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“I’M A LOT LIKE A DOG; I LIKE ROUTINE AND CONSISTENCY.” —Kristen Bell on returning to series television on Showtime’s House of Lies

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plays in the 2008 film is called “Shoot the Breeze”; Hoffman composed the music after his first girlfriend dumped him for their acting teacher.

Years later, Bette Midler wrote lyrics for the tune, and they performed it together in 1977.

to Touched by an Angel star Roma Downey?

—Molly Pekar, Racine, Wis.

A: The actress, 51, is

Q: Does Dustin Hoffman

Columbia, S.C.

A: He does indeed. “I

originally wanted to be a jazz pianist,” the actor, 74, has said. The song he

The 37-year-old star of the ABC series Suburgatory (Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m. ET) is expecting his second child, a boy, with wife Addie Lane in the spring.

Have you chosen a name for the new arrival? The

name-picking thing is so random. For a while we just gave up. [laughs] The tentative plan is to have a list and make that decision when he pops out.

What were some of your odd jobs early on? I was a sandwich artist at Subway and can still rattle off the order of toppings. I was fired because I got meatball sauce on the ivory cutting boards.

Is it true you’re a magician? No. I have to change that [on my Wikipedia page]. I don’t have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.

What is your secret talent? I play the guitar and I juggle.

Your Clueless costar Alicia Silverstone is guesting on Suburgatory. Do you finally get the girl now Email your that you play a nice guy? Wouldn’t that be

funny? In the other movie we did questions to Walter Scott at together [1995’s Hideaway], I was a Parade.com serial killer, so this will be our first /contact normal interaction.

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Q: I love Covert Affairs.

Is the actor who plays Auggie really blind, or is he just a terrific actor?

—Vicki Egan, St. Louis

A: “I’m just a terrific

actor,” laughs Christopher Gorham, 37. He works

closely with CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind)— the show is based in Toronto—and has gained a deeper sense of empathy for those with vision loss. “While we were shooting in Turkey, someone grabbed my arm to try and ‘help’ me,” he says. “I was flattered, but real blind people don’t appreciate being grabbed. If you think they might need help, ask first.”

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producing an animated DVD series called Little Angels, which helps teach preschoolers their ABCs and numbers while also introducing them to Bible stories. “When I was a child, there was a charming nighttime prayer we would say that became the inspiration for the series,” she says. “I thought it would be marvelous to have something reminding children that they’re always being looked after.”

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beauty Katharine McPhee came close to clinching the American Idol crown in 2006, emerging as the runner-up to Taylor Hicks. Now, after three albums and a handful of acting gigs, she’s hitting a career high note with the NBC series Smash (Mondays, 10 p.m.

ET), playing an actress angling for her big break in a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe.

When success doesn’t happen overnight, the 27-year-old with I ENJOY the prodigious CHANGING pipes tells Shawna PEOPLE’S MINDS Malcom, “it’s much ABOUT WHAT more sweet.”

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She was in such a different league—I mean, she was a movie star! She was tormented by [the image] she created and the idea of being a sex symbol.

I think I might relate to her the more I’m in the business—later, when I’m all jaded about life.

Is it true you tried out for Idol because you were having a hard time getting an acting career going?

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to focus on her record and stuff. Then I heard about [the elopement] on Twitter!

Kellie was like [adopts southern accent], “Girl, I’m so sorry.” I was bummed.

What was your worst pre-fame gig?

Cold-calling for a small refinance company. That only lasted a month because I’m not a pushy person. I stayed longest at [clothing store] Planet Funk. I got really good at folding jeans. One time, though, this guy bought a pair of jeans for $100 and later the manager said, “You rang this person up for $1.” I thought, “Kat, you’re an idiot!”

How do you like to spend your Sundays?

I enjoy going to church.

I also enjoy days where I just sleep in, go grocery shopping, and [have friends over]. I love entertaining. I get so much joy out of serving people, like, “I’ll take your coat.”

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they give a makeover to. I don’t care if I win. I probably won’t.” I never thought about a record deal.

Your fellow Idol finalist Kellie Pickler was a bridesmaid at your 2008 wedding [to producer Nick Cokas]. Were you upset when she eloped

last year without you?

