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TO THE STARS YOU LOVE
NEWS FEATURES
4 NEWS NOW 38 I’
WhatI’ve
What
ve learned
Learned
Barry Manilow
opens up about his Lena
brand new Christmas
special and why this
year has been one of
Horne
The singer and
his best yet. actress became
a Hollywood
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Billy Joel serenades
trailblazer — but
it was never
easy!
two very special
girls. Marlee Matlin
shows her team spirit. “Happiness
Heidi Klum scares up
treats. Molly Ringwald
can be
goes glam. Marion found,
Ross smells the roses
and more star snaps! even in the
IN THIS ISSUE IN EVERY ISSUE darkest of
42 TONY
RANDALL times, if
The Odd Couple
star’s widow recalls
14 JACQUELINE
KENNEDY
ONASSIS A new
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DWTS’ Peta
HEART
TO HEART one only
his wit, generosity
and kindness. Plus:
book reveals never- Murgatroyd and hubby remembers
how his family is
before-told secrets
about her life with
Maks Chmerkovskiy
share secrets of a
to turn on
keeping the actor’s
legacy of love alive.
JFK and how she happy marriage. the light.”
learned to embrace
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— Kathie Lee Gifford
her role as first lady. MY LIFE IN
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18 PAUL MCCARTNEY A look back at
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Look back at Kim
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years of marriage with Linda McCartney and Hollywood career.
Week
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BARRY MANILOW
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The World A TV
special
Sing at 80
is just
one of his
upcoming
T
projects.
his has been the biggest
year of my career,” says
Barry Manilow. In
addition to selling out
dates at NYC’s Radio
City Music Hall and in
Las Vegas, where he broke Elvis’ record
for the longest musical residency in
September, the singer’s long-awaited
musical, Harmony, which he wrote in
1997, is set to open on Broadway Nov. 13.
“I never gave up on this show,” he says.
The year of Barry continues into the
holiday season. Barry Manilow’s A Very
Barry Christmas is set to premiere on
NBC on Dec. 11, and will be available to
stream on Peacock a day later. “I love
doing our Christmas show! We get to
sing my pop hits and favorite Christmas “I am not ready
songs,” says Barry, who filmed the to sit around and
special in Las Vegas with his 24-piece
band. “It’s a feel-good hour full of watch TV. I have
music.” too much energy
and too many
Barry’s 636th creative ideas.”
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For a screening of her directorial debut, Gonzo Girl,
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with her. “My life changed for the better [when she point about what
was born],” Mira shared. “My heart just grew 10 she’s learned
times. I just love my children, my family, so much.” from Mom about
show business.
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said the aspiring
actress. “[And]
be prepared
to wait and be
nice, which you
should always be
anyways.”
MARLEE MATLIN
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“Go ducks!” During homecoming weekend at the
University of Oregon, Marlee cheered on the football team
with her sophomore daughter, Isabelle. “Family weekend
turned out to be wild but worth every moment!” Marlee
posted on Instagram. “Love you and loved seeing your
friends everywhere we went!”
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DAVID DUCHOVNY & MEG RYAN
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On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the stars shared a laugh
promoting their new rom-com What Happens
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Though everyone got trophies for their the transformation of
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COVER STORY
Jackie Kennedy Onassis
New Secrets of
Her Life in
Camelot
SHE HAD BRAINS, BEAUTY AND CLASS, BUT LOVE AND
MARRIAGE RARELY LIVED UP TO THEIR PROMISE By LOUISE A. BARILE
A
s the festivities for her husband, How close did Jackie come to standing up JFK at
President John F. Kennedy’s 45th the altar? Pretty close. “While everyone was pre-
birthday were being planned, First paring for the wedding, she sort of disappeared,”
Lady Jacqueline Kennedy faced says Taraborrelli, who adds that Jackie eventually
a dilemma. Should she attend the returned determined to make the best of her situ-
gala at Madison Square Garden, ation. “Her reservations were not unfounded, but
featuring Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy Birth- it’s just that once the ball was rolling, it was hard to
day?” In the end, Jackie, who had heard rumors of change the trajectory.”
her husband’s alleged fling with the blonde bomb-
shell, opted to avoid the sure-to-be humiliating FIRST LADY
event. Instead, she threw a cookout for her family Jackie learned to overlook her husband’s infideli-
at her retreat in Virginia and let JFK attend solo. ty, but she nearly left JFK following the loss of their
Nearly 30 years after her death, the life and se- stillborn first child, a daughter she named Arabel-
crets of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis continue la, in 1956. “He was on a cruise, and when the still-
to fascinate. “Despite the money, power, celebri- birth happened, he did not come home to be at her
ty and fame, people can really relate to her,” says side,” relates Taraborrelli. Grieving and shocked
J. Randy Taraborrelli, author of the new book by his callousness, Jackie confided to sister-in-law
Jackie: Public, Private, Secret. Although Jack- Ethel Kennedy that she was ready to begin divorce
ie experienced many disappointments in love and proceedings. “[Kennedy patriarch] Joe Kennedy
marriage, she tried to learn from her mistakes. went to Jackie and offered her $100,000 to stay in
Before she wed JFK, Jackie worried about his the marriage and have one child,” says the author,
