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‘She would say, “You know I’m the Queen of Soul, right?” ’

‘The deejay in the South of France started playing the Family Feud theme song, and everybody in that restaurant knew the song, and I started crying’ —S T E V E H A R V E Y, on getting emotional about his show being recognized internationally, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

—JENNIFER HUDSON, on what Aretha Franklin would think of her performance in Respect, on Deadline’s The Actor’s Side

‘I think he’s tickled pink.

He’s giggling from the grave right now’

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—NEVE CAMPBELL, on how late director Wes Craven would react to the new Scream’s success, to Variety

‘I realized that I couldn’t even teach her gradeone math, and she sniffed that out after 14 days.

I was a dead duck’ —CATE BLANCHETT, on homeschooling her 7-year-old daughter during the pandemic, on Australia’s The Project

‘It was the most traumatizing experience but also the moment I became a New Yorker’ —RACHEL BROSNAHAN, on pulling a dead rat out of her toilet, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

‘I still don’t really like the name’ —BONO, on his band U2’s moniker, on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast February 7, 2022

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Encanto ices out Elsa The Disney film’s tunes continue to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, with “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” outdoing Frozen’s hit “Let It Go.” Even the song’s writer LinManuel Miranda told People he was “surprised.”

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Colin Jost and Pete Davidson bought a Staten Island Ferry

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The Staten Islandborn comedians plan to turn the vessel into an event space—if they can find someplace to dock the 300-footer.

The And Just Like That . . . gals are in their Golden age Fans’ minds are blown to realize that Sex and the City’s Miranda, Carrie and Charlotte, now in their 50s, are the same age Dorothy, Blanche and Rose were when The Golden Girls debuted in 1985.

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A poppunk music festival’s tickets go fast Las Vegas’s When We Were Young fest—featuring nostalgic ’00s rock royalty like Avril Lavigne, Paramore, Dashboard Confessional and My Chemical Romance—added an extra October date after the first two nights sold out.

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Courteney Cox

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This Week 75 Grace Cho

The author recalls her mom’s struggle with schizophrenia.

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The latest celebrity news

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Meat Loaf

Family and friends share their memories of the late rock icon

Courteney Cox gets candid about raising her teen daughter and how she’s happier than ever—in love and life.

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A Survivor’s Fight

Anjum Coffland’s husband killed their twin daughters and shot her.

Now she’s fighting to keep guns from abusers

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Shauna Rae

Inside the 22-year-old’s life after treatment for brain cancer stunted her growth at 3'10"

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Louie Anderson

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The fashion world mourns the legendary editor, who has died at 73.

The Emmy-winning comedian has died at 68

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Kids to the Rescue

When they saw someone in danger, these children sprang into action

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Ally Sheedy

The Breakfast Club actress on her legacy as an ’80s movie star—and her surprising new chapter

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Macklemore

The rapper opens up about his recovery journey from addiction to help others.

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Medical Mystery

One day last May, Lylah Baker woke up with an upset stomach. It turned out to be a disease caused by a rare bacterial infection, and her family is fighting to help her recover

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After her father died, skier Mikaela Shiffrin considered leaving the sport. Now she’s ready for Beijing.

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StarTracks ROYAL PUPPY LOVE Clitheroe, England, Jan. 20

During a visit to the Clitheroe Community Hospital, Princess Kate and Prince William played with a cockapoo pup named Alfie, who will be trained as a therapy dog to support patients and workers at the hospital. After taking turns holding and petting the pup, Kate joked, “Our dog is going to be very upset.”

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Kansas City, Jan. 23 Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes celebrated on the field after leading the Chiefs to a dramatic 42-36 win in overtime against the Buffalo Bills.

NAOMI STRIKES A POSE Paris, Jan. 21

Naomi Campbell waved at fans ahead of Dior’s show at Paris Fashion Week.

HOLDING COURT

New York City, Jan. 23 A star-studded group (including, from left, Trevor Noah; Padma Lakshmi and her daughter Krishna, 11; and Tracy Morgan and his daughter Maven, 8) sat courtside to watch the Knicks best the Clippers 110-102.

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J. Balvin and girlfriend Valentina Ferrer glammed up for the Louis Vuitton show during Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 20.

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CUTE COUPLES

Madonna and her boyfriend Ahlamalik Williams stepped out for dinner at Cecconi’s in West Hollywood on Jan. 20.

Zendaya wrapped her arm around boyfriend Tom Holland while out for a walk in London on Jan. 23.

Kristen Stewart and fiancée Dylan Meyer twinned in matching sweatshirts during a Jan. 20 trip to Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif.

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WEDDING BELLS RING FOR BRAD GARRETT

Everybody Loves Raymond alum Brad Garrett and his longtime love IsaBeall Quella finally said “I do” on Nov. 11, 2021, in Montecito, Calif., where their pup Ivy (inset) helped them celebrate. Engaged since 2015, the pair rescheduled their wedding four times because of fires, a mudslide and the pandemic. “I married the love of my life. Her, not so much,” Garrett jokes.

STREET STYLE

New York City, Jan. 20 Rihanna rocked an all-leather ensemble for a dinner date with boyfriend A$AP Rocky.

Los Angeles, Jan. 21 Chris Pratt smiled while enjoying a bike ride around his neighborhood.

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Dominic West got into character as Prince Charles (inset) for an upcoming episode of Netflix’s The Crown in London on Jan. 14.

STARS ON-SET

Selena Gomez kept warm in a fuzzy green coat while filming season 2 of Hulu’s Only Murderers in the Building on Jan. 24 in N.Y.C.

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Rob Lowe heated up the L.A. set of Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star in a firefighter’s uniform on Jan. 19.

On Jan. 20 Sofia Vergara dressed up as notorious drug trafficker Griselda Blanco in L.A. for Netflix’s upcoming miniseries Griselda.

Matthew Rhys went for a spin on a vintage motorcycle while filming season 2 of HBO’s Perry Mason reboot in L.A. on Jan. 19.

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Nick & Priyanka Welcome a Baby Girl Nick Jonas went from Jonas brother

Proud Parents

“Their family and friends are very happy for them,” a music management source says of the couple (in 2019).

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to Jonas father with the arrival of his and wife Priyanka Chopra’s first child together, a baby girl, on Jan. 15. “We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate,” the Grammy-nominated singer, 29, and the Quantico alum, 39, announced on Jan. 21 in coordinated Instagram posts. “We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family. Thank you so much.”

Jonas and Chopra—who got married in December 2018, seven months after they began dating— have long planned on expanding their family. “This is a happy time for all,” a music management source says. “Nick and Priyanka are definitely ready for this new challenge in their lives. It is February 7, 2022

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THE JONAS FATHERS Joe & Sophie

Joe and the Game of Thrones actress, 25, welcomed daughter Willa in July 2020. Last May he said that life as a dad has been “amazing.”

Kevin & Danielle

Kevin and his wife, 35, share daughters Alena, 8, and Valentina, 5. Having them come to Jonas Brothers shows has “been a blessing,” he told People in October.

Anna Kendrick & Bill Hader’s Surprise Romance

Hollywood has a new comedy power couple! Anna Kendrick and Bill Hader have been quietly dating for “over a year,” a source says. “They are both very private people, and with the pandemic, it was easy to keep it quiet.”

The Pitch Perfect actress, 36, and the Barry actor, 43, met “many years ago” and played siblings in the 2019 Disney+ holiday comedy Noelle, “but they got together well after the movie,” says the source. While Kendrick has kept her love life private, ‘ANNA’S Hader—who shares daughters Hayley, 7, Harper, 9, and AMAZING. Hannah, 12, with ex-wife Maggie Carey—was last SHE’S A GREAT PERFORMER linked to actress Rachel Bilson. As for Kendrick and WHO RAISES Hader’s life together, “They’re both hysterical, so they YOUR GAME’ must keep each other laughing all of the time,” says —HADER ON the source, who adds that Kendrick is “really, really WORKING WITH happy.” — K A R A W A R N E R w i t h KENDRICK reporting by Lanae Brody

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Jonas joins his bandmates and brothers Kevin, 34, and Joe, 32, in the dad club: Kevin and his wife, Danielle, have two daughters, while Joe and wife Sophie Turner welcomed daughter Willa in 2020. “The brothers are overjoyed and have also been eager for Nick to become a father and The pair (in January) add to their family,” are “eager” to be parents, a music the music management insider says. source adds.

A music insider says the pair “have been preparing” for a baby for a while now. They bought a home in something they both have wanted.”

L.A. in 2019 with the hopes of raising Shortly after tying the knot, the Baytheir kids there, according to a real watch actress told People estate source, who says they they “definitely” hoped to spent months renovating ‘NICK AND PRIYANKA have kids, adding, “When the residence to make HAVE WANTED the time is right, it will hapit more family friendly.

A BABY FOR pen.” Adds the music manAdds the music insider: SOME TIME’ agement source: “Now is —A MUSIC INSIDER “They are beyond excited.” their time, and they could —RACHEL DeSANTIS with not be more ready to raise a child.” reporting by Pernilla With the arrival of his newborn, Cedenheim and Linda Marx

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Split

Garrett Hedlund & Emma Roberts After nearly three years together, the Scream Queens alum, 30, and the TRON: Legacy actor, 37— who share son Rhodes, 1—have broken up.

“They are trying their best to co-parent,” says a source.

Red Carpet Debut

K a n y e ‘ Ye ’ We s t & J u l i a Fo x Weeks after their first public outing, the rapper, 44, and the Uncut Gems actress, 31, hit their first official event together: Kenzo’s Paris Fashion Week show. West touched up Fox’s makeup for the occasion, and they rocked matching denim outfits.

Divorcing After One Year

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Pa m e l a Anderson & Dan Hayhurst

The Baywatch alum, 54, has split from her fourth husband, a builder and her bodyguard. Says a source: “They fell out of love.”

Married

Jenny Slate & Ben Shattuck The actress, 39, wed her author beau, 37, in their living room on New Year’s Eve in front of family and close friends, she revealed to Marie Claire. The pair got engaged in 2019 and share daughter Ida, 1.

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Jeopardy! Champion Amy Schneider

Making Game-Show History

Amy Schneider is breaking barriers on Jeopardy!

What does it mean for you to represent The California-based software-engineering the trans community? manager, 42, is the first transgender contestant to To be making an impact now and to be qualify for the Tournament of Champions, and she’s giving something back without trying—by the highest-earning woman—and the fourthjust doing something I was planning to do highest-earning contestant—in the competition’s anyway—is really great. history, with $1,382,800 from 40 wins (as of press What kind of messages have you gotten time). Here she discusses her quiz-show reign, what from the LGBTQ community since you’ve she plans to do with her winnings and finding love been on the show? with girlfriend Genevieve Lewis.

The most meaningful have actually ‘MY BEST In eighth grade you were been from parents and grandparents [CATEGORIES] voted most likely to appear of trans people, saying that it’s made ARE GEOGRAPHY them feel better about the life that on Jeopardy! Has it been a AND HISTORY, lifelong goal? their loved ones are going to have.

THE WORST: Growing up, I always watched, and You’ve said meeting your MUSIC’ so did my parents—my dad had —AMY SCHNEIDER partner Genevieve was like tried out for it and nearly got on—so love at first sight. it was always a part of my life. I’ve got a good She walked in the room, and I knew she was brain for it, so I just sort of felt like, “It’ll probably somebody I wanted to be around. It just happen someday.” developed really quickly from there.

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I have a playlist all ready to go for the morning We’re going to take a trip to Ireland. And buy of taping, with Eminem, Lizzo and Cardi B. some fancy designer clothes!

Then after the show, taking a bath.

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Martha Stewart on Staying Fit & Focused

Why Adele Postponed Her New Las Vegas Residency

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Just one day before her hotly anticipated Las Vegas residency was Love set to launch, Adele shocked fans when she announced its delay.

“I’m so upset,” Adele (below, The singer explained in an emotional Jan. 20 video on Instagram performing her that she had to postpone the show, titled Weekends With Adele, new album 30 in because it wasn’t ready. “We’ve tried absolutely everything we can November) said to put it together in time and for it to be good in her Instagram ‘SHE PUTS video. enough for you, but we’ve been absolutely HER HEART destroyed by delivery delays and COVID,” she AND SOUL said. “I’m really embarrassed.” A source close to INTO EVERY Adele, 33, says she “hates to disappoint” fans, but PROJECT’ she “knows how she needs to feel about a project to —A SOURCE CLOSE TO ADELE go live with it, and her residency never got to this point.” A source close to the production adds that Adele pressed pause because she “felt the show was impossible to finish up to her standards.” Although new dates have not yet been announced, Adele assured her followers that the show will go on— eventually: “I’m gonna get it to where it’s supposed to be.”

—BRIANNE TRACY with reporting by Lanae Brody and Pernilla Cedenheim

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How do you stay motivated?

I live on a farm, so the farm life starts early. At 7 a.m. we’re all at work—snow, rain, sunshine, we’re here. Animals don’t wait.

Do you ever just watch TV? Only at night. I have two iPads, and I might use up all the power in both during a night watching something.

I just binged season 3 of Yellowstone. I loved it. Kevin Costner never looked better.

You’re glowing these days.

