneyinCarlow,Ireland. Wherever I go, whatever season I’m in, I’ll jump into the water if I can.
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I was supposed to do a cameo in it because I live in London, and they were [filming] there. There was a whole character I was going to play—another Barbie—and I was gutted I couldn’t do it because of The Outrun. I texted Margot and Greta, and I’m like, “If you’re doing any pickup [shots], maybe I can just walk through the background?” You’re only 28, and The New York Times named you one of the Top 25 actors of the 21st century. Does that blow your mind?
Ronan (top right, with Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen) starred as March sister Jo.
In the coming-ofage dramedy, Ronan (left, with Beanie Feldstein) played an angsty teen.
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being able to do physical comedy was just such a relief.
There are rumors you’re reuniting with your Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig and Scots costar Margot Robbie in the upcoming movie Barbie.
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I didn’t know that, because I don’t read anything that’ssaidaboutme.That’samazing.Tohearpeople think you are good at [your job] is wonderful.•
Ronan’s sheLowdenboyfriend(withherin2019)is“asortoftypicalScot,”says.“Ifthere’saproblem,he’sthefirstonetotryandsolveit.”
What made you want to try a comedy like this? During [COVID] lockdown, I was sent a ton of [scripts]. We were all just living in a time that was sort of doom and gloom. It just felt like that’s what I needed as a person to have a little bit of respite from all of the seriousness.
Your character even takes a few slapstick falls. I loved all that. All the physical comedy was amazing, because you can just make a tit of yourself, and it’s always funny. Anytime in any movie, if I have to speak, that’s when I get nervous. So
Ronan (foreground, with Keira Knightley) was 13 when she landed her first Oscar nod for the period drama.
What do you do for fun?
IfounditoverwhelmingtoseepeoplewhoIhadn’t been in touch with for so long suddenly come out of the woodwork. Or strangers having access to me. Also, I don’t think I have a thick enough skin to read negative comments. I don’t regret it. It doesn’t feel like I’m missing out.
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She says costar Sam Rockwell is incredibly“naturallyfunny.”
Saoirse Ronan is not a natural detective. Shediscoveredthisatanescaperoomparty when she struggled to keep her cool as the clock ticked down and the clues piled up.“Ididnothandlethatwell,”sherecalls withalaugh.“Ipanicked.”Sheredeemed herselflateratanotherescaperoom(this one Harry Potter-themed), which she helped solve. “I was more focused,” says Ronan, “and had my eye on the prize.”
You costarred with Jack in Mary Queen of Scots, and he’s a producer on The Outrun. What’s the best part of working together?
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We have very similar tastes. So I completely trust his eye. And I know when he says something’s working, it really is, because he doesn’t ever sugarcoat anything!
In that way the 28-year-old Irish actress (her first name is pronounced “sur-sha”) is like Constable Stalker, the 1950s Londonpoliceofficersheplaysinthecomedicmystery See How They Run (out Sept. 16). The eager fledglinginvestigatorteamswithaseasonedsleuth (SamRockwell)tosolvethemurderofamanwhose corpsewasdraggedontothesetofaWestEndplay. “Staged, so to speak,” Stalker quips.
You left social media years ago. Why?
See How They Run is a fun departure for you!
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strong enough to get back out on the road. “It’s whereIbelong,”saysOzzy.“TherelationshipIhave withmyaudienceisthebiggestloveaffairofmylife.”
Shortly after his 1982 divorce from his first wife, Thelma Riley (with whom he shares two
“I’m so happy for her,” Ozzy says of daughter pregnancy.Kelly’sBelow:theduoina2020Instagram.