I was really mad! I’d gone to get fitted for a bridesmaid’s dress, and then she canceled the wedding

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Who’s the bigger romantic, you or your husband?

We’re not super-mushy people. I love verbal romanticism, like, “I can’t wait to take you home tonight.” Sexy things.

But you’re always more romantic in the beginning of a relationship. I mean, who really does that after being married awhile?

You once joked that you wanted 15 kids. Are you still eager to be a mom?

The reason I haven’t had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break. We’ll see how it goes. I’d try to plan [a pregnancy] because I’d want to be courteous of the show, although you can’t always control it. It is life.

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n football sundays in Wisconsin, John O’Neill is not just John O’Neill. He is St. Vince, clad in a green papal robe and matching green headdress adorned with the face of legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi. In his right hand is a four-foot-long scepter topped with a Packers cheesehead. St. Vince has been a fixture at almost every Packers home game since 1997, when O’Neill and his wife, Mary Beth Johnson—an equally rabid Green Bay fan—devised his costume in honor of the team’s first Super Bowl appearance in nearly 30 years.

“I wanted to represent the spirit of Lombardi come down from heaven to see his Packers play in one more Super Bowl,” says O’Neill, 59, a former corrections officer at Oakhill Correctional Institution in Oregon, Wis. Fifteen years after his debut, St. Vince is now more famous among Packers fans than many of the players.

If football is the unofficial national religion, then Super Bowl Sunday is its High Holiday. And O’Neill is one of its

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acolytes, alongside other legendary NFL superfans like Ed Anzalone (a.k.a. “Fireman Ed”), a retired New York City firefighter who has led Jets fans in a “J-E-T-S!” chant at games since 1986, or John “Big Dawg” Thompson (he legally changed his name), for two decades lead pup in a group of Cleveland Browns fans known as the Dawg Pound. On Super Bowl Sunday, we’re all football fans, but for these men—and women—supporting their team is a 365-day-a-year obsession.

IT’S A HIGH THAT CAN LAST ALL WEEK” Every sport—and sports team—has its devotees, but when it comes to embodying the chest-beating, face-painting loony id of the American sports world, nothing can match the NFL fan. There’s a reason: Major League Baseball teams play 162 games each season; the NBA calendar is 82 games long; but NFL teams play only 16 games—every one is a major event.

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Ed Hirt, a professor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University who has studied the psychology of sports fans. With so few games, “every one can be critical to the team’s potential for a playoff run, so fans have a lot of emotional investment in the outcome,” says Adam Earnheardt, associate professor of communication at Ohio’s Youngstown State University and an expert on fan behavior.

That investment can even cause chemical changes.

“Researchers from Georgia State University studied soccer players and extreme soccer fans and found that both groups exhibited the same increase in testosterone levels after a victory, and decrease in testosterone after a loss,” says Robert Cialdini, a professor of psychology and marketing at Arizona State University. “These fans are almost physically merged with the team in terms of their hormonal states.”

And the intense emotions of game day don’t fade after the clock ticks down. “When the team wins, it’s a high that can last all week,” says Joey Liner, 34, a devoted Baltimore Ravens fan who has held season tickets since 2001. “But on the occasions they don’t win, you can’t sleep; you keep replaying every moment in your mind. It can take a toll on you.”

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Lorin Sandretzky, 46, known as “Big Lo,” is a Seattle Seahawks fan, but that’s a bit like calling Albert Einstein a math hobbyist. His body is a tattooed shrine to the team.

Up and down his legs are the immortalized faces of Seahawks luminaries like quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, fullback Leonard Weaver, and safety Jordan Babineaux—none of whom even still play for the team.

If you think about it, “the biggest fans are more devoted to their team than the players are,” says Daniel Cavicchi, an associate professor of American studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. “An NFL player loves football; if he gets traded, he switches his allegiance. A die-hard fan loves the team.”

In fact, that’s one of the biggest ways that superfans differ from casual fans, according to Cialdini. He says that most fans will trumpet their connection to a team when it’s victorious (“we won!”), but distance themselves after a defeat (“they lost”). But a superfan stays committed no matter what. “They’re grateful to the star player for bringing a victory, but if that player leaves the team, their allegiance doesn’t travel.”

