People USA 11.22.2021

TRAVIS SCOTT CONCERT TRAGEDY
Horror, Outrage and Young Lives Lost
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on looking like her
that she
22-year-old daughter officiated our
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us walked
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a worm for holding
a movie. hands’
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Or I opted to on the rapper potentially
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his fiancé (she said she’s
for effect “down”!), on Twitter
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on consuming strange imagine them
things for a part, to filled with milk?
Entertainment Weekly I wouldn’t be able
to get dressed;
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DUNST,
on why she stopped
breastfeeding
her son at
3 months,
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Sunday Times
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The Wicked movie finds its leads
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November 22, 2021 Vo l . 9 6 / N o . 2 1
On the
Cover
42
Paul Rudd
19
Blake Shelton &
Gwen Stefani
94
Travis Scott Tragedy
This Week
19
Scoop
The latest celebrity news
94
Concert Horror
Heartbreak after a music
festival turns deadly
98
Nancy Sinatra
The singer reflects on her
life and famous friends
102
Rod Stewart
The rock icon on love
and fatherhood
106
Spencer
Kristen Stewart is Princess M A N
Diana in a new film T
S
116
A
S E X I E
L I V E
Killer Ballerina?
A dancer is accused of
murdering her husband
118 2 0 2 1
Blood Brothers
Monica and Josh Poynter
42
adopted a boy with the
same disorder as their son
123
COVID-Inspired Art
Nurse Laura Weiss made
a chandelier—out of
emptied vaccine vials Humble, hilarious, crush-worthy
Paul Rudd takes this year’s crown.
For more
on Princess And don’t miss more men
Diana, check out we love, including Regé-Jean Page,
the updated edition Orlando Bloom and Simu Liu.
of People’s special issue
Diana: Her Life and Legacy
with a new look at the
real-life events that
ALEXEI HAY
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inspired the movie
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W
Meet Our 2021
Sexiest Man Alive!
When Clueless came out in 1995, I remember
sitting in the movie theater (or the cinema, as
we call it in the U.K.) and having to stop myself
I caught up with our
from shouting at bratty Cher, “What about new man in October
your former stepbrother!?” Cher (played by (we didn’t plan the green
Alicia Silverstone) was clearly messing jackets, I swear!) before
he stole the show
around with the wrong boys instead of with our video crew.
focusing on the one right in front of her:
114 Bindi Irwin & dreamy Josh, the nice guy with heart and
Chandler Powell movie-star good looks that lit up the screen.
The Animal Planet stars share Through the years we all slowly fell in love
the latest with baby Grace.
with Paul Rudd, who portrayed Josh, as he
quietly ascended to leading-man status. He
reminded us of the funny, kind kid you went
to school with who sat in the back of the class
smirking, the one who you may not have
noticed until he’d say something to make
you laugh, and then you were smitten. We
followed him through Wet Hot American Summer, The Object
of My Affection, Anchorman and Wanderlust, our crush only
growing. So has his status, as he inked the role of Ant-Man in
the Marvel Universe, then bravely resurrected one of
Hollywood’s most beloved franchises with this month’s
Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Through it all, Paul has been so easy to
like; aside from those hazel-green, soulful eyes, he’s smart and in
on the joke and happy to stay above the silliness of celebrity to
focus on his work (acting) and his family (wife Julie, son Jack, 17,
and daughter Darby, 12). More proof of his good-guy cred:
Through Big Slick—a charity founded by Rudd and his fellow #SEXIESTMANALIVE
The man who launched
funnymen who all grew up in the Kansas City area Jason countless memes is
110 Running for Life Sudeikis and Rob Riggle—our cover star has helped raise more now an emoji! Tweet
How genocide survivor Gilbert than $13 million for Children’s Mercy hospital of Kansas City. #SexiestManAlive to unlock
Tuhabonye embraces forgiveness his virtual mini-me.
So were we surprised when he turned up on a rainy day in
October at our big Sexiest Man Alive shoot on his own, no
entourage and just a smile with his cool, calming
energy? Not in the least. After two years of tumult
Also in and uncertainty, someone who will always be
This Issue there for you (yes, he was on Friends too) is pretty
3 CHATTER sexy in our book. Here’s to Paul, our Sexiest Man DAN WAKEFORD,
10 STAR TRACKS Alive, the guy every girl wanted to end up with. EDITOR IN CHIEF
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POP STARS ALIGN

Los Angeles, Nov. 6
Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus caught up at the
star-studded 10th Annual LACMA Art+Film Gala
at the Los Angeles County Art Museum.
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JEN & BEN’S
KISS GOODBYE
Los Angeles,
Nov. 7
After spending a
weekend together,
Jennifer Lopez
and boyfriend Ben
Affleck parted ways
with a kiss on the
tarmac before she
flew to Vancouver to
continue filming
her Netflix thriller
The Mother.
JODIE’S
STREET STYLE
Los Angeles,
Nov. 2
“I am still BUZZING
from last night’s
most epic fashion
extravaganza,”
Jodie Turner-Smith
wrote on Instagram
BEACH BOY
after walking the Miami Beach, Nov. 3
runway in Gucci’s Shawn Mendes flaunted his
Love Parade fashion six-pack during a beach day with
show on Hollywood his girlfriend (and “Señorita”
Boulevard. collaborator) Camila Cabello.
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PRIYANKA AND MINDY

LIGHT UP THE ROOM
Los Angeles, Nov. 4
Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Mindy Kaling got glammed up
to kick off their Diwali celebrations. “Love, laughter and a
room full of badass desi boss ladies,” Chopra Jonas captioned
an Instagram post from the gathering, hosted by Kaling.
ANOTHER 90 DAY FIANCÉ ENGAGEMENT

90 Day Fiancé fan favorite Ed “Big Ed” Brown is engaged to
Liz Woods, with whom he reconciled after they split last season. “In my
heart, I know that she’s my forever,” says Brown, whose relationship
with Woods will play out on season 2 of 90 Day: The Single Life, with
new episodes streaming Fridays on discovery+.
CIARA
CHEERS ON
MISSY
Los Angeles,
Nov. 8
Ciara had
collaborator Missy
Elliott’s back
when the rapper
received her star
on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame.
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M PHOTOGRAPHY/TLC; EMMA MCINTYRE/GETTY IMAGES
Actress Lucy DeVito, 38, posed
with dad Danny before he was
honored at the Women’s Guild
Cedars-Sinai Gala in L.A. on Nov. 3.
Melanie Griffith supported daughter FAMOUS

FAMILIES
Dakota Johnson at a West Hollywood
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screening of Johnson’s new Netflix

drama The Lost Daughter on Nov. 7.
Exes Pamela Anderson and

Tommy Lee reunited Nov. 4
at the launch party for
Swingers Club, their 25-year-
Dwayne Johnson brought old son Brandon’s debut
his mom, Ata, to the world fashion collaboration with
premiere of his new Netflix brand Local Authority, in L.A.
action movie Red Notice
on Nov. 3 in L.A.

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Former Bachelor
Matt James
(left) ran the
2021 TCS New
York City
Marathon with
best friend and
Bachelorette
CELEBS RUN
alum Tyler
Cameron, who
raced in honor of
his late mom,
Andrea.
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provides a stark look at their
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to a town that has neither.
Supermodel
Christy
Turlington Burns
ran the marathon
to raise money
for her nonprofit
Every Mother
Counts, which
aims to make
pregnancy and Sunday Today host Willie Geist
childbirth safe completed his first marathon and
for all moms. raised more than $300,000 for the
Michael J. Fox Foundation for
Parkinson’s Research.
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actress Laura Haddock
FIRST
(below with Andy, played
by Michael Fox) joins the
LOOK !
cast as Myrna Dalgleish.
Lady Mary
(Michelle
Dockery, right,
with dad
Robert
Crawley,
played by
Hugh
Bonneville)
has more
control as
times change.
DOWNTON ABBEY IS BACK

The Crawleys and their loyal servants return in
Downton Abbey: A New Era, due out in March
2022. “I’m interested in change,” creator and
writer Julian Fellowes says of the sequel to the
2019 movie, which arrived about four years after
the beloved British historical drama series ended.
Fellowes is tight-lipped about the plot twists that
will befall the aristocratic household in the late-
1920s, but he says there’s an overarching theme:
“The family and servants are doing their best Daisy (Sophie
given the different cards they’ve been dealt.” McShera, left)
has “an
independent
purpose,” while
Mrs. Patmore
(Lesley Nicol) is
When Bertie “the wisecracker
Pelham (Harry of the kitchen,”
Hadden-Paton), Fellowes says.
Lady Edith (Laura
Carmichael), Lucy
Smith (Tuppence
Middleton) and
Tom Branson
(Allen Leech) leave
the estate, “we see
BEN BLACKALL/FOCUS FEATURES(4)
them out of that

comfort zone,”
Fellowes says.
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November 22, 2021
Blake
Drops a
Love Song
for Gwen
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are
still basking in their honeymoon
phase. On Nov. 5 the country singer
served up an intimate look at their
love story when he released his
new song “We Can Reach the
Stars,” which he sang to Stefani as
his vows on their July 3 wedding at
his Oklahoma ranch. “We always
said we wished we’d met/ Long
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before we finally did/ But ever

since that first kiss/ Girl, it’s felt
like we were kids. . . . I know we can
reach the stars/ That’s how far my
Happy love will go for you,” Shelton sings
To g e t h e r on the track (see box).
Shelton and
Stefani in 2018 One day after the song’s release,
and (inset) at the couple—who began dating in
their July wedding 2015 after meeting on the set of The
with her sons
Kingston, Zuma Voice—put their love on display.
and Apollo. Shelton, 45, joined the No Doubt
alum, 52, onstage for the final

Scoop
Country schedules and are the sweetest guy. He loves Gwen’s

Comfort currently work- boys like his own,” says the
Shelton joined ing,” the source source, who adds that Shelton
Stefani onstage
during her final
adds. “Her boys are “is a great father figure.”
Las Vegas back in school now. With Stefani’s
residency show They all play ‘GWEN IS JUST residency now in
on Nov. 6. SO AMAZING
sports, and Gwen ABOUT the rearview, the
loves to attend BALANCING pair are ready for a
their games. She WORK AND change of pace.
has been flying FAMILY’ “They have time off
—AN INSIDER
back and forth together in Decem-
between her ber and are looking forward to the
Las Vegas resi- holidays,” the source says. “Gwen
dency and L.A. so she can be around loves Christmas. She can’t wait to
show of her Las Vegas residency, for the boys as much as possible.” enjoy some family time.”
where they embraced after perform- For his part, Shelton has been relish- —RACHEL DESANTIS
ing their duet “Happy Anywhere.” ing his new role as stepdad. “Blake is with reporting by
Indeed, joyful is a running theme for Pernilla Cedenheim
Shelton and Stefani. “They act like
newlyweds,” says a Stefani source. BLAKE’S SWEET
“They have the best chemistry.”
Despite their busy schedules (he’s SERENADE
coaching on season 21 of The Voice; “You and me are a blessin’ . . .
she’s working on a new album), You saved my heart,”
Shelton and Stefani continue to Shelton sings on “We Can
make time for their relationship— Reach the Stars,” which will
and their new family of five, which appear on the deluxe version of his Body
Language album (inset, out Dec. 3). “Gwen
includes her sons Kingston, 15,
and I decided we were going to write our
Zuma, 13, and Apollo, 7, from her own vows for the wedding, but I decided to
marriage to ex Gavin Rossdale. “They surprise her by writing a song instead,”
had a break over the summer, got Shelton said of the track, which he hopes
married and enjoyed a lot of family will “stand the test of time.”
time. They have both had full fall
Kim & Pete Hang Out Again

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Days after they were spotted holding hands on a roller-coaster ride

at Knott’s Scary Farm in Buena Park, Calif., Kim Kardashian West and
Pete Davidson spent more time together. The reality star, 41, and
the Saturday Night Live comedian, 28, enjoyed a
private dinner in his native Staten Island on Nov. 2, ‘PETE IS
one day before they were spotted at a private club ENTERTAINING,
in Manhattan. “Kim always has a great time with AND HE MAKES
Pete,” says an insider. “They will see each other KIM LAUGH. . . .
IT’S JUST WHAT
when they’re in the same city. But she isn’t looking SHE NEEDS
for a serious relationship.” Meanwhile, Kardashian RIGHT NOW’
has remained cordial with her estranged husband, —AN INSIDER
Kanye West, since filing for divorce in February.
“It’s important to her that they’re on good terms,” says the insider.
“But she is moving forward with the divorce, and she just wants to
enjoy her life.” — P E R N I L L A C E D E N H E I M

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HEART
MONITOR
Date Night
Rihanna & A$AP Rocky
After she cheered on her rapper beau during
his Nov. 7 performance at ComplexCon
in Long Beach, Calif., the singer and beauty
mogul and Rocky, both 33, celebrated with
dinner at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica.
The longtime friends began dating in 2020.
It’s Over
J o J o S i w a & Ky l i e P r e w
After nearly a year together, the dancer-singer, 18,
and her girlfriend, 17, have amicably split. “We
broke up, but she is literally still my best friend,”
Siwa said on the Nov. 2 episode of the This Is
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Paris podcast. “Even though relationships end,
friendships don’t have to end.”
Red Carpet
Debut
Pa u l M e s c a l &
Phoebe Bridgers
Heating Up More than a year after
Millie Bobbie Brown they first sparked dating
& Jake Bongiovi rumors, the Normal
Five months after Jon Bon People actor, 25, and
Jovi’s son Jake, 19, posted the Grammy-nominated
their first Instagram couple rocker, 27, seemed to
photo (above), the confirm their romance
Stranger Things actress, 17, when they attended
followed suit with a blurry the Nov. 6 LACMA
shot (inset) of the pair on Art+Film Gala in L.A.
the London Eye Ferris
wheel on Nov. 1.
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Rebel Wilson
on Single Life
and Loving
Herself
The 41-year-old Pitch Perfect actress—who
is a brand ambassador for the supplement
and multivitamin brand OLLY—discusses
her health journey and dating.
You lost 80 lbs. during your self-
imposed “year of health.” How do you
feel?
I’ve maintained it! I never thought that I
could successfully do it. Now that I have,
I’m like, “Damn! Maybe I should have
done [it] earlier.” But that’s the thing.
Everybody’s journey is their journey. Last
year, for the first time ever, I prioritized my
health. Even though that was my 40th
year, it’s never too late to improve yourself
or to improve your health. ‘‘I’M STILL THE EXACT
What inspired you to make a change?
SAME PERSON—
JUST A HEALTHIER
When I was bigger—like, when I first VERSION’
started my professional acting career— —WILSON, ON HER
agents would look at me and just be like, HEALTH
“No way,” because I was overweight. TRANSFORMATION
I was like, “You know what? I’m gon-
na take something that you think is a
disadvantage—I don’t actually think it’s that I was engaging in some activities that
a disadvantage—and I’m going to turn it were unhealthy.
into my success story.” I ended up getting Has it been hard to maintain your
cast as a character named Fat Amy [in new weight? Keeping Fit
Pitch Perfect], which made me famous I’m not perfect. I was an emotional eater, “ I’ve been so
internationally and earned millions of and I still emotionally eat at times. There’s grateful to make
dollars. People are beautiful at any shape stressful things that still go on in my life, these lasting
or size, and I genuinely believe that. I just and in my work that can be high pressure. changes,” says
Wilson (working
got to a point where I knew deep inside But I’ve learned to manage. out in February).
Are you dating?
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“It just makes me