playboy reputation. In fact, she nearly cancelled the who notes that Jackie was a very practical person.
wedding because of it. “The decision to marry JFK “She took the deal because she felt she deserved it
was really made by Jackie and her mom, Janet, who for being married to that man.” According to the
was a huge influence in her life,” explains the au- book, after the birth of their daughter Caroline in
thor. “Jackie’s mom, Janet, had a terrible marriage 1957, Joe kept his end of the bargain and deposited
to Jackie’s father, Jack Bouvier, who was unfaithful. the money (roughly equivalent to $1 million today)
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COVER STORY LOVE, LIES
AND SECRETS
Yet, despite their many difficulties, She wed JFK on Sept. 12, 1953,
there was also real love between Jackie in Newport, R.I. The reception
and JFK. “He was the wrong guy for her, for 800 guests was held at her
but she loved him so much,” says Tarabor- stepfather’s oceanfront estate.
relli. The birth of Caroline and John Jr.
drew the couple closer, and the death of
their last child, newborn Patrick, in 1963,
caused JFK to regret the pain he’d caused
his wife. “After Patrick died, JFK decid-
ed he was going to commit himself to his
marriage,” says Taraborrelli. “Then, a cou-
ple of months later, he was murdered.”
THE TYCOON
The assassination of her brother-in-law
Bobby Kennedy, in 1968, cemented Jack- Jackie was an intensely private
ie’s resolve to marry Aristotle Onas- person and had difficulty
adjusting to the public life of a “He was the love of her
sis. The Greek shipping tycoon wasn’t politician’s wife. life,” says Taraborrelli,
just wealthy, he also had his own securi- “but she deserved
ty force, which Jackie felt would keep her She found better.”
and her children safe. purpose in
However, their marriage, in October restoring the White
1968, came with a number of understand- House to its former
ings. “They were intimate one time, and it glory. “It would be
didn’t work for them, so they had an open sacrilege merely
to redecorate it
marriage,” Taraborrelli reveals. “Jackie
— a word I hate. It
knew that Maria Callas was still going to must be restored,”
be part of the picture.” Jackie said.
Onassis began his affair with the soprano
opera star in 1957. During his marriage to
Jackie, he continued to see Maria, who had
left her husband for him, and to pay her for
Paris apartment. He also forbade his wife After the murder
from approaching Maria — but Jackie was of JFK, Jackie
curious. “She went to Maria’s home and sat made protecting
across the street,” the secretary of Jackie’s her children her
Greek sister-in-law told Taraborrelli. “She greatest priority.
said, ‘I saw [Maria] walking out of her build- Aristotle Onassis’
ing, this lonely-looking woman in a drab vast wealth
offered security.
raincoat.’ She said she decided to leave the
poor woman alone.”
After Onassis’ passing in 1975, Jackie
moved back to New York full time. She had
first met businessman Maurice Tempels- Jackie would never convert to Judaism for
man years earlier, in the 1950s. They be- him. He never divorced his wife, Lily, but
came a couple, and he moved into Jackie’s remained Jackie’s devoted companion un- “I want
apartment overlooking Central Park in til her death in 1994.
1982. “Maurice was her companion, not her From the outside, Jackie’s relation- to live my
lover,” writes Taraborrelli, who notes that
the pair maintained separate bedrooms.
ships might seem unusual, but she always
knew her mind. “Her mother taught her
life, not
They also never wed. Marriage would
have complicated their finances and their
that she was unique and her own person,”
says Taraborrelli. “With or without a man,
record it.”
—Jacqueline Kennedy
legacies to their children. And, accord- Jackie always felt complete.” —Reporting Onassis
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children
together,
including
Heather, whom
he adopted.
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Shevell in 2011, posed with kids
James, Mary and Stella.
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eral women Paul juggled, including fi-
ancée Jane Asher and future Mod Squad
star Peggy Lipton. “Anyone who believed
sweet, baby-faced Paul was too clean-cut
for casual sex was deluded,” writes Jones.
“The wholesome innocence was an act.”
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By late 1968, Paul’s engagement was off
and he was hiding out in Linda’s tiny
apartment in New York. He stopped shav-
ing and wore natty clothing so he could
ride the subway, enjoy meals out and spend
Saved Him
afternoons shopping thrift stores with
Linda. When she had to work, he babysat
her daughter Heather. “I always used to
joke that I ruined Linda’s career,” he said.
Paul had a point. Their new life togeth-
er grew to take priority over photogra-
I
phy. The couple wed in March 1969, had
A CASUAL n 1967, Paul McCartney visited the their first child together later that year,
Bag O’Nails, a London nightclub, to and slipped off to rural Scotland following
MEETING celebrate completing the recording the Beatles’ breakup. “I started drinking,”
TURNED of Sgt. Pepper’s. As photographer said Paul of his long depression. “Anger,
INTO THE Linda Eastman passed his table, he deep, deep anger sets in, with everything.”
RELATIONSHIP stood, bumped into her and asked if Linda tried her best to rouse him from
she wanted to join his party. his funk before suggesting the obvious —
THAT GAVE Linda, an American single mom and the Paul should start another group. “It was
HIS LIFE NEW first woman to shoot a cover for Rolling Linda who saved me,” said Paul. “It was
MEANING Stone magazine, said yes. “The way I de- all done in a sort of domestic setting.” The
fine the world, I wasn’t a groupie,” Linda couple would go on to play together in
AFTER THE told Lesley-Ann Jones, author of the new Wings for a decade. “There’s a couple of
BEATLES book Fly Away Paul. “But I did hang out times in life when you are forced into tak-
SPLIT with groups.” ing a risk,” said Paul. “The risk paid off.”

