People - 25 April 2016

MURDER ON CAMPUS

A Ballet Student’s Shocking Death

ROB KARDASHIAN

WEDDING DRAMA WHY HIS SISTERS ARE ANGRY

Kate&Will’s AMAZING ADVENTURE IN INDIA! April 25, 2016

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NATALIE WOOD THE UNTOLD STORY

Her daughter Natasha reveals the private side of the beloved mother she lost too soon in a tragic boating accident

Plus Robert Wagner breaks his silence

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‘If celebrating my roots and culture during Black History Month Q&A made anyone Diane Kruger uncomfortable, The actress, 39, stars in those feelings the romantic drama Sky You costar with were there The Walking Dead’s long before a Norman Reedus. What was it like on-set? video and long We met day one of before me.’ shooting, which was

‘I was the oldest of four, I nannied for four years, and I worked at a daycare. Then I had my first child and realized that I knew nothing.’

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awkward because it was a really big love scene. He’s really funny and very gentle as opposed to what he looks like. This was one of those films where everybody wants to be there because they really love the story. Your boyfriend, actor Joshua Jackson, is also in the film. What was it like working together? The director was looking for a cop, which is a key scene in the movie, and [Joshua] has such a sympathetic face. It was great. I love him as an actor—I think he’s wonderful.

‘Everything I do is to make her laugh, especially the sex.’ —RYAN REYNOLDS, accepting his award for best comedic performance at the MTV Movie Awards

‘Every time I’d go to the gym or go eat, paparazzi would ask me questions and I would be like: “Hey guys!” Like, I so wanted the attention.’ —KIM KARDASHIAN WEST, reminiscing about her life 10 years ago with BFF Jonathan Cheban, on her website

How do you relax when you’re not working? I love to entertain. I’m really good at doing nothing. I love hiking. A lot of actors get nervous, like work is going to dry up, and I’m not like that at all. I’m really good at seeing my friends and living life. —JULIE JORDAN

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—BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD, on the struggle of juggling work and kids to People

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Beauty Khloé Kardashian guestedits the pages of People Beauty and shares insights about aging, body image and musical therapy.

50 Natalie Wood’s daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner ofers an intimate look at the mom she adored—and the public never knew: “I think about her every day.”

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44 Ballet student Haruka Weiser’s shocking murder.

23 SCOOP Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna rejoice over their engagement . . . but how do their families feel? Plus: Amy Schumer fires back about being labeled “plus size” 61 A new book about Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy reveals fresh details about the daughter who defied her parents and died in a plane crash at 28

64 Ice T and Nicole “Coco” Austin open up about why

they waited more than a decade to welcome their first child

67 Queen Elizabeth turns 90 April 21— and she still rules!

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Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman have decided to divorce.

one she could finally call family. God bless her and her children.

and deserves only the best!

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Patty Duke

I was so happy to see your article on Cheryl Ladd. I have always admired and respected her for thinking outside the box, beyond her career as an actress. Author, artist, humanitarian—the list goes on. I’m pleased to see her enjoying the benefits of her diverse career.

Patty Duke was such a great actress—even winning an Academy Award at such a young age. While it’s unfortunate that her mental illness took over at the prime of her life, sharing her story could not have been easy. At least she found happiness in the end.

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‘I really hoped that Little Girl Lost had found her happily ever after’ Mary Urban via e-mail

The remarkable Patty Duke was an advocate for bipolar disorder and a brilliant actress who had a long career that a lot of us grew up watching. She will be missed. Mary M. via e-mail

Drew Barrymore I hope Drew gets to spend some time away from the limelight so she can recover from her heartbreak.

ing. I truly thought she had found it with Will Kopelman and her beautiful children. Kathy Thompson via e-mail

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I have always liked Drew but wondered if she would find true happiness because of her traumatic upbring-

So sad to hear about another Hollywood divorce. I never thought it would happen to Drew. She found love and some-

Tamron Hall I’ve been a big fan of hers since her days at Chicago Fox 32. My heart goes out to her on the loss of her sister! I’m so proud of all her accomplishments, and I know that her sister feels the same! She has a guardian angel with her forever

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Los Angeles surrogate mom Melissa Cook, whom we first wrote about in our March 14 issue, was granted a temporary stay on a court ruling that previously awarded custody of the triplet boys she delivered on Feb. 22 to their biological father. The March 30 ruling prohibits the infants’ father—a 50-year-old, single, deaf postal worker from Georgia who lives with his elderly parents—from removing the children from the LEGAL BATTLE state of California until a final decision is made by the court. “My OVER TRIPLETS concern has always been for the welfare of the children and what “I’m excited to is best for them,” says Cook, who believes the father, identified be reunited with only as C.M. in court papers, is unfit to care for the babies. The them,” says Cook, 47-year-old mother of four, who also wants the state’s surrogacy who still hasn’t law declared unconstitutional, is asking for custody of any child been allowed to that C.M. is unable to raise. —JOHNNY DODD see the infants.

At a garden party on April 11, William and Kate (in a Temperley London dress) cut a cake—with a sword!—honoring Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday.

WILL AND KATE TAKE INDIA!

Cricket, cake, sightseeing and even a rare red carpet appearance—and that was just in the first two days of Princess Kate and Prince William’s weeklong tour of India. Leaving 2-year-old Prince George and nearly 1-year-old Princess Charlotte behind for the first time, the royal mom “said she loves being here and the people are very welcoming, but she was worried she may miss her children,” said actress Madhuri Dixit at a Bollywood gala on April 10. Still, the couple made the most of the adventure. Says a royal source: “They are having an absolutely great time.” 12

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At a tech event in Mumbai on April 11, William went for a spin in a race car simulator while Kate (in Emilia Wickstead) cheered him on.

On April 10, Kate kicked the soccer ball in her favorite wedges. (What else?)

K AT E G E T S S P ORT Y ! Kate paired a hand-beaded Jenny Packham gown with blue lapis earrings by Indian jeweler Amrapali for the Bollywood gala on April 10.

She took flight in a tunic dress by Mumbai designer Anita Dongre. “She batted, she fielded, she did everything!” said cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar.

The couple were given tika dots (a symbol of welcome) during a traditional ceremony in Mumbai on April 10.

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Chris Pratt, who won Best Action Performance for Jurassic World, hung out with former Parks and Recreation costar Amy Poehler.

Dude, where’s my pants? Alexander Skarsgard omitted the bottom half of his tux as he presented the Movie of the Year award with Samuel L. Jackson.

Kendall Jenner stunned in thigh-high, lace-up DSquared2 heels.

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Halle Berry and Queen Latifah presented Will Smith with the prestigious Generation Award.

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Timeless Icon Award recipient John Stamos was supported by his former TV wife Lori Loughlin on the red carpet.

This one’s for the ladies! Mad Max: Fury Road’s Charlize Theron dedicated her Best Female Performance award to her daughter August.

Ariana Grande, who performed her new single “Dangerous Woman,” channeled her best inner Marilyn Monroe.

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Ellen Pompeo presented the Trailblazer Icon Award to Grey’s Anatomy director and costar Debbie Allen.

Younger star Sutton Foster dazzles at the taping, which airs on Sunday, April 17 at 9 p.m. ET on TV Land.

Sheryl Crow, celebrating being cancer-free for 10 years, performed “I Shall Believe,” which she chose because “it’s just a song of hope.”

Event cofounder Katie Couric (with Alec and Hilaria Baldwin) was honored for raising coloncancer awareness. “Colon-cancer screening is up, mortality is down,” she told People. “Our efforts really made a difference.”

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“The real heroes and the real stars are the doctors who are putting work in every single day and night to try and solve this thing,” says Jamie Foxx, who got the crowd dancing with a Ray Charles song.

Reese Witherspoon praised husband Jim Toth, who works with the foundation in honor of his late father. “He’s an incredible man,” Witherspoon told People.

“This is my favorite organization to work with,” said Ken Jeong of the event, which raised $42 million, thanks to donors American Airlines and Merck.

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Surf’s up! Bella Thorne holds on tight to her older sister Dani as the pair played in the waves in Miami on April 8.

Iggy Azalea and radio deejay Elvis Duran hosted the Miami Beach Gay Pride Parade on April 10.

