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In a candid interview, Al Roker opens up about his longtime battle with emotional eating, his weight-loss ups and downs, and how he ﬁnally left crash diets (and extra pounds) behind

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Q: When was the ﬁrst Times Square ball drop? Q: Was Q: Was Anne Hathaway nervous nervou about having to to sing sing live while ﬁlming ing Les Le Misérables? —Marcus V., Hanford, Calif. —Marc

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fear a and anxiety from the p process as much as p possible,” says the actr actress, who plays trag tragic heroine Fantine in th the ﬁlm. (Director To Tom Hooper had th the cast record th their vocals live on camera d during their scenes instead of lip-synching to a recording.) “I was aware that if I had to cry take after take, it would affect my sinuses, which are integral to singing,” adds Hathaway, 30. “So I practiced singing while crying a few months before we started ﬁlming just to get used to it.”

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The actor, 75, makes his film-directing debut with Quartet (in theaters Jan. 11), a dramedy set in a home for aging opera singers and musicians. Why was now the right time for you to direct? I wanted to direct for years and years, and it’s my own private nuttiness that stopped me from doing it. But I wanted to tell this story. It’s about a retirement home for people who refuse to retire. I understand what it’s like to be someone who is no longer at their peak but still loves what they do. There’s a lot of beautiful music in the ﬁlm. Do you have a musical background? Yes; I always wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I didn’t have the talent. If God were to bend down and whisper in my ear, “You could be a decent jazz pianist, but you can’t act or direct anymore,” I’d take it in a heartbeat!

which attracts an estimated 1 million people to New York City’s Times Square each year, dates back to 1907. There have been seven versions of the ball, which was originally made of iron and wood, weighed 700 pounds, and was covered with 100 25-watt lightbulbs. Today’s model (below) features 32,256 LED lights and 2,688 crystals and tips the scale at 11,875 pounds. See photos of the ball through the ages at Parade.com/newyear.

Are you making any New Year’s resolutions? I want to learn a new language, even though I barely know English, and I want to read the books that have been sitting on my shelves for years. But the main thing is that I want to learn more about myself. I think we spend a lifetime trying to ﬁnd out who we are. Send questions to personality@parade.com or P.O. Box 5001, Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163-5001.

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Q: Besides newlyweds Ashley Hebert and J. P. Rosenbaum, are any other Bachelor couples actually married? —Liz Kane, Medina, Ohio

A: After 10 years of matchmaking, only three out of 24 Bachelor and Bachelorette couples have tied the knot. Joining the Rosenbaums in wedded bliss are Jason and Molly Mesnick from season 13 of The Bachelor and Trista and

Ryan Sutter from the ﬁrst Q: New Year’s Eve won’t be the same without Dick season of The Bachelorette. Clark. Are there plans to “It was true love no matter what people say,” says Trista, 40, who married Ryan in 2003; the couple now live in Colorado with their two children. Starting Jan. 8, Trista will blog about the new season of ABC’s The Bachelor at Parade Dick Clark in 1978 .com/bachelor.

honor him? —Lori M., Atlanta A: Yes; a two-hour tribute full of clips and reminiscences, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Celebrates Dick Clark, will air Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Clark, who died in April, began the annual broadcast in 1972 and turned over the main hosting duties to Ryan Seacrest in 2005. “It’s hard to imagine New Year’s Eve in Times Square without Dick,” says Seacrest, 38. “We plan to celebrate his life and legacy in special ways, but we’ve also made sure this

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DESPICABLE ME 2 The minions are back! As are Gru, the girls, and a host of new characters (including one voiced by none other than Al Pacino) in this sequel to the blockbuster ’toon. (July 3)

MALCOLM GLADWELL’S DAVID AND GOLIATH The always-buzzy author of The Tipping Point examines the interplay between underdogs and the power brokers they confront with such a surprising degree of success. (Oct.)

MAEVE BINCHY’S FINAL NOVEL The beloved Irish writer, who died in July, left behind a last gift for her fans: A Week in Winter, about a group of people at a newly opened country hotel. (Feb. 14)

WORLD WAR Z Brad Pitt stars in the ﬁlm adaptation of Max Brooks’s cult novel about a zombie apocalypse. These dead aren’t walking, though—they’re swarming. (June 21)

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Benedict Cumberbatch (above left, with Chris Pine as Kirk) beams aboard J. J. Abrams’s sequel to his wildly successful 2009 reboot. (May 17)

THE CROSSWORD PUZZLE TURNS 100 Arthur Wynne created the ﬁrst crossword, which ran in the New York World on Dec. 21, 1913. To celebrate, we plan to raise a glass full of a four-letter word for a vineyard beverage.

