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MATTHEW RHYS

A: In The Bronze, Rauch, 35, puts the nasty in gymnastics as a former Olympic medalist who struggles to maintain her local celebrity status when a new star comes to town. The movie, in theaters March 18, was also written by Rauch—who plays Bernadette Rostenkowski on TV’s The Big Bang Theory—and her husband, Winston.

Do you have a favorite disguise?

I do. I call him Fernando.

He has a mustache, long hair and sometimes a little goatee.

He’s usually in janitor clothes. Fernando makes me feel the sexiest. Something happens—don’t ask me what it is because I don’t know—but some suave Spaniard just comes to me.

Have any Russians commented on your character? Only one. It was in Central Park, and he just wanted

I am really looking forward to the new Pee-wee Herman movie. How did Paul Reubens come up with his character?

—Andy H., Sarasota, Fla. A: Reubens, 63, created Pee-wee Herman as a member of the Groundlings comedy troupe in Los Angeles in 1978. “I could never remember punch lines to jokes,” he says, “so my character was a bad comic you would never expect to make it.” That comic morphed into the spastic man-child known as Pee-wee, whose first film, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, marked its 30th anniversary last year. After its premiere at the South by Southwest film festival, the new movie, Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, will stream on Netflix beginning March 18.

to say how much he enjoyed the show. He said what interested him was the human story.

Before this role, what were your favorite spy dramas? Author John le Carré was a favorite. I had always had a Richard Burton fixation, so The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was when I discovered le Carré. I’m also a James Bond fan.

How are you feeling about becoming a dad this spring with your Americans co-star and girlfriend, Keri Russell? Over the moon.

In the 2015 movie Burnt, Rhys played a master chef. Go to Parade.com/matthewrhys to find out how he ranks himself as an omelet cook.

Email your questions for Walter Scott to personality@parade.com

‘Motel’ Mom Vera Farmiga, 42, reprises her role as the “overprotective” single mom to Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) on the Psycho TV prequel Bates Motel, which returned March 7 for its fourth season on A&E. Here are five fun facts about the UkranianAmerican actress.

1. She originally planned to become an optometrist.

2. She is one of seven children; her younger sister Taissa starred in seasons one and three of American Horror Story.

3. She has been known to literally burn scripts she doesn’t like.

4. She boxes to stay in shape.

5. She gardens and keeps goats at her home in upstate New York.

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What can you tell us about The Bronze, starring Melissa Rauch? I can’t wait to see it.

I really like her on The Big Bang Theory.

—Allison S., Richmond, Va.

The Welsh actor, 41, will be wearing many different hats—and wigs—when he resumes his role as the dashing Russian spy Philip Jennings on March 16 in the fourth season of the FX ’80s espionage drama The Americans.

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ou may know him from Top Chef season three or the show’s AllStars edition, but Dale Levitski is much more than a made-for-TV cook. The accomplished restaurateur sharpened his knives in Chicago (where he had two restaurants of his own) before moving to Nashville in 2014 to take the helm of Sinema, an eclectic restaurant and bar housed in a historic former theater. Since then Levitski has opened a casual restaurant in Nashville called The Hook and partnered with Parade and cheeky YouTube channel Cinema Sins on a series of videos featuring Disney-inspired dishes (see them at Parade.com/dale). He chats with Parade about life after Top Chef and turning animated films into fine dining.

How did this Disney menu come about? It’s something that I’ve had on my mind for almost 10 years. The guys at Cinema Sins had come to us about creating a cooking version of their show and I thought, Let’s do Disney!

There’s so much to work with from the Disney vault, how did you narrow it down? We just ran with it. We’re not making cartoon food: We’re making great food. The three dishes that we did—Down the Rabbit Hole from Alice in Wonderland, Hakuna Frittata from The Lion King and Seaweed Surf and Turf from The Little Mermaid—

turned out pretty spectacular.

Were there any ideas that didn’t make the menu? We talked about a bunch: Redoing spaghetti and meatballs with Lady and the Tramp—it’s one long noodle and one meatball and you just battle it out!

What’s the next step for your Disney-inspired dishes? The Disney Dinner at Sinema. We are going to use the three dishes and come up with two or three more. If that’s successful, we could do a movie-inspired dinner monthly or quarterly, called Dinner of a Movie. We could do a dinner inspired by

Watch the Top Chef season 13 finale on March 17 at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.

Casablanca and people dress up—it’s just too perfect with what we are [an upscale restaurant in an old cinema].