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“It was a proper proposal,” a rep for Blac Chyna said of how Kardashian popped the question to Chyna at their Tarzana, Calif., home on April 4.

and Blac Chyna’s Internet-breaking engagement may well be steeped in drama, but that was hard to tell on April 9, when the beaming new brideto-be stepped out at Harrah’s Resorts Pool After Dark nightclub in Atlantic City, N.J. Wearing a revealing white ensemble and flashing her whopping 7-carat sparkler from Kardashian, the video model took to the stage with pal Amber Rose (whose own six degrees of Kardashian connectedness

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Despite posting fun snaps from their Vail vacation, as of press time Rob’s family remained silent on his engagement news. “They made a united decision to not comment on social media,” says the production source.

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A SOCIALITE UNDER ARREST Tinsley Mortimer, 40, once the most photographed It girl in New York, was arrested in Palm Beach, Fla., on April 9 for trespassing at the home of on-again, of-again boyfriend Nico Fanjul. “They’d had a tumultuous relationship, but they were seeing each other as recently as this past week,” a source tells People of the couple. “She sat on his doorstep for hours and banged on the door. Finally they called the police to get her out of there.” Another insider added, “She’s not a bad person, but she was too upset to be thinking rationally.”

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stem from her past dating money and dying to stay Kanye West, now Kim TheTyga relevant and get back at Kardashian’s husband). Connection Kylie by being with Rob.” Responding to the crowd’s Though Khloé took to well wishes, Chyna gushed, Instagram with a cryptic “I’m super-excited!” As a rep message April 9, saying, for the 27-year-old, whose “Loving people does not realname is Angela White, mean we have to carry their exclusively toldPeople, burdens,” neither she nor “She’s ecstatic.She’s soon to her sisters have publicly be Angela Kardashian.” congratulated Rob. Khloé, Making plans to walk for one, “plans on ignoring down the aisle was a bold the news,” says the first Tyga and Chyna (a former move for Rob, 29, who broke source. “She is not happy friend of Kim ranks with his tight-knit and is not going to pretend Kardashian’s) were engaged family when he first began that she is.” (For more on and had a son in dating Chyna in January. Khloé, see page 83). 2012 before splitting in 2014. The father of Chyna’s son There are those in the King Cairo, 3, is rapper Tyga, family who appreciate Blac 26, 18-year-old Kylie’s Chyna, however. After boyfriend—and Kylie felt Rob’s years of depression, particularly hurt by Rob’s “she’s been great as a new relationship. (See box.) rebound, someone who’s Rob’s sisters Kourtney, 37, gotten Rob out of a dark Kim, 35, and Kendall, 21, place,” a family friend took Kylie’s side. And Khloé, concedes. “But no one is 31, who lived with Rob and really hoping for a Pal Amber Rose considered herself his marriage to happen.” blasted Chyna’s biggest supporter over the For now, Rob is only ex for dating then 17-year-old last two years as he became concerned with building Kylie in 2015. reclusive while battling his future—and landing his (The pair only took their depression and severe own show with Chyna. “A relationship public weight gain, was especially wedding seems to be once she turned 18 in August.) livid. “Ever since Khloé happening this year,” says found out about Rob dating the first source, adding that Chyna, she’s felt betrayed,” says a they will “definitely” be taping it. source. “Khloé and Kylie think Chyna “They both seem excited—they are is desperate, thirsty and playing with talking about babies too!” Rob’s head,” adds a second insider. —Additional reporting by Melody Chiu “They’re concerned she is after his and Pernilla Cedenheim

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THE BLOND AMBITION TOUR THEN

In 1990, clockwise from bottom: Gutierez, Crumes, Camacho, Stea, Donna DeLory, Wilborn, Madonna, Trupin and Gauwloos.

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nobody who can touch” Madonna’s work ethic. “She was a great person to work for. . . . I guess they think she’s a diva, and ‘diva’ is a nicer word for ‘bitchy.’” She kept her “babies” close. “She was tough but so generous,” says Luis Camacho. “One time [Jose Gutierez and I] went to a Prince concert with her, and we got to go onstage and dance with Prince. Afterward we were having a race between Prince and Madonna’s limos

in New York. We were like, ‘Is this really happening?’” And she wasn’t just pushing the envelope for attention. “To have the Pope call you out and still say, ‘This is my artistic expression. Get over it’—that took some ginormous balls,” says Kevin Stea. “She did want to express herself as an artist.” About that kiss between dancers Gabriel Trupin and Salim Gauwloos in Truth or Dare? “Being out of the closet, it could have been hard to get more work. But it inspired people,” says Gauwloos. —JEFF NELSON NOW

“We developed this bond” says Gutierez (bottom right, with, clockwise from bottom left, Camacho, Gauwloos, Crumes, Wilborn and Stea; Trupin died in 1995). “Here we are 26 years later.”

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In 1990 Madonna set out on her now-legendary Blond Ambition World Tour, a show that was often so provocative that it sparked international controversy, from arrest threats for public indecency in Canada to a call for boycott from the Pope. Luckily there were cameras there to catch it all, as seen in the 1991 documentary Truth or Dare. At the time, few knew the icon better than her gaggle of vogue-ing dancers. Six of them—starring in the new documentary Strike a Pose (about their lives 25 years later, premiering April 15 at the Tribeca Film Festival)—look back on their bond, the groundbreaking tour and the film that followed. Madonna had a way of transforming into Madonna. “Hanging out, she’s a super-regular chick,” recalls Carlton Wilborn. “But I remember once, during rehearsals, Madonna was having her makeup done. She went to check her face in the mirror, and she instantly morphed into Madonna. She knows how to become a mega-superstar just in a look.” She’s a pleasure to work with. “A lot of people ask me, ‘Was she bitchy?’ No!” says Oliver Crumes, who says “there’s

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BETHENNY FRANKEL THE SKINNYGIRL MOGUL, 45, IS BACK AGAIN ON BRAVO’S REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK CITY, WEDNESDAYS AT 9 P.M.

She doesn’t care about getting married again. “We’re not supposed to change who we are for a man, and I guarantee I won’t be making that mistake again. I don’t need to get married. I don’t need a man. I can support five men. Everybody is out there looking for someone— they want the ring and to get married. My opinion is you need a man who can deal with you. If I can’t meet someone who can do that, then I’d rather be alone.” “Andy put me on the show all those years ago because I don’t edit myself. Other people are afraid to say what they are really thinking, but if there’s an elephant in the room, then I’m the one that introduces everyone to the elephant. I’m always open, but I was more outspoken this season than I’ve ever been. I was shocked by some of the things that were coming out of my mouth!”

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He boasts a perfect Hollywood pedigree, but Wyatt Russell, 29, now starring in Richard Linklater’s ’80s romp Everybody Wants Some!!, says he didn’t need to go into the family business to cement his bond with his parents, Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, or half siblings Kate and Oliver Hudson and Boston Russell. “We’ve always had closeness as a family,” the former pro hockey player says. “That’s our anchor.” As for his resemblance to his dad in younger days? “I take it as a compliment!”—JODI GUGLIELMI

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She has a really good voice! With his parents at the Hateful Eight premiere in 2015; lookalike dad Kurt Russell in 1976.

“I can actually sing, but I’m terrified of karaoke. I love ‘Girl on Fire’ by Alicia Keys. But when the words come up with that little ball on the screen, it just gives me anxiety.” —EMILY STROHM

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High school wasn’t an easy time for Lele Pons. The Venezuelan immigrant, a self-described “socially awkward” teen who struggled with English at first, was bullied every day at her Miami school. “People threw food at me and sang songs about how ugly I was,” she says. But when she started posting comedy videos on Vine, her social status rose. “I knew my true friends were the ones who’d been with me since the beginning,” says Pons, 19, who now has 10.8 million Vine followers and hopes to help others with her new novel Surviving High School. “If you can deal with the problems you face in high school, you can handle anything.”

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STOP CALLING US ‘PLUS SIZE!’

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The star recently told People, “I love to see media embrace a more expansive version of [fashion], in which we’re not necessarily segregating women based on the shape of their bodies.”

MELISSA McCARTHY

‘THESE LABELS ARE RESERVED FOR WOMEN’ —AMY SCHUMER

After a magazine dubbed her “America’s plussize sweetheart,” McCarthy told People in 2014, “It’s not that it’s not a fact about me, but I don’t know what the obsession is with pointing it out.”

ASHLEY GRAHAM The model called the term plus size “totally outdated” at a panel in 2016. “It shouldn’t be about labels. I don’t want to be called a label. I want to be called a model,” she said.