DuringthecarridetoasurpriseAug.8performance in front of 30,000 at the 2022 Commonwealth GamesinhishometownofBirmingham,England, renewedreturnhisunderstandwithafterOzzy,thebefore.histime“reallyhurdlesofarrestsbeenberRocktours,thatestate.sittingII’dpastthetion.OzzyOsbournepausedforamomentofquietreflec-“ThegameswereaquarterofamileawayfromschoolthatIwenttogrowingup,andaswedroveit,Ithought,‘Ifsomebodywouldhavetoldmebedoingthisuptheroadsomanyyearslater,would’veneverbelievedthem,’ ”Ozzysayswhileinthelibraryofhis$18millionLosAngeles“Mylifehasbeenincrediblewiththethingshavehappenedtome—bothgoodandbad.”Thehighshavebeenmassive:sold-outworld$100millioninalbumsalesanda2006andRollHallofFameinductionasamem-ofBlackSabbath.Andthelows?Well,they’vebruising.Beyonddrugandalcoholaddiction,androughpatcheswithSharon,69,hiswife40years,Ozzy,73,hasfacedseveralmajorhealthinrecentyears.In2019hehadsurgerythatmessedmeup”afterafallduringanight-triptothebathroomaggravateddamagetoneckandbackfromanATVaccident16yearsHe’ssinceundergonetwomoreprocedures,latestinJuly.“I’veneverbeenthislaid-up,”sayswhowasdiagnosedwithParkinson’sdiseasehisfallandnowusesacaneandstruggleshisspeechasaresultofthecondition.“Ican’tmyluck.”OzzyneededabackbracetoholdhimupduringCommonwealthGamesperformance,buthistothestageafterthreeyearsawaygavehimhope.His13thsolostudioalbum,
After the band fired Ozzy in 1979 over his substance abuse, he spent three months holed up in a hotel room getting drunk and high before Sharon—whom he’d met years earlier while her dad, Don Arden, was managing Black Sabbath— helped him get back on his feet. After becoming hisnewmanager,SharonencouragedOzzytopursue a solo career. His 1980 debut solo single, “Crazy Train,” took off, and it remains Ozzy’s mostplayed song, with nearly 400 million streams on Spotify. Though he was still struggling with substance abuse, Ozzy and Sharon’s professional relationship blossomed into romance.
Raised in Birmingham by his mom, Lilian, a factory worker, and dad, John Thomas “Jack,” a toolmaker at General Electric, Ozzy (born John Michael) got his first taste of the stage while performing in school plays. After dropping out of school at 15, he performed as the lead singer in severallocalrockbandsbeforeformingBlackSabbath. The band’s 1970 self-titled debut album— widely regarded as the first heavy metal record—put them on the map, but as the band’s popularity grew with classics like “Iron Man” and “War Pigs,” so did Ozzy’s dependence on drugs and alcohol. “I started to take the persona offstage,” says Ozzy, who became known as the Prince of Darkness. “That’s when I got really messed up. I would drink myself stupid.”
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“You can’t beat being onstage,” says Ozzy (left, in Moscow, and, right, in L.A. on Sept. 8).
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“Being a grandpa is amazing,” says Ozzy. Above: with Sharon, son Jack, Jack’s fiancée, Aree Gearhart, and (from left) Jack’s daughters Andy, Minnie and Pearl (with ex-wife Lisa Stelly).
‘I’M STILL IN LOVE WITH MY WIFE. THAT’S THE MAIN THING’
kids, Jessica and Louis, as well as her son Elliot), Ozzy and Sharon got married and welcomed three kids: Aimee, 39, Kelly, 37, and Jack, 36. “Forty years is amazing,” he says of their union. “It shouldn’t have lasted this long.” It hasn’t always been a smooth ride. In 1989 Ozzy was arrested for attempted murder after lunging at Sharon and trying to strangle her while under the influence. “I wasn’t exactly Mr. Prince Charming when I drank booze,” he says. The couple split briefly in 2016 after Sharon learned Ozzy had been unfaithful. Later that year Sharon—who will tell her life story in a documentary titled To Hell and Back (premiering Sept. 26 on Fox)— forgave her husband publicly while hosting an episode of The Talk. “We never gave up on each other,” she says. “I mean, I wasn’t a saint. Ozzy wasn’t a saint. I gave him as good as he gave me. We’re just meant to be.”