How did Top Chef change your life and career? Our first night in Miami, one of the executive producers was like, “Your life is about to change—today.” And you’re like, “Oh yeah I can handle it, this is great.” But you have no idea. The day after the premiere, I was flying back to Chicago from New York and the people in line at TSA were like, “Hey, Dale, what’s up?” Being wellknown does skew a lot of things personally and professionally.

I don’t want to say it opened

doors, but it helped make opportunities easier because [people] know who you are. They know your palate or your skill set. “You got second place on Top Chef; I trust you already.”

Do you cook at home? No! [Laughs] I moved out of an apartment and rented a house, and I was like, “Fresh start! I’m going to get rid of everything!”

After a year, I still don’t have glasses or dishes. I’m a master of eating pasta out of a pot.

The copper-plated KitchenAid mixer, the Cuisinart—I have all the equipment in my house just collecting dust. They’re mocking me.

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Healthy Stay

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raveling these days is hardly relaxing, but taking a trip when you have diabetes can seem like double the trouble. That’s no reason to stay home, says Desmond Schatz, M.D., the American Diabetes Association’s president of medicine and science: “It’s just a matter of preparation.”

These tips will help ensure that you have healthy adventures.

Do Your Homework

When traveling by air, keep your diabetes supplies in your carry-on baggage, and visit tsa.gov to familiarize yourself with the Transportation Security Administration’s rules for getting them through security. The site also has a TSA disability notification card that you can print out and carry with you. Book flights well in advance to up your chances of getting an aisle seat (making it easier to get to the bathroom or to your luggage in the overhead bin) and to ensure a diabetic meal is available.

Identify Yourself

Carry a letter from your doctor to avoid any con-

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fusion over your right to transport your medical supplies through security, and introduce yourself to the flight attendants when you board. Schatz also recommends that you have identification, such as a medical alert bracelet, on at all times.

Timing Is Everything

For long trips by car, map out your route, planning rest and meal stops at regular intervals.

On flights with a meal, ask when it will be served so you can schedule accordingly.

“Try to be as consistent with eating and medicating as you usually are,” says Schatz. Keep juice, glucose tablets, raisins

and other sources of quick sugar handy, as well as healthy snacks like protein bars and sugar-free trail mix to keep you from overeating at mealtime.

Time changes pose a particular problem for diabetics who use insulin to maintain their blood sugar. “In general, it’s important to preserve your routine as much as possible,” Schatz says.

“When crossing time zones, I always tell my patients to maintain their clock until they get there.

Then they can

change to the new schedule.”

Banish Germs

You’re not imagining it if you feel like you always catch some kind of bug on a plane: Low humidity in cabins dries out the mucus membranes that protect us from infectious diseases, says Massachusetts-based emergency medicine doctor Mark Gendreau, M.D. “Staying hydrated is extremely important, and even more so for people with diabetes, since uncontrolled diabetes can have an effect on the immune system,” he says.

The solution to flu-free flying? Wash hands frequently and wipe down tray tables, armrests and other surfaces with a disinfectant wipe. Another trick: Open the air vent above your seat to a moderate level,

then turn the nozzle so it blows just in front of you rather than directly in your face.

“There’s been some data showing that if there are virus particles suspended in the air, this creates enough turbulence to blow the germs out of your air space,” Gendreau says.

Keep Moving

Planes, trains, buses and automobiles all restrict movement, which puts everyone— but particularly people with diabetes—at risk for deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a serious blood clot that can occur when you’re sedentary for too long.

“Exercise is so crucial, even if you just stand up every hour and stretch your calves,” Schatz says. “Even when napping, try to wake up from time to time and bounce your calves, heel to toe.”

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The veteran actress on her quirky role in a new romantic comedy, the joys of being a grandmother and why she’s no fan of social media

Over five decades, she’s charmed us, inspired us, made us laugh and made us cry. Here are some highlights in the wide-ranging TV and movie career of California native Sally Field.

By Maura Rhodes

How did Doris’ story resonate with you? There were things about her that resonated in me, about moving on with your life. No matter how old you are, there’s some part of you that’s brand-new. She’s in her late 60s and she’s brand-new to the world—she might as well be an adolescent. Every part of life is a stage. Every time you enter it, it just feels awkward and new.

was began with a whole lot of dress-up. Rebecca [Gregg, the movie’s costume designer] is genius. She went to thrift shops and we had a room with racks and racks and racks of clothes. We just started dressing up and putting things together that had a language unto itself.

And Doris’ hair! Those scarves were incredible! I had it in my head that she’d seen a picture of Brigitte Bardot in the ’60s—that she just always wanted to look like that. I copied her hair from a Brigitte Bardot picture, where she has it all piled on her head using what we used to call a postiche, a little piece of fake hair. Then she tied a great big scarf around it.