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Amy Schumer is usually the first person to poke fun at herself, but when she was named on the cover of Glamour magazine’s recent special issue devoted to fashion for sizes 12 and up, the comedian wasn’t laughing. “I go between a size 6 and an 8. . . . Young girls seeing my body type thinking that is plus size . . . not cool Glamour,” she posted on Instagram after seeing the issue that was sponsored by retailer Lane Bryant, which makes clothing exclusively in sizes 14 through 28. Later the Trainwreck star was quick to point out that her real issue was with the sexist aspect of terms denoting size. “Bottom line seems to be that these labels are unnecessary and reserved for women,” she said in a second post. And she’s not alone in fighting back against such language. “We have to stop categorizing and judging women based on their bodies,” Melissa McCarthy posted on Instagram on April 8. In a recent interview with Refinery 29, McCarthy elaborated: “Can you imagine . . . asking some of these guys I work with, ‘How do you keep your butt looking so good?’ It would be like, ‘What the f--- are you talking about? Why are you asking about the shape of my butt?’ ” Of the controversy, Lena Dunham recently told People, “I think fashion should be for all women. Amy Schumer was trying to say we’re not supposed to be categorized . . . we’re supposed to just be allowed to exist.”

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on April 8. Former Bachelor contestant Ashley Salter, 25, welcomed her first child—a baby boy named Brooks Hartman— on April 7 with her fiancé, Austin Brannen. Former American Idol contestant Scott MacIntyre, 30, is expecting his first child with wife Christina.

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DEATHS Former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith, 34, died after he was allegedly shot several times by another driver, Cardell Hayes, following a car accident on April 9 in New Orleans. Smith’s wife, Racquel, 34, was also shot twice in her right leg.

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Hayes was arrested at the scene and charged with second-degree murder. Melinda Rose •Woodward, 75, the wife of

U.K. singer Sir Tom Jones, died of cancer in an L.A. hospital on April 10. Daisy Lewellyn, star of the reality show Blood Sweat & Heels, died on April 8 after a two-year battle with bile duct cancer. She was 36.

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Remembering Merle Haggard, Beloved Country Outlaw

Country music is known for songs about truth—and nobody lived their music quite like Merle Haggard. With songs like “Okie from Muskogee,” “Fightin’ Side of Me” and “Mama Tried,” Haggard—who died on April 6, his 79th birthday, after a battle with pneumonia— established himself as one of the genre’s most authentically autobiographical songwriters. After years of being on the wrong side of the law, Haggard landed in San Quentin prison for attempted burglary at the age of 20. But he turned his life around behind bars, thanks to a visiting performer named Johnny Cash. “I charted a new course,” he told Parade in 2000 of seeing Cash’s famous show at the prison. Nine years later Haggard had his first of many No. 1 hits with “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive.” Haggard went on to record 38 No. 1 hits in a musical career that spanned nearly six decades and earned him a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame. His final project was the 2015 album Django and Jimmie with Willie Nelson. He never lost his unmistakable voice—“so smooth it’s like whiskey,” Miranda Lambert told People in 2010. “He sang about real things: cheating and drinking and jail and his mama and trains. That’s what country music is about.” —DANIELLE ANDERSON

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35, welcomed their first child—a boy named Jonathan Rosebanks—on March 24. Pretty Little Liars’ Chad Lowe, 48, and his wife, Kim, 42, welcomed their third daughter last month. Nixie Barbara joins big sisters Mabel, 6, and Fiona, 3. Big Brother and Amazing Race alumni Brendon Villegas, 35, and Rachel Reilly, 31, welcomed their first child, a baby girl,

daughter of the late Paul Walker, was awarded $10.1 million from the estate of Roger Rodas, the driver in the car crash that killed both men in 2013.

family. “It’s important that I do this now. I have to rest up, doctor’s orders. I will continue the tour as soon as I possibly can,” she said.

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Neel Sethi as a boy who talks to the animals, including a bear. (And a scary tiger voiced by Idris Elba, page 57.)

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This roaringly entertaining reboot of a Disney favorite is where the wild things are ADVENTURE We took Sassy, a gorilla trained in hand-signing and movie-review blurbing, to see Disney’s reboot of its beloved 1967 cartoon based on the Rudyard Kipling classic. Her comments: “I could go ape over this movie! I have never seen such believable CGI animals (let alone talking animals), and that includes the man-cub Mowgli!” (Actually, he’s played by human actor Neel Sethi.) “And I went bananas for Baloo the bear! If Bill Murray weighed 500 lbs. and wore fur, he’d be Baloo!” (In fact, Murray voices the character and sings “The Bare Necessities.”) “Director Jon Favreau doesn’t monkey around here: The pacing is sure-footed, and the story goes straight to the heart—I cried at the baby elephant! And did you get the reference to Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now? ” We didn’t, to be honest, but Sassy was right. So we set her free at the mulitplex, where she belongs. (April 15, PG)

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DRAMA “Everyone’s paid to be everywhere,” says law-firm intern Christine, justifying the mess caused by her side career as an escort. “It’s called an economy.” This hardedged series is never as glibly cynical as that, thanks to Riley Keough’s performance—sullen, remote, very much of the Kristen Stewart school. Trying to make sense of Christine’s stake in this world of money and seduction is quite an Experience. (Starz, Sundays, 8 p.m.)

Nicki Minaj, Eve and Common, trying to give peace a chance.

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Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer and a whole new crew get snippy COMEDY It’s been 12 years since the last family reunion (Barbershop 2), so there’s lots to catch up on in the coif-eteria run by Calvin (Ice Cube) and Angie (Regina Hall). Besides the gossip and the squabbles, the crew frets over the gang violence plaguing Chicago’s South Side. Yes, it’s preachy as they organize a ceasefire, but Cut also comes with laughs. Funniest are newcomers Lamorne Morris as nerdy Jerrod and, yes, Nicki Minaj as stylist Draya. Nice to see new faces in the family. (April 15, PG-13)

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Lights, Midnight Machines POP Retooling six

songs from her 2014 album Little Machines, the Canandian singer-songwriter loses the twinkling synth-pop production and discovers something more poignant and intimate. Giving greater exposure to the vulnerability in Lights’ wispy vocals and deepening the ambience— there’s even a string quartet!— Midnight produces timeless lullabies for grown-ups.

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Lights (born Valerie Anne Poxleitner) reinterprets her last album in a whole new, well, light.

Ferdia WalshPeelo (left) and Mark McKenna find harmony.

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Sing Street looks like a coming-of-age movie, but it’s really a stack of love letters: to teen bands, big brothers, ’80s music and—above all— outsiders. Connor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) starts a band to impress a girl (Lucy Boynton). Shockingly, he’s good, thanks in part to the tutelage of older sibling Brendan (Jack Reynor). They’re all charming, and the music is pure joy. (April 15, PG-13)

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Why bother with monsters? People are scary enough. A heavy-metal band learns a hard lesson when they play for white supremacists in the wilds of Oregon. Things go sideways after their set, forcing the band (including Alia Shawkat and Anton Yelchin) to try to outwit jackbooted thugs led by Patrick Stewart. (Captain Picard?!) The result is an orgy of hacked limbs that also counts as a smart character study of everyday evil. (April 15, R)

Kerry Washington, touching off a firestorm as Anita Hill.

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Kerry Washington in a supremely important role DRAMA At the start of Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991, the issue was his meager track record. Then Anita Hill, a law professor who had worked with him, testified that he had sexually harassed her. The national debate, which ended with Thomas on the bench and Hill retreating from a media storm, was transformative. The surprise of this movie is that Hill, played with quiet dignity by Scandal’s Washington, is less compelling than Wendell Pierce’s Thomas. He’s quiet too, a brooder, all but unknowable, until he delivers his angry, astonishing “high-tech lynching” speech—an electrifying political moment. Since then he has spoken barely a peep. (HBO, April 16, 8 p.m.)

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PJ Harvey, The Hope Six MUSIC Demolition Project

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rocks the world—hers, yours, ours—on Demolition, which grew out of public recording sessions in London and journeys to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington, D.C. Not everyone wants music with a political message—doomthumping drums and screeching brass back impassioned wails against corruption— but Harvey’s hope is to engage, and she does.

Harvey, far-flung and fiery.

