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father was the bank’s branch president. Her grandmother worked at Dairy Queen and sometimes refused to serve Yearwood an afternoon cone because it might spoil her supper. “It taught me a sense of responsibility, because you are raised by the community, not just your parents,” Yearwood says. After his first visit, her country star-husband Garth Brooks fell in love with Monticello’s dogwoodlined streets, restored antebellum Yearwood working out an early composition on the piano (left) and front and center with her parents and older sister, Beth (top right)

homes and quaint development that modernity bypassed. “It didn’t take him long to realize that it’s a special place,” she says. When she moved to Nashville in 1985 to pursue singing, the entire community encouraged her. That pride and support has continued from the release of her first album in 1991 through the recent release of her 12th studio album, PrizeFighter: Hit After Hit, and her current tour with Brooks. “I keep in touch with these people who knew me long before I got a record deal,” she says. In addition to a music career that includes 10 million albums

sold and nine No. 1 hits, she is also building a cooking empire that consists of two bestselling cookbooks, and another, Trisha’s Table: My Feel-Good Favorites for a Balanced Life, coming in April. She won an Emmy in 2013 for her Food Network show, Trisha’s Southern Kitchen, and launched a cookware and cutlery line. After marrying Brooks and moving to Oklahoma in 2005, she began writing the cookbooks, which preserve her family recipes. “I had my shoebox and my sister Beth had her shoebox and Mama had her shoebox. There were things, like the cornbread dressing we do for Thanksgiving, that weren’t written down. My mom always made the dressing and she had gotten the recipe from her mom and it was in her head. So now that she is gone, I am so grateful that we did those books.” Wherever she may reside, Monticello will always be her home. “I didn’t come home from college without Dad saying, ‘You need to go by and say hey to the girls at the bank,’” she says. “So now my dad’s gone and my mom’s gone, but when Beth and I go back to Monticello, we go by and ‘say hey’ to the girls at the bank. They are our family, too.”

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t was easy to spot the childhood home of country singer Trisha Yearwood every Christmas: The front door was always decorated like a big present. But often she’d be somewhere else, spreading her gift of music by caroling on the doorsteps of neighbors. Yearwood fondly remembers Christmases pasts in Monticello, Ga., especially the annual pilgrimages with her late father to chop down—and bring home—a cedar tree. “It was never beautiful, but it always smelled so great,” she says. “We would spend most of the evening in the carport cutting it down. Every year, Mama would say, ‘Jack, now don’t go get a huge tree,’ and he would say, ‘This will fit.’ And it never would.” The Grammy-winning singer of the hits “She’s in Love With the Boy” and “How Do I Live” had an idyllic upbringing in the town of 2,600 about 60 miles south of Atlanta. Yearwood, 50, fondly recalls the simplicity of life centered on school, football games, church and sleepovers. Her mother was a teacher and her

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but no one asked about it. Everyone just accepted him because he was so talented but also so nice and so humble.” Soon, Howard was competing for U.S. national youth teams and at age 15, he made the under-17 World Youth Championship team. One month before high school graduation, Howard played his first pro (minor league) soccer game for the North Jersey Imperials of the ramshackle United Systems of Independent Soccer Leagues (USISL), earning $250 a week. The next year, he joined Major League Soccer’s New York/New Jersey MetroStars, and after three years was named starting goalkeeper in 2001. That’s when he also made the decision to speak out publicly about his TS. “I was more in the public eye, and I knew I was going to have to answer questions,” he says. “I wanted to get it out there so I wouldn’t have to talk about it all the time. Subsequently, it turned into an incredible platform.” It was then that Howard first became involved with the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders Inc. (njcts.org), a pioneering center providing services for people with TS and their families. A decade later, Howard is still dedicated to the organization, which

recently launched the Tim Howard NJCTS Leadership Academy, a three-day program designed to teach kids with TS how to advocate for themselves. “Kids with TS know what their weaknesses are, but we help them learn to concentrate on their strengths,” says Faith Rice, NJCTS executive director.

oward’s big break came when a Manchester United coach spotted him, and in 2003, he moved to England to play for “Man U,” one of the most storied soccer (or “football” as they say in the U.K.) franchises in the world. The dream of playing for the English Premier League, where “footballers” are paid handsomely and treated like rock stars, had its downside. The British tabloids took the low road regarding his TS, referring to Howard as “retarded” and blasting headlines such as “Man U signs American with brain disorder.” The fans could be brutal as well, taunting him with rhymes and daring him to curse. (As Howard explains, most people with TS don’t swear uncontrollably. He says he doesn’t curse unless he means to.) During this time, in which he also struggled on the field, Howard dug deep, calling on his Christian faith long nurtured by his mother and grandmother.