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8 All riled up 39 Washed the 64 Four bagger
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9 Tire patterns sidewalk 65 Taproom drinks
10 Shoe parts 40 Saw green 66 Exits
11 ___-de-France 42 Pay a call 68 Winter throw
ACROSS 84 It gets things 12 He’ll eat anything 43 Large water lines 69 Fathers
1 Dig a big hole going 13 Black-eyed flower 44 Kournikova of the 70 Stir together
6 Woolly beast 86 Type of tournament 15 Ambulance wail court 71 Basketballer
11 Charged particles 89 Monarchs 17 Wanted poster 45 In all aspects Archibald
14 River in Egypt 90 Goes with yin abbreviation 46 Jogs 73 Perseus
15 Heroic story 91 Throat clearing 18 T-shirt print 47 They scatter killed her
16 Royal domain sound 19 Paramour seeds 74 Colloquialism
18 Rubbed elbows 92 Garden building 20 Toils away 48 Gumption 76 Goes without
20 Relaxing times 93 Sincere 21 Woman’s attire 49 Land units food
22 Stage whisper 94 American 23 Hindu garment 50 Go from one 77 Stick way out
24 Raw metals marsupials 25 Retains thing to another 78 Piggish sound
25 Down under beast 28 Like a lion 51 Split into parts 79 Gets skinny
26 Investment fund DOWN 29 Scent 53 Canonized one 81 Sprint
27. Lacking color 1 Wild adventure 30 Circulatory pump 54 Relieved 82 Large snakes
28 Changes location 2 Battery terminal 31 Rub out 55 Pooch pests 83 Lincoln and
30 Animal groups 3 Bad habit 33 Let down 57 Carnivals Vigoda
31 Uniform 4 Boxing great 34 Before recorded 59 Lively 85 Halfway
32 Noah’s ship Muhammad time 60 River in Germany 86 Pumpernickel
33 Heavily burdened 5 London break 35 Shipping centers 61 Ignited again cousin
34 Quick looks 6 Labyrinths 37 Abodes 62 Woody plants 87 Knock on
35 Paid athletes 7 Gets older 38 Close packed 63 Tollway 88 Cry of surprise
36 Shame
38. Plumbing curves
39 Raspy voiced
41 Cringe in fear
42 Competitive ones
43 Code man Samuel
44 Bearing weapons
45 Get in the ring
46 A sense
47 Look scornful
48 Fish dish
49 Sign of the Ram
50 Before pod
or cycle
52 Wallet singles
53 In a flash
55 Unencumbered
56 Pallid
57 Character flaw
58 Little pies
59 Not very tasty
60. Weather word
61 Garden blooms
62 Tendency
63 Ponder
64 “___ looking
at you”
65 Opera songs
67 Pipsqueak
69 Firm & strong
70 Good wishes
72 Samovars
73 Imitate
74 Streamlined
75 Pavement paste
76 Monetary penalty
77 Soft hat
78 “Cagney & Lacey”
actress Sharon
79 Location
80 Swiss peak
81 More impolite
82 High fiber item
83 Medicinal plants
WORD SCRAMBLE
Unscramble the shaded letters to spell out
RYAN GOSLING shared the
spotlight with this actress in
the answer to this week’s trivia question. 2004’s The Notebook.
Relax!
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Find the 10 things that make these two pictures different!
PICTURED:
KELLY RIPA CELEBRATES MICKEY AND HIS
PALS FOR DISNEY’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY.
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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.
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Th ah E W V K H RWQ U Q DW Q D B YW
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CATHERINE ZETA-JONES
W V K N H B I V Y R F K H B D
JAMES EARL JONES
J C W V K O Q U K O.
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24 Glove
43
45
Offspring
Pluto’s path
ACROSS 2 Apple or compartment 46 Royal residence
1 Paying out pumpkin treat item 47 Modifying word
7 Baseball hats 3 Type of government 26 Cocktail lounges 49 Envision
11 A stopwatch 4 Profit after 27 Battery filler 50 Quart cousin
is one expenses 29 For each one 51 London
12 Glove lining 5 Highly motivated 31 Doris Day movie: covering
13 Royal flush card 6 Have to have Tea For ___ 52 Fiddler On
15 Snake or lizard 7 Actor’s prompt 32 Fido’s foot The ___
17 Permit 8 Decorative crafts 33 Firearm 54 Strongly
18 Fan speed 9 Bargain offering 34 Boredom encourage
19 Type of cassette 10 Not very many response 55 Game for the
21 Table support 12 Pool toy 35 Function playground
22 Heated up 14 Toothed wheel 36 Cast your ballot 56 Date for he
25 We’ll see... 16 Pot cover 37 Have a tab 57 Goes with
28 Rest against 20 Heart-rending 39 Statistics caboodle
29 Flower 21 Jared of Suicide 41 Not very 59 Aries symbol
container Squad motivated 60 Vital statistic
30 Storage spot
32 Teacher’s
favorite
33 Sprout up
34 Thee
36 Different
38 A little strange
40 School zone sign
42 Hold the title
44 Bread type
45 First number
46 Layer of paint
48 African horse
49 Shoe for the
beach
51 Cook in the
skillet
53 Music genre
55 As well
56 Hit the slopes
58 Secluded place
61 In times past
62 Big success
63 Oversized
64 Shoe fillers
65 Come to mind
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pace, and don’t allow anyone to pressure you. is on love and relationships. Think positive!
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DEC. 22 – JAN. 19 JUNE 22 – JULY 22
A friend can come forth and impart missing Be prepared to alter your schedule to be
information; someone from your past can more productive. But keep in mind it may
provide insight to help you make a decision. be impossible to keep everyone happy.
Aquarius Leo
JAN. 20 – FEB. 18 JULY 23 – AUG. 22
An opportunity at work has the potential to With career and money, put your
boost your bank account. But don’t think negotiation skills to work, but aim
about it for too long — if you want it, act fast. for a win-win outcome.
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It’s the perfect time to set goals, Pisces! Make A situation at home could be
time to think about your future, and what you stressful, especially if it concerns
want to achieve, so you can plan accordingly. your love life, so don’t overreact. On China Beach
in 1988
Aries Libra
MARCH 21 – APRIL 19 SEPT. 23 – OCT. 22
Venus in your love zone is a positive sign for A financial chat with someone you respect
relationships. When it’s about love, show can present a new development. Take time to
someone close you can compromise. process your next move, Libra.
THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE SOLUTIONS

