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was driving my daughter and some of her friends to an event, and it was fun because you become invisible. You get to hear a bit of their world. You’ve written a few cookbooks. Do you have a signature dish? I don’t know that I have a signature. Most of the things I do are pretty simple. To me, there aren’t many things more satisfying than a roasted chicken, roasted potatoes, and grilled asparagus. You look great. Is it a constant struggle to stay ﬁt? It’s not a secret I had gastric bypass surgery and lost 140 pounds, but over the years about 40 pounds crept back, and I worked hard at getting those off again. It’s less food in, and more exercise. There are people—my wife, for example—who enjoy working out. I’m not one of them. It’s necessary, and I feel better after I’ve done it, but I hate every minute of it. Is there a story behind your catchphrase, “Here’s what’s happening in your neck of the woods”? They tell you that you have to come up with one so the local station knows when to cut away. I remembered my grandfather saying it—sounds a little corny, but it works!

What do you like to do on Sundays? I go to church, have brunch, go for a run You’re known to be easyor bike ride if going. What bothers you? the weather Injustice and inequality. is nice. And When I see things that the family drive are intrinsically not fair, I is an underrated try to make them teachpastime. I remember able moments. My kids as a kid growing up have seen it in Brooklyn ﬁrsthand: Dad and Queens, could be wearwe’d drive to Make Al’s chili! Get ing a suit and upstate New his recipe at [going] to a York. The Parade.com/roker normal part of other day I

town and still get passed up by a cab driver. It’s not right, but there it is. You have to know that life isn’t always fair and equal. You’ll be covering the Olympics in London this summer. Any special stunts on tap? Even as we speak, I’m sure they’re trying to ﬁgure out what outlandish outﬁt they can put us in and what goofball situation will yield the most embarrassment for us. I’m really looking forward to it! This is the greatest job in the world.

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Are there whirlpools in the ocean? If so, are they a threat to ships? —Gerald Brown, Shalimar, Fla.

Whirlpools do exist, both on the surface of the water and submerged. Most aren’t powerful enough to capsize a sizable vessel, but they can pose a threat to inexperienced boaters. Many have a vortex that pulls downward. One example is Japan’s Naruto whirlpool, which draws daily crowds of onlookers. Another, near Norway, is the Saltstraumen Maelstrom, said to be the world’s strongest. Not far away is the Moskstraumen, made infamous by Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne. The whirlpool Garofalo (which probably inspired the mythical Charybdis) is located in the waters between Sicily and mainland Italy. We Americans have one of our own, Old Sow, between Maine and New Brunswick.

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“REVENGE IS A FANTASY,” SAYS MADELEINE STOWE OF HER P OPUL AR SERIE S, “ YET IT HITS PEOPLE ON A GU T LEVEL .”

MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING

1. Elizabeth McGovern’s Lady Cora, who presides over the upstairs drama on Downton Abbey. 2. J. R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), who puts the fun in dysfunctional family rivalry on this summer’s update of Dallas. 3. Kristin Chenoweth’s afﬂuent Texas belle, who believes in both amazing grace and retribution on GCB. 4. Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp), who bewitches her enemy’s son (Josh Bowman) in her quest for payback on Revenge.

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We’re Not. So why are we loving the 1% on TV? From Revenge to the return of Dallas, the nighttime soap is back. By Leah Rozen COVER AND OPENING PHOTO GRAPH BY MAT THEW ROL STON

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may resent the 1 percent, but we havee no problem with theirr occupying prime time. Soapy dramas featuring plump-pocketed characters ers are rocking the ratings and multiplying fast. Not since the 1980s, when Dallas and Dynasty ruled the airwaves, have so many powerful men n and women, expensively garbed and impeccably ably coiffed, connived and schemed against onee another. Case in point: ABC’s Revenge, one of the new season’s few breakout hits and d a topic of heated discussion on social media. ia. Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s 19th-century ury novel The Count of Monte Cristo, this guilty pleasure is set in the Hamptons, the Long Island playground that caters ters to Manhattan’s wealthy. Every week, ek,

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Emily Thorne (Emily (Em VanCamp) plots to ruin a high-society couple coupl (Henry Czerny and Madeleine Stowe) who framed her late father for a heinous crime years ago. Stowe, who stylishly plays Victoria Grayson, Gray the show’s presiding diva, thinks the series ser taps into our national concern over the growing g gap between the superrich and every everyone else. “Audiences get to have it both ways: They T peek into the extravagant lifestyle of the über-wealthy, but they also see them getting g a comeuppance,” she says. “People “P have felt so screwed over. I think there’s a collective anger ange out there, and people are getting a collective revenge.” get Other series showcasing the swanky set include Mastersw piece’s Downton Abbey, the p aaddictive WWI-era drama February 19, 2012 • 9