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adaptation of the 1993 John le Carré thriller stars Tom Hiddleston as an ex-soldier named Jonathan Pine. Now working the graveyard shift at a luxe hotel, he’s recruited by the British for a sting operation aimed at arms dealer Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie). It’s probably no coincidence that the two stars are a similar type: lean, coolly intelligent and (if required) reptilian. Le Carré, as always, is expert at blending black and white into enigmatic gray. (AMC, April 19, 10 p.m.)

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Shankman (Hairspray) tries out a new step, cowriting a campy Hollywood whodunit. Lulu is a starlet in a jam: She pulled the trigger on a gun she thought was a prop. Can she clear her name with the help of her new pal, a rich kid on the lam from his unscrupulous old man? Nostalgic fun.

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NOVEL Over the years Pride and Prejudice has been treated like literary tafy: twisted, turned, even zombified. But Sittenfeld modernizes the classic in such a stylish, witty way you’d guess even Jane Austen would be pleased. “Liz” Bennet is from Cincinnati, writes for a women’s magazine, has hate sex with neurosurgeon Darcy and watches her yoga-teacher sister Jane fall for a bachelor from a reality TV show. This union of high and low is blissful.

NEW IN PAPERBACK Ann Packer The Children’s Crusade In the 1950s a woman with artistic dreams starts a family— then, discontented, disconnects. This novel about the fallout was one of People’s 10 best books of 2015.

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Scott Simon Unforgettable The NPR correspondent’s bighearted memoir of his late mother—an ex-showgirl who taught him the right lessons to get through life—is all but guaranteed to leave you in tears.

Candice Bergen A Fine Romance In the follow-up to her 1984 autobiography Knock Wood, the actress looks back on her marriage to director Louis Malle and a life-changing role—mother to their daughter Chloe.

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her daughter’s death, a Dutch artist paints a winterscape; in 1957 this masterwork, now in New York City, is replaced by a forgery. The painting’s owner realizes the truth and seeks out the art historian who created the fake. This beautiful meditation on love, loss and art is as luminous as a Vermeer.

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FRESHMAN HARUKA WEISER IS MURDERED WALKING HOME TO HER DORM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. AS POLICE ARREST A HOMELESS 17-YEAR-OLD, HER GRIEVING FAMILY AND FRIENDS RAISE NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT SAFETY ON CAMPUS By ELAINE ARADILLAS

SHATTERED DREAMS A talented dancer, Haruka Weiser had won a full scholarship to the University of Texas. She was found dead on April 5. “We will forever miss her,” said her family in a statement.

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aruka Weiser spent the evening of Sunday April 3 as she often did, with her fellow dance students on the University of Texas at Austin campus, rehearsing for an upcoming performance. Shortly after 9:30 p.m., the petite 18-year-old from suburban Portland, Ore., packed her laptop and schoolwork into a blue duffel bag and called her roommate to say she was “on the way” home. Then, like many times before, she set out from the F. Loren Winship Drama Building for the five-minute walk to her dorm at UT’s Prather Hall. But unlike those other nights, she would never make it home. Two days later campus police oicers found Weiser’s lifeless body in a creek on a secluded stretch of campus, in the shadow of the university’s football stadium. Although police declined to disclose the cause of death, they said she was found with “obvious trauma to her body.” The death rocked the community of 50,000 students, where no murder had taken place on campus since the infamous 1966 shooting spree by sniper Charles Whitman that left 14 people dead. “Our students come to the University of Texas at Austin to live, learn and prepare for life,” university president Gregory Fenves said at an April 6 press conference, “and do not expect to be confrontedbytragedyduringtheiryears on campus.” Fenves called Weiser’s slaying “horrifying and incomprehensible” and an attack on the entire university. And parents and students—at UT and around the country—found themselves wondering just how safe college campuses are. (See box, page 48.) “You never think it’s going to happen to you, your friends or your campus,” says Elizabeth PEOPLE April 25, 2016

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A TIMELINE: WHAT HAPPENED TO WEISER?

THE SUSPECT

Meechaiel Khalil Criner, 17, was arrested April 8 and charged with one count of first-degree murder. He reportedly had disappeared from his Texarkana, Texas, home in August, before resurfacing in Austin.

It’s unclear as to how or why Criner landed in Austin, but Wadley told the station that her grandson was troubled. “He’s smart, real intelligent. But he had a problem,” she said. “He talks to himself and walks back and forth like he’s fighting himself.” His great-aunt Tommie Jackson expressed her sympathy for the Weiser family as well as her own. “My heart goes out to whoever this child’s family is, and my heart goes out to my family,” she said. “It’s hard for me to believe that he did something like this if he did it.”

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Tom, a doctor, and his social worker wife, Yasuyo Tsunemine, Weiser had a before the day of the murder, and “I charismafewcouldresist.“Shewastiny don’t have a clue what the motive is,” but a powerful little spitfire,” says her Acevedo said. childhood friend Delphine Chang, 18. Criner, who was charged with first- As the family moved around the coundegree murder and held on $1 million try, spending time in Missouri and Aribond, had, at press time, not yet entered zonabefore settling in Beaverton,Ore., a aplea,buthisfamilyexpresseddisbelief suburb of Portland, Weiser made friends at the news of  his arrest. According to easily but also loved spending time with his grandmother Mary Wadher family, including young‘We’re all ley, the teen had disappeared er siblingsbrother Nobo,16, in shock. from his home in Texarand sister Naomi, 14. “She It’s not kana, a city on the Texaswas always home for dinArkansas border about 350 just sadness, ner,” says childhood friend miles northeast of Austin, Marina Neal. it’s so in August. “I tried to keep a It wasn’t until she was much anger’ a teen close watch on him,” she told that she discovered —CHILDHOOD Shreveport, La., television her true passion: dance. FRIEND MADISYN LANE station KSLA. While attending Beaver-

APRIL 3 Shortly after 9:30 p.m., Weiser calls her roommate to say she is “on the way” home.

APRIL 4 Weiser is reported missing after she fails to show up for her Mondaymorning classes. Campus police open an investigation.

APRIL 5 Police searching Weiser’s usual path between the drama building and her dorm discover her body in a nearby creek.

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Minchey, 20, a sophomore at UT. “It’s earth-shattering. It’s made everyone be a lot more cautious, and no one wants to go out at night.” On April 8 Austin police arrested 17-year-old Meechaiel Criner in connection with Weiser’s death. Authorities believe he is the individual seen on a surveillance video near the scene of the crime, wheeling around a girl’s red bicycle. On the morning after the murder, investigators responding to a report of a trash fire near the crime scene had found Criner in an abandoned building and escorted him to LifeWorks, a shelter for homeless youth. His bicycle, one which matched the one in the video, was taken by fire oicials and kept for “safekeeping,” according to the aidavit. After the surveillance video was made public, investigators returned to the abandoned building to check the ashes from the trash fire. They found a burned notebook with college-level coursework inside, as well as a Doc Martens boot, matching a pair worn by Weiser, according to an aidavit. Investigators also found a MacBook, similar to the one belonging to Weiser, with a Portland sticker on it. “We are very certain that the subject we have in custody is the suspect responsible for the death of this beautiful young woman,” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told reporters. Investigators don’t believe that Criner and Weiser had ever crossed paths

ton’s Arts and Communication Magnet Academy, she took a beginner dance class and quickly excelled. “I remember my freshman year she had lead roles— which no freshmen get,” Chang recalls. By the time she was 16, she was performing in principal roles with the Portland Ballet. “It really is a rush,” Weiser told a local newspaper in 2014. “There really is nothing like it.” Weiser’s high school boyfriend Nick Jurica, now a student at Juilliard, says Weiser maintained a rigorous school schedule filled with AP calculus and accelerated chemistry, all while dancing and preparing for college. She won a full dance scholarship to UT, where she planned to double major in premed and dance. “She never shied from a challenge. She was very determined,” he says. “Dance was such a big part of her life, but it wasn’t all she wanted to do.” Weiser, Jurica says, loved music (Fleetwood Mac and Beyoncé were favorite artists) as well as the outdoors. One year for her birthday she pushed friends to join her for an early-morning hike so they could see the sunrise. “We wanted to sleep in, but she kept telling us how beautiful it would be,” her high school friend Lily Summer said. “She was so peppy and we were all so tired.” Jurica calls her a beautiful spirit with confidence. “She didn’t wear a whole lot of makeup and was fine throwing her hair up in a ponytail,” he says. “She seemed really comfortable with who she

APRIL 7 Investigators at the Austin Police Department release surveillance video of a suspect walking a bike near the crime scene.