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The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”
ANSWER:
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. WORD SCRAMBLE
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Colman
Agents of Change Domingo
There’s a whole world
outside of D.C. — or Los
Angeles, New Orleans and
Hawaii, for that matter.
And with NCIS: Sydney, the
folks at the Naval Criminal
Investigative Service are
In Rustin
going to explore some of it.
In the latest spinoff series,
maverick Special Agent
Michelle Mackey (Olivia
Swann) is sent Down Under WHAT HE’S DOING:
to investigate all things Making it a “mission”
making waves for the Navy. to honor an oft-
She’s aided by Australian forgotten civil rights
Federal Police Sergeant JD leader in the biopic
Dempsey (Todd Lasance). Rustin. “Hopefully,
“It’s effectively [NCIS’s] there will never be a
first ‘blended family,’” says question again of who
showrunner Morgan O’Neill, Bayard Rustin was.”
who wasn’t concerned
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Olivia Swann and

Todd Lasance WHAT HE’S DONE:
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TUNE IN! NCIS: Sydney premieres Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS running turn as Victor
on TV’s Fear the
Walking Dead as he
Will Clive
Owen really
A New World would any character.
Nancy Drew she’s not. But in the mini- “I always want to
have Emma challenge audiences. I
series A Murder at the End of the World,
Corrin’s back? want to give a fullness
co-creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij
did take a novel approach for their new, with everything.”
amateur sleuth Darby Hart (Emma Corrin).
Along with eight other guests, she’s invited
to the retreat of a reclusive billionaire
(Clive Owen), where a murder soon puts
her skills to the test. “[But] she’s not
interested in the psychology of the killer
the way we are often culturally obsessed
with the dark creativity of the killer — how
they did something and how they eluded
capture,” explains Marling. “She’s more
interested in the victim,” says Batmanglij. TUNE IN!
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COMFORT FOODEasy, heartwarming and full of flavor, these Southern
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O
n nights when there’s a feeling. “We got the meals that will have
chilly wind blowing out- people looking for you in the daytime with
side and we don’t want to a flashlight,” promises author Danni Rose,
climb out from under a whose recipes are inspired by the hole-
&
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thing we crave: Hearty parents owned in Birmingham,
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comfort foods that have us humming with Ala., when she was growing up. The NE ABLE
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Food, where every recipe gives us that warm and cozy feeling. Try one tonight!
OLE SKOOL MAC ‘N’ CHEESE

Stick-to-yooud!r- Serves 8
bones go 1
⁄2 cup plus 1 tbsp. in a large bowl. Tuck in
salted butter, remaining butter. Stir
cut into pieces in sour cream, salt, 1 ⁄2
3 tbsp. chicken tsp. paprika, pepper
bouillon and 3 cups cheese.
1 lb. elbow pasta 3. In another bowl, mix
3
⁄4 cup sour cream eggs, milk and cream.
1 tbsp. kosher salt 4. Put 1 ⁄ 3 of pasta into
1 tsp. paprika dish. Top with a hand-
1
⁄2 tsp. pepper ful of cheese and 2 tsp.
8 cups grated house seasoning, then
cheddar 1
⁄ 3 of custard mixture.
2 large eggs Repeat twice more,
2 cups whole milk finishing with cheese
11 ⁄2 cups heavy and remaining paprika.
cream 5. Bake 40 min. Let
2 tbsp. house rest 10 min. Serve.
seasoning*
*For seasoning: Mix
1. Heat oven to 350°F. 1 tsp. each cayenne,
Grease a 9 × 13" cas- garlic powder, pep-
serole dish with 1 tbsp. per, kosher salt, onion
butter. Add bouillon powder and paprika.
and pasta to boiling PER SERVING: 704 cal,
water; cook 6 to 7 min. 40g protein, 50g carbs, 2g
2. Drain pasta and put fiber, 7g sugar, 38g fat
30 November 20, 2023 CLOSER Recipes adapted from Danni’s Juke Joint Comfort Food by Danni Rose. Published by Harvest, an imprint of
William Morrow. Copyright 2023 by Sopped Up Productions LLC. Photography copyright by John Hanney.
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CHICKEN BUTTA CHICKEN
Serves 4
1 (3- to 4-lb.) powder, salt, paprika

chicken, at and pepper in a bowl;
room temp., mix with a fork into a
patted dry and smooth paste. Rub half
spatchcocked all over chicken and
1 cup salted underneath the skin.
butter, at room 3. Tent pan with foil;
temp. bake 45 min. to 1 hr.
2 tbsp. chicken- Remove foil, increase
flavored temperature to 450°F,
bouillon powder and bake 20 min.
2 tbsp. dried more. Place pan on top
parsley of the stove.
2 tbsp. garlic 4. Add remaining but-
powder ter to pan immediately
2 tsp. kosher salt to melt. With a large
2 tsp. paprika spoon, baste chicken
1 tsp. pepper with melted butter.
1 lemon, cut in half 5. Let chicken rest 20
min. Cut into pieces
1. Heat oven to 375°F. as desired, then give
Place chicken in a 12" them a squeeze of
Cooking the cast-iron skillet or lemon juice and serve.
chicken in cast large baking dish. PER SERVING: 742 cal, 32g
iron ensures the 2. Combine butter, protein, 4g carbs, 1g fiber,
skin gets extra bouillon, parsley, garlic 1g sugar, 67g fat
crispy.
PINEAPPLE MIMOSA POUND CAKE