What’s your secret? I continue with my facials at Mario Badescu. And the pandemic has been okay to me physically because I haven’t been eating out as much. I’ve lost some weight. I feel good.

—ANA CALDERONE

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“Things don’t have to cost a lot to be really, really good,” she says of her $12 Martha’s Chard (inset).

At 80, Martha Stewart is keeping busy. She just launched her new chardonnay, Martha’s Chard, with Australian wine brand 19 Crimes, and she’s always looking for her next project: “I have a lot of energy and a lot of curiosity.”

Ina Garten recently said the key to surviving the pandemic is to “drink more large cosmos.”

How are you coping? I do not agree about taking to drink to cope with things like the pandemic. To me that’s not charming. To me it’s continuing to work really hard, to be as productive as I possibly can be, to enjoy my grandchildren.

Scoop ‘IT’S REALLY MAKING ITS WAY BACK AGAIN, WHICH IS PRETTY COOL TO SEE. IT’S EXCITING’ —ON TWILIGHT’S STREAMING RESURGENCE

Lautner (with fiancée Dome on Jan. 12) got engaged in November.

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Taylor Lautner Returns to the Spotlight After taking a break from Hollywood, Taylor Lautner is back in action, starring alongside Kevin James in the Netflix sports comedy Home Team (streaming Jan. 28).

The actor, 29, talked to People (The TV Show!)’s correspondent Segun Oduolowu about life after the Twilight series and finding love with his fiancée, nurse Taylor Dome, 24.

Since the Twilight movies started streaming, they’ve found a new generation of fans. What has that been like for you to see?

Before that, to be honest, it was mainly the “Twi-moms” that would still stop me in the streets. [Laughs] Now it’s like teenagers again.

You took a step back from acting after appearing in the film Run the

Tide and on the TV series Scream Queens in 2016. Why the break?

I don’t think it was a conscious decision, but it made sense for me at that time in my life. I started acting when I was a child, and it was kind of nonstop until I was in my early to mid 20s. I’m super

FROM VAMPIRE SAGA TO SPORTS COMEDY

Tw i l i g h t

Lautner appeared opposite Kristen Stewart in all five movies, including New Moon (above).

H o m e Te a m

Lautner (with Kevin James, left) plays a football coach in his comeback film.

thankful for what I did experience, but I did miss out on a lot of just normal-life things, like going to college. I wanted to take a step back and enjoy life and spend some time with my family and friends. And I met my fiancée out of it, so it all worked out.

How did you and Taylor meet?

My sister Makena actually introduced us. She called me and said, “Dude, I found your future wife. You need to meet this girl.” And the rest is history.

Now you’re back at work. What was it like going from teen heartthrob to coaching tweens in Home Team?

It was kind of full circle for me. I did my first feature, Sharkboy and Lavagirl, when I was 12, and all the kids in this movie were about 12. I remember everyone taking me in and supporting me on my first movie sets, and I wanted to do my best to provide that to these kids and just be their big brother.

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named Leighton Grace, with her songwriter husband, Josh Kerr, 30, on Jan. 17. Bachelor in Paradise stars Raven Gates, 30, and Adam Gottschalk, 31, became a family of three with the birth of son Gates Zev on Jan. 18.

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Team U.S.A. snowboarder •Jamie Anderson, 31, is

French actor Gaspard Ulliel, who

will appear in the upcoming Marvel series Moon Knight, died in a skiing accident in the French Alps on Jan. 19. He was 37. The Time Machine actress Yvette Mimieux died on Jan. 17 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 80.

Grammy winner Dick Halligan of the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat & Tears died in Rome on Jan. 18 of natural causes.

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engaged to her boyfriend, Canadian snowboarder Tyler Nicholson, 26.

He was 78.

Splits Straight Outta Compton actor Keith Powers, 29, and Star actress Ryan Destiny, 27, have broken up after four years of dating.

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Miranda Cosgrove

The actress, 28, is challenging teen girls to take the lead on climate action and do their part to save the planet

creations were worn by Madonna, David Bowie, Beyoncé and others, died on Jan. 23 at his home in Vincennes, France, at 73 of reported natural causes.

By RACHEL DeSANTIS

Why I Care

PERSONAL When you’re a kid, it’s easy to think no one’s listening and STORIES ABOUT that your ideas can’t become reality—but when we GIVING empower young women, they can accomplish anything.

BACK That’s what HP’s Girls Save the World campaign is all about.

As part of the MIT Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge, HP invited girls ages 13 to 18 to share how they’d tackle an environmental problem [like water pollution, deforestation and air quality issues] in their community. In March we’ll announce 10 finalists, and they’ll get to meet each other, exchange ideas and work with mentors [from HP, MIT and nonprofits like Girl Rising] to help hone their ideas— with the winner awarded a $10,000 prize. Representation is so important. By introducing girls to STEM [science, technology, engineering and math], we’re ensuring they’ll be a part of those fields for years to come. —R e p o r t e d b y A L E X I A F E R N Á N D E Z For more information, go to garage.hp.com HP Inc. made People’s annual 100 Companies That Care list in 2021. To nominate a business demonstrating outstanding respect for its employees, community and the environment, go to greatplacetowork.com/companiesthatcare

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Country star Luke Combs, 31, is expecting his first child, a boy, with wife Nicole, 29, a recruiting coordinator. “Here we go, y’all! Lil dude Combs is coming this spring!” the “Forever After All” singer wrote on Instagram. Taylor Dye, 26, of the country duo Maddie & Tae, welcomed her first child, a daughter

Downton Abbey actress Michelle Dockery, 40, is engaged to Jasper Waller-Bridge, a music manager, producer and the brother of Fleabag star

Deaths

Regina King Grieves the Loss of Her Son The Oscar-winning actress called her only child, Ian Alexander Jr., a ‘bright light’ following his death by suicide on Jan. 19

Fo re v e r B o n d

Ian called his mother “the greatest gift I could ask for” in a celebratory 2021 Instagram post for her 50th birthday.

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On Jan. 18 Ian Alexander Jr. took to Instagram to

share his excitement for an upcoming performance at a Los Angeles nightclub. Alexander Jr., a deejay and musician who performed under the stage name Desduné, invited fans to come support him at the gig, scheduled for Jan. 28. The next day, his 26th birthday, the son of actress-director Regina King and her ex-husband Ian Alexander Sr. died by suicide.

Those who knew and loved Ian are rocked by the news. “Our family is devastated at the deepest level by the loss of Ian,” King said in a statement. “He is such a bright light who cared so deeply about the happiness of others.” The only child of King, 51, and Alexander Sr., a music producer, who were married from 1997 to 2007, Ian was also a self-trained personal chef. “I’m a pretty laid-back person, pretty groovy,” he told Flaunt magazine last May. King, who has recently been filming a biopic of Shirley Chisholm, America’s first Black congresswoman, told People in 2018 that she and Ian bonded over the hard work required to achieve success in the entertainment industry. “I got to grow with

Surrounded

by Love

“I’ve always had the support of his father, my sister, one of my girlfriends. We have a little village,” King (here with Ian and Alexander Sr. in 2001) told People in 2018.

FAMOUS FRIENDS OFFER SUPPORT

Sweet Celebration

King appeared virtually with Ian (right) and his friend Brandon on CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live and said they were celebrating “the spirit of inclusivity.” Ian added: “And progress.”

my son, so now he’s old enough to have witnessed the work I put in and the choices that I made—or didn’t make—because I’m a mom,” King said. “Exercising the self-discipline to do the things you love is a conscious effort.”

The affection between mother and son ran deep. In a 2021 50th-birthday tribute to King, Ian wrote: “So extremely proud of you and inspired by your love, artistry and gangsta! To be able to watch you take this lifetime [ . . . ] and make it yours is something I will forever be grateful for.”

The two shared matching tattoos—the phrase “unconditional love” in Aramaic—and King once reflected on that notion to People. “You don’t know what unconditional love is,” she said. “You may say you do, but if you don’t have a child, you don’t know what it is. When you experience it, it’s the most fulfilling [thing] ever.” — K A R A W A R N E R with reporting by Dave Quinn

Viola Davis

Davis sent heartfelt condolences to King on social media: “I am lifting and holding you up.”

Jackée Harry

“What we can do for her,” King’s former 227 costar told People, “[is] surround her with an abundance of love.”

Halle Berry

“I pray the love you pour into others every day is sent your way, tenfold, during this time,” wrote Berry on Twitter.

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org.

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Not long after his daughter Zoe Tegan was born five years ago, Sholom Ber Solomon started creating fun, costumed photo shoots with her as a way to document her childhood.

“She was just the perfect muse,” Solomon says. “All you have to do is smile at her, and she smiles right back.” Soon Solomon was donning puppy dog ears and princess gowns, and with the arrival of his second daughter, Olivia, in 2019, he took his dress-up game even higher, decking himself out as everything from the Mona Lisa to Superman to Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz and posting the images on Instagram (@sbsolly). “I’m a silly dad, not, like, dad of the year,” says Solomon, 41, a digital artist for his own baby-clothing company, Tegan & Ollie. But he hopes his efforts will make lasting memories for his girls.

“When the kids grow up, whether they hate me or love me for it, I think I win.”

Scaramouche! This kitty has a very familiar-looking mustache F O N TA N A , C A L I F.

In August 2020 Natalie Fernandez found a day-old kitten by the side of her house—and was immediately struck by the tiny cat’s markings. “I was like, ‘Wow, that looks like Freddie Mercury’s mustache,’ ” says Fernandez, referring to the late lead singer of the rock band Queen. Fernandez, 26, named the cat Mostaccioli (“little mustaches” in Italian) and began posting photos of the 6-lb. feline (along with her other cat, Izanamai, a 1-year-old Scottish fold) to Instagram, where the cats have racked up some 14,500 followers (@izanami.and .mostaccioli). “I guess other people see it too,” says Fernandez, who hopes that Mercury’s former bandmates might one day spot the cat online. “It’s pretty crazy,” she says.

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That couple, that sex tape, that scandal!

COMEDY-DRAMA It’s tough at this point in time to place the marriage of Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee on the spectrum of great celebrity affairs—somewhere between Sid and Nancy and Liz and Dick. Their relationship seems to have been both deeply romantic and highly turbulent. But the story of the couple (played by Lily James and Sebastian Stan, both terrific) has been intractably complicated by the mess over their sex videotape, stolen in 1995 and released to the world by a disgruntled contractor (Seth Rogen). Pam & Tommy devotes eight episodes to unraveling the scandal, which proved impossible to control: The tape was

sold over the Internet, then went wider as a download. Despite its bawdy-satiric tone—and an outrageous scene in which Tommy has a conversation with his love appendage—the show is firmly on the lovers’ side. When Tommy tells Pam he adores her (“You are by far the baddest, raddest, sexiest, most far-out kickass chick that I’ve ever met!”), we believe him. At its most serious, though, the series is about the shaming and victimization of Anderson: “I don’t have any rights because I have spent my public life in a bathing suit,” she says with stinging, bitter astuteness. “Sluts don’t get to decide what happens to pictures of their body.”

(First three episodes launch Feb. 2)

‘The show is firmly on the lovers’ side’

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picks HBO | The Gilded Age

When high society was at its height DRAMA Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes turns to 1880s New York City for this series about ascendant versus established wealth. Proper society, represented by crusty Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski), refuses to mingle with the likes of Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon), wife of a railroad tycoon. “I am struggling trying to hold back the tide of vulgarians that threatens to engulf us,” Agnes says. That will probably change. Age moves with rich confidence from subplot to subplot, but Downton fans may find the first episodes starchy and sexually parched. Perhaps it will grow into a gild-y pleasure. For more on Christine Baranski, see page 88. (Mondays, 9 p.m.)

Harry Richardson, Louisa Jacobson and Taissa Farmiga.

Q&A Jonathan Van Ness

The Queer Eye grooming expert, 34, stars in the Netflix series Getting Curious With Jonathan Van Ness.

What can fans expect?

I’m bringing together comedy, documentary and research.

MUSIC | FKA twigs, Caprisongs

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R&B This polished set from the enigmatic, experimental art-pop singer fuses a range of cuttingedge styles—including hyperpop (think Charli XCX), warped soul, futuristic electronic and British hip-hop—for a result that’s characteristically unique and thrilling. (Available now)

APPLE TV+ | The Afterparty

COMEDY Tiffany Haddish is a detective investigating the murder of a famous (and obnoxious) entertainer after his high school reunion. As the suspects are interrogated, their stories are told in the style of different movie genres—with the entertainingly unflappable Haddish as audience. She’s even brought her own popcorn.

(First three episodes launch Jan. 28)

Getting Curious launches Jan. 28.

Your curiosity leads you all over the place, from skyscrapers to snacks.

With skyscrapers, I was like, “Oh my God, they’re so pretty.” And snacks I was like, “Why do I like them so much?” And so that was fun.

And, if we may ask, what have you learned about yourself?

I’ve come a really long way.

To get to a point where you’re an executive producer on a series you created is just such a mind-blowing moment!

—CHRISTINA DUGAN RAMIREZ February 7, 2022

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picks NETFLIX | The Woman in the House . . .

