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The two-time Dancing with the Stars champ, 26, who turned her wins into acting roles in movies including Footloose, Safe Haven and Rock of Ages, returns on March 16 to the ABC show that made her a star. Why come back to DWTS as a judge instead of a dancer? “Being a dancer is a big commitment and it didn’t allow me time to focus on other aspects of my career. Being a judge is a great way to be a part of the show, but still have time for my other dreams and aspirations.” Are you going to be OK stirring up controversy if you think you’re right, but others disagree with your opinion? “Whatever I say comes from a place of love. So I hope that if there is controversy, everyone knows it’s coming from a good place.” You’re going to be playing Sandy on FOX’s live Grease musical later this year. Is it true that the original movie made you want to be an entertainer? “It absolutely is. I grew up in a Mormon household and the movie was rated PG-13, so I wasn’t allowed to watch it. But every time my parents were out of the house, I would sneak in and watch it, and my siblings and I would do the dances. I would pretend I was Email your Sandy.”

What’s next for actor Ed Burns? I haven’t seen him in anything for a while. —Ava M., Cincinnati

A: Burns, 47, who wrote, directed and starred in the hit indie films The Brothers McMullen and She’s the One, has been busy penning his new memoir, Independent Ed (Gotham, 2015), which describes the highs and lows of his career. “I thought it might be a good time to look back and share with young filmmakers all the mistakes I’ve made,” he says. In June, he’s back in action with Public Morals, a gritty crime-drama series he’s writing, directing and starring in for TNT.

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Q: My daughter and I saw Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast. I’m curious if Ginnifer Goodwin enjoyed providing the voice of Tink’s friend, Fawn. —Debbi G., Lexington, Ky. A: She did! Goodwin, 36, who also plays Snow White on ABC’s Sunday night series Once Upon a Time, likes that Disney’s Tinker Bell series, which began in 2008, teaches morals to kids “in a way that isn’t preachy.” Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast is now available on Blu-ray and DVD.

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This spring marks the 75th anniversary of the famous cat-and-mouse cartoon twosome Tom and Jerry.

We asked celebrities about favorite cartoon TV characters from their childhoods.

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Edited by Erin Hill It’ll be party, party, party on the high seas this spring as Carnival Cruise Line launches its latest live concert series. Classic rock band Journey kicks off the performances March 18-19 in St. Thomas. Later in the season, Smokey Robinson, Styx, Little Big Town and Rascal Flatts (above) will each perform multiple port-of-call shows.

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No one has ever walked the entire length of the River Nile—seven million steps—until now. Walking the Nile, which premieres March 18 on Animal Planet, follows British explorer Levison Wood’s expedition as the ﬁrst person to walk the length of the world’s longest river. His nine-month journey takes him into six countries, through jungles, deserts and even war zones. “I also encountered crocodiles, elephants, buffalos and snakes,” he says. “I found a scorpion in my shirt.”

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Sean Penn stars in The Gunman, out March 20, joining the ranks of many other memorable Hollywood “gunmen.” 1964 - Clint Eastwood stars in the first of his three iconic “Spaghetti Westerns,” A Fistful of Dollars. 1976 - In his final film, The Shootist, John Wayne played a legendary aging gunfighter. 1982 - Sylvester Stallone was the one-man-army Rambo in First Blood. 1992 - A bank heist goes horribly wrong for the hoods (including Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen) of Reservoir Dogs. 2009 - Johnny Depp fought the law as gangster John Dillinger in Public Enemies. MARCH 15, 2015 | 5

Johnny Cash was still writing love letters to wife June late in life.

Einstein later said he regretted sending the letter that inspired FDR’s Manhattan Project.

At age 23, future Pulitzer Prize winner Eudora Welty wrote to The New Yorker declaring, “How I would like to work for you!” (She didn’t get the job).

curated more than 125 such missives, including 14-year-old Fidel Castro’s letter to President Roosevelt requesting $10 and Groucho Marx’s advice to Woody Allen. But you don’t need to be famous to write or receive something profound. Consider Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda. The two met through a pen pal exchange in 1997 when Alifirenka, then 12 and living in Hatfield, Pa., wrote to a 14-year-old Ganda, who was living in one of Zimbabwe’s worst slums. Despite wildly different upbringings, the two became best friends through letters. Their upcoming book, I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives (Little Brown, 2015), chronicles their six-year correspondence. “I’d race to the mailbox every day after school in anticipation of receiving a letter,” Alifirenka, now 30, says. “I loved the feel of the paper, the colorful stamps and the way he dotted his i’s with o’s as much as all the stories he shared. His letters felt more like gifts.” Ganda, now 32, says Alifirenka’s letters were his “lifeline.” “By sharing her life with me, she inspired me to think of a life beyond Zimbabwe,” he says. That included urging Ganda, a stellar student, to apply to American colleges. “Following Caitlin’s very first note, I’d say my full scholarship acceptance letter to Villanova University was the second most important letter of my life,” says Ganda, who went on to finish his MBA at Duke last year.