That’s what I thought was her look. We worked around that.

How was it getting romantic with your younger co-star, New Girl actor Max Greenfield? Embarrassing! But he is so adorable and generous, and such a wonderful actor. I thank God [it was] him, not somebody with an attitude.

Did you keep any of Doris’ clothes? Most of it had to go back.

But a lot was mine: scarves and some old jewelry. Everybody was bringing things of their own to drape on Doris. It was like, “Rent a barn and put on a show.” Everybody pitched in, made it work.

Doris’ wardrobe is like a character all its own. Did you have anything to do with her quirky style?

Absolutely! Finding who Doris

Doris saves stuff. Are you a saver?

Not like she is. I’m organized to a fault. I do keep stuff, but stuff that’s worth keeping. I keep letters from

Gidget (1965–66) the kids, pictures, great things that make you go, “Whoa. I’m keeping that.” Various and sundry awards and honors.

There’s a scene in Doris where you’re with a knitting group. Do you knit? I do! I was the only one who was really knitting. Everybody was asking me, “Oh, look.

I’ve screwed this up. How do I fix it?” I was constantly fixing everybody’s knitting. They were trying to fake it.

The Flying Nun (1967–70)

Brothers & Sisters (2006-2011)

Smokey and the Bandit (1977) Norma Rae (1979) Absence of Malice (1981)

Places in the Heart (1984)

You’re passionately involved with Steel Magnolias (1989) Vital Voices. What is the organization about? It’s an extraordinary Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) group, formed [in 2000] right after Forrest Gump (1994) the Beijing Women’s Conference.

I went away feeling that if we Lincoln (2012) couldn’t bring half of the world’s population [women] to the table in important ways, the world would never be really healthy—environmentally, economically, politically. This group identifies and invests in emerging women leaders, whether they’re on a political level or leaders as far as economics is concerned or human rights. They go into small cities and countries and communities and identify these emerging leaders who need to have their voices supported. They mentor them and empower them to fulfill their dreams.

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f you don’t already have a special place in your heart for Sally Field, you will after you see her new movie. In Hello, My Name Is Doris, the two-time Academy Award winner plays a 60-something woman who falls for a much younger man. Hilarity and heartache follow, with Field, 69, embracing both quirky Doris and her late-in-life love story with affection, grace and warmth.

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Do you ever feel like women haven’t come such a long way after all? We haven’t. Even in this country, where there’s not equal pay for equal work. How can anyone justify that? It continues to be brushed under the carpet.

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Doris gets a crash course in Facebook in the movie. Are you a fan of social media? I’m not. I’m on Facebook but not under my real name.

It’s only so I can talk to my grandkids and see pictures my brother and sister-in-law put up. I don’t ever post anything myself. First of all, I wouldn’t even remember to do that—I can’t remember to take pictures with my phone when we’re all doing something just for the family. I wouldn’t be able to remember to stop and tweet the world that I just bought a new pair of shoes!

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DO YOU

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MIRACLES

By Katy Koontz

Annabel Beam, the subject of a new film, certainly does—and so do nearly 80 percent of Americans.

Cover and opening photography

by Marc Morrison

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t seemed impossible. But the emergency room doctors were telling Christy and Kevin Beam that their 9-year-old daughter Annabel wasn’t hurt.

Annabel, who had tumbled headfirst 30 feet to the bottom of a hollow cottonwood tree on the family’s farm in Burleson, Texas, had no head injuries, no brain damage and no spinal trauma, the doctors said. No broken bones or internal injuries—only a few minor bumps and bruises. A concussion, at most.

Annabel had spent several hours inside the tree, most of that time unresponsive, as rescue teams strategized the best way to free her. When they finally succeeded, a helicopter airlifted her to a hospital, where doctors ordered numerous scans to assess her injuries.

Only the doctors couldn’t find anything. The next morning, they sent the

third-grader home with her stunned—but grateful—parents.

But that was nothing compared to what emerged in the weeks and months that followed.

This hadn’t been Annabel’s first hospital trip. Four years before, she’d been diagnosed with two painful, life-threatening digestive disorders (pseudo-obstruction motility disorder and antral hypomotility disorder), requiring a regimen of 10 drugs daily, including antibiotics, anticonvulsants, prescription-strength laxatives, reflux medication and painkillers.

Every six weeks, mom Christy, now 43, flew with Annabel to Boston so a specialist treating her with an experimental drug could monitor the girl’s progress— although the grim truth was that there was no cure. The best they could hope for was that the drug would lessen Annabel’s symptoms, making life more manageable.

The situation devastated the family, which included Annabel’s two sisters, Abigail (two years older) and Adelynn (two years younger).

