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Alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger,
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ince being diagnosed with
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new documentary I Am: Celine Dion. The
film, which will stream on Prime Video,
chronicles the singer’s struggle with the
rare neurological disorder. “This last couple
of years has been such a challenge for me,
the journey from discovering my condition
to learning how to live with and manage
it, but not to let it define me,” says Celine,
55, who hopes the documentary will help “The spasms
raise awareness. “As the road to resuming
my performing career continues, I have affect every
realized how much I have missed it, aspect of my
of being able to see my fans. During daily life.”
this absence, I decided I wanted to —Celine Dion, on living with
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 MOLLY RINGWALD
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For Molly, talking about author
Truman Capote is never a drag.
“My very first play when I was 3
was The Grass Harp! I grew up
and read In Cold Blood and
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and pretty
much anything and everything I
could get my hands on!”

CALISTA FLOCKHART
Curb Appeal NAOMI WATTS
Before attending Feud’s
NYC afterparty on Jan. 23,
Calista hailed the experience of I Got You, Babe
working with co-stars Demi, Molly Naomi proved she had her character,
and Naomi. “It doesn’t get socialite Babe Paley, well in hand. “She
any better,” she gushed. “It was a had this level of perfection with her
lot of fun. It was a lot of hard presentation. She never had her hair out of
work. It was a little intimidating place. She had such grace and elegance. But
at first, but it ups your game. You underneath it all, there was a lot of pressure
got to rise to the occasion.” to look that pristine all the time.”

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PARIS HILTON

Sea Me
“My precious little one, you are
more than a dream come true.
You make my life complete,”
gushed Paris as she celebrated
son Phoenix’s very first
birthday on Jan. 27 with an “I’m
under-the-sea fiesta. “I’ve endlessly
thrown amazing birthday grateful
parties my whole life. So to to be your
now be able to do this for mommy,”
my little boy is special,” she said Paris to
shared. “Here’s to a lifetime her boy.
of laughter, love and
wonderful adventures!”

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 BILLY JOEL
Kids Around
Domo arigato! On
SERENA WILLIAMS Jan. 24, Billy had the
perfect sidekicks for
Sands of Time his gig at Japan’s Tokyo
Dome — daughters Della
“It may be winter, but we found some heat,” said and Remy. “I still love
the tennis star, who jumped at the chance to take being a dad,” says Billy,
a beach vacation with daughter Olympia. “I want 74. “I didn’t know I’d
to be able to say, I remember that moment and I be a father again at this
remember that memory, and I never want to regret age, but I’m glad I am.
missing times out with each other.” They keep you young.”

REESE WITHERSPOON
French
Connection
“January in Paris!”
Visiting the City of Lights
for Fashion Week, Reese
drank in the je ne sais
quoi of café culture with LYNDA CARTER
her mini-me daughter,
Ava. “There is nothing Wonderful Woman
like the love I have for “A couple of troublemakers in Paris,”
her,” admits Reese. “We quipped Lynda, who toasted the town
share every emotion with with her daughter, Jessica, on Jan. 24.
each other, our hopes “We’re all about the joie de vivre!”
and dreams.”
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OLIVER & KATE HUDSON

Together Time
Visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live! on
Jan. 22, brother and sis shared
stories about their famous folks, Kurt
Russell and Goldie Hawn, as well as
their podcast Sibling Revelry. “[It]
definitely brought us closer together,”
KRISTIN CHENOWETH Oliver admitted. “When we were

Live
young, we weren’t as close as we
could have been.”

Wire
Performing at Nashville’s
Schermerhorn Symphony
Center, Kristin definitely
sparkled. Of course, that’s
no surprise, since “I love a
live audience! [And] when I
stand in front of the Nashville
symphony and I sing my truth,
I listen to the audience and
they speak back to me. It’s a
relationship that I love.”

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 “Best day ever,”
said Mariska. “I’m
SAMUEL L. JACKSON still recovering
from all the love
Not Feline It MARISKA HARGITAY bombing.”
If Sam looked non-pussed by his co-
star at the London premiere of Argylle,
Icing on the Cake
it’s probably because “I am not a cat “No words to express the sheer magic and the outpouring
person,” he admits. “But I’m also not of love,” declared Mariska on Jan. 23 — her 60th birthday.
a dog, bird or a fish person, either…I “I’m stronger than I’ve ever been,” the SVU star said of the
just don’t have time for [pets]. Man, milestone. “[And] I have never felt more at peace. I think peace is
I’m never home.” something that I’ve been after for a long time.”

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PICTUERCET HILARIE BURTON

An Owl
PERF Time High
“There has never been a happier
girl in the whole world,” declared Hilarie,
who had a hoot and a half during a recent
meet-and-greet with this bird buddy —
something to which her hubby, Jeffrey
Dean Morgan, can also happily attest.
“Truer words never spoken. You were
happy. Took 100 photos of you and
Pumpkin, and all were a version of this
expression. Pretty damn cute!”

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LISA ANN WALTER \
Winning Moment
On the Season 2 finale of Celebrity
Jeopardy!, the Abbott Elementary
star came out on top, which left her
“shaking.” As she revealed, “[Jeopardy!]
was such a big deal to my mom. Every
single night, we would watch together.
So when I won, [my mom] was with me in
that moment. And that’s what made me
emotional.”

WENDIE MALICK
& JOHN LARROQUETTE
Just Purr-fect
On the set of TV’s Night Court, playing
Catwoman to John’s Klingon was right
on the nose for Wendie. “Funny and
snarky’s been very good to me, as I often
tell people. When people meet me,
they’re usually very pleasantly surprised
that I’m so kind and normal!”

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COVER STORY
Young Lisa
Marie had
her father’s
eyes and her
mother’s
style!

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 LISA MARIE PRESLEY

Family
SECRETS
THE ONLY CHILD OF ELVIS AND PRISCILLA SHARES HER LIFE
STORY IN AN UPCOMING POSTHUMOUS MEMOIR
By LOUISE A. BARILE

