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TO THE STARS YOU LOVE

NEWS FEATURES
What I’ve
4 NEWS NOW
Jamie Lee Curtis
on why she’s more
Learned
energized than ever
at 62. John Corbett
and Bo Derek tie
the knot after 20

50
years together.
Kathy Griffin opens
up about her recent
health scare.

6 PICTURE
PERFECT
Kelly “The problem
Trisha Yearwood Chers with people
the love. Robin Wright
soaks up the sun.
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her one-of-a-kind dad.
who have no
Heidi Klum and Tim vices is that
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generally
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IN THIS ISSUE IN EVERY ISSUE you can be
52 SARAH
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was tarnished by the tell-all Mommie 44 HEART
TO HEART
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they’re going
York shares her Dearest. Now, Joan’s grandson sets the Godmother of Soul
excitement about record straight on what she was really like. Patti LaBelle tells to have some
Closer about her rise annoying
26
being a grandma
HOLLYWOOD’S TOP COWBOYS to fame and why
and finally living her
dream at 61.
From John Wayne and Gary Cooper she’ll never retire. virtues.”
to Clint Eastwood and Jack Palance, stars —Elizabeth Taylor
who made their mark on western movies.

REBA MCENTIRE After two failed

58 MY LIFE IN
10 PICTURES
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Hollywood career.
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 HAPPY
TOGETHER
“I realize now how much more fun
it is when you’re working with your
friends,” reflected Michael Douglas
of Danny DeVito, his co-star in 1984’s
Romancing the Stone and former
roommate during the ’60s.
“There’s a comfort factor
that sets in, and makes
it easier.”

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“I now feel
JAMIE LEE CURTIS a freedom in
being open to
Opens Up whatever
shows up.”
About Living —Jamie Lee Curtis

For Today

E
very morning at 4 a.m.,
Jamie Lee Curtis wakes
up brimming with
energy. “I have so much
on my mind,” explains
the star. “I’m just so
crazy excited and creative right now.
And I don’t want to squander any of it.”
At 62, Jamie Lee is busier than ever.
Since the beginning of the pandemic,
she’s launched her own production
company, Comet Pictures, as well as
two podcasts — Letters From Camp
and Good Friend. “And that’s just the
beginning of that creative work,” Jamie
Lee enthuses. “Things are up and
running and really fun.” The actress
credits her 22 years of sobriety to her
positive outlook. “The process of being
a sober person puts you in the one-day-
at-a-time mentality,” she says. “Try to
forget about the past, because you can’t
do anything about it anyway. And try to
live a present life.”

She wed
Christopher
Jamie Lee reprises her role in Guest in
the horror sequel Halloween 1984.
Kills, in theaters Oct. 15.

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BO DEREK & JOHN CORBETT
The Couple Wed in a Secret
Ceremony Last December
AFTER 20 YEARS OF dating,
John Corbett and Bo
Derek decided to make
their union official.
“Around Christmas time,
we got married,” John
reveals. “We didn’t want
2020 to be that thing
that everybody looks
back at and hated. We
thought, ‘Well, let’s get
one nice thing out of it.’ ”
The former Sex and the
City star, 60, met Bo, 64,
on a blind date. “I was
very intimidated,” John
recalls. But the two got
along great and have been
inseparable ever since.
“I was definitely
in shock,”
Kathy said of
her lung cancer
diagnosis.
second for Bo, who
director John Derek
“John makes me laugh
all the time,” Bo gushes.
“He’s full of life, full of
joy. I became attracted to
him and I still am.” The
couple had talked about
getting married earlier
in their relationship, but
decided the time — and
place — weren’t right.
“We were on a funky,
horrible boat in the
Amazon, and I thought it
might be fun to be able to
[say] we got married on
a funky little boat in the
Amazon,” Bo says. “Then
we decided no, that was
just too weird.”
This is John’s first
marriage, and the
was married to
from 1976 until his
death in 1998.
KATHY GRIFFIN
A Positive Outlook
After Surgery
IT’S NO JOKE. On Aug. 2, comedian
Kathy Griffin announced via
Instagram she’d been diagnosed
with stage 1 lung cancer and would
undergo surgery to have half of
her left lung removed. “Yes, I have
lung cancer even though I’ve never
smoked!” shared Kathy, 60. A day
after going public with the news,
she posted an update saying the
surgery went well. “Hopefully no
chemo or radiation after this,” said
the My Life on the D-List star. “I
should be up and running around
as usual in a month or less.” This
isn’t the only health battle Kathy’s
faced recently. She’s also overcome
a pill addiction that led to suicidal
thoughts. “The irony is not lost
on me that, a little over a year ago,
all I wanted to do was die,” says
Kathy, who married her longtime
boyfriend, Randy Bick, in 2020.
“And now, all I want to do is live.”
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 JANE SEYMOUR

Wild Times
“I honestly can’t believe we’re already
more than halfway through the final block
of filming,” marveled the actress on July 27
about her upcoming Acorn TV series Harry
Wild, on which she fractured her knee a few
months back. “Thankfully ballet has enabled
me to almost not limp on set.”

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  HEIDI KLUM &
TIM GUNN
Cottoning Up
“We always have the sweetest time.” As the
season wraps for their Amazon series Making
the Cut on Aug. 6, Heidi couldn’t help but gush
about her co-host — who recently praised her
for making him into “a more happier and more
confident individual.”

CAMERON MATHISON
& DEBBIE MATENOPOLUOS
Popping Off
“There are few people in this world I feel
closer to than you,” said Cameron about his
co-host as their Hallmark Channel series
Home & Family comes to an end this month.
“I know our paths will continue to cross.”
JOHN CENA
Making His Peace
The actor wasn’t afraid to don his costume as
the Peacemaker for the LA premiere of Suicide
Squad on Aug. 2. “I loved it because it is so
memorable,” said John of the outfit. “The first
time I put on that helmet, man, it was like,
right, I’m going to rock this!”
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JOHN MELLENCAMP

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California-based realtor
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a spin on his motorcycle.
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introduced by one of John’s
daughters — have been an
item since May.

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  SYLVESTER STALLONE
Hats Off to...
“This is the one artist I would’ve
love to have met,” said Sly as he
waited outside the Hollywood
Roosevelt hotel in LA on July 26.
“Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp
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Maybe it was the hat?”

