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Juliette Lewis in Secrets and Lies (right) and Cape Fear (below)

TV’s iconic Mickey Mouse Club (1955-1996), celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, spawned many famous alumni over the decades. Here are some of the most recent, their years of mouse-dom and what they’re doing now.

RYAN GOSLING 1993-’95

Filming new movie The Nice Guys

BRITNEY SPEARS 1993-’95

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KERI RUSSELL 1991-’93

Starring on TV’s The Americans

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Lewis, 41, was 17 years old when she played Danielle Bowden in Cape Fear, a movie role that launched her acting career and earned her an Oscar nomination. Since then, she’s received an Emmy nod for Hysterical Blindness and formed the rock band Juliette and the Licks. Now she’s back on TV with Secrets and Lies (premiering March 1 on ABC) and Wayward Pines (beginning May 14 on Fox).

CHRISTINA AGUILERA 1993-’95

Coach on TV’s The Voice

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 1993-’95

Filming new movie Spinning Gold

—Kenya I., Las Vegas

Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross with mom Diana Ross

nights on ABC. (Read about Ross’s Black-ish co-star Anthony Anderson’s crusade for diabetes awareness in this issue’s special pullout section.)

Q: Is Josh Duhamel’s character on Battle Creek named after basketball great Wilt Chamberlain? —Juliette V., Lynnwood, Wash.

Wayward Pines looks really creepy, like e.com personality@parad Twin Peaks meets Twilight Zone. “Yes! That show is really exciting and strange. I have a three-episode arc and I can’t say anything [about it]. I’ve signed in blood.” So few child actors make a successful transition to adult actor. What was the process like for you? “I don’t really look at myself as having been a child actor. I look at it as being someone who was destined to do what they’re doing… I think for me, it was the material and directors that helped me carve a path that wasn’t solely identiﬁed by age.”

seems so natural on Black-ish. Did she always want to be an actress?

A: Ross, 42, whose mom is the legendary singer Diana Ross, worked as a model and contributing fashion editor at Mirabella and New York magazines before switching to acting. “I am more of a performer than I am an actress, and I think that is from my mother,” says the star of the sitcom Black-ish, about a family trying to maintain their cultural identity in a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood. It airs Wednesday

In real life you’re funny, but your detective character on Secrets and Lies has no sense of humor. “I actually like to stretch myself and play characters as far away from me as possible. I feel like in Detective Cornell I’m challenged to be a person that is so different than myself. She doesn’t give away anything emotionally. She’s authoritative. uestions Email your qScott to She has to be for her line of work.” r

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A: According to Duhamel, the police detective he plays was originally named Milton Bradley, but it was changed because there was a former baseball player by that name— and it was also the name of the iconic board-game manufacturer. So Duhamel’s character on Battle Creek, the new crime drama premiering March 1 on CBS, was redubbed Milt Chamberlain. “I love it,” says the Minot, N.D. native, 42. “Of course, it rhymes with Wilt— Wilt the Stilt.”

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Three queens of darkness—Sleeping Beauty’s Maleficent, Ursula from The Little Mermaid and Cruella De Vil of 101 Dalmatians—reunite on tonight’s spring premiere of Once Upon a Time. “Magic comes with a price,” warn the creators of the ABC hit series. “Get ready for some surprises.”

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Meet Chappie

This experimental robot (voiced by Sharlto Copley) is joined by Hugh Jackman and Dev Patel in the sci-ﬁ adventure thriller in theaters March 6. Chappie is the latest in a long list of robots who have beeped and booped their way into pop culture history.

Rosie (The Jetsons): Every homemaker’s dream companion

Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation): A spaceage Pinocchio

Wall•E (Wall•E): Brave little bot that saves humanity

Robot (Lost in Space): “Danger, Will Robinson!”

KITT (Knight Rider): Best Trans Am ever

C-3PO and R2-D2 (Star Wars): The odd couple of the Millennium Falcon

You can sing along again with Maria, Capt. von Trapp and his children: A special 50th anniversary edition of the soundtrack to The Sound of Music will be released March 10 by Legacy Recordings. All seven of the actors who played the von Trapp children are still alive; some continued careers in showbiz, but not everyone: Charmian Carr (Liesl) is an interior designer in California, Duane Chase (Kurt) works as a geologist and computer software designer in Seattle and Debbie Turner (Marta) is a ﬂoral and event designer in Minnesota. The iconic movie, released in March 1965, is also the subject of two ﬁne new books, Laurence Maslon’s The Sound of Music Companion ($30, Universe Publishing) and Tom Santopietro’s The Sound of Music Story ($29, St. Martin’s Press).