MONSTERS UNIVERSITY This prequel explores the adventures of Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) when they were students who couldn’t stand each other. (June 21)

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JOHNNY CASH MUSEUM Nashville will soon be home to a large collection of artifacts and memorabilia celebrating the Man in Black, including handwritten lyrics for one of the last songs he penned, “My Lord Has Gone.” (ﬁrst quarter)

A REVAMPED AMERICAN IDOL With Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, and Keith Urban joining the judges’ table, and the promise of some welldocumented tension (if not outright catﬁghts), Idol looks to be especially lively this season. (Jan. 16)

BEYONCÉ ROCKS THE SUPER BOWL Queen Bey is a stellar reason to stay glued to the tube during halftime. (Feb. 3)

MAD MEN RETURNS The world knows (via photo leaks) that Don and Megan visit Hawaii at some point in season six. Beyond that, it’s anybody’s guess what will happen next in what is arguably TV’s most closely watched drama. (March or April)

STEPHEN KING’S JOYLAND The master delivers a paperback original set in a carny. We’d follow him anywhere. (June)

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A MEMOIR FROM SONIA SOTOMAYOR In My Beloved World, the Supreme Court justice candidly and intimately recounts her journey from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench. (Jan. 15)

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“My kids don’t know me as the fat guy,” says Roker, photographed with his tailor, Tullio Giannitti, at Richards department store in Greenwich, Conn., on Nov. 30.

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LOST 135 POUNDS AND GAINED FAITH IN HIMSELF In a new book, Roker opens up about his lifetime struggle with weight and how he ﬁnally broke the yo-yo cycle—for good

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t’s 9:45 a.m. and Al Roker bounds up the stairs from the Today show studio at Rockefeller Center to his second-floor office. His energy is striking, considering that the short climb once left him winded. Over the past decade, viewers have watched the 5-foot-8, 58-year-old Roker transform himself: After tipping the scales at 340 pounds, he underwent bariatric surgery in 2002 and within eight months had dropped 100 pounds. Then, five years ago, a family crisis plunged him back into his old eating habits, and he regained much of the weight. But, as Roker describes in his new memoir, Never Goin’ Back: Winning the Weight-Loss Battle for Good (out tomorrow), he has ended the yo-yo cycle at last by revamping his entire way of life and has trimmed down to 205 pounds. Winning that battle has not been easy. Roker, an avowed foodie, has wrestled with his weight since childhood. Still, he was laid-back about his size until age 15, when Bill Cosby’s “Fat Albert” character appeared on TV. “It was the embodiment of me: a fat black guy who is the center of attention and the butt of jokes.” The mortification launched him into a “vicious cycle” of emotional binge eating, followed by

bouts of self-loathing. “[I’d eat, then] I’d get into a funk, so I’d eat more,” he says. No longer. Four years after embracing a healthy lifestyle, Roker is confident he has found a sustainable routine, which he shares in his new book, along with funny, brutally honest stories of his sometimes difficult journey. PARADE spoke to Roker about how he’s finally transformed his body—and his state of mind. PARADE: Your mother cooked for a growing family on your father’s salary as a bus driver. What were your meals like when you were a kid? ROKER: All middle-income families use carbs

to stretch meals, across any ethnic group— whether it’s kugel or rice and beans or macaroni and cheese. I remember having pancakes for dinner. But as kids, we thought, “Breakfast for dinner? This is great.” In the book, you talk about your love of food, especially the comfort foods your mother made for you—grilled cheese sandwiches, vanilla layer cakes. Do you still eat those things?

On occasion I will. My old modus operandi was, if you’re going to have a grilled cheese

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and bacon sandwich, don’t have one, have two. If you’re going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box. Now it’s two or three. You learn the secret of most normal-weight people, which is I’m full. From the outside looking in, what people see is a successful guy with a wonderful family. So why the need to binge?

I’ve thought about that a lot. Despite having a loving wife [ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts], three terriﬁc children, and a great career, there were times when I perhaps didn’t feel that I was good enough. If I was having a bad day, eating was like selfmedicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly. Chris Christie has talked about that.

Chris Christie did an amazing job during Hurricane Sandy, and everybody talks about him as presidential material. But in the same sentence, they say, “But he’s going to have to lose weight,” because the general feeling is that if you’re overweight, you’re out of control. Although during Hurricane Sandy, you couldn’t have seen anybody who was more in control than Chris Christie. Why do you think being overweight still carries such a stigma?

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obese—it’s the last acceptable group to make fun of. Throughout media, the heavy guy is the funny guy, the easy laugh ... [and] when you’re overweight, you see that as your role.

pregnant with our son Nicky. I said, “Okay, I’m going to have to do something.” After the surgery, you lost 100 pounds. Then ﬁ ve years ago, some of the weight came back on. What happened?

You write in the book that “food became the third person” in your marriage to Deborah. How so?

So you got into secret eating?