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 DR. MEHMET OZ
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While vacationing on the Mediterranean
this summer, TV’s favorite doc couldn’t
contain himself. “Look what we found in
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Cher name is actually spelled. Another fun and
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 THE TRUTH
About
JOAN CRAWFORD THE HOLLYWOOD LEGEND’S FAMILY DENY MOMMIE
DEAREST’S STORY OF ABUSE AND CRUELTY
By LOUISE A. BARILE
A
bout once a month, Casey
LaLonde, his sister, Carla, and
his parents would make the
two-hour drive into New York
City to visit his grandmother
JoJo. “She would often send
my mom and dad out to go shopping or sight-
seeing, and she would stay back and take care
of the grandkids,” he tells Closer. “She would
serve us lunch, give us gifts, hang out and play
with us. I had a faint idea that she was some-
how famous, but I didn’t realize that she was
the world-famous actress Joan Crawford.”
Some 16 months after Joan’s death in 1977,
her eldest child, Christina Crawford, pub-
lished Mommie Dearest, often cited as the first
celebrity tell-all. It caused a sensation for its
depiction of the Oscar-winning actress as an
out-of-control, cruel and abusive alcoholic.
A film version of the book, starring Faye
Dunaway as Joan, arrived in 1981 and became
an instant camp classic and introduced the
phrase “No wire hangers!” into pop culture.
However, Joan’s younger twin daugh-
ters, Casey’s mother Cathy and his Aunt
Cindy, always insisted that the depic-
“I wanted to
tion of Joan by Christina was a gross
share everything exaggeration if not an outright lie.
I had,” said Joan, “My mother and my Aunt Cindy, to their
with Christina, dying day, felt nothing but love for their
Christopher, mother,” says Casey. “They never experi-
Cindy and Cathy. enced any abuse. It was a loving and car-
ing household, and Joan was always very
supportive of them.”
A WOMAN ALONE
Although wed four times, none of Joan’s mar-
riages lasted very long. Her happiest union,
with Pepsi-Cola magnate Alfred Steele, end-
ed in 1959 after three years when he died of a
sudden heart attack at their home that left her
devastated.
So the actress spent much of her adult life
as a single mother. She adopted Christina in
1940, Christopher in 1942 and the twins in
1947. To help raise them, she employed a gov-
erness, and the children attended boarding
school when they were old enough. “With no
male provider in the house, Joan had to work
constantly,” explains Casey. “But whenever
they were home, they visited her on the set.”
It’s true that as a parent, Joan, who overcame
a penniless childhood to become one of the
highest-earning women of Hollywood’s Gold-
en Age, believed in discipline. The children had
to make their own beds and keep their rooms
neat. But Cathy and her sister never experi-
enced anything like the beatings and bizarre
punishments described in Christina’s book.
“[One time] I said I didn’t like my dinner and I
didn’t want to eat it. I didn’t have to eat it, but
I didn’t get something else. I had to go to bed
without dinner,” recalled Cathy. “I don’t think
it was such a terrible punishment.”
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Cathy, who passed away last year, said her Joan received
mother balanced discipline with dedication her Oscar for 1945’s
Mildred Pierce, which
and affection. When Cathy was 6, she broke is ironically the story
her arm on the school playground and Joan of a mother and her
rushed to her side. “She ran off the set in the ungrateful daughter.
middle of filming...and took me to the doc-
tor, and then we went home,” Cathy
recalled. “She was still wearing
makeup that she had on for the film.
That’s how I remember her.” The
star was also physically affectionate.
“My twin sister and I used to crawl
into bed with her in the morning,”
Cathy remembered. “[And] I always
liked riding with her on our holiday
trips to Carmel. I would snuggle up to
her while she drove.”
Grandson Casey, who was born in
1972, also only knew Joan’s largesse.
“She was an entertainer as an ac- In 1947’s Possessed, Joan plays
tress, but also as a person who loved a woman with amnesia slowly
entertaining her friends and family recounting the obsession that
at dinner parties and get-togethers,” led to her breakdown.
he says. “I think that really shined
through with her in the way she took
care of us as family members.”
Joan co-starred
A CURIOUS LEGACY
When Joan’s will was read, she left the ma-
jority of her $2 million fortune in trusts
of about $77,000 each to Cathy and Cindy.
She and Bette Davis
The remainder was bequeathed to friends
reignited their careers
and charities she supported. Her older with 1962’s horror film
kids Christina and Christopher were de- Whatever Happened to
liberately excluded. “[In previous years,] Baby Jane?
Joan had to support Christina by paying
her rent because her acting career wasn’t
paying off,” explains William Schoell,
author of Joan Crawford: The Essential
Biography. “She cut her out of her will
different towards them, and that’s a divide-
and-conquer type of situation.” That same “I think
because she had already given her plenty.”
Christopher, who died in 2006, also had
year, Christina turned Mommie Dearest
into a musical that premiered off-Broadway. this book
a difficult relationship with his mother.
Unlike Cathy and Cindy, he backed up
While many bemoan that Christi-
na’s story tarnished Joan’s legacy, Casey
will be full
Mommie Dearest’s tales of child abuse. The
disinherited siblings contested Joan’s will
insists there’s a silver lining. “When I do
public events, I usually expect the age group
of lies and
and were awarded $27,500 each. to swing a little older, but there are people twisted
truths.”
Christina did not respond to Closer’s re- in their late teens and 20s coming to the
quest for an interview, but has always stood film screenings and presentations. They
by her version of her childhood. She shrugs want to come see [Joan’s] home movies, —Joan Crawford
off her younger sisters’ radically different too,” he says. “Without Mommie Dearest,
view of Joan. “Different people in the fami- Joan would still have fans, but it generates
ly experience the parenting situation in dif- new fans every year. That’s amazing to me!”
ferent ways,” Christina told The Guardian —Reporting by Katie Bruno

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THESE ACTORS
DIDN’T HORSE AROUND
IN MAKING THEIR MARK
ON THE WESTERN