I was on a dating app, but now feel overall
I’ve gone off that. I got too much better.”
attention. My friends say certain
cities are better to meet people taking a break and just trying to see if it
than others. Like, for example, happens organically in real life or through
Aspen is a very good place. Now friend setups or something.
everyone is going to go to Who is your ideal partner?
“Perfect” Crew Aspen. If there’s a good social I mean, I love NFL players. Their brute
“ I was doing this thing called ‘Hot event or something, I feel like strength and physicality? Awesome!
Girl Summer’—I heard about it in rap
songs,” says Wilson (on vacation there might be interesting But unfortunately, from my interactions,
with Pitch Perfect costars, from left: people there, I’ll make the effort they’re not the most faithful. So that’s
Shelley Regner, Chrissie Fit, Anna to go, but at the moment I’m not good! — N I C H O L A S R I C E
Kendrick and Brittany Snow).
Scoop
CMT Host One Big
Cody Alan’s
H a p p y Fa m i l y
Alan with (from
left) fiancé Smith,
son Landon,
Modern
daughter Makayla,
ex Terresa and
her boyfriend Kelly
in a recent
family portrait.
Family
Before Cody Alan came out
in a 2017 People story, the CMT
host first had to reconcile his
sexuality with his faith. Brought
up in southern Christian
churches, the Columbia, S.C.,
native converted to
Mormonism as a teen. he was gay. “It was a
After going on a confirmation to me that
mission as a young I was headed in the
adult, he got married right direction,” Alan
and raised two children says of telling Urban,
in the Mormon faith. Alan and Keith who responded with
Alan knew he was gay Urban in a 2019 “compassion, love and
from a young age, but he Instagram. acceptance.”
struggled with his sexuality Since Alan met his
for years. “There’s reasons why I fiancé, Michael “Trea” Smith,
stuck with the church for so long, but 29, in 2015, they’ve formed their own
ultimately the prayers weren’t answered modern family (and take vacations and
in regards to making me straight—it celebrate holidays) with his ex, their
kids, Makayla, 23, and Landon, 19, and
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doesn’t work that way,” says Alan, 49,

who shares his story in his new book her boyfriend Patrick Kelly. “Some of
Hear’s the Thing, out now. our friends are like, ‘How do you guys
Alan eventually left the church and, do it?’ Well, it starts with a foundation
with the support of his wife, Terresa, of love. We were going to figure out a
whom he later divorced after coming out way to make our kids feel just as loved
to her in 2009, slowly began revealing as they did before,” Alan says. “It took
he was gay to close family, friends and a little while to get there, but we’re on
colleagues. One confidant was country the other side of it, and it’s pretty great.”
star Keith Urban, the first artist he told —JEFF NELSON
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Family
Matters
then
& now!
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Tony
Orlando and
Dawn
2021
Telma Hopkins
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It’s been more than 50 years member of Tony Orlando and
since Telma Hopkins started as Dawn, she started landing roles
a Motown background singer, on TV shows, including Bosom
but the actress, 73, will never Buddies, Gimme a Break! and Lifetime), and she’ll also little person that depended on
forget her early days in show Family Matters, on which she appear in the upcoming me for everything. I consider
business. “I was young, so I played Harriette’s younger The Matrix Resurrections. him my best work.” Still, now is
didn’t get to live the lifestyle, sister Rachel Crawford. “I’m so Hopkins credits her lengthy not the time for her to rest on
because my grandmother was fortunate to be able to do what career to her only son, J.D., 52. her laurels. “It’s not a hardship,”
not letting me out of the house I love,” says Hopkins, who “I’m a single mom, and I always she says. “I’m going to work
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it. We got to be a part of Young and the Restless. Next me,” she says. “I don’t think — E M I LY S T R O H M
Detroit’s history.” After striking she’ll star in People Presents: that I would’ve been as focused with reporting by
pop gold in the 1970s as a Blending Christmas (Dec. 12 on on success had I not had this Christina Dugan
Princess Charlene Finally

Returns to Monaco
A royal reunion took place on Nov. 8 visited her in
when Princess Charlene flew back to Africa days after
Monaco for the first time in six months, she underwent correc-
accompanied by her husband, Prince tive surgery in mid-August. It marked
Albert, and their twins Princess their first family gathering since June.
Gabriella and Prince Jacques. “Happy day today,” she wrote in a Nov. 8
Home Before Charlene, 43, traveled to South Instagram along with a family reunion
the Holidays Africa for a short trip but said photo. “Thank you all for keeping me
Prince Albert and
the kids greeted she was unable to return after strong!!” This homecoming follows
Charlene in Nice, suffering complications from speculation that their royal marriage
France, on Nov. 8, ENT surgery that prohibited was on the rocks. “Charlene didn’t go
and joined her for her from flying. into exile,” Prince Albert previously told
a helicopter flight
back to Monaco. Before this reunion, Prince People. “This was a medical problem.”
Albert, 63, and the twins, 6, —DANA ROSE FALCONE

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I wish to have
a backyard
makeover
Kylie, 12
cancer
By granting a child’s wish, you’ll give them

hope for brighter days ahead. A wish begins
with hope, and hope begins with you.
D O N AT E T O D AY AT W I S H . O R G
passages
Angelina on Nov. 5. She Crime

joins big brothers Johnny, Former Las Vegas
7, and Xristos, 2. Raiders wide
receiver Henry
Splits Ruggs III, 22, is
Sister Wives stars Christine expecting to be
Brown, 49, and Kody Brown, charged with
52, have separated after 25 multiple felonies,
Scott Speedman
years together and six including DUI
with Lindsay Rae children. Kody remains in resulting in death, Happy
Hofmann and (inset) what the family calls a stemming from a Birthday!
daughter Pfeiffer Lucia.
“plural marriage” with car accident on RuPaul, 61
Jianelle, 52, Meri, 50, and Nov. 2 that killed a Nov. 17, 1960
Robyn, 43. 23-year-old woman. If Meg Ryan, 60
convicted, he could face Nov. 19, 1961
Health up to 46 years in prison.
Green Bay Packers Scarlett
quarterback Aaron Deaths Johansson, 37
Rodgers, 37, tested positive Brazilian singer Marília Nov. 22, 1984
for COVID-19. Rodgers, Mendonça died on
who is unvaccinated, Nov. 5 alongside four
Babies claims he “didn’t lie” others in a plane crash north of Rio de Janeiro.
Actor Scott Speedman, 46, in August when he said The Latin Grammy winner
welcomed his first child,
daughter Pfeiffer Lucia,
he’d been “immunized,”
citing alternative treat-
Marília
Mendonça •
was 26. Ronnie Wilson, a
founding member of the
with his girlfriend, fashion ments, including the funk-soul trio the Gap
designer Lindsay Rae controversial drug Band, most famous for the
Hofmann, 31, on Oct. 26. •
ivermectin. Joseph 1982 hit “You Dropped a
• Magician Criss Angel,
53, and his wife, actress-
“Joe Exotic” Maldonado-
Passage, 58, of Tiger King
Bomb on Me,” died Nov. 2
at age 73 following a stroke.
singer Shaunyl Benson, 30, fame, has been diagnosed
welcomed daughter Illusia with prostate cancer. By RACHEL DeSANTIS
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Kyra Sedgwick
The actress, 56, has teamed Why
with the NRDC Action Fund to rally
support for climate legislation I Care
I first became aware of the climate crisis PERSONAL
30 years ago, when I became a mother. STORIES ABOUT
GIVING
Fighting climate change is really about fighting BACK
for our children’s future—giving them the world
they deserve. That’s why I joined with the National
Resources Defense Council Action Fund [along with 68 other actors,
musicians and artists] to call on entertainment-industry executives
[including those at Amazon, Facebook, Disney and other
corporations] to demand that Congress take action.
We’re at the tipping point—fires, hurricanes, floods. These
disasters are affecting our long-term health and costing us
billions. We need our leaders in Washington to understand
Sedgwick speaking at we have a limited amount of time to make big changes.
a climate change protest in It’s an all-hands-on-deck moment.
Washington, D.C.,
—R e p o r t e d b y K . C . B A K E R
in December 2019 (right).
For more information, go to nrdc.org.

smile!
o
S t o r i e so ut . . . A rescued
make y
cat’s distaste
for winter
weather leads to
Instagram fame
B A LT I M O R E
“He never
repeats an In 2015 Zoya Khan spotted
outfit twice,” a frail cat abandoned near
says Benson’s
partner her home in Dubai and
in fashion adopted him as a pet. She
Zoya Khan named him Benson, and at
(center).
first life was good. But when
Khan and her cat moved to
Baltimore three years later,
Benson seemed to hate
the cold winter weather.
Khan began dressing him
in snug, warm outfits and
discovered how much
Benson liked it. “He would
just relax in them and purr
and purr,” the grad student,
31, recalls. Soon Benson
was happily posing for the
camera in hats, sunglasses
and other accessories. “I was
amazed,” says Khan, who
has since styled her cat in
more than 250 fashionable
looks, attracting 240,000
followers to his Instagram
(@a_street_cat_named_
benson). “Everybody
thought cats wouldn’t dress
up. Benson is proof
that that’s not how it is.”
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Birthdays are a big deal for three The

sisters all born on the same day Lammerts’
Aug. 25-born
trio: Giuliana,
OVIEDO, FLA. 3, Mia,
When Kristin Lammert gave birth to her first child, 2 months, and
Sophia, 6.
Sophia, on Aug. 25, 2015, she knew the day would live
in her memory forever—but she had no idea just how
meaningful that date would become. Three years later,
when she and her husband, Nick, greeted their second
daughter, Giuliana, it was on Aug. 25. Then, earlier
this year, daughter No. 3, Mia, arrived—on Aug. 25.
“It simply feels surreal,” Kristin says of the unplanned
coincidence. “We were not ‘aiming’ for this, but we find
it to be incredibly special.” Though the three girls have
unique personalities, they enjoy an “incredibly close”
bond and adore sharing a birthday, says Kristin. “It’s
still as unbelievable to me as it is to them!”
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NETFLIX | Red Notice

Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Dwayne Johnson make a powerhouse team
ACTION We are informed, at the start of this cockamamie crew. Everything here depends on the relaxed, banter-
A-list caper, that back in the day Mark Antony gave his ing give-and-take of the film’s superstars even as they
beloved Cleopatra three exquisitely bejeweled eggs. fight one another. Deadpool’s Reynolds, of course, is the
(Apparently the ancients were way ahead of Fabergé.) glib champion, but Johnson proved in Jungle Cruise
Now, in 2021, one of those prized eggs is the target of that he has his own mastery of laid-back bemusement.
two thieves, one named Nolan Booth (Reynolds) and Gadot is understated, unruffled and iconically glamor-
the other an elusive figure known only as the Bishop ous. The story could use a few more double-dealing
(Gadot). Trying to head off any kind of wrinkles, but there’s a good car chase
heist is broad-shouldered FBI agent ‘Everything here through an underground mine. The
John Hartley (Johnson). The movie, depends on the eggs, by the way, are rather tacky:
which hops across continents, will Mark Antony may have been one of
ultimately throw these three together
relaxed, bantering history’s greatest boyfriends, but his
in a high-gloss adventure that at times give-and-take of the taste was questionable. (Launches
suggests Ocean’s Eleven with a tinier film’s superstars’ Nov. 12; also in theaters, PG-13)
Red Notice’s What was a fun What was it like What makes you
moment on-set? working with Ryan happiest?
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Suave Bad Guy I got to tango dance Reynolds? My three children.

GARY GERSHOFF/WIREIMAGE
Silicon Valley alum with Wonder Woman I say this with all sincerity If I had an answer B
Chris Diamantopoulos, [Gal Gadot]. I would say and respect: He’s kind to that, it’s the divine
46, turns to the dark that goes on my bucket of like a living, breathing, feeling between action
side as the film’s list. My wife [actress Becki muscular, handsome and cut.
Newton] would concur. Bugs Bunny.
superrich villain.
Q&A
— D A N I E L A AV I L A

picks
MOVIE | Belfast
DRAMA Possibly the most satisfying movie of Kenneth
Branagh’s directing career, Belfast is the autobi-
ographical story of a young boy, Buddy (Jude Hill),
growing up in war-torn Northern Ireland in the late
1960s. Branagh does a lovely job capturing a sense
of Buddy’s neighborhood and family (Jamie Dornan
and Caitríona Balfe play his parents)—a warm
togetherness that can turn into frightening division.
What’s missing is the small miracle of empathy that
makes you feel you’re not just witnessing someone’s
childhood but living it. As Buddy’s salt-of-the-earth PARAMOUNT+ | Clifford the Big Red Dog
grandparents, Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds quietly FAMILY The popular children’s story becomes a
steal the movie. (In theaters Nov. 12, PG-13) live-action movie—enormous Clifford is
CGI-rendered. The valuable supporting cast of
humans includes John Cleese, Tony Hale and
oscar Rosie Perez. (Streaming now; also in theaters, PG)
buzz!
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PARAMOUNT+ | Mayor
of Kingstown
DRAMA Jeremy Renner, looking on the
world with dour authority, stars in this
dense, intense drama. He’s Mike
McLusky, go-to fixer in a town domi-
nated by its prisons and the shadowy
Hill and
Dornan. needs of the incarcerated. As he tells
his disapproving mother (Dianne
Wiest), “We don’t break the law, Ma—
we bend it.” (Launches Nov. 14)
MUSIC | ABBA, Voyage

POP Mamma mia, here they go again!
The first album from the Swedish pop
savants in nearly four decades is more
stately than you might expect from the
band’s back catalog—there’s no “Danc-
ing Queen 2”—but it shares the same
degree of immaculate songcraft.
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picks
SHOWTIME | Yellowjackets
DRAMA This darkly mysterious series starts in 1996, when a girls’
soccer team is stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash.
By the time the survivors are rescued, they’ve devolved into
a scary mess, a cross between Mean Girls and The Lord of the
Flies. We catch up with them again in the present, with an
adult cast starring Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey, Tawny
Cypress and Juliette Lewis, all behaving with sinister
furtiveness about their past. (Nov. 14, 10 p.m.)
What
secrets
does Ricci
know?
Ghosts’ Danielle Pinnock

After playing an algebra teacher on Young Sheldon,
the Jamaican American actress, 33, is now haunting CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: PAUL SARKIS/SHOWTIME; CBS; TARA ZIEMBA/GETTY IMAGES
audiences as ghostly Alberta, a Prohibition-era

singer, on the hit CBS comedy. “This woman has
lived a full-fledged life,” says the New Jersey native
of her character. “The nerdy introvert in me is like,
‘Yes, go on, sis!’ ”— C H R I S T I N A D U G A N
one to
watch
With costar
Brandon Scott
Jones.
picks
APPLE TV+ | Swagger
DRAMA This insightful series,
partly based on the life of NBA
star Kevin Durant, is about the
pressures, on-court and off, of
the youth basketball scene. At
its center is Jace Carson
(Isaiah Hill), a tremendously
talented kid who never stops
Ferrell (left) monitoring social media reac-
and Rudd. tions to his game and ranking.
(New episodes launch Fridays)
APPLE TV+ | The Shrink Next Door

Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell as doctor and victim
COMEDY Psychiatrist Ike Herschkopf (Rudd) is a crook. For decades, he
takes advantage of his anxious patient Marty Markowitz (Ferrell),
ignoring all boundaries and costing the poor man a fortune (among
other ethical lapses, he and Marty start a foundation—Ike has check-
ing privileges). Based on a true story, Shrink can feel a bit thin across
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eight episodes: For all their analytic jawboning, Ike and Marty hit the
same notes—inventive cunning vs. desperate neediness—over and
over. But Rudd and Ferrell both give big, entertaining performances.
Kathryn Hahn, as Marty’s estranged sister, hits a sharper, satiric note
Hill (right) with
of pain and panic. (First three episodes launch Nov. 12) Quvenzhané Wallis.
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book Med-school fan alert! The iconic
of the buddies Hannah, First Lady, Lady
week Lily King Kira and Compton Chatterley’s Lover
Five Tuesdays in Winter are on their annual author D.H. Law-
STORIES getaway—this year, rence (whom Jackie
An adolescent babysitter with a crush. A divorced Spain—just as a admired) and Her-
middle-aged bookseller—also with a secret desire. deadly new virus bert Hoover all fea-
A suffering widow and her daughter on a North Sea emerges. Written ture in interweaving
vacation. A teenager whose wealthy parents jet off before COVID-19, stories of American
to France, leaving him with a pair of frat boys. a prescient, human and British obscen-
In her debut story collection, master novelist King and hopeful portrait ity trials. A histori-
(Euphoria, Writers & Lovers) plumbs familiar of medical experts cal novel depicting
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unpredictable tales—to stunning effect. frontlines. and passion.
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Michael Connelly Kimi Cunningham David McCloskey
The Dark Hours Grant Damascus Station
Crime-solving duo These Silent Woods Written by a former
Renée Ballard and A secretive Army vet CIA insider, this
Harry Bosch are and his precocious propulsive thriller is,
back at it—amid the daughter have lived at once, a master
chaos of pandemic eight years in the class in spy craft and
and racial unrest— Appalachian a poignant story of
after murder gets in wilderness—until forbidden love set
the way of Ballard’s a mysterious during the brutal
serial-rapist case. stranger intrudes. Syrian civil war.
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SEXIEST MAN ALIVE 2021
Paul Rudd is having a hard time acknowl-

edging that he’s People’s 2021 Sexiest
Man Alive. The actor, 52, has heard
before how he’s not the stereotypical
Hollywood leading man—he’s kind,
self-deprecating, affable, hardworking,
all labels he’s embraced to some degree.
But sexy? That’s a little outside his wheel-
house. “I do have an awareness, enough
to know that when people hear that I’d be
picked for this, they would say, ‘What?’ ”
says Rudd, sitting in a brownstone on a
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rainy day in New York City to discuss his

coronation before jetting back to London
for his next Marvel installment, Ant-Man
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and the Wasp: Quantumania. “This is not

false humility. There are so many people
that should get this before me.”
Such humble deflection—coupled
with those gorgeous green eyes and easy
grin—is exactly why audiences have fall-
en in love with Rudd over the years. From
romancing Alicia Silverstone in 1995’s
Clueless to bromancing Will Ferrell
and the gang in the Anchorman movies,
the actor has steadily risen through the
ranks to superstar. This month, in addi-
tion to reteaming with Ferrell in the new
Apple TV+ series The Shrink Next Door,
he’s taking on one of Hollywood’s most
treasured franchises with Ghostbusters: The last thing
Afterlife. But Rudd insists he’s happiest
at home in New York City with his wife I really want
of 18 years, Julie, 53, and their kids Jack,
17, and Darby, 12. “When I think about
to do is talk
myself, I think of myself as a husband and a b o u t m y s e l f,
a father, like I’m that,” he says. “I just hang
out with my family when I’m not work- so my default
ing. That’s what I kind of like the most.”
Rudd’s homebody tendency comes
mechanism is
from his upbringing in greater Kansas to retreat a
City, where his family settled after his dad,
Michael (who died from cancer in 2008), little bit’
moved around with his job in the airline

industry; his mom worked in sales at the
local TV station. “And my parents were FILL
from London, so I felt as if my worldview in the
was sizable for someone my age at the BLANK
time,” he says. At Shawnee Mission West
High School, Rudd made short films A man should
and did a few plays before a neighbor smell like...
Soap.
proposed acting as a profession. It was
a “lightning bolt” moment. “After that My superpower
conversation I just kept thinking, ‘Maybe would be...
I do want to be an actor,’ ” Rudd recalls. Teleportation.
“All I know is that once I made the deci-
sion, I don’t think I ever second-guessed I ’m s e l f-
conscious
it.” And over his 28-year career he’s built about...
an enviable résumé of box office hits (he Learning Curve Um, how I, I, I
cowrote the Ant-Man films) and cult stutter and stumble
Before graduating from high school in 1987,
Rudd didn’t “fit in any one clique,” he says. on words, as you can
favorites like 2001’s Wet Hot American
“I had friends all over the place.” (The midriff? see. Right there—it
Summer, 2009’s I Love You, Man and just happened.
“Gross,” he says now. “The shaved-sideburn-
2012’s This Is 40. to-here I want to say [was inspired by] Bono.”)
Now Rudd is planning to take full I ’ve b e e n
advantage of his Sexiest Man Alive What went through your mind when m i s t a k e n f o r. . .
Ben Affleck.
crown. “I’m hoping that I’ll finally be you heard you were being named
invited to some of those sexy dinners Sexiest Man Alive this year? The title of
with Clooney and Pitt and B. Jordan,” I learned about this via email, which my memoir
says the actor, masterfully keeping a I had to read twice because it was so would be...
straight face. “And I figure I’ll be on a insane. And the first thing I thought Phyllis.
lot more yachts. I’m excited to expand of, and this is true: “Oooh, get ready
my yachting life. And I’ll probably try for outrage!” People magazine is
to get better at brooding in really soft going to get some angry letters.
light. I like to ponder. I think this is Did you tell your wife, Julie?
going to help me become more inward She’s the only person I told! She
and mysterious.” We can’t wait to see. was stupefied. But you know, she
was very sweet about it. She said,
after some giggling and shock,
“Oh, they got it right.” She was
probably not telling the truth, but
what’s she going to say?
What will your kids say when
they find out?
They’re not going to buy this at all.
I’m scared to tell them. But once I
do, they’re going to point out the
obvious, which is, “You should have
sooner won an award for biochemis-
try and your work on nuclear fusion
than get nominated in this category.”
My kids are not going to buy into this
hype machine. They know better.
Aside from your family, who do you
think will give you the most grief?
Oh, every single person I know. As
they should. I would. I mean, I’m
going to lean into it hard. I’m going
to own this. I’m not going to try to
be like, Oh, I’m so modest. I’m get-
ting business cards made. But all
of my friends will destroy me, and
I expect them to—and that’s why
they’re my friends.
Okay, looking back, what was
young Paul like?
I moved to lots of different places
because of my dad’s job. So I was
the new kid in school several times.
But I had a pretty normal child-
My family hood and one that I look back on
fondly. It was happy. I have a sister
doesn’t let that I’m so close with. We had a
great dog. Long dead. But we got
anything other dogs. I must say all of our
slide. I’m dogs have been great. And sexy.
Did you ever have an awkward phase?
their dad Yeah, so puberty hit me like a Mack
truck. All of a sudden my hair got
or my wife’s really curly, my skin would break out.
husband I took medicine, and it made my lips
dry out. It’s a really good look.
who leaves When did you become comfortable in
your own skin?
his coffee As I’ve gotten older and have a family
cups all and kids. I think I’ve learned enough
to know what’s important, so I’ve
ov e r’ become a little less concerned with
some of the other trivial things.
What do you appreciate about your
midwestern roots?
I did think growing up that it was
good to be from a place that it was

The smaller
moments
are the
things that
I always
try to hold
on to’
lightning
ROUND
First kiss?
A girl named Kelly
in high school. I
was psyched.
Pet peeve?
I’ve had to stop
watching the
news. It makes me
shut down.
What do you
sleep in?
Usually just my
boxer shorts.
What can
always make
you laugh?
My kids. Or news
bloopers on
YouTube.
not cool to be from. I thought I had

this awareness that if you grow up
the Sisters
in a town that no one really wants to ROLES (1992)
“This was one of
visit, it’s good for your own character. of his my first jobs,”
Whenever I told anyone [I’m from] Rudd says of
Kansas, the inevitable Wizard of Oz LIFE the NBC series.
“And the beaded
joke is all I’d hear. But when I go back necklace I made
to Kansas City now, people are pretty myself. And that
great. I’ve never seen a town more was my real hair.”
proud of its own. People really like
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living there. It’s a nice place. Clueless

Describe your typical day off. (1995)
I get up and take my kids to school. Rudd’s
breakthrough
If my wife was sitting next to me, role as Alicia
she would do a spit take and then Silverstone’s
say, “Okay.” But I do, I do. I’ll try to former step-
brother Josh
do some form of exercise and read a quickly made him
bit, you know, maybe do a crossword a teen heartthrob.
puzzle. I like the idea of sitting and
just taking in things.
What do you love most about
being married?
We both have the same outlook on Ant-Man (2015)
Rudd trained hard for the
the important things in life, and we film, its 2018 sequel (below)
can still have a great time hanging and the Avengers follow-
out and laughing. I still love just ups. “Then I stood next Friends (2004)
to Chris Hemsworth and The actor’s daughter Darby
being around her. We have a similar thought, ‘What’s the point?’ ” has become a fan of the hit
way of wanting to live, and the things series. “But then she’ll be
that we really value are aligned. And like, ‘Well, you’re not Joey.’ ”
it’s gotten better. I’ve been with my
wife longer than I have not been. I
can’t even imagine it without her.
How has being a dad to Jack and
Darby shaped you?
I just love ’em so much. You start to
identify yourself differently. When
I had my first kid, it was all just a bit
surreal. Now it’s just who I am.
The Shrink Next Door (2021)
What lessons did your own dad teach Rudd, who reunited with Ferrell for the new
you about fatherhood? limited series, says he’s “a big fan of therapy.
I was crazy about him. I never felt It’s like having coffee with your best friend
and never having to ask, ‘So, what’s new?’ ”
like there was anything I couldn’t
tell him, and I certainly hope that
my children feel that with me.
There’s things about my father that
I find I’m [tapping into] now as I
get older. If I’m flipping around on
TV and there’s some documentary
about Normandy or the Lusita-
nia that I know he would have Ghostbusters:
Afterlife (2021)
stopped on, I’ll watch all of it. Does Rudd, who plays
And I’m interested, but it’s also a teacher in the new
because I know Dad would be sequel, believe in
ghosts? “I’m pretty
watching it. He could also build open to a lot of that
an entire home from the ground stuff,” he says.

loves & legacy
ing as quickly as I’d like?” But I’ve
never wavered. I’ve always thought,
“No, I’m going to stick with this, and
this is going to happen.”
And look at you now.
Look at me now, sexiest person on
the planet. Let me ask, and I want
Fa m i l y Ro o t s you to answer me honestly. A year
Rudd often visits
his mom, Gloria ago Michael B. Jordan was sitting
(in 2010), and in this chair, right? Now, Michael’s
sister Mandi in still with us. He still seems pretty
his hometown
Pa r t y o f Fo u r of Kansas City, damn sexy. Technically, is he not
Rudd’s wife, Julie, and where he’s helped as sexy as me now? Because this
their kids Jack and Darby raise more than doesn’t jibe with me.
helped him celebrate getting $13 million
a star on the Hollywood for Children’s It’s a passing of the torch. In a year
Walk of Fame in 2015. Mercy hospital. you’ll have to give it to someone.
Who am I going to give it to?
up. I’d like to think I have some When did you realize you were going I’ve got an idea; I’ll whisper it to you.
of that, but it’s never been put to to make it in Hollywood? I bet you do. I won’t say a word. I’m
the test. You know, I was naive, and I was sure that whoever it is, it’ll be like,
Are you handy around the house? confident. So I’ve tried to work hard “Oh, that one makes sense.”
I try to be. I always have a to-do list. and follow the path that I wanted But look at you . . . at your Sexiest
One thing I’m just awful at—awfulÑis to. That was maybe not the obvious Man Alive photo shoot.
emails and texts; they pile up for me. one, but I was always focused. I’ve Hey, look at us. We’re really
I’m really bad at keeping in touch.
Any other bad habits?
had moments like, “Is this happen- doing it. •
Probably leaving coffee cups all
over the house. I’ll drink, like, half a
cup and then put it somewhere. I’ll
make eggs, and it gets on the count-
er, and I think I’m cleaning it up,
but—let’s get real—most of the time
I’m not even touching it. I bet if you
asked my wife, she could probably
name a bunch more. Scan this QR code to
watch Sexiest Man
Current guilty pleasure? Alive: Paul Rudd on
I don’t believe in those. Why feel PeopleTV.
guilty? I’ve been in London a lot
this year, and when Sunday rolls
around, I allow myself one day. I’ll
go get a Sunday roast with York-
shire pudding and roast beef and a
pint of Guinness, and then I’ll usu-
ally have tea and biscuits after, and,
like, it’s the greatest thing ever.
What keeps you grounded?
I mean, I’ve never really felt as if I’ve
earned anything. This is all a job. I
don’t put any false importance on
it. It’s all kind of fleeting and unim-
portant. My life and my day-to-day
is the real stuff. And my family, they
don’t let anything slide. If anything,
they go hard into the opposite,
which is the way it should be.