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The effects of his 2019 surgery, during which two metal squares were screwed inside his neck, have been tougher to navigate. “It’s been a nightmare,” says Ozzy. As the metal plates loosened over time, he required two more surgeries to clear the debris that had formed underneath. “That’s
Now proud grandparents, Ozzy and Sharon count family as their greatest blessing. Their son Jack has daughters Pearl, 10, Andy, 7, and Minnie, 4,withhisex-wifeLisaStelly,andhisfourth,Maple, withhisfiancée,AreeGearhart,arrivedtwomonths ago. Kelly will soon welcome her first child, a boy, with partner Sid Wilson of Slipknot. “It fascinates me that every time I see the girls, they’ve learnt something else,” Ozzy says. “They’re adorable.”
RIDE OR DIE
“You have rows, you fall out, you get back on the horse and carry on,” says Ozzy (at home in L.A. with weddingInset:Sharon).theirdayin1982.
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The Osbourne family—which also includes 11 dogs and two cats—remains as wild as it was 20 years ago when their MTV reality show The Osbournes cemented their place in pop-culture history. So is its never-say-retire patriarch. “I am determined to get back onstage even if I have to be nailed to a board and wheeled on,” he says. “Survival is my legacy.”
NPR’S ICONTHETOTENBERGNINACAPTURESPRIVATESIDEOFTHECULTURALWHOWASHERDINNERDATE—ANDSHOPPINGBUDDY—FORALMOST50YEARS By SANDRA SOBIERAJ WESTFALL What No One Knew About M y Friend Ruth From Dinners With Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships by Nina Totenberg. Copyright © 2022 by Nina Totenberg. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Our house became her only refuge outside her apartment.EverySaturday,almostwithoutfail,she camefordinner.Wealwayspre-testedforCOVID. With her various health issues, she couldn’t have butter,fats,sugarormeat.Davidpreparedamedley offishdishes,butRuth’sfavoritewasbouillabaisse.
We were always very firm with guests; nothing about cases before the Court. Once we did have a dinner guest start to ask Ruth about a case pending, and David and I jumped in: “That’s against the house rules.”
Totenberg (left) and Ginsburg at her family birthday party in 1995; right, with Totenberg’s husband, David, and Ginsburg’s daughter Jane in 2020; below in 2012.
When she went [out], she wore mandarin silk jackets and flowing designer pants. It was the exact opposite of what professional women were advised to do—namely not to call attention to themselves. For that era, it was quite rebellious to dress as she did.
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After a brief hospitalization, Ginsburg was home that Sept. 11.
Firstconnectingasreporterandsource—“Ruthwas oneofmyfirsttranslatorsofthefinerpointsoflaw,” Totenbergwrites—thepairbondedovershopping togetherandbeingwomen“withournosespressed againsttheglass”ofmale-dominatedfields.
She rarely wore more than a touch of makeup. Her only noticeable bit of vanity came in the last years of her life when she donned thin crocheted gloves to hide the dark marks on her hands caused by her many chemotherapy treatments. Ginsburg and her husband, Marty, became regulars for dinner at Totenberg’s home with her husband, Dr. David Reines, a trauma surgeon. AfterGinsburgjoinedtheSupremeCourtin1993, herhostsestablishedboundaries.
Ruth did not believe in small talk; she spoke only when she had something to say—although she loved good gossip, and
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Ruth forced herself to sit up and began working on a speech. As for the pain, she just worked through it. Marty and their daughter Jane determined that Ruth would beat the disease. They found a study of some 300 people in a Scandinavian country where chemo helped prevent recurrences. Marty brought it to David, who told him the chemo course was incredibly potent and more likely to be fatal than the disease. Ruth had onetreatment,butshewasphysicallytoopetiteto tolerate it. As David described it, “She was sicker than hell,” and she vetoed having any more. Ginsburg recovered, but by 2018 there was cancer in her lungs. The next year brought a recurrence of pancreatic cancer. By March 2020, as the world went into pandemic lockdown, Totenberg recognized a gradual “fade” in her friend.