Kristen Bell stars in a murder-mystery sendup COMEDY The full title of this impressively knuckleheaded series, a parody of bestsellers like The Woman in the Window, is The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window. Anna (The Good Place’s Kristen Bell), a rain phobic, spends most of her time drinking wine, swallowing pills and not making much effort to distinguish fantasy from reality. “When are you not hallucinating?” she asks herself, especially after witnessing a murder.

The twists are ridiculous—often more ridiculous, in fact, than funny—but Bell knows how to play a line for laughs while also being dead-serious. (Launches Jan. 28)

MOVIE | Julia

DOCUMENTARY Julia Child, America’s unpretentious and nevertiring champion of French cooking, is the subject of this lively, affectionate film. We learn that she had her tough side—she was a star, after all— but Child seems to have always stayed true to her culinary philosophy: “Food is love.”

(Available on demand Feb. 1)

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DRAMA Like The Kings of Napa over on OWN, this is a simmering drama set in California wine country, only here the vintners are a Latino family, the Sandovals. The plot, once uncorked, turns out to be trickier than expected.

(Mondays, 10 p.m.)

SHOWTIME | We Need

to Talk About Cosby

DOCUSERIES W. Kamau Bell directed this sharp-edged, four-part examination of the disturbing paradox named Bill Cosby: both a comedian embraced as “America’s Dad” and one of #Metoo’s most notorious figures—“an intelligent, malignant narcissist,” in the words of one interviewee. (Jan. 30, 10 p.m.)

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The Best New Books Illicit love on campus, an improbably transformative friendship, and danger in the woods E d i t e d b y K I M H U B B A R D

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Julia May Jonas Vladimir

NOVEL A brilliant middle-aged professor finds the lens turned on her open marriage when her husband, the chair of the English department at their liberal arts college in upstate New York, comes under investigation for past affairs with former students. At the same time, her own obsession with Vladimir, a handsome younger novelist newly arrived on campus, sends her on a tantalizing but dangerous path. This is a timely, whip-smart and darkly funny debut.

MEMOIR When Maggie Rowe’s husband, formerly a writer on Golden Girls, meets a motherdaughter panhandling team who are also his biggest fans, he and Maggie learn how much trouble you can get into just trying to do the right thing. Especially if, like Maggie, you have mental health issues of your own. Poignant and often hilarious.

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From Our Staff Eric Dickerson with Greg Hanlon Watch My Smoke In a memoir coauthored by People crime news editor Greg Hanlon, Hall of Fame running back Dickerson looks back on the sport he both loved and raged against.

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This past year alone Cox has checked off a new movie (the fifth installment of the horror franchise Scream) and a new TV show (Starz’s horror-comedy Shining Vale, premiering March 6, costarring Greg Kinnear), not to mention that little reunion with her famous Friends. Now she’s launching Homecourt, an upscale, fragrance-infused home-care-product line inspired by her lifelong passions for architecture and interior design.

“I’m really happy with work and starting this company,” says Cox. “I feel more confident and more relaxed than I was.”

Cox, who has been dating musician Johnny McDaid, 45, since 2013, after they were introduced by mutual friend Ed Sheeran, is also preparing for an empty nest as Coco gets ready to leave for college. Meanwhile, the Alabama-born actress expands her circle of love and embraces her southern upbringing (especially since her mother, also named Courteney, died in December 2020) with regular Sunday gatherings for friends at her house. “I try to accept people the way I’d want to be accepted,” she says. “I’ve always stayed true to myself and to the way I was brought up. I don’t take anything for granted.”

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When you think back over the past few years during the pandemic, what did you discover about yourself?

That I love hobbies. I didn’t realize how many I had and how it was so nice to learn new ones. I’ve played the piano before, but now I play all the time. I got to play with Elton John for a second. And I love to cook.

I really do miss my mom so much. I wasn’t able to talk to her about things for a while before she passed away because she had dementia, but I’m making those childhood recipes that I just love.

So what’s the most southern thing about you?

Well, I would never not use the word “y’all,” because that’s a good way to talk to more than one person. And my manners, like writing thank-you notes. My family used to go to my grandmother’s house—and I have 21 first cousins—every single Sunday at 5 o’clock. So I have gatherings on Sunday. I like bringing people together.

Best Friends

“She has a very strong way of communicating,” says Cox of Coco (in 2019).

“She could be mayor.”

Her Musician Match

Cox and McDaid (in November), a Northern Irelandborn member of the band Snow Patrol, share passions for music and watching documentaries.

“And I love his accent,” she adds.

Do you ever go back to Alabama?

No one lives there anymore. When my mom died, I was like, “Oh my gosh, besides a few friends, I have no home base anymore, no history.” The last time I was there, I went straight from Scream to see my mom about three weeks [before she died].

And I’m so glad I did, because I was in England when she passed away. I don’t think I ever appreciated how amazing Birmingham [Ala.] is. It’s so beautiful.

Sweet Magnolia

“There’s just so much that I didn’t appreciate when I lived there that I can now,” Cox says of growing up in Birmingham.

And now you’re mom to a 17-year-old.

One thing I learned is the beginning years go so fast. I wish I had relished it a little more. I was really close to my mom. She was my best friend. And I have that with Coco. She tells me everything. But we also fight. And I’ve learned that boundaries are really important and to keep them, because I know it makes her feel safe. I’m not always good with boundaries. I get worn out. Coco’s a really good apologizer. That girl could talk her way out of anything.

How would you describe your relationship?

What’s the greatest life lesson your mom taught you?

Definitely to always be kind, to be generous, to be a good listener. She was a beautiful, sweet woman.

I don’t think she had hobbies. She wasn’t as driven as I am, but it did make me see that I want to have something to fall back on. I want to be good at

stuff. I want to really succeed at things that I care about. I think that was a big lesson too.

A Southern Girl at Heart

The Ingenue

“I didn’t know how confident you have to be,” says the actress (in 1986) of her early years in Hollywood.

I think she’s funny, and I love hanging out with her. I love when she needs me.

She’s fun. And you could never be mad at her, ever, for too long.

Are you ready to be an empty nester?

I haven’t thought about it yet! I haven’t even registered that she’s not going to be here. But also, she’s not here that

A M o t h e r ’s L o v e

“She taught me to have drive, because she didn’t,” Cox says of her mom, Courteney (in 1996). Still, “she was my best friend.”

D a d d y ’s G i r l

Her father, Richard (with her in 1991), died in 2001. “I’m more like my dad, who was sportier,” she says.

u r t e n e y ’s o C Tips for an Organized Home Cox says she’s learned to see cooking as “another creative outlet.”

“Order little ones online with caps that fit inside your drawer. Then put your spices in each, and label them.

Order bigger ones for junk food and cereal.”

• Start Small

“Just pick one drawer, and clean it out. If you don’t need it, get rid of it.”

Her new line includes dish soap, surface cleaner and hand cream.

• Scent Is an Incentive

“The signature scent for Homecourt is literally the oils that I wear as my perfume. Imagine if you wanted to wash the dishes because the soap smells so good.”

Could you see yourself ever getting married again?

I don’t know. I’m definitely not opposed to it. I just don’t think about it.

What have you learned about love over the years?

I’ve learned you can’t take a lot personally. I used to think, “Oh well, if you loved me . . .” It’s not really about you. People do things because of their own history and their own past. I had to learn that lesson for sure. And I’ve learned that love is precious.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that.

What’s a typical day off like for you?

I don’t sleep that well, and I always stay up late, it seems. If I’m home, I’m just busy trying to catch up with stuff. My exercise would be tennis on Sundays, boxing twice a week. I like to get things done during the day. And then around 6 o’clock it’s time to relax, whether it’s with my close friends who come over or with Johnny. I cook a lot.

So when you can’t sleep, are you on Instagram?

Do you ever read comments?

I feel like the first ones are always so nice and

A Big Year Onscreen

often—let’s be clear. She is out and about. This is not a girl to sit at home, and if she is, she’s in her room, door shut.

What’s been the best part about coparenting with David?

When you don’t fight about things.

When there’s no “Can I have her during this holiday?” It’s not like, “Well, those are my holidays.” No, it doesn’t matter.

Whatever she wants to do and whatever works. There’s never been a contention about stuff like that. And I think that’s really, really important.

You and Johnny had to be apart during the first several months of the pandemic when he was stuck on lockdown abroad. What do you appreciate most about your relationship now?

I grew up in a really impatient family.

My dad, who was incredible and charismatic and funny, was always, “Okay.

You’ve got something interesting to say?

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The Friends Reunion

“I didn’t think it would be that emotional,” Cox says of filming last May’s HBO Max special.

Scream

Working with Neve Campbell again for January’s sequel “was easy,” says Cox. “Like no time had passed.”

S h i n i n g Va l e

“I believe in ghosts, but I hope I never see one,” says Cox (with Greg Kinnear), who produced the upcoming Starz series.

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• Jars Are Yo u r F r i e n d

No? Next.” And I’ve never met someone so patient.

He’s a great listener. He’s a great advice giver. I love his heart, his intentions. His morals. He’s extremely talented and obviously musical, but he’s a poet and a writer. He’s just so smart, and I find that really sexy. And then he is gorgeous.

‘I’ve learned that love is precious.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that’

positive. I’ll heart those. But I don’t keep reading. If I ever go back to an old post and look, it’s like, “Oh wow! That’s really mean.” I mean, why? Every now and then I’ll DM somebody. Like Will Smith was incredible in King Richard, so I DM’d him to let him know. He probably didn’t see it. But I did write Jessica Chastain [about The Eyes of Tammy Faye] just to let her know how amazing she was. And she wrote me back and was so gracious. I don’t know if people tell people enough how great they are.

What advice would you give your 25-year-old self about beauty?

Start putting lotion on your body. I didn’t think about that until it was way too late. And I went too far with certain things like fillers. Oh God, never do a filler ever. I mean, if you have thick skin, maybe it works for you. It just didn’t work for me, and I had no idea. And I went down a rabbit hole, and then I had to have it all dissolved.

And don’t lie in the sun if you’re from a thin-skinned family. My dad died of skin cancer, so wear sunscreen, and take care of your body.

What do you hope you’ll be doing in 10 years?

Continuing to create products for Homecourt. I would hopefully be directing a lot more. I love telling stories, and I love being involved in all aspects of filmmaking, whether it’s TV or commercials or videos. I hope that Shining Vale goes for a long time. And I hope that I’m happy and at peace and content—and feel loving and loved.

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Constant Companions

Cox (photographed at her L.A.-area home on Jan. 10) dotes on her two Cavalier King Charles spaniels, Bear and Lily.

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Meat Loaf 1947-2022

AN UNFORGETTABLE TITAN OF ROCK

THE SINGER AND ACTOR—WHO DEFINED AN ERA OF MUSIC IN THE ’70S— I S R E M E M B E R E D B Y H I S F A M I LY A S A L O V I N G F AT H E R A N D H U S B A N D

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Meat Loaf was a fledgling 25-year-old singer when he turned down $60,000 from wealthy art patrons to help him train for New York City’s Metropolitan Opera. “I went, ‘No, I can’t do that. I’ll wind up in prison for murder of the conductor!’ ” he told People in 2016. “I may be an opera singer, but I have the rebellious nature of a true rock and roller.”

That fighting spirit turned Meat Loaf—whose 1977 LP Bat out of Hell is one of the bestselling albums of all time—into a rock god whose voice powered anthems like “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” and “Two out of Three Ain’t Bad.” On Jan. 20, he died at age 74, surrounded by loved ones, including his wife, Deborah, and his daughters Pearl, 46, and Amanda, 41. (The family is keeping his cause of death private for now.) “We each got a moment to tell him funny confessions,” Amanda tells People of their final day together. “As we told our stories, he flipped a couple of us off. It was very Dad. He was a complex man who wore his heart on his sleeve. He would tell you, ‘F--- you, I love you.’ ” Born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Meat Loaf moved to L.A. at age 20 to escape his alcoholic father, Orvis, after his mother, Wilma, a schoolteacher, died from breast cancer. He found early success in the 1973 stage and 1975 film versions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it wasn’t until he linked up with the late songwriter and producer Jim Steinman for Bat out of Hell that his music career flourished. His theatrical live performances— which often left fans closest to the stage drenched in his sweat—set him apart. “When he sang a song, he acted a song,” says Diane Warren, who wrote his 1995 single “I’d Lie for You (And That’s the Truth).”

As his fame grew, so did his troubles. Just one year after Bat out of Hell, he temporarily quit the music industry because of the strain on his voice and struggles with depression. Numerous lawsuits left him bankrupt by 1983, but he had more time to enjoy at home with his first wife, Leslie (they split in 2001), and their daughters. “I was much happier taking a Little League team to 10-0,” he told People in 1993, “than I was selling 10 million albums.”

FA M I LY G U Y

While Deborah (right, in 2008) says life with Meat Loaf was an “adventure,” his daughter Amanda (left, with dad, mom Leslie and sister Pearl in 1983) says it was important to him that they were “grounded in our home.”

MEAT LOAF’S WILD RIDE A STAR ONSTAGE & ONSCREEN

After portraying Eddie in the original L.A. Roxy cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1973, Meat Loaf was asked to reprise his role in the 1975 film adaptation of the musical.