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“My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory,” he says, “to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.” In 2006, Howard moved to Everton, another Premier League club, where he immediately meshed with his coaches, teammates, and especially the fans, who he describes as “rollup-your-sleeve, blue-collar fighters” who remind him of his own family. “For what I do, this is the best job in the world,” says Howard, who recently signed an extension through 2018. “I’ve carved out a niche for myself here.” The downside is that he’s an ocean away from his children, Jacob, 9, and Alivia, 7, who live with their mom, Howard’s exwife, Laura, in Memphis, Tenn. “Tim loves being a father,” says Mulqueen. “When it’s just the three of them—Tim, Jacob and Ali—the whole world stops.” In order to spend more time with his kids, Howard recently announced a one-year sabbatical from Team USA, although he says the 2018 World Cup in Russia is on his radar. “I want to have another crack at it for sure,” he says. And when he does, half the world’s population—including millions of his new fans in the U.S.—will be watching.

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When Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant was named the NBA’s 2013-2014 MVP in May, he elevated the award with an unforgettable, tear-filled tribute to his mother, Wanda Pratt, saying, “You’re the real MVP.”

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The constant movement and anticipation during games provided an unexpected but very welcome benefit: On the field, Howard’s tics vanished. To this day, when strikers fire soccer balls his way, all involuntary movements cease. “I have no idea how I do it,” he says. At school, though, Howard struggled to hide his condition. “He was very worried that he would be made fun of,” says Esther Howard. “He had this incredibly gentle spirit and was so very sweet and kind, my fear was that people might not look beyond the twitches and see what a wonderful person he was inside.” But according to his longtime youth coach and mentor, Tim Mulqueen, Tourette’s was a nonissue with Howard’s teammates. “It never came up,” says Mulqueen, who in 1991, as Rutgers University’s goalkeeping coach, discovered Howard, then age 12, when Esther scraped together $25 for a one-on-one session at a soccer clinic. “You recognized that he had [TS],

most important figures in sports this year, Howard pounced, blocked, leapt and impressively lunged his way to a record-setting 16 saves, the most in a World Cup since 1966. Despite the heartbreaking 2-1 loss, which resulted in the American team’s elimination, an estimated 21.6 million TV viewers in the U.S.—an increase of 44 percent from the 2010 World Cup—watched Howard’s exploits. Many more caught the goings-on via satellite at massive viewing parties around the country, such as Chicago’s Soldier Field event that drew some 28,000 fans. “I grew up in a generation when there was no soccer on TV,” says Howard, 35. “The fact that there were sold-out parks and stadiums and people were watching, it’s really just incredible. It really inspired me.” On Twitter, #ThingsTimHowardCouldSave send-ups included cleverly Photoshopped images of Howard rescuing everything from the sinking Titanic to Kim Kardashian’s ill-fated 72day marriage to Kris Humphries. Fans even briefly hijacked the Wikipedia page of Chuck Hagel, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, swapping Howard’s name and image for Hagel’s. It was a thrilling time, but like most overnight successes, Howard’s moment in the American sports spotlight was a slow build.

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im Howard’s World Cup journey began in North Brunswick, N.J., where his mother, Esther, who worked for a packing container distributor, raised him and his older brother, Chris, in a cramped, one-bedroom apartment.

As Howard describes in his book, North Brunswick was ethnically diverse, so his white Hungarian mother and “black, Woodstock hippie-turned-long-haul truck driver” father was not unusual. (The couple divorced when Howard was 3 years old.) Howard’s father, Matthew, encouraged his sons’ love of sports. But it was Esther who clipped coupons and gathered her boys around the stove during the winter to keep them warm. “My mom broke the mold,” says Howard. “She put my brother and I first, always, and worked

her fingers to the bone trying to provide for us. She taught us right from wrong and gave us very strong morals and values and belief in family, things that have stayed with me.” From the start, Howard despised school, mostly

son to a pediatric neurologist, who diagnosed Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), noted for anxiety-induced conscious intrusive thoughts and compulsions; and Tourette syndrome (TS), a condition causing involuntary tics and muscle spasms that affects 1 in 2,500 people. The bad news? There was really no treatment or cure. The good news, the doctor said, was that some people with these disorders display special gifts, such as the ability to hyperfocus and stick with an activity until it is 100 percent mastered. Like, say, blocking a 28-inch soccer ball rocketing towards him at 70 mph?