We brought her dinner that weekend. She said, “I thought I was going to die. But I came home.” Then, in her soft, resolute voice, she added, “And I’m not going to die.” She was sitting at the table in a beautiful bathrobe, a blue pattern on white. We brought David’s bouillabaisse, and she kept falling asleep, still holding her fork in her hand. Jane would try to take the fork, and Ruth would say, “No, I want to finish my bouillabaisse.”FinallyIsaidtoher,“Ruth, you’re too tired. We’ll save your bouillabaisse. You can have it tomorrow. Go to bed.” Then David walked her upstairs. That was the last time I saw her. •
she knew plenty. She didn’t break confidences on her own Court, but if there was something happening on a lower circuit court, such as a big fight between two judges, she would say, in almost a whisper, “I hear they’re at each other’s throats.” Havingalreadysurvivedcoloncancer,Ginsburg had“major,painful”surgeryforpancreaticcancer in2009.Davidbecamehermedicalconfidant.
When National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg has writer’s block, she’s rescued by a necklace of black-and-white beads bequeathed to her by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “Ruth always had the right words. I put on her necklace, and it helps get me out of my stupidness,” Totenberg, 78, says with a laugh. The two met in 1971 as a law professor and a budding legal reporter—a working relationship that evolvedintoadeeppersonalbond.Thejournalist’stendermemoirDinners With Ruth (excerpted below) reveals an RBG more vulnerable and in chronicpainthansheleton.“Shewasgenerouswithfriendshipbutdidn’t like expressing weakness,” Totenberg says of the 5'1" giant of women’s rights,whodiedofpancreaticcancerin2020atage87.“Shewasadarling, darling woman. I often think about her—and how much I miss her.”
‘She was a andcrusader,agreatjusticejustareallygoodperson’
No matter how weak she might feel, she never came to dinner looking frumpy. She would wear long, flowing trousers, an elegant blouse with a large, warm shawl and jewelry that ranged in style between Santa Fe and New York. The one thing that never varied was the scrunchie in her hair. She always walked up our front stairs, though by summer one of her female security guards [kept] an arm firmly around Ruth’s waist.
THROUGHPUSHING
“Getting on the road, playing shows and having people show their support has been exactly what I need right now,” says Branch (in her home recording studio in July). “I don’t know what I would be doing if I didn’t have that distraction.”
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Michelle Branch wishes she had listened to Stevie Nicks.MorethanadecadeagotheFleetwoodMac rocker warned the young singer-songwriter that she was sharing “too much” on social media. But onAug.10Branchshockedfanswhensheposted— thendeleted—atweetaccusingherhusband,Black Keys musicianPatrick Carney, ofcheating on tour whileshewashomewiththeir7-month-olddaughterWillie.Aftersharingthepost,thesinger,39,was arrested on a since-dismissed domestic assault charge for allegedly slapping Carney. She filed for divorce days later. “Where was patron saint Stevie in the ether during that to be like, ‘You don’t need to share this?’ ” says Branch—who asked for “privacy and kindness” in an Aug. 11 statement— over Zoom from home in Nashville. “I definitely shouldn’t have taken to Twitter to say anything. Here I am saying, ‘Please respect our privacy,’ but I’m the one who said it to the world.”