A ROCK AND ROLL DREAM TEAM

A year after releasing his debut album, Bat out of Hell, in 1977, he hit the road for a world tour with his “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” collaborator Karla DeVito.

MAKING THE A-LIST

At the National Association of Recording Merchandisers banquet in 1979, Meat Loaf hung out with Gene Simmons of KISS and Cher, with whom he later duetted on the 1981 single “Dead Ringer for Love.”

S T I L L S W I N G I N G AT 74 “His live performances were unlike anything else,” Amanda says of her father (onstage in March 2021).

“In his mind, his heart and his soul, he was giving you a Broadway performance.”

‘WHEN HE WAS HOME, HE WAS JUST DAD’

—MEAT LOAF’S DAUGHTER AMANDA

Still, he never stopped singing. In 1993 he enjoyed a comeback when he reunited with Steinman for Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell. It hit No. 1, and its single “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” earned Meat Loaf his only Grammy. He remained in the spotlight for the rest of the ’90s with cameos in films like Fight Club and Spice World and continued to perform through 2021, even after a series of health setbacks, including a diagnosis of the heart condition Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

Through it all, his dedication to his daughters and second wife Deborah, whom he married in 2007, never wavered. “He didn’t hesitate to let me know how much I was appreciated,” Deborah says. “As much as my heart is in pain right now, it is also so full of the love and glory we shared together.”

With reporting by JEFF NELSON

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Her husband murdered their 16-year-old twins, then turned the gun on her.

Somehow Anjum Coffland survived. Now she’s determined to end gun violence—and keep weapons from domestic abusers

By K . C . B A K E R

‘COURAGE ISN’T EASY’

Five years after friends honored her family (above), Coffland (left) still mourns her girls. “Courage,” she says, “isn’t easy.”

arch was always a special month for Anjum Coffland. Her twins, Tiffany and Brittany, were born March 14, and the days before their birthday filled the Cofflands’ St. Charles, Ill., home with party planning and gift giving—from books to the year’s trendy lip glosses. “They looked forward to everything,” says Anjum.

But in March 2017 “nobody was in the mood to celebrate,” she says. Anjum and husband Randall had just separated after 28 years together—agreeing to be civil for their daughters’ sakes.

“I thought,” says Anjum, “ ‘This is going to be good for all of us.’ ” Instead it sparked a violent attack.

Four days before the twins’ 17th birthday, Randall, 48, fatally shot them— then shot Anjum when she entered the house. He called 911, telling a horrified dispatcher: “I just shot and killed my children. And I shot my wife. And I’m going to shoot myself.” It was all true: Anjum was the scene’s only survivor.

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for Anjum, and one that she’s relived in the five agonizing years since, in an effort to prevent gun violence from eviscerating other families. In 2018 she began working with the nonprofit gun violence prevention group Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America—launched in 2012 by parents after the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting—pushing for laws mandating wait times for purchasing firearms, especially for people experiencing trauma or in a volatile relationship. As part of National Gun Violence Survivors Week (Feb. 1-7) she is sharing her story, though advocacy is a role she never wanted. “I wish I didn’t have to help people; I still struggle with it all,” says Anjum, 51. But she believes stronger gun legislation would have saved her children, so she forces herself to share.

“Gun laws aren’t there to take the guns away from people to protect themselves,” she says. “They’re there to stop guns from getting into the hands of people like Randall.”

She can still remember the eerie silence that greeted

her as she walked inside her home shortly after 5 p.m. on March 10, 2017. Her daughter Brittany was lying unnaturally still on the living room couch, facing the TV and oblivious to Anjum’s heels clicking across the floor. Tiffany was in her bedroom. “Randall said, ‘Don’t disturb the girls, they’re sleeping,’ ” Anjum remembers. Suddenly Randall whipped out a handgun she didn’t know he owned and put it to

‘OVER TIME YOU REMEMBER THE GOOD THINGS, AND YOU WILL SMILE AGAIN’

—ANJUM COFFLAND

LITTLE MIRACLES

Born preemies, Brittany and Tiffany (from left) had to be fed hourly, says Anjum.

DOUBLE THE JOY

“They loved the excitement of season changes and holidays,” says Anjum (with her daughters in 2004).

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BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN

Brittany (left) was the social butterfly, says her mom. Tiffany (right) aced her AP classes.

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A MOTHER’S WORLD

her head. Then, wild-eyed, he aimed at her legs. “I want you to live,” he told her. “I want you to suffer.”

He fired a bullet that pierced both her legs. As she sunk to the floor in a widening pool of blood, she asked about their daughters. And she can still hear his voice telling her, “They’re already dead.”

Anjum’s life revolved around her kids: Brittany, “my outgoing one,” and Tiffany, “my quiet, shy one.” When they were little, Anjum spent her days running them to playdates, reading bedtime stories and indulging their love of all things Disney.

“We did Pocahontas, Jasmine, Snow White, Belle— we covered them all,” she says of their Halloween costumes. “I did everything for them, and that was my whole life.” As the twins became young women, Anjum encouraged them to pursue careers they loved so they would be fulfilled and self-sufficient.

Brittany, a cheerleader who excelled at gymnastics, dreamed of going into hospitality, while Tiffany, “a bookworm,” wanted to work with animals. Says Anjum: “I didn’t want them to be like me.”

Her own childhood, growing up in a strict Pakistani American family in the Chicago suburbs, was confining—Anjum was forbidden from studying art or being alone with boys. She was just 17 when she met Randall, then a shy 19-year-old. Her parents forbade their relationship and then disowned her when she moved in with him on her 18th birthday, marrying him two months later. Anjum says Randall was domineering and controlling and became violent. He punched walls during arguments and threw her to the ground when she was pregnant.

Desperate to escape, but without her family’s help, Anjum landed a job as an insurance adjuster and was finally able to earn enough money to support herself and seek a divorce. When she told him it was over, “he said, ‘Go figure out how you’re going to live by yourself’ and kicked me out,” she says. She moved into a small apartment in February 2017, leaving the girls with Randall—he had never been abusive with the twins—until she could

NIGHT OF TERROR When Anjum Coffland entered the family’s St. Charles, Ill., condo on March 10, 2017, husband Randall shot her in the left thigh; the bullet also tore through her right leg. He then shot himself (left, police at the scene) and died. Anjum (right) was still in a wheelchair at the time of the girls’ memorial. afford to move them in with her. Meanwhile Randall spiraled into a depression fueled by alcohol mixed with antidepressants. On the morning of the murders, he texted her an emoji of a gun. Still, she says, “I never thought he would hurt them.”

Even after Randall told her the twins were dead, she didn’t believe it. When authorities in the hospital finally confirmed the truth, “I was on a suicide watch 24/7,” she says. Discharged after a week to allow the holes in her legs to heal at home, her sadness deepened as the months wore on. She couldn’t bring herself to plan their funeral and largely isolated herself in her agony. But then Ellen Gibson, a volunteer with Moms Demand Action, reached out. “They need people to share their story,” Anjum says. “So I start talking to the group, and I started feeling like I could tell them about what I went through.” Says Gibson: “She had the courage to come out of a terrible tragedy and find a way to help other people. She inspires me.”

Anjum is especially gratified when she can change lives. A stranger who reached out to her on social media because she was afraid of an

INSPIRING ENDURANCE

Anjum (with pictures of Brittany, left, and Tiffany, right) “is sharing her story because she doesn’t want other people to have to go through that kind of pain,” says Everytown’s Cheryl Stumbo.

abusive husband talked to her for months, gathering the courage to leave him. “I don’t know if I did all the right things for her,” Anjum says, “but I was at least there to listen.” She is also pushing for more common sense gun laws and legislation requiring anyone buying a gun to present references certifying they aren’t dangerous. “Randall purposely purchased a gun to murder,” she says. “Nobody said, ‘Why is he getting a gun?’ Yes, he had a clean record, but things were going on at his home.”

Though Anjum finds solace in advocacy, it doesn’t fill the emptiness she feels alone in her apartment, missing her girls. “I will never see my kids accomplish so many things in life,” she says.

“And I will never be called Mom again.”

If you are experiencing domestic violence or are concerned about someone else, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or thehotline.org. Calls are toll-free and confidential.

André Leon Ta l l e y

1948–2022

Fa r ewe l l t o a Fa s h i o n L e g e n d THE TOWERING EDITOR MADE AN I M M E A S U R A B L E I M PAC T O N H I S I N D U S T RY AND BEYOND—AND IN THE PROCESS BECAME AN ICON IN HIS OWN RIGHT

By J A C K I E F I E L D S

Photograph by GAGE + BETTERTON

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Fa s h i o n Visionary

Left: Talley waits in the basement of the Louvre for a Valentino show to start. “That was when I felt like life was all sunshine,” he once said. Far left: on the streets of N.Y.C. (in 1986).

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magazine (where he interviewed Karl Lagerfeld, who became a lifelong friend) before landing at Vogue in 1983. He’d work with the brand for more than 30 years, becoming its first Black creative director and a mainstay of the front row.

Talley had a complex view on his meteoric rise. “I did not think of myself as a Black man succeeding,” he told People, “I thought of myself as a human being succeeding.” But he also admitted, “I want people to look up to me because I’m a success story.” Indeed, he inspired countless Black creatives.

“Without you, there would be no me. Thank you for paving the way,” said Edward Enninful, the first Black editor in chief of British Vogue. And makeup artist Pat McGrath said, “André blazed trails and opened doors.”

In addition to his tenure at Vogue, Talley appeared as a judge on America’s Next Top Model, was the subject of documentary The Gospel According to André and chronicled his highs and lows in two memoirs, A.L.T. and The Chiffon Trenches. When he was awarded France’s Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions to his field in 2021, he said it was “the best day of my life.”

Talley lived alone in White Plains (the trauma he experienced as a child prevented him from knowing “what intimacy is,” he said) and found constant comfort in his faith, attending services weekly. Though he “hadn’t been in the greatest health,” his friend designer Diane von Fürstenberg says, “he was working on a new book. He was in high spirits.” So much so that when he entered the hospital days before his death and requested something to read, she says he rejected what was offered, proclaiming it “boring.” Talley never settled for boring. Said couturier Dapper Dan: “His life was a master class on how to design greatness.”

When first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman appeared on Vogue’s May 2021 cover, André Leon Talley celebrated on Instagram. “ALL IN!” the famed fashion editor wrote. Then, he schooled: “It is historical because a black man @virgilabloh of @louisvuitton designed the Kente cloth, classic African heritage cotton, from his native Ghanaian culture,” he explained. It was quintessential Talley. “He was a walking encyclopedia,” model Beverly Johnson recalls.

“He could break fashion all the way down to the beginning and back again—and in French!”

When Talley died on Jan. 18 at age 73 of a reported heart attack, the outpouring of tributes recognized the indelible mark he left on a historically white and elitist industry—but also the unfettered joy he had for fashion. Designer Michael Kors called him “a remarkable human being full of strength, style, smarts and humor.” Mourned designer Marc Jacobs: “You and your passions were larger than life.”

Talley—who stood at 6'6" with a booming voice—gained his expertise through a lifetime of study and hard work. He W i t h r e p o r t i n g b y A N D R E A L A V I N T H A L , was raised in the Jim Crow South in Durham, N.C., by his E L I Z A B E T H M c N E I L , J A S O N S H E E L E R grandmother, who worked as a maid. At age 9, he was sexu- a n d B R I T T A N Y T A L A R I C O ally abused by “many” men for years. “I was afraid to tell anyone,” he told People in 2020. His respite: fashion magazines. “I would devour them, hanging the pages on the wall—Naomi Sims, Pat Cleveland, the great African American models,” he said.

“I made my own world.” And he made that fantasy a reality. After graduating from North Carolina Central University, he earned a master’s Anna Wintour Norma Kamali Naomi Campbell degree in French literature The Vogue editor (with Talley in 2007) The designer (with The supermodel (with from Brown University and acknowledged there were “complicated Talley in 2011) lauded him in 2014) shared moved to New York City. moments” in their decades-long relationship how he worked “with the memories of their 2019 but added: “All I want to remember today, all expectation that he was There he worked with Diana trip to Nigeria, where I care about, is the brilliant and compassiongoing to be a success he mentored aspiring Vreeland at the Metropoliate man who was a generous and loving by being more curious, creatives: “Seeing you so tan Museum of Art, as well friend to me and to my family for many, many informed and talented happy . . . is how I choose years and who we will all miss so much.” than everyone else.” as Andy Warhol at Interview to remember you.”

Friends Remember André

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TLC’S SHAUNA RAE

‘I’m 22 years old– but I look like I’m 8’

AFTER SURVIVING BRAIN CANCER AS A CHILD, S H A U N A R A E L E S I C K N E A R LY S T O P P E D G R O W I N G .

NOW 3'10", SHE’S SHARING HER WORLD ON TV

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Speaking Her Mind

“I’ve always been sassy and quickwitted,” says Lesick (putting on makeup at home and, inset, with sister Rylee, 18).

“Because I was short, I knew if I acted like I owned the place, people would leave me alone.”

