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attend college and pursue other interests, Chlumsky, 30, jumped back into acting a few years ago and now has a recurring role on USA Network’s White Collar. She also just shot an HBO pilot with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

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The singer, 49, whose run at the Wynn Las Vegas draws sellout crowds, was recently inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

Do you get a thrill playing in Vegas? It’s fantastic. But it’s just me and a guitar onstage. My wife [country star Trisha Yearwood] asks me wh why hy I get so nervous. I say, “Because I don’t on’t know why it works; ks I don’t know why they’re ey’re so sweet to me.”

Are you working on a new album? Not until all the babies bies are out [of the e house]. I’m going to o raise them and the then h n hit it with a vengeance. nce. We’ve got another three or four years.. Do you help with homework? They k kind ind of passed my level a long ong time ago.

You’ve performed d for formerr president George e W. Bush and have met President esident Obama. How do you view today’s political landscape? I don’t feel the country is in a good place. My thing ng is, whether you voted ed for someone or not, t, let’s pull together and be a nation. Have a question for Walter Scott? Visit Parade.com/celebrity or P. Box write Walter Scott at P.O. Stat t ion, 5001, Grand Central Station, 500 001 New York, N.Y. 10163-5001

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Michele, 24, recently added to her body art collection, getting two new tattoos during a trip to New York in July. Some standouts: a gold star, for her Glee character, and a butterﬂy, for her mom. To read more on Michele and her fellow New Directions members, go to Parade.com/glee and check out Glee the 3D Concert Movie, in theaters now.

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arah jessica parker and her husband, Matthew Broderick, are confronting a family dilemma: Their 8-year-old son, James Wilkie, wants to be an actor, and he’s eager to start auditioning. “I don’t want him to do it until after he goes to college,” says Parker, who was 8 herself when she won the starring role in a TV production of The Little Match Girl in her hometown of Cincinnati. Then she adds with a wry smile: “But part of me thinks maybe it’s better if he knows the truth now about how hard it is to be a working actor. I don’t know that he grasps what it took to get us here.” Here, of course, is a very nice place to be. Parker, 46, is next starring in I Don’t Know How She Does It, in theaters Sept. 16, based on the best-selling novel about a harried executive juggling work and family. And she recently tied with Angelina Jolie for the top spot on Forbes’ list of highest-earning actresses, with the magazine estimating that

Parker banked $30 million last year, thanks in large part to her line of fragrances and to reruns of her iconic series, Sex and the City. (“Where do they get these numbers?” she asks, insisting that the ﬁgure is high.) As for the Tony Award–winning Broderick, 49, he has wrapped the film Tower Heist and is slated to star next spring in a new Broadway musical, Nice Work If You Can Get It. Sitting in a Manhattan brownstone, dressed in a black tube top, bell-bottom jeans, and sandals from H&M, Parker comes across not as a highly paid movie star but rather as warm, fun, and eager to have a real conversation. “I didn’t plot a future like this, although I know some people do,” says

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the petite actress, one of eight children of financially strapped parents. “When Matthew and I started working, all we knew is that we wanted to be great actors. I don’t think I ever thought about money or that people would know my name.” Her face electric with enthusiasm, she adds, “I loooove the work!” This is the Sarah Jessica Parker her colleagues have come to know well. “She’s so personable and friendly, a very solicitous kind of person,” says Doug McGrath, the director of I Don’t Know How She Does It, adding that Parker offered real-world suggestions on the set, like “most mothers would hold on to a stroller with both hands.” The actress says she relates to the character she plays in her new film, especially the “coordination on the level of a military operation” required to run both career and family. In addition to James Wilkie, she and Broderick have 2-year-old fraternal twins, Tabitha and Loretta, born via a surrogate. “I think it really causes her anxiety, constantly trying to find equanimity on both fronts,” explains Parker’s older brother Pippin, director of the New School for Drama in Manhattan. “We’ve had two occasions recently where both Matthew and I were working, and it was so hard on the kids,” Parker says. “Especially James Wilkie, because he can really articulate how he feels about our absence. On the other hand, there are big chunks of time when we’re home a lot more than conventionally working parents. So you hope to make up for it.” She and Broderick employ babysitters, but they don’t have live-in help. “We love closing the door continued on page 11