PUTTING THE KIDS FIRST
At the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, Branch won the Viewer’s Choice prize for her debut music “Everywhere.”video,
Whileshemayhaveregrets,Branchhaslongbeen known for wearing her vulnerability on her sleeve. Onemonthafterthedramaticepisode,though,she’s honest but careful when addressing the situation. “I have to be respectful of the fact that I’m not the only person involved in this. We have very small children,” says Branch, who also has a 4-year-old son, Rhys, with Carney, 42, and a 17-year-old child, Owen (who uses they/them pronouns), with her ex-husband Teddy Landau. “I’ve promised Patrick I won’t speak about it publicly.” (Carney has not responded to multiple requests for comment.) As hesitant as she is to say too much about the status
REAPING REWARDS
“Daddy’s at work, and Mom’s getting ready to leave for work.”
Tomakemattersevenmorecomplicated,Branch is in the midst of promoting her fourth studio album,TheTroubleWithFever(outSept.16),which wascoproducedbyCarney.Recordedintheirhome studioduringthepandemic,herlatestbodyofwork featurespassionatelovesongsaboutCarneywritten longbeforerecentevents.Branchalsoincludedlyricsaboutromanticturbulenceandinfidelity,which she says she wrote over the past decade, drawing from her friends’ experiences. Still, the irony isn’t lost on her. “It’s bizarre that this has all happened inmylifeasI’mreleasingthisrecordthathassome of those themes to it,” she says.
of her marriage, it’s clear she doesn’t have all the answers.“I’mstilllivinginitrightnow,”sheadmits, “and it’s still changing by the hour.”
Branch and Carlos Santana (in 2002) earned a Grammy for their hit 2002 duet “The Game of Love.”
Despite the difficult time, “the kids are good,” says Branch (with Owen, Carney and Rhys in 2019).
Raised in Sedona, Ariz., by dad David, a plumbing contractor,andmomPeggy,arestaurantmanager, Branch left home midway through high school to pursue a music career. At 17 years old, she crafted her2001majorlabeldebutalbum,TheSpiritRoom,
WORKING MOM
“I’m going to bring the baby on tour with me because I’m still Janice(withsaysbreastfeeding,”BranchWillieandmakeupartistKinigopoulosonAug.31).
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Carney is now on the road with the Black Keys, and Branch is shielding their young kids from the
InherlowestmomentsBranchfindsstrengthin therapy.“Ican’tspeakmorehighlyaboutreaching out to somebody if you need to,” she says. “That— and my girlfriends—have helped me immensely.” Despite the heartbreak she’s faced in the past month, Branch is choosing to associate The Trouble With Fever with the loving environment in which it was created. “We made this record together. I’m very proud of it, and it’s our creative baby,” she says. “That fact doesn’t change.”
IN TIMESHAPPIER
and its soul-baring singles “Everywhere,” “All You Wanted”and“GoodbyetoYou,”allofwhichlanded in the Top 40. Two years later she was nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy and won Best Pop CollaborationwithSantanafortheirhit“TheGame of Love.” In 2005 she formed a country duo, the Wreckers, with her longtime friend and backup singer Jessica Harp. That same year Branch became a mom for the first time, to a child who is now the same age Branch was when she recorded her star-making debut. “It’s hard to let them have theirfreedombecauseIwanttokeepthemcloseto home,” says Branch. “But I left home around their sameage,andthat’sthewayyoulearn—trialbyfire.”
AftersplittingfromLandauin2014following10 years of marriage, Branch met Carney at a party in 2015. They began dating while working on her 2017 album Hopeless Romantic and tied the knot in 2019, a year after welcoming Rhys. (Carney was previouslymarriedtowriterDeniseGrollmusand designer Emily Ward.) She’s still uncertain about her future with Carney, but Branch is leaning into music to heal. Initially unsure how to proceed with her album’s release, she sought advice from her close friend Kacey Musgraves, who endured her own public divorce in 2020. The country star encouraged Branch to keep busy. “I feel like it’s going to be exactly what my heart needs right now,” says Branch of her upcoming shows. “It will be very, very cathartic. I don’t know what I would be doing if I didn’t have that distraction.”