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Shauna Rae Lesick is used to being mistaken for a child. When she goes to a restaurant with her family, the 22-year-old often is handed the kids’ menu as she reaches for the cocktail list. “It’s always difficult because [servers] think I’m underage,” says Lesick, who stands 3'10", about the height of an average 8-year-old. “There’s a very long stare at my ID.” Even her former job as a coffee shop barista had complications: “Someone was always like, ‘That’s child labor!’ ” But Lesick doesn’t dwell on strangers’ opinions of her. “I see the looks, I hear the comments, but I don’t let them bother me,” she says. “I just brush it off.”

Attaining that mindset hasn’t been easy for Lesick, who has an uncommon form of dwarfism caused by damage to her pituitary gland. When she was 6 months old, she was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor that required surgery and three years of chemotherapy. The treatments were successful, but when Lesick was 5, doctors discovered that her pituitary (which is responsible for producing hormones in the body that control metabolism and growth) had been rendered dormant. Synthetic hormone injections helped her grow another 8 in. in height, but when puberty hit at 16, her bones

INSET: TLC

permanently fused, leaving her just shy of 4 ft. tall. “My mind has matured way past my body,” she says. For years she felt angry, but now Lesick is determined to live life to the fullest—and to share what it’s like to be a young, single woman with her condition on her new TLC reality series, I Am Shauna Rae, which follows her and her family at home on New York’s Long Island. “If I stay upset at the world, I’m not going to get anywhere,” she says. “So I do the opposite. It’s worked out way better. I know I’m stronger and more resilient because of this.”

Fa m i l y S u p p o r t “I had no awareness that I was short until middle school,” says Lesick (left, in first grade, and right, with mom Patty, stepdad Mark, and sisters Tara and Rylee in December). “Then there was a significant difference.”

Lesick and her sisters Tara, 24, and Rylee, 18,

were raised in Pittsburgh by her mom Patty, 52, a restaurant general manager, and stepdad Mark Schrankel, 55, who works as a shipping auditor.

(Lesick’s father, Scott, a car salesman, and Patty divorced when Shauna was 2.) Lesick has no recollection of her cancer or chemotherapy because she was so young, but she does remember going through years of hormone injection cycles—the first from age 5 until 7 and the second from 12 to 16—which entailed getting a shot in the arms, stomach, butt or legs every day to help her grow. “I would bruise and stiffen, and the veins would pop out in my arm and stay like that for a week,” she says. “I was all banged up.” When she was 16, her doctors said there was nothing more they could do. “It was like glass falling on a floor,” she recalls. “I always pictured that I was going to be taller and that I would have what I thought was a normal life. It was a loss for me, and I had to grieve.”

‘I know I’m stronger and more resilient because of this’ —SHAUNA RAE LESICK

After Lesick’s mother, Patty, noticed a strange bump on her 6-month-old’s head, doctors diagnosed Lesick with stage 4 glioma, a type of tumor that arises from cells in the brain and spinal cord. Chemotherapy saved Lesick’s life but affected her pituitary gland, which produces growth hormones.

Fewer than 8,000 people in the United States have Lesick’s type of pituitary dwarfism caused by growth-hormone deficiency.

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Surviving a Brain Tumor

As Lesick struggled to cope, she cut ties with friends and began isolating herself, which she admits “probably wasn’t the healthiest thing to do.” The family moved to Long Island, and Lesick transitioned to homeschooling for her junior and senior years of high school. “I had to work through all of the issues that I had with myself,” she says.

Eventually her perspective began to shift. “There were days where I was extremely upset, but I tried to have more positive than negative days,” she says, crediting her mom and stepdad for teaching her to be self-sufficient: “My parents never accommodated me growing up. They always told me, ‘You will find a way to do it.’ ” Her parents have also made her acutely aware of some of the harsh realities of her situation. “I have to take different steps than everyone else, because being out in the world can be dangerous for me,” Lesick says. “Someone’s always going to think they can overpower me. I have to think about that.” When it comes to dating, Lesick has had boyfriends, but she’s very cautious about the partners she chooses. “My parents have put in my head all the people that could be attracted to me and why they could be attracted to me,” she says. “I’m always looking for a red flag.” So are her extremely protective family members. When she introduces dates to them, “they are full of questions,” she says.

“They are looking at body language, evaluating the situation, and trying to understand the personality that they’re dealing with.”

Making Her Own Choices

“My tattoos may help me look older, but at the end of the day I have them for personal reasons,” says Lesick (with her mom at a tattoo shop in October).

Despite the unique challenges,

Lesick remains hopeful that the right partner is out there for her. As Ready for Romance Protective Parents for having a family of her own one Lesick’s sisters encouraged her to try online “I understand where my family is coming from,” says day, she’s undecided. “I’m still dating. “My only requirement is that [dates] Lesick (with Mark last August). “I’m grateful, but are taller than me, which isn’t hard,” she jokes. there’s some areas where they could be a little looser.” really young and haven’t made up my mind,” says Lesick. She does is to start driving,” she says. “If other people with want to find out whether she’s able to carry a dwarfism can sit in the front or drive, then I child, especially since chemotherapy can affect should be able to too.” She’d also like to eventufertility. She says she recently saw an ob-gyn “to ally move out of her parents’ home. The location get that process started to determine if I could or would have to be “somewhere that’s highly safe I couldn’t.” For now, though, Lesick’s top priority and not too far from their front door,” she says is gaining more independence. “A big goal for me with a laugh. For her mom, letting go isn’t easy.

“I worry a little bit more about Shauna making Lesick fits mistakes,” says Patty. “We try and disguise [our into the fridge at fears] and don’t always do a good job, but there age 16. are real concerns. At the end of the day, you just want the best for your kids. You try and keep them safe from the outside forces.”

As Lesick thinks about her future, she’s focused on her next career moves—she hopes to work in fashion to create more clothing options for little —MOM PATTY people—and she wants to make more connections SCHRANKEL within the community. “I’ve never actually met someone else with dwarfism,” she says. “But because of the show on TLC, people have reached out, and it’s really helped me understand that I’m not alone. Everything that has happened, I’m so grateful for. It’s all fallen into place.”

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LOUIE ANDERSON | 1953-2022

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T H E LOVA B L E CO M E D I A N OV E R C A M E A T R AU M AT I C C H I L D H O O D W I T H T H E H E L P O F L AU G H T E R— A N D T R I U M P H E D O N T H E S TA N D - U P S TAG E A N D I N M E M O R A B L E T V A N D M OV I E R O L E S

By T O M G L I AT T O

In 2019, just after concluding his Emmy-winning run on the eccentric FX sitcom Baskets, comedian Louie Anderson was thinking about his next project—a never-to-be-realized series, Tiggsly, on which he’d be a talking cat. This seemed as natural an idea to him as his curveball Baskets role: He’d played Zach Galifianakis’s thorny, weary old mother, Christine. “I’m kind of a catlike person, you know,” Anderson told Los Angeles Magazine. “I like to lay around and have people pet me.”

The gentlest and perhaps most gently needy of stand-up comedians, the 68-year-old Anderson died Jan. 21 of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Las Vegas, surrounded by family. He was one of 11 siblings and had spoken often of their tough early years growing up poor in St. Paul with their father, Louis, an abusive alcoholic, and mother, Ora. But Anderson also believed in forgiveness and the gift of laughter.

Golden Moment

He won an Emmy for the role of Baskets matriarch Christine in 2016 (he would be nominated two more times). “I have not always been a very good man,” he said, “but I play one hell of a woman!”

“He was caring and tender,” Galifianakis said in a statement. “And you learn that his tenderness was born out of pain. Makes you love him even more.”

His death came only a few weeks after the passing of another treasured comedian, Anderson’s friend Bob Saget, who once called him “America’s sweetheart.”

Anderson was a versatile performer: He hosted Family Feud (1999-2002), voiced his own cartoon series, Life With Louie (1994-98)—for which he won two daytime Emmys—and played the eager employee of a fast-food chain in Coming to America (1988) and its 2021 sequel. (Star Eddie Murphy wanted an all-Black cast for the original but has said that the studio insisted on hiring one white performer: “We knew Louie was cool.”) Then there was his revelatory turn as Baskets’ Christine, a character he modeled on his own mother—he even tweaked lines to reflect the way she’d spoken. It was from Ora, he said, that he learned a chief life lesson: “Be nice to people. You never know what kind of day they had.”

Anderson’s bruising childhood was a subject that cast a shadow over his comedy. He addressed it both in his act and in a series of books, including Dear Dad: Letters From an Adult Child. “Family meant

T h e To n i g h t S h o w

His 1984 debut with Johnny Carson made him a star. “I remember like it was yesterday,” he wrote on Instagram in 2020.

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Coming to America

Anderson appeared in both the 1988 Eddie Murphy hit (above) and the 2021 sequel (right). “I loved it,” he said of reuniting. “It was the most fun thing in the world.”

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Baskets

“Baskets is not for everyone,” Anderson said of Zach Galifianakis’s cult-hit comedy, “but Baskets is for everyone who needs it.”

A F a m i l y T h a t P l a y s To g e t h e r

The former Family Feud host joined members of his extended family—Nettie, Jim, James and Valerie Anderson—for a 2017 episode. His advice for families, according to friend Carl Kurlander: “Tell each other you love each other.”

everything to him,” says Carl Kurlander, who cowrote Anderson’s 2002 memoir The F Word: How to Survive Your Family. “He made everybody into family.”

But his father’s ghost wasn’t easily exorcised, said Anderson, and the trauma contributed to his lifelong struggle with weight. “It’s a big problem,” he told the Orlando Sentinel in 1989. “It’s my substance abuse, it’s my addiction.”

But stand-up was salvation. According to Kurlander, Anderson was employed as a social worker in St. Paul when he went out on a comedy club stage as a dare. “The minute he got up,” says Kurlander, “he got laughs.” After his breakthrough 1984 gig on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, Anderson (whose only marriage, to his former high school sweetheart in 1985, lasted just four weeks) performed around 100 shows annually over the next four decades. He never tired of it. Although he loved his Baskets role—he was cast because the show’s creators imagined the character with his voice—“stand-up comedian is what I do,” he said.

Ultimately comedy helped him meet the challenges of each day and kept him anticipating the years to come. “Why don’t we have an incentive to reach 100?” he once joked to the Los Angeles Times.

“You should get a brand-new car at 100.

Even if you can’t drive it, you can sit in it.”

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MACKLEMORE “My recovery is contingent on my spiritual maintenance,” says Macklemore (inset: with Ryan Lewis in 2012).

‘Sobriety Saved My Life’ THE RAPPER SHARES D E TA I L S A B O U T H I S R E CO V E RY J O U R N E Y— AND EXPLAINS HOW HE’S USING HIS P L AT F O R M TO H E L P OTHER ADDICTS

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In the summer of 2020, with the world in lockdown and his schedule of touring and recording music suspended indefinitely, Macklemore was struggling. In recovery for 13 years, he relapsed again. “It was really painful for myself and for the people who loved me,” says the Grammy-winning rapper, 38. “I stopped doing the work.”

The circumstances of the time made doing that work a more formidable challenge. “When I have to be still and exist within my own head, that’s where my disease lives,” he says. “The rooms of recovery were shut down, and I stopped tapping into Zooms and doing my step work.” Of course, he wasn’t alone. According to Dr. Lawrence Weinstein, chief medical officer at American Addiction Centers, the pandemic has resulted in a steep increase in substance use and abuse. “It’s produced the perfect storm of unfortunate circumstances that can cause someone to relapse,” he says. “Anxiety and depression have been exacerbated, and it can all be too much to bear.”

Understanding the pervasiveness of addiction has inspired Macklemore to use his platform as a way to share his story with anyone who needs to hear it. In January he became an investor and creative director for Yerba Maté beverage’s CLEAN Cause initiative, which supports individuals in recovery by donating 50 percent of net profits to fund sober-living scholarships. “I don’t want to pretend like I don’t have this disease,” he says.

“This is the only disease that we can’t be publicly open about and get compassion. Immediately there’s a judgment that’s attached to it. The only

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In 2014 Macklemore, who released the new single “Next Year” in October, and his musical partner Ryan Lewis won four Grammys.

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Love Wins

“Same Love” was adopted as an anthem for same-sex marriage support.

(Below: Macklemore and Mary Lambert in 2017.)

Keeping It Clean

Macklemore says his new support partnership with Yerba Maté “speaks to [his] heart,” as he knows many addicts can’t afford rehab.

way to deconstruct that is to talk about it.”

Macklemore (born Ben Haggerty) first entered treatment in 2008 after years of battling substance abuse. He started experimenting with drugs and alcohol at age 14, smuggling drinks from his parents’ liquor cabinet and slipping quickly from a solid B student to nearly failing out of high school. “I remember from the very beginning never having any moderation,” says the star, who still lives in Seattle, where he was raised. “I loved the feeling of losing my inhibitions.” Though his life’s passion sometimes tempered his use—“I wanted to make music, and drugs stifle my creativity,” he says—Macklemore is certain he’d be dead if his father, Bill, hadn’t urged him to seek treatment.