GARY
CLINT COOPER
EASTWOOD “I like westerns
because the good
He’d call him “Rowdy
ones are real,” said
Yates, idiot of the
Coop, who won an
Plains.” But his part
Oscar for his under-
on TV’s Rawhide gave
the-gun sheriff in
Clint “a chance to gain
High Noon. “You
JOHN WAYNE a lot of experience” —
which led to his iconic
feel real when you
With films such as Stagecoach, Red River and make them.... We
turn in 1964’s A Fistful
The Searchers, the Duke became the screen’s are brought close to
of Dollars and an Oscar
greatest cowboy of them all. And he knew the pioneer people
for 1992’s Unforgiven.
what made the western so unique. “It’s an by seeing [them].”
American art form,” he said. “It represents
what this country is about.”
JIMMY STEWART
To the star of such classics as Broken Arrow and Winchester
’73, “if a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of
that world and some of the qualities those men had — their
TOM MIX comradeship, loyalty and physical courage.”
After riding onto
the silent screen in
1909’s The Cowboy

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JACK PALANCE
Before winning an Oscar as cowhand Curly
in 1991’s City Slickers, Jack grew up enjoying
the exploits of cowboys Tom Mix, Buck Jones
and Hoot Gibson. “Those were my heroes.”
GENE AUTRY
“The Singing Cowboy” was so popular on
film and radio that in 1948 he came up with
his own Cowboy Code, which included the
tenet: “The Cowboy is a patriot.”

ROY ROGERS
Roy became Hollywood’s “King
of the Cowboys” with the help
of his
trusty
steed, Trigger. “He
was without
a doubt the
greatest horse that ever came
along,” Roy said. “We made around
90 features and 101 of the half-hour
TV shows. He was like an iron horse.
He could do anything. ”

JAMES GARNER
TV’s Maverick made him a star, but Jim
wasn’t a fan of horses. “I’d rather have a
car...I’ve had [horses] bite me, kick me,
stomp on me, throw me, run me into trees,
walls, corrals, barns, whatever.”
JAMES ARNESS
Encouraged by the Duke himself, James
took the part of Marshal Matt Dillon
on TV’s Gunsmoke — and became
synonymous with the character over
20 seasons. “Every time I would go out,
most people would say, ‘Hi, Matt!’ ”
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 5 THINGS YOU
DIDN’T KNOW
ABOUT ME
CONNIE BRITTON

THE FORMER STAR OF FRIDAY

NIGHT LIGHTS AND NASHVILLE
OPENS UP ABOUT HER LIFE
I'M A TRUE SOUTHERN GIRL “I grew up in
Lynchburg, Va., where we lived at the base of
the Blue Ridge Mountains,” says Connie,
54. “As a kid, I was totally into Southern
rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd. ZZ Top. It was
so part of who I was.”
I ONCE PLAYED A MERMAID “The
first time I dyed [my hair] red was
when I got a job playing Ariel the
Little Mermaid at a toy fair in New
York City. It was the worst job ever!”
Connie recalls.
I OWE THANKS TO ROBERT REDFORD In
1995, Connie starred in director Ed Burns’
first independent feature, The Brothers
McMullen. “I’ll never forget when Eddie told me
he’d given the rough cut to Robert Redford. I was
horrified that Robert Redford was going see me,” she
remembers. “[But] that’s how we got into Sundance.”
I DON’T EXPECT A FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS REBOOT
“We’ll do a cast reunion, [but] I don’t see them going
back into that story, with this cast,” says Connie,
who rose to fame playing Tami Taylor, the wife of
Kyle Chandler’s high school football coach, on the

I ADOPTED MY 10-YEAR-OLD
SON, YOBY, FROM ETHIOPIA
“I am a fierce mother of a Black
son. Period. End of conversation.
Beyond everything, don’t [mess]
with my kid. I will be a mama bear
to the end,” says Connie. “I feel
Connie currently stars in the HBO
like becoming a mother changes
limited series The White Lotus… everything, in terms of how we look
at life and how we know ourselves.”
…her son, Yoby, traveled with
Connie to Maui, Hawaii, to film it.
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Puzzles • TV & Movies • Food • Health • Horoscopes

WORD SEARCH K T U O Y F O S M A E R D T E E W S E S
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Starts Here!
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the grid horizontally, vertically, diagonally, I F A L L T O P I E C E S L U S O C O R
backward or forward. Circle them all to
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Y Z A R C V F C T T Y I N A L A E S E Y
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BABY’S ARMS F M J M S G E N F I R D Q E L G Z F A A
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CRAZY X J B V O Y U O H P V Y U S Y E B L F B
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2 3 3 1 9 2 2 9 5
8 3 9 5 4 2 8 6 4 7 5 1 6
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5 1 3 9 5 3 4 8
4 5 8 3 8 9 7 7 6 2
6 5 4 3
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TRAIN YOUR BRAIN
DOWN 32 Wallet bills 77 Sharpen

CROSSWORD
1 Vary 34 Running away 80 Wooden pin
2 Walkway 35 Practices, as a trade 82 Mexican garment
3 Practice session 37 Vendor 84 Hobby
ACROSS 102Repair 4 Curved letter 38 Pre-owned 85 They lift you up
1 Rural spread 103Swiss mountains 5 Pressed 39 Window ledges 87 Mower maker
5 The heat ___ ___! 104Mate for mama 6 Malice 40 Settle a debt 88 Cut up
8 Tax write-off 106Pastry 7 Capital of Norway 44. Football official 89 Pasta dish
15 Prevaricate 107Broadway hit 8 Postpone 46 Baby seal 91 NY team
16 Takes over letters 9 Morays and lampreys 48 Cashew 94 Opposed to
17 Prophet 108Swing around, 10 AMA members 50 Drum type 95 Government
18 Curve like a mast 11 Beach enclosures 54 Sack charge
19 Theater employees 109Diner sign: “___ 12 Ancient city 56 Crime against the 99 Muck, mire
21 They produce ___ Joe’s” 13 Frozen state 102Fern leaf
petroleum 110Hit the beach 14 Good for you 58 Crumple up 103Fully aware
22 Young lad 111 Storage site 16 Large vase 60 Precious metal 104Writing tablet
23 Spic and span 112 Blue hue 17 Mineral water 61 Baffling 105Idol worshiper
24 Toward the middle 113 Capone and Capp 20 Corn cob 62 Vaporous 106Chums
25 Vegas starter 114Before potent or 24 Eye parts 64 Drive back 107A few
26 Sunbeam present 26 Actress 66 Actor Burton 108Foot covering
27 Eye lubricant 115 Church instruments Witherspoon 68 Before Moines 109Type measures
28 Unencumbered 116Rowboat need 28 Dog pest or Plaines 110Asian native
29 Hog heaven 117 Shone 29 Look at 71 Addition answer 111 Weight unit
30 Big London clock 118 Gala 30 Gave a benediction 73 Value 112 Savings acct.
31 Luau veggie 119Highway stopovers 31 Heroic champion 75 ___ Aviv entry
33 Jar topper
34 Felt cap
35 Nice
36 Guarantees
39 “___ In Seattle”
41 Flower garland
42 Afternoon socials
43 Eagles abode
45 Levitate
46 El ___. Texas
47 Comedian DeGeneres
49 Monica of the courts
51 That’s affirmative!
52 Flower to be
53 Do voice-overs
55 Fire starter
57 Stitch up
59 Italian city
61 Plead
63 Roofing material
65 Angry dog sound
67 Father
69 Zilch
70 Historic periods
72 Rock for a ring
74 Welcome
76 Morning moisture
78 Navy vessel
79 Energy
81 Roof overhangs
83 Use a razor
86 Single thing
88 More positive
90 Oregon capital
92 Daredevil Knievel
93 British bathroom
94 Swamp beast
96 Renovate
97 Pharmacist
98 Family vehicle
99 Took a chair
100Goddess of
the dawn
101Top card