Because you’re fat, you feel that everybody’s watching every bite you take. So, you closeteat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then you’re not eating. You know, if you’re eating a Big Mac in a closed car, can anybody hear you nosh? If I ate only what people saw me eat, I would’ve probably been about 170 pounds. In 2002, you went through bariatric surgery.

BREAKING OUT OF THE “FRIEND ZONE”

Roker on how he wooed his wife, Deborah Roberts—with food About a year after I met Deborah, I was single, and she was, too, so I thought I’d try to woo her. It was time to go big or go home. Great idea, except we were in what I call the “friend zone.” I was smitten with Deborah, but she viewed me as her buddy, her pal. If you have ever been in this situation, you know that it’s probably easier to break out of Alcatraz than to get out of the friend zone. Of course, Deborah said that she didn’t want to “ruin the friendship.” My real fear was that she wasn’t interested in me because I was heavy—that was my usual fallback excuse whenever I didn’t get the girl. As luck would have it, Deborah was being sent on an out-of-town assignment and asked if I would mind

My mom got really sick, and unlike my dad, who was gone before we knew it, her illness dragged on for months. I was out of my routine, commuting [to Long Island] to see her, and AL’S TRANSFORMATION Roker in 2000, two years before his bariatric feeling guilty—either that I surgery (left), and with his wife, Deborah Roberts, in 2012. wasn’t spending enough time Why did you decide to have that procedure? with the kids and Deborah, or that I wasn’t After my father was diagnosed with lung being there enough with my mom. It was cancer in 2001, he was at Memorial Sloanthis perfect storm, and I consoled myself Kettering, and I would go in every day. We’d with food. I got blindsided and, I think, to talk and joke, and then one day he got serious a certain extent, I got cocky. It’s like an alcoand said, “Look, we both know I’m not going holic who’s been sober for 10 years and has a to be here to help you with my grandkids, so drink and says, “Ah, but I can handle it. Just you gotta promise you’re going to lose weight.” one or two, I’ll be okay.” But no, you won’t. Seven days later he was gone. A few weeks [He had regained 40 pounds by the time his afterward, [Deborah and I] found out we were mother died.]

looking after her apartment while she was gone—you know, water her plants, grab the mail. I was happy she asked and more than happy to say yes. This would give me a chance to do a little reconnaissance on her lair and gather some intel. Now, most guys given this kind of access to a beautiful woman’s apartment might have rummaged through her bedroom, looking for lingerie or other personal items. Not me. I rummaged through her kitchen. I opened up her refrigerator and found the three main staples of every single woman in New York. A bottle of champagne. A jar of mustard. A slab of half-moldy cheese. Next, I opened her cabinets, and there was nothing but a stack of carry-out menus and some stale crackers. I opened the oven and there was still cardboard on the racks. What? It had never been used!

I was utterly amazed. Living like this was so foreign to me! My life was centered around food. I could never live with no food in my apartment— not even in New York, where you can get everything delivered in 30 minutes or less. I loved the idea of having a fresh start in someone else’s kitchen, especially a woman whose attention I was trying to get. I stocked her refrigerator and shelves with everything I thought she should have. I bought her milk, orange juice, cheese, eggs, butter, coffee, oatmeal, sausage, bread, cold cuts, fresh Listen to Al read an excerpt from Never Goin’ Back at Parade .com/roker

vegetables—and last, but certainly not least, I put some Häagen-Dazs in her freezer. I stocked her pantry with pasta, tomato sauce, beans, rice, and basic spices. I even left fresh flowers on the table so she’d come back to an apartment that felt more like “home.” Okay, I’ll admit, it was definitely a “move.” And she fell for it hook, line, and sinker. She took me out to dinner a few days later, and we’ve been together ever since. Cue the sirens, the floodlights. Release the bloodhounds and the guards. We have an escape from the friend zone! Somehow, Deborah was able to get past my appearance and see me for the man I was beneath that thick outer layer. She saw me for myself and not as the heavy, jolly weatherman everyone else saw. From Never Goin’ Back: Winning the Weight-Loss Battle for Good (Dec. 31, New American Library)

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It was this cloud hanging over us. Deborah is very healthy, exercises, eats well. For all the right reasons, she wants her significant other to be in terrific shape, too, and I was thwarting her at every move. She was frustrated. [For her part, Roberts says the big challenge was “keeping my mouth shut. … You don’t know what to do. You love this person. I felt it was a reflection on me that I couldn’t help.”]

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After the e psychollogical up, down, up p, down, how did you make thiis latest push to lose the weig ght again? ?

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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends nursing infants for at least the ﬁrst year. How long do other mammals nurse? —Christine Rueger, Germantown, Tenn.