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DANA ROSE
FALCONE, The Brit, 31, skyrocketed to fame—and inspired many a meme—as the
SARAH desirable Duke of Hastings in the megahit series Bridgerton. “People may
M I C H A U D and associate me with being this smoldering, sensual smoke show, but
I assure you I’m just a regular guy,” he quipped while hosting Saturday Night
TOMÁS MIER Live. Page won’t be back for season 2 of the period drama, but he’ll return
to Netflix for the spy thriller The Gray Man with Chris Evans and Ryan
Gosling—a trio that would no doubt pique the interest of Lady Whistledown.

jason SUDEIKIS
As happy-go-lucky English Premier
League soccer coach Ted Lasso,
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the comedian, 46, showed kindness
can be cool. Season 3 of the Apple TV+
series is in the works, and Sudeikis has
racked up Golden Globe and Emmy
wins. “The slow burn has been nice,”
he says of the show’s success.
m a t t DAMON
When he’s not dominating the big screen in
films like this summer’s Stillwater and The
Last Duel (opposite his pal and cowriter Ben
Affleck), the star, 51, isn’t so different from
other dads. “My dancing tends to get shut
down pretty quickly by my kids,” he says.
“I haven’t made it through a song in quite
some time, because they’re so mortified.”
j a s o n MOMOA
From ruling the sea in DC’s Aquaman to fighting supersoldiers
as sword master Duncan Idaho in Dune, the actor, 42, has had his share
of on-set injuries. “I have a hernia, I’ve got ribs out. I’m just getting
beat up! . . . I’m an aging superhero right now,” Momoa said
in October. Fortunately the body blows haven’t dampened his
enthusiasm: “I just kind of give it [my all]. I love my job.”
Bad
Bunny
Tickets for the
Puerto Rican
singer’s 2022 tour
sold out in record
time, and with
chart-toppers like
“Dákiti” (and lyrics
including “you
know I’ll take you
there”), the 27-year-
old embraces being
sexy. “The most
important part?” he
says, “believing
it yourself.”
DANIEL
DAE KIM
The Good Doctor producer

and actor has his first leading
TV role in The Hot Zone:
Anthrax, out this month on
National Geographic. But his
family—wife Mia and sons
Zander and Jackson—always
keep him grounded: “They’ll
say, ‘That’s gr eat, honey,
now take out the trash,’ ” says
Kim, 53. “And that’s exactly
the way I want it.”
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ANDREW
GARFIELD
The Oscar-nominated
actor, 38, played the
hero in Spider-Man
a decade ago. This year
he turned to more
dramatic roles, as Rent
creator Jonathan Larson
in Tick, Tick . . . Boom!
and televangelist Jim
Bakker in the biopic
The Eyes of Tammy
Faye. Jessica Chastain
personally chose him to
play Bakker. “I was very
honored,” Garfield
said, but he did have
one condition: “My
only caveat was ‘I’m not
going to be a mustache-
twirling villain.’ ”
William Shatner
The Emmy winner became the oldest person,
at 90, to travel to space when he went up in
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin New Shepard capsule
in October. “I experienced something so
emotional about life and death,” he says.
l u k e B R YA N
Though the American Idol judge, 45,
“appreciates how I look at my proper age,” he
admits the gray hair has started creeping in.
“I’m lucky to not have crazy tons of it, but I’ll
just enjoy,” says the country singer. “I hear
that most ladies like a little salt and pepper.
Nobody defined it better than Clooney.
Maybe I can morph into that look.”
timothée CHALAMET
The Dune star doesn’t shy away from displaying his
emotions. “I feel like I’m here to show that to
wear your heart on your sleeve is okay,” he’s said.
The actor, 25, also solidified his position as a style
icon when he cochaired the 2021 Met Gala.
“I just love all of that,” he says of dressing up, adding
that he doesn’t worry about the critics: “You’re doing
it for a kid that’s going to be inspired.”
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MELONI
Growing older doesn’t
seem to faze the actor,
60, who left Law &
Order: Special Victims
Unit a decade ago and
reprised his character
this year for the spinoff
Organized Crime.
“Fact of life. Embracing
it and marveling at it
are way healthier and
more productive than
bitching about it,”
he says. Meloni keeps
his hopes for the
future simple as well:
“Above ground.”
stanley
TUCCI
In September the
actor, 61, revealed
he survived tongue
cancer that was
diagnosed three
years ago. Though
he temporarily lost
his sense of taste,
he didn’t slow
down—his series
Searching for Italy
won an Emmy, and
his new book Taste:
My Life Through
Food became a
bestseller. “I feel
much older than
Rauw Alejandro I did before I was
The Puerto Rican heartthrob, 28, who has had collabs with sick,” he has said.
Selena Gomez and Jennifer Lopez, is known for his sensual “But you still want
choreography onstage. “Latinos? We have un sabor único to get ahead and
[a one-of-a-kind taste],” he said. “My music is pleasure.” get things done.”
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This summer the Oscar nominee,

37, transfixed the Internet when he
transformed into a brooding centaur
in a Burberry fragrance ad. Now
he’s exploring fashion history in the
biopic House of Gucci opposite
Lady Gaga. Whether playing the
head of a fashion house or a warrior
for the Dark Side, the former Marine
loves a challenge. “I want to do it all,”
Driver has said. “I don’t want to
shy away from something because
it is complicated timing-wise.”

ANTHONY
RAMOS
While the Hamilton

actor, 30, has found
great success
onstage and
onscreen
(he’s starring
in next year’s
Transformers: Rise
of the Beasts), he
still has doubts.
“I remind myself,
‘You’re good
enough. You’re
worthy. You’re
loved, and you
deserve good
things,’ ” he says.
“My life is wild,
bananas! It’s a series
of unexpected
gifts that I am
super grateful for.”
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The HGTV star, 38, has won

hearts rehabbing Laurel, Miss.,
with his wife, Erin, and landed
on Fortune’s list of World’s
50 Greatest Leaders this year.
lil nas X
Whether it’s through over-the-
top fashion moments or deeply
personal lyrics on his album
Montero, the rapper, 22, always
stays true to himself. “The only
person that really has to believe in
me is myself,” he’s said. Since his
viral hit “Old Town Road”—and
coming out as gay in 2019—he’s
also become a cultural trailblazer:
“I’ve changed in so many ways.”
anthony HOPKINS
The British star, 83, became the oldest Oscar
winner in history when he took home the trophy this
year for his role in The Father. Yet when he looks in
the mirror, “I see a Welsh little guy from Port Talbot,”
Hopkins says. “And I tell him, ‘We did okay, kid.’ ”
The actor stays in shape by walking, weight training
and painting in his art studio, which he considers
“a form of meditation.” And he allows himself
“pizza after a long day on-set. Once in a while apple
pie with ice cream is good too.”

Will Smith
The King Richard star, 53, who
released his memoir Will this
month, has said growing older
brought him “the freedom
to do whatever I wanted to do.”
ralph
MACCHIO
The Cobra Kai actor, 60, enjoys
the early morning hours and
“mapping out the day with some
espresso and a clear mind.”
On his bucket list? Waking up
in Tuscany, Italy, or Bordeaux,
France. “I have gained an affinity
for the great wines of the
world,” he says. “And I have
yet to visit those areas.”
ch a s e STOKES
If the recently single actor, 29, didn’t end up on Outer Banks, he could
have been selling houses. “I’m actually a secret HGTV lover and
want to flip homes,” says Stokes. The Netflix star calls his life “one hell of
a roller coaster” since his breakthrough role as John B on the teen
drama, but his mom, Jennifer Canning, provides a true north: “If I end
up being 1 percent of the human that lady is, I’ll die a happy man.”
Patrick
Mahomes
The Kansas
City Chiefs’ star
quarterback,
26, was MVP
of the Super
Bowl in 2020,
and this year he
added “Dad” to
his list of titles
when he and
his high school
sweetheart,
fiancée Brittany
Matthews,
welcomed
their first
child, daughter
Sterling Skye.
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gym together
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KUMA ARE A LESSON IN
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save other pitbulls like yourself by letting me tell people your story.”

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hiking on
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rescued. which helps
support the
rescue
organization
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credits Kuma
for always
reminding him
“to be playful”
and “stay in
the present.”
Jumping
sand
dunes in
all about The duo channeled
January
2020.
KUMA Lady and the
Tramp in October
BREED 2019 (he voiced
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Pit bull mix live-action COMPANION
FAVORITE remake). From road trips
PASTIME and swimming to
Sleeping in fine dining and
working out,
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RIGHT?” gratitude for
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like my life
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Idris Elba, 49
as Heimdall
The English A-lister, father of two and
cohost of the podcast Coupledom (with
his wife, Sabrina) played the Norse
guard in 2011’s Thor before going to
the dark side as bad guy Bloodsport in
this year’s The Suicide Squad.

Chris Hemsworth, 38
as Thor
The rugged Australian—who
shares three children with
wife Elsa Pataky—has brought
the heat playing the God
of Thunder since 2011’s Thor.
T
EN!
2014
Hugh
Jackman, 53
as Wolverine
The multifaceted
Aussie played
the dual role of
Logan/Wolverine
from 2000 to 2017
and now holds
the Guinness
World Record for
“longest career
as a live-action
Marvel superhero.”
2008
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2020
Michael B.
Jordan, 34
as Erik
Killmonger
The actor, who
played Human
Torch in 2015’s
Fantastic Four and
is now dating Steve
Harvey’s daughter
Lori, appeared as
the villainous
character in
2018’s Black Panther.
2011
B r a d l e y C o o p e r, 4 6
as Rocket
The acclaimed Oscar nominee,
who shares daughter Lea with ex
Irina Shayk, began lending his voice
to the Halfworld supercritter in
2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy.

2010
Ryan
Reynolds, 45
as Deadpool
The Canadian-born
actor, who shares
three daughters
with actress Blake
Lively, appeared as
the wisecracking
antihero in 2009’s
X-Men Origins:
Wolverine before
starring in two
Deadpool movies
as well as 2011’s
Green Lantern.
2002
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Ben Affleck, 49
as Batman
More than a decade after playing the
hero of 2003’s Daredevil, the father
of three—who rekindled his romance
with Jennifer Lopez earlier this year—
debuted as Gotham’s caped
crusader in 2017’s Justice League.

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bloom
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Bloom has long lived for the
adrenaline rush. “I’ve always
loved vehicles—anything on
two wheels,” says the Carnival
Row actor, 44, who was raised
in Canterbury, U.K., and got his
first motorcycle at 16. But after
becoming a dad to son Flynn,
10 (with ex Miranda Kerr), and
daughter Daisy, 15 months
(with fiancée Katy Perry), he’s
riding at a different pace. “I do
it for love and passion,” says
Bloom. “But with an eye to
safety and being around for
a long time, because I’ve got
way more at stake today
than I’ve ever had before.”
— J E S S I C A I AVA Z Z I
1979
kumail
nanjiani
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“Listen, I was a cute kid.
It’s not arrogant, because I
can admit I stopped being
cute around 8 or 9 years old,”
jokes Nanjiani. Raised in
Pakistan, the actor and
comedian, 43—who currently
stars as superhero Kingo
alongside Angelina Jolie in
Marvel’s Eternals—insists he
was a late bloomer who didn’t
hit his stride until moving to
the U.S. for college. His self-
care secret? “Not looking in
the mirror that much.”
— KA R A WA R N E R
ca. 1981

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bettany
N E W Y O R K C I T Y, O C T . 1
“I used to hide in the deputy headmaster’s office during recess because
I was very bullied, and I was just shy,” says the London-born Avengers actor.
“I couldn’t talk to anybody.” Bettany, 50, who resurrected his Marvel
character, Vision, in the hit Disney+ series WandaVision earlier this year, says
he’d give his younger self some simple advice: “Life’s curly. Don’t stress too
much. The greatest thing as I hurdle towards old age is that now I feel less
embarrassed about everything. It just all goes away.” — E M I L Y S T R O H M

ca. 2007
caeleb
dressel
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The seven-time Olympic gold
medalist started swimming
around age 4. There was a
swimming pool “right by my
dad’s work, so it was easy for my
mom to throw us in, burn off
some energy,” the Florida
native, 25, says. “And I never
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really dropped it.” Even during
some awkward years: “In middle
school I didn’t tell anyone I
swam, because I didn’t want
anyone finding out I wore a
Speedo!” Despite his accolades,
Dressel constantly tries to
improve. “I know that I want to
be a better son, a better brother,
a better husband, better
dog owner,” he says. “Every
aspect of my life, I want to
be better at.”
—DANA ROSE
FALCONE

simu liu
L O S A N G E L E S , O C T. 24
“I was really shy and socially awkward growing up,”
says the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
star, who was born in China and immigrated to
Ontario, Canada, at age 5 with his family. “It was
hard for me to fit in and find my place.” (Inset, with a
duckling he rescued at age 10.) As Marvel’s first East
Asian superhero, the actor, 32, is breaking barriers
onscreen and off—and hopes to help other kids feel
less alone. “The idea that I’ve been able to share
parts of my story that could inspire somebody to
take a chance on themselves, that’s been immensely
rewarding,” he says. — M E L O D Y C H I U
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1999
DWAYNE
JOHNSON, 49
The Red
Notice star has
confessed that
“between the
ages of 7 and 11,
people thought
that I was a
little girl.”
D a n L e v y, 3 8
As a kid, the Emmy winner quickly learned
he didn’t like private school: “There’s a real
sadness to hyper-privileged people.”
THEN AND WOW!

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P h i l D u n s t e r, 2 9 Matt James, 29
The Ted Lasso star jokes he has Growing up, the former Bachelor has said,
“always been an attention seeker— he “wanted to be like” actor-rappers
just less adorable now.” Jamie Foxx and Will Smith.
JEREMY
RENNER, 50
“I was a latchkey
kid, so I could
do whatever the
heck I wanted,”
says the star
of the new J a m e s Wo l k , 3 6 Brandon Flowers, 40
Paramount+ The star of NBC’s Ordinary Joe remembers The Killers frontman enjoyed spending time at
series Mayor of being a timid swimmer at his neighborhood his aunt’s house in Henderson, Nev.: “Life was all
Kingstown. pool: “But they had an amazing snack bar.” sparkling apple juice and 49-cent Crunch bars.”

M a t t h e w M c C o n a u g h e y, 5 2 Conan O’Brien, 58
The Oscar winner thought he’d won the Little Even as a kid, the former talk show host,
Mr. Texas competition at age 8—and then he who wrapped his TBS show Conan in June
looked at the nameplate: “It said ‘runner up’!” after 11 seasons, embraced his ginger roots.
NICK JONAS, 29
“I was telling my grandma that
I was going to be on Broadway when
I was 2,” the Jonas Brother has said.
At age 8, he debuted on the Great
White Way in A Christmas Carol.
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The Trading Spaces vet put together his first The Nine Perfect Strangers actor cut his own hair
carpentry crew at 12, building “a three-story before taking his school picture: “Apparently
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tree house in one day by bartering comics.” I wanted it to match the gap in my teeth.”
KEVIN
COSTNER, 66
The star of
Yellowstone
performed in a
traveling boys
choir, but he
loved ’60s pop. “I
gravitated toward
songs that were
classics,” he’s said.
B I L LY P O R T E R , 5 2
“I was a good student, but I didn’t feel
like I fit into anything extracurricular,
and I felt sort of like an outcast,” the
Pose star has said. “But I could sing.”
Comedian and writer Bowen Yang, 31, is the first to admit that being named
C
a cast member of Saturday Night Live in 2019 was a monumental event. “There’s
not a part of my life that hasn’t been affected, which is beautiful and scary at the
same time,” he says. But it was his first time making the list for one of the cast’s
fabled (pre-COVID) after-show gatherings that really felt surreal: “Solange was
Photographs by
the musical guest, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z showed up. I think I blacked out, like,
‘This is what it’s like every week?!’ ” Since then, Yang has become well-versed in the necessities for MARTIN
survival the next day. “It’ll be bacon, egg and cheese from some cute little bagel shop in Brooklyn, SCHOELLER
or fried dumplings,” he says. “And any episode of 90 Day Fiancé,
because it’s so jarring that it literally is sobering. You just
feel better about where you’re at in life.”
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RIGHT MOVES
Yang, whose viral characters