Serves 12
11 ⁄2 cups salted 20 sec. Add 1 egg,

butter, at room then 1 cup flour, then
temp. last egg and remain-
5 large eggs, at ing flour, beating after
room temp. each addition.
2 cups sugar 2. Add cream and
3 cups cake flour Champagne; beat 15
1 tsp. kosher salt sec. Fold in pineapple.
1
⁄4 cup heavy 3. Spread batter in
cream pan. Bake until a
1 cup Champagne toothpick comes out
1 (8 oz.) can clean, about 75 min.
crushed 4. Cool in pan 15 min.
pineapple, Unmold cake onto a
drained, juice plate; cool 1 hr. Drizzle
reserved glaze* over cake; let sit
10 min. Cut and serve.
1. Heat oven to 325°F.
Grease a Bundt pan. *For glaze: Whisk 1
Combine butter and cup powdered sugar,
1 egg in a large bowl; 2 tbsp. reserved pine-
beat with a hand mixer apple juice and 2 tbsp.
on medium speed. Champagne.
Serve this Add sugar and 2 more PER SERVING: 544 cal, 6g
delicious cake eggs; beat to combine. protein, 70g carbs, 1g fiber,
for brunch or Add 1 cup flour; beat 45g sugar, 26g fat
dessert!
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EXCLUSVIIEW
INTER
MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY
& PETA MURGATROYD
FAMILY
Is Everything
The dance pros share
their thoughts on
marriage, parenthood
and DWTS.
Peta and Maks won America’s hearts as
dance pros on Dancing With the Stars.
The couple are
parents to sons
Shai and Rio.
T
hey’re in better physical
shape than most couples, but
married dance professionals How has Shai adjusted to being an older
Maks Chmerkovskiy and brother?
Peta Murgatroyd are pretty Peta: He’s excited. He’s thrilled. He can’t wait
normal, too. They sometimes for Rio to start talking and playing.
disagree on what to watch on TV (Peta’s Maks: They also have the same age difference
obsessed with Vanderpump Rules) or what as my brother and I. They’ll have footsteps to
music to listen to (Maks is partial to Frank follow in. It’s a way to make brothers be close
Sinatra). They spend a lot of time doting on and love each other like Val [Chmerkovskiy]
their boys, Shai, 6, and Rio, 4 months, and are and I. I’m going to follow the way of our
thrilled when they can escape for a date night parents, who kept us so tight.
alone. “Taverna Tony in Malibu is our favorite,”
Maks tells Closer, noting that Peta always Val and Jenna Johnson’s son, Rome, was
orders the same Greek salad. “It’s just so good!” born in January, so Rio will have a cousin the
she adds. same age.
Of course, thanks to their time on Dancing Peta: That was really exciting for us that
With the Stars, Maks, 43, and Peta, 37, are Jenna and Val had a baby five months before.
also two of America’s most beloved dance We’re going to be a close-knit family.
personalities. Although Maks left the show
in 2018, Peta has been competing with Brady Do you plan to have more children?
Bunch alum Barry Williams this season. The Maks: As a matter of fact, we’re pregnant with
couple has also teamed up with Hallmark and triplets! (Laughs)
Venmo to introduce their new gift cards. Peta: If it happens, I will be thrilled. To have
three would be amazing, but one day at a time
Your son Rio was born in June. Has it been right now.
hard to go from one child to two?
Peta: It’s a lot. The most difficult part You celebrated your sixth wedding
has been time. How do I share my anniversary this year. What’s your secret for
time with two children, a husband a happy marriage?
and a dog? That almost made me Maks: I think the secret to a happy marriage
They’re nervous in the beginning. I think is a great foundation. In a world where people
helping launch you sort of learn as you go. You want a building with colors, lights and all this
the first-of-its- get organized, you get into a stuff, they have to think about the building’s
kind Hallmark routine, a rhythm, and you just foundation first. We live in a world where it’s so
+ Venmo Cards make it work. easy to run away from each other, it’s so easy to
to make gifting
easier.
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HEART to heart
divorce. I believe in fundamental things. We Did you watch The Brady Bunch as
have that spark, we have that love. I don’t a kid? CUTEST
want to be without her and she’s sad without Peta: I did, yes! Obviously, I didn’t COUPLE
me. Every time one of us is going on a plane, watch it when it was airing in They met on Broadway in
there’s tears. America because I wasn’t even 2009, but only started dating
when Peta joined Dancing
born yet, but I did watch it in With the Stars in 2011. “There
Do you have the time for date nights? Australia. Australians loved was always an attraction,”
Peta: Right now, it’s hard. We’re both that show. admitted Peta, who married
working full time, but it will start soon, Maks in a quiet, private
especially when the show comes to a Maks, do you ever give Peta ceremony in 2017.
close for me. You really do have to carve advice on her routines for the show?
out the time. It’s important to go out Maks: I try to stay away. I really do.
for dinner, go see a movie, go out and do Obviously, if she needs help, I’m not going
anything together. to be a [jerk] and say, “No, I don’t want to
offer you my opinion on the cha-cha.”
How has it been partnering with Barry Peta: I feel like if I do bombard him with
Williams on DWTS this season? stuff, it’s not the best dynamic for us. We
Peta: Barry is the perfect partner for me. usually choreograph with another male
He’s somebody who gives me all the time pro-dancer who is not on the show. We
in the world. He’s cleared his schedule choreograph on them and then we put that
for Dancing With the Stars. He’s such a choreography on our celebrities. I don’t
beautiful human being and I’m happy to need to have [Maks] there every step of the
have him. way. I’ve done this for long enough now.
Maks: It’s also not that type of project.
You’ve done very well together! This is a project that’s personal. If you’re
Peta: He’s one of the hardest workers going to spend 24/7 with the [celebrity],
I’ve ever had. We start rehearsals it’s you who should be doing [the
around 1 p.m. and they go until 5. Before choreography] because [you’re] going to
1 p.m. he is in his gym stretching, going have to explain it.
over his moves, and he almost does it to
make my job a little bit easier so I don’t Tell us about your partnership with
have to start from scratch everyday. Hallmark and Venmo.
He turned 69 this year and he’s so fit It’s a first-of-its-kind collaboration
and so willing to give me everything where [shoppers] get to marry a physical,
that he’s got. beautiful Hallmark card with a Venmo
THEIR LIVES
TOGETHER
AND APART
DANCE DAYS The

