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YOUR HEALTHY NEW YEAR

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When did New Year’s resolutions get started?

Q: What has Tony Danza been up to? —Erin G., Topeka, Kan. A: The star of TV’s Taxi and Who’s the Boss?, Danza, 62, plays dad to Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s lothario in the comedy Don Jon (on video Dec. 31). “We did Angels in the Outfield 20 years ago,” says Danza.

“Joseph called me out of the blue and said he had me in mind for this.” Danza also spent a year teaching at a Philadelphia high school, an experience he chronicled in his 2012 book I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had.

–Tony E., Augusta, Maine

Q: How did Elisabeth Röhm like working with Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle?

—Anna Marie G., Nutley, N.J. A: The Law & Order and Angel alum, 40, says that it was “intimidating” at times to play a big-haired New Jersey mayor’s wife opposite Lawrence’s brassy Long Island hausfrau in raucous dinner scenes.

“She’s an old soul,” says Röhm of Oscar winner Lawrence. “She has such a command of herself, such maturity and power, that it’s intoxicating to work with her.”

Elisabeth Röhm (left) and Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle

WALTER SCOTT ASKS…

KYLE CHANDLER

The Emmy winner, 48, plays an FBI agent in Martin Scorsese’s film The Wolf of Wall Street.

Did you meet the real agent who brought down Leonardo DiCaprio’s character? We met at FBI headquarters in New York. He told me, “Anyone I go after, it’s not personal. I don’t have animosities toward people. It’s my job.” That was interesting.

How did you get Scorsese to cast you? Same way I e always get a job: I send a big check and say, “Please can I have an audition?” [Laughs] No, I met Martin at a hotel, and the fire alarms went off, so that was interesting to begin with. It was a quick interview; some people you just get along with really easily.

Do fans still recognize you from Friday Night Lights? People say, “Hey, Coach! How you doing?”

What made you leave L.A. for Austin with your wife and daughters? It came out of Friday Night Lights. I lived in Georgia a growing up and I was Do you have a question for Walter excited to get back to a rural area. You can Scott? Post it at facebook think a little bit more. .com/parademag.

A: Though the practice wasn’t initially timed to our new year, many histories say it got rolling in the pre-Christian era with the Babylonians, then grew in the Roman empire. One recent study estimates that nearly half of us will, starting this week, make promises to improve ourselves in various ways in 2014. The statistical success rate of said goals: 8 percent. Share your resolutions at facebook .com om/p / arrad dem e a ag g. .com/parademag.

Tony Danza

Q: Did Scarlett Johansson have any scenes with Joaquin Phoenix in Her? —Ellen C., Porland, Ore. A: Johansson, 29, has won an award for playing the computer operating system in Her, but she is never seen in the film, only heard. he ea In fact, Samantha Morton, 36, originally M Mo voiced vo oic the role during sshooting, sh ho o though she and Phoenix Ph P ho avoided seeing each eac ea c other on set. Writerdirector d di r re Spike Jonze made the th e switch in postproducttion ti on but kept the character’s ter’ r’ name: Samantha.

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Personality | from page 2

Isn’t that ... ? Julia Roberts and Tom Selleck have lent their voices to ads.

Q: When will there be a movie based on Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta novels? —Cathy H., New York City A: There have been efforts to develop a film about the crime-solving medical examiner since the first book hit stores in 1990 (the latest is Dust). Now, as Cornwell switches publishers—her next novel is due fall 2014— Fox 2000 has said it intends to begin production “as soon as possible.” Tell us who should play Scarpetta (Angelina Jolie has been mentioned) at parade .com/kay.

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Q: Why are so many big actors doing TV-ad voiceovers? —Ida R., Chicago A: Stars like Tom Selleck (Coldwell Banker) and Julia Roberts (Nationwide) can reap big bucks, typically $200,000 to $400,000, plus residuals, for a few hours’ work. And clients covet the attention they command— even unseen. Uncover more famous voice-overs at parade.com/ad.

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Ask Marilyn

By Marilyn vos Savant

The bait boxes below look alike, but they have different weights. (Worms are sold by one weight, fish are sold by another, and bugs by a third.)

The weight of three orders is shown. What is the weight of the fourth order?

—Leo Tschirhart, Ann Arbor, Mich.

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2

worms worms

worms worms

worms

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4

worms

worms

worms

bugs

bugs

worms

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fish

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25 oz

28 oz

28 oz

GIVE IT A TRY, READERS!

The problem is easier than it looks. The answer appears below. To see how to solve it, visit parade .com, click on the Living section, then click on “Ask Marilyn.”

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Numbrix Complete 1 to 81 so the numbers follow a horizontal or vertical path—no diagonals.

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Answer: 25 oz CARTOON: ROY DELGADO

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Olga Kotelko is

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and still shattering records—and expectations— on the track.

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GOING THE DISTANCE ROUTINE

ENJOY LIFE!