on the show have included the
iceberg that sank the Titanic and
a “proud gay” Oompa Loompa,
describes his afterparty vibe as
“wholesome and debaucherous.”
When RuPaul hosted in February
2020, “the deejay played ‘Be My
Lover’ by La Bouche, and I knew
every single word. Everyone got up
on tables and danced,” he recalls.
“Michael Che was like, ‘Whoa,
Bowen’s going off.’ Normally he’s
cool as a cucumber, so if I can get
Che out of his chair, then I’ve done
something right.” His go-to move?
“Step, touch and then a shoulder
tap, then a twirl,” says the
actor, who’s the first Chinese
American cast member on the
show. “I mean, I’m really exposing
myself with this. Everyone’s
going to know my big secret, and
that’s my dance move. Now you
know what it’s like to be me.”
SHAKEN AND STIRRED
Born in Australia, Yang spent middle school in Colorado, where he’d order “a Shirley Temple at Chili’s,”
he recalls. “That was my mocktail. It’s crazy that I was ever in the closet.” These days the comedian, who
also stars in the Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, gravitates toward a martini. Scan this QR code
“Dirty, blue cheese, olive,” he says. “I drank a bourbon when I went to [host] Kim Kardashian West’s secret with your phone’s
afterparty. I turned around, and Khloé Kardashian looked me in the eyes and said, ‘What are you drinking? camera to watch
That’s so sad. Drink champs with me.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, whatever you say, Khloé Kardashian.’ So it runs Morning After
the gamut. I can do mostly anything except a warm sake. It’s not a warm-sake vibe at the afterparty.” Sexy: Bowen Yang
on PeopleTV.
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ryan
PHILLIPPE
At 47 Phillippe is as
chiseled as ever—but
if you ask him, he’s just
trying to keep up with his
18-year-old son Deacon.
“We’ll do the same
workout, and the way he
looks after compared to
the way I look is really
defeating,” jokes the
star of the new action-
thriller One Shot, who’s
also dad to daughter
Ava, 22 (both with ex
Reese Witherspoon), and
daughter Kai, 10 (with ex
Alexis Knapp). Despite
being in impeccable
shape, the “socially
awkward” Phillippe insists
he hasn’t quite found his
comfort zone. “I’ve never
really looked at myself
as someone who was
particularly attractive or
handsome,” he says. “I’m
still in an awkward phase.”
—MELODY CHIU
89
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steve ZAHN
While the White Lotus star, 54, wowed viewers with his shirtless scenes in the hit
HBO series, Zahn recalls being even more fit “when I studied ballet at conservatory
in my 20s; it was intense. I was in really good shape.” The actor’s regimen shifted
gears after he and his wife, Robyn Peterman, became parents (son Henry is now 21,
and daughter Audrey, 19). “When you have little kids, it’s like, ‘No more waffles?
You sure? Great. All mine,’ ” he says. “That was bad news.” These days Zahn, who
is starring in the new HBO Max film 8-Bit Christmas, is back to working out on
the Kentucky farm he calls home and running about 25 miles every week. “It’s like
therapy,” he adds. “And I think I look all right.” —B R I A N N E T R A C Y
bradley
WHITFORD
Being in this issue
makes the Emmy
winner, 62, the “Sexiest
Man Barely Alive,”
he jokes, adding how
“bizarre” and “unfair”
it is that men are more
celebrated for aging
than women. “Men
are lucky as hell,”
says Whitford, who is
starring in an upcoming
touring production of
A Christmas Carol and
an executive producer
of Not Going Quietly
(now streaming). He
still makes time for
exercise and is mindful
about what he eats but
admits the best shape
of his life was “many
decades ago,” he says.
“As my father would
say, I have a bright
future behind me.”
— KA R A WA R N E R
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jason DERULO
When it comes to his 6-month-old son Jason King, the singer
hopes the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. “He’s definitely
going to be a gym rat like me,” says Derulo, 32, who often works
out twice a day. “I like feeling like a beast.” But he does still have a
few weaknesses, like cookies and lava cake: “I can’t eat what
I want, otherwise I’ll just keep going and going.” Now it’s all about
balance—just like his status with baby Jason’s mom, Jena Frumes,
whom he split from in September. “Our new relationship is
co-parenting, and it’s amazing,” Derulo adds. “We don’t care
if we’re confusing people because our situation is ours. And we
love Jason more than anything.” — B R I A N N E T R A C Y
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HUDSON
The actor, 45,
has always been
comfortable showing
off his physique. “I post
a lot of nudity. My shirt
is off, my ass is out,”
says Hudson, who stars
in the upcoming Fox
series The Cleaning
Lady. “Dad bods are
in.” The father of three
(Wilder, 14, Bodhi,
11, and Rio, 8, with his
wife, actress Erinn
Bartlett) likes to bike
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and exercise outdoors

and doesn’t worry
about getting older.
“I’ve never really given
it much thought,” he
adds. “I like myself,
honestly. I’m wrinkly,
and I’ve got sun spots
and the Jack Palance
vibe going on, but
it is what it is. You
got to roll with it.”
—MIA McNIECE
Deadly Chaos at a Concert
‘ WE COULDN’T
BREAT
A CROWD SURGES OUT OF CONTROL
AT R A P P E R T R AV I S S COT T ’S M U S I C
F E S T I VA L I N H O U S TO N , K I L L I N G HORROR &
HEARTBREAK
8 PEOPLE AND INJURING MORE “When Travis
T H A N 3 0 0 . W H AT W E N T S O W R O N G ? came out,
HE’
kids were just
By B R I A N N E T R A C Y and T O M Á S M I E R drowning” in
the crush, says
attendee Billy
Nasser. Above:
Scott onstage
Nov. 6; below,
paramedics on
the scene.
For Jacob Jurinek,

seeing rapper Travis
Scott headline the
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first night of the

Astroworld Festival in
Houston seemed like
the perfect way to
JOY TO NIGHTMARE
The crowd that night. celebrate his upcoming 21st birthday. So the
“I lost all hope,” says Naperville, Ill., native and his best friend, Franco
festivalgoer David
McGilver, who survived
Patiño, 21, saved up for the trip “for months,” says
the stampede. Franco’s older brother Julio Patiño Jr. “Franco
“I honestly did think was very excited. He was telling all his friends and
I was going to die.”
family, ‘I’m going to see Travis Scott!’ ”
On Nov. 5 the two friends were among the
50,000 music lovers who descended on the 350-
acre NRG Park for the third iteration of Houston
native Scott’s annual event. But minutes before
his 9 p.m. set, some of the crowd began to rush
the stage, sparking chaos that grew more intense
when he came out to perform. “Everyone kept
getting squeezed tighter and tighter until we

Twitter statement, Scott—whose
‘WHAT pregnant girlfriend Kylie Jenner,
HAPPENED 24, and their 3-year-old daughter
WAS NOT Stormi, along with Kylie’s sister

Kendall Jenner, 26, were in
RIGHT. WE’RE attendance in a VIP area—said
GOING TO that he was “devastated” by the
FIND JUSTICE’ incident. “My prayers go out
to the families and all those
—AMMAR
BAIG, WHOSE impacted,” wrote Scott, who
BROTHER has said he’ll provide funeral
DANISH DIED
costs and mental health sup-
port for concertgoers.
But from the start, concerns

were high about wheth-
er Astroworld organizers
were equipped to handle a
#HOUSTONSTRONG crowd-control situation of this magnitude. “I
couldn’t breathe,” says concert attendee Lucas Shortly after asked Travis Scott and his team to work with HPD
the tragedy,
Naccarati, 26, of Arcadia, Calif. “If you fell, it was Houston locals for all events over the weekend and to be mindful of
impossible to get up. You were screwed.” set up a make- his team’s social media messaging on any unsched-
Eight people—ranging in age from 14 to 27—died, shift memorial uled events,” Houston police chief Troy Finner said
outside NRG
including both Franco and Jurinek. More than 300 Park to honor in a statement. “The meeting was brief and respect-
others were treated on-site or at nearby hospitals the victims. ful.” Scott (born Jacques Webster II) has a history
for concert-related injuries, including a 9-year-old of inciting dangerous behavior at his shows. In
boy who was in critical condition as of press time. 2015 he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after
“When people started to push toward the stage, the encouraging fans at Lollapalooza to climb over
ones that were up front near the barriers weren’t security barricades and rush the stage. Then, in
able to make their way out,” says Houston fire chief 2017, he was charged with inciting a riot, disorder-
Samuel Peña. A criminal investigation has been ly conduct and endangering the welfare of a minor
launched by the Houston Police Department to following a concert in Arkansas. (He pleaded guilty
look into the horrific turn of events. At least 19 law- to disorderly conduct.) In 2019 three people were
suits, most of them seeking more than $1 million in trampled and hospitalized after thousands of fans
damages, have been brought against Scott, 30, and rushed to enter Astroworld. “A Travis Scott fan
others, including performer Drake and Astroworld is called a rager,” says Naccarati. “Unfortunately,
organizers Live Nation and ScoreMore. In a Nov. 6 there’s a very thin line between raging and chaos.”
Scott is now facing harsh criticism from
WHAT TO KNOW festivalgoers who believe he continued to per-
form even after noticing an ambulance in the
ABOUT CROWD SAFETY crowd and fans in distress. A source close to the
star, however, maintains that he wasn’t aware of
Security experts on dangerous crowd surges and how to protect yourself
the severity of the situation: “The lights were
How did this happen? How can I protect What should I do if a shining in his eyes, and he couldn’t see what was
“When the dynamics of myself at an event? crowd starts surging? happening.” It wasn’t until 40 minutes after city
a crowd change, it cre- “Spot the exits,” says “Put your arms in officials declared a “mass casualty event” that
ates a surge of people Herrera. “Read safety front of your chest to the concert was shut down. Now family mem-
reacting out of panic,” guidelines prior to the protect your lungs,” bers of those lost are demanding answers—and
says Mark Herrera event and have a plan.” says Wertheimer.
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justice. “You never go to a concert and think

of the International Safe attire is also key. “Stay silent and do not
Association of Venue “Wear laced-up shoes resist surges or crowd
you’re going to die. How did this happen?” says
Managers. Planners that can help maintain pressure. Try to stay Sergio Gonzalez, victim Rudy Peña’s brother-
should follow standards your grip,” adds standing by positioning in-law. “Someone needs to be found guilty.”
for crowd density and Paul Wertheimer of your feet one in front of
have one crowd man- Crowd Management the other, like a boxer, Additional reporting by K.C. BAKER
ager per 250 people. Strategies. for ultimate balance.” and WENDY GROSSMAN KANTOR

REMEMBERING THE YOUNG LIVES LOST
Rudy Peña, 23 Madison
A medical assistant at a
rehabilitation center, Peña
Dubiski, 23
was the youngest of five A former University of Missis-
siblings. Naturally, “he was sippi student, she was a “ ‘too
the most spoiled” by his mom, glam to give a damn!’ kind of
says his brother-in-law girl,” friend Lauren Vogler told
Sergio Gonzalez. “Her pain the Houston Chronicle. Dubiski
is immense.” Peña, who attended the festival with her
was also studying criminal younger brother Ty, from whom
justice at Texas’s Laredo she was reportedly separated
College, was “the calmest, during the stampede. “She was
the most playful and the her brother’s biggest fan,” fami-
sweetest with everyone.” ly friend Claudia Sierra said.
John Hilgert, 14 Franco Patiño, 21

The youngest victim, A mechanical technology
a freshman at Houston’s major and biomechanics
Memorial High School, Hilgert minor at the University
(PENA) COURTESY PENA FAMILY; (HILGERT) COURTESY HILGERT FAMILY; (PATINO) COURTESY PATINO FAMILY; (ACOSTA) COURTESY JOEL ACOSTA; (BAIG) COURTESY BAIG FAMILY; (JURINEK) COURTESY RON JURINEK
loved playing sports—he of Dayton, Franco

reportedly attended the music came from a tight-knit
festival with a youth football family. “He had a tattoo
teammate—and “made an with the initials of me, my
impact on anyone who met brother and him, and
him,” his baseball coach Justin a rose that represented my
Higgs shared on Instagram. mom,” says his older
“[He was] one of the nicest brother Julio Patiño Jr.
human beings I’ve ever met. “He made everybody
John was an angel.” laugh with his jokes.”
Brianna Danish Baig, 27

Baig loved to show off his skills
Rodriguez, 16 behind the grill. “He was so
A junior at Houston’s Heights good at making barbecue,”
High School, Rodriguez was says his older brother Ammar.
passionate about dancing and A “huge” Cowboys fan, the
so “vibrant,” her family shared Dallas resident died after
on Facebook. “You always saving his fiancée. “He
knew how to make my day and managed to get her out,”
light up the room with your big says Ammar, whose younger
smile,” Rodriguez’s best friend, brother Basil also attended
Isabella Weissvert, wrote on the event. “[Danish] was
Instagram. “I know you’ll stay funny, goofy and outgoing. He
watching over me amiguita.” would take care of everybody.”
Axel Acosta, 21 Jacob Jurinek, 20

Studying computer science “Big Jake” to his family,
at Western Washington Uni- he was celebrating his
versity, Acosta was a “young upcoming 21st birthday with
man with a vibrant future,” Patiño, his best friend from
said Melynda Huskey, vice their high school days
president of enrollment at his in Naperville, Ill. “He was just
school. Acosta traveled alone the sweetest kid you’d ever
to Houston to go to the festival, want to meet,” says his dad,
and it was his first time attend- Ron, who often attended
ing an event like this, his aunt Chicago White Sox and
told ABC13. “I hope he knows Blackhawks games with
that we all love him,” his broth- his son. “[We’re] left with a
er Joel wrote on Facebook. huge hole in our lives.”

FRANK’S LITTLE
G I R L TA K E S A
PHOTOGRAPHIC
JOURNEY FROM HER
‘J O Y F U L’ C H I L D H O O D
IN CALIFORNIA
T O A D U LT H O O D A S
A POP QUEEN AND
E LV I S CO S TA R .
PLUS, SHE REVEALS
W H AT I T W A S R E A L LY
LIKE TO WALK IN
THOSE FAMOUS BOOTS
By N I G E L S M I T H
NANCY
SINATRA My
Life
in Pictures
A
Giving Thanks
FROM LEFT: NBCUNIVERSAL/GETTY IMAGES; MIKE OWEN/EYEVINE/REDUX
As the oldest daughter of music and screen legend Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra had some Nancy (left, in
big boots to fill when she launched her performing career in 1960. Six years after making her 1967) says she’s
grateful for her
debut in one of her father’s TV specials, she released “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” fans’ support
a 1966 smash that cemented her spot in pop-culture history. “[My dad] was very support- throughout the
ive,” she recalls. “There was a time when he went onstage and he’d say, ‘Hello, I’m Nancy’s years: “Without
them, there would
father,’ because he was so proud of what was happening to me.” Now 81, Nancy, who has two be no Nancy right
daughters—Amanda, 45, and A.J., 47—with second husband Hugh Lambert (he died of cancer now. She’d just
in 1985), is a showbiz vet with 17 albums and several film credits, including 1968’s Speedway, be an old lady
getting older.”
in which she costarred with her friend Elvis Presley. Turner Classic Movies recently under-
scored her professional impact with a night of programming dedicated to her work. “I’m
blessed to have been here this long,” she says, looking back on a charmed life and career. “If I
can be of help to people, that would be wonderful. I guess experience counts for something.”