Yet just days after Annabel’s dramatic rescue, Christy realized that her daughter hadn’t asked for her usual pain medication. And her once-distended abdomen had inexplicably flattened. In fact, Annabel seemed unusually carefree and happy.

Almost . . . normal.

As the weeks wore on, and as Christy gave her daughter less and less of the once-vital medication, it became startlingly clear to her parents that Annabel was no longer sick. She was healed.

Today, more than four years after the December 2011 incident, Annabel still takes no medications and has no symptoms. Somehow, an experience that should have left her with serious injuries exacerbating her life-threatening

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disorders instead erased any trace of either condition.

To many, what happened to Annabel Beam could only be described as a miracle.

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Who Believes?

Annabel’s miracle will be up on the big screen when Miracles From Heaven— based on Christy’s 2015 best-selling book and starring Jennifer Garner as Christy—opens in theaters this week. If it’s true that eight in 10 Americans believe in miracles—a statistic from a Pew Research Center study—there will be plenty of ticket buyers. Although more religious Americans believe than the nonreligious, more than half of those unaffiliated with a particular faith still say miracles are possible. In fact, belief in miracles is on the rise, according to bestselling author Marianne Williamson, known for her teachings on the Foundation for Inner Peace’s popular spiritual tome A Course in Miracles.

“People are evolving beyond strict adherence to a rationalistic worldview,” she says. “Quantum physics, spiritual understanding and a more holistic perspective in general have come together to produce a serious challenge to oldparadigm, mechanistic thinking.” In other words: “People know there’s more going on in this life than just what the physical eyes can see.”

Kate Bowler, Ph.D., of Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C., and author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, studies miracles and people who believe in them. She’s found that a very high percentage of religious people are convinced that God will make targeted or often random choices because God will heal or bless one person over another. Many such people try to figure out a formula for “what will reach into heaven and draw out some kind of

blessing,” she says. “The truth is there will never be a formula, but people will certainly keep trying to find it.”

The Beams, devout Baptists, did believe in miracles before their daughter got well, but as Kevin, 43, says, he thought miracles “were possible—just not probable.” Annabel, now 13, echoes: “I knew they happened. I just didn’t think they would happen to us.”

‘People are looking for hope today because the world is so filled with fear and chaos.

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Marianne Williamson

Bowler’s research confirms that “almost everybody I talk to believes in some kind of relationship between their positive feelings and a supernatural result.

Even if they don’t call it prayer. I think there’s a real openness and a sort of sense of wonder at the possibility of miracles,” she says.

Why Now?

“Obviously, people are looking for hope today because the world is so filled with fear and chaos,” Williamson says. “But something deeper than that is going on as well. We are looking for meaning.”

Humanity has a deep, instinctive sense that life is about something more than just trying to consume, she says. “We’re either shutting down in fear as we have never done before, or we’re opening up to love as we have never done before. Our only choice now really is between an age of barbarism or an age of miracles.”

If the New York Times best-seller lists are any proof, people are choosing the age of miracles. Two best-selling books

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MIRACLEMOM “I believed in miracles before the movie, and I continue to believe in them,” says Jennifer Garner, who plays Christy Beam in the upcoming movie Miracles From Heaven (opening March 16), based on Beam’s 2015 best-selling book. “Who knows what happened? For some reason, that little girl is OK. Why not see it as something incredible and special—a reminder of the possibilities of life?”

Garner also believes in heaven. “Why would we rob ourselves of believing?” she asks. “Why not believe in heaven?”

The actress says getting to know the Beams changed her in “a really good way. I was so touched on so many different levels,” says the mother of three, who is in the process of divorcing actor Ben Affleck. “I was touched by who Christy is as a mom, and how fierce and incredibly loving she is.

“And when you talk to Annabel, there is nothing in you that can think, Oh, she’s just saying this for attention, or She’s just saying this out of her silly imagination. She’s not.

She’s such a smart, bright, very self-aware little girl who is so calm and not hysterical at all about this experience that she had, that you would feel ridiculous not to take what she says at face value.

“Her heart is open to possibility and to wonder and to things happening that no one would expect. She has the faith of a child in the most beautiful way,” says Garner. “It’s not something she’s ever questioned or doubted.

She hasn’t needed to wrestle with it. Her faith was a big part of what got her through the worst of her disease.”

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published last year—Imagine Heaven by John Burke and Touching Heaven by Chauncey Crandall, M.D.—each share stories of near-death experiences. In 2012, a trio of bestsellers (two by medical doctors) recounted miraculous (i.e., unexplainable) personal experiences. Eben Alexander’s Proof of Heaven tells how the neurosurgeon conversed with what he calls “the divine source of the universe” while in a coma caused by acute bacterial meningitis. Just when doctors were beginning to give up on him, his eyes popped open. Today, he’s completely healthy. Previously, the former Harvard Medical School faculty member believed near-death experiences were medically impossible.