SMALL WINS

MOTIVATION

Six lessons on living longer and staying sharp from a nonagenarian track star

NUTRITION

SWEAT

By Bruce Grierson Cover and Opening Photographs

by Grant Harder

Ninety-four-year-old Olga Kotelko, a retired schoolteacher from West Vancouver, Canada, could be the poster child for late bloomers. Seventeen years ago, at 77, she entered her first “masters” track and field competition, for participants age 35 and over. At 85, she knocked off nearly 20 world records in a single year.

Today, she is the only woman in the world over 90 still long-jumping and high-jumping competitively.

How does Olga continue to compete? Why does she feel, today, practically the same as she felt at 50? Around

NO SITTING

PERSPECTIVE

the continent, more and more researchers are studying so-called “super seniors” like Olga, who appear to be applying brakes to the aging process itself—defying the slide into a foggy decline, remaining sharp and healthy deep into old age.

“We think longevity is probably about 70 to 75 percent lifestyle,” says Angela Brooks-Wilson, Ph.D., a geneticist in the Genome Sciences Centre at the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver. That means just a quarter of healthy aging is about the protection you inherDECEMBER 29, 2013 | 9

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SWAP THE SUDOKU FOR SNEAKERS Even before she laced up her first track spikes, Olga was always active. As a kid on the Saskatchewan prairie, she and her 10 siblings played baseball with a rag-stuffed ball—and she was still playing up until age 75, when she began thinking about a new pastime after being plowed down in the outfield by an overzealous teammate chasing the same pop fly. A friend suggested masters track, and just a few months later, at her first international meet in Tucson, Olga launched the javelin 10 feet farther than her competitors’ marks. She soon hooked up with a coach—and started rewriting the record books.

As comprehensively as scientists know that exercise helps the body, they’re still learning how far it goes in shoring up the brain. Increasing evidence suggests ests that

The

COACH

Harold Morioka, Olga’s 70-year-old coach, is one of the most gifted d masters athletes ever, the only runner of any age to break world records in every distance ce from 60 to 800 meters.

for fending off senior moments (“Where’d I leave my car keys?”), not to mention full-blown dementia, exercise works better than even those brain games touted to boost memory and function. A recent review of research by Norwegian scientists found that the gains people make on such puzzles don’t necessarily carry over into real life. “They’re not going to help you as you age, with, say, driving,” says Justin Rhodes, Ph.D., a psychologist at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

“But exercise can help you improve across the board.”

STAY ON YOUR FEET At home—a tidy suite in the lower level of her daughter’s house—Olga rarely sits for long.

She’s continually popping up to stir a soup, write a letter, or make a phone call. She climbs the stairs, she figures, “probably 50 times a day.” She switches on the TV only to watch her favorite game shows (Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!) or check the weather. Apart from a brief stint as a secretary after she left her family’s farm, she’s never had a desk des job.

Simply standing up more is the best tthing sedentary people can do to start becoming healthier, maintains Joan hea Vernikos, Ph.D., the forVe m e r d i re c t o r o f L i f e Scie Sciences for NASA and author auth of the book Sitting Kills. The painless act of rising from f your chair pumps blood from the feet to the bloo head, and tunes the vestibular head system, which helps maintain system blood pressure and keeps you steady on your feet. stea

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ited, and up to three-quarters is determined by how you play the hand you were dealt.

This is excellent news. Will any of us be sprinting into our 90s, like Olga? Perhaps not. But can just about all of us be more like Olga?

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OLGA’S LIFE IS ANCHORED IN RITUALS. IF IT’S TUESDAY, SHE’S OUT BOWLING. Even a regular morning jog can’t compensate for being inert the other 23 hours of the day, research shows. Extended bouts of inactivity have been found to increase subjects’ risk of serious afflictions—including hypertension, blood clots, and even some types of cancer—no matter how “fit” those subjects were.

EAT REAL FOOD People are intensely curious about Olga’s diet. And while her eating habits are healthy—there’s very little processed food in her cupboards, for instance—they are by no means perfect. She is no stranger to carbs, often having toast in the morning (perhaps topped with cheese and honey) and bread again in her lunchtime sandwich. She likes her

meat and she likes it medium-rare.

At a baseball game she’ll down a hot dog and a beer.

Instead, it’s her approach to eating that may be an overlooked part of the puzzle. Olga eats four to five times a day, and not much in the evenings. She won’t skip meals or scarf fast food and count on a handful of supplements and vitamins to pick up the dietary slack. (She does take a baby aspirin each day to prevent blood clots, and glucosamine to shore up her joint cartilage, which takes such a pounding on the track.) A balanced diet ought to do it, she figures. Nature had a couple million years to get this right. Plus, she says, “food’s cheaper.”

ment, University of Southern California psychologist Wendy Wood, Ph.D., one of the world’s top experts in habit formation, found that students around exam time slipped into autopilot. It was habits—not cravings, as you might expect—that determined their food choices, for better or worse.