EARLY PROMISE! YOUNG TALENT! Peta pair became friends !BIG MOMENT
Maks was born in grew up in Australia. At 4, in 2009 during the Maks proposed onstage during a
Ukraine and began she began ballet training. Broadway production performance of Sway in Miami in 2015.
dancing at age 4. of Burn the Floor.

“We have arguments,
but we get through
them and then we
move on.”
—Maks Chmerkovskiy on his marriage
to Peta Murgatroyd
[money gift] inside with just a click of a

button. I can think of a bunch of times
where I’m late for a birthday party, I need
to run and get a card, and I don’t know
what to get for a present. This combines it
all in one.
Maks: I love Hallmark already because
they made card-giving for guys a lot easier.
I can pick something that is already written
and the cash part of it is amazing. I was like,
this is brilliant, why didn’t I think of it?
Do you have any mottoes you live by?

Maks: Don’t be an ass—!
Peta: That is such a Maks thing to say.
Maks: It’s a good motto!
Peta: For the show, especially, I would say
at the end of the day, it’s about fun. If you
can’t have fun together, your relationship
is not going to be one that people will vote
for. You need to have a good relationship
with your partner and have fun.
—Fortune Benatar
FAMILY WAY! The couple, along with Maks’ brother

and DWTS pro Val Chmerkovskiy, traveled the
country with Maks, Val & Peta Live on Tour in 2018.
HOT! STUFF Peta and

Brady Bunch alum Barry
BIG SURPRISE In 2021, Maks was Williams were paired up
runner-up to Olympic gold medalist for DWTS’ Season 32. “I
Gabby Douglas in the first season of couldn’t ask for anyone
The Masked Dancer. better,” she says.
CLOSERWEEKLY.COM 37
STAR STORY
LENA HORNE
Inside Her &