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runs “the real world” will help us live our dreams. By the time we’re teenagers, we’ve also acquired one of the best ways to figure out what’s going on: We’ve learned how to read. And discovered that ﬁction lets us feel truths, see possibilities and experience knowledge beyond “just the facts,” whether those ﬁctions come to life in a three-minute record, a Friday night movie, a great TV MARCH 1, 2015 | 7

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cracies, kind of like office or factory floor politics, except he risks his plays in the atom-bombarmed struggle called the Cold War. Spy novels remind us of our past and reflect our future. Alan Furst’s WWIIera novels bring to life heroic struggles of the “greatest generation,” while novels written long before 9/11 by “the two Toms”—Harris and Clancy—foreshadowed dramatic hijacked aircraft terrorist attacks targeting American civilians. Spy novels impact our present—often in bizarre ways that stun their author. As revealed only after the fall of the Soviet Union, my first Condor novel [Six Days of the Condor] inspired their dreaded KGB spy bureaucracy to create a secret 2,000man spy shop to mimic espionage work they saw my character and Robert Redford doing: reading spy novels. But mostly, we read spy novels because they’re fun. In spy novels we’re guaranteed a fictional journey in which

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ence o er ﬀ di a g in ak m e ar ho w le op pe ay yd Meet the ever g an ch n ca u yo ow H : us Pl e. m ti a at m one drea Mick Ebeling, 44

Ana Maria Chali Calan, 57 » Pachay Los Lomas, Chimaltenango, Guatemala » AMIDI (Association of Indigenous Women for Holistic Development) » amidiguatemala.org Her impossible dream: Promoting gender equality, social justice and peace in a war-torn country How she’s making a difference: Leading AMIDI in developing entrepreneurial ventures, improving infrastructure and education while inspiring and teaching indigenous women throughout Guatemala What’s next? Running a small micro-lending project to foster income-generating ventures and rainwater collection tanks for AMIDI members Tip for newbie world-changers: Always ask yourself, “What’s the right thing to do?” And never give up.

Adam Braun, 31 » New York City » Pencils of Promise » pencilsofpromise.org His impossible dream: Giving every child access to quality education How he’s making a difference: Creating

» Venice Beach, Calif. » Not Impossible Labs » notimpossiblelabs.com His impossible dream: “Crowdsolving” low-cost solutions to previously insurmountable healthcare issues. Anyone is welcome to suggest a cause or volunteer skills and expertise for a solution. How he’s making a difference: Harnessing technology—by developing a 3-D printing system to make prosthetic arms, for example—for the sake of humanity to fulﬁll his mantra, “Help one, help many.” What’s next? Recruiting high-school robotics club students to develop a low-cost exoskeleton to help kids with cerebral palsy walk Tip for newbie worldchangers: Ask yourself, “If not now, when? If not me, who?”

an international educational nonprofit staffed by locals within each country to help every student be successful What’s next? Using technology and dynamic earning methods to level the playing field in education between developed and developing countries Tip for newbie world-changers: “If you’re passionate about a cause, first try volunteering or fundraising around it.”

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hen Mick Ebeling clicked on a Time magazine article in July 2013, a boy on the brink of manhood stared back at him. Without arms. It was Daniel Omar, one of the more than 50,000 people who have lost limbs in the war in Sudan, and he was about to change Ebeling’s life. “I looked at his picture and thought, That’s not OK,” Ebeling recalls. “I mean, how do you just close your laptop and walk away?” Instead, Ebeling, whose Los Angeles-based Not Impossible Labs specializes in what he calls “crowd-solving” to come up with low-cost, do-it-yourself technology solutions for big problems, set out to ﬁnd a way to make arms for Daniel—using a 3-D printer. Four months later, he was on a plane to Sudan’s war zone with printers and parts. Sounds like an impossible achievement, but Ebeling believes anyone can accomplish that kind of against-the-odds mission. “Every single person has the ability to change the world,” says Ebeling, who earned the 2014 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for his work and shares his story in Not Impossible:

The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn’t Be Done (Atria Books, 2015). Ebeling is one of many people who are making a diﬀerence in ways large and small. Here, Ebeling and others like him provide a road map to doing the “impossible.” With their help, it’s easier than ever to ﬁnd a cause and be part of it—or even to follow your own dream and do good your own way. Anything truly is possible.