Olga’s own weekly calendar is anchored in rituals. Her mornings typically include a stretching routine; she adheres to a predictable bedtime. If it ’s Tuesday, she is out bowling; if it’s Thursday, she The is likely making pierogi in the basement of her church.

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“What you have to do is just get yourself to the track,” says Olga’s friend (and fellow masters athlete) Christa Bortignon. There, she’ll dial up Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 on the iPod, circle the track twice, then jog it once. It’s as if Christa is turning the tumblers on a lock: Those small familiar actions cue the body that it’s showtime.

“Your muscles have a memory,” she says. “They know.”

Under stress, people tend to fall back on routines—whether healthy or unhealthy. In a recent experi-

that it becomes a relative measure, not an absolute one. In other words, to move the yardsticks as you age.

This is something that masters track does ingeniously. Olga’s results are “age-graded,” meaning they are adjusted to account for the expected decline of the human body. And Olga applies the “move the yardsticks” strategy off the track as well.

For instance, she still says yes to many social requests but not to all— increasing her fulfillment by cherrypicking the best life has to offer.

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We all need the feeling that in some Christa Bortignon, 76, has s set seven small ways we’re world records this year en n route to the improving—or at 2013 World Female Masters ers Athlete least not backslidaward. Without Olga as a mentor, she ing—whether at says, “I wouldn’t have even en known [masters track] existed.” the gym, at our jobs, or in our relationships. Without periodic doses of what psychologist LIGHTEN UP Teresa Amabile, Ph.D., calls “small “People get stressed out over the wins,” our morale craters. smallest things,” Olga says. The Trouble is, chalking up wins be- fact that she doesn’t is as much a comes more difficult from midlife matter of choice as temperament. on, when it’s easy to feel like you’re “Honestly, I don’t have the time.” getting slower and weaker by the Not long ago, at an Illinois airday. Fortunately, there’s a remedy. port, as Olga moved toward security, The trick is to reframe progress so other passengers began removing

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their shoes. But Olga didn’t. A sign said that you didn’t have to if you were over 75.

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s age 60 approached, I was seized by a strange new urge: the need to know my family history. I can only explain it as one of those out-of-the-blue impulses that accompany a new stage of life.

W ith the kids grown and launched, I found myself dreaming of becoming a grandfather.

What would I tell my grandkids about their heritage? All of a sudden, I became curious and then consumed by the desire to find out more about who we were.

I got off to a lucky start because my grandfather’s sister was the founder of the Maidenform Bra Company. A quick Google search revealed that Ida Rosenthal had been a socialist firebrand who was forced to leave Tsarist Russia at age 19 because she was fomenting revolution! She arrived at Ellis Island in 1905 with $12 to her name, went to work as a seamstress, and later opened a Manhattan dress-making business. In 1922, Ida came up with the first Maidenform bra—and the rest is history.

History, but not family history.

Google drew a blank when I searched for other relatives.

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when I typed in my grandfather ’s name, Ancestry’s search engine spat out 341,300 possibilities. Where to begin?

John LaMont, a research genealogist at the Seattle Public Library, gave me a hand. John used Ancestry to find my grandfather’s World War I draft card. That gave us his date of birth, which proved to be the key to the kingdom, leading me to complete genealogical records for the entire American family.

Between Ancestry and the Ellis Island website, I was able to trace my relatives from their village in present-day Belarus to the cold-water flat on the Lower East Side where they lived from 1909 to 1916. Census records revealed that by 1920, my great-grandparents had fulfilled the American

The Forebearers Clockwise from top: Maidenform founder Ida Rosenthal in the 1940s; Ida’s cousins who left Poland for Palestine; the author’s great grandfather (left) with his brother.

dream of owning their own home, a tiny row house in Brooklyn.

When I called John to follow up, he gave me another pointer: “Talk to your family members.

Find out who has the family Bible or a shoebox of letters.”

According to my mother, my second cousin Shimon in Israel knew more about the family history than anyone, so I emailed him. He told me that his parents, Sonia and Chaim, moved to what was then Palestine in the 1920s.

While Ida was making a killing selling bras in America, her cousins were making the desert

bloom as wildly idealistic pioneers in the Holy Land.

Now I had two branches of the family tree filled in. But Shimon informed me that there was a third, and here’s where the story turns dark. Sonia and Chaim had left their parents, siblings, nieces, and nephews in Poland. When the Nazis seized eastern Poland in 1941, this branch disappeared.

I have wept over the relatives I discovered, and I’ve had nightmares about their deaths. But their story ultimately inspired me to write a book. Digging deeper into our history filled me with a sense of connection to those who came before. My grandfather, great-grandfather, and greatgreat-grandfathers worked as Torah scribes, copying the sacred Hebrew texts of the Bible onto parchment. I have come to see that in my endeavor to record their lives, I am a kind of scribe, too. In my own way, I am carrying on the family profession.

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