Permanent gestures

ARE YOU A SUPERFAN? Sure, you eat, breathe, and follow the tweets of your favorite team, but are you a true-blue fanatic? Take our quiz to find out where you stand.

By Hilary Sterne

1

If your team wins their next game, they’ll make the playoffs—but it’s an away game. The farthest you’d be willing to drive to see them is: (a) Two hours (b) Five hours (c) Across the country.

Even if it meant sleeping in your car.

2

The total number of items in your house that bear your team’s logo is: (a) 0 to 5 (b) 6 to 10 (c) Too numerous to count. And anyway, does the matching toilet seat and tank cover count as one item or two?

3

You’re watching the last half of a playoff game on TV when your wife announces she’s gone into labor. You: (a) Grab her overnight bag and hop in the car. (b) Wait until the next commercial break and set your DVR to record the rest of the game before heading out. (c) Call a neighbor to ask if he can drive her to the hospital. It’s not like the baby will be there in half an hour, right?

4

You are allowed to take one thing with you to a desert island.

You choose:

(a) Angelina Jolie (b) A raft. If you start paddling now, you might make it home in time for draft day. (c) A hand-crank radio.

Who needs civilization if there’s a chance you can still tune in to games?

5

The Baltimore Colts quiz scene in the movie Diner is: (a) Kind of offensive. Who would humiliate his girlfriend like that? (b) Hysterical. One of the funniest movie scenes ever. (c) True to life. In fact, you administered a similar pop quiz before agreeing to marry your spouse.

6

When your neighbor sees you outside on a Sunday morning in November, he says: (a) “Good morning!” (b) “Nice jersey! Did you get that at nfl.com?” (c) “Wow! Is that you

under all that paint? The logo shaved into your head is a nice touch. Let me help you with those kegs.”

7

A storm hits your neighborhood the day of the big game. The power and landline go out, and you realize your cell isn’t charged. You: (a) Spend an hour looking for flashlights, batteries, and bottled water. (b) Finish reading America’s Quarterback: Bart Starr and the Rise of the National Football League before the light fades. (c) Ignore the warnings to stay inside and drive around looking for a friend with a batteryoperated radio so you can follow the game.

8

You pride yourself on knowing the following information about your team: (a) Their win-loss record,

along with ea each final score from last season. (b) The name of every player in the Hall of Fame. (c) The make, model, and color of the car driven by the team’s original owner.

Which you bought on eBay and have parked in your garage.

9

You would name your first child after your favorite player, if that player was: (a) Tom Brady (b) Hines Ward (c) D’Brickashaw Ferguson

10

When you die, you would like: (a) To be buried in your team jersey. (b) To have your team’s highlight video played at the wake. (c) To have your corpse decked in head-to-toe team gear at the funeral parlor, holding a remote and propped in a recliner.

TALLY YOUR SCORE

Give yourself one point for each “a” answer, two for each “b,” and three for each “c.”

Then see where you rank on the scale.

10–15: Piker status.

Don’t quit your day job.

16–20: An aboveaverage fan. You try to catch most of the games on TV and have a team jersey in the back of your closet.

21–25: A devout fan.

Your Rain Man–like recall of your team’s stats is spooky, and if you don’t have season tickets, you scour StubHub months before the season starts.

26–30: A bona fide superfanatic. Your perfect Sunday involves donning a crazy wig and no shirt in subzero weather while bellowing for three hours straight.

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THE ONLY WAY I’LL MISS A GAME IS A DEATH OR BIRTH IN THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY” Joe Ruback, 41, athletic director at the Biondi school in Yonkers, N.Y., is a Giants fan known for the collection of personalized license plates— like “G1ANTS,” “NFL NYG,” and “EL1MVP”—that he wears strung together in a long chain around his neck. He started doing it when he was 16, and continued on page 22

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That same logic extends to other “peacocking” displays, like wearing a crazy costume, naming your child after a beloved coach, or devoting gobs of money—and space—to team keepsakes. Big Lo, who lives just outside Seattle, has a collection of Seahawks memorabilia that fills his entire home. (He hopes the items can be used someday to create a Seattle Sports Hall of Fame.) “I’m a passionate guy,” Big Lo explains.