I
n her childhood bedroom sounded like a fairy tale. The in- In her memoir, Lisa Marie
at Graceland, Lisa Marie dulgences Elvis lavished on Lisa doesn’t hold back on her com-
Presley liked to sing along Marie — including a diamond ring, plicated relationship with mom
to 45s on a little record a fur coat and a spontaneous flight Priscilla, 78. “They fought a lot,
player. “My dad would to Utah to play in her first snow — disagreed on many things, but
catch me,” she recalled. have become legend. Lisa Marie always loved her,” says
“I’m sure he got a kick out of it. Yet there were other, less inno- the friend, who adds that Lisa Ma-
He’d put me up on the coffee table cent Graceland secrets that Lisa rie also weighed in on her par-
in front of everybody and make Marie kept quiet about. One of her ents’ relationship. “She writes that
me sing.” prime motivations for writing her her mother and father truly loved
Lisa Marie’s memories of her memoir was defending her father’s each other, that they were the love
doting father, Elvis Presley, will be legacy from the hangers-on who of each other’s lives. She doesn’t
among the sweetest anecdotes in spread unsavory stories about him think her mother ever found love
her posthumous memoir, due out after his 1977 death. “They scared like that again.”
Oct. 15. “Few people had the op- the hell out of me when I was a
portunity to know who my mom kid,” Lisa Marie said of Elvis’ so- LOVE ME TENDER
really was,” says Riley Keough, called Memphis Mafia. “I remem- Lisa Marie doesn’t hold back about
Lisa Marie’s actress daughter, ber seeing the Playboys, the drugs, her marriages to Danny Keough,
who polished the manuscript after the women — I watched it all, and Michael Jackson, Nicolas Cage
her mother’s unexpected death at I watched them. I know the real and Michael Lockwood, either.
54 last January. “Lisa Marie had story behind all of them.” “I’m whimsical about things. I get
been working on her book for She believed Elvis’ buddies con- caught up in the moment,” admit-
years,” says a family friend, who tributed to her father’s death. ted Lisa Marie about her undying
called the story “90 percent fin- “These idiots were so disgusting — belief that she would one day find
ished” when Riley, 34, took over. they helped him go down and were true love. “It’s the one area where
“Lisa Marie didn’t want to hold actually worse than he was,” Lisa I’m naive.”
anything back.” Marie raged, adding that she was in- She likely came closest with
The life of the only child of Elvis censed by their betrayal of her fa- Danny, a little-known musician
and Priscilla Presley drew gossip ther. “They were trying to take away she met in 1985 at the Church of
and speculation from the moment his dignity,” she said, “the one thing Scientology Celebrity Center. They
of her birth, in 1968. Sometimes it that was most important to him.” wed when Lisa Marie was 20, and

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3

5 4
6

LOVE & FAMILY

1. “He’s my absolute best
friend in the world,” she said
of musician Danny Keough, welcomed daughter Riley in 1989 and “Others will judge and blame you too,
her first husband. son Benjamin in 1992. She believed even secretly or behind your back,
2. “Our relationship was not her fame damaged their union. “[Dan- which is even more cruel and painful
‘a sham,’ ” Lisa Marie said ny] was overshadowed, buried alive by on top of everything else.”
of her two-year union with my mere existence, and he resented it,” It was exceedingly painful for Lisa
Michael Jackson. said Lisa Marie of the husband who re- Marie to write about the tragedy.
3. They dated for two years, mained her “best friend” even after she “Losing Benjamin almost killed her,”
but Nicolas Cage filed for left him for Michael Jackson. says the friend. “She wasn’t fond of
divorce three months after A few bombshells from her marriage dredging up her past. Reliving these
their 2002 wedding. “We to the King of Pop, which lasted from moments was challenging, but also
thought that marriage
would make us more
1994 to 1996, are included in the mem- very therapeutic.”
secure,” she said. oir, too. Lisa Marie revealed that Mi- It’s likely that Lisa Marie would be
4. “It’s no secret she
chael wanted to have a baby with her. “I gratified to finally be allowed to tell
despised Michael near the got out of that one,” said the singer, who her life story her own way. “I don’t like
end,” says a friend about confessed she thought that she could talking about myself,” she said, adding
Michael Lockwood, her save Michael. “She really did love him,” that it was hard to erase the decades
twins’ father. They were adds the friend. of “speculation and tabloid stuff”
married from 2006 to 2021. that has been written about her fam-
5. Lisa Marie was a devoted ALWAYS ON MY MIND ily. “I didn’t ask for all the attention,
mom to Finley, Harper, Riley The 2020 suicide of Benjamin, Lisa so I have a phobia against it. But at the
and Benjamin. Marie’s 27-year-old son, was undoubt- same time, I would never take back
6. In June 2022, she and her edly the hardest chapter to write. “I any part of who I am or where I came
mom, Priscilla, cemented already battle with and beat myself from. I would never want to be part of
their family legacy at TCL
Chinese Theatre in LA.
up tirelessly and chronically, blam- anything else. I’m honored and proud
ing myself every single day,” she wrote. of my family and my dad.”

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human rights lawyer Amal, 46, in 2014. He KEVIN BACON
praises the mom of their twins for being “We’ve always been each other’s
caring, smart and funny. Amal admires those biggest support and fans,” says
qualities in George, too. “You fill our home Kyra, 58, who met Kevin, 65, on a
with laughter and happiness,” she gushes. movie set in 1987 and wed him a
year later. “She is the music in my
life,” Kevin confides.
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HAWN
& KURT
RUSSELL
“We never got
married, but
one thing that
continues to
grow is our love,”
ANGELA BASSETT says Goldie, 78,
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blended family
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“We’re better together and her partner since
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Neil, 50, who wed David, 48, in 2014 very devoted to our family and
after seven years together. The pair our lives,” says the mom of three
are parents of 13-year-old twins. kids. “I love our life.”

RITA WILSON &

TOM HANKS
“We just got along
instantly,” says Rita, 67,
of the man she married in HARRISON FORD &
1988. “He makes me laugh CALISTA FLOCKHART
all the time.” That strong Together since 2002, the couple
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“We both know that no wife, who has supported my passions
matter what, we’ll be with and my dreams, and I’m grateful,” says
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“and we’ll get through it.” has given “my life purpose.”
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3 Cupid’s cousin 32 Youngster 61 Sweetener