— BRANCH ON HER FANS
drama.“Hopefullytheydon’tknowanythingthat’s going on,” she says. “Without being able to go into whatisgoingon,PatrickissomeonewhoIlovevery much.We’reallhuman,andweallmakemistakes.”
Although her own experiencesdidn’tinfluencehernewsongs about heartbreak, she’s already thinking about writing through her current feelings for a future project. “I had someone tell me, ‘Youknow what?Youhavea gift. Just put this into the music and help other people going through similar s---,’ ” she says. “I think having this new record come out clearsthepathforthat.”Andwhilelifecouldeasily overshadowart,Branchknowstherecentattention to her personal drama may also bring more listeners to her new album. “If anything, [this situation has] weirdly shined the spotlight on my record more than it probably would’ve gotten,” she says withalaugh.“It’snotideal,butI’mmakinglemonade out of lemons.” •
“Patrick is still the father of my kids, and I love him,” says (withBranchCarneyin2021).
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THE ACTOR’S EARLIEST YEARS WERE DEFINED BY TRAGEDY. NOW HE’S FINDING HIS GREATEST JOY IN FAMILY AND SCI-FI By CHRISTINA DUGAN RAMIREZ
In2016Lunaembarkedonthebiggestadventure ofhiscareerwhenhejoinedtheStarWarsuniverse. “I felt like that lucky kid who suddenly got to play in the playground he had been dreaming of,” he recalls. “It’s part of my past so deeply that being asked to do what I love the most in this universe is something I’m never going to get used to.” The new prequel series Andor will reveal what led his character Cassian to join the Rebel alliance opposing the Empire.
Life-Changing Roles
“It was the first time I had to go through a whole film in English,” Luna says of Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (right), also starring Romola Garai. Left: Luna with Maribel Verdú and Gael García Bernal in Y Tu Mamá Tambié
Living Fantasya
That brand of optimism carried Luna from his childhood in Mexico through the early 2000s whenherosetointernationalfamewithfilmroles in YTuMamáTambién and DirtyDancing:HavanaNights. It’s still lifting him up: After starring on Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico and earning a Daytime EmmyforhisSpanish-language talk show Pan y Circo in 2021, he is now reprising his role as thief-turned-Rebel-spyCassian Andorfromthe2016filmRogue One: A Star Wars Story in Disney+’s spinoff series Andor, premiering Sept. 21. “I love jumping from one thing to another and making sure the projects are as different as possible,” he says. “That’s something I look for in whatever I do.”
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“Rogue One is a film about an event; it’s not necessarily the character-driven story this is,” Luna explains.
thematters‘Whatisjourneyandwhatyoutakefromthatjourney’
“I’m always going to be excited in a way I can’t be excited about any other job,” Luna (with Skarsgård)Stellansaysof Andor.
LunabeganactinginMexicantelenovelasinthe 1990s before landing his breakout role alongside hischildhoodfriendGaelGarcíaBernalinAlfonso Cuarón’sYTuMamáTambiénin2001.Appearancesinhigh-profilefilmslikeFrida,TheTerminaland Milkfollowed,andLunamadehisdirectorialdebut withthe2007documentaryJ.C.Chávez.Reflecting on that time, Luna says, “There’s a feeling that you have to take every possible opportunity in front of you and that life depends on it, but then you realize that’s not that true. Taking time to breathe and absorb what you went through before you jump into something else is needed.”
He may now be part of a blockbuster sci-fi franchise, but Luna says his children, who have inherited his appreciation for all things Star Wars, help keep his feet planted firmly on Earth.“Fatherhoodsimplifieseverything,because it’sallaboutmykids,”hesays.“DoingStarWars,for example,hasalottodowithmakingthemapartof what I do. I’m so glad to have that opportunity.”
Being a dad has helped Star Wars actor Diego Luna gain a new perspective on life in this galaxy. “It’s the most interesting mirror to see yourself in,” says the 42-year-old, who is dad to son Jerónimo, 14, and daughter Fiona, 12, with his ex-wife Camila Sodi. “There is no way to get more truth than being aware of what they have to say. It’s about listening and enjoying the ride from beginningtoendandknowingthere’salwayssomething to look forward to.”
