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“My number one job is to make sure my kids are happy.”

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Pixar ﬂick Monsters, Inc. (in theaters June 21). “I get so into character that I forget it’s even there.” So has anyone told the star that he looks like the furry blue monster? “Fortunately, that hasn’t happened yet.”

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A: The star of the hit TLC show Cake Boss (Mondays) credits his success not to a mixer or spatula—“90 percent of my decorating relies on a good [pastry] turntable.” Go to parade .com/cakeboss to ﬁnd out Buddy’s favorite model.

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LEANN RIMES The singer, 30, has a new album, Spitfire, out on June 4; it includes performances by Alison Krauss, Jeff Beck, and Rob Thomas.

How did you come up with the name of the album? I felt like I’d had tape over my mouth for a while. Once I ripped it off, emotions came pouring out of me in rapid ﬁre. Were you worried any songs might be too controversial? “Borrowed” was one of the ﬁrst songs I wrote on this album [the song is about Rimes’s extramarital affair with

her now husband, actor Eddie Cibrian, 40]. I was terriﬁed writing it. I was bawling and thinking, “I can’t say this.” My writing partners encouraged me to be honest, and once I wrote it, nothing was off-limits. So, much of your inspiration comes from your own life? Yeah. I used to get mad at the tabloids, but I should be thanking them because they helped me write this whole record. I’m also a horrible friend because I use my pals’ experiences for songs. They’ll call me for advice, and I’ll be like, “Hold on. I need to grab a pen!” What’s your idea of the perfect weekend? Hopping on Eddie’s Harley and riding on the Paciﬁc Coast Highway along the beach with him. It’s the best!

Q: How does Jordin Sparks feel about boyfriend Jason Derulo writing songs about her? —Peggy S., Fairfax, Va. A: “When ‘The Other Side’ comes on, I get this big, cheesy grin on my face. I know he was thinking about me when he wrote it,” says Sparks, 23. The former American Idol winner says Derulo, also 23, inspires her own writing. “We love being able to support each other in what we do.” Q: What’s Buddy Valastro’s favorite kitchen tool? —Regina M., Dover, Del.

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Q: Did Aaron Tveit learn to surf for his role on Graceland? —Tom P., Daytona Beach, Fla. A: “My character is an East Coast guy who hasn’t surfed before. That’s exactly how I am,” says the actor, 29, who wowed ﬁlm audiences as Enjolras in Les Misérables and stars on the USA show (Thursdays). “All the wiping out and face planting you see on TV are my real surf skills!” Aaron Tveit (left)

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PLAYLIST Mariah Carey feat. Miguel “#Beautiful” This slow jam is an ode to sexy summer nights. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis “Can’t Hold Us” Get hyped to this hardand-fast follow-up to the rapper’s breakthrough single “Thrift Shop.” Florida Georgia Line “Cruise (Remix) featuring Nelly” Nelly cranks the party to 11 on this remix of spring’s chart topper. Daft Punk “Get Lucky” Pharrell Williams’s vocals ride the disco groove of these French electronic pioneers. FOR MORE SONGS, GO TO

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Bazooka Joe and His Gang This little book celebrates the cast of cartoon characters that have kept Bazooka chewers chuckling for six decades (the comics will be replaced by brain teasers and activities this year). It’s a sweet treat for your inner kid. Lincoln Unbound Exploring Lincoln’s dedication to the values of hard work, discipline, and self-determination, National Review editor Rich Lowry argues that following the example of the president who led us away from slavery can help us escape our current economic malaise. The World’s Strongest Librarian This memoir has a funny premise—a 6-foot-7 bookworm competes at weight lifting—and often hilarious writing. But author Josh Hanagarne’s daily battle with Tourette’s syndrome is no joke. You’ll be moved by his resilience and his family’s unﬂagging love. (Watch our interview with Hanagarne at parade.com/librarian.)

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Thriller MJ’s epic video set the bar high with creepy effects and landmark choreography. What was groundbreaking: Dancing ghouls.

2002

28 Days Later 9/11 and history’s plagues resonate in this tale of survival in a Britain overrun by zombie-like “infected.” What was groundbreaking: A happy (or at least hopeful) ending.

2004

Shaun of the Dead London slackers are slow to notice zombies in their midst (they mistake one for a drunk). What was groundbreaking: Hilarity.

2010

The Walking Dead Survivors band together amid a zombie takeover. What was groundbreaking: Soapy drama among the principals.

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World War Z Brad Pitt’s UN official fights a zombie pandemic. What’s groundbreaking: Brad + zombies = box office gold?