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5 Took it all off 34 Chops, mangles 63 Young ones
6 Dark breads 36 River through Paris 64 Bon Jovi
ACROSS 78 Impudent 7 Road curve 37 Weather phenomenon and Hamm
1 Got everyone 79 Sampras, of tennis 8 Salon offering 38 Camera adjustment 65 Willing to share
together 80 Tell a fib 9 Borders 39 Plant beginnings 67 Dashboard item
5 Take a lung full 81 Trims the skin 10 Golf grp. 41 Audibly 69 Surgery tool
10 College test 82 Bathe 11 He’s on the lookout 42 Not very clear 70 Microscopic
13 Pitcher’s stat 83 Apple tool 12 Check the flavor 43 In a little while parasite
14 Noisy birds 84 Touched on the edge 14 Curtin, Fonda and 44 Drilled into 72 Sway wildly
15 Old saying 86 Not now Russell 45 Carpentry 73 Got a perfect score
17 Plunk down 87 Pub drinks 16 MGM slogan: “___ implements 74 Letterman and Barry
18 Issues a challenge 88 Spooky Gratia Artis” 46 Type of route 76 Photo book
19 Some farm workers 89 Rent-A-Car company 17 Spot with slides 47 Star Trek doctor 77 Eiffel Tower site
21 Masculine ones 90 Slugger’s stick 18 Wooden pin 48 Christian holy book 78 Smooth fabric
23 Washington bills 91 Manufactured 19 Bearing, demeanor 49 Bridges 79 Byron, Keats and
24 Terminates 92 Wintery guy 20 More docile 50 Solemn promise Shelley
employment 93 Forks, knives and 22 Slept like ___ ___ 52 Overly sentimental 81 For each
25 “I tawt I taw a spoons 24 Goes with fauna 53 Total up 82 Molten material
puddy ___” 27 Small birds 54 Golf course cries 83 Group of relatives
26 Actor Rickman DOWN 28 Lubricates 56 Not safe 85 Passing grade
27 Impressed highly 1 Made 29 Mideast tribal leader 58 Roadway sections 86 Running: on the ___
29 Winter toys disapproving faces 30 Yesterday’s 59 Ties up 87 Presidential
30 Use a stopwatch 2 Troy beauty tomorrow 60 Chicago basketballers nickname
31 Artfully shy
32 Whimpers
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or graph
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35 Off-white color
37 Prophet, crystal
gazer
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40 They hold horses
41 Heart parts
42 Outspoken
43 Dirties
44 Stacking toy
45 Tasteless
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The ___ Of Music
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48 Phony
49 Pigeon talk
51 Rocket’s nose
52 Absolutely delicious
54 College org.
55 Conclude
56 Sprinted
57 Dining room furniture
58 Pillages and plunders
59 Two legged stand
60 Murray and Pullman
61 Rough, severe
62 Like some clouds
63 Singer Michael
64 Catherine Zeta ___
66 Irritable
68 Staunch supporter
69 Lacking
companionship
71 Ocean’s Thirteen
actor Garcia
72 TV hookup
74 They’re from Denmark
75 Number on the car
76 Totals up
77 Walks back and forth

WORD SCRAMBLE
Unscramble the shaded letters to spell out
TINA LOUISE made her film debut
as wife to this future Hawaiian
the answer to this week’s trivia question. hero in 1958’s God’s Little Acre.
 Relax!
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
Find the 10 things that make these two pictures different!
PICTURED:
MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR
ON THE NBC DRAMA FOUND.

BLOCK BUSTERS
Bust up the blocks below and reassemble
CRYPTOGRAM
A Cryptogram is a deciphering puzzle where one letter stands for another.
them to spell the title of a movie that If the letter M represents the letter A, it will do so throughout the puzzle.
each actor appeared in. Each complete Write your answer in the box over the coded letter. Short words like A,
word begins with a capital letter. AND, THE and I are common. Words may frequently end in E, S, and ING.
We’ve given you some starting clues at the bottom.

Co d ta
Si in l H Q I Q X K H Z Z Q J G Q Y E

oun Goo I H Z F R M Q P F I K R I
ld un de T F K R U F I H J Q E K I
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BONUS CROSSWORD 9 Tied up
10 Immigration grp.
37 Puts on a suit
38 Tennis term
ACROSS 61 Mature 11 “Unforgettable” 39 They hold up the
1 Tripped the light 62 Hardy novel singer Cole bank
fantastic heroine 14 Goes on 41 Secluded place
5 Feeling of wonder 63 Tie the knot a pension 42 Not as
8 External covering 64 ER worker 17 Prohibit, forbid complicated
12 Pollution police 22 Stand on one 44 Body shape
13 Piano cousin DOWN foot? 47 Speedy
15 Tennis star 1 Grow and 26 Total 48 Lend a hand
Kournikova advance 27 Wall to wall 50 Applications
16 Part of 2 Pal for Tarzan coverings 53 Wheel Of
a sentence 3 Gets skinny 29 Division word Fortune host
18 Goatee 4 Personal statistic, 31 Electric spark Sajak
19 The majority shortly 32 Twirl around 54 Drink chiller
20 Like a sushi bar 5 One more time 33 Obtain 55 Carpenter’s tool
21 Oz man material 6 Tipped off 34 Isla Fisher hit: 56 Embarrassing
22 Place a wager 7 Come to a halt Now You __ Me color
23 King of the 8 Identical 35 In addition 58 In the past
jungle
24 Place for
a show
25 Herbal brew
28 Tell a whopper
30 A way to go
through
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beach
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38 Actor’s text
40 Vinyl LPs
43 Single thing
45 Wash basin
46 Desire to drink
48 Tiny particle
49 School
transporter
51 Helium or
hydrogen
52 Put on TV
53 Chocolate
creme and
dutch apple
55 Stupendous
57 Business
transaction
59 Land unit
60 Get up

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Relax! HOROSCOPES
WEEK OF FEB. 11 – 17 Rene Russo
Aquarius Leo turns 70 on
JAN. 20 – FEB. 18 JULY 23 – AUG. 22 Feb. 17!
Get a plan in place as to how you want to Love is in your stars, Leo. Get ready to have a
move forward in life. Love and money are heart-to-heart discussion with someone close
on your radar; don’t be flippant with either. — and make it a point to be open and honest.
Pisces Virgo
FEB. 19 – MARCH 20 AUG. 23 – SEPT. 22
Share brilliant ideas with like-minded people to You have choices to make and it’s important
move up the ladder of success and status, but at to get organized. Focus on priorities. Get in
the same time, don’t give away your power. touch with your dreams. Follow your heart.
Aries Libra
MARCH 21 – APRIL 19 SEPT. 23 – OCT. 22
Money from unexpected sources can head When it’s about money or work, use your
your way, but keep in mind there will probably imagination instead of following the well-worn
be a price to pay in one way or another. path. Be creative to find the best solution.
Taurus Scorpio
APRIL 20 – MAY 20 OCT. 23 – NOV. 21
A work situation may need your attention, but A family moment may not go as you expect,
don’t jump to conclusions. Get the facts, not but the outcome can prove to be better.
hearsay, before you say or do anything. Spend more time with those you love.
Gemini Sagittarius
MAY 21 – JUNE 21 NOV. 22 – DEC. 21
If you have an unsettled situation at work, sit Things may not be as they seem at
tight, the news is on the way. Be calculated home or on the domestic front. Try
with your decisions and actions, Gem. not to make a rash judgment.
Cancer Capricorn In 1995’s
JUNE 22 – JULY 22 DEC. 22 – JAN. 19 Get Shorty
Moon energy can give your creativity a boost. An unexpected development at work or
Pay attention to your intuition to know that with money can provide security. Be wise
you are on your life purpose path. with your cash; invest, spend, and save.

THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE SOLUTIONS

Goo d Wil l H un ti ng government to save the environment.” Jack Lord
“It is horrifying to realize that we have to fight our own ANSWER:
Minnie Driver WORD SCRAMBLE
Si de wa ys CRYPTOGRAM
3 9 5 4 6 8 1 7 2 3 2 6 9 5 7 1 8 4 7 5 1 3 6 4 9 2 8 changed at right.
Paul Giamatti 8 6 1 5 2 7 4 9 3 4 8 9 3 1 6 2 7 5 6 8 3 5 9 2 1 7 4 10. Wall color
2 4 7 3 9 1 6 5 8 5 7 1 2 8 4 6 9 3 2 9 4 7 1 8 3 5 6
M oun ta in Co ld 7 8 9 6 4 5 3 2 1 7 5 2 8 6 3 9 4 1 5 4 6 9 7 1 8 3 2
drawing.
6 3 4 2 1 9 5 8 7 8 1 3 7 4 9 5 2 6 1 7 2 4 8 3 5 6 9 9. Eye missing from
Renee Zellweger 5 1 2 8 7 3 9 4 6 9 6 4 5 2 1 7 3 8 8 3 9 6 2 5 4 1 7 “poq” on board.
1 7 3 9 8 4 2 6 5 6 3 7 1 9 8 4 5 2 9 6 8 1 5 7 2 4 3 8. “poe” changed to
BLOCK BUSTERS 4 5 6 7 3 2 8 1 9 1 9 5 4 3 2 8 6 7 3 1 7 2 4 9 6 8 5
9 2 8 1 5 6 7 3 4 2 4 8 6 7 5 3 1 9 4 2 5 8 3 6 7 9 1
on lamp.
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Expert Hard Medium 7. Pull chain missing
X V T C X A U W C Y F O J H M O O I L W SUDOKU changed.
W O I F L U G G U S W L I U R S X I O R
O S Q C R C F A V T D A I D S P P T G I
6. Book color
S Q H Z F L X E O F I D H O G I K G U E from desk.
S O B O E W X O U Z O T V J N C Z Z G W
W W R M R G F C J P A E J S O Q A D M Y
5. Red bell missing
N O I T A T N E S E R P K H F M A T D N pencil holder.
U N A Z J O P Z D T D I C K B U T T O N
G T N I Z E T R M S E Q G O H J F J R H
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O H B Y T L A F O C P P N H T A T Y H O 3. “O” filled in.
L S O Q A O E R C G F I S Y T O I A H J
D M I W T O I E S L R P R E Q S M V S D ing.
M V T T G P I E G D E A S A Q I P R L F 2. “High” text miss-
E Y A S I J Q S K L T X M T L U I I C K
D L N V B U M K W H E D A L B A E E N M changed.
A P O Q I M C A A D A M R I P P O N V S 1. Sweater color
L T H N O P N T N O I T A N I B M O C R
B A S S Y F K E G A K Z K C I P E O T E DIFFERENCE
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Justin
INTO Hartley
THE BLUE

On Tracker
WHAT HE’S DOING:
Playing against type
as a survivalist sleuth
on TV’s Tracker. “He’s
very efficient in the
way he talks, the way
he moves, everything
that he does. And I
am...not.”
Tom Selleck has starred as Frank
Reagan for 275 episodes.

As Blue Bloods returns human-trafficking ring, and the headlines,” says Tom.
for its 14th and final Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) “It’s a show about a law-
season, the two-part investigating a former enforcement family and
premiere finds police partner. But the series their point of view, but
commissioner Frank (Tom will stick to what’s always it doesn’t mean they’re
Selleck) questioning his made it seem fresh from always right and their
support for Mayor Chase, year to year. “We deal adversaries don’t have a
Jamie (Will Estes) going with some real issues, but point...unless they’re flat-
undercover with a deadly we’re not trying to mimic out, murdering criminals!” WHAT HE’S DONE:
TUNE IN! Blue Bloods returns Friday, Feb. 16 at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. Enjoyed playing Kevin
on TV’s This Is Us for
six seasons. “He’s
Young Love become a complete
and full man. A good
Will it end with a big bang? As man. Sometimes it
Young Sheldon begins its seventh takes a long time to
and final season, the winds of get there,” he says.
change have already blown through
the Cooper clan as they deal TUNE IN!
with the tornado that destroyed Tracker
Annie Potts Meemaw’s (Annie Potts) home and premieres
Sheldon’s (Iain Armitage) summer Sunday,
in Germany. But no matter what Feb. 11 after
else is in store, the thing that’ll keep Super Bowl
everyone grounded is family, both LVIII on
on screen and off. Says Iain: “There CBS.
will be lots of laughter and tears
[when the show ends] because I
Iain Armitage’s
love all of these people so much.”
love is more
than theory. TUNE IN! Young Sheldon returns
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CAMBODIA THINGS TO
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upcoming
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Southeast Asia, includes mangrove forests,
floating villages and stunning sunsets.

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CAMBODIA
HOME
THE SPICE
Kampot
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pepper-
corns are
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and sun-
dried.
Their taste is more
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try with a lot to explore. “It was one of the first times I really became ex- 2 lychees
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there,” she says. A visit to its famed temples, including Angkor Wat, north of Siem ingredients with ice in
a shaker and stir until
Reap, felt like a trip back in time. “You can really access the temples,” says Elisa-
chilled. Strain into
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thing I don’t think I have experienced in many other places.” —Susan Hornik
THE SIP
Relax after a day of
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Sweet Sleep
“The Grand Hotel in Siem Reap was
Helping special,” she says. “We walked in and
Hand everything smelled of lemongrass.”
Phare Circus
in Siem Reap
celebrates
the dance,
music and
acrobatic
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of former Visitors are invited to walk among the ancient
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GOOD FOOD

Pressure Cooker
DINNER WINNERS
Fast, fresh and loaded with flavor, these mouthwatering suppers
prove that the old pressure cooker is new again

M
ove over, air fryer: essence,” says Denise Smart, author
The pressure of the new cookbook Pressure Cooking
cooker is mak- Every Day. “They are no longer just
ing a comeback. used for cooking tougher cuts of meat
“Pressure cooking and beans and lentils, but are ideal for
has become fash- everyday cooking.” Indeed, these fla-

&
ionable again, with many of today’s top vor-packed recipes prove that you
chefs using them in their kitchens, and can make a tasty meal in no time
they are often seen on cooking shows with a stovetop pressure cooker. NEW LE
B
and competitions when time is of the Try one tonight! NOTA