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APRIL 7 After the video footage is released, investigators learn of an April 4 trash fire started by someone matching the suspect’s description. The suspect is found at a homeless shelter and detained for tampering with evidence.

APRIL 8 Meechaiel Criner, 17, is arrested and charged with one count of firstdegree murder and held on $1 million bond.

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FINAL FAMILY PHOTO On March 17 Haruka (far right) posed with her family while on vacation in Mexico. It was the last time they saw her.

was and what she was about.” He vividly recallswatching the movieLove Actuallywith Weiser and how she loved the song “Bye Bye Baby” by the Bay City Rollers that played during a funeral scene. “She said, ‘At my funeral I want that to be played,’ ” he says, breaking into tears.

‘She was amazing. She was ready to take the world on’

tempt to follow their daughter’s wishes and not get “stuck in sadness but keep living life to the fullest.” Meanwhile Weiser’s childhood friend Jade Sentker says she takes comfort in —HIGH SCHOOL knowing that her friend BOYFRIEND wouldn’t have lived her life NICK JURICA any differently. “She lived how she wanted to,” she says, “and that’s how we all should be.”

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UT students attend a vigil on April 7.

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family and friends are still struggling to come to terms with their grief. Her parents say they hope the death of their spirited daughter will push colleges to reexamine the issue of security on campus. “The pain of our sudden and tragic loss is unfathomable,” they said in a statement. “[A]s we struggle to understand why she was killed, if her death can somehow make it safer for a young woman to walk home, if it will prevent another assault or murder, then at least we could find some meaning behind an otherwise senseless and tragic death.” In addition, they say, they will at-

CAMPUS SAFETY

The murder of Haruka Weiser has raised concerns about security on college campuses nationwide. The College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas has even ofered to reimburse students for late-night cab fare for the rest of the semester. But the incidence of homicide on campuses is low. In 2014 the U.S. Department of Education recorded 16 incidents of manslaughter at more than 4,000 two- and fouryear colleges in the U.S. Still, experts tell People that the issue should not be ignored. “Murder on school grounds is few and far between, but students need to be aware,” says Steven J. Healy, chair of the National Center for Campus Public Safety’s advisory board. “With every new incident, law enforcement becomes more knowledgeable and more adept at protecting the community.” New safety measures, like mobile security apps that instantly send a user’s location and an alert message to campus police, are being introduced all the time, but the best way oicials can keep students safe is to remind them that acts of violence can happen anywhere—including on campus.

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out a Cause, Splendor in the Grass and Gypsy, had reigned as one of Hollywood’s biggest icons for more than three decades. Her death was ruled an accidental drowning, believed to have happened after she slipped overboard while intoxicated. But the circumstances of that night—heated arguments and Wood’s lifelong fear of the water—have become the stuf of enduring mystery. In 2011 the L.A. County sherif reopened the investigation, stating that Wagner was “not a suspect.” Now Natasha, the only daughter of Wood and her second husband, British producer Richard Gregson, hopes to ensure that her mother’s legacy is no longer overshadowed by her untimely death. Along with her younger sister Courtney, 42, she has created Natalie, a fragrance based on her mother’s signature scent, Jungle Gardenia, as a tribute to the mom they adored. “I spent a lot of time trying to find the color in my life again, because she was our protector,” says Natasha, 45, sitting barefoot in the garden of her Venice, Calif., home. “I felt so safe with her, and then to have that ripped away—it’s like you lose your skin, and so nothing makes sense. Nothing is the same.” Although Wood was one of the most glamorous stars of her era, at home she was a mom who read Russian fairy tales at bedtime and who always had “a sense of adventure and mischief,” Natasha says. She could make jeans and a T-shirt look red-

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“Don’t go.” Natalie Wood’s daughter remembers saying those two words to her mother before Wood went sailing of Catalina Island that weekend. “I wanted her to stay home,” says Natasha Gregson Wagner. “I had a funny feeling. I don’t know if it was just being a child who didn’t want her mom to leave or what it was, but I didn’t want her to go.” Still, the West Side Story star, 43, kept her plan for a getaway with her husband, Robert Wagner, on their yacht Splendour, along with her Brainstorm costar Christopher Walken. “I remember she was getting dressed and putting on [her perfume] Jungle Gardenia,” says Natasha, who was 11 at the time. “They were getting ready to go on the boat. I was hugging her and telling her I loved her and to have a great trip. She had an angora sweater on, and it was very soft. That’s my last memory of her.” Natasha was at a sleepover when she heard a radio report that her mother had drowned. When she got home, her shaken stepfather confirmed the news. “My daddy Wagner told me,” she says softly. “It was just the unthinkable. It was like my life was in color—and she died, and then it was black-and-white.” Wood’s death on Nov. 29, 1981, shocked the world: The dark-eyed beauty who beguiled audiences as the girl who believes in Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street, then starred in Rebel With-

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carpet-worthy but wasn’t much of a cook except for huevos rancheros. “People know her as this legend, and some people think of her as having a tragic life,” says Natasha, who is married to actor Barry Watson and mom to their daughter Clover, 3, and two stepsons, Oliver, 10, and Felix, 8, from Watson’s first marriage. “But that’s not the way I remember her at all.” Her own memories of her mom are a blend of the everyday and the extraordinary. Their Beverly Hills home was a place of  “toys and parties and dinners, and my mom in her nightgown, and animals everywhere,” she recalls. Wagner and Wood were masters of the grand gesture, from his proposal in 1957 (he put a pearl-and-diamond ring inscribed “Marry Me” in her champagne glass) to their glittering parties, withguestssuch asAudrey HepburnandBette Davis. “My parents celebrated all the holidays to the maximum: Easter, Christmas, Halloween and

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birthdays were all a big deal,” Natasha says. Wood surprised her beloved “RJ” on his 50th birthday with a Mercedes 6.9 just as they were going out to dinner. “When he saw the car with a red bow on it, she said, ‘Here, RJ, why don’t you drive?’ ” says Natasha. “And there we were, Courtney and I, in our footed pajamas jumping up and down!” That happy domesticity is something Wood never had. Her overbearing mother, Maria Gurdin, a Russian immigrant, pushed her into acting at age 4. “One of her sadnesses was that she didn’t have a real childhood of her own,” says Natasha. Wood’s life as a young adult became increasingly turbulent. The end of a romance with Splendor in the Grass costar Warren Beatty (coupled with despair about a career stall) led her to attempt PEOPLE April 25, 2016

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suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills in 1966. In later years she attended daily psychoanalysis, and some say she drank to excess. “It wasn’t until I got older and learned about her and talked to my dad or their friends that I realized she had struggles,” says Natasha. “She worked hard on herself because she didn’t want to be a casualty of her childhood. She strove for happiness.” She found it with Wagner. The first time Wood saw him, when she was 10 years old, she told her mother she wanted to marry him. She did—twice. First in 1957 (they divorced five years later) and again in 1972, after Wood divorced Gregson and Wagner divorced his second wife, Marion Marshall, with whom he had daughter Katie, 51. Wagner and Wood welcomed Courtney in 1974. Says Natasha: “They were meant to be together.” After Wood’s death, Wagner and Gregson agreed all three girls would live with Wagner. Gregson remembers taking Natasha to say goodbye to her mom. “She was standing in front of her coffin and spoke with Natalie for two or three minutes and put a note under her hand,” he says. “It was important for her to see her.” Says Natasha: “I was so lucky that I had two dads who were deeply committed to helping me through.” She grew incredibly close to Wagner, who “had to be both mom and dad,” says Natasha. And she saw his grief up close. “Before my mom died, my dad was a happygo-lucky person and the life of the party,” she says. “After she died, there was a heaviness and a sadness to him that hadn’t been there before.” (Now 86, Wagner

went on to marry actress Jill St. John in 1990.) In turn Natasha sheltered her sister Courtney. “She had my mom for less years than me,” she says. “I almost didn’t go to college in Boston because I didn’t want to leave her.” While Courtney has struggled (in 2012 she was arrested for drug possession but not charged), Natasha says her younger sister “is focusing really hard on her well-being, and, God willing, she will continue to do great.” Therapy, time and especially her spirited daughter Clover have helped Natasha feel whole again. “Before I was a mom, I felt so much like a motherless daughter, and now that part of me is healed,” she says. “Not only am I a mother to my daughter and stepchildren but also to my mom in a strange way. She died when she was 43, and now I’m 45. It makes me feel strangely maternal toward her, and it’s brought me incredible peace.” So has sharing her memories and her mom’s movieswith her kids. “Clover watches ‘I Feel Pretty,’ from West Side Story, over and over on YouTube,” she says with a laugh. And when Clover is older, she says, “I will tell her the truth about who her grandma was and the accident that happened. There is so much documented that she can read any of it whenever she wants to.” Until then she and Clover make it a point to watch for butterflies. “My mom loved butterflies, and every time I see a butterfly, I think of Natasha her,” Natasha says. “Clohelped create the fragrance ver will say, ‘Mama, look, Natalie, there’s a butterfly. Do you available at think that was Grandma nataliefragrance Natalie?’ And I tell her, .com. ‘Yep, there she is.’ ”