Pick One Thing

There are lots of issues crying out for attention, but the sharper your focus, the bigger your impact. Take Ana Maria Chali Calan, for example. When she founded AMIDI in her village in the Guatemalan highlands in 2000, she wasn’t trying to tackle the poverty, malnutrition and injustices that are rampant in her country. She simply wanted to improve the standard of living for the women of her community, many of whom had been widowed during Guatemala’s grueling 36-year civil war. So AMIDI began with small steps—classes in organic farming and basic accounting, starting a

small egg business and installing safe, fuel-eﬃcient stoves in home kitchens. Since then, AMIDI women have become leaders in women’s rights, savvy entrepreneurs, advocates in the ﬁelds of health and nutrition and beacons to the international community. For Adam Braun, a desire to work with underprivileged kids took shape when he asked a boy on the street in India, “What do you want most in the world?” The answer: a pencil. Braun had one to give, and seeing the boy’s face light up with hope was the turning point that inspired Braun to hand out thousands of pencils as he backpacked through more than 50 countries and six continents. It was through those one-on-one conversations over a pencil that Braun developed the model for Pencils of Promise, the organization he founded in 2008 to build schools, train teachers and fund scholarships for children in Laos,

Ghana and Guatemala. Ebeling takes the concept even further by focusing ﬁrst on just one person—his “help one, help many” philosophy. “It makes it personal and real and accessible when you bring it down to helping one person, yet it ripples out from there,” Ebeling explains. Project Daniel is a perfect example of this in action. What started as a quest to print prosthetic arms for Daniel turned into a 3-D prosthetic printing lab in Sudan that, up until recent bombings shut down the hospital out of which the lab is run, printed one limb a week for war victims. And before Project Daniel, Ebeling crowd-solved another high-tech solution, an “eyewriter” device to help Los Angeles graﬃti artist Tempt One, who is fully paralyzed by Lou Gehrig’s disease, communicate again using just his eye movements. MARCH 1, 2015 | 11

» Hopewell Junction, N.Y. » Unshattered » unshattered.org Her impossible dream: Giving hope—and a path to change and independence—for women in substance-abuse recovery How she’s making a difference: Providing a revenue stream, skill training and a means for the women of the Walter Hoving Home in Garrison, N.Y., to regain their dignity by creating beautiful handbags and purses out of repurposed materials What’s next? Leaving her corporate job with IBM to run Unshattered full time Tip for newbie world-changers: It’s OK to be scared. Don’t let fear stop you from chasing your dreams.

Michel Nischan, 56 » Westport, Conn. » Wholesome Wave » wholesomewave.org His impossible dream: Creating a vibrant, just and sustainable food system for all How he’s making a difference: Making fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables affordable and available to low-income communities through innovative programs like Double Value Coupon and Fruit and Vegetable Prescription What’s next: Getting funding built into the next congressional Farm Bill Tip for newbie world-changers: Treat “failures” as challenges to ﬁnd a new way.

Changing the world is scary, and fear comes with the territory. “That feeling of ‘I could never do that’ never goes away,” says Kelly Lyndgaard, founder of Unshattered, an organization that teaches women to design and fabricate handbags and purses out of old coats, curtains and tablecloths to sell on Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods. “But if you’re not scared, it’s not big enough.” “I’m scared out of my mind 95 percent of the time,” Ebeling confesses. But like other successful world-changers, he sees “failure” as a cue to change course. “When you hit a major obstacle, you’ve just got to think, ‘Well, so that’s not an option anymore...what else can I do?’” “Hurdles aren’t hurdles, they’re just a turn in the road you didn’t expect,” says chef Michel Nischan, who founded Wholesome Wave in 2007 to increase aﬀordable access to healthy foods for underserved communities. The nonproﬁt organization has since grown to serve communities in 25 states and the District of Columbia. “You just can’t be afraid to move when you don’t have all the answers, or you’ll never get anywhere.”

Ask for Help

Here’s a little secret for novice world-changers: You don’t need all the answers to accomplish the impossible. “You’ve got to understand your own weaknesses, and then ﬁnd the people whose strengths align with those weaknesses,” says Braun. Early on, he leaned into the powerhouse business acumen

of his management consultant and ﬁnance colleagues. By targeting people whose strengths buttressed his weaknesses, Braun was able to extend the reach and resources of Pencils of Promise much faster than he could have on his own. Ebeling’s Not Impossible Labs taps anyone—physicians and programmers to hackers and high school students—who might have something to contribute to a solution. “I truly believe that every solution we need already exists,” Ebeling says. “The question is of us being able to see it, and I believe that the world brain is smarter than my brain.” For Chali Calan, partnering with American Marilee Wingert and the Slow Food organization (which promotes healthy, homegrown regional alternatives to fast food) has allowed her to reach a much wider audience and brought opportunities that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise, like opening a U.S. market for the women’s weavings and starting a scholarship fund for children in Guatemala.