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Tell your health care provider if you have any of the following problems because these may be signs of an allergic reaction: 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊difﬁculty breathing 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊wheezing (bronchospasm) 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊hives 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊rash Tell your health care provider if you have: 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊swollen glands (neck, armpit, or groin) 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊joint pain 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊unusual tiredness, weakness, or confusion 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊chills 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊generally feeling unwell 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊leg pain 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊shortness of breath 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊chest pain 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊aching muscles 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊muscle weakness 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊seizure 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊bad stomach ache 𰃊𰁕𰃊𰃊bleeding or bruising more easily than normal 𰁕 skin infection

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How is GARDASIL given? GARDASIL is a shot that is usually given in the arm muscle. You will need 3 shots given on the following schedule: 𰃊𰁕𰃊 D 𰃊 ose 1: at a date you and your health care provider choose. 𰃊𰁕𰃊 D 𰃊 ose 2: 2 months after Dose 1. 𰃊𰁕𰃊 D 𰃊 ose 3: 6 months after Dose 1.

For a more complete list of side effects, ask your health care provider. What are the ingredients in GARDASIL? The ingredients are proteins of HPV Types 6, 11, 16, and 18, amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate, yeast protein, sodium chloride, L-histidine, polysorbate 80, sodium borate, and water for injection.

Fainting can happen after getting GARDASIL. Sometimes people who faint can fall and hurt themselves. For this reason, your health care provider may ask you to sit or lie down for 15 minutes after you get GARDASIL. Some people who faint might shake or become stiff. This may require evaluation or treatment by your health care provider.

This leaflet is a summary of information about GARDASIL. If you would like more information, please talk to your health care provider or visit www.gardasil.com.

Manufactured and Distributed by: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, USA

Make sure that you get all 3 doses on time so that you get the best protection. If you miss a dose, talk to your health care provider.

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It was a year we weren’t even supposed to live through, according to the Maya. But instead of stopping, it just kept going. A top general stepped down, Occupy Sandy volunteers stepped up, and a robot stepped on the surface of Mars. Think you know everything about the year that was? To quote 2012’s biggest winner, “Please proceed, Governor.” (Answers are at the end—no peeking!) BY HILARY STERNE

This year scientists discovered evidence of the Higgs boson particle, or “God particle.” What analogy did they use to describe how it operates?

In his victory speech after winning his bid for a second term, what did Barack Obama tell his daughters they could not have?

( A ) Facebook accounts

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2. What famous person who died this past year once said: “I look as young as a person can look given how old I am”?

Nora Ephron

Phyllis Diller

Helen Gurley Brown

Larry Hagman

For many celebs, 2012 was the year of the comeback. See if you can name these newly burnished stars who were launched back into the limelight.

(A)

Eleven years after putting out its last album, this L.A.-based band has pushed and shoved its way back onto the charts with a new ska-inﬂuenced offering.

(B)

Once Hollywood’s highest-paid actor, this comedian had taken a ﬁve-year hiatus from ﬁlms before signing on to play a mental patient in director David O. Russell’s latest.

(C)

After recovering from a devastating neck injury, this NFL player responded with one of the best seasons of his Hall of Fame career.

(D)

She was sidelined by injury and illness for 49 weeks, but this tennis phenom went on to prove she’s not through yet, achieving a feat only one other woman has equaled.

(E)

You like her, you really, really like her all over again, and in more than just TV drug ads. Critics and fans alike are fawning over this Golden Globe nominee’s work in the year’s biggest biopic.

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5. If you can’t say something nice, tell the world—or your million Twitter followers. Match each trashtalker with his or her insult; bonus points if you can also name the tauntee.

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Which British performer did not appear at the closing ceremonies for the 2012 London Olym Olympics? l mpic p s?

David Bowie

Freddie Mercury

Annie Lennox

George Michael

7. Which of these wacky news stories made real headlines in 2012? ( A ) Woman’s divorce ﬁling cites Fifty Shades of Grey. ( B ) Police arrest several women in Emporia, Kan., for trying to break into a closed Hostess facility and steal boxes of Twinkies. ( C ) California passes legislation to allow “driverless cars” to operate on state roads.

Answers:

1. (b). 2. (a). 3. (b). 4. (a) No Doubt; (b) Chris Tucker; (c) Peyton Manning; (d) Serena Williams; (e) Sally Field. 5. 1-(c), about Joe Biden following his vice presidential debate performance; 2-(a), to Madonna about her Super Bowl gig last February; 3-(e), about Donald Trump and his association with Republican presidential nominees; 4-(f), to fellow Real Housewife of New York City Aviva Drescher; 5-(d), about the NFL, regarding its decision to hire replacement refs during a labor dispute with the real ones; 6-(b), about Mitt Romney and his ﬂip-ﬂopping on the issues. 6. (a); though dead, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury made a digital appearance. 7. (a) and (c) both really happened this year.

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