NEW LE
B
HOLLYWOOD
NOTA
STRUGGLE
THE TALENTED BEAUTY MADE STRIDES IN SHOWBIZ, BUT
FILM SUCCESS NEVER LIVED UP TO HER BIGGEST DREAMS
L
ena Horne knew
how to make an
entrance. For her
debut on LA’s Sun-
set Strip in January
1942, she donned a
simple white gown and, without an
introduction, stepped from dark-
ness into a single spotlight to sing
the wistful standard, “The Man I Stormy Weather, which gave Lena a
Love.” Within days, a who’s who of Lena began dancing at New York’s signature song, was one of two all-
Hollywood’s A-list, including Mar- Cotton Club at age 16 before Black musicals she starred in.
lene Dietrich, Lana Turner and becoming a vocalist.
Cole Porter, came to bask in
Lena’s magic spell.
Less than a month later,
MGM announced that it had
signed the New York-born
African American beau-
ty to a contract. “Before her
arrival in Hollywood, Black
actors and actresses gener-
ally played comic servants
and supporting roles,” ex-
plains Donald Bogle, author
of the new biography Lena
Horne: Goddess Reclaimed. She made a brief musical
Lena’s power lay in her so- appearance in 1956’s Meet In 1978, Lena returned to movies
phisticated beauty, which, Me in Las Vegas. playing Glinda the Good in The Wiz.
Bogle notes, “appealed to
Black and white audiences,” coupled white but is revealed to be Black,”
with her concise diction and emo- says Bogle of the character. “But the March on Wash-
tional connection with the songs they gave the role to Ava Gardner, a ington and joined in other pivotal
she sang. “There was something white actress.” Civil Rights moments.
about her that was untouchable and Her career rebounded when
irresistible,” he says. WINDS OF CHANGE Lena set her sights on perform-
In the 1940s, she would appear in Lena’s frustration led her to join ing live instead of in films. In 1957,
13 MGM features, including 1943’s a variety of activist groups — and she became the toast of Broadway
Cabin in the Sky, which would be got her into trouble with the poli- in the musical Jamaica. Other suc-
Lena’s only starring role in a mov- ticians conducting the era’s Com- cesses on stage included the 1981
ie musical. “She was the first Black munist witch hunts. The revelation one-woman show Lena Horne: The
woman in Hollywood to be fully of Lena’s marriage to Lennie Hay- Lady and Her Music, which won
glamorized and publicized by her ton, a white man, only added fuel to her a Tony.
studio, but she became unhappy,” the fire of bad press. “They married Last year, the performer, who
says Bogle, explaining that Lena in France in 1947 and they kept the died in 2010 at age 92, became the
was rarely asked to act in main- marriage a secret for three years,” first Black woman to have a Broad-
stream movies. “The films would says Bogle. For a time, a blacklist way theater named after her. Lena
star white actors. They might go to prevented Lena from being hired in might never have achieved the
a nightclub and Lena Horne would films, on TV or in nightclubs. movie stardom she first sought,
be there performing.” She distanced herself from Com- but it didn’t matter. “I don’t have
By the mid 40s, she’d become munism, but Lena, who had re- to be an imitation of a white wom-
the best paid Black actor in Holly- fused to perform for segregated an that Hollywood sort of hoped
wood, but Lena felt sidelined. She audiences during WWII, never I’d become,” Lena said. “I’m me,
campaigned to play Julie in the re- stopped fighting for social justice. and I’m like nobody else.”
make of Show Boat, only to be dis- “She was a political fighter,” says —Louise A. Barile, reporting by
appointed. “Julie is passing for Bogle. In the 1960s, Lena spoke at Fortune Benatar
CLOSERWEEKLY.COM 39
IN MEMORIAM
MATTHEW PERRY
(1969–2023)
Farewell
to a
FRIEND
THE SITCOM STAR WANTED
TO BE REMEMBERED FOR
MORE THAN HIS COMEDY
F
riends might never have be-
come such a beloved, uni-
versally quotable sitcom
without Matthew Perry’s
witty, sarcastic and lovably
insecure Chandler Bing.
The actor, who died at his home on Oct. 28
at age 54, felt born to inhabit the role. “It
wasn’t that I though I could play Chandler.
I was Chandler,” he confessed in his 2022
memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Ter-
rible Thing. “It was as if someone had fol-
lowed me around for a year, stealing my
jokes, copying my mannerisms, photo-
copying my world-weary yet witty view of
life,” he wrote.
“We were more than just cast mates. We are
Raised in Ottawa, Canada, Matthew ex- a family,” said the surviving Friends cast in a
celled at tennis but carried feelings of aban- bring the peace statement. Matthew’s memoir (below) was
donment after his parents’ divorce. He he desired. Over released last November.
moved to LA as a teenager and ditched his many years, he
tennis racket to be an actor. For years, Mat- struggled with alcohol and pre-
thew bumped around in little-seen films scription pills, took 15 trips to rehab
and failed TV pilots, burning to become fa- and had several very close brushes
mous. “I needed it,” he wrote. “It was the with death.
only thing that would fix me. I was certain Last year, Matthew shared his sto-
of it.” He landed the role on Friends at 24. ry because he finally felt comfortable
in sobriety and hoped his difficult jour-
A HIGHER CALLING ney would inspire others. “I would like to
In his memoir, Matthew talked about his be remembered as somebody who lived
years on the show and how he dated — well, loved well, was a seeker,” Matthew
and dumped! — actress Julia Roberts. But said. “And his paramount thing is that he
success and $1 million an episode did not wants to help people. That’s what I want.”

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MEMORY LANE
The
TONY RANDALL
Only I Knew
IN HIS LAST YEARS, THE ODD COUPLE ACTOR DEVOTED
HIMSELF TO FAMILY, THE ARTS AND HELPING OTHERS
H
eather Randall re- Her home life with the beloved
cently had some actor, who spent over a decade
A BRILLIANT LIFE
home movies digi- in Holly wood before playing & CAREER
tized featuring her Felix Unger on The Odd Couple,
late husband, Tony was warm, loving and often quite
Randall. In one from glamorous. Tony attended the opera
1997, Tony sings to his daughter, Ju- almost weekly and enjoyed turning his
lia, backstage at The Sunshine Boys, the periodic appearances on David Let-
Broadway revival he headlined along- terman’s talk show into date nights. “I
side Jack Klugman, his co-star on The think the day player rate was around
Odd Couple. “The music stopped and $800, and they’d let him keep the car
there was applause, and Tony said, for the night,” Heather recalls. “He’d
‘Hear that, honey? That’s for Jack! say, ‘Come with me, I’ll do my bit, and
Jack just entered the stage,’!” Heather then we’ll take the car to Le Cirque’ —
tells Closer. “It was just so sweet.” that was the hot restaurant at the time Tony made three films with Doris Day.
In his later years, Tony returned to — ‘my fee pays for the dinner, so it’s a “He thought she was so talented,
the things he loved best — performing night on the town.’!” professional and kind,” says Heather.
onstage, attending the opera and de-
voting his time to charity. He also took LOVING LEGACY
on a new role when he became a father After Tony’s passing at age 84
for the first time, to Julia and son Jef- from pneumonia following a tri-
ferson, in his 70s. “He was such a lov- ple bypass in 2004, Heather tried
ing, excited father,” to stay upbeat for
says Heather. “He her kids. “I didn’t
knew he wasn’t go- want to make the
ing to be with them “He’d done house a shrine and
for a long time, so
he would make me so well with keep the pain so
present,” she says.
He and Jack Klugman starred on
The Odd Couple for five years,
take lots and lots of
videos.”
his TV shows, But she liked to
share stories about
beginning in 1970.
Heather met Tony