“I’ll never forget my dad asking me, ‘Are you happy?’ And in my head I was like, ‘Absolutely not. I don’t really want to be here anymore.’ ” That painful realization led him to his first stint in rehab, which was successful. Then in 2011 he briefly relapsed—“The trust that I once built’s been betrayed/But I’d rather live tellin’ the truth than be judged for my mistakes,” he raps on his song “Starting Over” about the setback— before staying clean for three and a half years. During that period he and producer Ryan Lewis hit No. 1 with their debut single, “Thrift Shop,” and went platinum with their first studio album, The Heist, which won them four Grammys, including Best New Artist. “Everything happened really fast,” he says of the whirlwind success that led to another relapse in 2014.

“I stopped going to meetings. I stopped prioritizing my recovery. I look back at that time, and, as amazing as it was, there were definitely parts of it that were really dark.”

Finding out he was going to be a father that same year was a turning point. With the support of his wife, Tricia Davis, whom he married in 2015 after they’d been together for nine years, Macklemore pushed himself to get clean before they welcomed their first child.

“I remember being like, ‘I don’t ever want my kids to see me loaded.’

There was this relief like, ‘Okay, now I can stay clean for someone else,’ ” recalls Mackle-

‘Recovery has given me a life beyond my wildest imagination’

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Challenges o f Fa m e

Amid nonstop touring and “crazy” scheduling, Macklemore (in 2021) relapsed after releasing The Heist in 2012.

“That was the darkest time,” he says.

Macklemore cuddled up to son Hugo in November.

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Macklemore and Davis in 2014.

These days the rapper finds the most fulfillment in quality time with his children and his wife, Tricia Davis, whom he dated for seven years before proposing in 2013. “It’s talking to my kids and hearing how their day was or eating dinner with my wife and reflecting on our day,” he says. “She is an incredible force, and I am very lucky to have her as a partner in all aspects.”

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more, who’s now dad to three kids, daughters Sloane, 6, Colette, 3, and son Hugo, 6 months. “But that’s not how this disease works. My kids can’t keep me clean. I have to do the work.” He’s also learned to put less weight on sobriety milestones.

“It doesn’t matter how I feel in this moment or what I did yesterday for my recovery,” says Macklemore, who no longer counts how many days he’s been clean. “It’s like, ‘What am I doing today?’ ” Recovery remains an ongoing process, and Macklemore is committed to being open about his struggles. “[His] ability to share honestly about his experiences is why I love songwriting with him,” says singer Mary Lambert, with whom he collaborated on the 2012 hit “Same Love.” “I’ve lost count of the amount of people who have told me his songs about addiction and even relapsing have helped them heal and find strength. It’s nice to have a hero who is walking the same path as you.”

For Macklemore, being honest means having candid conversations with his children. His oldest daughter is aware that dad, like 22 million other Americans, is in recovery. “Why would I hide it?

It is who I am,” says Macklemore, who considers his close relationship with his kids his “greatest” success. “In terms of Daddy’s sober meetings that he needs to go to, she’s well aware and has been for quite some time.” As he continues to work in the studio—“I’m close,” he teases of new music— Macklemore hopes his efforts to break the stigma of addiction will help encourage others. “Getting that help saved my life,” he says. “I hope that people will come out of the shadows, that the guilt and the shame of the disease of addiction lessen and we don’t feel like we need to hide anymore.”

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In class at the 6th & 7th Grade Academy at Ben Franklin in Muskogee, Okla., on Dec. 9, 2021, Davyon Johnson was startled when a fellow student ran in, frantically whispering, “I’m choking, I’m choking.”

The student had opened a water bottle with his mouth and its cap was stuck in his throat.

Though Davyon had never attempted the Heimlich maneuver—he’d watched some YouTube videos of it—he wrapped his arms around the boy’s abdomen and squeezed tightly. “I just hoped I would know how to do it,” he says. “It was very scary.” The bottle cap flew out of the boy’s mouth, and as principal Latricia Dawkins got to the scene, “Davyon was consoling the boy, telling him, ‘I’m so glad you’re okay.’ ”

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Just hours later, on the drive home from school, Davyon was recounting his day to mom LaToya Johnson, 38, when she noticed smoke from what she thought must be a campfire in a residential neighborhood. “I told my mom to turn the car around,” Davyon says. “I could see it was a fire in a house.” As soon as his mom stopped the car, Davyon raced to the burning home’s front porch, where an elderly woman with a walker was struggling to move. As he helped her to safety, “I was telling her, ‘It’s going to be okay,’ ” Davyon recalls. “The fire started in the back and got to the front. She could have passed away.”

It was a rush for the young hero: “It makes me feel incredible that I saved two people’s lives in one day.”

His bravery is something he has said he owes to his father, Willie James Logan, who died of COVID-19 in August at age 52. When Davyon was asked why he ran to a burning house, “he said it was something he knew his father would do,” says Dawkins, “and he could just hear his voice.”

While Davyon looks out for anyone else who needs help, he’s thinking of his future. “I like the EMT thing,” he says. “And I’ve been thinking about becoming a doctor or a nurse. I want to be in the medical field, period.”

Alert & Brave Aussie (with pet turtle) was recognized by her town (right with family, in May 2021) after the fire (below).

A s Fi r e E n g u l f e d H e r H o m e, She Became a Human Alarm AUSSIE TALBOTT, 10

A F a t h e r ’s Inspiration

“That was his hero,” says school principal Latricia Dawkins of Davyon (at a visit to the grave of his dad, Willie James Logan).

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Shortly after 4 a.m. on April 21, 2021, Aussie Talbott was jolted out of a deep sleep and into a reallife nightmare. Noticing a strange glow coming from her bedroom window, the fifth grader looked outside to see flames on the front porch of her Summerville, S.C., home. Her mother, stepfather, 16-year-old brother and the family’s two dogs were sleeping, completely silent. “I was scared,” says Aussie. “I didn’t really know what to do except wake everybody up.” The 10-year-old pushed her terror aside, sprang out of her bed and began running from room to room, screaming over and over, “The house is on fire! Get up!”

“It felt like a dream,” says mom Kelly Rowe. “The dogs never barked. No one knew anything, because the fire was in the attic.”

Less than two minutes after

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Aussie’s screams got the family up and out safely to a neighbor’s yard, they all watched helplessly as the attic caved in, the windows blew out and flames completely devoured their ranch-style home. “When we got outside, the emotions started kicking in,” Aussie says. “It was scary. And surprising. And sad.”

Now living in a new house five miles from the ruins of their old one, Aussie’s family are rebuilding their lives and counting their blessings—especially Aussie’s quick thinking. “My family could have been planning four funerals,” says Kelly. “We’re really thankful we’re still here.” As for Aussie waking up and taking action that fateful morning, “it wasn’t luck,” says Kelly. “She had an angel looking out for her.”

Happy Ending

On a family vacation in Fort Lauderdale at the Royal Beach Palace Hotel on June 18, 2021, 10-year-old Waiden Guerrier was poolside with his Brooklyn neighbor Jennifer Jean-Baptiste, 39, who had joined Waiden and mom Carine Senat-Guerrier on the trip. After paddling in the water for a while, Jean-Baptiste— who is not an experienced swimmer—began to struggle.

“I just felt disoriented,” she says.

“I lost my footing. I couldn’t feel the bottom of the pool, and I freaked out.” Jean-Baptiste lost consciousness, sinking to the bottom of the pool. “I saw that she stopped moving,” says Waiden. “I was very scared and very shocked.” A strong swimmer who had taken lessons for years, Waiden dived under the water, grabbed Jean-Baptiste and began swimming harder than he ever had in his young life. “She was unconscious,” he says, “so she was very heavy.” Using all his strength,

Waiden Guerrier (top and above, with Fort Lauderdale firefighters) saved Jennifer Jean-Baptiste (with him, right, in glasses).

Waiden dragged Jean-Baptiste to the shallow end of the pool, where he held her head above water and yelled for help. His mom called 911, and paramedics soon arrived to treat Jean-Baptiste, who made a full recovery. “He was a trouper,” says mom Carine. “I wouldn’t have been able to [do it].” The Fort Lauderdale Fire Department gave Waiden a rescue award for his lifesaving swim. “If not for the actions of this quick-thinking young man, this incident would’ve undoubtedly ended horribly,” says Fire Captain Seamus Murphy.

Back home in Brooklyn, friendfor-life Jean-Baptiste remains in awe of Waiden. “The boy weighs 40 lbs. soaking wet,” she says.

“How did he do that?”

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“Downhill skiing is the closest thing to flying without being in a plane,” says Shiffrin (at the 2018 Winter Olympics).

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‘I’M GETTING MY FIRE BACK’ Skiing Sensation Mikaela Shiffrin

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Olympic ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin has long been considered one of her sport’s most unflappable competitors—a fearless athlete whose comfort zone is rocketing down a mountain at 80 mph.

But off the slopes some runs have been harder to weather. After finishing a disappointing fourth in the slalom in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics—and despite winning a gold medal in the giant slalom and a silver in the Alpine combined—Shiffrin suddenly found herself inundated with hate-filled messages on her social media accounts. “I was eight-hundredths of a second away from a medal, and people were telling me not to come home because I was such a disappointment.” Shiffrin recalls. “There can be a lot of pressure for athletes who are depicted as favorites. You feel like you’ve let down the whole country.”

More painful still was the sudden death of her 65-year-old father and mentor, Jeff Shiffrin, in 2020. The devastating loss left her wondering if she even wanted to keep competing. “He taught me so many important lessons,” she says. “He’s still having an impact on my life.” But the two-time Olympic gold

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“My older brother joined the ski-racing club when he was 7,” recalls Shiffrin (ca. 2002). “So I joined too.”

E A R LY D A Y S

“My first time skiing was with my mom and dad in our driveway,” says Shiffrin (in Vail, Colo., ca. 2001, with her parents and older brother Taylor).

A LOVING DAD

“My father was really good at showing gratitude,” says Shiffrin (with Jeff in Maui in 2016). “I try to remember that on a daily basis when I’m down.”

BIGGEST FANS “Both of my parents are absolutely essential to my sanity in the sport,” Shiffrin (in Vermont in 2019) told People in 2014.

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medalist and six-time world champion also knows her dad would never have wanted her to give up on her dreams. The 26-year-old has already notched up a stunning four World Cup victories this season as she gears up for this month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, where she could compete in as many as five events. “I’m not even close to being done grieving,” she says, “but every day I feel that spark and motivation returning. It’s like healing from an injury. You get to the point where you can race again, but it still hurts sometimes.”

Few ski racers have started their careers with as much promise as Shiffrin, an Alpine wunderkind whose parents, Jeff and Eileen, 62, along with her older brother Taylor, 29, were competitive skiers. Born in Vail, Colo., she made her World Cup debut at age 15, then became the youngest American to win at the U.S. Nationals championships when she was 16. Two years later she won her first gold medal at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. “It was very exciting,” recalls Shiffrin, who says she didn’t sleep for three days afterward. “The Olympics are this whirlwind of excitement, emotion and pride.”

And Shiffrin was just getting started. Since then she’s won a staggering 73 World Cup victories, a total that only Lindsey Vonn (with 82 wins) and Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark (with 86) have surpassed. “I think about it,” says Shiffrin, who’s on the verge of beating both Vonn’s and Stenmark’s records and becoming the winningest ski racer— male or female—in the world. “But I definitely don’t take it for granted. Every race you win is hard. It’s never, ever easy.”

Arguably, her most difficult challenge came in February 2020, when her father—an anesthesiologist who could often be found taking photos of his daughter at her races—died from a head injury following an accident at the family’s home

A ‘FAST AND FURIOUS’ CAREER

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Shiffrin was all smiles after winning a World Cup competition in Sweden in 2012.

“Even though I had a sinus infection during the race, everything worked out,” says Shiffrin, who won gold at the 2014 Games.

PYEONGCHANG VICTORY “Winning my second gold was surreal,” says Shiffrin (at the 2018 Winter Olympics).

KINDRED SPIRITS

“In my opinion he’s the best skier in the world,” says Shiffrin of boyfriend Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, a top-ranked downhill racer from Norway.

“I’m very inspired by him.”

in Edwards, Colo. “It definitely changed me,” she says. “There are a lot of little things and moments with him that I wish I’d appreciated more. As an athlete [I find] it’s so easy to get caught up in winning a medal or worried that you’re disappointing your nation. But now I understand that much worse things can happen.”

While Shiffrin considered giving up competitive skiing in the wake of her dad’s death, losing one of her biggest supporters has ultimately strengthened her passion for the sport. “I still

‘WITH EVERY DAY THAT PASSES, I’M ABLE TO PUT MORE ENERGY BACK INTO SKIING’

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“I’m proud of what I’ve done up to this point,” says Shiffrin (at the World Cup in Courchevel, France, in December).

love it,” says Shiffrin, who spends 10 months a year on the road competing and training. “I’ve learned you have to live your life, do the things you like and be who you are. I’m getting my fire back.” She credits her boyfriend, top-ranked Norwegian downhill skier Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, 29, with helping her come to terms with her loss. “I couldn’t have survived without him,” says Shiffrin, who started dating Aamodt Kilde in December 2020. “We’ve had so many of the same experiences and are on such a similar wavelength that there’s never any pressure to feel like I have to choose between him or my job.”