Tim Howard’s 16 record-setting saves at the 2014 World Cup fired up American soccer fans.

because he couldn’t sit still. Many little boys feel this way, but for Howard, it was a true physical challenge, which became increasingly difficult as odd behaviors, such as the necessity to touch someone before he spoke to them, became more and more prevalent. When he began manifesting tics such as facial twitching, continually clearing his throat and excessive blinking, Esther took her

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rowing up, Howard played every sport, from street hockey and touch football to T-ball and pick-up basketball. Even though he dreamed of playing college hoops, it was soccer that truly grabbed him. As a kid, he couldn’t put into words why he so connected with the game. But looking back, he knows it was—and is—the artistry, the nonstop action and, when he was guarding the goal, the adrenaline rush of being celebrated as a hero or, when balls got past him, feeling like a goat. “Pressure can be good,” he says. “It helps you to see what you’re all about. I always wanted to gut it out.”

go girl At this summer’s Little League World Series, Philadelphia’s Mo’ne Davis made it beyond cool to throw like a girl when the 13-year-old became the first female to pitch a shutout in the Little League World Series.

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The Divine Miss M, 69, pays tribute to the classic girl groups that have inspired her with her newest album, It’s The Girls. There were so many fabulous songs to pick from. How did you decide what to include? The bulk of it is the ’60s because it was such happy music. You have very fond memories of the music you grow up with. In fact, really, it’s the music you know the best. It’s the time of your life where you have the most time to listen. How true did you stay to the originals? The challenge was to take the songs and not rework them, but blow off the cobwebs, polish them up, and make the sounds shiny and new again. Some of them, we slowed down and turned into ballads, like Waterfalls. The same is true of Come and Get These Memories. I know people who used to sob when they would hear that song. Even though it’s kind of an upbeat tempo, it’s really a sad song and quite bitter. You have described your onstage persona as a brassy, in-your-face girl, but you also said that isn’t you. so who is bette Midler? I’m a businesswoman. I’m a musician. I’m an actor. I’m a wife. I’m a mom. I’m all of the above and being all those things, you don’t really have the time to be brassy or in your face. I lurch from project to project and day to day like everyone does. I’m a little bit shy. And I’m very curious about the world. I love being alive and I love knowing how things work. So I’m always trying to feed my curiosity. What are your favorite christmas songs? I tend to like the novelties like I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth. They always made me smile when I was a kid.

Email your questions for Walter Scott to personality Q: did Matt bomer have any input into what’s @parade.com going to happen to his character on this week’s season finale of White collar?

—Ellen P., Kansas City a: Yes—and it was important to him that the future of his character, Neal Caffrey, not be tied up in a neat little bow, but was left open to interpretation. “I like the old Alfred Hitchcock effect of using people’s imagination instead of spelling everything out for them,” says the actor, 37, who also stars in the new movie Magic Mike 2. “It’s always nice when people can surmise whatever they want from a situation, whether it is happy or sad, good or bad.”

Who is Scott Aukerman’s dream guest for his comedy shows? —Anthony F., Austin

Marisa Tomei

1. Tomei, who turned 50 on Dec. 4, dropped out of Boston University when she landed a role on As the World Turns. 2. She was a real-life roommate with Lisa Bonet, her co-star on A Different World. As a result, she is the godmother of Bonet’s daughter Zoë Kravitz.

a: Aukerman is hardpressed to top President Barack Obama, whom he featured on Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, the funnyordie.com online talk show he produces; as well as Pee Wee Herman, one of his comedy idols, on Comedy Bang! Bang!, which he hosts on IFC. But when pushed, the former standup comedian, 44, says that perhaps he could have some fun with “people who might have faked their deaths, like Elvis or Jim Morrison.”

3. She has dual citizenship—U.S. and Italy—and sometimes travels using her Italian passport. 4. She sports a tattoo of the Egyptian Eye of ra on her right foot. 5. Her Supporting

Actress Oscar for My Cousin Vinny surprised some people in the live audience so much that they thought presenter Jack Palance misread the winner.

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