‘It was
electric to
be with him.
There’s only
one Frank’
—NANCY SINATRA
ON HER FATHER
Stepping Out
on Her Own
Outtakes from the cover
shoot for Boots, Nancy’s 1966
debut album: “I had a hard
P i c t u re - Pe r f e c t Fa m i l y time figuring out which boots
“We were all freshly scrubbed and dressed. to wear, and I don’t know why
Mom made sure of that,” she says of the family I chose those. They were so
photo taken at home in Toluca Lake, Calif. uncomfortable.”
(Clockwise from top left: Nancy, dad Frank,
brother Frank Jr., sister Tina, and mother
Nancy.) “My childhood was just beautiful.”
(Left: onstage with Frank at age 15 in 1955.)
Doomed From
the Start?
“This photo should be
captioned, ‘Too young, way too
young,’ ” she says of her 1960
wedding to singer Tommy
Sands, whom she married at
20. They divorced five years
later. “I was living in a fairy
tale. He was not happy
being married, and
one day he just left.”
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Wo r k i n g
With Dad
“He knew I was
nervous, but he
made it fun. He was
silly and funny and
made the nerves
go away,” she
says of recording
with her father,
who died in 1998
at age 82. In 1967
they hit No. 1 with
“Somethin’ Stupid.”
Lifetime Bond
“I wish he could
live forever,”
The King of Nancy says of Tony
Comedy Bennett (with
Nancy costarred her at the 1998
with Elvis American Music
Presley in 1968’s Awards), who
Speedway. “He was has Alzheimer’s
the funniest man disease. “He’s part
and probably the of the family.”
most serious man
I knew, both people Fa m e a n d Fa m i l y
in one. He made Her sister Tina, mom Nancy and
me laugh so hard.” daughter A.J. joined her as she
got a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame in 2006. “She was the
most influential person in my life,
still is,” she says of her mother,
who died at age 101 in 2018. “I
still rely on her wisdom, kindness,
sweetness and her toughness.
She was a strong lady.”
Fo n d o f Fo n d a Proud Mom
“I miss him so much,” Daughter Amanda
Sinatra says of Peter Lambert was her date for
Fonda, her costar Sinatra, the 2015 Frank
in 1966’s The Wild tribute concert in London.
Angels. “He was a “I’m so lucky,” Nancy
dear friend. A very says of being a mom to
spiritual person.” her two daughters.
76 and
ROD
Still
Rockin’
STEWART
WHAT
I KNOW
NOW T H E M U S I C L EG E N D A N D FAT H E R O F E I G H T
IS IN LOVE WITH LIFE AND HIS WIFE—
A N D A F T E R F I V E D EC A D E S O F S TA R D O M ,
HE HAS NO PLANS TO SLOW DOWN
RANKIN
By B R I A N N E T R A C Y
102 November 22, 2021

FOREVER ROD
THE MOD
“It’s a nice
exhaustion,”
Stewart says of
his life onstage—
and being a
hands-on dad
to eight kids.
R
Rod Stewart is pretty much an open book. During
the course of his People interview, though, two top-
ics make the legendary rocker squirm. First there’s
the thought of losing his signature spiky blond
hair. “Oh, let’s move on. I can’t even think of it!” he
declares melodramatically. And second? Retire-
ment. “Don’t you dare mention that word,” he says
with a laugh. “If there’s people out there who want
to hear me sing, I’ll be there.” True to his word,
Stewart, 76, is set to reprise his acclaimed Las Ve-
gas residency Rod Stewart: The Hits in 2022. But
first, on Nov. 12 he’ll release The Tears of Hercu-
les, his 31st studio album. “I mean, Adele’s got an
album coming out a week later, so now I’m s---,” he
says. “But I’ll let Adele have it this time. I’ve had
my fair share.”
Since topping Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart
for six weeks in 1971 with “Maggie May,” the Lon-
don native has gone on to sell more than 250 million
albums and singles worldwide. Beyond the music,
he’s kept busy in his personal life. The Rock and Roll
Hall of Famer has been happily married to his third
wife, model Penny Lancaster, 50, for 14 years, and
he’s dad to eight children. “There’s been so many
highlights,” he says. “But there’s nothing like hav-
ing kids.” Here, he passes on some of the wisdom he’s THE STEWART post three times gets $100.” My wife will come out
gained about life, love and fatherhood. CREW and say, “What are you doing? $100? Make it $5.”
“I couldn’t ask for
You’ve got to let kids work for their money. anything better,” It’s never too late to be a real dad.
says Stewart (with,
In the ’60s all I wanted to do was save up and buy from left, daughter My first child, Sarah, was a bit of an accident.
a little cheap sports car. Now here I am with many Kimberly, When I was 17, my girlfriend at the time [Susannah
sports cars. But success to me is being able to look granddaughter Boffey] got pregnant, and we decided to place our
Delilah, sons
after my kids and give them the opportunity to do Alastair, Sean, baby for adoption. Sarah found out who her father
what they want in business. I don’t give them mil- Aiden and Liam was when she was 21, and everything changed.
lions. I’ll give them a little bit, and I’ll say, “Listen, and wife Penny She was paid by one of the gossip newspapers
in 2019.)
you’ve got to do it the hard way like Dad.” Some- in Great Britain to fly over and confront me. She
times I’ll make a deal with them while playing was a punk at the time—safety pins through her
soccer and say, “First one to hit the top of the goal nose and everything. But we’re on great terms
HIS PASSIONS ON & OFFSTAGE
ROCK GODS
ON THE BALL “I can’t do what I used to
“All my life I’ve played do in my 20s and 30s,” Stewart HOT ROD
[soccer],” says Stewart (with Faces bandmate Ron Stewart (in England in 1995) has an impressive
(in 1978). “Probably Wood in 1974) says of his car collection, including an AC Cobra Mk IV
too much!” old party ways. (above) and several vintage Lamborghinis.
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ROD’S
ROCKING with individual problems. For instance, my 15-year-
old is dating girls, so I had to give him a sex lesson. I
FAMILY just told him what he should and shouldn’t do, but
he’s on top of it. He was like, “Dad, I’ve got the Inter-
“What makes me net. I know everything.” All the [older] kids went
happiest now is
seeing all my kids through their little bad period of drinking too much
and my wife with and dabbling in drugs—except for Liam; I don’t think
big smiles on their he ever did—but they all came out on the other side.
faces,” says Stewart
(right, with oldest As a dad, I’ve learned to listen and not blow my top.
daughter Sarah
ca. the ’80s; with Stay single until you’ve had a chance to live.
daughters Ruby
and Renee and son I didn’t get married to Alana until I was 34, and
Liam in 2015). even though I thought I was ready, I wasn’t.
When I told my dad I was getting married, he
said, “You’re far too young.” He was right. I still
had a lot of living, partying, drinking and shagging
to do. Then when I got married a second time to
Rachel [at 45], I really thought she was the one—
but I got that wrong. It wasn’t until my 50s that
Penny came along, and it’s a perfect relationship. I
always tell the girls in my band and my daughters,
“A woman has so much living to do.” Forget men!
Love comes to those who wait.

Rachel broke up with me on a Monday evening,
now. She’s my daughter, and I look after her, even and it was heartbreaking. No one leaves Rod! But
though we don’t see much of each other.
‘THE GOOD that Saturday night I met Penny at the Dorches-
ter Hotel in London. The bass player in my band,
You have to adapt your method of parenting LORD GAVE Carmine, said, “Listen, you’ve just come out of a
to fit each child. ME A VOICE. long nine-year marriage. You’re not ready yet.”
I have to be several different fathers because of the I INTEND I nearly strangled him! Six months later he gave
different age groups of my kids. [In addition to Sar-
TO USE IT me her phone number, and she came over. She has
UNTIL I’VE
ah, 58, he has son Sean, 41, and daughter Kimberly, mended my heart in more ways than one.
42, with ex-wife Alana Stewart; daughter Ruby, 34,
with ex-girlfriend Kelly Emberg; daughter Renee, RUN OUT Don’t take your health for granted.
29, and son Liam, 27, with ex-wife Rachel Hunter; OF AIR’ I’m a hypochondriac. I have one little ache or pain,
and sons Alastair, 15, and Aiden, 10, with Lancaster.] and I’m down at the doctor’s. When I was diagnosed
You really have to treat all of them as individuals with thyroid cancer in 2000, I thought, “I’m a gon-
er.” Luckily they caught it really early, but I still lost
my voice because they had to cut through my
ROYAL CONNECTION neck muscles. I could hardly talk, let alone
Stewart (with Queen Elizabeth II and sing a bloody note. It took me nine months
Lancaster) was knighted in 2016: “My hair
has been the same for 50 years. That’s to get my voice back. Then the second
what me and the Queen have in common.” time I got cancer, it was of the prostate.
I’m on the other side of that now, thank
the Lord. Most men are frightened to be
checked for prostate cancer, but it’s so
easily cured if you catch it early. Finger
up your bum, no harm done.
Intimacy is everything in a relationship.

I’m not talking about sex, but a kiss and a cud-
ROCK OF AGES dle and a hold. Penny and I do that every morning.
“I can’t think of a better job We hug each other—sometimes in bed, sometimes
than the one I’ve got,” says
Stewart (on tour with pal out of bed, all throughout the day. It’s a wonderful
Cyndi Lauper in 2018). relationship. Lucky geezer, aren’t I? •
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B e h i n d t h e Ve i l
“Out of all the people
who have played Diana
over the past 10 years,
she’s the closest to her,”
Diana’s former bodyguard
Ken Wharfe says of
Stewart’s portrayal. “She
managed to perfect her
mannerisms.” Inset: Diana
at Sandringham
for Christmas in 1993.
Kristen
Stewart
as
Princ s Dian
A
As a girl growing up
on Queen Elizabeth’s
Sandringham Estate
in Norfolk, England,
Diana Spencer—
whose aristocratic
parents shared ties to
the monarchy—learned all there is to
know about the Christmas traditions
of the royal family. Yet by the time she
was a royal herself, she struggled to
cope with the hectic routine of dinners,
small talk and wardrobe changes as her
marriage to Prince Charles started to
fracture. “It was purgatory for her,” says
her bodyguard Ken Wharfe, who joined
the Princess of Wales for the holidays at
Sandringham in the early 1990s. “She
confined herself to spending time in the
kitchen with the chef or with people like
me, in the hope that time would while
away and she could get back to London.”
Now the new film Spencer, directed
by Pablo Larraín and starring Kristen
Stewart as a 30-year-old Diana, exam-
ines the princess’s private pain during
Christmas at Sandringham in 1991.
Although the filmmakers spotlight an
imagined three days in December—
calling the movie “a fable from a true
tragedy”—they draw heavily on the
real-life circumstances from that
IN A FILM SET DURING ONE

F R A U G H T R OYA L C H R I S T M A S G AT H E R I N G ,
T H E S TA R T R A N S F O R M S H E R S E L F I N TO
THE BELEAGUERED PEOPLE’S PRINCESS—
A N D G E N E R AT E S O S C A R B U Z Z
na in S p e n c e r
By P H I L B O U C H E R
November 22, 2021 107

The Real-Life
Sandringham
The royal family has
celebrated Christmas
at Sandringham House
in Norfolk every year
since 1988 (with the
exception of 2020,
when COVID changed
plans). “William’s
family’s tradition is to
open one Christmas
present on Christmas
Eve, which is really
time, including Diana’s harrowing bat- lovely,” Princess Kate
said in 2019. Other
tles with bulimia and self-harm. Those traditions include gag
who knew her say she kept her struggles gifts, charades and a
under wraps during royal gatherings. family stroll to church.
“She would have put on a good front for
the Queen and the family,” says biog-
rapher Ingrid Seward, one of the jour-
nalists with whom Diana was friendly.
“She was a properly brought-up girl and
would have considered it rude to make a
THE MOVIE
scene or a spectacle of herself.”
She could also be bracingly unin- THE REAL THING
hibited—something Stewart says
helped inspire her performance, which
is garnering Oscar buzz. “We kind of
danced our way through making Spen-
cer,” says the star, 31, who worked with
a voice coach to perfect Diana’s dis-
tinctive speaking style. “Diana herself
was really obsessed with movement
and dance. I’ve always been super
intimidated and self-conscious, and
just not . . . it’s never been my way into
a party. It’s never been my way into
self-expression at all. And this movie D i ’s F a m o u s D o
opened me up in such a cool way.” Talking to Jimmy Kimmel last year about replicating Diana’s blonde layers,
Stewart said, “She has very architectural hair. So we’re going to build it. . . .
I don’t think I can do it solely with my own hair.” (She wore a wig.) Stewart’s plaid
With JULIE JORDAN and coat is a close imitation of Diana’s go-to Catherine Walker jacket; she also wore
SIMON PERRY an engagement ring modeled after the princess’s. Right: Diana in 1989.
Off-Duty Princess
Diana sported a bomber
jacket in London in
1992; Stewart wears
one during a heart-to-
heart with a fictional
dresser (played by Sally
Hawkins). “From my
experience Diana never
once confided in her
dressers,” says Wharfe.
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THE REAL THING
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We d d i n g T h r o w b a c k
Diana wore a now iconic silk-taffeta gown by
designers Elizabeth and David Emanuel to marry
Prince Charles in 1981; Stewart (in a behind-the-
scenes shot) was outfitted in a vintage wedding dress
adapted by costume designer Jackie Durran. “Putting
that on was a spooky day,” Stewart told ET.
THE MOVIE
THE REAL THING
Kristen’s Engagement Joy!

Promoting
Spencer on
Nov. 2, Stewart Girlfriend Meyer
revealed that she shared a snap on
and her screenwriter Instagram in 2020.
girlfriend Dylan Meyer For more with Stewart,
are engaged. “We’re turn to page 136.
marrying—we’re totally
gonna do it,” Stewart
told Howard Stern.
“I wanted to be
proposed to, so I think
I very distinctly carved
out what I wanted,
and she nailed it.” The
couple met on a movie
set six years ago and
were first linked in 2019.
“I feel so lucky,” Stewart
said on Today. “It’s so
nice to know something
in this world. I’m
so stoked.”
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Second Chance
“The gift of
running was almost
taken away,” says
Tuhabonye (left,
in 1993) of his
injuries. “That’s
Genocide why I run with joy.”
Survivor
Spreads Message
of Hope
RUNNING
FOR
HIS LIFE
IN 1993 GILBERT TUHABONYE ESCAPED
A M A S S A C R E I N B U R U N D I . TO D AY T H E
RUNNING COACH PREACHES JOY AND HELPS
B R I N G C L E A N WAT E R TO H I S N AT I V E L A N D
By E I L E E N F I N A N
110 November 22, 2021