Shiffrin’s job in the coming weeks will be to win as many medals as she can in Beijing—despite never having raced on the mountain where the Alpine events will be held because of the pandemic. “I’m excited,” says Shiffrin. “But it’s a little nerve-racking.” Still, there’s no place else she’d rather be—at least for now. “I’m most likely closer to the end of my career than I am to the beginning,” she admits. “If I had a checklist, I think it would all be pretty much checked off at this point.

But I know that I can still push things a little bit farther and accomplish just a little bit more.”

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“I love talking about what I’ve done,” says Sheedy (with her Breakfast Club costars Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall).

T H I R T Y- S E V E N YEARS AFTER THE BREAKFAST CLUB , THE ACTRESS IS REVELING IN MOTHERHOOD, A NEW TV ROLE AND HER PA S S I O N F O R TEACHING

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In addition to being a veteran actress with an enduring career, Ally Sheedy has been spending recent years as a college professor—and like many other educators, she was forced to pivot to online learning during the pandemic. “We figured out a way to do it,” says Sheedy, 59, who now teaches her acting class at the City College of New York via Zoom. “I fell in love with teaching 10 years ago. I have such an affinity for these kids because they’re the age I was when I started working. I’m telling them everything I wish I had known.”

While she appreciates being able to share knowledge by revisiting her past, Sheedy is also enjoying her present. She has a close relationship with her 27-year-old son Beckett (his dad is actor David Lansbury, her ex-husband) and a new TV series, Single Drunk Female, on the cable network Freeform. “This is a good phase right now,” says Sheedy.

On Single Drunk Female she plays Carol, the widowed mother of a 28-year-old daughter navigating sobriety. Sheedy says she was drawn to the issues the show explores—“addiction is so prevalent right now”—as well as the complicated dynamic between Carol and her daughter Samantha, played by Sofia Black-D’Elia. “Ally is the best mentor a gal could ask for,” says BlackD’Elia, 30. “Our relationship, onscreen and off, has been the highlight of this gig for me.”

While shooting the drama, Sheedy has reflected on how her own parenting role shifted as Beckett, a teacher, entered adulthood. “I love watching him develop in his career and in his life, but I also love when he needs me, whether it’s for advice or just helping him get a new mattress,” says the star, who lives in New York City with her greyhound Song. Sheedy has been open about the journey she and Beckett

Passionate Parent

“I want him to be able to do what he wants with his life,” says Sheedy of her son Beckett (at his 2019 college graduation).

Bottom: She guest-taught an acting workshop on close-ups at the University of Pittsburgh in 2019.

Sheedy Onscreen

The Breakfast Club (1985)

“It was such an unbelievable gift,” says Sheedy (with Molly Ringwald) of the teen classic.

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She and her costars played recent college grads in Washington, D.C., in her second big hit of the year.

High Art (1998)

Sheedy (with costar Radha Mitchell) earned critical acclaim for her role as photographer Lucy in the indie drama.

Single Drunk Female (2022)

“I felt such an affinity for her,” says Sheedy of her role as single mom Carol on the Freeform series.

embarked upon when he came out as trans in his teens. “Beck doesn’t hide anything,” she says. “And I feel very comfortable talking with parents whose kid may be at the beginning of the transition process. It’s very important for parents to educate themselves.”

Born in New York City and raised by mom Charlotte, a writer, and dad John, an ad executive, Sheedy moved to L.A. to attend college and was 23 when she broke out in 1985 with The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo’s Fire. In part because of the success of both movies and the perceived untouchable coolness of their stars— who included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald and Demi Moore—the actress became identified as part of the iconic Brat Pack. “It was a different world in the ’80s,” Sheedy recalls. “But as far as learning how to handle the business, it hasn’t changed that much. I still love talking about all the films I’ve done. I can remember everything I was doing at the time I was making them.”

Like many actors for whom success came at warp speed, Sheedy eventually found herself at a career crossroads. “When I was in my 20s, work was coming to me that just felt really beautifully flowing,” she says.

“And then there was a period where I was just not finding the right thing. I felt like I could do so much more as an actor than what was available. I wanted to be Debra Winger, but I kept getting offered one comedy thing after the next.

It was like, ‘How am I going to transition?’ ” She returned to New York and began working with an acting coach who “believed I could do more than I had done.” In 1998 Sheedy starred in High Art, an acclaimed drama that garnered her an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress. “It was the right thing at the right time, but it took years for that to happen,” she recalls. “That’s the same feeling I have about the show I’m doing now.”

Sheedy’s sense of satisfaction extends to her relationship with her son. She admits she initially feared for him, but she’s found peace in accepting that he’ll find his own way. “I want him to have the freedom to work where he wants to work and surround himself with a loving community, and he’s been able to do that,” she says. “He’s very independent. I’ve tried to just watch and give him that room to run.”

While she’s at it, she’s doing the same thing for herself. “I’m learning all the time,” she says.

“And I still love what I do.”

‘This is a good phase . . .

I’ve learned a lot’

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Lylah Baker was a happy, healthy little girl who loved story time and the beach—until she came down with what doctors thought was a stomach bug. One week later her family found themselves at the center of a medical mystery

‘Our Life Has Turned Upside Down’

By C A I T L I N K E AT I N G Photographs by MARIE D. DE JESUS

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Saving Lylah

“We hope our story can help others,” says Josy Baker (at home with daughter Lylah in September 2021).

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The Long Road to Recovery

Lylah spent a month in the ICU undergoing tests. “It was a roller coaster,” says Dustin.

A Special Homecoming

“There were people with signs and glow sticks,” Dustin recalls of the Aug. 11 welcome. “It was so surreal.”

D a d d y ’s G i r l s

“I’m home every day [after work] to be there for them,” says Dustin (with Adelaide, left, and Lylah).

Determined Caregivers

“The goal is to get her walking, talking, eating and drinking all on her own,” says Josy.

The symptoms came on slowly. First 4-year-old with Semi-Precious Gemstones. (People and BetLylah Baker had an upset stomach. Then she develter Homes & Gardens are both owned by Dotdash oped a low-grade fever. Yet a visit to her pediatrician Meredith.) “We’re still working on how the bactedidn’t turn up anything serious. By week’s end, ria got into the product,” says Dr. William Bower however, it became clear that the Bells, Texas, preof the CDC, which issued a recall of the product in schooler was struggling. “She was lethargic, having October. “It could have gotten in through the water to be carried and crying if she had to walk,” recalls used to make the product, or those semiprecious her dad, Dustin. “She’d never acted like that before.” gemstones may have also been contaminated.”

Then on the morning of May 31, 2021, things For the Bakers, how it happened is less importtook a dramatic turn for the worse. “She threw ant than what happens now. Their focus is on up her medicine and couldn’t pick her head up Lylah, who’s shown some improvement in recent A Bright to keep from getting sick on herself,” says Lylah’s months but is still unable to walk or talk. “You do Little Girl mom, Josy, who promptly called Dustin at work. anything for your kids,” says Josy, 26. “I could not “She was always so smiley and giggly,” “I was freaking out. He was like, ‘Go to the ER. Go look back if I wanted to. This is where we are.” says Josy of now. I’ll meet you there.’ ” Lylah (before she It was the beginning of an eight-month ordeal got sick). “She’s a supersmart that, for now, has no clear end in sight for Lylah Before Lylah’s illness, life in the Baker home had kid. She loves or her parents. Following several weeks of tests— been close to idyllic. In January 2020 the famschool, and she including a five-hour brain biopsy—in the ICU, ily had moved to a small farm in Bells, about 70 had an immense vocabulary.” doctors at Children’s Medical Center in Plano, miles north of Dallas, to be near their extended Texas, diagnosed Lylah with melioidosis, a rare disease caused by the bacterium Burkholderia pseu‘We’re going to plan for the best domallei. Because the bacterium is and get her everything she needs’ found only in Northern Australia —DUSTIN BAKER and Southeast Asia, doctors were baffled as to how Lylah could have been exposed to it—until three other cases of the disease popped up in Kansas, Minnesota and Georgia. By studying the commonalities among the victims, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eventually traced the source of the bacteria to an air-freshener spray that had been sold at Walmart under the brand name Better Homes & Gardens Lavender and Chamomile Aromatherapy Spray

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CLOCKWISE FROM CENTER: COURTESY OF THE BAKER FAMILY(4)

T Mystery Illness

Finding Joy

“It’s literally smiles from sunup to sundown,” says Josy (at therapy with Lylah, in December 2021).

“She’s not giving up.”

Hope and Progress

TOP RIGHT TO LEFT: COURTESY OF THE BAKER FAMILY(2)

Lylah has weekly occupational and physical therapy. “She’s able to keep her neck up on her own now,” says Josy. “It just brightens our day.”

family—including Dustin’s mom, Nina, who would often look after Lylah and her little sister Adelaide, 2, while Dustin and Josy worked. “We love being outside,” says Dustin, 26, a fire-protection technician. “Lylah loves the cows. She loves running barefoot and playing with her cousins out in the little pond.”

While Adelaide was a “rambunctious, loud and proud” little girl, says Dustin, Lylah was more reserved. “She was always very sweet, quiet, polite. And so giggly.”

While the first signs that Lylah was sick seemed innocent enough, even then Josy sensed something was seriously wrong. “She just wasn’t herself,” she recalls. Not long after she was admitted to the hospital in Bells, Lylah was transferred by ambulance to the ICU in Plano. Josy rode with her, and by the time they arrived, “she was just laying there,” she says. “It was just one specialist and nurse after another coming in and just asking all of these questions.” Over the next few days Lylah was prescribed several different antibiotics—“literally everything,” says Dustin—but nothing seemed to work.

Once the bacterial infection was identified, Josy recalls a moment of relief. “It almost felt like I could breathe again,” she says. “It had a name. It wasn’t just this shadow in the dark that was terrorizing our baby.” Then came the investigation. The CDC traced the Burkholderia pseudomallei to the air freshener that Dustin’s mother had purchased about a month before Lylah became ill. The family remembered how their cat had knocked over the bottle, spilling the contents on the floor. Two weeks after that the cat had died suddenly. “We didn’t know why then, but now we do,” says Dustin.

Tests also revealed that seven additional members of the Baker family had antibodies to Burkholderia pseudomallei. “No one’s gotten sick,” says Dustin.

What to Know About Burkholderia Pseudomallei

B. pseudomallei is the bacterium that causes melioidosis, an infectious disease in humans and animals.

The bacteria is mainly found in contaminated soil and water in parts of Southeast Asia and Northern Australia.

Some who are exposed to the bacteria develop no symptoms; others can become severely ill, though it’s not entirely clear why, says Dr. William Bower of the CDC. If you do become sick, and it’s caught early, “antibiotics are very good at curing the disease.”

“They were exposed, but their bodies fought it off.”

After two and a half months in the hospital, Lylah was able to return home in August. With pink and purple ribbons strung all along the route home, she arrived to a fanfare of family and friends from the community waving signs and glow sticks, and a parade of fire engines and police vehicles with lights flashing and sirens blaring. “It was crazy to see how one little girl has touched so many people,” says Josy.

Since then, the celebrations for Lylah have been smaller—but no less significant. Her progress has been slow, and doctors say they’re unable to offer a definitive prognosis for her future (recovery from melioidosis varies widely). But Lylah, who turned 5 on Oct. 26, can smile and hold her head up again, thanks to an intense regimen of physical, speech and occupational therapy eight times a week. “She hears everything we say now, and when we make a joke, she’s smiling right along with us,” says Josy, who quit her job as a veterinary assistant to care for Lylah. “For the next year it’s all about therapy.” With the medical bills mounting, the family recently started a GoFundMe account (gofundme.com/the-bakers-battle). “We’re on the road to recovery,” says Dustin. “We’re going to plan for the best and make sure Lylah just keeps getting everything she needs.”

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MENTAL HEALTH Let’s Talk About It

Grace Cho at home in Brooklyn (Jan. 16) and (below) in South Korea with her mother, Koonja, in 1971.

HAIR & MAKEUP: STACEY BENEKE/ZENOBIA; INSET: COURTESY GRACE CHO

AUTHOR GRACE CHO

Understanding My Mother’s Schizophrenia AT M I D L I F E , T H E S PA R K L E O F G R AC E ’S CO M P E T E N T, C H A R I S M AT I C M O M W E N T DA R K , L E AV I N G A DAU G H T E R TO DIG INTO WHY By S A N D R A S O B I E R A J W E S T F A L L Photographs by MARY KANG

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‘The Pillar of Our Family’

Dreams Denied

By the time Grace Cho was in her teens, she’d grown accustomed to racism in white rural Chehalis, Wash.—the offensive schoolyard taunts and the bullies pulling their eyelids into slants. She’d also grown used to the attempts of her mother, Koonja, to be the outsider who fit in. Koonja had studied diligently for American citizenship after arriving with her two children from Korea in 1972, the uneducated 31-year-old bride of Grace’s father, a merchant marine. She insisted on speaking only English (which she taught herself from a dictionary) and on mastering apple pie.