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h, the power of letters. They’ve fueled love affairs and severed friendships, ignited wars and settled them. They can convey the most profound thanks, apology or regret. Sometimes, they contain world-altering ideas, such as Albert Einstein’s 1939 letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to start a nuclear program. (Einstein’s warning that the Germans might develop atomic bombs led to Roosevelt’s bomb-building Manhattan Project.) Whatever their content, it’s not just the words that give letters their power—it’s the emotional connections. Whether saved, framed or filed, they’re tangible proof of relationships. Each time they’re read, they transport us back to our feelings about a specific time, place, person or event. This may be the reason hand-written—or hand-typed—communiqués are making a comeback, at least in popular culture. Take Danny Collins, a movie debuting March 20, starring Al Pacino as an aging rocker who receives a posthumous letter from his idol John Lennon. That note reconnects Collins with his character’s younger, more idealistic self. (See “Al Pacino: A Man of Words—and Letters,” page 8. ) “Letters have that kind of power,” says Shaun Usher, editor of Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving a Wider Audience (Chronicle, 2014), who

A Search for Connection The power of letters—to befriend, love and support others—is why Atlanta-based Hannah Brencher,

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Bening, Bobby Cannavale and Jennifer Garner, seems like a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, but it’s not: The screenplay was based on the true tale of an encouraging letter Lennon actually did write to a British folk singer, Steve Tilston, back in 1971. Tilston, unaware of the letter, didn’t receive it until a collector found it and presented it to him years later, in 2005. Pacino also received letters of support from famous fans early in his career, when he was on stage in New York and then

starring in soon-to-be-classic ﬁlms, including The Godfather and Dog Day Afternoon. Who were the letters from? He won’t

say. But he believes that what a person does with that encouragement is what counts. “Sometimes we do things in life that we don’t realize [make us] turn profound corners,” he says. Pacino now has entered a phase of his career where he’s more into satisfying his artistic curiosity than making big splashes. He played “suicide doctor” Jack Kevorkian and infamous producer Phil Spector in HBO movies that won several awards; he’s scheduled to perform on Broadway this October in China Doll, a new play by David Mamet; he starred in two 2014 independent ﬁlms, Manglehorn and The Humbling; and he’s visiting ﬁlm festivals promoting Salomé, a movie he

directed and stars in based on Oscar Wilde’s play about the Biblical story. His work takes him back and forth between ﬁlm and theater, and his life takes him from coast to coast. Keeping up with his children (14-year-old twins Anton and Olivia, with whom he shares custody with actress Beverly D’Angelo, and 25-yearold Julie) requires both commuting and communicating with a 21st-century method that this man of words has found he now prefers to letters, something that has morphed his love of lengthy sentences and long, ﬂowing responses into something much shorter and snappier. “I like texting,” he admits. “You can’t really write a long text.” —Joel Keller

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an letters. You’d expect acting legend Al Pacino to receive them—but to send one? That’s just what he did in 1963 when he saw Christopher Plummer on Broadway in the play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. “He’s one of the greatest actors ever, and an inspiration,” says Pacino, 74, who remembers handing his note to a theater doorman to give to Plummer. “I don’t know if he got it. I was a kid. He wouldn’t have known how to get back to me.” A fan letter also plays a starring role in Pacino’s new movie, Danny Collins, in which he plays a oncesuperstar singer-songwriter whose middleaged life is changed when he receives a long-lost missive from the past, written to him decades before with words of praise and encouragement from Beatle John Lennon. The letter is given to Collins by his manager, who is played—with no small degree of showbiz coincidence—by Christopher Plummer. The plot of the movie, which opens in limited release March 20 and also features Annette

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started leaving notes everywhere, in bathroom stalls, tucked into coat pockets, on park benches and at bars. This led to a blog post offering letters to anyone interested. The next morning, she had 400 requests. Her website, launched in 2012, is the result, as is her new memoir, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers (Howard, 2015).

30 Rejection letters Stephen King received for his first novel, Carrie (legend has it that King nailed the letters to a timber under his bed)

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Put the date above your return address? In the old days, Emily Post, famous for writing about etiquette, would have been aghast! When it comes to writing letters today, some of the old rules still stand but new situations dictate new guidelines. Here are a few tips from emilypost.com: Always RSVP: Follow the invitation format. Reply to written invites with letters, respond via email to emails, for example. Address and date: If your stationery does not include a printed address, include yours in the upper right-hand corner of the page, with the date just below. Be kind: It’s never in style to complain, disparage others, gossip or vent.

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on the page,” she says. “9/11 made us all consider our mortality—I certainly realized that nothing mattered more than my family.

During WWII, John F. Kennedy’s boat was rammed by a Japanese destroyer and stranded in the Solomon Islands. JFK wrote a note on a coconut shell, which led to his rescue.

“I’m not sure when I will present them—but I hope that when I do, they will be meaningful.” Diana Welch, now 38, has only the haziest memories of her own parents, both of whom she lost by the time she was 8 years old. The youngest of four, Welch’s oldest sister Amanda raised her—and presented her with a priceless high school graduation gift. “It was a book of letters and photos from all the people who knew my parents well,” Welch says. “I still have it today—though it’s dog-eared and faded. Opening that book, even now, immediately reunites me with two people who left so long ago.” That’s no surprise, says Hannah Brencher, whose blog sends bundles of love letters to those in need: “We are in desperate need for tactile proof that we matter— letters give us that.” Award-winning journalist Liz Welch is the co-author of I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives. march 15, 2015 | 11

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