as an actress with the
he felt like their father with
the kids, and some-
National Actors The- he could times Tony’s friends
atre, a company he joined in. “Jack Klug-
founded in 1991. Pri- concentrate man and [Odd Couple
or to their union, he creator] Garry Mar-
had been married to on what he shall were very much
his high school sweet-
heart, Florence Gibbs, loved.” a part of our lives,”
she says. “They would
for over 50 years. —Heather Randall on her late husband, tel l t he k ids t he
Tony Randall
“He was kind, he nicest stories about
was fun and funny,” their dad.” After losing his first wife to
says Heather, who recalls her husband Today, Heather is working on a doc- cancer, Tony found love with
Heather, whom he wed in 1995.
teaching her how to tell a joke. “He had a umentary about her life with Tony.
way of just keeping me calm. I felt really “Nobody could hold a candle to him,” The couple
safe with him.” she confides. “He was such a wonder- had two
Tony also believed in being of ful human being.” children
service. “He understood that his ce- But at certain moments, she catches a together,
lebrity would allow charities to raise reflection of Tony in their son. “He does Julia and
more money or get more attention,” stand-up comedy,” she says proudly. Jefferson.
says Heather, noting that Tony also did “Sometimes, he’ll get the same intense
a lot of philanthropic work out of the comic look in his eyes — like the way Fe-
spotlight. “He would read to the blind,” lix would look when he thought it was a
she says. “He believed that if you were matter of life and death. Sometimes he
in a position to help, you must. But he is just so much like his dad.” — Louise A.
didn’t advertise that. He just did it.” Barile, reporting by Fortune Benatar
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GROWING UP in Athens, Georgia, Kimila Ann Basinger admits,
“I was so shy at school that I hardly ever talked, so everybody
thought I was kind of a hermit.” Yet, she says, “[I knew] exactly what
I wanted to do: I wanted to be in show business. I just knew it was all
going to happen.” And after winning a Junior Miss contest that led
to a stint as a Breck Shampoo Girl and a career as a model, she was on
her way to establishing herself as a star — despite her “heavy-duty,
very out loud” divorce from Alec Baldwin, bankruptcy and, at times,
paralyzing anxiety. But Kim, who turns 70 on Dec. 8, has persevered.
“The best part of aging is learning to shed all the s–t that has weighed
you down your whole life,” she says. “The most of something that
you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing. It’s taking
in the value of what each moment has to offer.”
7
1998 KEEP MOM
She’d win an Oscar,
but she first took a
“Becoming pass on L.A. Confidential. “I
had just given birth to my
the person daughter. I was very in love
I’m meant with being a mom. I said to
my agent, ‘I’m not doing
to become... this. I’m not playing a
that’s all I whore. I’m a mother now!’!”
want.”
—Kim Basinger
8
2002 RIDE ALONG “Eminem is very cool,” said
Kim, who played the rapper’s on-screen mom
in 8 Mile. “[But] it was a wild ride. It was a scary
ride…. We had to go to some raw places. We were all
nervous. It was kind of like a common bond we all had.”

1
1977 CAT CALLS
After her days as a
3
model, Kim was 1986 ALL THE NERVE For
2
“asked continually” to do TV 1983 NEVER LAND “Never Say Never Again was the Kim, 9 1/2 Weeks “was like
roles, including the short-lived film that introduced me to my world audience,” said an exorcism. Nobody
cop drama Dog and Cat. “I Kim. But, she’d admit, “I had never seen a Bond movie wants to be taken that far. Every
learned so quickly, it was the before I did that one. Never! It was Sean Connery’s wife who nerve of mine was exposed to cast,
fastest education any kid could had suggested me [for the part].” In fact, Kim never saw crew, everybody. But it was a
ever get. And I learned that I herself as a Bond girl. “I just thought, ‘I wear bib jeans. I don’t release. Afterward, I was stronger
didn’t want to do that.“ wear underwear like that. I don’t move in the world like that!’!” than I had ever been in my life.”
5
1991 MAN TALK “There were
times I could have chosen my
4 6
1989 WRITING WRONGS movies better,” said Kim. “I did 1993 WORLD VIEW “I never saw
“If you knew the truth about The Marrying Man, where I met my now- Wayne’s World so I didn’t know
Batman you would faint,” she ex-husband Alec Baldwin. But I was what it was about,” she said of her
once confessed. “The magnitude of this teeter-tottering, because I had also been turn in Wayne’s World 2.” But Dana Carvey
film was unbelievable. But I saw a lot offered Sleeping With the Enemy. Isn’t it just clean-called me and he was very sweet
that was missing. I’ve rewritten a lot of funny that I turned [it] down and then I and sincere. He said, ‘We’re really going to
the stuff I’ve done in movies, so I just went on to sleep with the enemy! Alec and have fun, please do this with me.’ It was a
rewrote a lot of this, period.” I are cool now, though. Life goes on.” little gift to be given [to me].”
9
2006
WATCH
OUT
Despite getting to
star opposite the
likes of Michael
Douglas in The
Sentinel, Kim isn’t a
fan of watching her
own films. “I’ve
lived so deep with
the character that it
would be too
shallow to watch it.
I know it’s a weird
thing. But I don’t
10
know any benefit 2017 POWER TRIP “The only reason I accepted the
from watching the role of Christian Grey’s ex-lover in Fifty Shades Darker
film. I don’t have a was because my daughter, Ireland, insisted,” revealed
good relationship Kim. “She said, ‘You have to do it, Mom. It’s really powerful for
with myself on women. Your character is about a woman’s power.’ [And] I’d
the screen.” love to see every woman come into their power.”
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