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→ Natasha and Natalie were very connected. You could feel it when they looked at each other. [After Natalie’s death] I tried to keep her mom’s memory alive for her. We were all so shattered by the loss, and we were all hanging on to each other. You just take it moment by moment and hope that it gets better. As a man and a father, you hope that she can somehow step forward. We’ve hung on to each other through the years, and Natasha means the world to me. Her mother was very special and loving, and Natasha has tried to carry that on. [To see her as a mom] was so moving because it was a continuation of life, a continuation of Natalie. It’s miraculous. Natalie talked about being a grandmother someday. She would have been a wonderful grandmother.

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1. THE WIRE His role as a ruthless drug kingpin (with Larry Gilliard Jr., left) won him a cult following. 2. LUTHER Elba (with costar Ruth Wilson) has earned three Emmy nominations as a London detective. 3. THOR He’s the Norse god Heimdall in the Marvel series and Avengers: Age of Ultron. 4. 2016 SAG AWARDS Despite not being nominated for an Oscar, he became the first male actor to win for film and TV in the same night. 5. THE JUNGLE BOOK “I love using my voice as opposed to my face and body,” says Elba.

cess was anything but instant. Raised in Hackney, East London, the only child of West African immigrants, Elba found his calling at his all-boys school. “I remember one teacher was like, ‘Right, I want everybody to lie on the floor and imagine you are a frying egg,’ ” the actor says, laughing. “And as stupid as I felt, I ended up doing it. And I just got so liberated in that moment.” Elba—who has said black actors in the U.K. face a “glass ceiling” for leading roles—didn’t ‘If you are a get his big break successful until he moved to the U.S. In 2002 actor, he landed his Hollywood career-making is the most part as drug boss seductive Stringer Bell on place on the HBO’s The Wire. He segued into planet’ films like Thor and Prometheus before returning to U.K. TV for Luther in 2010. A father of two kids—daughter Isan, 14, with his ex-wife Kim Norgaard, and son Winston, 2, with former girlfriend Naiyana Garth—Elba says the best part about being a dad is “watching their personalities form uniquely to them. That is really, truly human magic.” A perfect day of involves kickboxing (he’s training for a semipro fight), cooking (steak and eggs are his specialty) and spending time with his kids “just doing something completely unexpected and fun.” Next up for the actor are Star Trek Beyond and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. Elba “is at a wonderful point in his career where he’s at the top of his game,” says Favreau. “He has a tremendous enthusiasm for all of it.” And in 10 years? The actor’s hopes are simple. “I’d like for my career to run itself. I’d like to have seen a lot of the world and still be discovering it,” he says. “And I’d like to be happy and healthy. Yeah, that’s about it.”

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Charmed Life, Shocking Death Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy in 1938. Top left: with JFK ca. 1935 in Palm Beach, Fla. “Like Jack, nothing stopped her,” says Kick’s biographer Barbara Leaming. “She was his psychological twin.” Bottom left: She died in a plane crash in 1948.

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newcomer was willing to laugh at herself—her mistakes, her gaucheries, and even her physical flaws—in a way that was simply unknown among English girls. In 1938, she met William “Billy” Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, one of Britain’s richest bachelors—and a Protestant—at a dinner party. They quickly became an item, and Billy took Kick to Chatsworth, the 1,000-acre estate he’d inherit when his father died and Billy became the Duke of Devonshire. Beyond its doors were 175 rooms and miles of corridors filled with treasures accumulated over centuries: astonishing collections of paintings, drawings, manuscripts, books, minerals, furniture and jewels. Kick’s parents opposed the interfaith romance. [Kick, who was always Rose’s protector] knew that her involvement with Billy had the potential of causing great pain to her mother. Rose lived with a husband who was not only compulsively unfaithful, but who went so far as to parade his women in front of her. The opinion of the world meant much to Rose Kennedy who, however improbably, chose to regard her family as exemplary Catholics whose behavior set a standard for others to follow. After Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, Kick

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was forced to return to the U.S. By 1943 she was back in England—with Billy, who proposed marriage but demanded their children be raised Protestant. On this vital matter, Billy, who in their prior relations, had always been so kind, genial and even malleable, made it clear that he intended to be absolutely firm. Initially she pinned her hopes on old Joe Kennedy’s being able to obtain a dispensation on her behalf through his contacts at the Roman Catholic hierarchy. But in the end, [they] were unable to secure the special arrangement that would permit Kick to marry Billy and bring up their children as Protestant while she remained in the good graces of the Catholic Church. Rose seemed confident that in the absence of dispensation, Kick would not dare go forward. Kick informed her parents she would marry in a registry office. Rose recorded in her diary that she was at once “horrified” and “heartbroken.”Tellingly, foremost among her considerations at the moment, was the extent to which Kick’s marriage to a Protestant would constitute “a blow to the family prestige.” Only Kick’s brother Joe Jr. attended the wedding. Even more distressing was a newspaper report that her mother was extremely ill and had had to be

hospitalized as a consequence of her upset over the impending nuptials. Kick [wrote to Rose] and described the wedding, her pink crepe wedding dress, and the jewels and precious giftsthat had been lavished upon her. She begged Rose not to be sad about anything. “I’m very very happy,” she emphasized. “And quite certain about what I’ve done.” Soon after D-Day, June 6, 1944, Billy returned to France to fight and wrote Kick of a possible future without him. “I’ll just say that if anything should happen to me, I shall be wanting you to try to isolate our life together, to face its finish, and to start a new one as soon as you feel you can. I hope that you will marry again quite soon—someone good & nice.” That September, Billy was killed in battle. Joe Jr. was killed in action the month before. Kick’s immediate reaction, she would later say, was to feel “numb.” That evening, she accompanied her family to dinner at the restaurant Le Pavillon where, in typical Kennedy fashion, Billy was rarely if at all mentioned. Rose Kennedy promptly threw herself into prayers and Masses for her daughter’s late husband. To Kick’s distress, there was an undertone to her mother’s attitude, as if Rose felt that Billy’s death was punishment for the apostasy of their marriage, and even that his demise provided a chance for his widow to get right with the Catholic Church. She returned to London and began an afair with Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, a married drinker and gambler even richer than Billy. Once Peter promised to leave his wife, Kick told her parents. Rose Kennedy stipulated that if Kick committed the sin of marrying a divorced man, she would promptly be cut of from the family—not just from her parents, but from her siblings as well. The threat left Kick reeling. Kick and Peter arranged to meet her “Darling Daddy” in Paris and appeal for his help. Two days before, they flew to Paris en route to Cannes. On an impulse [Peter] and Kick called some racing-world friends in Paris and invited them for lunch on the Champs-Elysées. When he and Kick returned to the aircraft some two and a half hours later, the pilot insisted that the turbulent weather conditions had made it unsafe to take of; any attempt to reach Cannes would require flying directly through a massive thunderstorm. In defiance of the elements, Peter angrily demanded that the aircraft take of without delay. The plane crashed, killing both, and it was Joe Sr. who identified his daughter’s body. Joe acknowledged that the young woman with the broken jaw and the deep laceration on the right side of her face was indeed his child.

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A Sister’s Story “It was a heartbreaking love story, and it’s also a piece of history,” says Leaming of Kick’s short life. “She walks in just as the power of the British aristocracy is vanishing forever. It’s almost like the last chapter of Downton Abbey.”

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“She goes everywhere with us,” says Ice T (at home in New Jersey Feb. 15). “She’s been out to dinners and the movies. She really liked The Revenant.”