For Luna, change has been a constant in life. Raised in Mexico City, he was 2 when his mother, British costume designer Fiona Alexander, died in a car accident, leaving his father, Alejandro Luna, a theater-set designer, to raise their only child alone. “My father had to play Mom and Dad,” Luna recalls.
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“Iusedtogoeverywherewithhim,soIusedtolive inthetheaters,whereIhadthisfamily,thistroupe that would move from one place to another, sharing the same passion and caring and talking about the same things.” It also allowed him to keep an eyeonhisdad,providingasortofemotionalsafety net after losing his mom at such a young age. “To me, being in the theater was also the only way to makesurenoonewouldtakemyfatherawayfrom me,” he says. But eventually, he adds, “It stopped beingabouthim,anditstartedtobeaboutmyown experience and what I was learning.”
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IT’S BEEN SIX DECADES SINCE MIKE FREMONT FIRST LACED UP HIS RUNNING SHOES AND HIT LOCAL TRAILS. NOW HE HOLDS FIVE RACING WORLD RECORDS JULIE MAZZIOTTA
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A Mile Traveled Mike Fremont holds the record for the fastest mile run by a 96-year-old in the the Grand Blue Mile race in Des Moines,
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While running became a vital part of Fremont’sdays,competitionwasn’tapersonal goal until after 1992, when he was diagnosedwithcolorectalcancerandtold by doctors he had just three months to live. “It was,” he says, “a terrible, terrible thing to tell me.” Physicians removed the
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Inadditiontotherunning,heandMarilyn enjoy canoeing and spending time with his kids, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, “having the best time of my life,” he says. As for the advice he’d give someone daunted by running or training for a marathon, the secret, Fremont says, is to just start moving: “Come with me. I’ll walk with you, I’ll run with you. I’ll do whatever you want to do.”
Since setting his racing records—likely to stand for some time—Fremont has decided to just run for fun these days. He cofounded Cincinnati’s Duck Pond Athletic Club in 1979 and runs with members every Sunday morning. “They still compete,” he says. “I just run.”
Going canoeing together on lakes in Ohio. They spend winters in Florida (right, Fremont on his 100th birthday). “You feel more free when you’re running barefoot, especially on a beach,” he says.
Inspired by being given a new lease on life, Fremont—who was by then following a macrobiotic, vegan diet—decided a challenge was in order. “I found that I wasn’t too bad at running. I didn’t weigh too much, and I was small. It helped,” he says. Adds a proud Marilyn: “That’s when he started to make records for his age.”
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atable‘You’retodoanythingyouwantthisage’
On the three days a week that Mike Fremont jogs his favorite routes around his Cincinnati neighborhood, he’s something of a celebrity. He “salutes”everyonehepasses—andmostknowhim well because the 100-year-old Fremont has been running these same routes for nearly half his life. “They’reallaccustomedtome,”hesays.“Theysay, ‘I’ve seen you here for 40 years!’ ”
—MIKE FREMONT
Strong Fremont and wife Marilyn (above) enjoy
Though Fremont estimates he’s run around 60 marathons and countless other distances, he says he has no plans to take down other world records. Still, on his 100th birthday in February he celebrated with a family party and a run on Florida’s Vero Beach, where he and his wife of 29 years, Marilyn, 69, spend their winters. “I think I’m sensible enough not to try to run marathons at 100,” he says with a smile. “Why should I have anything to prove?”