C
hildren sometimes ask
Gilbert Tuhabonye about
the scars that cover his
right arm and snake
across his back: “What
happened to you?” they
wonder, looking at the
rough patches visible
beneath his runner’s
tank. The marks are the
vestiges of genocide—a
truth too awful for a child
to comprehend, so Tuhabonye simply
says they are African tattoos. “And
they are like tattoos,” Tuhabonye says.
“They are symbols that I went through
horror, but what I learned from that is
powerful. When I see the scars, I think
how blessed I am to be alive.”
As a high school student and
cross-country champion in the East
African nation of Burundi in 1993,
Tuhabonye saw the worst of human-
ity when his Hutu teammates turned
against him and other members of
the minority Tutsi tribe in a murder-
ous rage following the execution of
the country’s Hutu president by Tutsi
extremists. The violence left scores of
his classmates dead and him with inju-
ries so severe that doctors said he’d
never run again. But 28 years later, as
the coach of one of the largest running
groups in Austin, Texas, and the found-
er of a charity bringing clean water to
more than 115,000 people in Burundi—
Tutsis and Hutus alike—Tuhabonye,
now 46, has embraced hope and for-
giveness over anger and vengeance.
“I believe God gave me another chance
to live,” he says. “That’s why I’m ded-
icated to making a difference and
preaching peace.”
Growing up in rural Burundi, Tuha-
bonye says his family lived in peace
with those from other tribes: “We
treated each other with respect.” And
on their farm, where his parents raised
goats and chickens and grew corn,
peas and sorghum, running wasn’t a
pastime, it was a way of life. “I ran six
miles to school, I ran to the market, I
ran to fetch water,” he says. “Whenever
my mom or grandma needed anything,
they’d rely on me. I was fast.”
In seventh grade he left for boarding school,
located seven hours from home, and discovered
his speed was good for more than daily chores. In
his first year at Kibimba High School he entered a
cross-country race competing against seniors and
won. “Kid,” his coach told him,“you could be really
good, not just here but all over the globe.” Recalls
Tuhabonye: “He inspired me to believe in myself.”
By his senior year in 1993, he had dreams of earn-
ing a scholarship to an American university.
All that changed on Oct. 21. Tensions between
the country’s two main tribes had already been
simmering, but they boiled over after the killing
of the Hutu president. Tuhabonye was up at dawn
that day to study for exams when he saw a group
marching toward the school and noticed a for-
mer teammate holding a huge knife.“Tonight I’m TEAMMATES
going to cut your throat,” the boy called out. Tuha- TO TORMENTORS
bonye was confused. “I’m thinking, ‘But you’re my
friend.’ ” Word traveled quickly that all the Tutsi On Oct. 21, 1993, after Burundi’s Hutu
students and faculty were to be killed. president was assassinated by extremists
Tuhabonye asked the headmaster if he had a from the Tutsi tribe, ethnic violence
plan to protect the students. “He said, ‘You killed broke out across the country. Tuhabonye
the president. You are going to see what Jesus saw (circled) and other Tutsi were attacked
on the cross.’ I was shocked. I didn’t know who to by Hutus, including some of his track
turn to.” Tuhabonye and other student leaders teammates (top), who trapped and burned
gathered a group of about 300 Tutsi students to many alive in a nearby gas station (above).
escape, but they were captured two miles from
the school. Many who tried to flee were killed by
members of the mob wielding machetes. Others
had their ankles broken so they couldn’t run.
Bound by rope, more than 100 in the group were says. The Hutus out-
‘HIS SMILE,
HIS DANCING,
marched to a nearby gas station, stripped of their side doused eucalyptus
clothes and forced inside the small building. “They branches with gasoline,
were going to burn everybody alive,” Tuhabonye lit them and tossed them HIS POSITIVITY
through the windows: IS CONTAGIOUS’
“I witnessed my friends —JENNA
dying one by one.” Tuha- BUSH HAGER
bonye braced himself
against the bodies and shielded his face with his
arm, protecting himself from the heat as best he
could. In the midst of the horror, he remembers
hearing a voice in his head that calmed him: “Son,
nothing will happen to you.”
After eight hours amid the dead and dying,
Tuhabonye was severely burned but managed to Inspiring
climb out a window and made it to a hospital. “The a President
doctor said I would never run again. I thought my President George
W. Bush, who
life was gone.” He spent three months in recov- was introduced to
ery, where he relived the trauma. “I was trying to Tuhabonye after
understand how people that were your friends daughter Jenna
trained with
can be so evil,” he says. “I needed to find a way to him, painted the
A n A m e r i c a n Fa m i l y move on.” He turned to the Bible—and thought running coach’s
In 2010 Tuhabonye (with his wife, Triphine, and daughters of the voice he’d heard in the building. “I realized portrait for his
Grace and Emma at his naturalization ceremony) became recent book Out
an American citizen. “I feel I was saved for a purpose, and vengeance isn’t the solution. It’s a cycle that never of Many, One.
the purpose is to help others,” he says. ends. I chose to forgive.”
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By 1995 he was competing again and had hopes
of making his country’s Olympic team. He didn’t
make the cut, but in 1998 he got a track scholar-
ship from Abilene Christian University in Texas.
“People were drawn to him,” says his Abilene
coach Jon Murray. “He just loves life. You feel
like you can be a better person just talking to him.”
After graduating and marrying his wife, Triphine,
whom he met while he was in the hospital (the cou-
ple have two daughters, Emma, 20, and Grace, 15),
Tuhabonye moved to Austin to work in a running
shop. His good humor and good advice earned
him a reputation, and soon Austin runners were
asking him for tips. By 2002 he’d formed his run-
ning group Gilbert’s Gazelles, which now numbers SAVING LIVES
400 runners, and was attracting devoted followers WITH WATER
with trainings filled with dancing, chanting and
laughter, and fueled by his mantra: Run with joy.
Since Tuhabonye cofounded the Gazelle Foundation
One fan was a college student who also happened (gazellefoundation.org) in 2006, the group has built
to be the daughter of the President. “I was imme- 60 water systems, bringing clean water to more than
diately struck by his positivity,” 115,000 people in Burundi. “Gilbert could have been
angry and not wanted to return to Burundi,” says friend
says Jenna Bush Hager, who ran
‘RUNNING Elissa Jackson. “But he’s brought a basic human need to
CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: HOLLY REED; SPENCER SELVIDGE; MEGHAN KUHN
with the Gazelles her senior year

at the University of Texas in 2004. IS MY a country that was so divided by hatred. He’s turned it all
Tuhabonye, who had no idea who THERAPY, around and made something good out of a horrible act.”
she was at the time, made a last- IT’S MY
ing impression as a coach and role
model. “The fact that he forgave
FREEDOM’
—GILBERT
the unforgivable and channeled TUHABONYE
what could have been anger and
fear into love and enthusiasm—if he could do that,
what are the possibilities for the rest of us?”
Tuhabonye, who’s also head track coach at St.
Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin, is spread-
ing his message of love through his charity, the
Gazelle Foundation, which builds clean water
M o t i va t i n g Fa c t o r
“There’s lots of laughter,”
says friend Elissa
Jackson of training with
Tuhabonye’s running
group Gilbert’s Gazelles.
“He wants to spread joy.”
systems in Burundi, where one of five deaths is Wa l k t o

Remember
caused by water-borne illness. “Part of the healing Each year on
is bringing the community—Hutus and Tutsis— Oct. 21 Tuhabonye
together to share water,” he says. “My hope is they and friends mark his
day of “rebirth”
think about sharing and not killing each other.” with a walk in Austin,
For Tuhabonye, the memory of Burundi’s tribal carrying water jugs
tragedy is never far from his mind, but he hopes to raise awareness
of the need for clean
that retelling his story can provide inspiration. “I water in Burundi.
want people to know that we live in a world where
nothing is perfect and bad things happen,” he says.
“But you figure out a way to move on. You figure
out a way to keep going.” •
November 22, 2021 113
Cherishing
Every Moment
“Time flies,” says
Bindi (with Grace on
Sept. 24 and, below,
with Powell as hippies
on Halloween). “You
blink, and this beautiful
little person has
changed completely.”
BINDI IRWIN &
CHANDLER POWELL
‘We Love
S
Seeing
the World
Through
Her Eyes’
T H E A N I M A L P L A N E T S TA R A N D H E R
HUSBAND OPEN UP ABOUT RAISING
THEIR ‘CHEEKY’ LITTLE GIRL:
‘IT JUST KEEPS GETTING MORE FUN’
By E M I LY S T R O H M
114 November 22, 2021

New Bonds
“Grace adores
them,” says Bindi
of her mom, Terri
(who goes by
S
“Bunny” instead of
“Grandma”), and
her younger brother
“Funcle” Robert
(on Oct. 14).
GRACE’S
ANIMAL FAMILY
Since Bindi Irwin and her husband, Chandler “Every morning we go on a walk through
Australia Zoo as a family before it opens,”
Powell, welcomed their daughter Grace Warrior says Powell. “We check on all the animals,
on March 25, life has revolved around their happy and she gets to meet everyone.” Adds Bindi
little girl. “Time has no meaning for us anymore,” of Grace (who also loves pup Piggy, above):
“She’s one of those babies that is awake and
says Bindi. “If you ask me what the date is today, energetic—or 100 percent asleep.”
I have no idea, but I can tell you that Grace is
making a new squeaking sound. It’s really funny.
That’s how we calculate our days now. We are just
so absorbed that everything has to do with her.”
Bindi, 23, and Powell, 24—who appear together
on Crikey! It’s the Irwins as they carry on the wild-
life conservation work of her late father, Crocodile
Hunter’s Steve Irwin—recently enlisted Bindi’s
mom, Terri, to babysit for their first date night
as parents. “We went out to dinner at this lovely
restaurant, and we weren’t gone for more than
an hour before we were talking about Grace and
showing the waiter her photos,” Bindi says with
a laugh. “You think, ‘Oh, we’re not going to be
those parents,’ but you
are. It’s just inevitable.” ‘Grace is this
Says Chandler: “We wonderful
love seeing the world
through her eyes.”
little blend
At just 7 months
of both of us’
—BINDI IRWIN
old, their daughter is
already full of personality. “As soon as I get the B i n d i ’s M i s s i o n
camera out, she looks at me and pokes her tongue Throughout
out,” says Bindi. “It’s hilarious! She is cheeky, and November, every
hardcover purchase
I love that.” Constantly with her mom on the job, of her book Creating a
Grace even joins Australia Zoo management Conservation Legacy
meetings and “tells people what to do,” Bindi will come signed by
Bindi. New episodes of
jokes. “She starts cooing really loudly.” Grace’s Crikey! air in December
latest milestones include crawling and eating on Animal Planet.
solid foods. “The more bland the flavor, the more
she likes it,” says Bindi, who makes all of Grace’s
meals. “We’re trying to introduce her to all of
these fun new flavors, and she’s just like, ‘I’m not
keen, guys.’ ” Meanwhile, Grace’s first word melted
her parents’ hearts. “Hearing her say ‘Da’ and look
at me was the highlight of my life,” says Chandler.
“Nothing compares at all.” •
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T
he hotel staff was starting to clean up
the ballroom after a 2016 political fund-
raiser in Sarasota, Fla., when Ashley
Byers and Dani Everette began chatting
about what they wanted in a life part-
ner. “She said she was trying to network
‘ASHLEY HAD
with men who could help her start her
own ballet company,” remembers
Dani, 30, a friend and business con- BIG BALLET
sultant. “I told her that I was looking DREAMS AND
for a man who was tall, dark and hand-
WOULD STEP
some, and she just smiled and said, ‘I
don’t care about that. All I need is someone rich.’ ” ON ANYONE
Several months later at yet another political fund- TO MAKE
raiser, this one at the Palm Beach mansion of for- THEM HAPPEN’
mer Presidential candidate Ben Carson, Ashley, 24, —FRIEND DANI
seemed to find exactly that. While Doug Benefield EVERETTE
wasn’t megarich, the 54-year-old Navy veteran and
technology consultant had started several success-
ful businesses. Sparks flew instantly—Doug was
extremely lonely after the death of his wife, Renee,
the previous year—and the couple married just
14 days after they met. As with the wedding itself,
they wasted little time building a future together.
Although she had only danced with small, region-
al troupes, Ashley wanted to build her own ballet
company, and Doug was happy to foot the bill.
Not long after the 2018 birth of their daugh-
ter, Emerson, the marriage started to crumble.
Doug began to run out of money, too, and the bal-
let company fell apart. Ashley filed for divorce,
accusing Doug of abuse and trying to poison her;
NA
A HusbandÕs
L LERI
Shocking Death
K ILLER BA
BUSINESSMAN DOUG BENEFIELD
WANTED TO MAKE HIS YOUNG WIFE
HAPPY BY FINANCING HER DANCE
CO M PA N Y. T H E N T H E M O N E Y R A N O U T
By S T E V E H E L L I N G
116 November 22, 2021 TOP INSET: MANATEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE; BOTTOM INSET: COURTESY TOMMIE BENEFIELD; (BLACK & WHITE TEXTURE) SHUTTERSTOCK
he responded by saying she was dancers while Doug worked to
a habitual liar. Then on Sept. 27, round up the $2.5 million financing.
2020, police responded to a 911 call “He was very stressed about mon-
at the home of Ashley’s mother in ey and that ballet company,” says
Lakewood Ranch, Fla. They found Doug’s cousin Tommie. “But Doug
Doug fatally shot on a bedroom floor, said he was making all her dreams
bleeding in three places. Ashley told come true.”
police her husband had tried to attack
AWAITING The dreams were short-lived. By the
her and she had shot him in self-defense. TRIAL time the 40 dancers arrived in Charles-
Authorities didn’t buy it. Charged with Ashley Benefield ton, S.C., in September 2017, Doug had
(above, in her mug
second-degree murder, she has pleaded shot) claimed borrowed thousands of dollars to cover
not guilty. “She seemed like an inno- that she shot the first week’s paychecks. Sometimes
cent white swan,” Stephanie Murphy, a her husband in the frustration and anger got the better
self-defense, but
divorce attorney for Doug Benefield, told police say “it does of him. According to court documents,
CBS News. “But underneath those white not appear that he once threw a loaded gun across the
feathers, she’s an evil woman. She’s the [Doug] was facing room. It went off, leaving a hole in the
Ashley when she
black swan.” began shooting.” bedroom wall. Another time, says Ash-
ley, Doug punched the family dog, Sully,
in the face. Soon there was another complication:
Ashley called her company the American National Ashley was pregnant. She had wanted a child so
Ballet, and it was built on the admirable goal of badly that she had persuaded Doug to get his
hiring dancers of all body types, including curvi- vasectomy reversed, according to Tommie. But
er and shorter ones. “It felt like a big break,” one she had a difficult pregnancy and, leaving Doug
dancer says. “Finally someone wasn’t going to tell and her dancers behind, went to stay with her
me that I was too fat to dance.” Ashley auditioned mother in Florida. When Emerson was born in
March 2018, she didn’t even tell him. “She kept it
a secret,” says Tommie. “I thought that was odd.”
Ultimately the couple shuttered the American
National Ballet Company before it gave a single
performance. “Devastating,” says one dancer.
“I’m embarrassed to have them on my résumé.
A lot of us gave up everything for a dream that
didn’t happen.” But with the help of couples
A?
counseling, the Benefields reconciled off and
on through 2019. By September 2020 they had
decided to move to Maryland to start a new
life with Emerson. The night before they were
scheduled to leave her mother’s house, Ashley
frantically knocked on a neighbor’s door asking
them to call 911. She claimed Doug had attacked
her, but cops said they found no injuries on
Ashley—and noted that Doug seemed to be fac-
ing away from her when he was shot. According
to an arrest affidavit from the Manatee County
Sheriff’s Office, officers found “no evidence that
A BROKEN she was acting in self-defense when she fired
MARRIAGE multiple shots at her husband.”
During their four-year As she awaits trial in 2022, Ashley is free on
relationship, Doug
and Ashley Benefield bond and living with her mother and Emerson in
(above) “often had Florida. (Her lawyers did not return calls for com-
epic fights,” says his ment.) Meanwhile, Doug’s family is mourning the
cousin Tommie. “It
was very tumultuous loss of a man who, they say, gave his all to please
for a long time.” At his young wife. “She found my cousin at his most
left: Ashley in a 2015 vulnerable,” says Tommie. “He was her mark. She
publicity shot.
took his money, his peace, and eventually she took
•
his life. And he loved her until the end.”
TWO BOYS A
W O R L D A P A R T,
O N E D E A D LY
DISEASE
A Family
Fo u r Fo re ve r
“We learn so much from
our children,” says Monica
Poynter (with, from left,
Trey, Josh and Tag in
October in Kentucky and,
inset, in January 2020 in
Guangzhou, China).
Made Whole
AFTER THEIR BABY WAS BORN WITH A RARE BLOOD
DISORDER, MONICA AND JOSH POYNTER ADOPTED
A CHILD WITH THE SAME CONDITION. INSIDE THEIR
U N E X P E C T E D J O U R N E Y— A N D U N B R E A K A B L E B O N D
By J O H N N Y D O D D and D I A N E H E R B S T
S
hortly after 4 a.m. on a
September morning in
2014, Monica and Josh
Poynter were awakened
as they kept vigil by the
hospital bed of their
2-day-old son, Tag. An
emergency flight crew
was on its way to pick up their infant,
who was born with severe bruises cov-
ering his right arm that the staff at the
small hospital near the Poynters’ Bowl-
ing Green, Ky., home couldn’t explain.
Monica and Josh had gone from the
elated, joyous moment when “Tag was
born, and they held him up for me to
see,” recalls Monica, to gut-churning
fear for his life: “They weren’t sure
what was going on.”
Soon after the flight crew brought
Tag to a larger medical facility in Lou-
isville, doctors uncovered a sobering
diagnosis: severe hemophilia type A, a
potentially deadly disorder weakening
the body’s ability to form blood clots.
“It was such a whirlwind of emotions
and unexpected events,” says Monica.
Adds Josh, “We weren’t even aware of
what hemophilia was.”
What seemed at the time like a
cruel twist of fate for the new parents
November 22, 2021 119