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that?’ ” says Shari Levine, a Bravo and that Dallas and Dynasty were executive who oversees the shows. going strong during the recession of Get a peek at the the early 1980s. But in the era of ecoset in an immense English manor house, which is “You get to aspire to what they have Feb. 29 episode of nomic well-being that was the 1950s, one of PBS’s biggest hits ever; GCB, an ABC series and feel superior at the same time, a Revenge, plus read an excerpt from wholesome sitcoms such as Father starting March 4 about Texas socialites who make yin-yang experience.” the novel (by Kim So why are these programs thrivKnows Best and Leave It to Beaver, malicious mischief in between weekly church Gatlin) that GCB is based on, at which revolved around happy nuclear attendance; and a reboot of Dallas, that avatar ing now? Because they offer muchParade.com/soaps families, were the norm. “When peoof avarice, which will giddyap onto TNT this needed escapism during difficult ple are less anxious and more comsummer. There’s also, for younger viewers, the times, says Elayne Rapping, profesCW’s Gossip Girl (now in its fifth season), which sor emerita of American Studies at the Univer- fortable, they like watching shows about people follows a group of absurdly privileged Manhattan sity at Buffalo. “I think of these shows as luxury who are living better lives, but not better than they porn,” she says. “During times of economic can aspire to,” says Rapping. “Those 1950s shows private-school grads. Of course, this voyeuristic obsession with the stress, when everything’s going wrong, people were templates for a middle-class life.” The current batch of nighttime soaps cerrich crossed over to reality television several years just don’t want to deal with real life. We’d much back. Bravo has made an industry of its various rather be temporarily in that over-the-top, glam- tainly doesn’t offer that kind of template. The Real Housewives programs, which currently fea- orous world.” Adds Annie Potts, who plays a Census Bureau puts the median household inture moneyed women in New York, Beverly wealthy widow on GCB, “It gives people such come in the U.S. at $49,445, which wouldn’t Hills, Atlanta, Orange County, and New Jersey. pleasure, because so often they think, ‘If I only even cover the cost of a car driven by characters Though there have been a couple of financial had money, my life would be better.’ Then they on these shows, much less the country manor in Downton Abbey (really Highclere Castle in Berkembarrassments offscreen, when cameras are roll- look at these shows and say, ‘Not so much.’ ” Rapping points out that during the Great shire) or Grayson Manor, the beachside mansion ing, the casts continue to behave like modern-day Marie Antoinettes. “There’s a sense of, ‘Oh my Depression, in the 1930s, Hollywood movies in Revenge (it’s actually a digital creation). As if in acknowledgment, shows about the God, they have all that money and they’re doing often focused on penthouse-dwelling plutocrats, 1 percent serve up their conspicuous consumption with a wink. In GCB, when Kristin Chenoweth’s literally well-heeled character climbs atop her husband’s desk to get frisky with him, the red soles of her Louboutins wave merrily in the air. Most of us wouldn’t dream of dropping $500-plus on a They ruled the roost on your ’80s favorites. Here’s what they’re up to today. pair of pumps, but thanks to fashion and celebrity magazines, Jennifer Lopez, and the Internet, we know Louboutins when we see them. “There’s a level of awareness now, and not just by a small element of the population,” says Robert Harling, GCB’s creator and executive producer, of the luxury goods shown in programs like his. “My dad Joan Collins Lorenzo Lamas Victoria Principal Joan Van Ark isn’t going to know [exactly] what it is, but he’s going to go, ‘Oh, that’s that Prada stuff.’ ” (In a Falcon Crest (1981–90) Dynasty (1981–89) Dallas (1978–91) Knots Landing (1979–93) case of life imitating art imitating life, ABC may P THEN: Lance the P THEN: Alexis paved P THEN: Tragedy P THEN: Once a lothario was a willing the way for generamagnet Pamela made deserted teenage bride explore merchandising lower-cost versions of pawn in his grandtions of divalicious TV history when it and waitress, Val some of the goods shown on Revenge, says Mike mother’s plots. schemers. was revealed she’d blossomed into a Kelley, the show’s creator and executive producer. P NOW: Lamas, 54, has P NOW: Collins, 78, dreamed Bobby’s successful writer. “Everyone wants to know how they can get a bit dabbled in reality released her fourth death—and an entire P NOW: Van Ark, 68, of that lifestyle,” he notes.) television and memoir last year; season of the show. voiced a character on continues to act. He she and Dynasty’s P NOW: The skin-care FX’s Archer last year Even more important, plots and characters married for the fifth Stephanie Beacham maven and environand appeared with her must strike a chord with viewers. If it were enough time last year and recently reunited for a mental crusader, 62, is Knots nemesis, Donna simply to showcase rich people misbehaving, operates a custom Snickers commercial training to be on the Mills, in two episodes ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money (2007–09) would still be motorcycle business. in the U.K. maiden voyage of of Nip/Tuck. airing. “Shows like Revenge can’t survive on bitchVirgin Galactic’s commercial spacecraft. iness and retribution alone. People have to care,” says Kelley. The key is giving characters depth and Which ’80s soaper danced on ice? Who played Lincoln? Get the dish on more stars at Parade.com/soaps making relatable the motivations driving them. Return of the Soaps | from page 7