WORD SCRAMBLE
Unscramble the shaded letters to spell out
the answer to this week’s trivia question.
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
Find the 10 things that make these two pictures different!
PICTURED:
ELAINE WELTEROTH AND JERRY O’CONNELL
GET A KICK OUT OF CO-HOSTING THE TALK.

BLOCK BUSTERS
Bust up the blocks below and reassemble
them to spell the title of a movie that
each actor appeared in. Each complete
word begins with a capital letter.
CRYPTOGRAM
A Cryptogram is a deciphering puzzle where one letter stands for another.
If the letter M represents the letter A, it will do so throughout the puzzle.
Write your answer in the box over the coded letter. Short words like A,
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.

F r L Bo s P
ta ne Th bo Si B O G V F K N H O N U K V

nt ok ity in I O V X K L O J N X F
The I oun de S Q M B Z F Q V H S B M R.
lve ur ead e
B X D K J B Z’ M K V T B V M G,
ing inh lay
BRADLEY COOPER
S Q K M K’ H X B S Q N X F
CHRIS COOPER
J B Z D V X G B.
GARY COOPER
CLUES: B=O X=N, QUOTE BY GOLDA MEIR
TRAIN YOUR BRAIN
BONUS CROSSWORD 7
8
Mineral growths
Mongolia is here
35
37
Got together
High card
ACROSS 58 Cutting piece 9 Adam’s apple spot 39 Piece of property
1 It holds things 59 Mate for a ram 10 Most sugary 41 Auction offer
in place 60 Bob the noggin 12 Foolish 43 Planet
6 Atlantic and 61 Last part 16 Before carte 44 Stallions and
Pacific 62 Draw up from or king fillies
11 Gallery exhibit scratch 21 Roll-call reply 45 Kate Winslet
12 Round Table title 63 Uses a ruler 23 Went first movie: The ___
13 Use a Singer 24 Eternally 46 Goes too fast
14 Crumpet’s partner DOWN 26 Rower’s tool 48 Candidates
15 In an urgent way 1 Male patriarch 27 Start of a projectile
17 Drink chiller 2 Geometry countdown 50 Hockey great
18 Piece of pork measurement 29 Have a tab Gordy
19 Shouted at 3 Postage squares 30 Slapstick prop 51 Nights before
bullfights 4 Canyon comebacks 31 Louisville Slugger 52 Fairy tale start
20 Tremble 5 It may follow 32 Looked forward to 54 Chardonnay,
22 Offering for something 33 Vital statistic for one
the court 6 The Tin Man’s need 34 A spot in the forest 57 Male heir
24 Orchestra piece
25 Valentine
flowers
27 Part of a Happy
Meal
28 Left one’s seat
30 For each one
31 Huffed and
puffed
32 Period of history
34 Movie houses
36 Break bread
38 Strong wind
40 Doc for the dog
42 Portion
43 Soggy
44 Puts on the
payroll
47 Barber’s tool
48 Method
49 Whoop it up
52 Paul Rudd
comedy: ___
Idiot Brother
53 Wonderment
55 Mazel ___!
56 Bermuda,
Jamaica and
Cuba

32 August 23, 2021 CLOSER

Relax!
WEEK OF AUG. 16 – 22 Angela Basnsett
Leo Aquarius turns 63 o
JULY 23 – AUG. 22 JAN. 20 – FEB. 18 August 16!
When it comes to money, think big, but be Don’t let stress take over your life; there is no
realistic — especially with what you can point worrying about things you can’t change.
achieve in a certain time frame. Reassess a money matter for a good outcome.
Virgo Pisces
AUG. 23 – SEPT. 22 FEB. 19 – MARCH 20
Planet Mars’ motivating force is powerful A work opportunity can come through a friend
energy to make your goals happen. It’s time just when you need it. Be ready to discuss
to get clear about what you want, Virgo! options and celebrate when the deal is sealed.
Libra Aries
SEPT. 23 – OCT. 22 MARCH 21 – APRIL 19
Love can capture your heart now! Be careful If you need to discuss a sensitive matter,
of making a judgment about someone before say how you feel but be diplomatic to avoid
you have a chance to get to know them. unnecessary drama.
Scorpio Taurus
OCT. 23 – NOV. 21 APRIL 20 – MAY 20
An insight with someone on the home front Looking for work? Stand by! Your wish can
can clear up a few unsettled issues. Friends are come true. A new career development can
supportive — reach out if you need advice. lead you on a more secure path for the future.
Sagittarius Gemini
NOV. 22 – DEC. 21 MAY 21 – JUNE 21
It’s time to step out of your comfort zone at
work and take control! A combination of luck but be careful of taking on more
and hard work can bring success to your door. than you can handle.
Capricorn Cancer
DEC. 22 – JAN. 19 JUNE 22 – JULY 22
When it concerns love, look for a sweetheart When everyone wants your
who has similar values. Don’t fall into the trap attention, aim for quality time In 1994’s What’s
of trying to change someone to fit your needs. with those you care about most. Love Got to Do
with It?

THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE SOLUTIONS

F oun ta inh ead The aboard, there’s nothing you can do.” Loni Anderson
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re ANSWER:
Gary Cooper WORD SCRAMBLE
CRYPTOGRAM
I de nt ity Bo ur ne Th e 9 7 3 2 5 1 4 6 5 1 8 2 6 9 7 4 9 5 6 2 1 7 4 8 10. Shoe missing.
4 2 6 8 3 7 1 5 3 7 9 1 4 8 6 5 3 1 2 8 5 4 9 7 changed.
Chris Cooper 5 8 1 6 4 9 7 3 2 6 4 3 7 5 9 1 4 8 7 9 6 3 2 1
2 3 7 4 1 5 8 9 4 3 5 8 9 2 1 6 5 7 4 1 3 6 8 9
9. Pillow color
Si lve r L in ing s P lay lay bo ok 6 9 5 7 8 2 3 4 9 2 7 6 5 1 3 8 1 2 8 7 9 5 3 6 missing.
8 1 4 3 9 6 2 7 6 8 1 7 3 4 5 2 6 3 9 4 8 2 1 5 8. Jerry’s watch
Bradley Cooper 3 6 9 1 2 4 5 8 7 4 6 5 2 3 8 9 2 4 1 5 7 9 6 3
1 5 8 9 7 3 6 2 8 5 2 9 1 7 4 3 7 9 3 6 2 8 5 4 to basket.
BLOCK BUSTERS 7 4 2 5 6 8 9 1 1 9 3 4 8 6 2 7 8 6 5 3 4 1 7 2 7. Stripes added
Expert Hard Medium missing on wall.
HWX B K A M I G I N T E H A F T P J F SUDOKU
O L E A V I S E C K B U L E S T I P F U 6. Row of lights
Y V T C D M I N R U O N Y O N V I A E L shelf.
L R P K E L WO T U V D N G H F R Q Y A
N H Q I E S MW D N O EW L D GW D N K
5. Plant added to
L AWN K A N I F T E M R I D I N G H T 4. Shelf filled in.
B L F B E U S Y Y V P O H U Y V O B J X chair.
Z F A A G Q E L D R I N F E G M S J M F
F A D B N Z U F I D S H E C A R T A E H
3. Leg added to
E S E Y A N A L I Y T C T F V R C A Z Y mug.
P M D S R N T D A Y F N G O R OW S G N 2. Text missing on
M U L A T WO S T E E T R S Y E L N O L
changed.
O C O R S S L U E C E P I O T L L A F I
Y H V M T S O A S H E G S O T O Y U E J 1. Dress color
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Makes 15

21 ⁄2 cups flour attachment, cream

3
⁄4 tsp. salt butter and sugar on
1 ⁄2 tsp. baking
1
medium, 5 min. Beat in
powder eggs and 1 tsp. vanilla,
1 ⁄2 sticks (3 ⁄4 cup)
1
then buttermilk, then
unsalted butter flour mix.
11 ⁄2 cups sugar 2. Separate dough into
2 eggs 6 bowls; color each.
11 ⁄4 tsp. clear vanilla Scoop dough onto
extract baking sheets so each
3
⁄4 cup buttermilk cookie has all the col-
Gel food colorings ors. Bake 10 to 12 min.
(the colors of Cool on pans 10 min.,
the rainbow) then on a wire rack.

A colorful r!
1 ⁄2 cups powdered
1
3. Mix powdered

showstoppe
sugar
1 tbsp. corn syrup
1
⁄4 cup cocoa
powder
1. Heat oven to 325°F.
Line 2 baking sheets
with parchment paper.
In a bowl, mix first 3
ingredients. In a stand
mixer with paddle
sugar, corn syrup and
1
⁄4 tsp. vanilla. Add
cocoa powder to half
and thin as needed.
4. Frost cookies with
white icing, let dry,
then frost with choco-
late. Let rest until dry.
PER SERVING: 300 cal,
4g protein, 51g carbs,
1g fiber, 33g sugar, 10g fat

42 August 23, 2021 CLOSER Recipes adapted from Dana’s Bakery by Dana Pollack, Page Street Publishing Co. 2021. Photo credit: Jesse Korman
 Relax!
FUNFETTI ICE CREAM CONE CAKES
Makes 24

24 ice cream cones 4. Frost with Italian

11 ⁄8 cups flour buttercream*. Top with
3
⁄4 tsp. baking more sprinkles.
powder
1
⁄4 tsp. baking soda *For buttercream:
1
⁄4 tsp. salt In a saucepan, cook
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⁄4 cup sugar 2 cups sugar and
1
⁄4 cup vegetable oil 1
⁄2 cup water over
1 tbsp. vanilla medium until 240°F.
3
⁄4 cup whole milk In a stand mixer with
1
⁄8 cup rainbow whisk attachment,
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1. Heat oven to 350°F. to medium; pour in
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15 min. Cool. 0g fiber, 25g sugar, 19g fat

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Makes 12

21 ⁄2 cups flour and vanilla. Stir in

2 sticks (1 cup) flour and salt. Fold in
unsalted butter, chocolate chips. Press
melted half the dough into the
1 cup light brown pan. Top with another
sugar, packed piece of parchment
3
⁄4 cup sugar paper. Freeze 1 hr.
3 tbsp. whole milk 3. Scoop ice cream
1 tbsp. vanilla evenly onto dough.
1
⁄4 tsp. kosher salt Freeze 1 hr.
11 ⁄2 cups mini 4. Place remaining
chocolate chips cookie dough on a
2 pints of your large piece of plastic
favorite ice wrap. Press it into an
cream, softened 8 x 8" square. Remove
pan from freezer and
1. Spread flour on a place square of cookie
baking sheet. Bake 5 dough on top of ice
min. in a 350°F oven. cream. Cover and
Let cool completely. freeze overnight.
2. Line an 8 x 8" square 5. Let sit 15 min.
baking pan with parch- Remove from pan, cut
ment paper, leaving into squares and serve.
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large bowl, combine 5g protein, 60g carbs,
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Bicycling, dancing and tai chi can also do wonders.
AT EASE: Buettner also says the world’s oldest people
“have routines to shed stress,” such as taking a nap.
“In fact, our research found that taking naps lowers heart
disease by about one third.” If naps aren’t practical for
you, daily meditation helps as well.
GOOD MINDSET: According to Daniel Kennedy, producer
of the docu-series Healthy Long Life, it’s important to live
in the moment. “[Many of the elderly adults I met] don’t
focus on yesterday or tomorrow, they focus on today,” he
says. They also benefitted from a close-knit family and
close ties to their community. Being alone is never good.
ALL IN MODERATION: Limit your
alcohol intake. Per the dietary
guidelines of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, “mod-
erate drinking” is one drink for
women per day and two for men.