Share Stories

Storytelling is an important part of spreading the word and building support. Crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, FundRazr and Indiegogo provide people an easy platform to tell their strum-the-heartstrings stories to—and gain ﬁnancial support from—a vast, connected audience. Stories then go viral on countless Facebook pages, Tumblr accounts, YouTube channels and other platforms. “Before, you’d ﬁnd out about places and people through the encyclopedia,” says Braun. “Now, you can watch videos and Skype with people

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and get daily Twitter updates. There’s a lot more connective tissue to causes now that inspires people to care.” Online giving scratches the itch of people’s desire for instant gratification. If you see a story that moves you, you can instantly click, donate and share. According to data from Blackbaud, a company that develops software for nonprofits, those who use online fundraising tools raise six times more money than those who don’t. Social media is about peers engaging with peers, and when asked what motivated someone to give, 50 percent of people answered, “A friend asked me.” Ebeling, a film and television producer by trade, and his filmmaker wife Caskey use their skills to create short documentaries. “For us, our props are the inventions we make,” he says, “and we’re telling very compelling, personal stories around them.” But the Ebelings don’t just share their own stories, they use their website to invite others to pose challenges and offer solutions—in essence, using social media to advance the crowdsolving model.

Be Patient

As rewarding as it is, changing the world doesn’t happen overnight. “Pencils of Promise was born within the confines of ‘I can do this without having to leave my day job,’” says Braun, who created the organization and built his first school in Laos as part of the Bain Global Development Externship program. “But I only got

“Grandma, Your Breath Stinks!” My grandchildren are my pride and joy. One of the charming things about young children is they’re painfully honest. Months ago, when reading a story to my 4-year-old granddaughter, she looked away and said that my breath was “stinky.” I didn’t think much of it until it happened again the next week – and it wasn’t long after I had brushed my teeth. I’ve always kept up with oral hygiene, so bad breath wasn’t something I worried about. I didn’t notice it myself, but I asked my dentist about it soon after. According to him, bad breath is very common in seniors. Like every other kind of health, our oral health declines with age. One of the major problems is that less saliva is produced as we get older, and a number of medications (another fact of getting older) make that problem much worse. Saliva acts as a natural mouth rinse, clearing away bacteria and food particles. When your mouth is dry, bacteria thrive. Leftover food particles feed bacteria and break down, releasing sulfur as bad breath. On top of this, we’ve got dentures, receding gums, oral problems from diabetes and more. It’s no wonder I had bad breath. I’m surprised my granddaughter didn’t say something sooner. In the past, I’ve used plenty of products that I thought would help with bad breath, but I didn’t understand the real problem – so I never sought the right solution. Most ordinary mouthwashes that claim to kill bacteria and give you fresh breath contain alcohol. They temporarily reduce bacteria, but it’s only about an hour before your breath starts to stink again, whether you realize it or not. Even worse, the alcohol dries out your mouth, actually contributing to bad breath. My dentist suggested an alcohol-free mouth-

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i’m in my 90s, and i sometimes hear music! When i’m not busy, i hear patriotic songs, hymns and more. can you explain? —D.C., Comfort, Texas Seniors who experience this phenomenon often keep it to themselves, afraid they’re losing their minds. They can rest easy. Many older people with hearing loss have nonpsychiatric auditory hallucinations, ranging from simple sounds to symphonies. They’re harmless. author Neil Bauman, who wrote a book about the subject, named the phenomenon “Musical Ear” to get rid of the term “hallucination” with its scary connotations. he suggests that a primary cause is living in an environment that is too quiet, causing the brain to replay sounds from its memory. Imagine: Years from now, people your age may be “hearing” Lady Gaga!

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aby Boomers created such a population bulge demographers dubbed it “the pig in the python.” But if you’re a Boomer—and you are if you were born anywhere from 1946 to 1964—you may be facing a bulge of your own: Statistics show the vast majority of Boomers are overweight or obese. “After the age of 35, our natural hormones—including testosterone, growth hormone and others—begin to decline, and those do play a significant role in our body’s ability to maintain muscle, which accounts for our metabolism,” says Chris Powell, the trainer who’s helped hundreds lose weight on the ABC reality series Extreme Weight Loss. If you’re still eating the same way you used to, says Powell, the calories you no longer need (calorie requirements decrease as you age) add up— “10 calories here, 40 calories there.” Before you know it, you’ve packed on the extra pounds. Want to retire those extra assets, take a load off aching joints and put a spring back in your step? Powell offers this advice:

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