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anyway. The change would only limit the number of days he or she has access to that one account, so even a weekly change, which would be big effort for you, wouldn’t help much: Hackers can get everything they want from an account in minutes. But if you use the same garden-variety password everywhere, changing often— unless you do something obvious, like adding a character to the end of the old password—will help, but not because it will be harder to

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On the Right Course A HARDSCRABBLE CHILDHOOD HELPED DARIUS RUCKER FIND HIS PASSION FOR MUSIC—AND A DESIRE TO BE THE KIND OF FATHER HE NEVER HAD

It’s a gorgeous spring day at the Vanderbilt Legends golf club outside Nashville, but Darius Rucker’s mood is more like partly cloudy with a chance of thundershowers. “I’m a really good golfer,” he says sarcastically as he jams his putter down into his golf bag. “Just awful.” The former Hootie & the Blowﬁsh singer turned country music star just blew a short putt for birdie, sending the ball skittering past the hole by a good six feet. Though there’s no money involved—he’s just playing for fun—the missed shot irks him. “Golf is the greatest but most maddening sport there is,” he says, rubbing his gray-specked goatee in frustration. A sports fanatic and a pal of Tiger Woods’s, Rucker plays golf nearly every day. When his wife, Beth, asked him what he wanted to do on 8 | JUNE 16, 2013

FINDING HIS GROOVE

A friend’s dad taught Rucker how to play golf when he was 14. Like music, the game became a lifelong passion.

his is a high-ﬁve kind of time in Rucker’s life. With “Wagon Wheel,” his cover of an iconic alt-country anthem first made famous by Nashville band Old Crow Medicine Show, he has his sixth No. 1 song in ﬁve years. And the single, off his new album, True Believers, isn’t just popular in the U.S.: “We’re No. 1 in Canada!” he says, holding up his iPhone to show a text from his manager. A few hours after finishing his round of golf, Rucker arrives at a Nashville club, where he’ll play “Wagon Wheel” four times for a CMA Music Festival special to air on ABC. Then he’ll climb back on his tour bus for the nine-hour trip back to Charleston. He wants to get there in time to cook breakfast for his kids. “It doesn’t get much easier,” he says. “Play one song and then sleep all the way home.” It wasn’t always such a smooth

about his album even before it came out. “We were recording and I went out for a couple of beers, and people would come up to me and say, ‘I was talking to Brad Paisley the other day and he said how great your record is.’ I was like, ‘That’s crazy. Why would Brad Paisley think to talk to somebody about my record?’ ” Rucker, who spent almost two years as an opening act for the country superstar, now calls Paisley his best friend in the industry. “He’s one of the good guys,” Rucker says. “That comes from the way he was raised. I know his mom and dad, and he was raised right.” PARTY OF FIVE Rucker at his Charleston home with daughter Cary

(middle), wife Beth, and their two kids, Jack and Daniela.

ride. Rucker and three friends at the front of the radio memorizing University of Charleston formed lyrics to R&B and rock songs, and Hootie & the Blowfish in 1986, tracks from country stars like Buck and the band enjoyed monstrous Owens. “My oldest brother [would success in the ’90s with three plati- say], ‘Man, why are you listening to num albums (their 1994 release that white boy music?’ ” Rucker Cracked Rear View went platinum recalls. “But my mom would tell 16 times over). But by the early him to leave me alone, to let me 2000s, they found their audience listen to what I wanted to listen to.” tiring of their pop roots–inﬂected Rucker’s wife prodded him to songs. Their shows still drew decent make a country record, something crowds, but the fans only wanted he’d often mentioned as a pie-inthe old hits; any new songs caused the-sky dream. “He had to put hima race to the beer line. Hootie & the self out there to start over, and that’s Blowﬁsh put out their last studio really hard once you’ve already had album in 2005, then in 2008 success,” says Beth, who met Rucker decided to take an extended break. in 1998 while she was working at “I was really at a point where I didn’t VH1 in New York (he chased her know if I could keep doing for a year before she agreed to go [music],” he says. “I’d been out with him). “He’s a great to the mountaintop. It singer and he writes great might have been time to songs. He had to do it.” do something else.” Buoyed by his wife’s But Rucker wasn’t able support, Rucker wrote to give up music, which more than 70 tunes Rucker talks about his love for his had been a fixture in and recorded his kids, comic books, his life since child2008 country debut, and Barry Manilow at parade.com/rucker hood. As a kid, he Learn to Live. would sit for hours in Nashville was abuzz

ucker thinks a lot about the parent who raised him. His mother, Carolyn, a nurse, took care of him and his ﬁve half-siblings with help from Rucker’s grandmother and, at times, her two sisters and their families. At one point, there were 18 people living in a three-bedroom house in Charleston. “We didn’t have a lot, but we had everything we needed,” he says. Rucker’s mother was steadfast in her support of her son’s musical aspirations, even when Rucker dropped out of the University of South Carolina to focus on Hootie. “She said, ‘I hope you go back, but you know, do what you gotta do,’ ” says Rucker. “If I hadn’t had that, I don’t think I would be here right now.” (She died in 1992.) What was missing in his life was his father. Rucker says he would go long periods—often days, sometimes months—without seeing him. His mother was the one who went to all of Rucker’s football games, choir concerts, and early gigs. Rucker says he never asked his mother where Dad was because he knew his father would just show up

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his 47th birthday last month, the answer was easy: play 36 holes at his hometown club in Charleston, S.C. (To help him work out postround kinks, she had a massage therapist waiting at home.) On Saturdays, he plays a shorter game with daughter Daniela, 12, and son, Jack, 8 (Rucker’s 18-year-old daughter, Cary, lives with her mother in Baltimore but visits often). “We usually only play nine because that’s all Dani wants to do,” he says, laughing. “And Jack just hacks around.” Talking about his kids elevates Rucker’s game. He starts nailing shot after shot with lethal accuracy. When one of his playing partners nearly drains a hole-in-one at the 175-yard par-3 ﬁfth hole, it’s game on. “Yes!” Rucker bellows, slapping him a high-ﬁve. “Now we’re playing some good golf!”