Veggies, fruits, nuts and beans puts a

Mediterranean diet on the short list to
a long life. Rest and meditation is good
for a healthy body and mind.

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HEART to heart
VE
EXCLUSVIIEW
INTER

Scares Me!
The Godmother of Soul talks about her struggle for success,
favorite memories and why she’ll never retire
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Son Zuri became Patti’s manager
after she split from his dad,
Armstead Edwards, in 2003 after
34 years of marriage.
I
n 2019, Philadelphia named a
street after hometown girl Patti
LaBelle — but that’s only fair. She’s
a legend! Since the disco classic
“Lady Marmalade” taught everyone
to speak naughty French in 1974,
Patti has sold 50 million records in the
soul, gospel, pop and R&B genres. And at
77, the Grammy-winning performer with
the powerhouse soprano voice is still going
strong. “As long as I’m walking, talking and
still in great mind, I have no reason to want
to retire. I love to sing!” she tells Closer.
Patti is working on new music, but that’s
not all. The singer and celebrated home cook
recently released a 20th anniversary edition
of her cookbook, LaBelle Cuisine: Recipes to
Sing About. The title is not just idle bragging:
In 2015, Patti’s homemade sweet potato pies
went viral and folks were paying as much
as $60 to get their hands on one! Today,
Walmart sells a whole line of Patti’s Good
Life desserts and one-dish meals. The star
also recently lent her talents to a very funny
commercial for Old Spice’s “Men Have Skin
Too” campaign. “I’m so happy I was asked,”
she admits, “because my father, uncle,
brother — every man in my family was an
Old Spice man.”
Was there ever a doubt in your mind that
you were destined to become a performer?
There was a lot of doubt in my mind because
I was such a shy girl! I didn’t have any
friends; my friends were cats, butterflies
and lightning bugs. My mother had to pay
“Isn’t he adorable?”
says Patti. “I have to
show my baby, Mr.
Cuddles, some love!”
me to go to the park and play with other
kids because I was very laid-back. I’m still
kind of shy!
We never would have guessed that!
I didn’t think [about becoming a singer] back
in the day, but I’m glad it happened. With my
music, food line, a new commercial for Old
Spice and all this stuff — I never thought I
would be 77 years old and still be relevant!
What was the hardest thing you had to
overcome to get where you are?
Well, I’m Black, so that’s an obstacle.
My white counterparts would get triple
platinum and I might get wood. I always
knew that I had to work triple hard to be
known or to have somebody play my music
so everybody could hear it. That was rough,
but now, I’m easing on down the road!
Have you always been brave? You
competed on both Dancing With the Stars
and The Masked Singer, which must have
been scary!
I can’t say there was anything scary that
I’ve ever done that I was afraid to try. They
wanted me to do Dancing With the Stars. At
71, I finally said yes. I said the only thing I
could do is fall, and then I’ll get right back up!
Dust yourself off and try again.
You did very well, too!
I did six weeks on Dancing With the Stars,
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HEART to heart
which was wonderful. Then came The
Masked Singer. I was scared of being in that
costume because you could hardly breathe
and hardly walk! But I said, Why not? I have
not been afraid of anything so far!
Thinking back over your life, what are
some of your favorite memories?
The memory of having my son was
amazing. I was the oldest lady in the
maternity ward! The girls were teenagers,
and I was 29. I said, ‘Lord, will I ever walk
again?’ It was a scary moment, giving
birth, but such a wonderful outcome!
And now your son, Zuri, is your manager!
Is it hard to work so closely with family?
Sometimes he hurts me because he’s so
honest and we fight — but that’s healthy.
At the end of the day, I realize he gives me
the best advice ever. He is so honest, and
he is never going to lead me wrong because
that’s my baby.
What’s some of the best advice other
people have given you?
Back in the day, we did a Carnegie Hall
show with Sting, Elton John and a few
other people. We were at rehearsal, and
someone brought me water in a plastic
cup. Nina Simone turned to me and said,
‘No, Darling. You never drink from plastic,
always crystal.’ [Laughs] Since then, I have
everything in a crystal glass. She was a
wonderful woman with a lot of advice!
PATTI’S
LIFE IN THE
SPOTLIGHT
BABY GIRL
 LADY LOVE  As LaBelle, Patti,
Nona Hendryx and Sarah
Dash scored a worldwide hit
with “Lady Marmalade.”
Which songs do you never
get tired of performing? COME
I never get tired of
“Somewhere Over
TOGETHER
“When I look into the crowd,
the Rainbow.” I also I see young and old, Black
never get tired of “Lady and white. It’s amazing that
Marmalade.” I’m able to connect with
so many different kinds of
Which young singers people,” says Patti.
really impress you?
Jennifer Hudson. She is doing
it now with the Aretha [Franklin]
movie. I love Pink. Billie Eilish.
You have a new commercial for Old Spice
Moisturize with Shea Butter body wash!
It was great fun doing that commercial.
It’s the first time I’m promoting a men’s
product, but there are some products
from Old Spice that I can use, too. It smells
great, and it works.
Do you ever think about retiring?
Why would people lie and say they want to
retire? Never would I want to retire!
What do you do to stay so
energetic?
I get up every morning and thank God
that I woke up. Just before the pandemic,
I got a treadmill. At 77, I need to keep as
active as possible. Then I do my regular
thing: I have my coffee and I walk my
dog. He’s a little shih tzu, Mr. Cuddles. I
walk him for about three blocks and then
GREAT WHITE WAY  The
performer made her ON HER OWN  In the 1980s,
Broadway debut in 1982’s Patti scored a string of hits
Your Arms Too Short to with “On My Own,” “New
Box With God. Attitude” and “Stir It Up.”
 “I can’t complain.
You’ve got to take
the high road all
the time.”
—Patti LaBelle

I come back and put my feet in

the water.