CHICKEN TINGA TACOS

Serves 4

1 tbsp. sunflower cilantro and

oil lime, for serving
1 onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, 1. Heat oil in a pressure
So juicy and sliced cooker over medium

flavorful!
8 boneless, heat. Add onion and
skinless chicken garlic; cook 2 to 3 min.
thighs 2. Increase heat and
1 tsp. dried add chicken thighs.
oregano Season and brown. Stir
1 tsp. ground in next 6 ingredients.
cumin 3. Lock lid, bring up to
1 tsp. ground high pressure, stabilize
cinnamon heat and cook 10 min.
2 tbsp. chipotle Remove from heat and
paste in adobo slow release.
1
⁄4 pint tomato 4. Shred chicken in
sauce cooker. Return to heat
1 tsp. red wine and simmer 5 min.,
vinegar until sauce is thick.
12 small warmed Serve chicken on torti-
corn tortillas llas with your favorite
Guacamole, toppings.
sour cream, PER SERVING: 477 cal,
grated cheese, 49g protein, 37g carbs,
lettuce, 7g fiber, 2g sugar, 15g fat

30 February 19, 2024 CLOSER Recipes adapted from Pressure Cooking Every Day by Denise Smart, Hamlyn. Photos by William Shaw.
 Relax!
SPICY JAMBALAYA
Serves 4

1 tbsp. sunflower 6 spring onions,

oil chopped, to
1 onion, chopped garnish
2 celery sticks,
chopped 1. Heat oil in pressure
1 garlic clove, cooker over medium.
crushed Add onion, celery and
31 ⁄2 oz. chorizo, garlic; cook 3 to 4 min.
sliced Add chorizo, chicken
2 boneless, peppers; cook 2 min.
skinless chicken 2. Add paprika, herbs
breasts or 4 and rice; cook 1 min.
thighs, chopped Stir in tomatoes and
2 bell peppers, stock. Lock lid, bring to
cored, seeded high pressure, stabilize
and chopped heat and cook 3 min.
1 tbsp. paprika Remove from heat and
2 tsp. dried herbs slow release.
71 ⁄2 oz. long-grain 3. Stir in shrimp and
rice heat 3 to 4 min. then
1 (14 oz.) can season to taste.
diced tomatoes 4. Serve garnished
3
⁄4 pint hot chicken with spring onions.
stock PER SERVING: 525 cal,
4 oz. cooked 34g protein, 53g carbs,
This one-pot meal is peeled shrimp 4g fiber, 7g sugar, 19g fat
ready in just 15 minutes.

KOREAN BEEF SHORT RIBS

Serves 6

6 beef short ribs, 1. Season beef with

trimmed pepper. Heat oil in a
1 tbsp. toasted pressure cooker over
sesame oil medium. Cook in
2 onions, chopped batches until browned.
2 garlic cloves, Transfer to a plate.
crushed 2. Add onions and
1
⁄4 pint hot beef garlic to cooker; cook
stock 1 min. Stir in next 6
31 ⁄2 oz. dark soy ingredients.
sauce Add ribs. Lock lid,
31 ⁄2 oz. barbecue bring to high pressure,
sauce stabilize heat and cook
2 tbsp. honey 50 min. Remove from
2 tbsp. gochujang heat and slow release.
2 small pears, 3. Remove ribs. Add
peeled, cored and cornstarch to sauce;
shredded bring to a boil, then
1 tbsp. cornstarch simmer 5 min.
blended with 4. Serve ribs over rice
2 tbsp. cold water topped with sauce and
Steamed rice, spring onions with a
shredded side of kimchi.
If your pressure spring onions PER SERVING: 335 cal,
cooker is smaller than and kimchi, for 31g protein, 26g carbs,
6 liters, you’ll need to serving 2g fiber, 19g sugar, 11g fat
halve this recipe.

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FOREVER YOUNG

5 ESSENTIAL SUPPLEMENTS
FOR BETTER HEALTH
FIGHT OFF ILLNESS AND INCREASE
YOUR STRENGTH NATURALLY
FISH OIL: “For years, doctors have known
that people who eat fish regularly enjoy some
protection against heart disease and stroke,”
say the experts at Harvard Medical School.
“For people [at risk for] cardiovascular disease
who don’t eat fish regularly, taking a fish oil
supplement is reasonable.”
MAGNESIUM: “People who are low in magnesium
tend to have higher depression,” points out
Kara Burnstine, a nutrition educator at Pritikin
Longevity Center in Miami. Chronically low
levels can also increase your chances of having
heart disease, type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis.
So if you’re not getting enough magnesium from
greens, nuts or beans, a supplement can help.
VITAMIN B-12: “Vitamin B-12 is important for
brain cell communication. Cells need it to func-
tion,” says Dr. Nakeisha Rodgers, geriatrician
and author of Secrets of Sassy, Savvy Seniors. And
while B-12 is present in foods of animal origin —
including fish, meat, poultry and eggs — if you’re
not getting enough or follow a vegetarian diet, a
supplement could be the way to go.
CALCIUM: “Too many Americans fall short of
getting the amount of calcium they need every
day, and that can lead to bone loss, low bone
density and even broken bones,” explains the
Bone Health & Osteoporosis Foundation.
“The amount you need from a supplement
depends on how much you get from food
[such as milk, yogurt and cheese].”
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GORDON THOMSON

It’s Good
TO BE BAD
The Canadian actor shares memories of playing
the Dynasty villain everyone loved to hate
 Gordon played cunning
Adam Carrington on
Dynasty from 1982 to 1989.
In 2022, Gordon, John James and Jack

A
Coleman created a live cabaret show,
s Dynasty’s black sheep Cocktails With the Carringtons.
Adam Carrington, actor
Gordon Thomson gave
Joan Collins’ wicked took an appalling shine to me when I was
Alexis some competition. living with a fabulous woman. [Accepting
During his seven-year run his advances] became a condition of
on the primetime soap, his character raped employment. I told him, “I can’t. I want to
his future wife, attempted to poison his hold my head up.”
brother-in-law and routinely gay-bashed his
homosexual brother. People might be surprised that you haven’t
Initially, Joan balked when the show always been a purely dramatic actor.
cast Gordon, insisting he was too old to play I did a 1973 production of Godspell in
her long-lost son, but he quickly became Toronto for six months with an astonishing
a fan favorite — and won Joan over, too. company: Gilda Radner, Marty Short,
“Toward the end of Dynasty’s run, Joan Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin. Gilda
said to me, ‘Gordon, darling. I have feelings was a brilliant comedian, but also complete
for you that are far from maternal,’ ” bliss. She and Linda [Evans] are the only
Gordon, 78, confides to Closer. “I was so two actors I’ve ever met who, when you
complimented. The woman had Warren meet them, you just love instantly. Linda
Beatty, for God’s sake!” truly is like the sun coming up.