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obsession. “She can put on any kind of was tight. “We were very aware of and having the only people in the shoe—she gets the feet right, figures it,” says Pippin. “We saw the guy house be our three children and us. It’s out the Velcro. Yesterday she had on come to turn off the electricity, and such a good feeling to know that we’re my husband’s shoes, mine, her brothmy mother had to convince him not competent and capable and that it’s er’s, her sister’s, and a babysitter’s.” to because of the children.” As private,” she says. A typical evening at Parker believes that her son is “the Parker says, marveling at her own their Greenwich Village townhouse most like me. He has neuroses that financial transformation, “When I goes like this: “I give the girls their I can see are mine. This need to was a little girl getting free lunches bath every night. Matthew cooks strive for perfection—I have some in Cincinnati, could I imagine being amazing things—last Saturday, pasta control over that because I’m a on a list in Forbes magazine?” amatriciana and broccoli rabe, plus grown-up and have perspective, but By 1978, the family had moved to fennel sausage that he made. He does he’s still really frustrated when he the New York area, in part to accomcomplex things, and I make simple can’t do something spot-on. But modate the acting careers of Parker, things for the children.” Pippin, and another The couple, who marolder brother, Toby. At ried in 1997, have been 11, when Parker was on together almost 20 years. Broadway in The InnoWhen asked how they’ve cents, she had a “eureka changed each other, moment” listening to Parker laughs, ticking off costar Claire Bloom. “It a disparate list of things was the most beautiful Broderick has helped voice I’d ever heard,” she her appreciate: baseball, says. “I thought, ‘I want Parmesan cheese, color to sound like that.’ ” (“Matthew’s mother was Parker went on to win a painter, and he taught FAMILY MATTERS Parker (holding Loretta) and Broderick (holding the title role in Annie on with James Wilkie in a photo taken shortly after the twins were me to love colors and Tabitha) Broadway and later born, in 2009. “My son is crazy in love with his sisters,” the actress says. break all the rules”). She starred on the TV series also says that “he’s given me a little James Wilkie is a lot more bold than Square Pegs and in such films as L.A. cynicism,” noting that she used to take I was. I was not outgoing.” Story and Honeymoon in Vegas. But it the world at face value but that her That self-deprecating comment is was the six-season run of Sex and the husband is more skeptical. “I’m less challenged by her brother. “She City, which premiered in 1998, folPollyanna now. That’s probably always lit up a room,” recalls Pippin. lowed by two films, that turned her healthy.” For her part, Parker has “She entertained the rest of us, singinto a global phenomenon. Any shared her love of ballet, and, she says, ing and telling stories. It’s in her chance of a third movie? “There is,” “I make him [get out and] do things. DNA.” Sarah Jessica was the fourth she replies. “I know what the story is. We go to the theater and we travel child born to Stephen Parker, a It’s a small story, but I think it should because I plan it.” writer turned businessman, and be told. The question is, what’s the The twins, who are in a chatty and Barbara, who taught second grade. right time to tell it?” energetic phase, have upended their When she was a toddler, her parents Parker acknowledges that her childhousehold. “They’re talking, they’re divorced, and her mother married hood left her with money anxieties and running, they need me,” Parker says. Paul Forste, an actor who’s now a that she’s eager to capitalize on her “Loretta is deeply inquisitive: ‘Do you Teamster truck driver. The couple earning power. “I have a lot of responsee that, do you hear that, Mama?’ She had four more children; there’s a 17sibilities outside myself,” she says. “I constantly checks that we are connectyear spread between the oldest and have a large family. I want to know I ing with her.” Her sister is the family youngest of the eight kids. Money can always be helpful. I guess I worry.” princess: “Tabitha does not give; she Pippin confirms her generosity, saying receives.” Perhaps channeling their she helped underwrite the start of his FIND OUT THE UNUSUAL ITEMS SJP LIKES TO SHOP mother’s fashion sense, the girls insist playwriting career and has paid for FOR (THEY’RE NOT CLOTHES!) on wearing multiple hair bows, and some of her siblings’ child care. “She AT PARADE.COM/PARKER continued on page 13 Tabitha has a burgeoning footwear August 21, 2011 • 11

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