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“Revenge is universal,” Kelley adds, “whether you’ve thought of keying the car of the meter maid who gave you a ticket or [getting back at] someone bigger in your life. It’s been around as long as stories have been around.” Another common thread woven into all these shows is the presence of a few major characters who represent the 99 percent. Downton Abbey spends nearly as much time with its below-stairs help as it does with its upstairs aristocrats. “[Servants] Bates, Anna, Mrs. Patmore, and Daisy are

“DURING TIMES OF STRESS, WE’D RATHER BE IN THAT OVER-THE-TOP WORLD.” just as interesting to the viewer as Lord and Lady Grantham and their daughters; we’ve had a completely equal narrative emphasis on both sides of the story,” says Julian Fellowes, the Oscar-winning British screenwriter (Gosford Park) who created the delicious drama, which concludes its second season on PBS tonight. “It works if the world that the characters are in is believable, and that’s as true of Tosca as All My Children.” It is these middle- and working-class characters—like viewers, they are on the outside looking in—who serve as our conduits. Revenge has Jack and Declan Porter (Nick Wechsler and Connor Paolo), brothers who inherited a failing bar from their father and are struggling to keep it afloat. On

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Revive Your New Year’s Resolutions Follow these tips for successful change By Jennifer Ackerman • Illustration by Zohar Lazar

Accept the busy, stressed person you are today. Accord-

ing to McGonigal, people often fail to make change because they imagine their future selves with Herculean powers of self-control. “Don’t wait for the efﬁcient person who resists all temptation to show up. Take action now and understand that you’re human and you’ll have setbacks,” she says.

Pick your battles.

Studies suggest that glucose in the bloodstream fuels willpower; when levels are low, it’s harder to stay the course. Likewise, engaging in acts of self-control all day depletes glucose. So prioritize and try to limit the number of times you need to exert your willpower each day.

f you’re like millions of americans, you woke up on jan. 1

and vowed to turn over a new leaf—run three miles a day, stop smoking, lose a pound a week, save $200 a month, whatever. You vividly imagined a better you. And for a while it seemed to work. But then, come late January or early February, you stopped jogging. You snuck a cigarette. You went on a QVC spending spree. In other words, you slipped back into your old habits. It doesn’t have to be that way. Willpower is not the brute strength to resist temptation, but “the ability to do what you really want to do when part of you really doesn’t want to do it,” says Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist at Stanford University and the author of The Willpower Instinct. “It’s remembering what you really want, your bigger goals, in the face of your immediate desires.” And it’s a skill you can strengthen. Science may not yet have devised a sureﬁre formula for keeping every resolution, but it has lately revealed some tips to help all of us make real and lasting change.

Rethink your environment.

“When your surroundings stay the same, so do your ingrained habits,” says Miriam Nelson, director of the John Hancock Center on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention at Tufts University. “But when you tweak your environment to make healthy choices easy, your habits automatically change.” Trying to lose weight? Get rid of the junk food and store bowls of cut-up veggies in the fridge. Looking to build muscle? Keep dumbbells in the TV room and do bicep curls while you watch.

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“Many people are too ambitious in their goals,” says Nelson. Instead of vowing to get fit, try building a 10-minute walk into your day. “If you stick with that goal for a week, congratulate yourself and up the ante the following week.”

Anticipate challenges—the plate of cookies at the office, the fatigue that makes you want to skip the gym—and imagine how you’ll overcome them.

Envision how you’ll achieve your goal. Visualization—

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to make lasting change on your own, so surround yourself with people who encourage your efforts. A study of people who completed a weight loss program found that 66 percent of those who teamed up with friends had kept the weight off six months later; the ﬁgure fell to 24 percent for those who went it alone.

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According to McGonigal, study after study shows that self-criticism is linked to less motivation and self-control. On the other hand, “selfcompassion—being supportive and kind to yourself, especially

Above all, be patient.

The good news: Over time, your resolution will start to require less effort. A recent study by researchers at University College London found that participants took, on average, 66 days to form a new habit, whether it was eating fruit at lunch or running 15 minutes a day (the range was 18 to 254 days, depending on the degree of difﬁculty). Even better: A single setback in no way predicted failure. “It’s how you recover from a setback that counts,” says McGonigal. “If you splurge or miss a day, just get right back on track.” Jennifer Ackerman is the coauthor of The Social Network Diet: Change Yourself, Change the World.

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PHOTOS: COURTESY OF CONNIE SCHULTZ