Oh, that sounds nice!

I can’t swim, so the pool sits empty all
the time, but I like to put my feet in and
kick my legs and think about what I’m
going to cook. On Monday, I make my
menu for the whole week. I’m always
thinking about cooking!

How often do you cook?

I cook every day! I love being in the
kitchen. It’s very cathartic to me. I’m
thinking about songs and shows and
costumes. It frees my mind.

How would you like to be

remembered?
I would love to be remembered for
my music. I would also love to be
remembered as a decent person, period.
I like that. —Reporting by Katie Bruno

PIE’S THE LIMIT Patti, with

Dr. Oz, sells an average of
36,000 sweet potato pies at
Walmart every single day!

SPICY SUDS In the

STREET CRED “I never
ads, Patti can’t resist
DANCE DIVA “I learned would’ve dreamed of this,” said
borrowing her son-
a few steps, and I made Patti when part of Broad Street
in-law’s Old Spice
a great friend in Artem in Philadelphia was renamed
Moisturize body wash.
[Chigvintsev],” says Patti of Patti LaBelle Way in 2019.
her 2015 stint on DWTS.
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MEMORY LANE

GENE KELLY
Kerry is a
psychoanalyst and the
author of Emotional

AMAZING DAD
Muscle: Strong Parents,
Strong Children.

PRIVATE MEMORIES OF A WARM AND LOVING MAN

50 August 23, 2021 CLOSER
W
hen G ene
Kelly need-
e d s ome -
thing from
the ha rd-
ware store,
he didn’t drive there — he roller-
skated! “We’d skate down on a Sat-
urday morning and then skate back
home,” his daughter Kerry Novick “As an only child, I was lucky
recalls to Closer. Gene and Betsy wed in 1941 and to spend a lot of time with my
A natural athlete who pioneered moved to California, where Kerry parents,” says Kerry.
a masculine, energetic form of was born. They divorced in 1957.
dance in groundbreaking
musicals, including Singin’
in the Rain and An Amer-
ican in Paris, Gene was
also a very active, involved
father. “I have many very
good memories of going to
Yosemite, climbing rocks
and cooking beef stew from
a tin,” Kerry explains. “My Gene married
mother was not an out- Jeanne
doors type, so at least twice Coyne in
a year, my dad and I would 1960. They
go on a trip to a national had two
“I have always liked It’s Always Fair Weather,” children,
park together.” says Kerry of her dad’s musicals. “It has some Timothy and
The only child of Gene’s absolutely incredible numbers in it.” Bridget.
marriage to his first wife,
Marty actress Betsy Blair, Kerry
had a unique window into the lives
of MGM’s greatest generation of “I didn’t want and passed down his appetite for

to be a dancer. I
song and dance legends. She recalls learning to his daughter. “One of
the gatherings her parents would my earliest memories is that every
throw on weekends with games
of charades or volleyball, mov- really wanted to night after supper, we would sit in
his big red leather chair in the den
ie nights and music around
the piano. “It was usually like
be [a] shortstop.” and choose something from the en-
cyclopedia,” she says. “We would
—Gene Kelly
25 people. André Previn or pick a topic and read out loud. That’s
Lenny Bernstein would sit how I learned to read.”
down at the piano, and then The dance legend also offered
somebody — Lena Horne and AT HOME to teach his daughter how to tap
Judy Garland were there a lot — Gene loved playing sports or doing dance, but that was less success-
would start singing,” Kerry says. something active in his downtime. ful. “I had one lesson, but he said he
Although the hosts and guests “I still find it almost impossible wouldn’t teach me if I didn’t prac-
were on Hollywood’s A-list, Ker- to relax for more than one day at a tice,” Kerry admits. “And I didn’t
ry insists the gatherings “were time,” he once said. But Gene also practice.”
very ordinary and not at all glam.” had some hobbies that might sur- Today, Kerry, like so many, still
That’s because Gene and Betsy, prise his fans. “My parents spent marvels at how her father made it
despite their career successes, all the money they had when they look so easy on screen. “One of the
didn’t have star pretensions. “I had bought our house in Beverly Hills, most wonderful things he ever said
a lot more ordinary chores than so he made a lot of the furniture,” to me is how he just wanted to make
most of my peers,” Kerry recalls. confides Kerry, who remembers people happy,” she says. “He felt he
“I had to make my bed and help her father’s dark wood end tables had succeeded.” –Louise A. Barile,
clear the table — that kind of stuff.” and bookcases. The cases came in with reporting by Natalie Posner

CLOSERWEEKLY.COM 51
 “I’m very
proud of how
my girls have
dealt with
having public
profiles,” says
Sarah, with
Beatrice and
Eugenie.

NEW LE
B
&
NOTA

“I love spending
time with [Eugenie’s
son] August,” she reimagines the
says. “He seems to life of Lady
love my energy.” Margaret Montagu
Douglas Scott.

because I don’t want them to wait till 61 to

follow their dreams,” she says. “It’s always
been my dream to be a novelist.”
SARAH FERGUSON Wed to Queen Elizabeth’s second son,
Prince Andrew, 61, in 1986, Sarah sur-

My Heart
vived many public ups and downs. “I
am a very sensitive person, and I take
things personally. I really did mind when
all those terrible articles were written
about me,” confides Sarah, who sees a
therapist and relies on “friendship, my
family and my work to keep focus on
what’s important.”
Though her marriage to A ndrew
ended 1996, the pair remain close friends.
“We are very good co-parents,” says the
mother of Princesses Beatrice, 32, and

T
Eugenie, 31. Sarah has also stood by
THE DUCHESS he birth of her grandson, Andrew through the scandal that forced
IS EXCITED August, last February has
presented Sarah Fergu-
his retirement from royal duties, describ-
ing him as a “thoroughly good man.”
ABOUT THE son with new challenges.
RELEASE OF “I’ve got to learn to play THE BRIGHT SIDE
HER FIRST trains, trucks and diggers Today, she’s happy. “I’m definitely not dat-
NOVEL, HER because I’ve always had girls in my life and
Barbies,” she says. “But, good news, if he
ing,” Sarah confesses. “I see my girls and
their families as often as possible. The
GRANDSON wants to play with Barbies, I’ll do that too!” three of us call each other a tripod, in that
AND ANOTHER It’s been an exciting period for the Duch- we will always support the other.”
GRANDCHILD ess of York, who will become a grandmoth- Sarah’s life may not have turned out ex-
ON THE WAY er for a second time this fall and who just
released her first novel, My Heart for a
actly as she’d hoped, but that’s fine. “I’m
never complacent about the fact that I
Compass. “I dedicated it to [my daughters] have been the luckiest girl ever,” she says.