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pet her two English bulldogs, Spartacus and Maximus, on the way. “It’s all about multitasking,” she says, offering her take on motherhood. “That and becoming a psychic. You have to know what they want before they even start making faces. I feel like a supermom.” Ever since marrying her husband, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Ice T,

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when she was just 22, Austin had wanted to start a family, but for years the lively pair put kids on the back burner. “There were a lot of things I wanted to complete before having a child,” she says. From starring in the Las Vegas striptease spectacular Peepshowto getting her own E! reality series, IceLovesCoco,theformerfitnessmodel turned entrepreneur says that when it came to kids, “I said 35 is the magic number.” That was a decision that Ice T fully supported. With two adult chil-

dren from previous ‘I like relationships, the rapper was in no changing rush. “I am 20 years diapers and older than her. I feeding her. didn’t have a clock It’s a ticking, so I said to bonding Coco, ‘When you moment, are ready, let me know,’ ” he explains. not a chore’ “Just because I was —COCO AUSTIN finished with the clubbing and the partying doesn’t mean she was. It’s like Disneyland. I can’t say, ‘You don’t want to go, all the rides suck.’ You gotta go for the rides.” But by 35, Austin was dreaming of family trips to the real Disneyland. After going of of the birth control pills she’d been taking for 17 years, she became pregnant just two months later. “She came downstairs one day crying with the stick,” says Ice T. “You know me, I’m a guy, so I said go take another one. It just hadn’t sunk in.” When it finally did, the couple were ecstatic. “It’s a beautiful thing,” he says. “We have a happy marriage, and fortunately we were blessed with a healthy child.” Before Austin, 37, welcomed daughter Chanel Nicole on Nov. 28, her pregnancy came with plenty of unwelcome criticism. Already five months along when she announced on Twitter last July that she was expecting, Austin was criticized on social media for her barely there belly.“I didn’t really have a bump until the ninth month,” she says. “It was really pissing me off because everyone said I had a surrogate. I was so frustrated.” The highly physically active mom-to-be started to second-guess herself, until, she says, her doctor explained: “Athletes always have a harder time getting a larger bump, because their abs are tighter than normal.” A week after giving birth, Austin saw more backlash when she posted a photo of her toned tummy on Instagram, telling fans she’d gained only 13 lbs. over the course of her pregnancy. “It wasn’t like I was going to the gym doing crunches,” says Austin, who credits her prepregnancy phy-

“I love my closet,” says Austin. “My girlfriends come over, and we’ll sit in here and have wine and read magazines.”

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After Austin revealed she was expecting, fans criticized her tiny bump and accused her of using a surrogate. “I thought I was going to blimp out and was surprised when I didn’t,” says Austin (pictured when she was nine months pregnant). “I wanted the [big] bump!”

sique and healthy diet for her quick bounce back. Now, with the body drama behind her and baby joy at home, Austin is loving life as a new mom. With no nannies or regular babysitters, “I’m 100 percent all-in,” she says. “I think [motherhood] was always my calling. I wish I had let it happen earlier, but this is perfect. I’m dedicating my whole life to molding this little nugget into a fabulous person.”

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Rosemary Smashed Potatoes THE AUTHOR OF MEXICAN TODAY MAKES SPUDS THAT ARE CRUNCHY ON THE OUTSIDE AND CREAMY ON THE INSIDE 11⁄2 lbs. baby potatoes 1 ⁄2 cup olive oil, plus more for greasing baking sheet 10 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 tbsp. chopped fresh rosemary 1 ⁄2 tsp. ancho (mild) or chipotle (spicy) chili powder 1 ⁄2 tsp. kosher salt 1 ⁄2 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano

Expert Tip! Make them ahead: Boil and flatten the potatoes, and let cool completely. Cover and refrigerate up to 8 hours. When ready, top with garlic oil and cheese, and roast.

MIX & MATCH JINICH SUGGESTS OTHER TASTY FLAVOR COMBINATIONS

CREAMY Top potatoes with butter, feta and chopped dried tarragon.

FRESH Sprinkle with lime juice and zest, cotija cheese and chopped cilantro.

BOLD Go big with chopped shallots, ginger and garlic.

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1. Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil over medium-high heat. Add the potatoes, and cook until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain. 2. Place an oven rack a third down from top of oven. Preheat oven to 400°. 3. Brush a rimmed baking sheet with olive oil. Place 1 hot potato on baking sheet. Using the back of a soup spoon, carefully flatten top of potato by pressing firmly but taking care not to break the potato apart. Repeat procedure with remaining hot potatoes. 4. Stir together 1⁄2 cup olive oil, garlic, rosemary, chili powder and salt in a small bowl. Spoon half of garlic mixture on top of potatoes. Sprinkle with cheese. 5. Bake potatoes until golden and crisp on top and slightly crisp on bottom, 25 to 30 minutes. Serve hot with remaining garlic mixture. Serves: 4 Active time: 15 minutes Total time: 1 hour

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DEVIN ALEXANDER

Greek Roasted Tilapia THE CHEF AND AUTHOR OF THE BIGGEST LOSER COOKBOOK SERIES OFFERS A LIGHT, FLAVORFUL DINNER

DEVIN’S HEALTHY EATING STRATEGIES

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Tilapia has mild flavor and firm texture, making it ideal for this recipe. If you don’t have tilapia, Alexander suggests using flounder or your favorite white fish.

11⁄4 tsp. extra-virgin olive oil, divided, plus more for greasing pan 11⁄2 tbsp. finely chopped garlic cloves 1 ⁄3 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley 2 Roma tomatoes, seeded and chopped 1 ⁄3 cup reduced-fat feta, crumbled 2 (5-6 oz.) tilapia fillets, deboned 1 ⁄2 tsp. kosher salt 1 ⁄4 tsp. black pepper 1. Preheat oven to 400°. Very lightly coat the bottom of a 7x11-in. ovenproof baking dish with olive oil. 2. In a medium bowl, combine 1 tsp. olive oil,

garlic, parsley, tomatoes and feta. Set aside. 3. Lightly coat both sides of the tilapia with remaining 1⁄4 tsp. olive oil. Season both sides with salt and pepper. Place the fillets side by side, barely touching, in the prepared baking dish. 4. Top fish evenly with the reserved tomato mixture. Bake in the oven for 13 to 17 minutes, or until the fillets gently flake and are no longer translucent and feta has slightly browned. Serve immediately. Serves: 2 Active time: 5 minutes Total time: 20 minutes

THE NUTRITIONIST, WHO HAS MAINTAINED HER 70-LB. WEIGHT LOSS FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS, SHARES HER SECRETS TO STAYING SLIM SET REASONABLE GOALS “It’s the best way to stay positive and control cravings. Losing and keeping weight of is a process, so treat it like one.”

PLAN AHEAD “Food is often the center of activities, so be prepared! When eating out, pick lean proteins and low-starch veggies that aren’t soaked in butter or oil.”

REWARD YOURSELF “Take the money you would have spent on food and buy a new pair of jeans. You’ll feel great, and it will keep you motivated to continue your hard work.”

CONTRIBUTOR Michelle Ward Trainor

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What I Eat in a Day ‘IT’S A MISCONCEPTION THAT DANCERS DON’T EAT,’ SAYS THE 5'7" FORMER DANCING WITH THE STARS PRO, 39. THE AUTHOR OF THE 5-6-7-8 DIET ADDS, ‘ WE JUST EAT SMALLER PORTIONS’

Hydration

Snack

8 glasses of water

Digestion tea: 1 cup hot water, 1 green tea bag, sliced cucumber, sprig of mint and a drop of mint chlorophyll

Breakfast Slice of Ezekiel sprouted-grain bread with 1⁄3 of a sliced avocado, squeezed lemon juice, and sea salt and pepper Hot water with lemon juice and a splash of apple-cider vinegar

“This is a great, well-balanced, nutrient-dense meal,” says Glassman.