It was heartbreaking loss that ultimately led to Fremont’s passion to run. A mechanical engineer and young father of three kids, he lost his wife, Jacqueline, to a brain hemorrhage in 1958. The devastated single parent found himself yearning for a healthyoutletforhisanguish.“Ineededtodosomething every day to take the stress off,” he explains. So Fremont laced up his shoes and began running up and down trails near his home in Cincinnati. “Sometimes I’d take one of my little kids—my daughterwouldholdmylittlefinger,andwe’drun,” he says. “I enjoyed it and thought it was good for me. Running is much better than the two martinis I used to have.”
cancerous tumor and were shocked to find there was no spread of the disease. Says Fremont: “The surgeon said that he had looked for metastasis in 35 places and found none. Zero.”
WhilethesedaysFremontismostlyrunningfor fun, he has managed to rack up an astounding five worldrecords,including:fastestmarathontimeat age 80 and again at age 90; fastest half-marathon time at age 90 and 91; and finally the American recordforthefastestmilebya96-year-old.“Itook 53secondsofftheone-mileracerecord,”Fremont boasts. “I was very pleased.”
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1. Preheat oven to 375°. Coat a 12-cup muffin tray with cooking spray, or line with paper liners. Set aside.
2. Heat 1 teaspoon of the oil in a medium skillet over medium. Add chorizo; cook, stirring often, until oils release and chorizo is crispy, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Transfer to a bowl, and set aside.
10 oz. dry-cured Spanish chorizo, diced
11⁄2 cups fresh or thawed frozen corn kernels
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4. Scoop about 1⁄3 cup batter into each muffin cup. Bake until muffins are golden on top and a wooden pick inserted in centers comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool in muffin tray 5 minutes. Transfer muffins to a wire rack; let cool 10 minutes. Serve warm.
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Makes: 12 Active time: 15 minutes
1 tsp. strong English or Dijon mustard
Cheesy Chorizo & Corn Muffins
1⁄2 tsp. black pepper
2 large eggs
1 Tbsp. salt-free garlic-and-herb seasoning blend (such as Mrs. Dash)
1⁄4 tsp. crushed red pepper
3. Whisk together eggs, milk, mustard and remaining 1⁄2 cup oil in a large bowl until combined. Stir in Cheddar, Parmesan, garlic-and-herb seasoning, salt, black pepper and crushed red pepper until combined. Stir in corn, scallions and chorizo until just combined. Stir in flour until just combined.
Total time: 55 minutes
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3⁄4 cup whole milk
‘One thing my mum taught me growing up was that anything salty should always have a hint of sweetness, whether that’s coming from sugar, honey or even corn,’ says the Great British Baking Show finalist. ‘Chorizo is one of those ingredients where a little goes a long way and is guaranteed to add so much flavor!’
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13⁄4 cups (about 81⁄2 oz.) self-rising flour
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Pals Retta and Kal Penn hugged it out in the Heineken Suite at the U.S. Open in New York City’s USTA National Tennis Center on Sept. 4. The Good Girls alum, who played Ruby Hill on the NBC show, shared multiple photos from the day on Instagram.
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Last time I danced I’m in Colorado now, and we go to Two Rivers Cafe all the time. My daughter Rio [age 9] was already seated, and I danced up to the table, and she’s like, “Daaaad.” She can get very embarrassed.
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How stubborn I actually am. Last night I was cranky and got into it with my wife, Erinn. I was lying there knowing that I was 100 percent wrong, but I couldn’t admit it. I probably apologized into my pillow.
Last thing I learned about myself
Reporting by JULIE JORDAN
Naked mountain air is amazing. You walk outside, stand on the porch, coffee in hand, do a nice little naked stretch. It’s pretty liberating.
Last domestic chore I’ve been living alone in Albuquerque for work, so I keep the house tidy. When I came home, I did the laundry, and Erinn couldn’t believe it. I was like, “But don’t say ‘Good boy,’ just admire me in silence.”
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Last time I cried This kid Will Zalatoris just won a PGA tour event, and he’s sobbing, and of course I’m crying too. Anything sports gets me emotional.
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THE ACTOR, 46, RETURNS FOR THE SECOND SEASON OF FOX’S THE CLEANING LADY