Did fans confuse you with evil Adam? You also co-starred with Kermit the Frog!
Oh, yes. People were really afraid of me. That was probably the happiest day I’ve
I remember meeting one fan a few years ever spent on a set. I was playing Sir Robin
after the show ended who was shocked that the Brave [in 1971’s The Frog Prince]. Jim
I was nothing like Adam. I asked, “Do you Henson was there working Kermit to my
want to see him?” Then I summoned Adam, immediate left, and I’d stroke Kermit’s little
and the man backed two steps away. It’s head like he was my new pal. It was magical.
all in the eyes.
At the height of Dynasty’s worldwide
Did your good looks help your career, or popularity, you had an audience with then
did you find it hard to be taken seriously? Prince Charles. What do you recall of it?
It hasn’t really helped all that much. I did I think it was in London in 1985. He said,
get to model instead of waiting tables to get “I don’t watch, but my wife [Princess
the rent paid. But it puts some people off, Diana] watches.” I noticed the people in the
thinking that I’m perhaps not a very good background were looking at me and not him
actor. And a certain British gay director because I was the exotic Hollywood visitor.

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HEART to heart
You also met Barbara Stanwyck when Have you ever known true love?
she appeared on Dynasty. Did she live up No, I don’t think I have had that MODEL
to your expectations? gorgeous, reciprocal love. What BEHAVIOR
She was heaven. Golden Hollywood at its I lacked in spades for a very long Gordon began acting as a
finest. When I gave her a kiss, she held time was a sense of self-esteem. student at Montreal’s McGill
her cheek and said, “Mmm, nice kiss.” I I put up with stuff nobody University. After he moved
to California, he worked
thought, “Sweetheart, you were married should put up with just because as a catalog model while
to [actor] Robert Taylor. C’mon. A kiss I didn’t think I was worth it. waiting for his big
from me is nothing.” I had a shift about 13 years ago break.
when I finally realized the man I
Did you ever meet any stars who were a was with was selfish and not worth
disappointment? what I’d invested in him. Far and away the
Charlton Heston, whom I called best relationship I had was with an actress
Chuckles, was most overrated. I was when I was 21 who had the most generous
performing an angry fight scene on [the spirit I’ve ever known. Maureen and I were
spinoff] The Colbys, and Chuckles was a wonderful couple and remained friends
standing behind the set. When I made my until she passed.
exit, he said to me, “When in doubt, we all
shout, don’t we?” I thought, “How dare What do you know now that you wish
you be so condescending.” you’d known when you were younger?
Joan [Collins] said to me once, “Gordon,
In 2017, you were outed as gay by a darling, I’ve not had the sun on my
journalist. How did that happen? face since I was 24.” When I moved to
The first words out of this reporter’s California, my first car was a convertible.
mouth over the phone were, “Well, I should have kept the top up. Get out of
Gordon, as one gay man to another….” the sun and put a whole lot of SPF 50
I had one of those instant chats with on your face.
myself: Do I hang up or do I continue?
He took away my autonomy to come Well, you look great. Have you made any
out on my own, as Richard Chamberlain lifestyle concessions to aging?
did with such grace after waiting until I found out I had diabetes in 2021. It’s been
he reached his 70s. And then at the a very simple thing to adapt to. I don’t
end of the interview, the reporter have a sweet tooth, but you do change. The
told me he’d had a crush on me and biggest is you really have to stay away from
asked me out! all-purpose white flour, which means

GORDON’S
LIFE IN THE
SPOTLIGHT
HEIR APPARENT His role of Adam, the long-
lost son of Alexis and Blake, on Dynasty earned
Gordon a Golden Globe nomination.

HIGH HOPE On
Ryan’s Hope,
CROSSOVER
Gordon starred
He also brought
as Egyptologist
PERFECT PRINCE Adam to three
Aristotle
He played Kermit’s episodes of The
Benedict White
nephew Sir Robin in Colbys.
from 1981 to 1982.
The Frog Prince.

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 “I’m open to dating,
but I’m not looking
for love.”
—Gordon Thomson

pasta. So you start to eat pasta made with

chickpea flour, which is very good for you.

When are you happiest?

I read an enormous amount. I’m [happiest]
surrounded by stacks and stacks of books.
There’s a writer called William Boyd, who
I was first introduced to with his book Any
Human Heart. A wonderful book. There’s
also one called The Cellist, by Daniel Silva.
And Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring
Up the Bodies.

In 2022, you and your fellow Dynasty

alums John James and Jack Coleman did
several Cocktails With the Carringtons
shows. What was the highlight?
It was a whole lot of fun. The splashiest
evening was at the Hollywood Roosevelt
Hotel when Pamela Bellwood, Maxwell
Caulfield and Joan Collins came. Joan
loved it, but she had one note afterwards:
“Darlings, you should be meaner.” I told her,
“No, Joan. That’s your cabaret.”
—William Keck

BACK AGAIN He did return for

the 2006 TV special celebrating
the show, Dynasty Reunion:
Catfights & Caviar.

BIG DRAMA Gordon’s part on ON FILM Gordon also

Santa Barbara prevented him appeared in the 2017
from reprising the role of Adam romance Afterburn/
in the 1991 Dynasty sequel. Aftershock.

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MEMORY LANE
The
JERRY LEE LEWIS
Only I Knew
THE ROCK & ROLL LEGEND’S TEENAGE BRIDE SHARES THE TRUE
STORY OF THEIR CONTROVERSIAL MARRIAGE

M
yra Lewis Williams admits want Jerry to die,” she says. “He just didn’t want
that Jerry Lee Lewis didn’t him married to his daughter!” Myra’s mother called
make a good first impres- ahead to warn Jerry to flee.
sion. “His haircut was way
too short, and his ears stuck ONE WILD LIFE
out. He had a red plaid shirt Jerry bought a house, and Myra, whose marital sta-
and blue jeans, and he looked like a hick,” she tells tus forced her to drop out of school, slowly adjusted to
Closer. But then he started playing piano. “That got her new life. “I tried to learn to cook. I traveled with
my attention. I went, ‘Oh, my God. This man is some him,” she says, adding that the early years were good.
kind of talented.’ ” “We were just as happy as two little bugs in a bush.”
The pioneering performer, famed for hits like But as his career took off, Jerry’s family began to
“Great Balls of Fire” and “Breathless,” won four resent Myra and tell him lies to drive them apart.
Grammys and was among the inaugural class of the “Jerry’s sister told me that Jerry was their ticket
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; but news of his contro- out of poverty, because if he got rich, they got rich,”
versial marriage to the teenage Myra, who was the she explains.
daughter of Jerry’s first cousin, nearly derailed his Myra put up with her in-laws’ abuse and
career. Despite the scandal, their union survived 13 the ugly headlines in the press when her
years and produced two children before Jerry’s pill age was discovered. She grieved with
abuse drove Myra away. Jerry when their eldest child, Steve,
In 1956, when Myra’s father, J.W. Brown, started a drowned at age 3. She reached her
band with his cousin Jerry, the piano player moved limit when the pills Jerry took before
into their family home. “He got my bedroom, and I shows made him behave like a dif-
had to sleep on the couch,” Myra, 79, recalls. Jerry, ferent man. “It was a Jekyll and Hyde
then 22, liked to tease Myra and often took her out routine. He was one person in the light
for ice cream. “I thought he was just being nice to a of day and another person at night when
kid,” she says, adding that she was stunned when he the moon came out,” says Myra. She filed
showed up with a marriage license one night. “He for divorce in 1970.
said, ‘Myra, I want to marry you. I love you.’ And I Myra remained friendly with
was like, what? I mean, I’m 13.” Jerry until his 2022 death. She also
The next night, Jerry invited Myra to the movies, found the partner she longed for in
but instead he drove her to a wedding chapel. “I’m her 1984 marriage to an Atlanta
the only person who had a surprise wedding,” says real estate broker. “We just love
Myra, who said “I do” in the same red dress she’d each other unconditionally,”
worn to school that day. she says of her husband, Rich-
When J.W. found out a few days later, he grabbed ard. “In the end, it all turned
his gun and headed to the recording studio. “He out.” —Louise A. Barile, reporting
wanted to kill him, and at the same time, he didn’t by Amanda Champagne-Meadows