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he’s often been lucki-
er in business than love
—but that may be chang-
i n g ! C ou nt r y q ue en
Reba McE nt i r e say s
she’s finally found the
man she’s been searching for in
actor Rex Linn, whom she’s been
seeing for a little more than a year.
“I’ve waited 66 years for a man to pray
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the Lord and to be compassionate and
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Rex, 64, first met Reba on the set
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ie The Gambler Returns: The Luck
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plains. “So it was just like good
friends getting back together
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texting and talking on the tele-
phone getting to know each oth-
er better during the quarantine.”
Having the same core values has
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idly. “Faith is a big part of who Reba
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REBA MCENTIRE back on God, she did make sacrific-

I’ve
es because of some of the men she was
with. She just says they weren’t on the
same page spiritually. Rex has helped
her strengthen her faith. It’s why

Found My
they’re so serious about each other.”

PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE WITH
ACTOR REX LINN
WEDDING BELLS?
The twice-divorced star, who in 2015
finalized her split with Narvel Black-
stock, the father of her son, Shelby,
31, confides to friends that Rex feels
like a forever love. “She had sworn
off marriage, but that was before
Rex,” shares the friend. “Reba would
definitely say yes if he proposed.” She
also wouldn’t waste time with a long
engagement. “Why wait? She’s hap-
pier than she’s ever been,” says the
pal. “This would be her last marriage.
She’s certain of that.”
–Reporting by Rick Egusquiza

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 1975 SCHOOL DAYS What?
1 Where? Why? “I wouldn’t be
[here] today if it weren’t for
Welcome Back, Kotter,” admitted
John about his TV breakthrough as
“Sweathog” Vinnie Barbarino.

JOHN TRAVOLTA

MY LIFE IN
“I don’t believe
in regrets. I
believe your
10
Pictures
future is in your LIKE HIS DISCO KING in Saturday Night Fever, John Joseph Travolta grew up
tomorrows.” wanting more. “I’m from a working-class family,” explained John, the
—John Travolta son of an Englewood, N.J., tire salesman. “We didn’t have a lot, but
we had the arts.” From that spark, the 67-year-old has become one of
Hollywood’s biggest stars. Still, John kept his fame in perspective. “Any
career ups and downs were not that significant to me,” he said. “The
only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and
there were many in my life,” including the death of his son Jett in 2009
and wife Kelly Preston in 2019. Through it all, John always saw his
destination clearly: “I would like to be a pop icon who survives.”

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 2
1977
FEVER
4
PITCH 1980 TEXAS
“Dancing TWO-STEP In
is a part of Urban Cowboy,
my soul,” John did for
reflected mechanical
John, who bull-riding
scored what he’d done
an Oscar for dancing.
nomination Shooting in
and helped Texas, he
launch “learned the
the disco 1978 GREASE IS THE WORD “I don’t know if I would trade real term of
era with
Saturday
3 Grease for anything,” said John of the blockbuster musical with
Olivia Newton-John that featured the hit “You’re the One That I
‘party’ ” and
“had the time of
Night Fever. Want.” “I feel like a part of history.” my life.”

1995 IN A BAD WAY

6
1994 ANOTHER SHOT Quentin
Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, co-starring
7 John relished his role
as loan shark Chili
1989 BABY TALK After some career Samuel L. Jackson and featuring Palmer in Get Shorty.
5 missteps, like turning down the hit movie
Splash, John staged what he calls his “first
John’s movie-stealing twist with Uma
Thurman, put the actor’s career back on
“Playing a bad guy is always
a freeing experience,” John
comeback” with Look Who’s Talking. “I also got a track again: “Until I got hired for it, I didn’t explained. “Good guys
great friend in [co-star] Kirstie Alley.” know I had cooled off!” restrain themselves.”

8
2007 HAIR-
RAISING
No drag on
the set of
Hairspray,
John joked,
“Every
woman and 2021
every man
was feeling 2016 IT SUITS HIM “His
10 PROUD
PAPA “It is
my breasts.
And I was,
9 ego I knew I could grasp,”
he said of playing Robert
a privilege to be
the father of these
‘C’mon, feel Shapiro in People v. O.J. Simpson: two beautiful
me, touch American Crime Story. “I’d been children,” John said
me!’ I didn’t around enough of his type in the of his kids, Ella, 21,
care!” legal and show business worlds.” and Benjamin, 10.
 Knitwear
Garments that look
handmade and personal 1951 Now
have been a big trend Elizabeth Taylor Kerry Washington
in 2021! Former Home
& Family host Debbie
Matenopoulos wears
Pearl Drop Earrings
it well with this white “The collection was inspired by elements of the
knit dress, but it’s not ocean — every shell, texture and pearl is unique,”
the first time we’ve says Kerry Washington, who designed a very
seen such “granny classic drop earring for Aurate Jewelry.
chic” styles. During
the counterculture
movement of the
1960s and early 1970s,
crocheted clothing, like
Twiggy’s outfit, was
also all the rage!

1967
Twiggy

1973

Now
Debbie
Matenopoulos

Oversized
Hats Now
Sometimes bigger
really is better!
Tennis ace Serena
Activist Jane
Williams put a bit of This summer, Jane Fonda joined 2,500
drama into her summer protesters who oppose a new oil pipeline
by donning an elegant being built in Minnesota. “The solution to
statement hat. It’s an old aging line is not to build a brand-new
one,” she said. “The solution is to clean up
the kind of headwear
that another legend,
1937 Now the old mess and move on from fossil fuels.”
Marlene Serena Jane attended her first civil rights and
Marlene Dietrich, Dietrich Williams
would have loved! antiwar demonstrations in the 1970s.

60 August 23, 2021 CLOSER

It’s no longer
back to school
as usual.

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ack to school shopping has changed. It’s no longer about tablets,
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So when the students in your home go back to school, make sure
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†These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, care or prevent any disease.
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