“There was a time,” says Grace, “when my mother believed she’d be able to melt into the homogeneity of my father’s hometown.” But, Grace says, everything changed when she was 15. Koonja, then 45, began lashing out at the neighbors she once courted with pie. “She’d say they were following her, persecuting her. Then one day she was dressed up, nervous but excited. She said people were spreading rumors that the governor was my brother’s real father, and she was going to meet him so he could clear our name,” Grace recalls.

“That’s when I knew there was something wrong.”

That something was schizophrenia, says Grace, now 51 and a sociology professor at the College of Staten Island. Her memoir Tastes Like War, a 2021 National Book Award finalist, is the story of Koonja’s mental illness, which Grace says went undiagnosed for seven years because of a combination of her parents’ denial and the fact that

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B e f o r e t h e Vo i c e s

Grace (ca. 1974) remembers the mother of her childhood as talented, “daring and vivacious.”

‘She had a magnetic personality and wasn’t scared of the voices she heard’ —GRACE CHO

After ‘the Break’

With her dad often at sea and her brother at college, “I was the one who saw the changes in Mom,” says Grace (with Koonja in 1989).

psychiatry in the 1980s knew little about social risk factors for schizophrenia and understood it to present before age 40. But the book is also about her mother’s coming-of-age in wartime Korea—a story she kept hidden that included starving as a war refugee at age 9, then later, Grace says, finding a means of survival as a sex worker for American troops. (Her brother, who does not want to be named, disputes this and calls Grace’s book “fiction.” Says Grace: “He doesn’t want it to be true.”)

Recognizing that trauma can be a risk factor for schizophrenia and that the illness can begin later in life for women (see box) “could have changed my mother’s life,” adds Grace. “It took so many years for her to get to a place where she was less troubled, and that was only towards the end.”

Fa m i l y Tr e a s u r e s

Grace shows her son Felix (right) and stepdaughter Bella the bracelet her mother gave her as an infant and the jewelry box she brought from Korea.

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Koonja (in Korea, 1963) wanted an education but had to work to support her family.

library that Grace found the diagnostic term for As a child, Grace could sense her mother had pain what she was then seeing in her mom—paranoia, locked away. “Whenever I asked her about Korea, withdrawal and arguments with invisible people. what she did for a living, she would just go silent “My father was angry I thought my mother had and stare,” Grace says. And when she’d pester her schizophrenia,” Grace says. At a mental health mom to teach her to cook Korean dishes, “she clinic, a counselor told Grace her mother could refused and said I should be studying.” Koonja only be forced into treatment if she hurt someone. sometimes gave glimpses So during an argument one of the poverty she overday, Grace provoked her came, once telling a story mother to slap her—and about living off a jar of kimthen called police. “I imagchi for months—a sharp ined they would say, ‘Okay, Affecting less than 1 percent of the population, contrast to the family’s let’s get you to the hospischizophrenia generally presents in men in their late middle-class comfort in tal,’ ” Grace recalls. Instead, teens or early 20s, women in their 20s to 30s, and the U.S. But it wasn’t until they arrested and briefly it’s more common among men. “But women have a Grace was 22, she says, that jailed Koonja. “She held it second peak of onset at age 45 or older” as estrogen a relative told her Koonja against me for years.” levels decline, says Dr. Susan Kornstein, a psychiatry had worked as a prostitute Grace was a senior at professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School in the “camptowns” supBrown when Koonja finally of Medicine. “Estrogen exerts neuroprotective effects porting the U.S. military against psychosis.” Estrogen therapy shows promise saw a psychiatrist in 1993 in postmenopausal women with schizophrenia but presence in South Korea and was diagnosed with needs more research, Kornstein adds. As for stories like after 1945. Her father indischizophrenia. MedicaKoonja’s, sexual abuse as well as “social exclusion and rectly confirmed it. “I told tions did little to quell the discrimination are risk factors for schizophrenia, which him, ‘I know how you met voices in her head. “She is thought to involve both biological and psychosocial Mom,’ ” Grace says. “He told me they talked to her factors,” Kornstein says, “and there is research started to tear up and said, constantly and told her she showing that rates are higher among immigrants.”

‘I tried to get her out of wasn’t supposed to move there. She did that as selso much,” says Grace. After dom as possible, because splitting with Don (who she hated doing that.’ ” died in 1998), two suicide attempts in 1994 and a Determined that her daughter would have betchange of medications, Koonja was living on the ter options, Koonja tried winning Grace an advanEast Coast near her children when she first asked tage in school by throwing posh annual parties for Grace to cook her a dish from the entire faculty. Years later, it was in her school her Korean past, clearing a path through the voices that had walled her mother off for so long. An almost weekly motherdaughter ritual was born. Over sogogi, a spicy beef and radish soup that Koonja “taught me to make by barking out directions from five feet away,” Grace recalls, “she said, ‘I realize now A D a u g h t e r ’s that you love me. I used to think Story “It’s given me that you hate me because you some resolution,” put me in jail.’ ” Koonja died of Grace says. a heart attack at 66 in 2008.

Grace, who now cooks Korean dishes for Felix, 8, her son with partner Patrick Bowers, an artist, and for Patrick’s daughter Bella, 21, hopes her mother’s story will help open the conversation around schizophrenia—and also yanggongju, the Korean pejorative for women who worked in the camptowns. “I told my mother before she died,” says Grace, “ ‘Mama, I don’t want you to be ashamed of anything.’ ”

Late-Onset Schizophrenia

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SUPER BOWL SPECIAL!

ALEX GUARNASCHELLI

Parmesan-Crusted Mozzarella Sticks

The chef and star of Food Network’s Alex vs America uses a clever shortcut in her recipe: string cheese! ‘Making mozzarella sticks from scratch is so satisfying,’ she says. ‘I love them hot right out of the pan’ 1∕

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If you prefer to use the oven, place the breaded string cheese in the freezer for at least 2 hours or up to overnight.

Bake the frozen sticks at 400° for 6 to 8 minutes, until browned and melty.

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cup all-purpose flour large eggs, lightly beaten cups panko (Japanese-style bread crumbs) Tbsp. dried oregano oz. Parmesan cheese, grated (about 1 cup), divided mozzarella string cheese sticks Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil large cloves garlic, grated tsp. kosher salt, divided Tbsp. tomato paste (14.5-oz.) can whole peeled tomatoes tsp. granulated sugar cup heavy whipping cream qt. canola oil Tbsp. garlic powder cup fresh basil leaves, torn

1. Add flour to a shallow bowl; add eggs to a second shallow bowl. Stir together panko, oregano and 3⁄4 cup Parmesan in a third shallow bowl. Working with one mozzarella stick at a time, coat in flour, dip in egg and roll in panko mixture. Dip in egg and then panko mixture again. Place on a large baking sheet.

Repeat with remaining mozzarella sticks.

Chill, uncovered, for 1 hour or up to 12 hours.

2. Heat olive oil and garlic in a saucepan over medium. Stir in 2 tablespoons water and 1⁄ 4 teaspoon salt. Simmer until water cooks out and garlic is tender, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in tomato paste and another 2 tablespoons water; cook, stirring constantly, about 1 minute. Add whole tomatoes and sugar; cook until tomatoes break down, 12 to 15 minutes.

Stir in cream and 3⁄4 teaspoon salt. Remove from heat, and cover until ready to serve.

3. Heat canola oil to 350° over medium in a deep, heavy-bottomed pot. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with paper towels and fitted with a rack. Fry 6 mozzarella sticks at a time until browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Use a slotted spoon to transfer from oil to rack.

Repeat with remaining mozzarella, and season with garlic powder and 1 teaspoon salt.

4. Spoon tomato sauce into a bowl; stir in torn basil. Arrange mozzarella sticks on a platter, and sprinkle with 1⁄4 cup Parmesan; serve immediately.

Serves: 6 Active time: 35 minutes Total time: 1 hour, 35 minutes

Fo r m o r e c e l e b r i t y r e c i p e s , v i s i t P EO P L E .CO M / F O O D

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To cook the wings indoors, heat a grill pan over high, and brush with oil. Grill wings until lightly charred, 5 minutes per side.

Place on a foil-lined baking sheet, and bake at 375° for 45 minutes. Brush with sauce during the last five minutes.

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Grilled Sweet-Chili Chicken Wings

‘I love this recipe for its simplicity.

It’s easy to get the ingredients and turn them into total deliciousness,’ says the executive chef at Sweetbriar restaurant in New York City. ‘The wings are smoky, sweet and tangy with a slight heat that disappears quickly. They’re meaty little devils that are super fun to eat!’

20 red finger chiles, thinly sliced (about 1 cup) 2 cups light brown sugar 2 cups ketchup 1∕ 4 cup red wine vinegar

cup hot sauce 4 tsp. kosher salt, divided 3 lbs. whole chicken wings (about 24 wings)

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1. Stir together chiles, brown sugar, ketchup, vinegar, hot sauce and 2 teaspoons of salt in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat.

Bring to a low boil, stirring occasionally, until sauce is thickened, about 30 minutes. Remove from heat, and cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes. (Sauce will keep for 2 months in an airtight container in refrigerator.)

2. While sauce cools, place chicken wings on baking sheet, and pat dry with

a paper towel. Sprinkle with remaining 2 teaspoons salt; set aside.

3. Preheat grill to high (450° to 500°). Coat top grill grate with oil; place on hot grill. Place chicken wings on oiled grate, and cover with grill lid.

Grill on each side until chicken is nicely browned, skin is crispy and internal temperature reaches 165°, 10 to 15 minutes per side. Brush reserved chili sauce over wings during the last minute of grilling. Transfer wings to a serving platter, and brush again with sauce.

Serve immediately with additional sauce on the side.

Serves: 8 Active time: 30 minutes Total time: 1 hour

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Hot Spinach & Artichoke Dip

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whole garlic head Tbsp. olive oil oz. fresh baby spinach (14-oz.) can artichoke hearts, drained 1 cup mayonnaise 1∕ 3 cup crème fraîche 1∕ 3 cup mascarpone cheese 2 Tbsp. crumbled goat cheese 1 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice (from 1 lemon) 1 tsp. kosher salt 1∕ 2 tsp. black pepper 4 oz. Parmesan cheese, grated (about 1 cup), divided 2 Tbsp. bread crumbs 1∕ 4 tsp. paprika Tortilla chips, for serving

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Soft Pretzels

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Shortcuts

1. Preheat oven to 350°.

Cut top off garlic bulb, and drizzle with olive oil. Wrap tightly in aluminum foil, and roast in oven until very soft, about 45 minutes. Squeeze cloves into a bowl and mash.

2. Blanch spinach in a pot of boiling water for 1 minute.

Transfer to a bowl of ice water, and drain. Wrap spinach in a clean dry towel and squeeze out as much liquid as you can; set aside.

3. Coarsely chop artichokes in a food processor, 15 to 30 seconds. Add mashed garlic, mayonnaise, crème fraîche, mascarpone, goat cheese, lemon juice, salt, pepper and 3 ounces of the Parmesan to food processor; process until combined, about 30 seconds. Add spinach, and process until combined, about 30 seconds.

4. Transfer mixture to a small cast-iron skillet or an 8x8-inch baking dish.

Sprinkle with bread crumbs, paprika and remaining 1 ounce Parmesan. Bake at 350° until hot and bubbly, about 20 minutes. Serve immediately with chips.

Serves: 6 Active time: 15 minutes Total time: 1 hour, 20 minutes

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1. The onlooker, far left, now has a green mask. 2. One of the eyes in the design of Heidi Klum’s pink purse is now on her right pant leg. 3. Klum’s glasses now have a yellow tint. 4. The pedestrian wearing a red top behind Klum is no longer carrying a bottle. 5. Tim Gunn’s tie is solid blue. 6. Gunn’s pocket square is gone. 7. The bag carried by the person behind Gunn is now being worn by the Making the Cut host himself. 8. The mask held by the pedestrian, far right, has vanished.

9. The bushes below the lighted tree, right, are taller. 10. The lights on that tree no longer extend upward.

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It was definitely a laughing matter for pals Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, seen filming season 3 of Amazon Prime Video’s Making the Cut on Los Angeles’s Rodeo Drive, Jan. 17. Sharing more glimpses of the day on Instagram, supermodel Klum, 48, said she was “so excited to be reunited” with Gunn, 68, to cohost the competition series, which hunts for the next global fashion brand by putting designers to the test.

See if you can find the differences in these two pictures second look

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Last time I got chills I heard my little grandson Max, who’s 8, play Beethoven because the family just got a piano. It was a little video of him playing “dun-dun-dun dun.” It gave me chills—and a thrill.

Last moment of nostalgia This morning I walked into my lobby, and it smelled like Polish mushroom soup. I remember this marvelous soup that my nana made every Christmas Eve when I was a child.

It just took me right back.

Last dream I remember I had a dream that Barbra Streisand was complimenting me on my singing. She was giving me tips, and I woke up thinking, “Damn, I’ve got to sing again.”

Last moment of bliss I went to Italy for a month in October. Waking up in the morning and opening the shutters and looking out was just . . . wow. It was very Under the Tuscan Sun. Last wardrobe malfunction For the Tonys, I wore a white, chic suit with a sash that had to be tied in a very specific way, like they had to send someone to do it. When I got to the party, I had to pee, except I couldn’t undo the bow.

I was so miserable, but I have no regrets. It was a really cool look.