AN ADOPTION Trey, now 10, is receiving medical treatment and
is in a loving home where he is thriving. “There’s
JOURNEY reason and a purpose for everything,” says Moni-
ca, 36, a full-time mother. “The fact that they have
the same disorder is something they get to bond
over. It’s helped everything come full circle.”
Parenthood was nothing like what Monica and

Josh, 40, an estimator for a structural-steel com-
pany, had planned for. The usual first-time par-
ent expectations of sleepless nights with a
Trey’s orphanage in
newborn and the upending of dinner dates and
Shaoguan, China, sent photos vacations were quickly replaced by late nights of
“so we had familiarity research into hemophilia and how to treat it.
before we met,” says Josh.
Monica discovered she is a carrier of the genetic
mutation that causes the disorder, though she
knew of no family history. While other new par-
Monica (with Trey on Jan. 6, 2020) ents were learning about changing diapers and
says she had the same feeling feeding schedules, Monica and Josh were also
meeting Trey as when she saw Tag learning about the injections they’d soon give Tag
after his birth: “You know your child.”
every other day with medication to prevent
bleeding. And they were constantly vigilant, try-
At first the Poynters used Google ing to protect their growing baby from falling or
Translate to communicate with Trey bumping his head. “There’s a common miscon-
(stamping a palm print on adoption ception that people with hemophilia can’t get an
papers Jan. 7 at Guangzhou’s Civil
Affairs office with Monica and Tag). external wound to stop bleeding,” explains Josh.
“But a much more serious problem is internal
bleeding that you can’t see, especially from a
head injury.” Those were the worries keeping the
Poynters up at night.
In 2019 the anxious parents found some relief
after the FDA approved emicizumab-kxwh, a
drug that prevents the frequency of bleeding in
“We got home just before the
pandemic,” says Josh (tucking patients with hemophilia A and is injected ev-
the new brothers into bed at a ery two weeks. Tag, then 4, was climbing trees
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hotel before their flight home to and chasing the family’s two dogs—and Monica
Kentucky). “We were extremely
fortunate that we got done and Josh, who had struggled with infertility be-
before everything shut down.” fore Tag’s birth, were ready to consider options
for expanding their family. Soon, Monica saw a
magazine article about an American family that
ultimately changed their had adopted a Chinese boy with hemophilia. “We
family in the most unexpected of ways—by ex- were like, ‘This is interesting,’ ” Monica says.
panding it. While Monica and Josh learned how “We hadn’t thought of this before.”
to keep Tag alive and healthy with regular injec- Working with an agency that specializes in
tions of blood-clotting medication and constant ‘Trey and helping U.S. families adopt overseas, they first
observation—“We were determined to give him Tag are saw Trey in a photo and then in a video of chil-
as normal a childhood as possible,” says Moni- dren eligible for adoption. He was suffering from
ca—it opened their minds to future children. And typical a painful knee injury at the time and had difficulty
when the Poynters learned that a 7-year-old boy brothers walking, “but he had this huge smile. He was still
with Tag’s same severe blood disorder had been in every so happy—he always is. It’s his signature trait,”
abandoned by his parents and was living in an sense’ says Monica. “We were like, ‘Okay, let’s do this.’ ”
orphanage in southern China, they knew he was —MONICA In January 2020, Monica, Josh and Tag flew to
their missing puzzle piece. The couple adopted POYNTER Guangzhou, China, to meet Trey, spending two
Trey in 2020, and found a big brother for Tag who weeks visiting the orphanage where he was living
understands and empathizes with his hemophilia. and completing the mountain of legal paperwork
120 November 22, 2021

Fa m i l y Fu n
“Trey watches
everything like he’s
taking it in for
the first time,” says
Monica of her older
son (right, with her
and Tag, camping in
July; left, with Tag
and Josh; and above,
on a Florida fishing
trip). “He embraces
life with genuine
happiness.”
required to make him a member of the family. in Kentucky, Trey, who spoke Cantonese and
Protective
From the moment Monica and Josh saw him, they Measures Mandarin but no English when he was adopted,
knew he was theirs. “It was just that same feeling Tag and Trey (below, quickly settled into his new family’s routine. Easy-
of ‘There’s your child!,’ and he just walked right at home) prep going by nature, he is now Tag’s constant sidekick
up to us with that big smile smeared on his face themselves for their and protective big brother. “Tag is our wild child,”
biweekly injections.
and gave me a big hug,” Monica says. Adds Josh, says Monica. “He’s never really known what it’s
“We felt like we had known this little guy for such like to bleed, because he’s been on a preventa-
a long time.” And the new brothers? Even from tive medication for years. But Trey knows, so
their first day together, Monica says, watching he’s definitely more cautious and watchful of
Tag and Trey interact and relate “has been a both Tag and himself.”
really beautiful thing to see.” When the two aren’t roughhousing out-
Back at the family’s rural 12-acre property side or being homeschooled at the kitchen
table by Monica, they can often be found
playing with their Legos or devouring their
health stack of Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. Tag helps
his older brother with his English, explaining the
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WHAT IS HEMOPHILIA TYPE A? meaning of “the big words,” says Monica, and
Trey returns the favor by helping Tag with their
The hereditary blood disorder, which is typically passed from mothers
Chinese-language classes. And every two weeks,
who are carriers to sons, occurs in one out of every 5,600 births in the
the boys help Monica prepare their injections (“It
U.S. It’s caused by a lack of a protein in the blood known as Factor
gives them a sense of empowerment,” she says)
VIII, one of dozens of substances essential for the blood to form
clots and prevent uncontrolled bleeding after injuries. People with and pick the spot on their arms or thighs where
the disorder are prone to heavy bleeding from even small external they want to receive their shots. “Whether they’re
cuts, and painful internal bleeding can develop in joints and muscles, fighting or sharing,” explains their mom, “they’re
sometimes causing long-term damage. Treatments now include typical brothers in every sense of the word. Josh
injecting drugs that maintain an appropriate level of blood-clotting and I feel very blessed.” So does Tag, who sums
factors and can mean—for many patients—a relatively normal up their relationship as only a 7-year-old boy can.
quality of life. For more information, visit hemophilia.org. “The best thing about having a big brother,” he
says, “is having someone I can love forever.” •
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W
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hen Laura Weiss, R.N., began string- es had done and what they continue to do,” says
ing together 10,000 tiny American Weiss. As she was giving out COVID shots and
flags in the summer of 2020, the the bottles piled up, Weiss thought they were
number of American deaths too beautiful to be thrown away. She found
to COVID-19 felt unfathom- an old chandelier base online, and her idea
able. Each flag of her instal- evolved. “It was healing for me thinking
lation displayed on a kiosk about what each vial represented—poten-
in Boulder, Colo., repre- tially saving people from a lonely death,”
sented 20 of the 200,000 she says. “Making this piece felt so much
lives lost to the virus. “That Weiss cleaned and better— like, wow, look at what we’ve done.”
drilled holes in the
was sobering,” says Weiss, empty vials before When Boulder County Health posted a
61, who had worked as a nurse for 31 years be- attaching them. photo of the completed chandelier this fall, it
fore retiring in 2017. “These lives were more than went viral on Facebook, reaching more than 9 mil-
statistics.” Hoping to prevent more loss, Weiss de- lion and generating more than 28,000 comments.
cided to return to nursing in February to help with The piece has also caught the attention of multi-
the mass-vaccination clinics underway in Boulder ple galleries and museums, including the Smith-
County. Working eight-hour shifts, vaccinating up sonian. For now, the chandelier hangs in Weiss’s
to 60 people a day, felt uplifting, and the compas- living room, but she hopes to use the attention it’s
sion of her colleagues—along with the gratitude of ‘MY INITIAL garnered to fund scholarships to help underpriv-
people waiting in long lines for shots—inspired her INTENTION ileged nursing students (chandeliernursingfund
to create a new, more hopeful piece of art.
WAS JUST TO .org). “It’s been such a dark time,” she says. “Hopeful-
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That creation, Light of Appreciation, was craft-

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ly, the chandelier is a reminder to open your heart
ed using 271 emptied vials of mainly Moderna to the reality of what we’ve been through and to be
vaccine connected to white lights, red beads and COLLEAGUES’ grateful to those who tried to keep people alive.”
crystals. “I wanted to shine a light on what nurs- — L A U R A W E I S S —ABBY ROEDEL
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THANKSGIVING
SANDWICHES
KATIANNA & JOHN HONG

Roasted Turkey &
Kimchee Melt
The partners and chefs at L.A.’s
Yangban Society restaurant (opening
in January) reimagine the classic
leftovers sandwich with ‘gooey, melty
cheese and roasted, salty kimchee’
3 Tbsp. unsalted butter, divided
3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
2 cup kimchee, chopped, plus
1∕
1 tsp. kimchee liquid

8 oz. leftover stuffing
1 Tbsp. sesame oil
4 slices rye, sourdough or
milk bread
4 Tbsp. mayonnaise
6 smoked mozzarella cheese slices
or American cheese slices
2 lb. leftover roasted turkey, sliced
1∕
1 cup finely shredded green or

purple cabbage or 4 sesame
leaves (Perilla leaves)
1. Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a

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FOOD STYLIST: MARGARET MONROE DICKEY;
small pan over medium heat. Add garlic;

stir until golden, about 1 minute. Add
kimchee and kimchee liquid; cook,
stirring once or twice, about 2 minutes.
Add leftover stuffing to kimchee; cook,
stirring occasionally, until warmed
through, about 5 minutes. During the
last minute, drizzle kimchee mixture with
sesame oil, and remove from hot pan.
2. Spread each side of bread with about
1 tablespoon of mayonnaise; place 11⁄ 2
slices of cheese on each piece of bread.
Divide turkey and cabbage between
2 bread slices. Divide kimchee mixture
between the other 2 bread slices.
Sandwich the two sides together.
3. Melt remaining 1 tablespoon butter
in skillet over medium heat. Place
sandwich in hot skillet; toast each side
until golden and cheese has melted,
about 4 minutes per side. For an extra
toasty melt, weigh the sandwich down
with another smaller pan or weight
while toasting each side.
Makes: 2 Active time: 20 minutes
Total time: 20 minutes
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DAY-AFTER- food
THANKSGIVING
SANDWICHES
quick
tip!
If you don’t have
dark meat left, add
a pat of cold butter to
the center of each
uncooked patty. The
butter will melt as the
burger cooks,
keeping the white
meat juicy.
LINTON HOPKINS
Turkey, Stuffing & 1∕
tsp. ground black pepper patties with salt and pepper. Add
Cranberry Burgers 4
2
oz. sharp white Cheddar cheese, patties to skillet; cook until crisp
‘I love the traditional turkey sandwich coarsely grated (about 1 cup) golden brown on one side, about
with leftovers, but I also love 2 hamburger buns, split 4 minutes. Flip patties, and top with
cheeseburgers, so I made a combo 2 tsp. unsalted butter, softened grated cheese; cook until golden
2 tsp. Dijon mustard brown on other side and cheese is
of the two,’ says the chef-owner 2 Tbsp. leftover cranberry sauce melted, about 5 minutes.
of the upcoming Holeman and 2 (1∕ 8-in. thick) slices red onion 3. While patties cook, spread butter
Finch in Asheville, N.C. ‘Plus, the (from 1 small onion) on cut sides of buns. Toast in a large
ingredients are on hand, and you’ve cast-iron skillet until golden brown,
already done most of the work!’ 1. Place turkey, stuffing and 1 tablespoon 1 to 2 minutes. Warm remaining
of the gravy in a food processor. Pulse 1/2 cup gravy in a small saucepan.
8 oz. leftover roasted turkey 3 to 4 times until mixture is very finely 4. Spread 1 teaspoon of mustard on cut
(50/50 mix of white and dark chopped and holds together, adding side of each bottom bun; top each with
turkey meat) 1 more tablespoon gravy if needed to a patty. Top patties with 1 tablespoon
2 cup leftover stuffing moisten. Shape mixture into 2 (4-inch) cranberry sauce, 1 red onion slice and
1∕
2 cup plus 2 Tbsp. cold leftover patties; place on a plate, and chill top bun. Serve with hot gravy on the
1∕
INSET: SARAH DORIO
gravy, divided 30 minutes. side for dipping.

11∕ 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil 2. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over Makes: 2 Active time: 20 minutes
2 tsp. kosher salt medium high until it shimmers. Sprinkle Total time: 50 minutes
1∕
November 22, 2021 129

Day-after leftovers,
meet velvety smooth mayo.
It’s love at second sight.
DAY-AFTER- food
THANKSGIVING
SANDWICHES
KANCHAN KOYA
Curried Turkey
Salad Sandwich
‘Play around with the spices,’
says the founder of Spice
Spice Baby. ‘My family uses
curry powder, which is
bright, earthy and sweet.
You can experiment with
smoked paprika, sumac or
even a Middle Eastern
harissa blend’
2 cups chopped leftover
roasted turkey
2 cup mayonnaise
1∕
1 Granny Smith apple,

chopped
1 stalk celery,
finely chopped
1 tsp. Dijon mustard
1 tsp. curry powder
1 tsp. chopped fresh chives
4 tsp. kosher salt
1∕
4 tsp. black pepper

1∕
4 cup leftover
1∕
cranberry sauce
4 crusty bread slices
(such as sourdough)
2 cup pickled onions
1∕
1. Stir together turkey, apple,

mayonnaise, celery, Dijon
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mustard, curry powder, chives,

salt and pepper in a medium
bowl until blended.
2. Spread 1 tablespoon of the
cranberry sauce on each bread
slice; top 2 slices evenly with
about 1 cup turkey mixture and
4 cup pickled onions. Top with
1⁄
remaining bread slices,

cranberry sauce-side down.
Makes: 2
Active time: 15 minutes
Total time: 15 minutes
C l e v e r Watyhse
A p p l e C o r e Te a Potato Skins Chips Tu r k e y B o n e B r o t h
In a medium saucepan, Toss 3 cups potato-peel Add turkey bones, 1 bay leaf,
to Use Allrs simmer peels and pieces with 1 Tbsp. 1 Tbsp. apple cider vinegar
Leftove
cores from 5 apples, neutral oil. Roast in a and vegetables (onion,
4 cups water, 2 Tbsp. single layer at 400° for carrot, celery) to a slow
brown sugar and 1 15 minutes or until crispy. cooker; cover with water.
Don’t toss them out! Cores, peels cinnamon stick for 1 Season with salt, pepper Cook on low for 24 hours.
and bones have tons of flavor hour. Strain and serve. and Parmesan. Strain and discard solids.
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