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By Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber

“What I Hope You’ll Remember” A dying father tries to explain a timeless truth to his sons: They’ll likely understand him better when they’re older

All Together Lt. Col. Weber and his wife, Kristin, with their three sons at a celebration in honor of the U.S. Army’s 237th birthday last summer.

fter a routine physical revealed that Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber had stage IV cancer, the 41-year-old dad began writing a letter to his boys, Matthew, Noah, and Joshua. That letter became a book called Tell My Sons, ﬁlled with the advice he wouldn’t be able to share in person. In this excerpt, Weber recounts what he learned from his own dad. How my brothers and I didn’t end up murdered by our father is

beyond me. All indications are that we deserved it. I once heard him yell that we owed him at least $15,000 for all the doors, vehicle interiors, furnishings, and tools we had destroyed. When I was 8 or 9, something snapped in him that showed us he was done with words. He cut off a piece of one of our hockey sticks and carved it into the instrument we knew forever after as “the Stick.” I can’t recall how many times we actually “got the Stick,” but just the idea of it was breathtaking.

“I love you” was not something my dad said, nor something I would have believed if he had. He spent most of his time working on his race car, ﬁshing or hunting, or playing softball. He wasn’t an absent father; he was just always busy. We were welcome to tag along if we wanted, but there were no fond entreaties from him. And if we went along, we’d better bring lunch and a roll of toilet paper, because it was going to be a marathon. When I think about my own mixed emotions and imperfect memories of my dad, I do wonder what you all will remember about me. This is a timeless consideration that is best illustrated by a quote attributed to Mark Twain: “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” I won’t be here when you turn 21. That’s the age when I was only starting to grasp the virtue in my dad’s words and actions. As an adult, I watched him build his own home after he retired from construction. Despite a body worn hard by dozens of Minnesota winters, he went right back to working 10hour days, for himself. Helping him with that house provided a hundred clues about a simple wisdom I was blind to in my youth.

He heats his home with wood, and cuts and splits every piece of oak that goes into that furnace. When the fishing is good in late winter, he uses a ladder to cross open water to reach the receding ice. He’s a perfectionist, and his sense of pride is often too much for his ego to handle, but when he takes on a task, you can bet it will be done exceptionally well. When I hear people call him crazy for ignoring a warning about what can’t or shouldn’t be done, I can only nod and smile, because I’ve heard those same words as a soldier, a husband and father, and a cancer patient. Our man-to-man experiences helped me temper my immature memories of him. His “madness” was actually about taking calculated risks, often choosing a path of difficulty and challenge over comfort, being literally and figuratively willing to walk on thin ice and relying on actions over words to get things done. I know your memories of me may be dominated by visions of the same hard hand my dad held over me, and naturally I want you to see virtue in my madness. I can only hope my stories about his actions will help you see the wisdom (and feel the love) in mine. From the book Tell My Sons by Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber. Copyright © 2013 by Mark Weber. Reprinted by arrangement with Ballantine Books, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

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when he felt like it. Wondering was wasted energy. “He was just living his life, I guess,” says Rucker. That life included a 15-year gap in which he didn’t see his son at all, Rucker adds, until one night in 1994 when he showed up backstage before a Hootie concert. Rucker and bandmate Dean Felber were eating dinner, and Rucker’s father just pulled up a chair. “I go, ‘Hey, how you doing?’ And he’s just, ‘Hey, how you doing?’ ” Rucker recalls. “I said, ‘Well, Dean, this is my dad.’ Dean looked at him and said, ‘I never thought I’d meet you.’ ” Rucker eventually found peace with his father’s absence: “I’m not mad at him or anything. I thank him for teaching me what not to do because now I just want to be with my kids all of the time.” Indeed, whereas Rucker never knew when his dad would drop in, he is “crazy” about staying in touch with his family. He talks to his oldest daughter every day, and texts constantly with all three kids, chiming in with a simple “What’s going on?” At home, he plays basketball and football with Jack, or watches movies with Dani. “We just ﬁnished all of The Lord of the Rings,” he says. “She cried ﬁve times during the last one.” Rucker says he’s “always trying to be there” for his kids. “I hope they always know they can ask, ‘Dad, do you want to ... ?’ And that my answer is ‘Yes.’ You know: ‘Dad, do you want to go to a movie?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Dad, do you want to play football?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Dad, do you … ?’ YES.’ ”

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