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One Family, Six Continents, Twelve Good Deeds From a Beijing orphanage to an elementary school in Rwanda, the Lewis family of Charlotte, N.C., is on a trip that’s out of this world BY ANDREA COOPER

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ackson Lewis, 14, stood before the steel door of Transit, an organization for homeless youth in St. Petersburg, Russia, anxiously wondering what awaited him on the other side. Would he and his brother, Buck, 9, be able to communicate with the kids?

Would it be frightening? This was the first stop on their family’s quest to volunteer in a different country every month for a year— and they had no idea what to expect. But within minutes of entering the building, the boys were wrestling and laughing with

The Question That Started It All

Buck and pal Marina in Mangapwani, Tanzania

The Incredible Journey

The Lewis family’s journey began with a single question. One day in the fall of 2010, Jackson asked his dad, “Why aren’t we doing more to make a w difference?” Taken aback, JJ. D. suggested they volunteer llocally. But as he pondered his son’s query that night, he h rrecalls, “I thought, ‘Let’s do 12 in 12—12 projects, 12 countries, 12 months.’ ” An acting coach and singgle dad who adopted both boys at birth, J. D. was a b strong believer in exposing his children to other culh ttures, but he knew that taking a yearlong trip would require special expertise. Among the people he consulted was Esther Benjamin of the Peace Corps, who suggested safe destinations and worthy organizations. Next, he had to figure out the trip’s cost—and continued on page 17

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11. May Peru 12. June Haiti 13. July U.S. (Miss.)

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was a child, told him, “You can’t give up. You have to overcome your circumstances and go on to do great things.” When it was time to leave at the end of the month, “I sobbed,” J. D. says.

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how to pay for it. He calculated a $100-perday budget for food, lodging, and other necessities, plus $25,000 for transportation. J. D. used his savings and took out a loan. Friends organized fundraisers, and through the family’s website, TwelveinTwelve.org, strangers contributed as well. “People who’d been out of work for two years were sending us $10,” J. D. marvels.

Kids Helping Kids

Since leaving Russia, the Lewis family has worked with children with Down syndrome in Thailand, taught English to Tibetan refugees in India, spent Thanksgiving in Rwanda, and worked with kids in Kenya who have HIV. The family volunteers three weeks a month (the other week is for travel), and four hours a day are devoted to homeschooling. Both boys keep journals, and Jackson and J. D. also blog. They all sample the local food, though in China they passed on the snake-on-a-stick.

(Buck did say yes to a donkey burger—it

tasted, he reports, like a “funky hamburger.”)

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The boys can say “thank you” in Russian, Chinese, Thai, Hindi, Rwandan, and Swahili,

and Jackson has grown four inches since they left. Each has his favorite moments. For Jackson, it was playing with toddlers at the New Hope Foundation orphanage outside Beijing. Buck loved the

“My kids will never forget what they’ve seen and done on this trip.”

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The family plans to return to the U.S. in July for their last project: using photography and film to document needs closer to home, in Durant, Miss., where J. D. has a sister.

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RALPH MARRERO Green Bay Packers

AGE: 57 LIVES IN: Dover, N.J. OCCUPATION: Phone

company technician DEVOTION LEVEL: The

first game Marrero ever watched as a kid was a Packers game, and he was hooked.

Today, his home office is stuffed with hundreds of team tchotchkes, including Packers snow globes, a helmet phone, a Christmas village, a Pez dispenser, and, of course, a cheesehead.

He wears something from his Packers collection (which includes silk underwear, sunglasses, and patent-leather sneakers) every day.

“I could have bought a small house for what I spent on this stuff,” he says. Pointedly moved to storage: anything related to Brett Favre.

DREAM: “To go to the Super Bowl and watch the Packers win.

Maybe one day I’ll have the chance.” —H. S.

“one year became two became 10 years.”

Now known simply as “License Plate Guy,” he hasn’t missed a Giants game— home or away—in nearly a decade.

“The most dedicated fans hate to miss a game and go out of their way to travel to away games,” says Christian End, an associate professor of psychology at Xavier University in Cincinnati.

“Part of it is about demonstrating their loyalty, but they’re also more superstitious. Compared to passing fans, they’re more likely to believe that watching (or not watching) a game could have an impact on the outcome.”

This sometimes means placing the team above other social commitments.