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 A LONG ROAD
“I wasn’t
supposed
to wear
lipstick,”
recalls Myra,
who says
Jerry didn’t
like her to
dress up. “He
was judging
by the women
he saw on
the road, but
it tore at my
self-esteem.”

The couple
had two
children
together:
Steve, born
in 1959, and
Phoebe, born
in 1963. “He
loved his
babies,” says
Myra, “but he
did not believe
in correcting
them.”

Their daughter,
Phoebe, would
also pursue a
career in music.
“Jerry was
more of a kid Leaving Jerry
was difficult.
than I was. I “There were
many regrets,

Myra enjoyed a
was the more much sadness
and a lot of
successful career
as a real estate mature one.” relief,” says
Myra. “I was
broker. She is —Myra Lewis Williams dealing with two
the author of the people — the
2016 memoir drug taker and
The Spark That the husband. It
Survived. broke my heart.”

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NEXT CHAPTER

JANE SEYMOUR

Why I’ve
NEVER
BEEN HAPPIER
THE DR. QUINN ALUM FOUND NEW LOVE BY
PUTTING HERSELF AND HER FAMILY FIRST

A
fter four divorces and down. “I just said I would never put
several long-term rela- a number on his name,” she says.
tionships, it would be
hard to blame Jane Sey- A NEW HORIZON
mour for giving up on Jane felt an immediate connection
love — but she’s grateful with John, 73, but instead of drop-
she kept an open heart. “I’ve never been ping her life to be with him, she
happier,” Jane, who turns 73 on Feb. 15, invited him into her world, where John “wrote me some love
gushed after going public with musician she’s a mom to five adult children songs,” says Jane.
John Zambetti. and a grandma to three. “I was at my
Jane believes this relationship is dif- happiest, surrounded by friends and
ferent because she hasn’t remade her life family,” says Jane, whose close circle also
to suit his. “When I became determined includes her sisters and their husbands.
to be intentionally single and just live…. “I let [John] be part of the gang.”
I was the most whole I’d ever been,” says Happily, John mixed perfectly into
Jane, who confesses she’d previously Jane’s life. “There was a real fit in terms
put her partners’ needs before her own. of our families, our culture and the
“For the first time in my life, I wasn’t things we liked,” says the star, who adds
a man’s half.” that their genuine connection is joyful.
When Jane’s and John’s children in- “Sex right now is more wonderful and
troduced them, she was not looking for a passionate than anything I ever remem-
relationship. Months earlier, she’d ended ber because it is built on trust, love and ex- Jane’s grandchildren
a nine-year romance with director David perience,” she says, noting that intimacy is call her “Oma.”
Green, 81, whose proposal she’d turned “better at my age than it ever was before.”

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GLORIA SWANSON

A Life of
GRIT& GLAMOUR
A SELF-MADE WOMAN, SHE REINVENTED HERSELF AS
HOLLYWOOD’S ORIGINAL GLITTERING GODDESS

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A
fter nearly two de- Shearer. When her film career
cades away from went into decline in the 1930s, WISDOM & FOLLY
the silver screen, she moved to New York, where
Gloria Swanson she appeared in theater and took up Born in Chicago
agreed to play a painting, sculpting and activism. in 1899, Gloria
Hollywood legend Aware of the plight of many Jew- lived in Florida,
Texas and Puerto
who boards a fateful flight in the ish scientists in Europe during the
Rico as a child due
hit film Airport 1975. For the role, rise of fascism, Gloria created Mul- to her father’s
which would be her last, the diva in- tiprises, a patent licensing com- civilian job with
sisted on writing her own dialogue. pany, and spent her own money the Army.
“I was holding out for a picture I helping at-risk scientists move to Her large blue
could take my grandchildren to America. “To her credit, she actu- eyes made her
see, something exciting and con- ally saved the lives of some of these stand out.
temporary, without senseless vio- scientists,” says Shearer. “The mess
lence,” she said. I made of
Gloria prized her grandchildren SUNSET BOULEVARD marriage was
almost as much as her life as Hol- It’s rumored that Greta Garbo de- all my fault,”
lywood’s most dazzling diva. “She clined the role of Norma Desmond said Gloria,
was very ambitious and very certain in 1950’s Sunset Boulevard, leaving with her third
husband and
of herself,” says Stephen Michael the door open for Gloria to stage a the probable
Shearer, author of Gloria Swans­on: comeback and win her third Acad- love of her life,
The Ultimate Star. “She command- emy Award nomination. “Maybe Marquis Henri
ed a room when she entered it, even I shouldn’t have done it,” she com- de la Falaise,
at 4-foot-11-inches tall.” plained when a new generation in 1925.
An only child born into a family confused her in real life with de-
of modest means, Gloria’s parents lusional Norma. “She didn’t live
fueled her confidence in the past,” says
with an assertion she Shearer. “Yet she
could do anything never could under-
she set her mind to. “I have stand why a woman
A crush on a movie
star inspired teenage
decided that of 50 years or more
wasn’t given roman-
Gloria to talk her way when I am a tic leads.” Still, her
onto her first film set. role in Sunset Bou-
By the dawn of the star, I will be levard would be her Gloria was mother to Little Gloria,
1920s, Gloria was
among Hollywood’s
every inch and greatest and stand
the test of time.
Michelle and adopted son Joseph.