Snack ⁄2 cup hummus with 1⁄2 cup baby carrots

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Dinner

Lunch Salad with 3 cups mixed greens, 1 ⁄2 of a sliced avocado, 2 tbsp. goat cheese crumbles, 1 tbsp. dried cranberries, 1⁄4 cup chopped tomato Dressing: 2 tbsp. olive oil, splash of maple syrup, juice of half a lemon, and salt and pepper

1 grilled turkey burger patty, 2 slices tomato, 2 lettuce leaves, 2 slices pickle, mustard Sweet potato fries: 1 medium sweet potato cut into wedges, baked in 1 tsp. coconut oil (melted) with a few dashes of cumin, cayenne and salt

Total Calories:

1,294

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“Kym’s breakfast is perfection!” says dietitian Keri Glassman of nutritiouslife.com. “Ezekiel is my favorite—no sugar—and avocado is loaded with healthy fat.” And while she praises Johnson’s “hydrating and cleansing” tea, Glassman notes a handful of nuts or an apple with peanut butter would give Johnson more fuel. The hummus and carrot snack, meanwhile, is “packed with fiber and protein.” By Michelle Ward Trainor

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How She’s Helping You! The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star, 31, recently helped launch the Live Chin Up campaign, created to encourage positive self-image for men and women. “I believe in its philosophy of not taking negative things and making them hurdles in our life,” she says. “Let’s run past them.” For more information, visit livechinup.com.

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Glam Squad Goals! Kardashian relies on her makeup artist Joyce Bonelli (left) and hairstylist Jen Atkin to whip up fresh looks. “I like to have a ton of fun with hair and makeup,” she says, “because, why not?!” Face Cream “This changed the texture of my skin.” La Mer Crème de la Mer, $170 (for 1 oz.); lamer.com

in all of my cars for my hands because when you drive, they are exposed to the sun. So I keep it in my cup holder, and I’m religious about applying it. I don’t want old-looking hands. Many of your sisters have beauty empires, teaming with brands as spokeswomen or creating their own lines. Do you use any of their products? Kylie’s Kylie Cosmetics THE OH-SO-CANDID STAR REFLECTS ON AGING, Lip Kits. I have five colors in my makeup WEIGHT AND WHY SHE FINDS SWEATING SO SEXY bag. The “Koko K” shade is named after me—that was a surprise. It’s a pinkytime. I guess I’d started growing hair What do you do every day that nude, which is what I wear every day. under my arms [at the time], so during makes you feel beautiful? I feed of So tell us, when do you feel your the facial she had someone wax my the energy of people around me. For sexiest? Walking into the gym I don’t underarms. But she didn’t warn me! I example, I’m so proud of [my sister] feel sexy, but walking out I feel so was like, “What is happening!” It was Kylie [Jenner] because I love her selfaccomplished and badass. I do really so traumatizing. I security at a young age. I love when she masculine workouts, remember being is barefaced and at her freest. When and after I feel like I terrified, and I I was younger, I never wanted to be am dope. I can be didn’t want a facial barefaced, but I have grown to have as sweaty and as for years because a ton of self-love. It’s something I had gross as can be, but I I thought that was to work on, but I’m at a place where I feel empowered. part of it. feel beautiful within my own skin, and What about when Well, what’s a that’s a testament to a lot of the people you don’t feel 100 beauty tip you around me who make me feel that way. percent? What received from Let’s talk about your younger do you do to pick someone other years. What is your earliest beauty yourself back Khloé poses for a family-filled than Mom? My memory? I remember, when I was like up? Sometimes I selfie with (from left) sisters godmother told me 13 years old, my mom [Kris Jenner] wake up and I am Kylie, Kourtney and Kim. to put sunscreen made me get a facial for the first like, “I am f---ing

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Moisturizing Oil “I keep this in my shower, and before I get out, I drench myself in it from head to toe.” Bio-Oil, $27.99 (for 6.7 oz.); drugstore.com

Dry Shampoo “I use this all the time! I love the scent—and that there’s no chalky residue.” Kardashian Beauty Take 2 Dry Shampoo, $15; kohls .com

Gardenia Scent “I’ve worn this fragrance forever!” Kai perfume oil, $48; barneys.com

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The Stars Who Inspire Me “I read that Tyra Banks puts Vaseline around her eyes, so now I do too!” says Kardashian. “And I am huge on musical therapy. I feel like I’m Mariah Carey when I’m jamming in my car, and I enjoy every minute of it.”

and Kylie [Jenner], they’re literally in bikinis sitting cross-legged, and I’m like, “What?” I know they’ve always had those bodies, but I have always wondered, “When will I ever feel comfortable sitting like that?” I’ve just always wanted to be one of those girls. But I’ve never showcased my body like that. I never wore bikinis as a kid. I just didn’t feel comfortable going to the beach with my friends. Now

I’m finally like, “Okay, I can be in love that. Because they accepted a bathing suit around them.” I me no matter what. mean, I am very appreciative of Do you ever think about what how hard I have worked for my you’ll look like 10 years from body, but I just wonder, “How did now? No. I think if I did, I would they get so comfortable?” go crazy. I hope I age gracefully. True, but at the same time, it I believe in lasers and fillers— seems like your family really whatever makes you happy. But I inspires you. My family helped am not obsessive about that stuf. I make me feel comfortable in my just like to take care of myself. I want own skin. They are where I get to be healthy. I take vitamins every my strength from. I’ve even said, morning, drink water and put lotions now looking back, “Wow, I was so and oils on my face every night. unhealthy.” Because I definitely was What is your beauty mantra with my eating routine, and I wasn’t moving forward? I think mentally, active. But I wouldn’t if I am strong, I can do say I was fat. I was just anything. I am gonna ‘I DIDN’T LET so happy that I didn’t gain weight, I am gonna PEOPLE’S show insecurity. I was eat cake, and I need to be CRITIQUES mentally strong in order to still in a body-con dress. OF ME I’m like, “[My sister] Kim withstand the haters and WEIGH ME negative commenters. [Kardashian West], you DOWN. can wear that, so can I!” How many times have I I DON’T But I remember saying to been pregnant in the past BELIEVE IN five years? I’m like, “Why my sisters, “Why would PROBLEMS. am I pregnant? Because I you let me wear that?” I’M ABOUT am fat?” But you’ve got And they’d say, “We didn’t think you looked bad.” I SOLUTIONS’ to have grit.

My Hair Evolution THE STAR SOUNDS OFF ON HER BEST (AND BOLDEST) CUTS AND COLORS W 2013 “This dark shade was way too harsh for my skin tone.”

S 2011 “I went red for about a week. My skin looked so different.”

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“For so long, I thought I’d die if I even got a trim because I’d tried so hard to grow out my hair. Then, when I was in the hospital with Lamar, I hadn’t showered for like a week. When I went home [to do so], I remember calling [hairstylist] Jen [Atkin] and saying, ‘Come cut my hair.’ I was over it. I told her if she didn’t, I’d do it myself. I don’t regret it. I feel free, chic and not as cheesy—but I still love a cheesy moment sometimes.”

CONTRIBUTOR Jackie Fields

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melancholy.” I don’t know why I am sad, I am just sad. So I try to shift my energy. If I let my thoughts take over, it will ruin my day, so I try to not do that anymore. I try to be present. But that comes with being in your 30s. You’ve had such an incredible transformation. What has this journey been like? If you had asked me two years ago if I would have the body I have now, I would have said, “No way, my body can’t do that.” I have always made excuses, like, “I am big-boned” or “I could never be a size whatever.” I still don’t think, “My body is bangin’.” I don’t think like that, and I don’t know if I ever will. I don’t weigh myself. I don’t believe in numbers. I know I have lost so much weight, but I don’t think I will ever be satisfied. And I kind of like that, because I never want to be that unhealthy again. Why don’t you think you’ll ever be satisfied? Well, if I am on vacation with [sisters] Kendall

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Last time my kid made me laugh My little girl [Grace, 5] is liking the cartoons that the boys have grown out of. And so when she wants to

watch them, they start to moan and groan. She’ll look at them and say, “Well then, shut your eyes!”

Last recurring dream I’m in a play and I don’t know any of the lines. And people are saying, “You’re not ready! How could you do this to us?” And I’m thinking, “F---, I’m not in this play!” Maybe it’s because I try to be really proactive in getting things right in my life.

Last time I was nervous I get nervous when I have to speak to a large group with prepared

remarks. It doesn’t come easy to me. Maybe I take it too seriously, but I always feel like I have to make it worth their while.

Last DIY project Grace decided that she wanted to catch a leprechaun, so we had to set out a trap. We built a box, and she put a little rainbow and some “gold” inside. It had a string so when the leprechaun grabbed the gold, the string would unravel and trap him. We didn’t catch any, but she had it all worked out. Reported by Julie Jordan

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