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changing spiritual truths while in a coma following a nearly four-year battle with cancer. Moorjani woke up—and was cancer-free when she left the hospital, just weeks after the day doctors told her family she would die.

While kayaking in southern Chile, orthopedic surgeon Mary C. Neal was pinned underwater for more than 15 minutes and drowned. Before she was resuscitated on the riverbank, she says she spoke with angels. In To Heaven and Back, she calls her accident “one of the greatest gifts I have ever received.”

One miraculous tale—The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven

by Kevin and Alex Malarkey—turned out to be a hoax. Alex admitted he’d fabricated his experience after an auto accident that left him a quadriplegic at age 6 (but not before his and his father’s story was turned into a TV movie).

Doctors are often mystified by stories of unexpected recoveries, but not all are ready to declare them miracles. In fact, a current Yale study is looking at whether doctors of coma patients could have made mistaken prognoses. “We know that there are no true ‘miracles’ in medicine,” says David Greer, M.D., a 12 | MARCH 13, 2016

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The Beam family receives emails from people all over the world who think they’re perpetuating a hoax, and from others who say Annabel’s story inspired them to deepen their faith.

As for the naysayers, “I don’t feel like I have anything to prove,” Christy says. “The proof is right there. We lived it. It’s not a gray area. It’s black and white.”

Adds Kevin, “The big question is, what does it mean since it did happen?” Some skeptics, he thinks, won’t believe the story no matter how convincing because it threatens their belief that God doesn’t exist. He’s hoping at least some of them will reconsider.

Yet Bowler stresses—and the Beams fully agree—that believing in miracles and in modern medicine don’t have to be mutually exclusive. “It’s never like faith versus science. It’s always faith and science,” Bowler says. “For the most part, people are throwing everything and the kitchen sink at problems, and when it works no one’s going to complain. Some way or another both medicine and miracles will get the credit.

People love their doctors and they love their God, and they will ask both for a lot of favors.”

“Hope and faith can be abused,” Kevin says. “Even though deep down we knew something major had happened, we also didn’t want to just say, ‘Forget it. Take all Annabel’s medicines and throw them away.’ Over the course of four years, we had a lot of people who gave us well-intentioned bad advice to just claim that she’s healed because God doesn’t want any of his children to be sick. We appreciated the miracle, but still respect the medical profession.

“I would hate for somebody to misinterpret that message and say, ‘Well, I’m just going to pull all my kids off their medication,’ ” says Kevin, a veterinarian. “I mean, this was our experience but we also realize that’s not going to be the case for every single person.”

Why was Annabel healed while countless others haven’t been? “It’s not that God loves her any more than he loves them. It’s not that our family has done anything to deserve a miracle,” Kevin reasons. “This whole experience is just so phenomenally humbling because I remember that desperation of being a parent who would do anything to see my child get better. We experienced that miracle, but I also realize that not everybody will—and those are questions I don’t have a good answer for.”

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Screens simulated, subject to change. Windows Store apps sold separately. App availability and experience may vary by market. *Pricing/Availability: Offers subject to change, not combinable with all other offers. Taxes, shipping, handling and other fees apply. Valid for new U.S. online purchases through the Dell Home Electronics and Accessories site and for phone orders of electronics and accessories purchased without a system only. Free shipping and handling offer available in Continental (except Alaska) U.S. only. Availability of electronics and accessories varies and quantities may be limited. Dell reserves the right to cancel orders arising from pricing or other errors. Market Value: Market Value is an estimate based on industry data such as published and as-sold prices for the same or comparable products in a survey of major online and/or offline retailers. Graphics and System Memory: (SDRAM): GB means 1 billion bytes, MB means 1 million bytes and TB equals 1 trillion bytes; significant system memory may be used to support graphics, depending on system memory size and other factors. Hard Drives: GB means 1 billion bytes and TB means 1 trillion bytes; actual capacity varies with pre-loaded material and operating environment and will be less. Promotional EGift Card: Ships separately from purchase and typically arrives in 10-20 days from ship date via email; expires in 90 days (except where prohibited by law). Terms and conditions apply. See Dell.com/giftcard/promoterms. Price Match Guarantee: Generally, if you find a lower-price advertised on the internet for an identical electronic product or a similarly configured Dell, HP, Apple or Lenovo, computer; Dell will match that price. Call or Chat online with a Dell Expert and we’ll walk you through the process.

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