biggest silent-movie every moment Like so many am-

“I am big. It’s
stars. “[Director] Cecil bitious people, Gloria
B. DeMille discovered a star.” had a difficult per-
the pictures
that got small,”
her. He dressed her up, —Gloria Swanson sonal life. She was Gloria said as
and he educated her,” divorced five times Norma Desmond
says Shearer, who adds that despite before marrying William Duffy, a in Sunset
her petite stature, Gloria wore silk writer and activist 15 years her ju- Boulevard. She
brocade, feathers, furs and Art Deco nior, in 1976. And although her re- earned $53,333
jewelry with flair. “She was hungry lationships with her children were for the part,
which won her
to better herself and became Hol- distant, she made an effort to be- an Oscar nod.
lywood’s first glamour queen. She come a part of the lives of her seven
also developed into a fine actress.” grandchildren — whose existence Gloria, who died
From 1918 to 1929, Gloria earned she called a blessing in Airport 1975. at 84 in 1983,
$8 million but spent money lavishly, “She loved her grandchildren,” says was an early
not only on clothes and jewels, but Shearer. “There’s not one grand- proponent of yoga
and health food.
also on creating her own production child that didn’t say anything but “I started carrying
company — which nearly bankrupt- good things about Gloria.” a carnation as a
ed her. “She had an extremely ro- —Louise A. Barile, reporting by way to help me
mantic notion about life,” explains Fortune Benatar quit smoking,”
she said.
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 ROB LOWE

MY LIFE IN

“I try to be
10
Pictures
authentically AFTER SEEING Oliver! when he was 8, Robert Hepler Lowe knew he
wanted to be an actor. “It was an absolute certainty,” said Rob. “I
who I am.” was blessed with ignorance. It never occurred to me that Dayton,
—Rob Lowe
Ohio, wasn’t this hotbed for producing famous actors.” Later,
after his parents’ divorce, Rob moved with his mom and brother
Chad out West, where he could pursue his dream. But becoming
a respected actor wasn’t easy as he went from teen heartthrob to
carousing movie star and full-blown addict along the way. Luckily
for Rob, he’d persevere with the help of his “best friend” and wife
of over 30 years, Sheryl. And now, as he turns 60 on March 17, Rob
has “never been happier, personally or professionally, [and] there’s
not a day that goes by where I’m not thankful about it all.”

7
2006 FOUR HIRE
“I was supposed to
be on for four
weeks — and I stayed for
four years!” said Rob of TV’s
Brothers & Sisters (with
Calista Flockhart). But he
left when “they ran out of
storytelling runway. I mean,
there are [just] so many
family dinners you can do.”

8
2010 GAVE HIS WORD Thanks to the writers
incorporating it into his role on TV’s Parks and
Recreation, “America knows I may have too
much of an affection for the word li-tra-lly. I literally
cannot stop saying the word li-tra-lly. I’ve been on TV
a long time, and I’ve never had a catchphrase. This
may be my ‘What you talkin’ ’bout, Willis? ”

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 3
1985 UNDER FIRE After
St. Elmo’s Fire, Rob

2
1983 ON TRACK “The Outsiders was couldn’t shake his

1
1979 FIRST GO “I literally knew nothing my last audition that I was going to “lovable rogue” Billy Hicks. “I
when I did that show,” Rob said of his turn do before I sort of gave it up,” became so identified with it —
on the short-lived series A New Kind of confessed Rob of his big-screen debut (with the wild, fun, rock ’n’ roll, quasi-
Family. “It was the first time I signed an autograph. Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon). “If I hadn’t been debauched [guy] with the heart
It was the first time I got fan letters. It was the first cast, I wouldn’t be an actor, ’cause that was of gold: That’s my early 20s in a
time people screamed when I came [around].” the last train leaving the station for me.” nutshell.”

4
1994

5
SILENT 1999
PERIOD TAKING
“For sure the WING
hardest [part I’ve Feeling “very
had] was The undervalued,” Rob
Stand,” he said of quit the hit TV series
his TV turn as a The West Wing after
man who can’t hear four seasons — and
or speak. “The without any regrets.

6
irony is I found “[It’s as if] I walked 2002 COMEDY GOLD
myself consulting away from the “One of the greatest
the script more most popular girl compliments I ever got
than I probably at school, but I also was from Mike Myers, who said
have in any other knew that it was a that I should’ve been one of
movie I’ve ever super-unhealthy [SNL’s] Not Ready for Prime Time
done. I had so relationship. And it Players,” said Rob of showing his
many notes…and was the best thing comic chops in Mike’s pics, such
no words at all.” I ever did.” as Austin Powers in Goldmember.

10
2020 STAR
POWER “I
feel like I
have been playing
the lottery and
doing OK,” said Rob
of his luck in landing
another hit role with
TV’s 9-1-1: Lone Star.
“In any given
episode, I’m playing
comedy, I’m playing
a leading man, I’m
playing action, and
I’m playing really
raw emotion. You

9
2000 HIGHS AND LOWES “They teach me lessons every day, and just don’t get many
they give me s*** every day, but it’s a ton of love. My greatest joy is opportunities as
definitely being a part of their lives,” shared Rob of sons John Owen an actor to go to
and Matthew, whom he loved working with on the reality series The Lowe [those] kind
Files. “The fun of it at the end of the day is getting out of the house having an of places.”
adventure with your kids…. That’s all we have, our memories.”

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FLASHBACK
Now
Goddess Jennifer
Lopez
Gowns
Jennifer Lopez wowed at 1942 Now
Paris Fashion Week in a Ingrid Meryl
daringly low-cut, goddess Bergman Streep
green mousseline Elie Saab
gown with a pastel flowered
cape. The heaven-sent Bow-Tied Blouses
look was reminiscent Meryl Streep’s classic, white silk blouse with a
of a custom gown and bow-tied neck could be a duplicate of a pretty
embellished cape shirt fellow Oscar-winner Ingrid Bergman donned
designed for Dinah Shore before Meryl was even born!
to wear in the 1955
Rose Bowl Parade.
That year, the
singer performed
and rode on a
“Music Through
the Ages” float. 1965
Fabian

1955
Dinah
Shore

Off Now
Shoulder Florence Pugh
Angela Bassett chose
a glamorous off-the-
shoulder gown for
Pompadours
the recent Golden Oppenheimer's Florence Pugh recently hit
Globe Awards, the red carpet with her hair sculpted into
but it’s a recurrent a sky-high pompadour. In the 1950s, this
fashion trend that became the go-to hairstyle for a generation
also looked sexy and of male rebels, bad boys and rockers, but
sophisticated on
original King Kong
1930 Now the pompadour actually started off as a
woman's hairdo! It was named for Madame
Fay Wray Angela Bassett de Pompadour, the mistress of King Louis XV.
star Fay Wray.

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