“I’ve missed countless baby showers and wedding showers because they’ve conflicted with Eagles games,” says Kelli Gail, 41, a communications consultant and lifelong Philadelphia Eagles fan.

When a good friend got married during the playoffs a few years ago, she spent the majority of the wedding reception in the coat closet watching the game on a handheld TV. “I’ve always said that the only way I’ll miss a game is a death or a birth in the immediate family,” says Liner, a vice president of sales for an online marketing firm. “This season my wife was in the hospital with multiple infections after surgery, and the Ravens were playing. I was so antsy, she told me to go to the game. I like to say, ‘Family first, then my business, and then the Ravens,’ but my wife jokes it’s the other way around.”

THE FRIENDSHIPS WITH OTHER FANS ARE THE BEST PART OF ALL OF THIS” There is something about a team sport that brings out the collective; it encourages us to mentally place ourselves on

the field, says Cialdini. There’s a sense of belonging to a larger community, whether it’s the team itself, the city that the team represents, or fellow fans.

“I work odd jobs to pay for the tickets and the travel,” says Ruback. “After this long, moneywise, I’m cutting it pretty tight.” Ruback admits he probably can’t do this forever, but hates to think about losing the extended family of Giants fans he’s met. “Those friendships are the best part of all of this,” he says.

For some, fandom can also be a way to connect with family. Dustin Holmes, a Kid Rock look-alike who goes by the name “KidStallyn,” is a former air force captain who attends every Arizona Cardinals game with his 12-year-old twin sons and father.

Earlier this season, for the first time, his wife joined in. “She always wondered why I left at 6:45 a.m. for a game that started at 2 p.m.,” says Holmes, 40.

She enjoyed the experience so much, she wants to go to more games.

In the case of Packers fan O’Neill, he and his wife are a bona fide superfan power couple. After Johnson, 59, helped him design his St. Vince costume, she decided to create her own game-day persona. Today she appears at games dressed as “Cheese Louise.”

In Green Bay, where game-day temperatures can drop into the single digits, Johnson decks herself out in green John Lennon hologram glasses, a Packers beret, and a foam cheese bikini. “It’s very, very cold,” she says.

“We’ve been married 27 years, and we’ve been dressing up for games for 15 of those years,” O’Neill says. “We’re hoping to do it for 15 more.”

And that’s really what superfandom is all about. The sacrifices fans make— paying an arm and a leg for tickets, planning their schedules around the games—they reap in their connection to the team and to fellow fans.

These people may be crazy, but if they’re gonna be crazy, they’re gonna be crazy together. As Big Lo says, if you’re gonna love something, love it.

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Amraen, who was born and raised in Chicago, spent 12 years on the waiting list before scoring Bears season tickets in 1998—but then his career took him to New Jersey and later to Fairfax. Rather than give up his hardwon prize, he flies back to Chicago for home games. He has made the round-trip nearly 50 times in 10 years, often in under a day.

DREAM: To visit every NFL venue to see his beloved Bears play.

“Sure, I’d like to see them play in the Super Bowl, [but] this is something special— to watch them in every stadium. Well, maybe not Lambeau [Field, Green Bay’s stadium].

I’m not sure I want to go there.” —H. S.

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1-800-419-6261, ext. TX628 | www.Bose.com/WMS *Bose payment plan available on orders of $299-$1500 paid by major credit card. Separate financing offers may be available for select products. See website for details. Down payment is 1/12 the product price plus applicable tax and shipping charges, charged when your order is shipped. Then, your credit card will be billed for 11 equal monthly installments beginning approximately one month from the date your order is shipped, with 0% APR and no interest charges from Bose. Credit card rules and interest may apply. U.S. residents only. Limit one active financing program per customer. ©2012 Bose Corporation. The distinctive design of the Wave ® music system is a registered trademark of Bose Corporation. Financing and savings offers not to be combined with other offers or applied to previous purchases, and subject to change without notice. If the system is returned, the changer must be returned for a full refund. Offers are limited to purchases made from Bose and participating authorized dealers. Offers valid 1/3/12-2/14/12. Risk free refers to 30-day trial only, requires product purchase and does not include return shipping. Delivery is subject to product availability. iPod is a registered trademark of Apple Inc. Quote reprinted with permission.

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